Tag: crime

February 26, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

When a Song’s Meaning Changes: The Case of Take My Hand and the Gabby Petito Documentary

It’s always strange when pop culture does an unexpected shift—when something you once appreciated suddenly takes on a new, unsettling

January 16, 2023 THE COAL SPEAKER

Going down the Maegan Magen Megan Hall rabbit hole

The newfound fame of the name Megan Hall is not because of her toilet talk with fellow inmates in New Orleans, but a whole other Megan who was actually a police officer. A cop that got caught up in a wild ride.

In the run up to a fundraiser for Nescopeck fire victims, the owner of the Intoxicology Department Bar Lauren Hess told WNEP: “Tragedies like this don’t happen around here, like anything of this magnitude.”

And now a second horrific event occurred as Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes used his car as a weapon by driving into the fundraiser–and killing his mother with a hammer..

July 31, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE NANNY CAM GOT HIM: It’s a dog eat dog world

Yet again the region makes national news for less than splendid subject matter..

October 10, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

SKOOKY THINGS SEASON 1, EPISODE : MURDER IN SCHUYLKILL HAVEN

David Wellington Reed was a 13-year-old boy in the seventh grade at Schuylkill Haven Area Middle School.. Born January 17, 1972, Reed assumed national; attention when he murdered in 1985.. His death was one of milk cartons of the 80s.. his crime was solved decades later.