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The Georgia Lunatic Asylum was built here from 1842 and later became the Central State Hospital.
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FILE 472 / 2 March 2024 / 72 MIN / express
We're going to Millageville, Georgia, in central Georgia, about two hours outside of Atlanta. about 0:03:36
The Georgia Lunatic Asylum was built here from 1842 and later became the Central State Hospital.
about 0:05:33Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia for years until after the Civil War, when the capital moved to Atlanta.
about 0:05:40Town motto: Capitals, columns, and culture.
about 0:04:36Town motto: Historic charm, modern appeal.
about 0:04:52The Georgia Lunatic Asylum was built here from 1842 and later became the Central State Hospital.
about 0:05:33Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia for years until after the Civil War, when the capital moved to Atlanta.
about 0:05:40Town motto: Capitals, columns, and culture.
about 0:04:36Town motto: Historic charm, modern appeal.
about 0:04:52Milledgeville calls itself the first lady of Georgia.
about 0:05:01Georgia College is in the town, where Marianne Shockley and were students.
about 0:19:08Marianne Shockley's blood alcohol level at death
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"17,278"
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"$36,053"
Comparison: "just over half the national average". Direction: above.
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"$173,800"
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2.5 / 5 · average of 4
“Lived here all their life and loves it; knows a face almost everywhere and the lake is always fun to visit.”about 0:06:01
“Likes the town but finds it very boring.”about 0:06:20
“The area does not do a lot of outside activities or anything else.”about 0:06:31
“Only one good neighbour; constant fighting and threats with guns and pick axes, run-down buildings, stray animals, nosy neighbours always watching; does not feel safe.”about 0:06:46
Marianne Shockley was 43 in 2019 and an academic professional associate in the Department of Entomology at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, known round campus as Doc Shock. Her field was edible insects, which she promoted as a low-cost protein source, and she advised bodies such as the FDA and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. She had married and divorced three times and had two children. The two met in the late 1990s as students at Georgia College, where they worked at the same restaurant, but did not date then. In 2017 they met again over a motorcycle ride around Athens and the botanical gardens, and began a relationship. She took him as her assistant on bug-collecting trips to China and Ecuador. His son Carson warned her that his father was a Jekyll and Hyde character on cocaine, and told her to get away.
He was trying to sell a yoga studio. They drank beer, smoked pot and played accordion and conga drums. Marianne got into the hot tub around nine in the evening, all three of them naked.
The men had waited between 45 minutes and an hour to call for help, and investigators believed she had been dead for about two hours. Detectives found glasses, blood-soaked grass and a silver bracelet on the deck, signs of a struggle.
She described a choking fetish as a regular part of their relationship and said he once choked her unconscious. Another ex-girlfriend said he was rough and violent and told her to shut up and take it, and five more women said he had choked them. The autopsy found death by asphyxia from manual strangulation, with burst blood vessels in her eyes, and classified it as homicide.
May 11th to 12th, 2019 / house, Watson Reynolds Road, Milledgeville, Georgia
As told in the episode, on 2 March 2024.
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