January 2, 2023
During his early teen years, something dark overcame Nathan Brooks. He began worshipping Satan and when he was only 17 years old, he made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of the devil.
December 19, 2022
THANK YOU TO JOYCE D. WHO SUGGESTED THIS EPISODE!
Ann Hoover bought her first home in 1995 in the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania neighborhood of South Oakland. This neighborhood was somewhere that needed a lot of TLC (tender loving care) and Ann, along with her neighbors, were excited to rehab the area. Everyone including Ann and her next-door neighbor, Roy Kirk, looked forward to the transformation and had wonderful and exciting plans for their neighborhood. However, when Roy started doing things to his home that damaged Ann’s, Ann felt her only path to recouping her losses was to eventually go to court.
Episode written by Terra Bella and edited by Tonya
December 11, 2022
Christine Paolilla had a tough childhood. Her father died in an accident when she was little and she also suffered from alopecia which caused her to have very low self-esteem. During her early school years, she had a tough time at school when she was the victim of teasing and was picked on quite a bit. This all changed when her family moved to Friendswood, Texas, and was befriended by two of the most popular girls in the high school. Christine repaid their kindness by brutally murdering them and two other people. Listen to hear about the Clear Lake Massacre.
Written by Terra Bella and edited by Tonya
December 5, 2022
Christine Paolilla had a tough childhood. Her father died in an accident when she was little and she also suffered from alopecia which caused her to have very low self-esteem. During her early school years, she had a tough time at school when she was the victim of teasing and was picked on quite a bit. This all changed when her family moved to Friendswood, Texas, and was befriended by two of the most popular girls in the high school. Christine repaid their kindness by brutally murdering them and two other people. Listen to hear about the Clear Lake Massacre.
Written by Terra Bella and edited by Tonya
November 21, 2022
Rachel and her baby daughter were found murdered in their bed on January 20th, 2006 in Massachusetts. They were shot to death while Rachel held baby Lillian Rose in her arms. Rachel’s husband Neil, originally from England was nowhere to be found and police launched a hunt for him which took them all way over to Europe.
November 15, 2022
South Central Los Angeles in the late 1980s was a terrible place to be. The area was rampant with crime, drugs, and a struggle to survive. Many women turned to sex work to either help feed their addiction or to feed their families. As many of you know, police tended to turn a blind eye when dead sex workers were found, and they had an attitude like the victims were disposable. Because of this attitude, serial killers often made South Central L.A. their hunting grounds, and Lonnie Franklin, Jr. was one of them. Nicknamed “The Grim Sleeper” due to the extended supposed break he took in killing–Lonnie’s true victim count will never be known.
November 1, 2022
On December 4, 1997, Kim and Danny Daniels, who cared for foster children, were murdered, along with two of their own children, while they slept by an intruder who then kidnapped three of their other children. The killer left behind a ten-month-old baby and a five-year-old boy at the house alive. Why did he kill four members of the Daniels family, kidnap three and leave behind two? Listen to this week’s episode from Crimes and Consequences to learn more about this horrific true crime case.
October 31, 2022
THANK YOU TO PATREON MEMBER LAURA F. FOR SUGGESTING THIS STORY!
In August 1985, the Bamber family was murdered. Neville and June Bamber were killed along with their 6-year-old grandchildren, twins Nicholas and Daniel. The twins’ mother, 28-year-old Sheila was also found dead, and at first, the police believed that Sheila annihilated her family and then killed herself. However, some things just didn’t add up, especially when it came to the sole survivor in the Bamber family, Sheila’s brother, 24-year-old Jeremy. Listen to this week’s episode and decide for yourself…did Sheila do it? Was Jeremy wrongly convicted? Let us know your thoughts!
Episode written by Terra Bella, edited by Tonya
October 24, 2022
Ethan Windom was only 16 years old when he barbarically murdered his mother Judy while she was sleeping in their Idaho home.
October 17, 2022
The body of a young woman was found on November 16, 1969 off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California, only a few short miles from where The Manson Family had murdered several people that summer. The woman had no ID and no significant identifying marks, and while the Los Angeles Police Department tried to discover her identity, they were unsuccessful. The woman was given the moniker Jane Doe 59. Jane Doe 59 and another woman, Marina Habe, whose body was found in January 1969, would be cold cases for the LAPD and would cause them to wonder if they were victims of The Manson Family or had met their ends via some other violent means. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about these two cases and whether Jane Doe 59’s identity was ever made.
Episode written by Terra Bella and Tonya
October 10, 2022
17-year-old Breezy Otteson and her 18-year-old boyfriend Riley Powell went missing on December 29, 2017. It took over three months for investigators to figure out what happened to the two teens. Their bodies were found in an open mine shaft in Utah. Who killed them and why?
October 3, 2022
A BIG “THANK YOU” TO PATREON SARAH and DANIELLE B!
Eight-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle was out shopping with her mother, Rayne, on June 21, 2013, near Jacksonville, Florida. Rayne was struggling financially when she thought she had been blessed by a kind stranger, especially when that stranger told her that he and his wife had a $100 gift card for Walmart to give to her and he wanted her to buy whatever she needed. The kind stranger was Donald James Smith–who wasn’t kind at all. He was a lifelong child predator, who fell through the cracks in the Florida prison system. A month prior, Donald was still in prison, but on that fateful day in June, he was out preying on another unsuspecting child. As the evening wore on, Cherish and her two little sisters grew hungry, and Donald offered to buy them cheeseburgers at the McDonald’s that was inside Walmart. Donald and Cherish went to get the cheeseburgers, but instead, Donald led Cherish out of the store and she was never seen alive again. Listen to this week’s episode to hear the story that even the medical examiner who performed Cherish’s autopsy had to take a break from during her testimony in Donald’s trial.
Episode written by Terra Bella
September 26, 2022
Melinda Pleskovic was brutally shot and stabbed over 35 times in her home while her non-verbal son with Downs Syndrome and infant granddaughter were alone with her. Who would want to murder this 49-year-old schoolteacher? Listen to this episode of Crimes and Consequences to find out!
September 12, 2022
In 1978, Terry Lee Chasteen and her three children were found dead in White Lick Creek in Indiana. Terry had been raped and strangled to death, and her children had drowned. What started as a day heading to the babysitter so Terry could go to work, ended with their murderer having other plans in store for them. Listen to this week’s episode to hear about what happened to Terry and her children.
September 5, 2022
In 1974, Michael and Christine Taylor joined a “Charismatic Christianity” movement after Michael suffered from a debilitating back injury resulting in depression. An exorcism was performed on him overnight which allegedly cast out 40 demons. By the early morning hours, only three demons were left: insanity, murder, and violence. Those who performed the exorcism were too tired to cast out the remaining evil spirits and sent Michael home. Two hours later, he was arrested for the barbaric murder of his wife.
August 29, 2022
In 1957, the bodies of Thyra “Sally” Bowman, her 14-year-old daughter Wendy, and a family friend, Tom Whelen, were found under a tarp in the middle of the desert landscape of the Outback in Australia. Through a nearly miraculous chain of events, a man named Raymond Bailey was arrested, tried, and eventually hanged for the triple murder. However, what if Raymond was framed by an ambitious, young detective, looking to make a name for himself? Listen to this week’s episode and decide for yourself if an innocent man was hanged for a horrible crime.
August 22, 2022
The Strange Death of Ellen Greenberg Ellen Greenberg was found dead by her fiance Sam on January 26th, 2011. She was found with over 20… Continue Reading…
August 17, 2022
For nearly a decade, a serial killer was terrorizing the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area starting in 1994. Actually, at the time the serial killer this episode is about was active, there were at least four other serial killers active in the State of Louisiana. Today’s story is about Sean Vincent Gillis, who made zip ties his favorite means to kill. In addition to killing his victims, Sean enjoyed mutilating, dismembering, cannibalizing, and also practicing necrophilia on them. This one is high on the gruesome scale so buckle up!
August 8, 2022
In June of 1969, the Robison family went to their cabin in Good Hart, Michigan, where they planned to spend their summer. Towards the end of July, a putrid smell overwhelmed the Blisswood cabin community. The smell was traced to the Robison’s cabin – where police discovered the rotting corpses of all six members of the family. Someone had murdered them 27 days earlier, turned on the furnace, closed the drapes, locked the doors, and left a note on the window. Listen to the strange and bizarre details of this story to learn the truth of the Robison’s family slaughter.
August 1, 2022
On June 30, 2009, four people were found, drowned, in a car in the Kingston Mills Locks in Ontario, Canada. What first appeared to be a very tragic car accident, eventually was revealed to be one of the most terrible betrayals a parent can do to his child. Mohammed Shafia was a successful millionaire living in Quebec, Canada with his wife, their seven children, and his cousin. Mohammed had immigrated to Canada from Afganistan and instead of assimilating into Canadian life, he continued to practice his Afghan traditions, including what happens when he believed his daughters dishonored his family.
July 25, 2022
Russell Williams made a career for himself as a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He served as Commander of their Trenton base and even flew Queen Elizabeth around. No one would have ever suspected that he had been living a double life. At night he would creep around spying on women and teen girls and breaking into their homes to try on their undergarments. Eventually, his behavior escalated into murder.
July 18, 2022
Farmville is a sleepy little college town, located in Virginia and is home to the oldest private college in the southern US. Farmville was also home to the Neiderbrock family who in 2009, were slaughtered by their daughter’s online boyfriend, Richard McCroskey. What began as a trip to Michigan to attend a Horrorcore music concert, ended with four people dead, and their killer making a video about it.
July 11, 2022
In March of 2010, 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor was lured to the home of her friend Kruse Wellwood and then ambushed by Kruse and his friend Cameron Moffat. For hours they brutalized the young woman, sadistically torturing her until she died inside a deep freezer. This is Kimberly’s story.
July 4, 2022
In the mid-1990s Chicago was terrorized by a sadistic serial killer who seemed to strike at random. This serial killer, however, carefully stalked his victims and made sure he knew their routines before he tortured, raped and eventually killed them. Listen to this week’s episode to hear about serial killer Paul Runge who confessed to six murders and hear where he is today.
June 27, 2022
On September 19th, 2009, a cloud of unimaginable violence and darkness shrouded the city of Naples. It was a crime described as the worst of the worst – Mesac Damas had murdered his wife Guerline, and their five children.
After the killings, he fled to Haiti, where he was eventually captured. He confessed to the murders but blamed his mother-in-law for “voodooing his ass” and casting a bad spirit in him.
June 20, 2022
When a woman is murdered, the usual suspect is her boyfriend or husband, right? But what happens when police believe there has been a domestic dispute with the victim dead and her boyfriend still alive with serious injuries on his face? Do the police have tunnel vision and try to fit a square peg into a round hole, or do they continue to investigate all possible suspects? One such instance of severe tunnel vision that a detective for the Phoenix, Arizona police department in December of 2006. Ryan Waller is taken to the police station to be questioned in connection with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Heather Quan. But what happens when the suspect is actually a victim? Listen to today’s episode to hear about a severe instance where justice isn’t served fully, and a surviving victim’s severe brain injuries are ignored for hours.
June 13, 2022
18-year-old Kevin Davis had been sexually fantasizing about raping and murdering his mother and older sister. In 2014, he acted out his fantasies by brutally raping and murdering his mother, Kimberly Hill with a hammer. He later confessed to authorities in detail about the crime, and what led up to the brutal assault. Listen to this episode to explore the mind of a soulless psychopath who had no regrets about losing his virginity to his mother’s corpse.
June 2, 2022
Being someone interested in true crime, you always think you can spot a creeper from a mile away, correct? Maybe he’s driving a creeper van, or gives off some other hint that he’s a weirdo—but what if he looks like an everyday, middle-class American guy? And he’s a deacon at your church, with a wife and a family? Maybe you’re still on guard, you know, considering BTK was a similar type—but most people are fooled. Just like the victims in the story today—they thought they knew their killer enough to trust him. That was their first mistake.
May 30, 2022
A serial killer roamed the sleepy town of Kicevo in Macedonia for over five years. During that time he lured four unsuspecting women, all cleaning ladies from the same neighborhood, to his den of torture. He held them captive, sometimes for months, before strangling them and dumping there bodies in areas where he knew they would be found quickly. This is the barbaric story of the Kicevo Monster.
May 24, 2022
The province of British Columbia in Canada was gripped by a string of disappearances and deaths of its young people in the early 1980s. At first, the police thought maybe the missing children were runaways, and didn’t spend too much of their time on the cases. However, when a 9-year-old boy disappeared and then his body was later found, the police realized that 9-year-olds don’t usually run away from home. Eventually, the police would arrest Clifford Olson, who would be dubbed “The Beast of British Columbia”. Listen to this week’s episode to hear about the 11 murders of children from the ages of 9-18 that Clifford confessed to, as well as other possible murders for which he may have been responsible.
May 16, 2022
In the early 80s, a serial killer was murdering women in the twin cities of Minnesota with an ice pick. After each attack, he would call 911 weeping and begging for the police to put an end to his terror. It was only after one of his victims escaped that Paul Michael Stephani was finally apprehended. Fifteen years later, when Paul learned he had terminal cancer, he made a full confession of all his crimes, which included a murder completely off the authorities’ radar. Listen to this episode to hear his ultra-annoying voice and the unsavory details of his murder spree.
May 9, 2022
Popstar Cyndi Lauper once sang, “Money Changes Everything” and nothing could be more true. People fight about money every day, and it pits family members against one another. Husbands against wives, siblings against one another, parents vs. children…it goes on and on. One such family that was affected by money was the Mack family in Reno, Nevada. When Charla met Darren Mack and they fell madly in love, Darren didn’t mind lavishing his bride with trips and expensive gifts. But when Charla filed for divorce, the wheels fell off the bus, so to speak. Once earning in excess of $40,000.00/month, Darren claimed he only made $5,000.00 and could afford the financial agreement he made with Charla in Court. But when he was ordered to pay Charla her million-dollar settlement, Darren lost it. He decided murder was the only way to solve his financial problems…but Charla wasn’t the only victim he had in mind.
May 2, 2022
In 2019, Keyona Griffin called 911 and whispered for them to please hurry because she was about to die. In the call, she told the dispatcher that her aunt had already been murdered and she was going to be next. But the urgency in her voice somehow got lost in translation, and the police left after knocking on her door and getting no answer.
Keyona’s death and the murder of her aunt set in motion a sequence of events that resulted in two more people being killed. The murderer, Derrell Demon Brown, is currently on the U.S. Marshal’s Most Wanted List. If you have seen this man, please call 1-877-WANTED-2 or go online to www.usmarshals.gov/tips. There is a $25,000 reward. Warning: Derrell Demon Brown is a very unstable and dangerous man.
April 28, 2022
JACK THE RIPPER ACCORDING TO THE FBI I n 1988, the FBI had a confidential criminal profile created of “Jack the Ripper.” In 2000, Supervising… Continue Reading…
April 25, 2022
On January 14, 2003, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a possible body found in a ravine off the Ortega Highway in California. When the homicide investigators showed up, they found the remains of a woman missing her head and hands, wearing only a pair of underwear. Listen to this week’s episode to find out who this woman was and how her life ended in such a sad and violent ending.
April 18, 2022
In 1997, two women were mutilated and murdered on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital in Grangegorman, Ireland. Only months later, a young couple named Catherine and Carl Doyle were slaughtered in their countryside home in front of their four young children. All four of the victims were murdered at the hands of a young father named Mark Nash, who would eventually become known as one of Ireland’s most violent and gruesome killers of all time.
April 11, 2022
During World War II, atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime were horrific. As the Nazis occupied France, the French Resistance movement helped the war effort by spying for the Allies and helping to smuggle Jews from France. Unfortunately, Hitler and the Nazis were not the only evil people preying on the vulnerable during the war. One such man was a Frenchman named Dr. Marcel Petiot. Dr. Petiot used the Resistance as a cover to one of his most horrendous money-making schemes—after he spent his lifetime involved in shady and unethical actions. Dr. Petiot was a perfect example of evil lurking right next door. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the horrendous crimes of the man who earned the moniker “Doctor Satan”.
April 4, 2022
In the 90s, Fresno, California was inundated with gang violence. One gang, known as the Parkside Fresno Bulldogs held a “drive-by shooting party” in a cluster of trailers in a rural area near vineyards. Four teen girls were invited to the party and plied with PCP, cocaine, booze and weed – after a night of hell, only two made it out alive.
Although these girls suffered extreme sexual brutality at the hands of at least eight men (with up to 30 watching) only three were punished for the rapes and murders. This is Dorothy Medina, Arlene Sanchez, Spring and Kim’s story.
March 28, 2022
When Ryan McConniel married Brittany Lee in October 2007, he brought his daughters from his first marriage with him. Ryan believed that Brittany would make a wonderful stepmother to his girls, and he trusted her to care for them while he worked full-time. Toward the end of 2009, Lauren began exhibiting disturbing behaviors, ones that Brittany blamed on the abuse Lauren supposedly suffered at the hands of her mother. Brittany always had an explanation for bruises and problems Lauren had, and even though Ryan knew better, he turned a blind eye to Lauren’s increasing deterioration. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the sad and terrible death of 5-year-old Lauren McConniel.
March 25, 2022
Robert Hansen, also known as the Butcher Baker, is one of the most notorious American serial killers. He hunted women in the wilds of Alaska in the 1970s and 1980s like he loved to do with big game animals, shooting them with the same high-powered rifles. While he was killing women in Alaska, Robert managed to have two daughters with his second wife. Despite this, his hatred for women still drove him to hunt and kill them. Listen to this exclusive episode to hear more about his victims and the crimes he committed.
Nature vs. Nurture? Or a combination of both? The mental health community along with armchair detectives have pondered this question for decades. What makes someone commit the most heinous crimes against fellow human beings? Serial killer and rapist Charles “Carl” Panzram is an excellent example of a man who you could spend all day arguing that he was born evil….or his upbringing made him that way…or possibly both. Carl was born in 1891 into crippling poverty, and faced a life of hard work and severe physical punishments, even as a small child. His life of disobedience began early, starting with his first arrest for public drunkenness at the age of 8, and ended with him hanging from the gallows at Ft. Leavenworth Prison by the time he was 39. Listen to this week’s Members Only episode and join the debate!
March 24, 2022
In 1987, Stephen Small, a prominent businessman from Ilinois was kidnapped while leaving his house to meet a man he thought was a police officer. He was held at gunpoint and given a script to read into a tape recorder. The recordings were played for his family during numerous ransom calls in which his family was ordered to pay $1 million dollars in exchange for his safe return. Listen to this episode to learn more about what happens to Stephen Small (spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well).
March 21, 2022
Lois Pearson was a very simple woman who lived alone in her small Texas home. This humble woman spent her days gardening and reading the bible. But in 2011, her whole life changed when her former neighbor, Jeffrey Maxwell, kidnapped her from her home. For weeks he had plotted her abduction, even crafting devices and mechanisms to use on her to satiate his sadistic desires. As police looked deeper into the background of Jeffrey they uncovered a connection to him and two other missing women. Listen to this episode to learn more about the murderous ways of Jeffrey Allan Maxwell.
March 14, 2022
In the late 1970s, in Quebec, Canada, a group of young people were looking to find meaning and purpose in their lives. They found that meaning and purpose after meeting a charismatic man named Roch Theriault. Roch was a devoted follower of the Seventh Day Adventist religion, and soon this group of young people decided to cut ties with all of their friends and family, and follow Rock into the wilderness of Quebec to form a new society and way of life from scratch. They soon came to believe that Rock spoke to God and everything he did was as a result of his conversations with God–even when it came to viciously punishing them, or eventually when Rock did things where members ended up dead.
March 10, 2022
22-year-old Karla Brown was found with her head submerged in a lard bucket in her basement in 1978. Her murder remained a mystery for four years until a medical examiner discovered bite marks on her body and identified them to her killer. Forty years later, questions remain as to whether the man convicted, John Prante, was indeed the real killer.
March 8, 2022
On October 1, 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was excited to host a slumber party at her home she shared with her mother and her little sister. Polly welcomed two of her classmates to sleep over, and the girls did what a lot of 12-year-old girls do–played with clothes and makeup, excited to talk about their upcoming Halloween plans. As the girls were settling in for the night, Polly opened her bedroom door to fetch the sleeping bags for her friends. When she opened the door she was confronted with a strange man in her house. Only a few rooms away, her mother and 6-year-old sister slept–and the man tied up the girls and kidnapped Polly. No one saw her alive again.
In the early morning hours of May 12, 2007, in Mainheim Township, Pennsylvania, the Haines family was asleep. Earlier that evening, the family had enjoyed dinner and a movie together before retiring for the night. 20-year-old Maggie was awakened around 2:00 a.m. by noises coming from her little brother’s (16-year-old, Kevin) room. It sounded like there was a struggle going on and when Maggie ran to her parent’s room, her mother, Lisa, told her to leave and get help. That night would be the last time Maggie would see her entire family still alive. Little did Maggie know, her family’s killer was quite familiar with the family, and had he known she was home from college for the summer, she would have probably been dead too.
March 7, 2022
In 2003, Brian Waters was sadistically tortured for hours in the cowshed of the Burnt House Farm in England. Brian’s adult children were forced to watch as a group of men thought up inhumane ways to brutalize their father. One of them, Christopher Guest More, Jr., was a former television researcher who had worked undercover for the BBC only months earlier. Eventually, police arrested five men for the murder, but Christopher managed to evade justice for 16 years, living under an assumed name. During that time, he lived in a mansion on the island of Malta, captained a yacht for the wealthy, drove luxury cars, and even worked with the Moroccan Royal family. How did someone responsible for one of England’s most savage murders get away with it for so long? Warning: this case is wickedly gruesome.
February 28, 2022
On Christmas Eve 1985, in Chester, Nebraska the body of a child was found abandoned in a field, wearing only blue sleeper pajamas. The community of Chester was overwhelmed with concern for the child, and he was nicknamed “Little Boy Blue”. It took a couple of years, and only after a story was published in “Reader’s Digest” in 1987 was Little Boy Blue’s true identity discovered. He belonged to an Amish family, and his father was a man named Eli Stutzman, a man who had left the Amish community when his son was a baby. After police investigated Eli fully, the world came to know this Amish Serial Killer.
February 24, 2022
In 1986, Jonathan Crawford was the first man in the United States history to be convicted of murdering a person in a unique and very disturbing way. Now another man, Ryan Sabin, is currently facing charges for killing his 11-year-old son, Zachary, the same way: water intoxication. Listen to this episode to learn how two perfectly healthy boys died from drinking too much water. Warning: Child Abuse.
February 22, 2022
In 2006, two women were raped and murdered in their southern Chicago homes only seven weeks apart. Investigators discovered that they had one important factor in common: they had the same Comcast service technician visit them prior to their deaths. Tonya’s mic wasn’t on for this recording for some reason, so sorry for the tech issues!
February 19, 2022
Single father John DeBlase was given an ultimatum by his pregnant girlfriend Heather Keaton. She demanded full authority to discipline his 5-year-old daughter Natalie and 3-year-old son Chase as she saw fit, or she would leave him. Heather hated his children and for months John stood by and allowed them to endure torturous punishments for the most minor offenses. The last time anyone saw Natalie alive was in March of 2010. Little Chase disappeared on Father’s Day of that year. Find out what happened to DeBlase children in this week’s episode of Crimes and Consequences.
February 14, 2022
On August 2, 1982, the Johnson Family—dad Bob, mom Jackie, and daughters Janet and Karen, set off for a two-week summer vacation at the Wells Gray Park located in Clearwater, British Columbia, Canada along with Jackie’s parents, Edith and George. What was supposed to be a wonderful two weeks spent exploring the great outdoors, fishing, swimming, and nightly campfires roasting marshmallows – turned into a senseless murder spree that annihilated six members of the same family.
February 7, 2022
On a sweltering August night in Alabama in 1999, neighbors of the Liz and Deroy Nalls heard the desperate cries of the couple’s 10-year-old granddaughter Mary. They discovered the child bleeding profusely as she stumbled down the dark road towards their home. The Nalls’ house was ablaze and Grandma Liz sat critically injured on a lawn chair underneath a tree in her front yard. As firefighters fought the flames, they discovered the tortured remains of two more Nalls’ family members. However, one person was unaccounted for that night: Mary’s 14-year-old sister, Ashley Jones. Listen to this week’s episode to learn about the tragic events that changed the lives of one Birmingham family forever.
February 2, 2022
Here’s a true crime classic many of you have undoubtedly heard before. The story of Richard Chase is not for the weak-hearted. Nicknamed “The Vampire of Sacramento,” Richard Chase obsessed over drinking the blood and eating the entrails of animals. Eventually, he yearned to taste human blood and slaughtered six innocent people in to satisfy his lust for blood.
January 31, 2022
Wylie, Texas was a quiet place to live in 1978. Away from the hustle and bustle of Dallas, Wylie seemed to be a tight-knit community that was centered around the neighborhood church. Pat and Candy Montgomery were active in the church, as were the Gores, Allan and Betty. Even though Candy spent a lot of time at church and was involved in the activities there, she was bored with her life as a housewife and felt like she was missing sexual fireworks. She soon approached Allan Gore, and that is when sparks flew. Listen to this week’s episode to find out why Dangerous Candy destroyed two families.
January 24, 2022
In December of 2019, a young couple and their baby were sitting in the living room watching television on a Sunday night when a manic man barged through their back door. The stranger claimed he was being threatened and someone was shooting at him. For the next 40 minutes, this family was held hostage in their Michigan home. Four emotionally charged 911 phone calls and police body cams captured the entirety of the nightmare, which didn’t turn out the way anyone had hoped for.
January 17, 2022
On October 1, 1985, Michele “Missy” Avila went out one afternoon after school to go party with some friends at a nearby park. When she left her home, she told her mom she would be home by 6pm. Missy never came home. Her friend that had picked her up said that Missy had left the park with three young men in a blue Camaro that her friend didn’t know. Her body was found three days later in a stream in Tujunga Canyon. The investigation went cold after three years, and was only solved when someone who had witnessed the murder came forward to tell the whole tale.
January 10, 2022
Kenyatta Barron, Ron’Niveya, and Little Ronnie’s Story I n 2018, Ronnie O’Neal mercilessly assaulted his family in a prolonged and brutal attack using a gun,… Continue Reading…
January 3, 2022
Molly Miller and Colt Haynes went out to a house party at Colts on the night of July 7, 2013. The night took a turn for the worst when Molly and Colt agreed to get into a car with a mutual acquaintance, Conn Nipp. Conn took them on a high-speed trip through two counties in Oklahoma and mysteriously after the chase was called off by Conn’s cousin, Sheriff of Love County, Molly and Colt got out of the car and were never found. Listen to this week’s episode to find out more about the disappearance of Molly Miller and Colt Haynes.
If you have information regarding this case, please call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation’s at 1-800-522-8017 or their website to make an anonymous tip: tips@osbi.ok.gov
December 30, 2021
In August 1988, Anthony “Tony” Arkwright was looking to become infamous and known worldwide. He didn’t discover some wonderful medical breakthrough or solve world hunger–no, he wanted to become the most famous serial killer of all time. Tony admired other English serial killers, such as Jack the Ripper and Peter Sutcliffe. In the span of 56 hours at the end of August, he managed to murder four people in the most heinous and gruesome ways possible. Listen to our Members/Subscribers Only episode to hear more about a serial killer who wanted to go down in history, but instead faded into obscurity.
Jackie and Tom Hawk lived the life everyone dreamed of. After 15 years of marriage, they were still madly in love. In 2002, they retired, sold their house, and bought a 55-foot yacht named “The Well Deserved.” From 2002 to 2004 they sailed the pacific, but after the birth of their grandson, they decided it was time to settle down. The couple listed their boat for sale. Soon after, a young couple, Skylar and Jennifer DeLeon, brought their baby with them to check out the boat. Although these young parents seemed harmless, they were deadly and dangerous.
December 27, 2021
In 2011, two young sisters from Anaheim, California woke up on Christmas morning excited to open the presents under the tree. In the living room, their mother, Za’ Zelle Preston, sat slumped on the couch with her sunglasses on. Their step-father, William Wallace, told the girls, “Mommy got drunk and ruined Christmas.” Listen to this episode to learn the truth of what happened that Christmas morning.
December 26, 2021
On January 3, 1994, two employees of a U-Haul store in Reno, Nevada were brutally murdered. The perpetrators, 38-year-old Duc Huynh, and 21-year-old Alvaro “John” Calambro, ended up going on a 12-day crime spree after kicking their adventure off with the gruesome killings. Listen to hear what happened to the murderers, and the consequences this crime had on the families of the killers and the victims.
December 20, 2021
23-year-old Michael Van Eck left his home on a Saturday night in 2011 to meet a woman he had been messaging on a dating app. His body was found the next morning in a graveyard missing its head, arm, and foot. Who murdered Michael? Was he catfished? A victim of “muti” murders? Or could the pretty, petite young girl he met for a date be responsible for his morbid death? Listen to this week’s episode to find out what happened to Michael Van Eck in his last moments of life. Warning: This is HIGH on the gruesome scale.
December 13, 2021
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, Sharon Cave received a phone call from her daughter, Jennifer Cave’s, new employer. Jennifer had just started a job at a law firm in Austin, Texas, the day prior—a job she was really excited to start. When the employer said Jennifer didn’t show up for work, and Sharon couldn’t get a hold of Jennifer on the telephone, she knew her daughter had to be in some trouble. Sharon convinced her boyfriend Jim, to drive to Austin from their home in Corpus Christi, Texas to look for Jennifer. What they found is something no family should ever see. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about what happened to Jennifer Cave.
December 11, 2021
On January 3, 1994, two employees of a U-Haul store in Reno, Nevada were brutally murdered. The perpetrators, 38-year-old Duc Huynh, and 21-year-old Alvaro “John” Calambro, ended up going on a 12-day crime spree after kicking their adventure off with the gruesome killings. Listen to hear what happened to the murderers, and the consequences this crime had on the families of the killers and the victims.
December 6, 2021
Riley Fox was only 3 years old when she was abducted from her home in the middle of the night while her father, Kevin, was sleeping in the next room. Her brutalized body was found approximately 12 hours later floating in a creek. After tremendous pressure from the police, Kevin Fox confessed to accidentally killing Riley and staging the crime to look like a stranger abduction. However, five years later, with the help of the FBI, the truth of what happened to Riley Fox was finally revealed.
December 2, 2021
Constance Colleen Hopkin worked as a model and is best known for being the mother of guitarist Dave Navarro. In 1983, she was stalked for months by her ex-boyfriend John Ricarrdi. After two months of being terrorized, Colleen and her friend were murdered by him. He lived on the run until his capture after being featured on America’s Most Wanted.
November 29, 2021
When 21-year-old Misty McGugin failed to pick up her son as scheduled on February 2, 1998, her family knew something was very wrong. They reported her missing two days later when they found her abandoned car at a nearby bar. Misty had been working as an escort with Abigail’s Escort Service in Baldwin County, Alabama, and had gotten a call to go to Woody’s Motel on January 31st and was never seen again. It was only when the body of escort Kathleen Bracken was found murdered in a motel room in Mobile, did the police start on the trail that would lead them to where Misty was.
November 25, 2021
In the late 1950’s, beautiful young women living in Los Angeles, would sometimes make money by taking “modeling” assignments. Sometimes the photographers were just guys who wanted some racy photos, and the modeling agencies didn’t discriminate as long as they paid. Harvey Glatman was one of these photographers who liked to take photos of young women bound and gagged. Unfortunately, for three women, taking photos wasn’t enough for Harvey–he raped and murdered them, but only after he got souvenirs to remember them by.
On the evening of August 28, 1986, college student Katy Hawelka was celebrating the start of a new school year with friends at local bars near the college campus of Clarkson University, where she went to school. She and a friend left the bar around 2:30am and her friend walked with her until they got on campus, and they parted ways near the hockey arena, Walker Arena. After they said their goodbyes, Katy was savagely attacked and left for dead. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the brutal assault, as well as more about Katy Hawelka and the man who would be held responsible for her eventual death.
November 22, 2021
In 2011, Carina Saunders, an intelligent and gifted 19-year-old, was found dismembered and decapitated behind a grocery store near Oklahoma City. Was her death a pre-planned snuff video made to serve as a warning to other young victims of a sex-trafficking ring? Listen to this episode to hear the tragic details of the shocking murder of Carina Saunders.
November 15, 2021
18-year-old Gina Hall was taking summer classes at Radford University, in Radford Virginia in June 1980. On June 28, Gina had finished her last exam for the semester and she wanted to go dancing. Gina loved to dance and usually went out with her older sister Dlana, or with friends, but the night of June 28th, she went out alone. She went to the Mariott Hotel in Blackburg to go dancing, and at the hotel, she met a 27-year-old guy named Stephen Epperly. Steve had a buddy whose parents owned a lakehouse and Gina and Steve ended up at the lakehouse later into the evening. Gina called her sister Dlana at about 1am, and that was the last time that Dlana ever heard from her sister again. Listen to this week’s episode to find out what happened the night she disappeared.
November 8, 2021
Marie Moore, a 35-year-old mother from New Jersey, convinced a group of young teens to submit to systemic torture and sexual abuse for months. One of the teens, a 14-year-old boy named Ricky, was given the role of enforcer whose job was to dole out the punishments. Marie played mind games with the teens, claiming to be the embodiment of singer/songwriter Billy Joel, who had an insatiable appetite for cruelty. Eventually, Marie/Billy Joel’s thirst for sadistic pleasure culminated into the torture of four people and the eventual death of 13-year-old Theresa Feury.
November 7, 2021
If you don’t know the story of David Parker Ray, then you haven’t heard about one of the world’s worst serial killers to ever walk this earth. He is a monster. The FBI estimates that David is responsible for between 40 to 60 murders and even more rapes. According to David, his first murder occurred when he was in his teens and continued on until his arrest at the age of 57 in 1999. David made a tape in July of 1993, that he played for his victims which described in detail the torture and rape they were about to experience. Part 2 of Satan’s Den will be a reading of the transcript of that tape.
You have been warned – This story is nasty!
November 1, 2021
On the evening of August 28, 1986, college student Katy Hawelka was celebrating the start of a new school year with friends at local bars near the college campus of Clarkson University, where she went to school. She and a friend left the bar around 2:30 am and her friend walked with her until they got on campus, and they parted ways near the hockey arena. After they said their goodbyes, Katy was savagely attacked and left for dead. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the brutal assault, as well as more about Katy Hawelka and the man who would be held responsible for her eventual death.
October 28, 2021
On the evening of August 28, 1986, college student Katy Hawelka was celebrating the start of a new school year with friends at local bars near the college campus of Clarkson University, where she went to school. She and a friend left the bar around 2:30am and her friend walked with her until they got on campus, and they parted ways near the hockey arena, Walker Arena. After they said their goodbyes, Katy was savagely attacked and left for dead. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the brutal assault, as well as more about Katy Hawelka and the man who would be held responsible for her eventual death.
October 25, 2021
When Rose answered the door around 10:00 pm on Halloween night in 1986, she expected to be greeted by kids trick-or-treating. Instead, she was ambushed by two men wearing spooky masks, wigs, long black capes, and brandishing guns. One of these men had already committed a grisly murder earlier that day and was out for more blood.
Rose was pushed to the floor and during the ensuing scuffle, one of her attacker’s masks fell off, revealing his face. Rose knew instantly that this was going to be a Halloween night from hell.
October 22, 2021
A healthy and well-kept teen girl asked multiple people in Huntsville, Texas for directions to the Ellis Prison Unit on Halloween night in 1980. The next morning a trucker found her brutalized body dumped on the side of Interstate 45. After 40 years, she has finally been identified by the mystery of her death still remains.
October 20, 2021
On Halloween, 2014, a guy named Big Mike was throwing his annual Halloween Bash on a farm owned by his mother. This party usually had at least 600 attendees, and one woman that attended the party that night was Chelsea Bruck. Chelsea was so excited to wear her Poison Ivy costume that she had worked on for months and couldn’t wait to show it off. When Chelsea didn’t return home the next day, or the next—her friends and family knew something was very wrong. Listen to this week’s exclusive episode to hear more about what happened to Chelsea Bruck.
October 18, 2021
In the early morning hours of November 15, 2004, attorney Peter Porco stumbled out of bed and went about his morning routine completely oblivious to the horror that surrounded him. Only a few hours earlier two people had been savagely attacked in his home with an ax, yet Peter failed to see the signs of death that encircled him until it was too late…
October 14, 2021
Jessica Johnson was a single mother who was known to take pride in her appearance. After a few stints with addiction and some time in rehab, her closest friends described her as very well put together. However, in 2017, Jessica Johnson was found dead, hanging from a mailbox outside of the home of her boyfriend’s friend. She was found dressed in a way that her friends claimed was uncharacteristic – without makeup on and clothes in a state of disarray. Law enforcement was quick to deem this case as a suicide however, the suspicious circumstances that surround Jessica Johnson’s death allude to more.
October 11, 2021
In March 1986, two high school friends, Amy and Diana (she went by “Diane”) decided to skip school and spend the day hanging out. As they were waiting for Diane’s boyfriend to pick them up at a nearby 7-11, a man pulled up and asked the girls if they wanted to make $1000.00 and help him harvest some marijuana in a field he had found. The girls got in his car and that was the beginning of a nightmare that only one of the girls would survive.
October 7, 2021
When young, responsible, and ambitious 28-year-old Debbie Wolfe did not show up for her shift at work, coworkers immediately knew something was amiss. After repeated attempts to get in touch with her, Debbie’s coworkers solicited the help of her mother. Debbie’s mother discovered her home in total disarray and Debbie was nowhere to be found. After questionable procedures taken by the local police department and their outright refusal to search a pond near Debbie’s home, her mother took the initiative to hire a private dive team to conduct a search. Subsequently, the private dive team located Debbie’s body and stirred up a slew of still unanswered questions about the disappearance and death of Debbie Wolfe.
October 4, 2021
It was a squally Monday during their school break when 16-year-old Marianne Schmidt and her best friend, Christine Sharrock, hopped a train with Marianne’s four younger siblings and headed from West Ryde, Australia, to Wanda Beach. As the younger children sat in the sand and listened to the radio, Marianne and Christine went for a walk. The next day their violated bodies were found in the sand dunes by a group of exploring children. Who raped and murdered Marianne and Christine? Was it the man seen at the beach wearing the corrugated iron mask or the pervert asking beachgoers to look at porno magazines with him? Find out why so many investigators now believe that Derek Percy, Australia’s “Hannibal Lector”, is responsible for the crime.
September 30, 2021
Kelly Anne Bates was a mere 17-years-old when her life was brutally taken from her by 48-year-old James Patterson Smith. While assuming the guise of “Dave Smith,” James had manipulated a then-14-year-old Kelly into a romantic relationship fraught with severe physical, emotional, and mental abuse. Once the two had decided to cohabitate, relentless pain and violence ensued for young Kelly. At her time of death, it was clear that Kelly had endured four weeks of gruesome and systematic torture at the hands of James, who now serves a life sentence for his heinous acts.
September 27, 2021
Seven Days of Hell – The Suzanne Capper Story 16-year-old Suzanne Capper was a wayward child who just wanted to feel loved and accepted. Unfortunately,… Continue Reading…
September 23, 2021
In the summer of 1976, bus driver Ed noticed a vehicle stopped in the road in front of him blocking his usual route. As Ed slowed to survey the vehicle, three gunmen ambushed the bus, taking Ed and the 26 children aboard the bus as hostages. They were transported a grueling 11 hours in thick summer heat to a buried moving van, where they were held for hours with makeshift toilets, mattresses, and little food or water. Ed and the students were able to remain calm and hatched a plan to escape their fate.
Between 1992-1999 11 people (possibly 12) were viciously tortured and murdered near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. If you live outside of Australia, you may have never heard of the Snowtown Murders—named for where the bodies were found. This case is one of Australia’s most notorious and heinous crimes, one carried out by four men who met by happenstance and created the perfect storm to become serial killers. Listen to this Members/Subscriber-Only episode to hear more about a story that the people who live in the town of Snowtown, South Australia wish everyone would forget.
September 20, 2021
Kelsey Berreth was last seen alive on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2018. She seemed to disappear without a trace after going to the grocery store with her baby daughter. It was only when a woman named Krystal Lee came forward, did the truth of what happened to Kelsey come to light…and what happened was brutal and horrific. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the disappearance and murder of Kelsey Berreth.
September 16, 2021
In 1983, the Ryen family, along with an 11-year-old neighbor, were slaughtered in their Chino Hills, California home. Kevin Cooper, an escapee from a nearby prison was found guilty of their murders and sentenced to death. A large group of supporters maintain that Kevin was framed by corrupt police. Listen to all the evidence and decide for yourself whether Kevin Cooper is an innocent man or brutal killer.
September 15, 2021
In 1971, the murder of little 20-month-old Noah Alba rocked the city of San Francisco when it was discovered that two children, ages 7 and 10, were the perpetrators. The children, brothers “Billy” and “Bobby,” were often left to their own devices and lived much of their lives unsupervised, regularly bearing witness to the gruesome side of city life. While playing in the park, “Billy” and “Bobby” stumbled across Noah, who was lost and separated from his mother. After seeking help from nearby adults to no avail, the brothers took Noah to a trashed, decrepit basement to play. In order to quell Noah’s cries and sobs, the boys resorted to brutal and violent attacks that left baby Noah with a fractured skull, ruptured liver, and internal bleeding.
September 13, 2021
Serial killer Timothy Krajcir got away with nine murders and over 30 rapes for decades. Starting with the double murder of Mary Parsh and her daughter Brenda in 1977, Timothy continued to unleash his brutality on unsuspecting women he targeted while shopping alone at grocery stories. It wasn’t until DNA technology caught up with him in 2007, that he finally received the justice he deserved. But not before another man died in prison doing time for one of Tim’s crimes.
September 9, 2021
Tracey Thurman was a pretty young woman looking for a fresh start in 1979 when she moved to Florida from Connecticut. After moving to Florida, Tracey found work at a hotel and soon met one of the guests, Charles “Buck” Thurman. Tracey and Buck had an instant attraction and fell deeply in love. Tracey thought Buck was the perfect man…until he wasn’t. Buck became abusive and it only worsened when Tracey tried to leave him in 1982. She could have never guessed that her life would be in danger soon after returning to Connecticut and she thought the police would protect her. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Listen to this Members/Subscribers Only Episode to hear the Tracey Thurman story. If you or someone you know is currently a victim of DV, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE or text “START” to 88788.
September 6, 2021
Victoria “Tori” Stafford was a happy 8-year old, who on April 8, 2009, was starting at a new elementary school in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. She and her older brother, 10-year-old Daryn, were supposed to walk home from school for the first time. Tori ended up walking home alone and was never seen again. Video from the high school down the street from the elementary school showed Tori being led away by a young woman. Who was this woman and what happened to Tori? Listen to this week’s episode to find out more.
August 30, 2021
Susie Jaeger’s family woke up in the middle of the night to find a hole in their tent and Susie missing. Four years earlier in the same camping spot, a Boy Scout was murdered while sleeping in his tent. Not long after Susie’s abduction, her family began receiving phone calls from her kidnapper. Then local Montana teen, Sandra Smallegan, went missing. In the first active FBI investigation to use criminal profiling, agents were able to discover gruesome crime scenes of unimaginable horror and the seemingly harmless man responsible for at least four murders.
August 29, 2021
Why did Ezra McCandles murder her lover Alex Woodworth? She claimed he attacked her and carved the word “boy” in her arm; thus she killed him in self-defense. But evidence presented at trial showed a much more twisted account of events.
August 26, 2021
Many people enjoy hiking in the national and state forests—they get exercise and fresh air, and get to experience the beauty of the great outdoors. Unfortunately, however, not everyone that goes to public parks have the intent of innocently enjoying a hiking day trip or the natural beauty of the landscape—sometimes there are people who look at the national forests as a hunting ground. That is exactly what serial killer Gary Hilton did—he preyed on hikers or visitors to the forests, and not only robbed them, he also did horrific things to their corpses when he killed them. Listen to this Subscribers Only/Members Only episode to hear more about the man who was dubbed the National Forest Serial Killer.
August 23, 2021
Rod Ferrell developed an alter ego named Vesago, whom he claimed was a 500-year-old vampire. In November of 1996, Rod, along with some other members of a cult he had formed, broke into a Kentucky home and beat two innocent people to death.