Murder on Music Row
Murder on Music Row from The Tennessean
Playlist by Murder on Music Row"Murder on Music Row" is a podcast produced by The Tennessean, which is part of the USA Today Network. It is a deep-dive narrative that covers one case per season, and includes murder, music and nosta…Follow the podcast:
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Bonus Episode: Witness says he’s sorry
In this bonus episode you'll hear the latest development. We got a call from Jason Pence, the star witness who testified he saw a teenager kill David “Skull” Schulman.
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Episode 8: What is Truth
How strong can the case be when the prosecutor says he thought his side was going to lose? In the murder of David "Skull" Schulman, the prosecution pinned the crime on a 17-year-old homeless drifter. Will the Tennessee Innocence Project get involved?
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Episode 7: You Got the Wrong Man
As the investigation into the murder of David "Skull" Schulman began to focus on one suspect, a Nashville detective flew to California to interview a teenager who had been arrested in San Francisco on drug charges. Could this be the guy they were looking for? The new suspect said he didn't do it, a…
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Episode 6: Nebraska
All roads led to Lincoln, Nebraska. A detective made the trip to Nebraska to find a new witness to the David "Skull" Schulman murder. This person may have been inside the Rainbow Room when Skull was attacked. The problem was that the detective found the witness in a mental institution.
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Episode 5: Long White Line
As the police investigation into the murder of David "Skull" Schulman stalled out, the lead investigator on the case ran into serious personal difficulty. A new investigator emerged, and he was a legendary Nashville detective. All of a sudden, witnesses came forward and took the case in a different…
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Episode 4: Nowhere Fast
Police found that David "Skull" Schulman had borrowed a lot of money from a Nashville music business icon. And the Rainbow Room was getting threatening calls about Skull repaying that money in the week before he was murdered.
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Episode 3: Whiskey Lullaby
Nashville police scrambled to catch a knife-wielding assailant. But they would quickly discover David "Skull" Schulman was killed by a blow to the skull. One of their early suspects was serial killer Paul Dennis Reid (The Fast Food Killer), who was already in custody at the time of Skull's murder. …
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Episode 2: Cuts like a Knife
In the last moments of his life, David "Skull" Schulman opened the Rainbow Room like he had done every day for 50 years. He was wearing his Hee Haw overalls when he was brutally attacked. Police said robbery was the motive, but an examination of the evidence shows how much of a reach that was.
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Episode 1: Life is a Cabaret
David "Skull" Schulman was an outlaw in a world of musical outlaws. Friends with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, Skull was constantly getting arrested in his early days for overseeing illegal gambling, drinking and nudity in the Rainbow Room.
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Murder on Music Row Season 2: The Skull at the End of the Rainbow, coming Oct. 7
Coming Oct. 7 Murder on Music Row Season 2: The Skull at the End of the Rainbow" is an 8-part deep dive, narrative podcast that focuses on the 1998 murder of David "Skull" Schulman, an iconic Nashville figure who owned the Skulls Rainbow Room strip club/country music bar for 50 years. The police m…
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