Caleb Flynn is in hot water. His father is a pastor and Caleb himself worked as a music and worship leader in the Flynn's Christian church in Ohio. Then, one morning in Tipp City, Ohio, Caleb Flynn called 911 to tell authorities that his wife, Ashley Flynn, had been murdered in her bed. This case quickly drew national attention because Caleb Flynn once appeared as a contestant on American Idol. This attention brought about internet rumor and speculation and soon, dark secrets Caleb was trying to...
Jun 03, 2026•28 min
The Zizians are a small group of highly educated members of the rationalist community. At first, their faction seemed interested in morality, clarity, and thinking logically. But then their leader, known as Ziz, formerly Jack LaSota, became more extreme and the group became more isolated. Then people began to die and now it's up to prosecutors to prove that the Zizians are much more dangerous than they initially appeared ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Insta...
Jun 01, 2026•27 min
Faith Hedgepeth was only nineteen years old when she was brutally murdered inside her North Carolina college apartment. This case has become the target of rumor and online speculation because for over a decade, it went cold. Finally, in 2021, there was an arrest and now the suspect is about to stand trial. Today's episode is an overview of the story to bring you up to date before the trial begins ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://www.instagr...
May 27, 2026•25 min
Robert Elmer Kleason was a strange man. He was a prolific liar who told people he was in the CIA, he was a navy pilot, an assassin, and people thought he was odd. When he joined the Mormon church, Robert got angry the church didn't help him when he was arrested. Mark Fischer and Gary Darley would pay the price for Kleason's anger in the worst way imaginable ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkheartswithstacylee?igsh=Z2d3b...
May 25, 2026•26 min
William Reece prowled the American South during the 1990s abusing, raping and murdered girls and women. For decades, police worked on these cold cases but it wasn't until 2015 when a cold case cop decided to have the DNA run through newer technology that they got a break. When William Reece was finally uncovered, it was maddening because people in every area he'd ever lived knew that he was dangerous. Why wasn't more done to stop him ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_...
May 20, 2026•33 min
Some people don't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us. Jerrod Baum is one of those people. Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell, two Utah teenagers were just stopping by their friend, Morgan Lewis' house to visit. When Jerrod Baum found out there was another man in his home, he flew into a rage, murdered the two kids and then disposed of them in a horrific manner ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkheartswithstac...
May 18, 2026•26 min
The Zombie Hunter, Brian Patrick Miller, was well known in Phoenix for the cosplay character he created. When girls and young women began turning up murdered, the police were stumped. For two decades they searched for the killer of Angela Brasso, Melanie Burnas, Brandy Myers and Shannon Aumock. It wasn't until DNA technology caught up and cold case detectives took on the case that the killer came into view ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://w...
May 13, 2026•31 min
The Mecklenburg Six became infamous for devising and executing an ingenious plan to escape from death row at Mecklenburg State Prison, a state of the art Virginia detention center that was poorly run and poorly managed. The inmates set their plan into motion and luckily for them, it all went smoothly. One of the largest manhunts in American history ensued as citizens lived in fear that one of these killers might show up in their backyard or at their business ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/...
May 11, 2026•35 min
John Norman Collins seemed like an average guy with one exception. He was strikingly handsome. When Michigan college girls and women began being murdered and mutilated, the cops were frustrated. Mistakes were made...big ones. After six victims were found, the cops finally got a break and when they did, it led them right to the monster in their midst ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkheartswithstacylee?igsh=Z2d3bTJtZ2NsN...
May 06, 2026•36 min
Ricky Kasso was a kid on the edge. His parents threw him out of the house and he was living in the woods and sleeping in friend's garages at only fifteen years old. Ricky was also doing a lot of hard drugs. He formed a little gang with his buddies, Gary Lauwers, Albert Quinones, and Jimmy Troiano. They called themselves the Knights of the Black Circle. After Gary stole drugs from Ricky, tensions rose and one night, it all came to a head in the woods. By the time it was over, Gary Lauwers would b...
May 04, 2026•35 min
Rodney Alcala was a strange man. He had a high IQ but didn't fit in well with others. He did a good job of hiding just how dangerous he was for a while, but then he was caught taking an eight year old girl, Tali Shapiro, into his apartment. He went to prison for a while for that abduction and assault but when he got out, he was more dangerous than ever. For more than a decade, cops across the country would search for the killer taking women and murdering them, but had little luck. Then, Rodney A...
Apr 29, 2026•31 min
Nevill and June Bamber were in their 60s. They were helping to raise their grandchildren because their daughter Sheila was mentally ill. Their son Jeremy had also been difficult, stealing and getting into trouble with the law. After what appeared to be a normal family dinner one summer night in 1985, the family parted ways. The next morning, everyone but Jeremy was dead, massacred inside the house at White House Farm ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram...
Apr 27, 2026•28 min
Texarkana was a small town recovering from years of war. Like many towns in America at that time, it was being rebuilt. People were looking forward to the future and were happy the war was over. Then teenagers started being horrifically attacked and murdered while parked in their cars on lovers lanes and the description of the attacker was chilling: A man in a white hood with two holes cut out for eyes and a rope tied around his neck to keep his disguise in place. Two young lovers were attacked,...
Apr 22, 2026•37 min
The Grim Sleeper was given that moniker because of what he did. He murdered sex workers in 1980s Los Angeles in brutal fashion. Not only did he kill them, he took their photographs while doing so. Then, one woman survived and her survival scared the killer badly enough that he disappeared. Many cops thought he was dead and then, he reappeared ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkGvw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkheartswithstacylee?igsh=Z2d3bTJtZ2NsNXIy&...
Apr 20, 2026•26 min
Lee Evans was a wealthy man in a poor city, Newark, New Jersey. Sometimes he'd give the neighborhood kids money to help him with small tasks. On August 20, 1978 he asked Melvin Pittman, Ernest Taylor, Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell to meet him at his business. The boys were never seen again. The investigation dragged on and the case went cold but decades later, someone came forward with a horrific story to tell ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_LevkG...
Apr 15, 2026•30 min
Gene and Marsha Spriggs had a lot of big ideas. They opened their home up and served coffee to fellow 1970s hippies in Chattanooga, Tennessee and before long, they had a regular group showing up. They started calling themselves The Light Brigade and soon, they'd made the First Presbyterian Church mad at them. So they broke off. Soon, reports of child abuse, extreme control, racism and homophobia were coming from inside the cult. They ran away to Vermont but things only got worse there. There are...
Apr 13, 2026•33 min
Ivo A. Benda is an engineer who was introduced to a strange woman named Miloslava Drskova in 1997. Miloslava has some very unique ideas about Pleiadians, a sexy race of blonde haired blue eyed aliens from the star cluster Pleiades. Ivo A. Benda believes that the Pleiadians are benevolent beings trying to help humans raise their consciousness but for some reason, the aliens are only speaking with Ivo. This is a story about science fiction gone spiritual; about Jesus and lizard people from the din...
Apr 08, 2026•30 min
When police arrived at a small apartment in Skara, Sweden, there was no way they could have been prepared for what they saw. Helle Christensen, the partner of Isakin Drabbad, had been decapitated and partially eaten. Isakin's daughter, Jamie Lee Arrow had been at the apartment hours earlier but thankfully, was picked up by her mother before the gruesome murder. Isakin has struggled with mental illness for most of his life and he even met Helle Christensen in a mental hospital. He didn't deny wha...
Apr 06, 2026•29 min
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Apr 01, 2026•2 min
Linda Brown was a beautiful young mother married to David A. Brown. They had a newborn baby and living with them was Cinnamon Brown, David's teenaged daughter from a previous relationship. One morning the police were called to the Brown home. Linda Brown lay dead in her bed, murdered by a gunshot. Cinnamon Brown was lying unconscious in the doghouse located in the back yard. She was holding a note in her hand; a confession. She was the shooter. But there was a problem with this scene. It was not...
Mar 30, 2026•28 min
Roberto V. Arguelles is not a household name yet he has committed horrific murders and other crimes similar to much more well known serial killers. He stalked Salt Lake City during the early and mid 1990s. He had a long criminal history of abusing children and he was sent to prison for those crimes but unbelievably, he was paroled. Just months after he was released from prison, girls and women began disappearing at the hands of the Salt Lake City Strangler ️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ch...
Mar 25, 2026•31 min
Robin Gecht is a name you probably haven't heard but he is one of the most sadistic, psychopathic and evil killers ever uncovered. He also has an eerie tie to John Wayne Gacy. Together with his crew, Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, they captured, mutilated and killed over a dozen women in Chicago. Some say the number is much higher. The things these four monsters did to their victims? Unspeakable, horrific and grotesque. The killings went on for over a year and the Ch...
Mar 23, 2026•32 min
Isabel Eriksson answered a call and accepted a paid escort date with Dr. Martin Trenneborg in Sweden. He offered her strawberries. She ate them and then she felt strange. Her vision blurred and her body felt heavy and then she lost consciousness. When Isabel woke up, she was locked in a sound proof room, strapped to a bed and being watched by a camera. It was a real life scene from a horror film. But it's what Isabel did next that turned this from another tragic true crime story to a story of st...
Mar 18, 2026•32 min
Just when I think I have covered the most ridiculous stories about the dumbest criminals on earth, along come people like Gavin Weisenburg and Tanner Thomas. These two members of the brain trust decided they were going to sail to the Haitian island of Gonâve, kill all 50,000 adult men, and then enslave the women and children for their own desires. The DOJ was made aware of their plans because they posted them publicly on message boards. So the FBI got involved and what they discovered just might...
Mar 16, 2026•25 min
The Raincoat Killer, Yoo Young-chul is a South Korean psychopath. He grew up in poverty and became filled with rage towards the wealthy. He began killing elderly and wealthy couples. Then he moved to sex workers, later telling police that he hated women more than the wealthy. When he was caught, his remorseless words and cold demeanor shocked the country. Abby Choi was a beautiful young wife and mother. She worked very hard to become an influencer. Her parents were wealthy and she had a beautifu...
Mar 11, 2026•27 min
Carl Drew and Robin Murphy ran a violent prostitution ring in Fall River, Massachusetts. Carl claimed he was a disciple of Satan and he began holding rituals in the Freetown Forest. The girls and women under his control were terrified of Carl and soon, they were also terrified of Robin Murphy. Then women began to disappear. First, Doreen Levesque was murdered. Then Barbara Raposa disappeared and her body was later found decapitated. Then Karen Marsden vanished and she too was found dead. Rumors ...
Mar 09, 2026•28 min
Blaine Norris and Brian Trimble were coworkers. Both of the men were in unhappy marriages and looking for something else in life. Blaine Norris decided to make a horror film he intended to call Through Hike. The problem was, Blaine had no money, no skill and no talent. He forged ahead anyway. Brian Trimble's wife, Randi Trimble didn't want her husband involved in this amateur film production and she wouldn't allow Brian to act as cameraman. Randi Trimble was standing in their way and so Blaine N...
Mar 04, 2026•34 min
The episode of Wife Swap that caught national attention is called Stockdale/Tonkovich and features two families with very different lifestyles. The Stockdale family is religious, to the extreme and the Tonkovich family is atheist and lives a very laid back lifestyle. Some people found the extreme nature of the Stockdale lifestyle disturbing but no one could predict what would happen years later when Jacob Stockdale, then 25 years old, took a gun and murdered his family members ️ Subscribe: https...
Mar 02, 2026•25 min
Arthur Duperrault had been saving for years to take his family on a dream sailing vacation. He hired captain Julian Harvey to assist the family on their trip to the Bahamas aboard the Bluebelle, a large rented sailboat. The vacation started off like a dream but it ended in a nightmare. Julian Harvey was found floating on the ship's dingy and with him was the dead body of the Duperrault's youngest child, Renee. Julian was lauded as a hero but as the Duperrault family was grieved, everything chang...
Feb 25, 2026•29 min
I have two breaking crime stories for you today. In the first, Candace Joseph and Angyl, two women who met online had fallen in love and Candace was preparing to leave her husband Jason Holton. Jason posted online about the tension and about his anger. Angyl got on a plane to go and pick Candace up to start their new life together and then Candace, Angyl and Jason all ended up dead. In our second story, Caleb Flynn, who was once a contestant on American Idol, is accused of murdering his wife Ash...
Feb 23, 2026•31 min
