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Sep 18, 2026

Susan SpearSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
10:04
They were flummoxed.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
10:06
The case went cold until May of 1985 when Kentucky Police received a phone call from Tom Lynch.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
10:14
He said his former in-laws had been murdered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and he thought that his ex-wife, Susie, and her cousin had something to do with it.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
10:28
We'll be right back.

24 MINS LATER

Phoebe JudgeHOST
34:59
Ian Perkins declined to be interviewed for this story, but he told us in an email that the night before he went to jail to start serving his sentence, he watched the baseball movie, The Natural.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
35:12
He wrote to us, "Glenn Close's character, Iris, says a line towards the end of the movie: 'I believe we have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.'" He added, "I've tried to do the best with the life we live with after that as I could." North Carolina police said Fritz's death had closed the Newsome murder case.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
35:41
Kentucky police said they also had no doubt that Fritz had murdered Dolores and Janie Lynch, but they also wondered if Susie Lynch had been involved.
Phoebe JudgeHOST
35:53
Tom Lynch, Susie's ex-husband, told a reporter he was convinced Susie knew about both sets of murders.
Brandon SchexnayderHOST
18:33
Eventually, Someone in Karen's family came across the listing, and the details sounded familiar enough that Karen began wondering whether the unidentified woman buried on Red Dog Road all those years ago might actually be the mother she'd spent most of her life wondering about.
Brandon SchexnayderHOST
18:55
So, she contacted Kentucky State Police and the Harlan County Coroner, and in 2015, 46 years after the unidentified woman had been lowered into the ground, they led an effort to exhume her remains.
Brandon SchexnayderHOST
19:13
Investigators collected DNA from them and compared it with samples provided by Karen and other members of her family, and In September of 2016, Mountain Jane Doe finally had a name.
Brandon SchexnayderHOST
19:31
She was Sonia K. Blair Adams.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
42:41
"They deny it was Venus in this report.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
42:45
But that's what they told Shalit, that all those Air Force officers, the pilots, the Kentucky State Police, and several hundred people at Madisonville mistook Venus for a metallic disc several hundred feet in diameter." "It's a wonder Shalit believed it." "I don't think he did.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
43:08
He says if it wasn't Venus, it must have been a balloon." "What's the Air Force answer?" I asked Purdy.
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43:17
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Dave HunterHOST
4:22
I don't know.
Dave HunterHOST
4:24
He was arrested by Kentucky State Police this week on charges including public intoxication of a controlled substance, disorderly conduct, indecent exposure, and threatening.
Dave HunterHOST
4:35
Troopers responded to a home on Corinth Cemetery Road.
Dave HunterHOST
4:39
Sounds horrible.
Helena B.HOST
21:10
Yes, it is.
Glenn HebertHOST
21:11
Okay, so you're a state police officer like it would be the Kentucky State Police.
Glenn HebertHOST
21:15
Correct.
Glenn HebertHOST
21:17
Okay.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
43:54
Purdy shrugged.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
43:56
"They deny it was Venus in this report, but that's what they told Shalit, that all those Air Force officers, the pilots, the Kentucky State Police, and several hundred people at Madisonville mistook Venus for a metallic disk several hundred feet in diameter." "It's a wonder Shalit believed it." "I don't think he did.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
44:23
He says if it wasn't Venus, it must have been a balloon." "What's the Air Force answer?" I asked Purdy.
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44:31
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MelissaHOST
18:52
Tyrone reportedly came away from the conversation believing Mickey had lost his mind, and that's a direct quote.
MelissaHOST
18:59
After Kevin's death, he told Kentucky State Police that Mickey's demeanor had changed noticeably in the days leading up to it.
MelissaHOST
19:05
People inside Mickey's own department had seen it, too.
MelissaHOST
19:08
Christine Bolling, who worked in the sheriff's office, told investigators that employees had become concerned about his increasingly strange behavior.

20 MINS LATER

MelissaHOST
38:54
The public hasn't seen evidence proving that Mickey or his family had actually ever been threatened, and Mickey's belief that they were in danger may have been connected to the paranoia that people were witnessing before and after the shooting.
MelissaHOST
39:07
A person can sincerely believe something terrifying is happening without that belief being based in reality.
MelissaHOST
39:13
During the grand jury proceedings, a Kentucky State Police detective reportedly testified that Kevin had, quote-unquote, no involvement in the Benfields case.
MelissaHOST
39:23
Mickey's attorneys later challenged that statement as being misleading.
Corey KingHOST
0:03
Welcome back to the Kentucky State Police Podcast.
Corey KingHOST
0:05
Today we pick up with Captain Robert Purdy to discuss more about his career and experiences.
Corey KingHOST
0:12
Captain, welcome back.
Corey KingHOST
0:58
But that is where – I would say probably if I had to look back in the years and say, who's made a difference selling our agency, I would point the finger at you.
Corey KingHOST
1:09
I think that's where I know you don't want to take it, but, and I really don't want to give you a compliment, but here's the thing, Robert, you did.
Corey KingHOST
1:16
And that is where you push the envelope during a time that it needed and really changed the face of how Kentucky state police now advertises and publishes itself as versus the 1970s photos in the middle of a high school gym floor.
Corey KingHOST
1:34
Social media, even though I'm not a social media fan at all, and yes, you really pushed me into that, but that is one of those things that really changed the agency online.
Corey KingHOST
1:44
And I think that's where we're going here.
Karen KilgariffHOST
49:53
Oh.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
49:53
Uh, he's taken into custody for ju- uh, juvenile assault, and without a lawyer or parent present, the o- an officer from the Kentucky State Police tells him he could go to prison, uh, but he, if and unless he agreed to become a local drug informant.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
50:09
So this isn't even a fucking drug charge.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
50:12
Um, after a sting, LeBron had to testify before a grand jury against the drug dealer he'd set up, Jason Noel.
Michael RyanHOST
21:21
And so roughly what happened was at 1.15 in the afternoon, the Godman – and this all took place at Godman Army Air Force Base at the time.
Michael RyanHOST
21:36
And at 1.15, they got a call from the Kentucky State Police saying that there was an unidentified flying object there.
Michael RyanHOST
21:46
seen in Maysville, Kentucky, and then a few other cities as well.
Michael RyanHOST
21:52
And that call was taken by PFC Stanley Oliver, who was in the Godman Control Tower at the time.

6 MINS LATER

Michael RyanHOST
27:41
And he searched approximately a 100-mile radius, and he didn't see anything.
Michael RyanHOST
27:47
He didn't see the object at all.
Michael RyanHOST
27:51
And then at approximately 4, between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Kentucky State Police Officer Joe Walker, he meets Mrs. Carrie Phillips at her farm, and he takes control of the crash scene.
Michael RyanHOST
28:07
And then he waits for the MPs to come back.

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