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Are you the 'keeper' of the family tree photos? Do you see strangers in your family photos? Does your family have a wild tale from long ago? Host Sherri Marengo...
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Are you the 'keeper' of the family tree photos? Do you see strangers in your family photos? Does your family have a wild tale from long ago? Host Sherri Marengo and her fun friend Vicki Baylis explore their own family mysteries and help solve others with some Southern humor and help from the folks at Ancestry.com.
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1 AUG 2025 · In June 2017, Laurel Police, Jones County MS, got a 9-1-1 call. Katherine Sinclair was dying in her car in her boyfriend's garage. The scene was horrific- all the result of a single gunshot would to the head. Was it truly a suicide, or was it something more sinister? Several criminal and civil trials later, her boyfriend Greg Burroughs, was found innocent. Questions still remain. Hosts Sherri Marengo and Vicki Baylis discuss the case with the former editor of the Laurel Leader Call newspaper, Mark Thornton, who covered the crime from the first call to the final verdict.
16 JUN 2022 · In 1912, one of the biggest stories in Mississippi history made national headlines: the alleged kidnapping of 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar. Months after the boy had gone missing, the reward money grew so high that even law enforcement was stopping anyone with a little boy to see if he was Bobby. A well-known tinker by trade, Cantwell Walters was traveling from North Carolina with his 4year old nephew, Bruce Anderson; they were following a route he'd taken many times before to see famiies that knew him well, from Marion County to Pearl River County, Mississippi. In a series of terrible events, Bruce was taken away by the Dunbars, who swore that was their son. Walters was charged with kidnapping and faced a public hanging. It's wild true story and we have the author of Mizpah: The Bobby Dunbar Kidnapping Legend, Allison Rawls Bullock, here with part 2 of the story.
16 JUN 2022 · In 1912, one of the biggest stories in Mississippi history made national headlines: the alleged kidnapping of 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar. Months after the boy had gone missing, the reward money grew so high that even law enforcement was stopping anyone with a little boy to see if he was Bobby. A well-known tinker by trade, Cantwell Walters was traveling from North Carolina with his 4year old nephew, Bruce Anderson; they were following a route he'd taken many times before to see famiies that knew him well, from Marion County to Pearl River County, Mississippi. In a series of terrible events, Bruce was taken away by the Dunbars, who swore that was their son. Walters was charged with kidnapping and faced a public hanging. It's wild true story and we have the author of Mizpah: The Bobby Dunbar Kidnapping Legend on the show with proof.
19 MAR 2022 · What happens when you have a gut feeling that somewhere, there's a brother you didn't know you had? Sherri Marengo and Vicki Baylis invite artist Kym Garraway to the table to explain her search for a missing brother. But in the middle of that decades-long journey, a wonderful surprise happened! It's a great conversation about life, love, acceptance, forgiveness and, of course, the God-given talents we all have.
27 FEB 2022 · Sometimes the memory of a family mystery can stir up other memories- like when you realize you have a connection to a murder or a major crime in your hometown. Sherri Marengo and Vicki Baylis discuss the headlines that they had a direct link to- in the latest episode of The Mysteries of Family Histories. Disclaimer: neither of the hosts had real true accrate details about the crimes discussed.
6 NOV 2021 · A teenage bride, a widow at age 15, her escape from the oppressive heat of summer in the Mississippi delta to the beautiful white sands of the Gulf coast. Sherri and Vicki get to the truth of Myrtle Scribner's stories- was she a witness to her husband's murder and who was in the passenger seat of the truck that drove off a bridge in Tallahatchie county, a wreck that left her mother dead and a sister emotionally crippled? It's another chapter in the Mysteries of Family Histories that you have to hear to believe.
12 SEP 2021 · The year was 1910. It was high cotton season in Red Oak. Texas when Willis Cobb left home for the mill. He was driving a mule-drawn wagon of his best crop but then- he disappeared. The family rumors swirled between generations until a phone call claiming a 'death-bed confession' of murder. Sherri and Vicki delve into this mystery that began in a tiny community in North Mississippi but stretched across Texas and even to California.
11 AUG 2021 · In the year 1777, a 12 year old white girl was abducted by a band of Creek Indians and her story was recorded by an Indian Affairs Agent. Could she be the link my family has been looking for the past 6 generations? We wrap up the case of the missing great grandfather and gain a cousin from the Northwest in the process.
1 JUL 2021 · We all got sent to our rooms for alost a year- and that's why the podcast was quiet! But Sherri and Vicki will get you caught up on how life has been the past year, the good (grandbabies!) the bad (laid off!) and the funny (I've lost track.). This is the recap to the first season of the Mysteries of Family Histories.
7 AUG 2019 · How would you feel if you found out the father you never knew had been living in the same town, less than 5 miles from you, for a couple of years? That's what happened to Sherri- and how she gained a baby brother she didn't know she had. Plus- Vicki has a surprise announcement!
Are you the 'keeper' of the family tree photos? Do you see strangers in your family photos? Does your family have a wild tale from long ago? Host Sherri Marengo...
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Are you the 'keeper' of the family tree photos? Do you see strangers in your family photos? Does your family have a wild tale from long ago? Host Sherri Marengo and her fun friend Vicki Baylis explore their own family mysteries and help solve others with some Southern humor and help from the folks at Ancestry.com.
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| Author | Sherri Delaney Marengo |
| Organization | Sherri Delaney Marengo |
| Categories | History |
| Website | www.facebook.com |
| familymysterypodcast@gmail.com |
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