Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast
Wicked and Grim is a true crime podcast hosted by a husband and wife duo. They share stories of murders, mysteries, and sinister tales while maintaining a lighthearted tone to reduce fear. The podcast focuses on victims and aims to take power away from perpetrators.
Episodes
The Kansas City Butcher - Robert Berdella - Part 1
The man the world would come to know as the Kansas City Butcher didn't simply kill his victims, he studied them. Hidden inside an ordinary home in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood, Robert Berdella spent years imprisoning vulnerable young men, meticulously recording their torture with handwritten notes and hundreds of Polaroid photographs before dismembering their bodies in an attempt to erase
The Great Emu War
In 1932, the Australian government made a decision so unbelievable it still sounds like satire today, it deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to wage war against an estimated 20,000 emus that were invading their land. What began as a desperate attempt to save struggling farmers during the Great Depression quickly spiraled into one of the most bizarre and embarrassing military operations in mo
Disappearance of Frederick Valentich - UFO Encounter
On October 21, 1978, twenty year old pilot Frederick Valentich departed Melbourne on what should have been a routine flight to King Island. Just minutes after passing Cape Otway, he radioed air traffic control to report a strange object flying around his aircraft before uttering the chilling words, "It's not an aircraft," moments before radio contact was lost forever. Despite an extensive four-day
The Wonderland Murders
Forty eight hours after stealing more than a million dollars in drugs, cash, jewelry, and firearms from a powerful Los Angeles drug kingpin, members of the Wonderland Gang were attacked inside their own home. And by the time police arrived, four people had been beaten to death,one had been left permanently disabled, and the trail of evidence led through the criminal underworld of Hollywood, straig
The Black Swan Murder Trial
A 54 year old retired Navy intelligence officer meets a 24 year old ballerina at a political fundraiser. Then thirteen days later, they got married.What follows is a story filled with allegations of abuse, claims of poisoning, a failed ballet company, years of bitter custody litigation, psychological evaluations, restraining orders, and a marriage that seemed to be unraveling from the very beginni
Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal - Part 2
For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joach
Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal - Part 1
For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joach
The Killdozer - Marvin Heemeyer
For nearly two hours on June 4, 2004, police officers, state troopers, and emergency responders watched helplessly as an armored bulldozer tore through the small mountain town of Granby, Colorado. Inside the machine was 52 year old Marvin Heemeyer, a welder and muffler shop owner who had spent years feuding with local officials, business owners, and members of the community before transforming a 4
The Murder of Arlis Perry - Cold Case Solved
In October 1974, nineteen year old Arlis Perry walked into Stanford Memorial Church and never came home. What investigators discovered the following morning would become one of California's most infamous unsolved murders, spawning decades of theories, false leads, and speculation while the killer remained hidden in plain sight. For forty four years the case sat cold, until a breakthrough in DNA te
The Sasebo Slashing - Nevada-tan
In June 2004, a routine school day in Sasebo, Japan, ended in tragedy when 12 year old Satomi Mitarai was lured from her classroom and murdered by her classmate with a box cutter. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a friendship that had quietly fallen apart and evidence suggesting the attack had been building beneath the surface for days. What began as a shocking murder inside an elementa
Kathleen Marshall - The Cat Queen Murder
In March 1998, a respected Brisbane veterinarian was found brutally murdered inside the veterinary clinic beneath her home, launching an investigation that would expose bitter feuds within an animal welfare organization, a mysterious appointment involving a missing Siamese cat, and a trail of forensic evidence unlike anything Australian courts had seen before. As detectives worked to identify Kath
The Craigslist Killer - Philip Markoff
In April 2009, a young woman named Julissa Brisman was found bleeding in the doorway of a luxury Boston hotel room after a violent struggle with a client she met through Craigslist. Just four days earlier, another woman had been tied up and robbed inside a nearby hotel by a man matching the exact same description. As investigators raced to stop what appeared to be an escalating pattern of violence
Corpsewood Manor - Part 2
Hidden deep in the mountains of Chattooga County, Georgia, there once stood a bizarre handmade castle known as Corpsewood Manor, it was a candlelit home filled with occult artwork, gargoyles, rumors of Satanism, and stories that spread through the surrounding towns for years. The men living there had abandoned modern society to build an isolated life deep in the woods, but by December of 1982, the
Corpsewood Manor - Part 1
Hidden deep in the mountains of Chattooga County, Georgia, there once stood a bizarre handmade castle known as Corpsewood Manor, it was a candlelit home filled with occult artwork, gargoyles, rumors of Satanism, and stories that spread through the surrounding towns for years. The men living there had abandoned modern society to build an isolated life deep in the woods, but by December of 1982, the
The Dardeen Family Massacre
In November of 1987, a young family living in a trailer outside Ina, Illinois was preparing to move away from the growing violence spreading through their community. Keith and Elaine Dardeen were raising their three year old son Peter and expecting another baby within weeks when something unimaginable happened inside their home. Police discovered Elaine, Peter, and the newborn infant beaten to dea
Burn Alive - Robbie Middleton
In June 1998, eight year old Robbie Middleton was attacked in the woods behind his Texas neighborhood,. He was then doused in gasoline, and set on fire in what investigators would later describe as one of the most horrifying attacks they had ever seen. Burned over nearly 99 percent of his body, Robbie somehow survived and spent the next thirteen years enduring more than 150 surgeries while the per
Athena Strand - Captured Before Christmas
Seven year old Athena Strand disappeared from outside her family’s home in Paradise, Texas on November 30, 2022, only minutes after a FedEx driver delivered a package containing her Christmas present. Within hours, investigators uncovered a disturbing trail involving truck recordings, GPS data, conflicting statements, and evidence that suggested Athena had been abducted alive. The investigation qu
The London Chambermaid Slayer - Gerald Thomas Archer
Between January 1969 and January 1971, three women were murdered inside their own homes across Southwestern Ontario Canada, with their cases unfolding with no clear connection at the time. Each scene pointed to the same kind of controlled, violent attack.However without shared systems or forensic tools, investigators were left working each case in isolation as leads quickly dried up. It would ulti
The Bain Family Massacre
On June 20, 1994, emergency services in Dunedin New Zealand received a call from 22 year old David Bain reporting that his entire family had been shot dead inside their home. Within days, he went from the sole survivor to being charged with five counts of murder, setting off a case built on conflicting timelines, contested forensic evidence, and two completely different explanations of what happen
The Satanic Ritual Murder of Mark Kilroy
In March 1989, 21 year old pre-med student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a spring break trip to Matamoros, Mexico after being separated from his friends for just a few minutes.But what initially operated as a standard missing person case quickly escalated into an international investigation involving U.S. and Mexican authorities. As the search intensified, it led to the discovery of a place calle
Dorothea Puente - The Death House Landlady
She looked like a harmless little old lady. She was a soft spoken landlady in Sacramento who took in elderly, disabled, and mentally ill tenants who had nowhere else to go. But inside her home, she controlled their money, intercepted their mail, and in many cases, they quietly disappeared while their Social Security checks continued to be cashed. Then when a missing person report led police to dig
The Strange Death of Mike Mansholt - A Body Without Organs
In July 2016, 17 year old Mike Mansholt arrived in Malta for a solo trip after deciding to extend his stay beyond an initial visit with his girlfriend. Over the following days, he explored the island independently, keeping in contact with his family as he moved from place to place. Then on the morning of July 18, he left his hotel, rented a mountain bike, and sent a final message home describing t
Killer Twins - The Spahalski Brothers - Part 2
In 1971, 16 year old Stephen Spahalski killed a man in Elmira, New York and was sent to prison, in a case that seemed shocking but contained. But nearly two decades later, in Rochester, a different story was quietly unfolding. Between 1990 and 2005, four people would be murdered in separate incidents, each one investigated on its own, each one going unsolved, and none of them connected at the time
Killer Twins - The Spahalski Brothers - Part 1
In 1971, 16 year old Stephen Spahalski killed a man in Elmira, New York and was sent to prison, in a case that seemed shocking but contained. But nearly two decades later, in Rochester, a different story was quietly unfolding. Between 1990 and 2005, four people would be murdered in separate incidents, each one investigated on its own, each one going unsolved, and none of them connected at the time
The Gorilla Killer - Earle Nelson - Part 2
Starting in 1926, women renting out rooms began turning up dead in cities across the United States and into Canada. In each case, the circumstances were nearly identical, the victim had let someone into her home, and the encounter ended in violence. At the time, there was no system in place to connect cases across jurisdictions, so each investigation stayed local. Police followed leads within thei
The Gorilla Killer - Earle Nelson - Part 1
Starting in 1926, women renting out rooms began turning up dead in cities across the United States and into Canada. In each case, the circumstances were nearly identical, the victim had let someone into her home, and the encounter ended in violence. At the time, there was no system in place to connect cases across jurisdictions, so each investigation stayed local. Police followed leads within thei
Kouri Richins - Grief Author Found Guilty of Murder
About a year after her husband’s sudden death, a Utah woman published a children’s book about grief, hoping to help her three sons cope with the sudden loss of their father. But behind that story was a very different reality, one investigators had already begun uncovering. Her husband, Eric Richins, had been found dead in their bed in March 2022, and an autopsy later revealed he had five times the
Divorced then Murdered - Jennifer Dulos
On May 24, 2019, 50 year old Jennifer Dulos dropped her five children off at school in New Canaan, Connecticut, and returned home, then seemingly vanished within a two hour window. Inside her garage, investigators would later find significant blood evidence, while her abandoned vehicle turned up nearby in Waveny Park. What came next was a complex investigation involving surveillance footage, recov
Murder on a Submarine - Kim Wall
Kim Wall set out to interview a man who had built his own submarine. It was an unusual story, but not an unusual assignment for her as a professional journalist.Hours later, she was gone, and the man she had been with was the only one to resurface. His explanation began to change as evidence came in, each version falling apart under scrutiny. What followed was an investigation that exposed a contr
The Murder of Tori Stafford
In April 2009, 8 year old Tori Stafford disappeared just blocks from her home in Woodstock, Ontario after leaving school. Surveillance footage showed her calmly walking away with an unknown woman, suggesting she didn’t feel threatened. What started as a missing persons case quickly escalated into one of the largest investigations in the province, as police worked to figure out who she went with an
The Strange Murder of Brian Egg
65 year old Brian Egg was a creature of habit, a man whose daily routine rarely changed, that is until it suddenly stopped altogether.In a neighborhood where his presence had become part of the everyday rhythm, his absence didn’t go unnoticed for long, but it wasn’t immediately understood either. As the days stretched into weeks, small details began to surface and quietly stack up, each one sugges
Suzanne Capper - Tortured to Death
In December 1992, a 16 year old girl from Moston, Manchester was falsely accused by a group she trusted and lured into a house where she was held captive for nearly a week. During that time, she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, injected with drugs, deprived of food, and subjected to sustained physical and psychological torture.As the days passed, the abuse only escalated, and it became clear sh
Jaylen Devon Fleer - A Wolf in Uniform
In 2020, a report submitted to San Diego County Crime Stoppers prompted police to begin looking into allegations involving inappropriate online communication with a minor. Detectives soon discovered the suspect was not a stranger hiding behind an anonymous profile. Instead, the investigation pointed toward a correctional deputy working for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. As investigator
The Murder of Dear Marianne Vaatstra
In the early hours of May 1, 1999, sixteen year old Marianne Vaatstra disappeared while cycling home through the quiet countryside of Friesland in the Netherlands. Later that morning, her body was discovered in a field near the village of Veenklooster, the victim of a brutal rape and murder. The crime shocked the nation and quickly became one of the most controversial investigations in Dutch histo
Dead Man's Flats
Dead Man’s Flats is one of the strangest place names in the Canadian Rockies, and most people passing through have no idea where it came from. But the name isn’t just local legend, it traces back to a real and disturbing crime. In the spring of 1904, a man named François Marret murdered his own brother inside their small cabin along the Bow River, striking him with an axe while he slept before dum
Mark Barton - The Killer Day Trader
In the summer of 1999, a quiet financial office in Atlanta became the final stop in a three day killing spree for one man. Before the gunfire erupted at his work place, this man had already murdered his wife and children inside their suburban apartment. By the time police closed in, twelve people in total were dead and more than a dozen were wounded.However, investigators also uncovering disturbin
A Mothers Revenge - Marianne Bachmeier
In March 1981, a quiet courtroom in Lübeck, West Germany, erupted in gunfire when a mother shot the man accused of killing and assualting her seven year old daughter. The shocking act instantly transformed a tragic child murder case into one of the most controversial true crime stories in modern German history. But to truly understand how that moment happened, you have to go back to the years of g
The Smurl Family Haunting
The Smurl family never expected their home to become the center of a national paranormal mystery. Over the course of more than a decade, they claimed their quiet duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, became the stage for unexplained noises, violent incidents, and a growing sense that something unseen was watching them. As their story spread, it drew in priests, skeptics, and the famous demonologi
The Cleveland Strangler - Anthony Sowell
In the fall of 2009, police in Cleveland entered a house expecting to arrest a man accused of sexual assault. Instead, they stepped into one of the most shocking crime scenes in the city’s history. Hidden inside the home, and buried in the yard, were the remains of eleven women. They were the victims of a killer who had blended into the neighborhood for years. What followed was a devastating inves
A Feral Child - Genie Wiley
In October 1970, a thirteen year old girl stumbled into a Los Angeles welfare office, weighing just 59 pounds she had spent nearly her entire life strapped to a chair in a darkened bedroom, cut off from language, sunlight, and normal human contact. She could barely walk, could not speak grammatically, and had lived almost entirely without language. Soon the scientific community would descend on he
The Bear Brook Murders
In the woods of a small New Hampshire town, four bodies were hidden in two metal barrels and left to decay in silence. For decades, no one knew who they were, where they came from, or who had killed them. The only certainty was that they had been beaten to death and abandoned far from home. What followed was a relentless investigation that would not only expose a serial killer who lived under stol
The Chinese Corpse Pit - Jia Wenge
For years, residents of Nehe, a quiet city in Heilongjiang Province of China, watched people vanish without explanation. Travelers arrived by train, stepped into the streets, and were never seen again. Police had few leads and even fewer answers, while rumors spread through the community. It wasn’t until a routine arrest in 1991 that investigators finally uncovered the gruesome truth hidden beneat
The Monster of Crowsnest Pass - Derek Saretzky
In September 2015, three people in the small communities of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, were caught up in a series of violent events that would leave the entire region shaken. What began with the murder of a senior living alone quickly escalated into the killing of a young father and the sudden disappearance of his two year old daughter under a province wide Amber Alert. As police raced against time
Sheila Davalloo - Master Manipulator - Part 2
From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder,
Sheila Davalloo - Master Manipulator - Part 1
From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder,
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
In 1928, nine year old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the movies in Los Angeles, setting off a desperate search that would grip the nation. As police scrambled to close the case and protect their reputation, they forced a false reunion and pressured his grieving mother to accept a child who was not hers. When she refused, she was silenced, institutionalized, and left to fight the system alo
72 Minutes of Hell - Erinn Orcutt - Survival Story
In April 2010, twenty five year old Erinn Orcutt was abducted at gunpoint from the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in California as she left her waitressing job. For seventy two minutes, she was held captive inside her own SUV, beaten, sexually assaulted, photographed, and threatened with death. She escaped only after noticing her attacker’s gun had fallen to the floor and sprinting to a nearby liq
Susan Smith - Filicide
In October 1994, a young mother in Union, South Carolina, told police that a stranger had carjacked her vehicle and driven away with her two small children still strapped in their car seats. For nine days, the case dominated national news as law enforcement searched roads, lakes, and backcountry while the public watched her tearful pleas for the boys’ return. As the investigation unfolded, however
Sharon Marshall - The Name That Wasn’t Hers - Part 2
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at t
Sharon Marshall - The Name That Wasn’t Hers - Part 1
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at t
Jack Reeves - Serial Killer
In October 1994, a woman named Emelita Reeves disappeared from her home in Arlington, Texas, leaving behind her young son and a husband who said she had simply walked away. At first, there was no sign of a crime, just a familiar explanation, delivered calmly, by a retired Army master sergeant. But as detectives began to trace Jack Reeves’ past, they realized Emelita was not the first woman in his
The Bucket List Murder - Aaron Pajich
On June 13, 2016, Aaron Lee Pajich-Sweetman, an 18 year old with autism, vanished after meeting two women he trusted at a shopping centre south of Perth. Within days, police would trace his final movements through phone records and CCTV footage to a house in Orelia, where evidence of careful planning, digital communication, and amateur concealment began to surface. What followed was the unraveling
The Murder of Kelly Jean Warner
In the spring of 2019, Kelly Jean Warner quietly disappeared from contact, a pattern that didn’t immediately raise concern because of her transient life and history of instability. For weeks, her absence went largely unnoticed, even as she lay dead inside a modest apartment in Sturgis, Michigan, her body deliberately hidden and her death unreported. It would take a single phone call on May 22, 201
The Kenora Bank Robbery - Paul Higgins
On May 10, 1973, a masked man entered a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in Kenora, Ontario, armed with firearms and a homemade bomb strapped to his body. What began as a bank robbery quickly turned into a public spectacle, broadcast live on radio as police, civilians, and hundreds of onlookers watched the standoff unfold on Main Street. When a single gunshot triggered a massive explosion
The Murder of Betty Shanks
On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homici
Chelsea Perkins - Revenge Murder
In March 2021, a man was found executed on a wooded trail inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park, shot once in the back of the head with no weapon left behind. As investigators reconstructed his final days, they uncovered a deliberate, cross-state plan driven not by chance, but by revenge rooted in a past allegation that had never resulted in charges. This is the true story of how unresolved trauma,
Killer Friends - Lora Sinner
In April 1998, hikers in Northern California’s Trinity Alps discovered a partially burned, shallowly buried body at an abandoned campsite, triggering a homicide investigation in Shasta County. The victim was twenty year old Lora Sinner, who had recently moved to California after her mother’s death and was last seen alive with a small group of friends on a camping trip. As investigators reconstruct
The Disappearance of Jessica Heeringa
On April 26, 2013, 25 year old Jessica Heeringa vanished from her late night shift at a Norton Shores, Michigan gas station, leaving behind her car, purse, cash, and a small trail of blood, while cameras nearby caught a silver minivan fleeing the area. A massive investigation stalled for three years, that is until a terrified teenager escaped an attempted abduction in 2016 and pointed police towar
Arsnic Annie - Anna Marie Hahn
Nobody in Cincinnati imagined a serial killer was moving quietly through its neighbourhoods, especially not a polite young German immigrant mother who cared for lonely, elderly men. But behind Anna Marie Hahn’s warm smile was a trail of sudden illnesses, forged wills, missing valuables, and quiet funerals that never raised suspicion. It wasn’t until one victim collapsed hundreds of miles from home
Danielle Houchins – Cold Case Solved
She left home on a quiet Saturday, promising to be back in a couple of hours. When her truck was found abandoned near the river, with her keys and water bottle on the ground, it was clear something was terribly wrong. What followed was a 28 year nightmare with a cold case buried in silence, until a strand of hair and a sister’s relentless pursuit cracked it wide open. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL"
Frank Gust - The Rhein-Ruhr Ripper
He confessed years before he was caught, telling his mother he had killed a woman, yet no one believed him until even after the bodies began to surface. This was Frank Gust, the so called Rhine-Ruhr Ripper, a necrophilic predator whose violence escalated from torturing animals to murdering women and posing their remains. Even after receiving a life sentence, Frank remains eligible for release in 2
Samuel Little - The Choke And Stroke Killer
With 93 confessed murders across 19 states, Samuel Little holds the grim title of America’s most prolific serial killer ever, a distinction confirmed by the FBI in 2019. For more than four decades, he strangled vulnerable women, many of them never to be identified, leaving behind a coast to coast trail of bodies and cold cases. His killing spree, which spanned from 1970 to 2005, went undetected fo
The Abbotsford Killer - Terry Driver
On a chilly October night in 1995, two teenage girls, Misty Cockerill and Tanya Smith, were walking through a quiet Abbotsford neighbourhood on their way to a party when they were suddenly abducted and brutally attacked. One of them would survive against all odds, but the other would be found murdered, her body discarded near a remote canal. What began as a horrifying assault quickly escalated int
The Kuřim Case - Part 2
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, s
The Kuřim Case - Part 1
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, s
The Family Feud Killer
He was the smiling contestant who once made America laugh on Family Feud, joking that the biggest mistake he’d ever made at his wedding was saying “I do.” But just a few years later, Timothy Bliefnick would make headlines for something far darker, accused of gunning down his estranged wife, Rebecca “Becky” Bliefnick, in her Quincy, Illinois home. The shocking fall of the so called “Family Feud Kil
Buried Under The Stairs - The Murder of Tina Satchwell
For more than six years, Ireland believed Tina Satchwell had walked away from her life, maybe to England, maybe for “space,” maybe by choice. Her husband repeated that story in every interview, every appeal, every tearful broadcast. But the truth of where she really went was buried less than ten feet from where he sat, sealed under concrete in the home they shared. Listen to our other podcast "FEA
Shasta Groene – Survival Story
Before she was old enough to ride a bike alone, Shasta Groene had already watched her family die, been kidnapped by a serial predator, and survived seven weeks in the wilderness no child should ever see. Her rescue would make headlines, but the story behind it was far more brutal, calculated, and haunting than the world first realized. Now adult, she has shared the horror she survived, and brought
Halloween Week: The Candyman - Ronald Clark O'Bryan
On Halloween night in 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan handed his son a Pixy Stix filled with cyanide, unknowingly creating one of America’s darkest modern legends. Behind his mask as a churchgoing father and optician, O'Bryan was drowning in debt and had secretly taken out life insurance policies on his children. His desperate act of greed would not only claim his son’s life but forever change how pare
Halloween Week: The Tranquille Sanatorium
The Tranquille Sanatorium, located near Kamloops, British Columbia, opened in 1907 as a tuberculosis treatment center and later served as a psychiatric hospital before closing in 1983. At its peak, it functioned as a small self sustaining community with farms, tunnels, staff housing, and medical facilities. Since its abandonment however, the site has gained a reputation for being one of the most h
Halloween Week: The Manhattan Alien Abduction
At 3:00 a.m. on November 30, 1989, a Manhattan woman named Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted from her 12th floor apartment window by a beam of blue light and taken aboard a glowing craft hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge. Within months, two alleged government bodyguards and more than twenty witnesses surfaced, saying they’d seen the same impossible event unfold above the East River. What beg
Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends V5
It's time for the 4th Annual Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends! We have researched 3 urban legends and found the truth and fiction behind each. As we tell the stories, we want to know if you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are false. We will of course reveal the answers, but first we want to test your wicked knowledge! Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of
Halloween Week: The Bell Witch
Two hundred years ago, a quiet Tennessee farm became the center of one of America’s most terrifying hauntings. The Bell family was stalked, tormented, and ultimately broken by a voice in the dark that claimed to want one thing, the death of their patriarch. What followed remains the only time in U.S. history that a ghost was blamed for murder. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasti
Halloween Week: The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes
For centuries, nursery rhymes have been passed down as harmless children’s songs, but their true origins are anything but sweet. It seems as though the innocent words we all remember may have been hiding nightmares all along. In this episode we’re peeling back the cute surface and digging into the dark history that’s been whispered through generations. Trust us when we say, you’ll never hear your
Halloween Week: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre, spent his life crafting horrors that crawled under our skin. But in October of 1849, it was his own final days that became the most chilling mystery he ever inspired. Found delirious in a gutter, wearing clothes that weren’t his, Poe left behind one last unsolved riddle... his own death. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of cho
The Napa Valley Halloween Massacre
On Halloween night in 2004, Napa Valley, a town that hadn’t seen a homicide in years, awoke to horror when roommates Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were found brutally stabbed inside their Dorset Street home. The only survivor, Lauren Meanza, escaped through the back door as the killer fled through a shattered kitchen window. Nearly a year later, DNA from rare Camel Turkish Gold cigarettes exp
The Gainesville Ripper
What began as a week of new classes at college in Gainesville, Florida, turned into one of the most terrifying crime sprees in American history. Within four days in August 1990, five students were brutally murdered in their own homes, their bodies arranged in scenes so disturbing they would later inspire the classic movie franchise "Scream". But behind that Hollywood legend was a real life nightma
The Murder of Brian Waters
On June 19, 2003, police in Cheshire, England, discovered a crime scene so brutal it would haunt investigators for years. Inside a secluded outbuilding at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, 44 year-old Brian Waters had been tortured to death over a £20,000 drug debt owed to gangster John Wilson. The assault, witnessed by his own children, exposed a web of criminal ties stretching from the Netherlands’ ca
Israel Keyes - Serial Killer - Part 2
For over a decade, Israel Keyes moved silently across America, flying into random cities, renting cars with cash, and driving thousands of miles just to kill. He buried “kill kits” years in advance packed with guns, rope, zip ties, and Drano, waiting for the perfect moment to dig them up. By the time he was caught in 2012, Keyes had murdered a young barista in Alaska, abducted and killed a couple
Israel Keyes - Serial Killer - Part 1
For over a decade, Israel Keyes moved silently across America, flying into random cities, renting cars with cash, and driving thousands of miles just to kill. He buried “kill kits” years in advance packed with guns, rope, zip ties, and Drano, waiting for the perfect moment to dig them up. By the time he was caught in 2012, Keyes had murdered a young barista in Alaska, abducted and killed a couple
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