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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.  

Every story that has a hero has to have a villain. On this episode we look at the one person in Circleville that so many believe framed Paul Freshour, his ex-wife, Karen Sue Freshour. Is she really our villain - or is she the one that's actually been wrongfully accused?

Did Paul Freshour's feud with law enforcement really start the night of his brother-in-law's fatal crash on Five Point's Pike or could it of all begun a decade earlier with a deadly riot at Ohio Pen?

There's one event that changed the Circleville Letter Writer from just being content to send their vile accusations in the mail to attempted murder, - the death of Ronald Gillespie. But was his sudden death an accident or murder? What happened that night on Five Points Pike?

What could possibly drive someone to write thousands of anonymous letters? And who in the town of Circleville could be hiding so much rage? On this episode, we introduce some of the families involved and get to know what makes up an anonymous threatener.

Chances are you've heard of the Circleville letter writer...but how much of what is known and told over and over again are facts?

Join in our favorite town called malice as we talk with Martin Yant about our first episode and our finding so far...

Episode 1: Our assumptions about the target and motivation of the Circleville letter writer immediately get tossed out the door, and that's only from the first 3 letters...