193. Looks Like A Long Walk To The Store - The Evil That Stole Avery "Peaches" Shorts

Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · May 25, 2021 · 50m

For the second time this month we feature the troubling, tragic, SAD murder of a young girl during the Christmas holiday season a long time ago. This one is incredibly tragic because it’s pretty clear who the killer is and he was never arrested. On December 26, 1980 six year-old Avery "Peaches" Shorts left her home in Knoxville, Tennessee with 58 cents in her pocket, bundled up by her mother Hazel, who asked her youngest daughter to walk to the local store to buy her a bottle of Coke. It was a fifteen-minute round trip. Little Peaches never returned. When 50 minutes had passed with no sign of…