Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations

S1E100 - A Long Strange Trip Gone Wrong

Published: October 6, 2025

Duration: 1:09:35

Hey Slaycaters (and music fans) we’re taking you back to 1973 and the Summer Jam concert in Watkins Glen, New York.  The headliners were The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band and over 600,000 people showed up to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway. 

 Among the concert-goers were 16 year old Michael Weiser and 15 year old Bonnie Bickwit, two very smart and loving kids from Brooklyn, NY.  Without a car, the pair decided to hitchhike to the show. 

They never made it home.  Join us as we take a deep dive into this music-festival mystery that may ha...