The Signal Mountain Murders
On July 9, 1988 near Chattanooga Tennessee, Richard Mason, his son in law, Ken Griffith and Ken's friend Earl Smock left Richard's house on ATV's for a ride and to go to a local swimming hole known as The Blue Hole. They had intended to return by dinner but when that did not happen his wife and daughter became worried. As night fall came they knew something was wrong and went to the police. A search party was formed that was continued into the next day. The following day the ATV's were found at a local illegal dumping site. There was blood and brain matter all over the ATV's so everyone knew something bad had happened. Their trail to the swimming hole was followed and something else suspicious was found. Around the area that local people called "the Gate" (although a Gate was no longer there as it had been in the past and this path led to The Blue Hole) on property recently bought by Frank Casteel and his wife, Susie, seemed strangely "clean....