Episodes

  • Episode 192: Roy Melanson | The Smooth Talker

    Episode 192: Roy Melanson | The Smooth Talker
    Nov 17 2024
    Over the span of three decades a man left bread crumbs for law enforcement officers to find all over the country. Luckily, time and technology would eventually catch up to him and Roy Melanson would have to pay for the crimes he had committed and what he had taken from his victims and their families.

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    Sources:
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/?clearUserState=true
    https://vocal.media/criminal/murder-on-kebler-pass-road-michele-wallace
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9551613/michele_cecile-wallace
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/02/20/now-they-can-say-goodbye/
    https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2008/07/06/state-case-with-local-link/8483778007/
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83432208/margaret-cecilia-wallace
    https://www.wafb.com/story/12581570/deputies-charge-73-year-old-in-connection-with-1988-murder/
    Smooth Talker: Trail of Death by Steve Jackson
    Available: https://www.amazon.com/Smooth-Talker-Trail-Steve-Jackson/dp/194226643X
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Episode 191: The Colegrove Family | Blood in the Barrel

    Episode 191: The Colegrove Family | Blood in the Barrel
    Nov 3 2024
    Three members of the Colegrove family were brutally murdered in their home during a thunderstorm in a Pennsylvania town of roughly 379 people. Is the killer walking among them or is it the residents of the town that can help detectives find out who the killer is with their inside knowledge of the family.

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    Sources:

    https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2020/1220-mda-2019.html

    Newspaper articles arcdieved through Newspapers.com from:

    The Star-Gazette

    Times Tribune

    Citizen's Voice

    Press and un Bulletin

    2007-2009
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Episode 190: Listener Stories | Part VIII

    Episode 190: Listener Stories | Part VIII
    Oct 20 2024
    Join us as we read creepy stories from our listeners. Thank you for all that submitted! If your story did not appear in this episode it will be next week's Patreon episode.

    Happy Halloween!
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Episode 189: The Ohta Family Murders | Little Fires Everywhere

    Episode 189: The Ohta Family Murders | Little Fires Everywhere
    Oct 6 2024
    On Monday October 19, 1970 in the midst of the Manson family murder trials and with two serial killers on the loose, both the Zodiac and the Co-ed Killer, firefighters in Soquel, CA discover the bodies of five people in the swimming pool of a wealthy home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Through a note left at the scene a murderous cult took responsibility for the Ohta family murders. Join me as I tell John just what happened and who was responsible.

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    Sources:
    https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/5/287.html
    https://projects.scpr.org/timelines/capital-punishment-in-california/
    https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Cruz-mass-murderer-kills-self-in-prison-3221281.php
    https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/571aa1b2b278eb1f40c3970e109bbcb4.PDF
    https://lookout.co/i-wanted-to-see-the-co-ed-killer-in-a-wheelchair-old-and-broken-down-revisiting-edmund-kemper/
    https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-the-santa-cruz-serial-killer-epidemic/article_9b3d46d5-6be8-5fc0-9779-93e77924685a.html

    Murder in California: Rage and Revenge
    By Marques Vickers, 2021 Accessed through Everand

    Newspaper articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 20, 1970-November 23, 1973 accessed through Newspapers.com
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Episode 188: Benjamin Renick | A Snake in the Grass

    Episode 188: Benjamin Renick | A Snake in the Grass
    Sep 22 2024
    On June 8, 2017 a call came into Montgomery County, MO dispatch. The two people on the line stated that someone had been found dead inside a large snake breeding facility and one of the large snakes was not accounted for. When deputies got on the scene they were terrified and had no idea what they were in for. Had someone been killed by a snake or had this been a cold blooded murder?

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    Sources:
    https://www.courttv.com/trials/mo-v-renick-2021/
    https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=198075
    https://abc17news.com/news/top-stories/2022/08/16/attorney-wants-murdered-mans-wife-barred-from-inheritance-payouts/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_WPo3g_VY
    Archived newspapers articles from: Columbia Daily Tribune, Springfield News-Leader, Missouri States Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch between June 2017 and May 2023
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Episode 187: The Murder of Emma Walker

    Episode 187: The Murder of Emma Walker
    Sep 8 2024
    As all news does in a high school, rumors of what happened to bright, beautiful, athletic Emma Walker spread like wildfire. Some said that she had died by suicide, but most couldn’t believe that. Her life was perfect. She had a great boyfriend, she was a cheerleader, and had a close circle of friends. It just didn’t seem like it could be true. But if Emma Walker did not harm herself, it meant that something far more sinister happened…that someone had wanted to hurt her. Now that didn’t sound too far from the truth because in the days prior to her death odd things had been happening to the 16 year old girl.

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    Sources:
    https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/teen-dating-violence-red-flags-from-someone-who-lived-through-it/51-f28f6a14-dbd7-4f0c-bca4-47cd37f7c435
    (talking about relationship - mom)
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/777866500/?match=1&terms=emma%20walker
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/777847139/?match=1&terms=emma%20walker
    https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/02/william-riley-gaul-trial-witnesses-detail-staged-kidnapping-before-central-high-cheerleader-slain/570824002/
    Google view of the home:
    https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0364202,-83.9765422,3a,75y,159.82h,86.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saCY5BTqOUoBf2DIMyKFr_g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DaCY5BTqOUoBf2DIMyKFr_g%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D159.82049548311872%26pitch%3D3.868277855724372%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 186: The Murders of Jennifer and Braxton Webb

    Episode 186: The Murders of Jennifer and Braxton Webb
    Aug 25 2024
    On August 30, 2011 the body of Jennifer Webb was found beside her SUV near a drainage ditch in Buena Vista, MI. What police think initially is a suicide turns out to be a case that will shake them to their very core.

    Trigger Warnings: Discussions of suicide and violence against a pregnant woman

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    Sources:
    https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/us/mi/buena-vista-township/crime-rate-statistics#:~:text=The%20Buena%20Vista%20Township%20MI,a%200.22%25%20decline%20from%202016.
    https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend
    https://www.911.gov/assets/2021-911-Profile-Database-Report_FINAL.pdf
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411039/
    Buena Vista Township MI Crime Rate 1999-2018 | MacroTrends
    https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/saginaw/name/jennifer-webb-obituary?id=21780242
    https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2012/09/jennifer_webbs_mother_sister_t.html
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Introducing...World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer

    Introducing...World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer
    Aug 19 2024
    Introducing a NEW investigation from the BBC’s World of Secrets podcast: The Apartheid Killer.

    All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. They were killed during a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, in the South African city of East London – by one person. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secrets exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.

    Search for World of Secrets, wherever you get your podcasts. World of Secrets is the BBC podcast about the stories they don’t want told. Delve into a World of
    Secrets – major BBC global investigations and gripping storytelling. Holding the powerful to account and exposing scandals around the world.
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    5 mins