Nikki Kuhnhausen was born “Nicholas.” From a very young age her mother Lisa knew her son wasn’t like the other boys at school. In 6th grade Nikki had the courage to come out, identifying as female. She embraced the person she truly felt she was, unapologetically. But when Nikki suddenly went missing from the Vancouver, WA area one day…it would be some time before anyone learned what had actually happened to the at-risk 17 year old… Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Oji...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 78
Most of us are at least peripherally familiar with the story of John Meehan, a.k.a the infamous “ Dirty John,” the con-artist who terrorized women across the United States. But when the news broke of what happened to John during his final moments, the infamy surrounding his abusive escapades strangely led to several international TV deals, docuseries, and was even the basis for some of the most successful investigative true-crime podcasts ever created. Fortunes were made as a result of his long ...
Sep 18, 2022•58 min•Ep. 77
“Respect your elders.” It’s something we’ve all heard since we were young. Albert Flick, a 76-year-old US Army veteran from Westbrook, Maine fit the precise mold of the type of individual we’re expected to revere. You’d never know based on appearance alone that this man had an extremely dark & violent past. When a judge gave Mr. Flick another chance at life after years in and out of prison for violent crimes, he started over in a new town where no one knew of his past…but allowing this elder...
Sep 04, 2022•53 min
“Why didn’t she just leave?” This is a question usually proposed by the uninformed. Individuals unaware of just how difficult and dangerous it is for victims of domestic violence to get out of their toxic relationship. It’s never that simple and everyone’s situation is different. A young school teacher by the name of Amber Guichelaar was one of these women. She wanted to get out and almost did. A tragedy that was first reported as an accident, would turn out to be much more than that. When detec...
Aug 21, 2022•52 min•Ep. 75
In 2017, just days after Thanksgiving, a 25-year-old woman from Keystone Heights, FL mysteriously disappeared. Authorities wasted no time in launching their search efforts, as this wasn’t the average missing person case. Jordan Cooper was severely intellectually challenged and had never been left alone for more than a few hours. She was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt at her house on Payne Road. As law enforcement questioned her family with a suspiciously checkered past, they failed t...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 74
63-year-old Chef Daniel Brophy was the Oregon Culinary Institute's most eccentric instructor for many years. His hands-on method of foraging wild herbs & incorporating them in his dishes was only one example of what made him so special, in and out of the kitchen. All seemed well in Daniel’s personal life as well, having been married to his wife Nancy for over 20 years. In 2018, Daniel left his home early in the morning to teach his normal Saturday course. Little did he know, heading into wor...
Jul 24, 2022•58 min•Ep. 73
On the afternoon of April 27th, 2016, 33-year-old Tricia Todd of Hobe Sound, FL never arrived to pick her young daughter up from her babysitter. Family was notified, who subsequently went to pick up the child. Tricia’s family believed she may have been held up at work or possibly forgotten, but hours continued passing by with no word. The following day, during a visit to Tricia’s home, her family found her car parked across the street in a neighbor’s driveway and inside of her home sat full bags...
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 72
On October 17, 2015, 27-year-old Sasha Samsudean went missing after coming home late from a night out at the bars in Orlando, FL. She was last seen stumbling through her apartment building’s hallway just after 2 A.M…and one of the last people seen helping her on surveillance camera just so happened to be the helpful security guard… Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway. Visit Invisible Choir on the web: Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium: https://www.patreon.com/Inv...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 71
Clemmons, N.C. is a hardworking, blue collar village that rests in the heart of the bible belt. Religion is very much embedded and weaved throughout the fabric of this community. And when a young man named John Alexander Lawson moved to town with his mother Cynthia, no one thought much of it… until he grew up. In this episode, we explore the home of a self-proclaimed devil that moved next door & walk you through the hellhole that was 2749 Knob Hill Drive…but it wasn’t until little Johnny cha...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 70
Valentine’s Day is the one time of the year when love is supposed to be in the air. But on February 14, 2020 - the holiday for lovers represented quite the opposite for one estranged Georgia couple after 23-year-old Fort Valley State University student Antria Gunn turned up missing after a college party. Police were quick to pin the blame on her ex boyfriend, a known abusive manipulator, as their main suspect - only there was one problem. They didn’t yet have enough evidence to arrest Gunn’s sup...
May 29, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 69
In 2018 a new Waffle House location had just opened up in Antioch- a neighborhood in Nashville. On April 22nd of that year, groups of young adults started to flow into the restaurant as another wave of late night crowds rushed in after last call at the bar. Most were just looking for a bite to eat after a night out…but what started as a fun evening, ultimately ended as one of the most horrific tragedies this city has ever seen. Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 68
On the afternoon of October 24th, 2015, 32-year-old Nick Clavier was driving down Hull Road in Chesterfield, Virginia with his four children. They had planned to go fishing at a nearby pond, before returning home for a family movie night while his wife Melody was out of town. But on the drive, something happened leading Nick’s vehicle to go over an embankment where it eventually crashed into a tree. Though the children were not harmed in the accident, Nick suffered a considerable amount of head ...
May 01, 2022•57 min•Ep. 67
Liberty University lacrosse player Chad Gurney seemingly had it all: good looks, popularity, and an active love life. But a freak auto accident in 2005 left him with permanent physical and psychological impairments. After moving back to his hometown near Portland, ME - friends recalled something seeming off about Chad, claiming that he was, “never quite the same since the accident.” In May of 2009, the now tattooed man everyone seemed to be warning young girls about finally snapped, committing o...
Apr 17, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 66
In 2014, the death of a 36 year-old Christina Thompson Harris was suspicious for more than a few reasons. However, law enforcement in the small city of Davison, MI didn’t see it that way, and the case was pushed to the wayside for years. As Christina’s family slowly learned more details surrounding their loved one’s death, the more her sisters were compelled to uncover the truth. Like the old saying goes, If you want something done right you’ve got to do it yourself…even if that means independen...
Apr 03, 2022•57 min•Ep. 65
In March of 2020, concerned friends and relatives began receiving strange texts from 51-year-old Gretchen Anthony after several days of no contact. She eventually assured her loved ones via text that she was alive, but that she had come down with an acute case of Covid-19. A global pandemic was rapidly ensuing, and Jupiter, FL was next to be locked down…but the fear that was quickly consuming an entire nation, would ultimately become one man’s way of covering up his gruesome & deplorable cri...
Mar 20, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 64
In August of 2015, 40-year-old Vermont mother Jody Herring lost custody of her three children after a tumultuous battle with substance abuse. Born into a horrific family history of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, Herring’s mental health began to show clear signs of deterioration as she promised that an “Armageddon” was nearing. On the morning of August 7th, she did the unthinkable. Herring took a .270 hunting rifle from a former lover and set out with a hit list, which included people she...
Mar 06, 2022•58 min•Ep. 63
19 year-old Justin Back had everything going for him - he was fresh out of high school, just completed a Fire Science program, and was set to ship off to Navy basic training in only 10 days. Justin was friendly with everyone…but did your folks ever tell you to be careful of who you were hanging out with when you were young? Sandy Cates, Justin’s mom, was certainly one of those parents…and for good reason. A mother’s intuition is often right…but a strange feeling she had would turn into desperate...
Feb 20, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 62
Professional skateboarding has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, but the best skaters weren’t always seen as the celebrities they are today. During the 1980’s, some of the 1st “skate stars” were born with the help of VHS skate videos, thrusting some of the most talented unknowns into a life of super stardom, fame, and riches. On this week's episode, we examine Mark “Gator” Rogowski, a pro athlete who was once as popular as famed skateboarder Tony Hawk. But when Mark Rogowski’s ra...
Feb 06, 2022•59 min•Ep. 61
Boston, MA has become known as “Title Town” from the city’s extraordinary reign of championship wins by some of New England’s best professional sports teams. What’s rarely seen, however, are the struggles, trials, & tribulations some of our favorite sports personalities may be dealing with behind closed doors. This story is not so much about famous broadcaster and ex- Boston Red Sox second baseman Jerry Remy - as it is his son, Jared. When a local legend just so happens to be your father, yo...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 60
Chicago is the 3rd most populated city in the United States. It’s an easy place to get lost...or hide, if you’re a criminal. In 2017, Northwestern Professor & microbiologist Wyndham Lathem was secretly planning a crime from behind his computer keyboard. Dr. Lathem was the last person anyone would have ever suspected of committing murder...until an anonymous phone call was made to the front desk of his luxury apartment building. The mysterious voice on the other end told the receptionist, “Th...
Jan 09, 2022•58 min•Ep. 59
During the early morning hours on March 29th, 2019, 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, a student at the University of South Carolina, was out with friends in the Five Points district of Columbia. Although her friends were looking to spend a night out on the town, Samantha wanted to call it a night early and ordered an Uber home shortly after 2 a.m. When the car arrived, she notified her boyfriend Greg that she was heading home. She then got into a black Chevy Impala and departed from Five Points di...
Dec 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 58
Ronald Lee Haskell, a 34-year-old man raised in a devout Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints family, was conditioned and committed to follow his predestined role as “man of the house” upon his eventual marriage. When he took sentiments of the Mormon Church’s ideology too far however, things quickly turned violent. Melannie Kaye Lyon, Ron’s wife - knew she had to get out - yet found herself stuck between the familial roles established by the church and the destructive clutches of her abus...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 57
In 2011 the Capital Gazette daily newspaper out of Annapolis, Maryland published a revealing exposé on the dangers of social media entitled, “ Jarrod Wants to Be Your Friend .” The piece recounted one man’s relentless cyber harassment of a former high school acquaintance through Facebook. Though the article was originally intended to warn readers of the false sense of intimacy social media provides people we may not actually know - it quickly snowballed into something much worse. After 7 years o...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 56
We rarely see the critical warning signs of someone suffering from a debilitating mental illness until the symptoms have entirely consumed the individual to the point of noticeable change or decline. 26 year-old Buckey Wolfe of Seattle, WA was one of these people. His escalating reclusion & his growing obsession with the dark corners of the internet compounded his sickness. There were surely warning signs that Buckey Wolfe was becoming unhinged, but when he began falling down the endless rab...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 55
The school bus is usually a mode of transportation we associate with the word “safe.” Most of our memories riding the school bus as youth are attributed to laughs, field-trips, & fun- but for some kids, the school bus doesn’t represent any of those things. For a select unlucky few, the school bus represents something much worse. A darkness that most of us will never be able to fully comprehend. Yet, the children aboard school bus 0-42 in Midland City, AL back in 2013 are among those who cert...
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 54
On November 18th, 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine traveled to Durango, Colorado for a court ordered visit with his father. After getting off of the plane, Dylan’s father Mark told the young teenager he had to run errands early the next morning. This prompted Dylan to make plans to meet with a friend early in the morning before his dad left the house. When Mark awoke the next morning, Dylan was still asleep on the couch, but when he returned home, his son was nowhere to be found. All calls and te...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 53
On Christmas Eve of 2013, Patricia Burns of Lake Luzerne, NY would face the wrath of her crazed ex-husband - a violent offender she had been trying to evade for years. When Clifford Burns, a man with failed aspirations of once becoming a U.S. Marine, decided to go hunting dressed in full camouflage, his targets would not be sitting ducks or deer in the Adirondack Mountains. Instead, his prey would be his own daughters & estranged wife when he came barging through their front door armed with ...
Aug 22, 2021•59 min•Ep. 52
(Part 2/2) No one lives forever. We’re all familiar with the cliché, “life is short.” But have you ever wondered just exactly how short? Have you ever considered the manner in which you might leave this earth when it’s your time to go? Death by fire, drowning, or being shot & killed are only some of the greatest fears held by many that have contemplated their own mortality. It’s very rare that these worst case scenarios will ever play out in real life...but the frightening truth is, that the...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 51
No one lives forever. We’re all familiar with the cliché, “life is short.” But have you ever wondered just exactly how short? Have you ever considered the manner in which you might leave this earth when it’s your time to go? Death by fire, drowning, or being shot & killed are only some of the greatest fears held by many that have contemplated their own mortality. It’s very rare that these worst case scenarios will ever play out in real life...but the frightening truth is, that they sometimes...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 50
In July of 2013, 59 year-old Charles Parker and his wife, 51 year-old Gretchen Parker, were found brutally murdered inside their Jonesville, South Carolina home. Police couldn’t seem to make sense of who might want the couple dead... until researching their backgrounds. A lot of us have skeletons in our closets- some darker than others- but the secrets Charles Parker was hiding were beyond anyone’s comprehension. They say the past will always come back to haunt you...but it’s the person, or “ pe...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 49
