Companion Substack article with photos, map, timeline, links, and sources.

https://blueridgetruecrime.substack.com/p/false-sunset-death-at-a-blue-ridge

In this episode of the Blue Ridge True Crime podcast, we unravel the disturbing mystery of the Chestoa View Overlook deaths: a case that has haunted North Carolina for decades. On October 17, 1988, tourists discovered abandoned camera equipment and heard a woman's terrified scream echoing from the gorge below.

Early the next morning, rescuers found the bodies of Susan Haire and Helen Gibbs on the steep, tangled slope below. Helen's husband, James Gibbs, claimed it was a tragic accident that the women had slipped while posing for sunse ...