The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia
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Overview
The notorious true crime story of a sex party that ended in double murder in the woods of Chattanooga County, Georgia.
On December 12th, 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. Then they brutally murdered their hosts.
Dr. Charles Scudder had been a professor of pharmacology at Chicago’s Loyola University before he and his boyfriend Joey Odom moved to Georgia and built their own home in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Scudder had absconded with twelve thousand doses of LSD and had a very particular vision for their “castle in the woods.” It included a “pleasure chamber,” and rumors of Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate.
But when Scudder and Odom welcomed West and Brock into their strange abode, they had no idea the men were armed and dangerous. When the evening of kinky fun turned to a scene of gruesome slaughter, the murders set the stage for a sensational trial that engulfed the sleepy Southern town of Trion in shocking revelations and lurid speculations.
On December 12th, 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. Then they brutally murdered their hosts.
Dr. Charles Scudder had been a professor of pharmacology at Chicago’s Loyola University before he and his boyfriend Joey Odom moved to Georgia and built their own home in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Scudder had absconded with twelve thousand doses of LSD and had a very particular vision for their “castle in the woods.” It included a “pleasure chamber,” and rumors of Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate.
But when Scudder and Odom welcomed West and Brock into their strange abode, they had no idea the men were armed and dangerous. When the evening of kinky fun turned to a scene of gruesome slaughter, the murders set the stage for a sensational trial that engulfed the sleepy Southern town of Trion in shocking revelations and lurid speculations.
“The book covers background on the victims and other key people as well as the town, details about what happened that night, the subsequent trials and appeals, the property, the alleged haunting, and the aftermath. . . . The book contains over 50 photos, including several never published before, along with many details never shared publicly before, and corrections of some of the common misconceptions about the victims and the events. Petulla also shares the infamous self-portrait done by Scudder some time before his death, bound and shot five times in the head, just as he was found.” —All on Georgia
“A unique aspect of Petulla’s book is her examination of other bizarre events that have occurred in Trion.” —Times Free Press
“A unique aspect of Petulla’s book is her examination of other bizarre events that have occurred in Trion.” —Times Free Press
- Title: The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia
- Author: Amy Petulla
- Publisher: The History Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 147
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781625856456, 9781467119009, 1467119008, 1625856458
- Resource ID: LLS:9781625856456
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T18:10:27Z
Amy Petulla is familiar with the Corpsewood murder case from both legal and paranormal standpoints. She began practicing law when David “Red” Lomenick hired her as an assistant district attorney. The Tony West murders were a topic of local interest from the time she first arrived. Petulla was a trial attorney for twenty years. She is the owner of Chattanooga Ghost Tours, Inc. Amy has a BA in psychology from Emory University and JD from the University of Georgia.