Solving decades old cold cases with Courteney Stuart and Rachel Ryan from @smalltownbigcrime

Courteney Stuart is a veteran journalist who’s spent the past twenty years covering crime and criminal justice issues in Central Virginia.

A broadcast journalist since 2015, Courteney previously served as an investigative reporter and editor-in-chief at two weekly newspapers in Charlottesville.

She is the recipient of more than two dozen reporting awards from the Virginia Press Association including first place prizes for investigative reporting and feature writing.

She has appeared on Dateline NBC, Primetime Crime and 20/20 as well as on Headline News, Investigation Discovery and E! News channels.

Rachel Ryan is an award-winning journalist living in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and two young sons.

She has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, where she also competed on the field hockey team.

She earned her Master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism.

Rachel began her career covering sports and politics through internships with the media departments of the Washington Redskins and Washington Wizards and working as a freelance videographer on Capitol Hill.

In 2010 she moved to Charlottesville to work at the CBS affiliate as a reporter, anchor, and producer. Rachel’s reporting has been featured on 48 Hours and investigative reports on medical care at a women’s prison in Virginia were recognized by the Associated Press.

Together, they are the crime solving duo behind the Small Town, Big Crime podcast, a true crime podcast whose first season saw the unraveling of the Haysom murders, a 1985 cold case that rocked the small town of Bedford, VA and had been left untouched since.

We discuss their journey through print, broadcast, radio, and now podcast journalism, the mysteries that their show has uncovered using DNA evidence, and how they are structuring season 2 so that YOU can get involved and potentially help them solve the cold cases that they are investigating for season 2!

Small Town, Big Crime podcast is online at https://www.smalltownbigcrimepodcast.com/the-podcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/small_town_big_crime/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Podcast/Small-Town-Big-Crime-101700561304254/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJRyDcP5edX3KcS68aKAujw

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SmallTownBigCrime

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