Crooked River

CROOKED RIVER is a fictional podcast narrative that spans the five-year period between September 1934 and August 1939 in post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. During this politically turbulent time, an elusive killer decapitated and dismembered thirteen victims—seven men and six women—all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director Eliot Ness, the famed G-man from Al Capone’s Chicago glory days. The disturbing crimes, the setting, and the peripheral characters, suspects and cops are real—the two lead characters (the local cop and the Federal Agent) are fictional.

Created by:
Dave Beazley and Casey Wells

Starring:
Zachary Ray Sherman as Alvin Pike
Jeff Tendall as Joe Antonetti
Miles Sullivan as Ed Krauss
Andrew Garrett as Gus Frayne
Albie Selznick as Coroner Pearse
Stephanie Myers as Margie
Levi Petree as Eliot Ness and Orley May
Joseph Covino as Pete Merylo
Glenn Payne as Frank Vorrell
Nate Ward as Mick Basile and Newscaster
Taylor Jorree Scorse as Agnes Tuttle and Operator
Jessica Andres as Virginia Allen and Waitress
Dave Huber as Joseph Andrassy and Lou Fortum
Gayle Trudeau as Helen Andrassy
Rafael Goldstein as Martin Zalewski and Emil Musil
Alexandra Vaughan as Cop

Post Production Sound by
Joe Moralez & ElfTree Studio

Written by:
Casey Wells

Produced, Directed & Edited by
Dave Beazley

A Heywood Production

• No. of episodes: 7
• Latest episode: 2022-07-04
• Fiction

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