Articles by Ryan Berenz

The investigative news series Inside Probe with Geraldo Rivera continues its story on the 2001 disappearance of Crab Shack owner Ernie Belcher. Earl and Randy have been cleared of any involvement in Ernie’s disappearance, so the investigation is back to square one. It’s soon discovered that there were reports of bright lights in the sky and UFO sightings on the night Ernie vanished. As they stick the probe even deeper inside, Geraldo learns that Ernie was big into the Civil War — he was profoundly loyal to the Central, the little-known neutral side of which Camden County was a part, […]

In sort of a throwback to the Camden County COPS episodes from a few seasons back, the investigative news show Inside Probe with Gerardo Geraldo Rivera is in Camden, looking into the mysterious 2001 disappearance of Ernie Belcher, owner of the Crab Shack. Geraldo interviews the various residents of Camden — and two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip — to get their memories of Ernie, trying to piece together the puzzle of his disappearance and narrow down the list of possible suspects. After the police searched Ernie’s office and discovered threatening letters from Randy, the cops arrest Randy and Earl, […]

Earl and Randy don’t go to church very often — they’re usually hungover on Christmas and Easter — but they’re happy to go to the church festival. Joy is happy, too. She drank 25 Dixie cups of wine. And Catalina has had great luck at the carnival games. She even won an AM/FM radio headset! But no such luck for Joy. As she’s taking the drunk walk home from the festival, she steals a riding lawnmower, and runs Catalina down with it. Joy drives the lawnmower into a storage shed with Catalina pinned against it. Catalina threatens to go to the […]

Randy’s having a lot of fun getting toys from the claw machine at the Crab Shack, but Joy keeps stealing all of them — even the bird dressed up for a wedding. This reminds Earl of a scrawny, sensitive kid named Wally “Pansy” Panzer he bullied in school. Earl goes to Wally’s house to cross him off the list, and finds that Wally has grown into a hulking beast of a man. Fearing a beatdown, Earl says his name is Cliff and that he’s responding to the ad Wally placed in the Pennysaver looking for a workout buddy. So Earl […]