Episode 2.6 // A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 1

Dryden, New York is your typical, small town nestled among forestry, ponds and plains. But in the 1990s, that peace was disrupted by a string of events so tragic it was hard not to suspect a site-specific curse. Dryden would come to be known for a time as the “Village of the Damned,” and in Part 1 of this series we’ll trace the first half of this ominous decade there.

SOURCES:

• https://longform.org/posts/the-cheerleaders

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryden,_New_York

• https://www.syracuse.com/news/2009/02/auction_begins_for_lincoln_spe.html

• https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-01-01-9001012771-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/08/nyregion/man-suspected-in-4-slayings-dies-in-shootout

• https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3352

• https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/nyregion/after-9-deaths-ithaca-residents-wonder

• https://buffalonews.com/news/mother-convicted-in-tots-death-suffocation-of-daughter

• https://newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard-dec-21-1991-p-61/

• https://www-jstor-org.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/285518?seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents

• https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-supreme-court/1430895.html

• Village of the Damned, ID DISCOVERY. Episode 2.

• https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-third-department/2004/2004-02450.html

• https://buffalonews.com/news/car-crash-takes-a-second-son

• https://www.proquest.com/docview/278847705/D877688A3A874859PQ/4

• https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/08/nyregion/two-girls-16-are-slain-after-house-sitting

TRANSCRIPT:

VillageoftheDamned-PT1.pdf

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