Season Two Trailer - Spoon River Gothic Presents - DEATH RIDES THE HIGHWAY
Cory Zimmerman
& SPOON RIVER GOTHIC
presents:
“DEATH RIDES THE HIGHWAY”
A Cross Country Thrill Ride Kept Alive by Murder & Mayhem - The Motive - Freedom & Independence!
In a world where destiny often takes unexpected turns, the enthralling tale of two individuals whose paths seemed destined never to cross. Meet 28-year-old Daniel Eugene Remeta and 18-year-old Lisa Dunn, lives and backgrounds seemingly worlds apart. Danny, a product of a turbulent, neglecting, and abusive upbringing, found himself on a collision course with the criminal underworld from a young age—growing up in the shadow of alcoholism, a childhood marked by habitual encounters with law enforcement, Danny's life was marred by violence and chaos.
In stark contrast, Lisa Dunn's life was on a trajectory toward a promising future. Until shortly before their fateful meeting, she embodied a well-cared-for, academically successful teenager from a loving middle-class home. But then, suddenly, her grades slipped, she experimented with drugs, and even ran away from home to Florida, signaling her growing discomfort with the life assigned to her as a college-bound honor student. And when Lisa and Danny’s paths crossed, at that crossroads, a crosshair on her life caused an abrupt turn into not only uncharted territory but terror.
At Radio Vérité, we aim to unravel this captivating tale of how these two vastly different individuals came together. We shall deeply explore the intricate dynamics that led to a cross-country, multistate crime spree, one marked and dogeared for all-time by early onset mass murder, in a time of social change at that dawn of the murderous violence that would spill out across a nation. As we delve into the narrative, we'll grapple with the haunting question: Who was manipulating with magnetic control, and who transitioned into an active accomplice in the vicious, sociopathic crimes committed?
The complex interplay of Danny and Lisa’s backgrounds and choices, along with the influence and consequence of additional figures like Jesse Hunter and Mark Walter, unveils a compelling true crime saga that will challenge our understanding of the human capacity for both darkness and redemption.
“KANSAS CARNAGE CAME BY WAY OF SEWER PIPE”
Many people who populate this storybook chunk of American heartland with the endlessly straight rows of corn, neatly painted barns, and carefully tended fences call the highway just outside of town “the sewer pipe.” Late last week, death flowed into northwestern Kansas through that “sewer pipe,” which most other Americans know as Interstate 70, during a two-hour nightmare of screaming tires, hostage-taking, executions, and gunfighting. When the last shot was fired almost precisely at sundown Wednesday, four people were dead, two had been severely wounded, and three suspects were in police custody. Signs of carnage still are visible across a 60-mile swath of countryside stretching from Stuckey’s Restaurant, where the killing spree began, to an abandoned farmhouse—final resting place of the bullet-riddled pickup in which one of four suspects died in the climatic gunfight. There are still red stains in the snow alongside Kansas Highway 25, where the bodies of two hostages were found after each was forced to lie down on the ground and were so repeatedly in the head with a .365 Magnum. A map outlining the route over which the tragedy was played out was printed in the Colby Free Press throughout Friday—curious residents drove that mapped route on grim pilgrimages. And, seemingly everywhere, residents spoke of how all the years of dread and mistrust of the strangers who traveled I-70 was more than justified.“What do you boys do in your cities that drives people like that out here to torture us?” asked old-timer Bob Ackard, a lifelong resident of Thomas County. “What kind of people do you create? What kind of people are these? Monsters, that’s what!”