Episode 4 - The Third Time’s the Charm
 

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:

Minnesota Freedom Fund

George Floyd Memorial Fund

I Run With Maud

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Campaign Zero

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Black Lives Matter

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

American Civil Liberties Union

National Bail Fund Network

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/

https://pflag.org/hotlines

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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