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PODCAST

The Coroner’s Report

Aussie Grove Media Group LLC

A Southern true crime podcast. Join our team as we delve into some cases. Sometimes, we look at interesting murders, and other times, just strange, unsettled deaths. We talk to the experts, including police investigators, psychiatrists, family members, and witnesses, as they walk you step by step through the homicides. Murder, death, kill is just another day in the office for our team.

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All Episodes

26:01

E8-P2 Wrightsville Boys Industrial School-Locked...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/10/29

March 5, 1959—sixty-nine boys were locked inside a wooden dormitory as flames tore through the building. Twenty-one never made it out. Survivors Roy Davis, Archie Ray Poole, and Otis Sidney describe the terror of waking to smoke and locked exits, while fire investigators Jim Hawley and Keith Hulse, both retired New York City firefighters, explain how panic and bad design turned the dorm into a furnace. Superintendent Buddy Gaines, Governor Orval Faubus, and Captain W.A. Seaton of the Little Rock

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27:54

E8-P1 Wrightsville Boys Industrial School-Locked...

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2025/10/15

It began as a promise and it ended in betrayal. In 1936, Arkansas built the Negro Boys’ Industrial School in Wrightsville, calling it a place for “wayward youth.” What they created was a prison farm for children. In this first episode, Tracey Carrington and Steve Nawojczyk uncover how decades of racism, neglect, and forced labor turned a so-called reform school into a deathtrap. With historian Dr. Brian Mitchell exposing the state’s pattern of segregation, juvenile-justice expert Judge Steve Teske

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26:33

E7-P3 Ruth Sumlin-For the Love of a Good Woman

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/09/25

In the final part of our three-part series on Ruth Sumlin, The Coroner’s Report follows the case from the discovery of J.Y. “Shorty” Cooper’s mutilated body along a logging road, through Ruth’s shocking confessions, and into the courtroom battles that sealed her fate.We trace how investigators, including retired Arkansas State Police investigator David Hendershott, pieced together evidence linking Ruth to the jailbreak, the shooting, and the gruesome aftermath. Courtroom testimony reveals

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39:59

E7-P2 Ruth Sumlin-For the Love of a Good Woman

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/09/10

In Part Two of Ruth Sumlin-For the Love of a Good Woman, The Coroner’s Report presents a story that turns darker and more violent. What began as whispered plans between husband and wife explodes on Thanksgiving night, 1977. Before Ruth can even step inside the Columbia County jail, she lures Shorty Cooper into the woods—where liquor, sex, and violence end in his brutal murder and mutilation.With Shorty’s car, 22 year old Ruth then storms the jail armed with a pistol and knife, forcing jailer Tim

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30:41

E7-P1 Ruth Sumlin-For the Love of a Good Woman

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/08/27

In this first installment of Ruth Sumlin-For the Love of a Good Woman, The Coroner’s Report uncovers the beginnings of one of Arkansas’s strangest true crimes. Before the gunfire and the castration, there was Ruth Brewer—a bright college student from small southern town with a promising future. That future began to unravel the night she met Warren Sumlin, a 44-year-old career criminal with a violent past and a plan to never see the inside of a prison again.Part One traces Ruth’s journey from “good

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27:49

E6-P4 Nannie Doss-Self Made Widow

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/03/20

Join former coroner and Arkansas State Crime Lab Director Steve Nawojczyk and his partner, Tracey Carrington as they wrap up their dive into serial killing, black widow, Nannie Doss. With original records and an interview with one of Nannie's living descendants, we learn the true story of what happened. In Episode 6 Part 4 of The Coroner's Report Podcast, we learn the fate of Nannie and how she lived out the rest of her life. Luckily, there were no more dead bodies found, but Nannie never stopped

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31:35

E6-P3 Nannie Doss-Self Made Widow

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/02/20

Join former coroner and Arkansas State Crime Lab Director Steve Nawojczyk and his partner, Tracey Carrington as they dive back into the story of Nannie Doss who killed four of her five husbands and countless family members. Yet, her story was almost lost to time. With original records and an interview with one of Nannie's living descendants, we learn the true story of what happened. But, that body count? Well, sometimes secrets like that just go to the grave. In Episode 6 Part 3 of The Coroner's

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29:58

E6 - P2 Nannie Doss - Self-Made Widow

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/02/08

Join former coroner and state crime lab director Steve Nawojczyk and his partner, Tracey Carrington as they dive back into the story of Nannie Doss who killed four of her five husbands and countless family members. Yet, her story was almost lost to time. With original records and an interview with one of Nannie's living descendants, we learn the true story of what happened. But, that body count? Well, sometimes secrets like that just go to the grave. In Episode 6 Part 2 of The Coroner's Report

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30:41

E6 - P1 Nannie Doss - Self-Made Widow

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/01/22

In Episode 6 Part 1 of The Coroner's Report Podcast, we explore another female serial killer, the infamous "Giggling Grannie" Nannie Doss. As one of the most prolific and successful female serial killers, this black widow falls into her own brand of murderer.Join us as we unravel the secrets she held, and uncover the reasons she killed so many.

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26:39

E5 - P4 Darla Harper and Pam Page:When the Cousins...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2025/01/10

Join us for the conclusion of Darla Harper and Pam Page, When the Cousins Went Missing.

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41:05

E5-Part 3: Darla Harper and Pam Page-When the Cousins...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/12/24

Join the Coroner’s Report Podcast with Steve Nawojczyk and Tracey Carrington as they continue the search for two missing cousins in two different states. Episode 5-Part 3 moves this double case from Arkansas to Peoria, Arizona, where Pam Frisby Page went missing just three years after her cousin, Darla. The circumstances were the same. Was this just a coincidence? Did lightning strike this family twice? Where did these women go and why have they not been seen or heard from in almost 40 years? Listen

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34:11

Episode 5-Part 2: Darla Harper and Pam Page-When the...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/12/11

Join the Coroner’s Report Podcast with Steve Nawojczyk and Tracey Carrington as they dive into the case of two missing cousins. Part 2 focuses on the Darla Harper case. Listen as the investigators and family members discuss what they remember about the case. Of course, Darla wasn't the only missing family member. What happened? Did the husbands do it, or was something more sinister at play? Now streaming on all podcast platforms, and stop by our website at The Coroner's Report or any social media

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37:20

E5-Part 1: Darla Harper and Pam Page: When the...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/11/28

Join the Coroner’s Report Podcast with Steve Nawojczyk and Tracey Carrington as they dive into the case of two missing cousins. The first case takes place in Arkansas in 1986 when Darla Harper, a young single mother, vanishes from her apartment in the middle of the night, leaving almost no clues. Then, three years later, in Arizona, Darla’s first cousin, Pam Page, also disappears. Were the cases somehow connected? Did the husbands do it, or was something more sinister at play? Episode 1 starts where

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31:27

E4:Old Mike-More Famous in Death Than Life

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/11/14

Imagine living a long life struggling with a handicap, only to die and lose your name. Even more…imagine becoming more famous in death than you were in life…yet still have no name. Join the Coroner’s Report Podcast as we dive into the mystery over 110 years in the making. Just who was Old Mike, and how did his body end up mummified and on display at an Arkansas funeral home for over 60 years? Unravel the details of his story as we explore the social and historical context of the times that shaped

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25:36

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/30

We have reached the conclusion of the sixth and final installment of the MissMaybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named Hobby series. Experts have proven that the fire at the Maybelline manor was intentionally set. We have also discussed the three likely persons of interest. We will follow the aftermath of the tragic death of the Maybelline Queen and the impact that her demise had on those who loved her. Join us as we uncover the final pieces of this puzzling case, reflecting on the

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37:13

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/16

Miss Maybelline, Evelyn Williams, heiress to the Maybelline cosmetic fortune, is dead. Her body was discovered in the hallway of her charred lakefront home. No, the doorknob wasn’t in her hand, and she didn’t struggle to get out of the house. There were no signs of any struggle at all. Our fire experts have determined that the fire was not accidental, with evidence of multiple ignition sources. These experts find it highly unlikely that Evelyn would have ended up lying flat on her back as the smoke

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36:37

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/10

In Episode 3, Part 4 of this 6-part series, Evelyn Williams, an heiress to the Maybelline fortune, was dead. She died in a house fire in 1978 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The questions began immediately. Was the fire accidental, or was it arson? Was she alive in the burning house, attempting to escape out the front door only to have the handle come off in her hand? What really happened? We round up the experts to explain what really happened to the Maybelline Queen. All the questions we will answer

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43:13

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/10

In Episode 3, Part 3 of this 6-part series, Our story continues after Evelyn Williams divorces her grifting husband, Hobby Derrick. She settles into her new life in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but Hobby's Skating Rink is a financial drain. Miss Maybelline decided to flip the skating rink into a dinner theatre with the help of trusty wigmaker, Danny King. Sadly, Evelyn died in a house fire the day after her dinner theatre opened. So what really happened? Was the fire an accident or intentional? How did

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38:30

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/10

In Episode 2 of this 6-part series, our story continues featuring Evelyn Williams who married into the family who founded the cosmetic company, Maybelline. Episode 2 picks up in the 1960s in California as Evelyn inherits her fortune and starts looking for love in all the wrong places, unveiling a tangled web of jealousy, deception, and intrigue that ultimately leads to her tragic demise in Arkansas. Join us as we explore the hidden aspects of her life and the shadows that linger around her

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36:15

Miss Maybelline, the Pied Piper, and a Clown Named...

The Coroner’s Report ·

2024/10/10

In Episode 1 of this 6-part series, we delve into the enigmatic life of Evelyn Williams and the web of intrigue that surrounded her. Discover what led her to Arkansas, and the influential figures who would play pivotal roles in the unfolding drama. As we piece together the events leading up to that fateful day in 1978, questions arise: Who stood to gain from her demise, and what secrets did Evelyn hold? Join us as we unravel the connections and motives that link her world of opulence from Newport

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