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...
Apr 09, 2025•33 min
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...
Apr 07, 2025•30 min
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 ...
Apr 02, 2025•30 min
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...
Mar 31, 2025•26 min
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 b...
Mar 26, 2025•31 min
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...
Mar 24, 2025•31 min
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 wh...
Mar 19, 2025•28 min
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 F...
Mar 17, 2025•28 min
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 n...
Mar 12, 2025•34 min
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 ...
Mar 10, 2025•33 min
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 a...
Mar 05, 2025•31 min
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...
Mar 03, 2025•30 min
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. Wit...
Feb 26, 2025•27 min
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 ow...
Feb 24, 2025•21 min
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 ...
Feb 19, 2025•30 min
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...
Feb 17, 2025•26 min
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. W...
Feb 12, 2025•32 min
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 ...
Feb 10, 2025•27 min
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 quickl...
Feb 05, 2025•36 min
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 ❤️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/cha...
Feb 03, 2025•27 min
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...
Jan 29, 2025•31 min
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 awa...
Jan 27, 2025•27 min
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 d...
Jan 20, 2025•26 min
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 i...
Jan 15, 2025•36 min
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, ...
Jan 13, 2025•29 min
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...
Jan 08, 2025•34 min
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 can...
Jan 06, 2025•34 min
Tyrone Hassel III was a great guy. He was a Sergeant in the military, he had a new son and his wife, Kemia seemed to love him. But Tyrone did not know that another solider, Jeremy Cuellar, was infatuated with his wife and Kemia and Jeremy had come up with a terrible and devious plan to kill Tyrone and take his $400,000 life insurance policy. Kemia is brought in for an interview. Sadly, the audio is terrible so I don't share much of it with you, but she soon cracks and admits to the plot. Tyrone'...
Jan 01, 2025•23 min
Today we are discussing the murder of Johnny Altinger and the attack of Gilles Tetreault who were both lured by Mark Twitchell posing as a woman on dating apps. The men thought they were going to meet a woman for the first time. Instead, they were attacked upon entering Mark's rented garage where he used a stun baton and a plastic gun on them. One man was lucky enough to get away. The other was not. Mark was a huge Star Wars fan and professional film maker who also loved the TV show Dexter. When...
Dec 30, 2024•31 min
We discuss the killing spree that occurred over Christmas in 1992. Six murders were committed by a group of teenagers who were bored. They shot people randomly on the streets and stole their sneakers. They robbed a neighborhood grocery store, murdered the clerk and wounded a customer. They got only forty four dollars for her life. They shot and killed one of the gang member's ex boyfriends and then went back and murdered two of his friends, dumping their bodies in a gravel pit. The police were o...
Dec 25, 2024•23 min