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True Crime Podcast, for mature audiences. Buried, Not Forgotten is about the mysterious deaths of Walter Smith and Peter Hauer, in the summer of 1975. Smith never returned from a bike ride from his summer job at Watoga State Park in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. A large-scale search was initiated that week, and volunteer cavers and West Virginia State Police would eventually discover Walter Smith’s body in a cave, under a pile of rocks, on private property. The property owner, Peter Haue ...
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It took a while to receive a copy of the police report, and when we first read it we had no reason to doubt any of it. But then, we started noticing things. Little errors. How some of the dates didn’t line up quite right, or some of the attached exhibits were missing. You heard from Chad in episode 4, the state trooper that was in charge of the inv…
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In the last episode we mentioned how we were going to be talking with two veteran police investigators who are familiar with this case. We will get to that next episode, instead we wanted to bring you something completely different. You’ll be listening to a very personal interview with Nicole, Angelo, and Peter Hauer’s niece, Meg. This podcast is a…
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This week we hear from Peter Hauer’s next door neighbor and his long time girlfriend. The neighboring family that Peter Hauer was closest with, refuse to believe, even to this day, that Peter killed Walter Smith. The week the crime took place, Peter had been driving the grandmother every day to see her sick husband in the hospital We heard that Pet…
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The mystery unfolds in The Witches, this week’s episode of Buried, Not Forgotten. Two police officers struggle to make sense of evidence, like an altar with candles in another cave and a misunderstood group called The Red Hood.Bởi Buried Not Forgotten
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Episode 2 includes the cave search and rescue team that discovered Walter's remains, the questionable "Last Will" that was found with Pete's typewriter, and a nearby house that had been riddled with bullet holes. So just to remind you, Peter Hauer moved to Pocahontas County, West Virginia in 1971. He bought a little farm for $4,500, and his place s…
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People in the area are still talking about, and haunted by, this case today. It was hard to believe that no one had ever investigated the rumors in forty years. So after we first heard the story from neighbors, we wanted to know if the official report was different than the things we’d been hearing. One question led to two more and after dozens of …
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