Cheers Friends! Gosh, it feels so good to be back at recording! In this episode Beth and Bettina cover the state of South Carolina. Bettina shares the horrible story of Crystal Faye Todd. Where, unfortunately, Crystal was not safe – even with one of her closest friends. Beth then shares stories, haunts, and facts on the oh so wonderful subject of being buried alive… oh, and try the cocktail she made up! Its delicious!
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Nov. 16, 1991 in Conway, South Carolina, 17 year old Crystal Faye Todd decides to meet up with friends at the local mall. As the curfews of her girlfriends come and go she is left with 45 min. before her curfew, 12/ midnight. Cruising through town Crystal meets up with 18 year old Ken Register, a dear friend she has known since she and Ken were in pre-school. But Ken harbors some deep, dark secrets and what happened to Crystal that fateful night becomes yet another one of Ken’s secrets. This case makes you wonder, “do we really know our friends as well as we think we do?”
“Cases of being accidentally buried alive date back to the 14th century when the body of a philosopher, John Duns Scotus was found outside his coffin – his hands bloodied from trying to get out”. So starts the second part of this episode. Beth does a great job covering this very morbid subject, where at times you have to gulp in a second breath as you imagine what it would be like to be Buried Alive. She even made her own cocktail for the subject, which she named……you guessed it, Buried Alive. Find the recipe below.
17 year old Crystal Todd was sexually assaulted and murdered Nov 16, 1991. Another young, beautiful life ended, for what? https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7262774/crystal-faye-todd
Crystal was everything to her mother, Bonnie. Bonnie passed away in Sept. 2014 after years of bearing the horrible loss of her precious daughter. https://www.goldfinchfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Bonnie-Todd2461126/#!/TributeWall
Ken Register being led from the courthouse after being convicted of the rape and murder of Crystal Todd. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/johnnie-ken-register-convicted-in-1991-killing-of-conway-student-crystal-faye-todd-waives-right-to-parole-consideration
Register waived his right to a parole hearing in 2022. His next parole hearing is scheduled in 2024. https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Crystal-Faye-Todd-Ken-Register
Antoine Wiertz‘s painting of a man buried alive. Just the thought of being buried alive gives one the hebbie jebbies and makes a person take an extra breath of air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_burial
Tying a string around the person’s fingers and stringing it from the casket to a bell attached to the head stone was one of the many “solutions” to quell people’s fear of being buried alive. But did it work? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/people-feared-being-buried-alive-so-much-they-invented-these-special-safety-coffins-180970627/
SOURCES:
https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Crystal-Faye-Todd-Ken-Register
Forensic Files – Season 7, Episode 5 – The Alibi – Full Episode
Episode 93: The Rape & Murder of Crystal Faye Todd
https://allthatsinteresting.com/essie-dunbar
https://www.counton2.com/haunted-history/buried-alive-the-haunting-story-of-julia-legare/amp/
https://www.southernthing.com/amp/julia-legare-ghost-story-2655248048
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/southern-gothic/id1348392537?i=1000570240930
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lore/id978052928?i=1000394172105
COCKTAIL: BURIED ALIVE COCKTAIL
Recipe: 1 ounce of heavy whipping cream (the skeleton) 1.5 ounces of coconut rum (dirt) 1 ounce melon liquor (grass) 5-6 ounces of pineapple juice (sunshine) Pour ingredients into a shaker with ice—-shake—-strain into iced cocktail glass—-enjoy.
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