Description
In 2012, in Lafayette, Louisiana, a beautiful girl named Mickey Shunick vanished while riding her bicycle home from a friend’s house. The search for her, led by her fierce sister Charlie, was incredible. And the investigation would reveal just how fierce Mickey herself was.
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Show Notes
Written, hosted and produced by Erica Kelley
Original Graphic Art by Coley Horner
Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio
Researched by Haley Gray & Erica Kelley
Edited by Chaes Gray of Gray Multimedia
Suggested by Listener Amanda Landry
Today’s Sponsors: BetterHelp.com/southern
Resources
How you can help be part of the solution to our national problem of systemic racism:
Communities United Against Police Brutality
American Civil Liberties Union
If you are suffering with abuse in quarantine, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help:
US Crisis Text Line: 741741
US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-737-732
Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/
If you are having suicidal thoughts during this unprecedented time, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Please call the US National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
For resources in other countries: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
A great source to find a LGBTQ non-profit to support: https://greatnonprofits.org/categories/view/lgbtq
https://www.shondaland.com/act/a27789423/24-lgbtq-organizations-support-right-now/
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