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

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