In 1977, one small town in Ohio became the target of the wraith of an anonymous letter writer.
The citizens of Circleville Ohio began receiving letters. – and not just a few tricking in into their mailboxes here and there but thousands of them. Over decades.
This unknown fury made some pretty awful accusations about Circleville, that its residents were involved in terrible things, corruption, embezzlement, domestic violent, affairs and even murder.
Letter after letter, year after year this anonymous author was relentless but were they just writing fiction, or did they somehow have access to some of the most private details from people’s lives? Were the terrible things they were writing about their neighbors, friends, family really true?
Who was the author and what did they want from this one small town? What would it take to make them stop – or would they?
How far was the Circleville letter writer willing to go?
This season of Whatever Remains, we untangle a decade’s worth of police records, hundreds of pages of court transcripts and public records, crime scene reports and We read the letters themselves, some not made public in decades and try to track their origin.
We’ll learn more about the lives of the people of Circleville that lived under this shadow for years and how these letters wore at this community. and we talk to the law enforcement and one private investigator who still work to solve this ongoing mystery.
We’ll try to figure out who was behind the Circleville letters, the anonymous writer with a grudge to bear on a small town, and what could have been their reasoning to flood Circleville with so much malice.