A nature reserve and popular party place in the middle-of-nowhere becomes the scene of mass murder in the fall of 1973: four teens are killed; a fifth escapes death but is victimized in other ways – by her friends’ killers and, later, by small-town conspiracy theorists who suspect she was in on the crime. In time, though, this survivor gets to tell her own story of escape and finds healing in doing so. The co-hosts travel back more than 50 years – to the place where the “Gitchie Girl” got her name – for this edition of The Escape Pod.

Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:

Topic #1 8:27 An escape artist with South Dakota ties

Topic #2 15:20 Setting the scene

Topic #3 23:03 Bodies found

Topic #4 32:55 Sandra tells her story

Topic #5 44:10 Escapism, co-host-style!

Resources & Links

• The Fryer Brothers

• The Gitchie Manitou Murders | 4 Teens Murdered in Iowa 50 Years Ago

• What We Know About the 1973 Gitchie Manitou Mass Murder

• Sole Survivor of Brutal 1973 Slayings Finds Strength to Tell Her Story

• 3 Brothers Armed With Shotguns Killed 4 South Dakota Teens In A ‘Mind-Blowing’ Mass Murder

• The Fryer Brothers

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