Return to Snakeland: Recent Episodes

Jason Gusmann & Aaron O'Brian

Satan. Murder. Teenage sex. High school. Suicide. Heavy Metal. Mental illness. Punk Rock. Teen angst. Sexual predators. Mass hysteria. 1985.

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Season One finale, in which we ask the big questions.

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In which we briefly explore some new information about Kathy Herold’s murderers and other potential conspirators.

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In which we explore a culture which allowed multiple sexual predators to thrive in the Kenmore West Senior High School teaching staff.

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In which we find the rumors and hearsay in the Kathy Herold case more useful than the accepted “facts”.

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In which we examine the psychological underpinnings of the Satanic shadow show (Part Two)

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In which we examine the prolonged hysteria of the American Satanic Panic (Part One)

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In which we interview Joe Cannizzaro, a survivor of Green Jello, Snakeland and Kenmore NY in the 1980s.

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In which we examine the cultural history of Kenmore, NY, in 1985-1986. (Part Two).

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In which we examine the cultural history of Kenmore, NY, in 1985-1986. (Part One)

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(Part Two) In which we share the continuation and conclusion of the John Justice murders.

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(Part 1) John Justice murders his whole family in the shadows of Snakeland. Then kills a bystander afterwards in Kenmore, NY, 1985.

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In which we discuss the inordinately high number of teenage suicides that haunted Kenmore West Senior High School throughout the 1980s.

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In which we discuss the re-opening of the Kathy Herold cold case in 2007, and the accompanying assumption that has dogged the investigation ever since.

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In which we discuss the murder of Kathy Herold and its connection to Snakeland in Kenmore, NY, 1985.

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In which which we learn what Snakeland was and how it relates to murder, teenage suicide and Satanism in Kenmore, NY, 1985.

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What is Snakeland? An abandoned grain elevators where teenage kids went to party. A place where rumors of Satanic rituals took place. In 1985 a 15 year old girl was murdered in Snakeland. Her murder still goes unsolved.