Episodes

  • Episode 194: Melissa Brannen | No One Saw a Thing

    Episode 194: Melissa Brannen | No One Saw a Thing
    Dec 15 2024
    In the tightknit community of the Woodside Apartments the residents gather each year for the Yuletide fest where everyone in the complex can eat, drink, and be merry as their children play games and visit with Santa. But, as is often the case, when we feel comfortable to let our guard down, that evil takes its opportunity to strike. In the middle of the residents catching up and talking about their holiday plans on that December night in 1989 a 5 year old girl, who had just been seen by her mother a minute prior, was kidnapped in the presence of 115 people. No one had seen anything.

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    Sources:
    https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9704a/11branne.htm
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/27/005r-112799-idx.html
    https://casetext.com/case/hughes-v-commonwealth-7
    https://www.woodsideapartmentslorton.com/sitemap.aspx
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1071961330/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/919607331/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
    https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-convicted-in-1989-child-abduction-sent-back-to-prison/3728108/
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/19/abductor-year-old-melissa-brannen-be-released-prison-after-years/
    Forensic Files: Innocence Lost (TV 1999) Season 4 Episode 5
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • Episode 193: Barbara Mackle | Loved one, please come home

    Episode 193: Barbara Mackle | Loved one, please come home
    Dec 1 2024
    Jane Mackle had been nursing her daughter, Barbara, back to health after she caught the flu during her finals week at Emory College in December of 1968 when two masked assailants rushed into their motel room and kidnapped 20 year old Barbara. What would follow would be one of the largest manhunts and rescue missions the FBI would ever take on. Join me as I tell John the story of Barbara Mackle.

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    Sources:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackle_Brothers
    https://www.themacklecompany.com/index
    https://people.com/barbara-mackle-kidnapping-buried-alive-8736831
    https://web.archive.org/web/20071110191155/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900442,00.html
    https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-293-RuthEismannSchier.jpg/view
    https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057-0
    "Buried Alive". FBI: The Untold Stories. Season 1. Episode 13

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    https://www.everand.com/read/606716727/The-Fall-of-the-FBI-How-a-Once-Great-Agency-Became-a-Threat-to-Democracy
    Barbara’s Book: 83 Hours Until Dawn

    Herald from that day:
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621746964/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747024/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747030/
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Bonus Episode | Patreon Episode 120: The Case of Deborah Brown | A Knock at the Door

    Bonus Episode | Patreon Episode 120: The Case of Deborah Brown | A Knock at the Door
    Nov 27 2024
    Getting Ready for Thanksgiving? We have a bonus patreon episode for you to listen to. If you want another 128 bonus episodes join our patreon today!
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    As five residents slept peacefully in their beds in Lebanon, Maine, on the night of March 29, 1999, a sudden knock at their door would change all of their lives forever. Join me as I tell John about the case of Deborah Brown.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 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