Rawlins

Welcome to Area 51.3. I'm your host, Riz33, and this is the story of the bullet that fell out of the air.

Late afternoon, the 25th of October, 1974, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, about 40 miles out of Rawlins.

Carl Higdon is a 41-year-old male.

He drills for oil for a living, and he hunts elk for pleasure.

The counter to this skeptical reading, of course, is that it is still an object.

It exists, it was examined, and the people who examined it, who handle deformed bullets professionally, said they had not seen anything like it.

Having said that, so let's talk about the Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins.

Higdon was taken there.

But Lillian Heath, Wyoming's first female physician, dressed like a boy and carried a pistol in the pocket of her jacket to protect herself when she was out on calls at night.

Heath hung her shingle at her parents' home in Rawlins, Wyoming.

and began her medical practice in 1893.

She was 27 years old.

Even Lillian Heath's own mother, Carista Hunter Heath, didn't think her daughter should attend medical school, but her father, William, encouraged Lillian.

He came to Wyoming from Wisconsin as a railroad locomotive painter.

In Rawlins, he was always the first to volunteer to assist Dr. McGee, the Wyoming... a Union Pacific physician and surgeon who made frequent stops in the frontier town.

William often shared the stories of these medical adventures with his daughter, fostering her fascination with the topic.

We're doing weather.

Rawlins, chance of rain, mostly cloudy, breezy, high 64 today.

All right, that takes you across the state with a weather forecast.

Loving Life says, good morning, all.

Missionary's feet takes them into places of spiritual darkness and takes them to the places of those that are depraved in sin that they may see their souls delivered from hell.

I remember one night as I served as a chaplain at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, Wyoming.

You say, where's Rawlins, Wyoming? Let me give you directions to Rawlins, Wyoming.

If you ever find the end of the world, go five more miles and you'll find Rawlins, Wyoming.

It's out in the middle of nowhere, the High Plains Prairie and desert of Wyoming, the south central portion.

And I served as a missionary chaplain there with Rock of Ages Ministries for seven, almost seven and a half years.

Ugh.

Uh, Lander over Rawlins, 28-21.

Douglas beat Worland 46-20.

And, uh, yeah, so let's look at this week's games and how you think they're gonna go.

Um, Tigers and Bearcats.

Yeah, I can't figure Douglas out.

You know, Rawlins hung with them.

I think that Lander is clearly one of the top two teams in the east.

Foggy start to the day in Laramie with rain in the afternoon, highs 42 Laramie.

Rawlins, fog in the morning, rain and snow in the afternoon, 42 the high.

Again, Rawlins an Interstate 80 town, so watch your travel today.

And tonight and into tomorrow morning, if your travels take you on Interstate 80, tonight, tomorrow, you are probably gonna see inclement weather and some challenging driving conditions.

Just keep that in mind.

She did do, do her appointment and it went well.

The modeling agency remembered her, and then she again hitched out with truckers who were able to trace her pattern to as far as the Rawlins area.

Um, and that was it.

So somebody picked her up from Rawlins and her body was found in Shoshoni a week later.

So that's, that's the big hole, right? And her...

This was painful, 'cause she was sexually assaulted, and they did have a semen sample, which is the gold star as far as getting DNA suspect profile.

Upper 50s the high.

Same with Laramie.

Cheyenne, sunny, 73.

Sunny, breezy in Laramie, 67, the high, and a chance of rain in Rawlins.

And mostly sunny, windy, 61.

Yeah, it's a day with a forecast.

Riverton just outclassed the Bison, really.

Um, yeah, Buffalo was, was game, but they couldn't get any offense going.

Lander over Rawlins, 28-21.

That's conference game.