Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

Dryden, New York is a beautiful farming village. People live happy lives there. But in 1989, a litany of tragedy struck the small community. First, the Harris Family was murdered before their home was set on fire. A mother suffocated her own baby. A coach was shot and killed by an obsessed teenager. Two cheerleaders were abducted and horribly murdered before being dismembered. People died in car accidents, by suicide, and the town gained a new moniker: Village of the Damned

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If you ask 100 True Crime creators their Top 5 most disturbing stories, 90 of them will say the story of Israel Keyes is in their Top 5. Raised as a white supremacist, Keyes hated most everyone. He began killing as a teenager. He is terrifying because he does not follow any of the patterns we know about serial killers. He has no victim profile, no preference, and no pattern. He began traveling the country burying "kill kits" in isolated places like campgrounds, parks and cemeteries. Whenever he was ready, he would travel to one of those locations, dig up his "kill kit"...

John List had a serious problem. He'd been hiding the fact that he'd been fired from his prestigious job at a New Jersey bank and he was broke. He devised a diabolical plan. He shot and killed his wife Helen then his mother Alma. He then waited for the teenagers to come home from school and one by one, he shot them dead. He placed all but his mother's body in the mansion's ballroom, wrote some letters, and then disappeared. For years authorities searched for him but could not find him until an episode of a new TV show...

Michael Gargiulo was known as a weird guy. He made women uncomfortable. He said strange things. When his childhood best friend's sister, Tricia Pacaccio was murdered in Chicago, her case went cold. Years later, women in California were being stabbed to death in their own homes. It took almost two decades, but finally, the police were able to link The Hollywood Ripper, Michael Gargiulo, to the murders of Tricia Pacaccio, Ashley Ellerin, Maria Bruno, and an attack on Michelle Murphy

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Marc Dutroux, The Beast of Belgium was a troubled kid who became a dangerous adult. He took multiple victims, children most, and tortured them before murdering them. His wife, Michelle Martin was complicit and did nothing to help the girls locked in the hidden room of the house. When the public was told an arrest had been made, and that the killer was a previous criminal who did only three years in prison, that the police had been to his house and heard children screaming yet did nothing? The country erupted into chaos. The White March, a protest attended...

The Tromp family was a close, well respected family living in Silvan, Australia when the father, Mark began acting strangely. He became paranoid and started telling his wife, Jacoba and their three adult children that the family was being tracked. He said their money wasn't safe in the bank and that the family was in danger. Then, Mark and Jacoba insisted that the entire family get into the car without credit cards, cell phones or luggage to take a long road trip. The adult children were hesitant but went along and the further Mark drove, the more bizarre the...

American pastors and preachers are no longer respected or admired like they once were. Now, there is a good chance that the man preaching your Sunday sermon has skeletons in his closet and illegal images on his hard drive. How has American Christianity fallen so far from what it started out to be and what can be done to ensure that children are protected in the churches? Why isn't more being done about this and what does our lack of concern say about us as a society

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This is the kind of story that keeps me up at night. We know people murder for money, for sex, for revenge, but somehow it is more horrifying when a random murder is committed against people who are totally and completely innocent. Clinton and Cristen Brink planned a fun day hiking in Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas. While enjoying their afternoon, a man jumped out and began stabbing Clinton. Cristen saved the girls by shielding them with her body and telling them to run. She then turned back to help her husband. She too was stabbed to death...

Allentown, Pennsylvania was a depressed but safe place to live until, in the early 1990s, women began being murdered in their homes. Then a 15 year old girl was murdered on her paper route. The police chased the killer but had no luck because they were looking for an adult. They came up with a plan to stake out a previous victim and survivor's home to see if the killer would return to finish the job. He did and when the cops finally had him in custody, they were shocked to find out the killer was just a boy

Daniel Perez is a conman. After being convicted of sexually assaulting two girls in Texas, he faked his own death and took on the name Lou Castro. He started a small cult that he called Angel's Landing, telling his followers that he spoke to God and had magical abilities. But he needed something to sustain his powers: young girls. A dogged Kansas cop named Ron Goodwyn started to get suspicious and for years, he watched "Lou Castro" and his cult. He knew something was going on but couldn't seem to get the evidence he needed to take the cult...

When Crystal Rogers vanished in Bardstown, Kentucky in July of 2015, her family immediately knew she had been murdered. The local cops investigated and called her boyfriend Brooks Houck in for an interview. During that interview, Brooks brother, Nick Houck, a local cop himself, called his brother and told him to stop talking to the police. What were the brothers trying to hide? For years, Crystal's family searched for her and then there was a second tragedy when her father, Tommy Ballard, was shot with a hunting rifle and killed in front of his grandson, Crystal's son. Tommy's murder remains...

Corinna Mullen was working at the Bardstown, Kentucky police department, saving up to go to nursing school. When she discovered that an acquaintance was selling drugs and moving stolen property, she told one of the police officers she worked with. Then, she ended up murdered. Her boyfriend, Jimmie Springer was put on trial and acquitted and the case went cold for twenty years. After a determined cop was assigned the cold case, he began to work it diligently and what he found was shocking. All of the evidence collected had vanished. Finally, the Kentucky State Police got involved and...

This is a current story and the outcome is still uncertain. No arrests have been made. What is clear is that singer D4VD is in a lot of trouble. The body of his rumored girlfriend, fifteen year old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead and dismembered in the front trunk of David Burke's Tesla. This was two months ago and still, no arrest has been made. Even if it turns out that D4VD had nothing to do with the murder, his career may still be over because David Burke is 20 years old and it appears he was...

Howard Rubin is a celebrated financial wizard. He made billions for firms like Bear Stearns and Soros Fund Management. For years, he has been dogged with civil lawsuits filed by adult sex workers and performers alleging he hired them for BDSM sessions that turned incredibly violent. Howard Rubin has been able to pay his way out of those lawsuits. But in late September of 2025, the Feds came knocking. He was arrested at his Connecticut home and his assistant, Jennifer Powers was arrested at her South Lake, Texas home. Both are now facing decades in prison

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Burt Templet was a controlling and angry man. He monitored his wife and son's activity as though he was a prison guard. Susan Templet left, taking her son Peyton with her which meant Anthony Templet was now alone with the father he hated. Then, in 2019, there was an argument and Anthony shot Burt Templet. As Anthony's coworkers hear about the murder, they decide to look into this unusual young man and what they find is shocking. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

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Murder doesn't take a night off and killings happen even on Halloween. Karl Jackson, a computer programmer with a bright future lost his life in a violent altercation with seventeen year old Curtis Sterling, all over loud music. Karl's story became a cautionary tale about the violent 1990s in New York. In our second story, nine year old Lisa Ann French goes trick or treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and she never comes home. It is later determined that her neighbor, a man Lisa knew well, Gerald Turner, assaulted and murdered the little girl before dumping her body...

Bob Singer was a happily married man until he met charming Judith Singer at temple. The two began an affair and both ended up divorcing their spouses so they could be together. Judy took her kids and the couple moved back to her home state of Michigan but Judy's ex-husband, Howard Witkin wasn't happy and wanted his kids back in California. Then, Howard ended up dead, murdered in his doorway. An informant comes forward and the cops track down the hired killers. They're sent to prison and the story appears to be over. But ten years later, a legal...

Stephen Morin spent his life as a criminal. What started as a career in theft quickly turned to serial murder. He abducted, assaulted and killed women as he traveled throughout the country. Investigators estimate his victim count to be around forty people, but many of those murders are not well documented. When the police learned just how dangerous Stephen Morin was, they located him in a Texas motel room and the SWAT team surrounded the building but Stephen Morin escaped. He then abducted a housewife named Margy Palm from a nearby shopping center and over the course of the...

Bruce McArthur is an unusual serial killer. Most serial killers stop killing later in life but the Toronto Village Serial Killer did not. Gay men began to disappear from the Toronto Village area and by the time there were eight missing men, the cops had formed two task forces to investigate the disappearances. Their investigation led them to a plump, elderly landscaper who had been digging more than weeds in his customer's yards.

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Michael Woods was an angry man with a bad temper. He wanted to become a rock star and he dragged his long suffering wife, Susan from town to town chasing his dream. She finally put her foot down and when she stayed in Stephenville, Texas, Michael left her and returned to Indianapolis where he was from. Then Susan Woods was murdered, found in her bathtub in July of 1987. Everyone involved was convinced the killer was Michael Woods and for decades, he was hunted and chased by police. When the science finally caught up, and DNA was compared, the townspeople...

We'll call this Part One. Kouri Richins has not yet gone to trial. She is accused of massive financial fraud, shoddy builder practices, forgery, drug possession and murder. When her husband Eric Richins died suddenly, Kouri wrote a book called "Are You With Me," about children dealing with the death of a parent. She even went on a media tour to promote the book. Then, Kouri was arrested charged with killing Eric by poisoning his cocktail. This is a wild story about a devious woman who would do anything to maintain her image, to become rich, and to get...

Laurie Shaver claims she was terribly abused at the hands of her husband Michael. Laurie's daughter, Isabelle backs those claims. The couple fought constantly and then one day, Michael Shaver vanished. Laurie told people he'd run off with another woman. For two years, her story held until Michael's old friend went to the police stating he couldn't get in touch with Michael. The cops served a search warrant and found some bits of clothing in the back yard near a fire pit so they decided to dig it up. They discovered something horrible and shocking but the claims Laurie...

Are killers born or are they made? That is the question we ask all the time here on Dark Hearts. In today's story, there is a strong argument for those who believe some people are just born bad. Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham were obsessed with each other. When Kim's mother, Elizabeth Edwards tried to keep them apart, Kim and Lucas decided she had to go and with her, Kim's younger sister, Katie. The facts of this case are chilling, the killers remorseless.

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Paul Castellano was a man who wanted to polish the image of the mafia. He preferred conversation to confrontation but wasn't afraid to order a hit on anyone who insulted him. When godfather Carlo Gambino died, Paul took the reins and this made a lot of mob guys unhappy. One in particular, John Gotti, despised Paul's corporate mentality and ban on the sell of drugs for profit and so Gotti set a plan into action to get rid of Paul Castellano

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Private investigators, drugs and reality TV clash in this incredible story of jealousy and a desire for fame. Years before landing the role of a young Joe Kenda on the crime TV show Homicide Hunter, struggling actor Carl Marino was working for a private investigator in San Francisco named Chris Butler. When the Lifetime Network decided to produce a reality show about Chris Butler's all female staff called P.I. Moms, Carl Marino wanted to be a part of the show. When he found out he would not be featured in the television show, he set about sabotaging the...

Grace Millane was a young woman full of hope for the future. She took a solo backpacking trip through South America and then flew to New Zealand to continue. There, she matched with Jesse Kempson on Tinder and the two went out for dinner and drinks. They went back to his hotel room for what Grace thought would be a sexual encounter. Instead, she ended up murdered and stuffed into a suitcase. We track their movements caught on CCTV and discuss this disturbing story about a man with a lot of secrets and deadly intentions

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Young Living Oils, doTerra, Tahitian Noni, Paparazzi, Nature's Sunshine, Nu Skin and many more, all huge companies got their start in Utah. Why? Because Mormons are primed for the thinking required inside an MLM. Multi Level Marketing companies make billions each year but many who get involved don't make any money, they lose money.

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Sandra Birchmore had a difficult life. She was the only caretaker to a chronically ill mother and she had no father. Sandra joined the Stoughton Explorers program, a place for kids to interact with cops. She wanted community and support. Instead she was groomed and sexually exploited by those who should have protected her. When Sandra became pregnant, Matthew Farwell, a thirty five year old married father decided he had to get rid of her. He couldn't have Sandra threatening his family life. So he killed Sandra and staged a suicide. The local police department wrote it off as...

This is a story about drug abuse and terrible parenting. It's also a story about what happens to people when they fall down the conspiracy rabbit hole and it takes over their lives. Eldon Samuel Jr. was a bad father. His wife, Tina abandoned the family leaving her two sons, Eldon Samuel III and Jonathan in the care of their father who took the kids from California to live in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. Once the family of three was settled, things only got worse. Eldon was struggling in school and his brother Jonathan, who had special needs, wasn't doing...

This is a story about the Jensen family but it is also a story about Utah, the fraud capital of America. James Lael and Kelly Walker Jensen were living the life of rock stars in the hills of Sandy, Utah. Their twenty seven square foot stone and glass mansion a testament to their incredible success. But in April of 2025, it all came crashing down. James and Kelly Jensen, along with their two adult sons, Joshua and Zachary, were arrested and indicted on charges of fraud, money laundering and supporting terrorism. The quiet Mormon community was shocked. Prosecutors have painted...

Miles, not his real name, was living a usual life as a web designer. His life was on the internet even in the early days. When Twitter went live, Miles grabbed a very coveted cool handle to use on Twitter and then he used that same handle across other platforms like Instagram and Facebook. In 2016, someone decided they wanted Miles online handle and they started sending messages to Miles. Soon those messages turned into threats and then, those threats turned into pizza. This is the bizarre story of The Pizza Problem

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Keli Lane is a celebrated water polo champion. She had a very successful career in that sport but friends noticed something strange about Keli. Her weight fluctuated dramatically and people wondered at times if she was pregnant but Keli never talked about a pregnancy and no babies ever appeared. Then, when she was pregnant for a fourth time that we know of, she gave birth to a baby girl she named Tegan. Keli left the hospital with Tegan and Tegan was never seen again. When Keli gets pregnant for a fifth time, an alert social worker begins asking questions...

Rory Enrique Conde was an angry man. He abused his wife and kids, and he lived a double life. By day, he was a friendly and helpful lumber salesman. By night, he was visiting area prostitutes and peeping in his neighbors windows. After years of this behavior, it escalated and Rory murdered his first victim. Soon, body after body were turning up along the Tamiami Trail near Miami and the press dubbed the killer The Tamiami Trail Strangler. The public was aware of the murders but the police were holding some information back. Rory Conde was writing on his...

This is a serial killer we don't talk about much because his horrific crimes are mainly unsolved. Robert Ben Rhoades took some of the most desperate women from truck stops around the country and they were never seen again. The problem is that no one was looking for them. These were women with no families, mostly drug addicted, and women who would not be missed. That doesn't mean their stories do not matter. This case involves one of the most disturbing photos published in the true crime community, the photo of a young Regina Kay Walters standing terrified in...

Roch Thériault, who later claimed he was Moses and then changed his name to Rock believed he was chosen by God to do a great and important work. He gathered a small group of followers and took them into the Canadian wilderness. As his followers worked to build a small commune, one day Rock said, "you look like ants on a hill." So the group became known as The Ant Hill Kids. Rock began to drink and soon, he was inflicting horrific torture and abuse on his followers. The authorities got involved and removed all the children from t...

Ben Novack grew up in the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. His parents, Ben and Bernice Novack divorced and then Ben Novack Sr. died. Benji, as he was known, went on to start a successful convention planning business but his personal life was riddled with problems. Benji had the world's second largest collection of Batman memorabilia and he spent a lot of money acquiring every item of Batman merchandise he could get his hands on. He also spent a lot of money on strippers and porn stars. When he met a stripper named Narcy, he decided to marry her...

Paul and Betty Jeanne Solomon were living a quiet life in Greenburgh, New York. Paul came home one night after bowling with friends to find that his wife had been murdered, brutally shot nine times. She was dead inside their townhome. When the police begin to investigate, they quickly learn that Paul Solomon is a womanizer. He was having an affair with twenty eight year old Carolyn Warmus, a rich and worldly young woman, educated at Columbia, who was heiress to the American Way Life Insurance fortune. Paul was the first suspect but as the police begin to look...

Pete Coones father Olin was elderly and in poor health. His caretaker, Kathleen Schroll was intentionally driving a wedge between Pete and his father. Then Pete found out that Olin had signed his house and all his property over to Kathleen Schroll. A court battle ensued and Kathleen was losing. Then, she and her husband Carl Schroll ended up dead, shot to death in their own home. The police examined the scene and said it was a murder suicide but then they found out Kathleen made a phone call just before her death stating that Pete Coones was in...

Kelly Cochran claims she has killed up to twenty one people. When she married her high school sweetheart, Jason Cochran, the two made a pact. If either of them ever cheated, they would be forced to kill their lover. So when Kelly had an affair with coworker Chris Regan, the Cochrans honored the pact. Christopher Regan was murdered and then dismembered. Kelly claims parts of his body were fed to family and friends at a BBQ. The police were onto the Cochrans so they skipped town. And then, Jason Cochran was found dead at home

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Cullen Davis and Priscilla Davis were the talk of the Texas social scene. Cullen Davis was a billionaire in today's money and Priscilla Davis was a petite bleached blonde who liked to wear revealing and flamboyant clothing. When the two separated and Priscilla filed for divorce, things quickly turned ugly. Priscilla then began dating six foot nine inch Stan Farr, a former TCU basketball player and NFL player. One night, the lovers returned home to Stonegate Mansion in Fort Worth to find an armed intruder inside the fortress and that began one of the most sensational legal battles in...

Steven and Alyssa Pladl were in an abusive relationship. Alyssa decided to give their eight month old up for adoption and Denise then became Katie Fusco. Katie was raised in Dover, New York but decided to try and find her biological family. When she did, she began a twisted and illegal sexual relationship with her own biological father, Steven Pladl and became pregnant with his child. The courts finally get involved but it is much too late and Steven Pladl decides he will seek revenge on everyone who is keeping him apart from his wife, his daughter, the mother...

Ben and Kristi Strack were a Mormon family living in Springville, Utah. Kristi began to believe that Dan Lafferty, the convicted murderer featured in the story Under the Banner of Heaven, was the reincarnated prophet Elijah and that he was here to usher in the second coming of Christ. As the Strack's beliefs become more and more extreme, they isolate their little family and cut off all communication. Their oldest son then comes home to find that his entire family is dead. This is a story about what can happen when people fall down the conspiracy hole. It's a...

When Mary Catherine Edwards parents couldn't get a hold of her on the phone, the drove to her house to check on her. What they found was a horrific murder scene. Catherine had been sexually assaulted, brutally murdered, and left in the bathtub with her hands handcuffed behind her back using a set of police issue handcuffs. The Beaumont Texas police worked the case but couldn't find her killer and the case went cold. Decades later, the Texas Rangers allocated funds for cold cases and two detectives, Aaron and Tina Llewellyn begin working the case with the help of...

Wadsworth Ohio was experiencing a rash of crimes and then there was a horrific murder. Margaret Douglas, 98 years old, was brutally murdered and defiled in her own home. As police begin to go through surveillance footage from the area, they find two teenaged boys sneaking around the neighborhood. Gavon Ramsay is brought in for questioning and soon, the police become convinced they've found their killer. As the investigation continues, cops become convinced that Gavon Ramsay is not just a killer, he is a monster

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Mark and Debby Constantino wanted to be famous ghost hunters. When Zak Bagans put them on his show, Ghost Adventures, the couple thought they'd hit the big time. Unfortunately, their constant violent fighting and drinking hurt their reputation and soon, Mark and Debby were on the outside of the community they'd fought so hard to get into. Their marriage began to fall apart. Debby's jealousy and drunken rages inhibited their ability to get more work and they began to have money troubles. It all ended on a very tragic day in Reno, Nevada when Mark Constantino snapped. By the...

Reagan Simmons Hancock was a beautiful young wife and mother who was expecting her second baby girl. She got a call from her friend, Taylor Parker, saying she was going to come and visit her. When Taylor Parker left Reagan's house, Reagan was dead and her baby was gone. Taylor Parker had been lying to everyone in her life. She lied about being rich, she lied about her family, and she lied about being pregnant. The lengths Taylor went to in order to cover her lies left the entire state of Texas, and then the nation, shocked.

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Nona Dirksmeyer was a college student and beauty pageant participant living in Arkansas. When her boyfriend Kevin Jones couldn't get a hold of her, he went to her house where he found her murdered in her living room. Kevin was taken in for questioning and soon realized, he was a suspect. The police and the public got tunnel vision. The crime scene investigation was botched so poorly that it looked as if Kevin would be in prison for the rest of his life simply because the Russellville police department had no idea what they were doing. Kevin's defense attorneys...

Gudni Gudnason always knew he was destined for stardom. When he failed as a movie star and then as a karate master and bodyguard, he found the world of new age spiritualism. From Iceland to Sweden to Utah and Japan, he's built a small following of people who believe they can hack their "24 strands of DNA" (we have 23/46), activate a "24th" strand of DNA spiritually, and use ancient technology from King Solomon and Thor to make their dreams come true. Miley Cyrus, Fletcher and Shawn Mendes have all been linked to this cult. Join me for one of the...

Brian and Amy Fanion were not getting along. Brian was about to retire from the Westfield, Massachusetts police department and the couple had different ideas about how they would spend the next chapter of their lives. Amy Fanion was completely unaware that her husband of thirty years had been cheating on her with a church friend, Cori Knowles. Brian claims Amy pulled his service revolver from his holster and held it to her head and the gun went off but the investigation that followed revealed cheating and some very disturbing google searches. Just when you think you've made a...

How can one house be the site of so much death? When Bill Harrison is found dead in his bathroom, it is ruled a heart attack. When Bridget Harrison is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, it is ruled an accident. But when Caleb Harrison, the father of the children at the heart of a bitter custody battle is found murdered in that same home, the police re-open Bill and Bridget's deaths. What they find is a decade of crimes, fighting, court battles, and murder

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When Thomas Mulcahy's carefully dismembered body parts are found on the side of a road by city workers, the police hope this is an isolated incident but then, a second body is found in the same manner. Then a third. The police cannot catch this maniac and the case goes cold for some time, but early 1990's forensic technology is improving and with the help of a Canadian laboratory, police identify their serial killer. When they do, they find a decades long history of perversion, violence and murder

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Fred Shipman was an odd young man. When his mother got cancer Fred was only sixteen. He watched as her nurses injected her with morphine to ease her pain and when she died a year later, Fred decided he was going to go into medicine and become a doctor. Soon, a nurse noticed that Dr. Shipman's patients were dying at an alarming rate but when she sounded the alarm, nothing was done. It wasn't until later on that Angela Woodcock, an attorney, began asking questions after her own healthy mother died. When authorities began digging up the corpses of...

Cassidy Rainwater was down on her luck and staying with family friends on a rural property in Dallas County, Missouri. She thought the man, James Phelps, was trustworthy and had no idea that he and his friend, Timothy Norton, were planning to murder her. First Cassidy was locked in a cage and then the two men killed her and dismembered her body. During this gruesome process, the men took photos and then posted those photos to the Dark Web

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Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi were vicious and violent men, two cousins living together in Los Angeles. Kenneth Bianchi also had a police fetish and a lust for power. The two men acquired fake police badges and began using them to imitate cops in order to get women to stop on the streets. Soon, those women began turning up dead in the hills around Los Angeles. Body after body is discovered and the police grow frustrated as the murders continued. As the investigation wore on, a call came to the LA detective working the case. An arrest had been...

1990s Las Vegas was a wild place to be. The mafia was still running the show but the FBI was onto them. The mob task force opened a fake bar and restaurant meant to draw Las Vegas gangsters to the club. It was called Sea Breeze. The FBI had the entire place bugged and listened as the mobsters got more and more comfortable speaking openly in the club about their criminal activity. Fat Herbie was running several rackets in Vegas and things were going well but when the Caruso family from LA moved into Las Vegas, and had a...

Ben and Lynlee Renick had it all; a booming business making a lot of money, beautiful children, fame in the world of snake breeding and a YouTube channel that brought them more clients. Then, Ben ended up dead on the floor of his large snake breeding facility. At first, people thought Ben had been killed by one of his snakes but a further investigation revealed he had been murdered, shot eight times. As authorities look into the life of this man with an unusual job, they find a trail of lies, affairs, cheating and debt but the case goes...

Gerard John Schaefer was known as a weirdo and a pervert. The girls he went to high school with wanted nothing to do with him. He married and divorced after college and then became a teacher. He was promptly fired for going on wild political rants during class. After that, he decided to become a police officer and because no background check was done, he slipped through the cracks. He was promptly fired from his first job as a cop for stealing women's information and contacting them at home. He went to another district and was hired again. One...

Juan Corona was a violent man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He was always trying to prove he was the most macho man in the room, but Juan was secretly gay. Migrant workers and drifters began disappearing in the farmlands and orchards of Northern California and then one day, a Japanese farmer noticed a strange mound of dirt in his orchards. He called the sheriff who decided to dig it up. Cops found a body and then two. Search helicopters were brought in to search from the air and what the pilots saw was shocking: mounds and mounds of freshly...

Marlene Warren was at home on a Saturday afternoon when her doorbell rang. She opened the door to see a clown standing on her porch holding flowers and balloons. As she took the gifts from the clown, the clown pulled out a gun and shot Marlene in the face right in front of her son, Joe Warren. Joe chases the clown who gets into a car and drives away. As the police investigate, they discover a trail of fraud, shady business dealings and an affair. Despite the evidence, an arrest is not made for years but it finally does...

This is an infamous story but one that remains fascinating. Cindy James called the police to her house over 100 times. She was receiving harassing phone calls and creepy letters in the mail. Her tires were slashed. Her porch light was smashed. Someone hung dead cats from her trees. Then Cindy's friend found her tied up in her own yard. The police came. The harassment continued. Cindy was found tied up again, this time in her kitchen with a knife through her hand. She took a polygraph test. Her friends moved into the house with her to keep an eye...

Bruce Longo believed he was God. He was excommunicated from the Mormon Church and gathered a small group of followers. He took their money as he lived well and they had nothing but still, they believed. Bruce Longo changed his name to Immanuel David. His wife became Rachel David. Their seven children were totally isolated as they lived in a hotel room with their parents. The FBI began to look into this small cult and discovered that it had never paid taxes of any kind. Immanuel David then realized he was in a bad situation with no way out...

As a filmmaker, Emma Smith and her crew are following genius inventor, Peter Madsen, a celebrity in his world, all is going as planned on the film. One day, Emma gets a phone call informing her that Peter has taken a journalist named Kim Wall for a dive on his submarine and Kim has now disappeared. Peter's submarine is recovered and he claims to have dropped Kim off on the dock. The police are suspicious and they begin to look into Peter's personal life. On his computer, they find snuff films and horrific depictions of violence towards women. Peter...

Allan Legere was a menace even as a child. His own mother disliked him. His teachers were afraid of Allan and the other kids bullied him but as he grew, he started lifting weights and became more confident. Sadly, he also became more violent. Allan goes from petty crime to murder and he is captured and sentenced to life in prison. He then causes himself to become ill over and over so he is taken to the hospital where he plans to escape, and he does. He goes on the run. Police are confident that he will not stay...

This is the shocking and disturbing story of Jeff Lundgren, an offshoot Mormon who believed that he was a prophet of God. Jeff is excommunicated from the RLDS church and starts a small cult of devoted followers. In this episode, we delve into his beliefs and the way he used chiasma to create his own doctrine which he called Dividing the Word. Jeff and his followers begin living on a small compound in Ohio and soon, area residents and law enforcement are aware there is a dangerous group living amongst them. One of the followers, Dennis Avery and his...

Ramsay Scrivo suffered with paranoid schizophrenia. He had a violent temper and troubles with the law. His father died and then his mother, Donna Scrivo's house burned down. She was forced to move in with her angry and alcoholic son. Their volatile relationship and violent arguments got worse and then, neighbors began smelling a strong chemical odor, the scent of burning, and the sounds of a power saw. Days later, two women doing school carpool found trash bags full of human body parts on the side of the road in Michigan. Just when you think you know where this...

Glen Taylor Helzer believed he was a prophet of God. Raised a devout Mormon, Taylor gained a deep knowledge of the Book of Mormon. He served a Mormon mission and went to work at Morgan Stanley as a stockbroker. He was then introduced to the program known as Impact, which many call a cult. This new belief system changes Taylor Helzer. He begins living a wild lifestyle and soon, his brother Justin Helzer becomes his devoted follower. With the help of a new recruit, Dawn Godman, Taylor comes up with a sinister plan. He has access to wealthy people's...

The story of Daniel LaPlante is almost too terrifying to believe, but it's all true. Daniel was a strange a disturbed boy who spent a lot of time in the woods. He then became obsessed with Tina Bowen, who was grieving the death of her mother. Strange things began to happen in the Bowen household and Tina and her sister Karen were convinced, the ghost of their dead mother was visiting them. But then, the actions became sinister and scary. Frank Bowen was convinced his daughters were grieving and making things up, but then, one night he was confronted...

Dennis and Marilynn DePue had an unhappy marriage. After years, Marilynn divorces Dennis but he won't leave her alone. One Easter Sunday, Dennis comes to collect their children for visitation but the kids don't want to go with him. A fight ensues and Dennis throws Marilynn into his van and drives away with her. A couple then sees Dennis driving on a back country road and what they witness is terrifying. The police are called but Dennis DePue goes on the run. It takes years and an episode of Unsolved Mysteries to catch him, but when police finally track...

Matthew Hoffman was known as a weirdo. He acted strangely, he spent most of his time alone, and he was always in the trees around his yard. He commits a serious arson in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and does six years in prison for that crime. He returns to Ohio and begins breaking into homes. When Tina Hermann, her son 11 year old son Kody Maynard, her 13 year old daughter Sarah Maynard and family friend Stephanie Sprang go missing, a co-worker finds Tina's house covered in blood. The police find a Walmart receipt that leads them to the killer and when...

College student Anita Knutson was found murdered on her bed in her Minot, North Dakota apartment in the summer of 2007. Everyone who knew Anita was aware that she and her roommate, Nichole Rice disliked each other and Nichole had even been physically violent towards Anita. For years, the police were unable to solve this murder but then, the Oxygen Network's Cold Justice got involved. After the new investigation, Nichole Rice was arrested and put on trial. The verdict came in just weeks ago and it shocked everyone. The defense reaction disgusted everyone

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This is the story of one of the most evil and depraved serial killers you've never heard of. Thomas Mulcahey, Anthony Morero and Michael Sakara all left their favorite piano bars never to be seen again. Their bodies, carefully dismembered into seven pieces by someone with surgical knowledge begin to turn up in public garbage cans and along roadways in the North East. The police are desperate to catch this serial killer but then he goes quiet. In the years following the murders, forensic science leaps forward and so the police decide to try again. When their killer comes...

You probably haven't heard the name Johnny Meadows before. He is a convicted serial killer on a case most people know nothing about. Linda Cougat, Eula Kay Miller, Ruth Maynard, Gloria Sue Green, Nix as she was called, and others turned up bound, raped and murdered in the late 1960s and early 1970s near Odessa, Texas. The police were stumped and then, they got a phone call from Aztec, New Mexico. Johnny Edwards, a man who had been interviewed in the case was sitting in jail there and telling tales of murder. Johnny Edwards is arrested and put on...

Scott Farris found his father Gary dead and burned on the family farm's burn pile. At first, he thought he'd had a heart attack and fallen into the fire but then the coroner finds bullets inside Gary's body. Melody Farris hated her husband. They lived in the same house but barely spoke and Melody had a boyfriend. She was spending Gary's money to see him. The tension in the house was palpable and when Gary ended up dead, everyone thought Melody would be arrested, but she wasn't. The trial that results was shocking but not nearly as shocking at...

Gary DeVore worked with the A-List of Hollywood. He was successful beyond his wildest dreams but he was also disillusioned with his work and had become more interested in writing about politics. When he came across a story about Manuel Noriega blackmailing US Officials with secretly videotaped sex acts with children, he went down the rabbit hole. Then he ended up dead. Or did he? His Ford Explorer was found crashed in an aqueduct near Palmdale, California and there was a body inside; a body that was missing its hands. Gary DeVore had a disfigured finger that made his...

Many years ago, I was very fascinated with the TV show Forensic Files and all of the new science that was being shown to the public for the first time. As I watched the story of this murder, I learned about how blood spatter analysis helps solve crimes and helps catch killers. When Karen Pannell is found murdered, with the name Roc written above her on the wall in her own blood, the police think they have their killer: Karen's ex-boyfriend Roc Herpich but forensic scientists make a discover that will change the course of the case and it...

Britney Ujlaky was living the small town American life in Elko, Nevada when she disappeared in March of 2020. The cops found out Britney had some real enemies in town, girls she'd been in physical fights with. Britney was also talking with several older men on social media. As the police investigate her disappearance, and searchers continue looking for her, a horrific discovery is made. Britney's body was found on a deserted road under the high desert sky. She had been assaulted and murdered in an unusual fashion. There are other items found with Britney's body and those items have...

Aaron Goodwin is a TV star, part of the cast of the Travel Channel's show, Ghost Adventures. Aaron and Zak Bagans travel the world in search of proof of the paranormal. Just weeks ago, the public learned that Aaron almost became one of the ghosts he has been seeking for years, when police uncovered a devious plot set in motion by his wife, Victoria Goodwin, to have Aaron murdered. Victoria Goodwin saw a documentary on Paramount Plus called Ctrl+Alt+Desire. The documentary is about Grant Amato, a Florida man who murdered his father, his mother and his brother...

In the mid 1950s, a nightmare begins on the peaceful island of Jersey in the English Channel. Women are being attacked on the streets at night by a man wearing a frightening mask and long coat who smells very bad. The attacks continue for years and the police seem powerless to stop the man the press dubs, "The Beast of Jersey." Just when the panic is at an all time high, the Beast changes his modus operandi and begins taking children from their homes. This continues for years. Scotland Yard is brought in. Officers cannot catch the Beast and...

Christina Parcell and John Mello shared a daughter. The couple was no longer together and Christina was dating a man named Bradley Post. John Mello became convinced that Christina and Bradley were sexually abusing his daughter. John tried to involve the police and the courts, but got nowhere so he decided to ask his close friend, Juilliard trained concert pianist Zachary Hughes, for help. Doing what? Getting rid of Christina for good. After Christina is murdered in a brutal fashion, and her body is found surrounded by rose petals left by the killer, the police uncover very disturbing information...

Megan Huntsman and her husband Darren West were drug users who hid it from everyone in their lives, or so they thought. Darren goes to prison for possession and Megan is forced to move out of their home. Years later, Darren is released and he goes back to the house, owned by his parents, to get things out of the garage. He finds a strange looking box that smells bad and he opens it. He cannot believe what he finds inside. It is the decomposing body of a newborn infant. Darren calls the police who arrive at the house...

Shari Smith was just getting ready to graduate from high school. She stops at the mailbox in front of her house to check the mail but she never comes inside. Her father gets worried and drives to the mailbox down the long drive. Shari's car is running. The passenger door is open. Shari is nowhere to be found. The FBI is brought in. Two days after the abduction, the kidnapper begins calling the Smith family using a creepy voice distortion unit. He taunts Shari's mother and her sister, Dawn. The FBI taps the phone lines and the kidnapper calls...

Early one morning in 1982, a young girl named Mary Kellerman isn't feeling well. She takes some Tylenol and dies instantly. Several hours later, a postal worker named Adam Janus is home from work, sick. He takes some Tylenol and is dead within seconds. His family is stricken with grief and returns home to comfort each other. His brother and sister in law then take some Tylenol and they too collapse. A phone operator, a flight attendant, and others all suddenly drop dead and Chicago doctors and nurses race to find out what is going on before more people die...

Richard Chase, The Vampire of Sacramento, was in and out of mental health facilities throughout his youth. Even though he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother decided he no longer needed his medication. Living alone, abusing drugs, Richard spiraled into madness. He began killing the neighborhood pets and then he moved on to human victims. Some of the details of this story are very disturbing but I've tried to present them in a respectful manner. This is a story about the failures of the mental health system and the failures of parents who know their adult child is dangerous...

The Lafferty brothers were raised in a very bizarre home and as they grew, their Mormon beliefs became more and more extreme. When Ron and Dan Lafferty declare themselves to be prophets of God, they are excommunicated from the Mormon church and their wives divorce them. The two men decide that their sister in law, Brenda Wright Lafferty, was to blame for their divorces and they target her and the people responsible for their shunning by the Mormon church. What follows is a brutal double murder after a story of religious extremism and strange beliefs

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This is the story of Jerry Ambrozuk and Dianne Babcock, two Canadian teenagers who decided to elope. Jerry was training to be a pilot and believed he could safely land the small plane they rented on the water so the couple could vanish together. He was wrong. The plane crashed and Jerry disappeared. What followed was a man hunt that landed Jerry on America's Most Wanted for decades. Then, a woman meets a man on an online dating app and she begins to dig into his past. What she finds sends her to the police

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Helle Crafts and Richard Crafts were in an unhappy marriage. Helle told her friends that she wanted to divorce her pilot and part time cop husband, but she was afraid of him. Richard cheated on Helle and she hired a private investigator named Keith Mayo. Then Helle disappeared. Her friends and family had to beg the police to investigate. Richard was one of their own but those who loved Helle were not giving up. Finally, some evidence is uncovered but when it is, the prosecution is concerned. With no body, how does it prove there was a murder. The...

Robert Kleason was a man with a troubled past. He converted to Mormonism while living in Austin, Texas but that didn't stop his criminal behavior. He landed in jail for a weapons charge and when the Mormon church did nothing to get him out of jail, Kleason became angry. Two young men, Mormon missionaries named Mark Fisher and Gary Darley were told by their bishop not to meet with Kleason anymore because area leaders in the church believed he was dangerous. Sadly, the missionaries thought they owed Robert Kleason one last visit. It was their last visit ever

Candy Montgomery was a woman who always got what she wanted. She had the big house, the two beautiful kids, and a husband who made a great living. Still, it was not enough. Candy decides to have an affair to spice up her life and she chooses her friend Betty Gore's husband as her lover. Then, Betty is found murdered, chopped up with an ax. Candy Montgomery plays the loving and concerned neighbor, bringing dinners and flowers to the grieving family but police have discovered a bloody fingerprint and footprint that will change everything in the small town of...

By the late 1990s, the Satanic Panic phenomenon had died down in the United States but it was just reaching Europe. Teenagers all over Italy were obsessed with Satan and heavy metal music and using those things as an excuse to do terrible things. They called themselves The Beasts of Satan, or Bestie di Satana. Andrea Volpe, Elisabetta Ballerin, Nicola Sapone, Paolo Leoni, Mario Maccione, Pietro Guerrieri, Marco Zampollo and Eros Monterosso decided to trick two new group members, Fabio Tollis and Chiara Marino into going to the woods with them. There, they were "sacrificed." For years, Michele Tollis...

When a man in the Czech Republic plugs in a new baby monitor, what he sees on the screen is truly terrifying. He is picking up the feed from a nearby camera. The police locate the home and what they discover inside has become known as the Cottage of Hell. Klara and Katerina Mauerova are sisters who were member of the cult, The Holy Grail Movement and their beliefs were bizarre. Klara's thirteen year old daughter Ana escapes after being taken into foster care and she goes on the run for a year. When the police finally catch her...

Chuck Morgan was an escrow agent in Tucson, Arizona. First, he vanishes and reappears at his home with his wrists and ankles bound. Chuck claims a hallucinogenic substance has been painted in his throat and he cannot speak. When he can, he tells his wife that if he tells her what is going on, their entire family will be killed. Then Chuck disappears again only this time, he is gone for good. He turns up dead in the desert and his death is ruled a suicide even though he is wearing a bullet proof vest and there are no...

I want to give all the credit for today's episode to John Williams (not his real name) and Joshua Kaplan, who published this article in ProPublica. You can read the story on that website. When John Williams realized he had used his wilderness expert training to assist a dangerous militia, he was angry. Then, after witnessing the violence during the insurrection, John decided he had to do something about it. He created a fake personal and went undercover without telling a single person. He quickly rose through the ranks to become Utah's highest ranking militia leader and was then...

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy, living in my hometown of Cedar City, Utah who was working at a gas station. One night, someone went into the station, hit Arden over the head, robbed the store and then abducted Arden. What followed was a months long search and a horrific discovery. A manhunt ensued looking for the killer. All that is left of this story is the file kept by my father and we both want to ensure that Arden Heap is not forgotten

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Today we are talking about the murder of 16 year old Preston Lord in Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. In the wake of Preston's murder, it becomes apparent that a gang of violent teenagers who call themselves The Gilbert Goons, is running amok in Phoenix. Their wealthy parents seem to have a hold on the police department and it takes months of community outrage in order to get anything done. A reporter then discovers that violent attacks have been taking place for months and even years, and nothing is being done about it. Three moms band together to form...

In 1900, Rolfe Tiede, his daughters Trisha and Linae, his wife Kaye and his mother in law Beth Potts arrive on snowmobiles at their family cabin to celebrate the Christmas holidays. They enter the cabin and are confronted by two escaped convicts, Von Lester Taylor and Edward Steven Deli, who have walked away from a Utah halfway house. The men pull guns and begin shooting. The girls, Trisha and Linae are then abducted and forced to drive the killers away on snowmobiles but the killers are not aware, Rolfe Tiede is not dead, just badly injured. This father and hero...

This is the story of the Hi-Fi Shop Murders which took place in Ogden, Utah on April 22, 1974. United States Air Force soldiers William Andrews and Dale Selby Pierre went into the store with the intention of robbing it. They were not expecting people to enter the shop during the robbery or that the parents of the employees would come looking for their children. Soon, they had five hostages in the basement of the store. The hostages were forced to drink Drano, a caustic substance for unclogging drains. When the Drano didn't kill the hostages, Pierre shot each of them...

Today we are talking about The Butcher Baker Serial Killer, Robert Hansen. When women started disappearing in the Anchorage, Alaska area, not much was done about it. Even when Cindy Paulson came forward, telling police she had been abducted and raped, and the police knew who she was accusing, they did nothing. Not until so many women are missing and murdered bodies start turning up, do the police take action. John Douglas, the father of profiling, is brought in and the FBI begins to aid in the investigation. John Douglas' profile is so detailed and so spot on, it's...

The Son of Sam case refers to a series of shootings that took place in New York City during the summer of 1976 and into 1977. The killer, who became known as the "Son of Sam," was David Berkowitz. He murdered six people and wounded seven others, primarily targeting young couples parked in cars.

Donna Laurie, Jody Valenti, Carl Denaro, Rosemary Keenan, Donna DeMasi, Joanne Lomino, Christine Freund, John Diel, Virginia Voskerichian, Alexander Esau, Valentina Suriani, Salvatore Lupo, Judy Placido, Stacy Moskowitz, and Robert Violante all lost their lives at the hands of this maniac.

Berkowitz taunted...

The myth about Kundalini Yoga is that it is an ancient practice. The religion was, in fact, made up by Yogi Bhajan, Harbhajan Singh Khalsa who was once respected and even honored at the White House. Then, women began coming forward with horrific stories of psychological, physical and sexual abuse. Katie Griggs, Kundalini Katie, Guru Jagat then becomes the face of the Millennial Girl Boss yoga movement. She has tried to become famous through many means and finally, she is. She becomes radicalized by QAnon theories and right wing conspiracies. She is single handedly responsible for a lot of...

Lucinda Lynn Schaefer, Andrea Joy Hall, Jackie Doris Gilliam, Jacqueline Leah Lamp and Shirley Lynette Ledford all lost their lives in horrific and shocking murders at the hands of Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris who met in prison. If it weren't for a good citizen, a former inmate named Joseph Jackson, the killers would have taken many more victims. Paul Bynam was assigned to the case and when the killers are finally caught, Paul takes his own life stating in a ten page suicide note that he cannot bear the thought of Lawrence or Roy ever being released and...