Step into the extraordinary true survival tale of Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman who defied the odds in the harsh Arctic wilderness. Alone on Wrangel Island, she battled the elements, starvation, and isolation, emerging as the sole survivor of a perilous expedition.(well almost a sole survivor, she her cat Vic survived too!) DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/twistedtravelandTC Monthly: Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=4204...
Dec 20, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 113
A phone call triggered by a missing employee led to the gruesome discovery of sheep shearer Mick Lewis and his wife Sue. They had been shot dead in their remote homestead. Their four-year-old daughter was left fending for herself as well as caring for her three-year-old brother and their puppy while her parents' bodies decomposed nearby.
Nov 23, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 112
They fell through the sky holding hands, laughing and smiling. They let go of each other, preparing to open their parachutes. The fleeting feeling of happy exhilaration was followed by fear and dread as Els Van Doren discovered that hers wouldn’t open properly. From the sky, her teammates watched as she plunged to the ground screaming. As the investigation unraveled, like the strings of her parachute, it was discovered that the cords had been cut. She had been murdered. DONATE: One time: Venmo: ...
Nov 08, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 111
On Halloween we are accustomed to the festivities that come with the Holiday. Costumes, candy, and playful pranks are part of many communities who embrace the spirit of fun and revelry. But in 2012, in Mount Pleasant Michigan, one man let the evil lurking within him take control. Instead of celebrating the holiday, he unleashed a darkness that would send shockwaves through his community....
Oct 12, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 110
A short refreshing dip in the ocean, turns into a nightmare as a father and son are swept out to sea. As night falls with no hope of a quick rescue, a father realizes that if he and his son remain together, they will both drown. He makes a heart wrenching decision that will change his life forever. DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/twistedtravelandTC Monthly: Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=42048051&utm_medium=clipbo...
Sep 25, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Two young girls go missing from the Oklahoma State Fair. They were lured away with the promise of a job and are never seen again. Years later, two more girls go missing but one escapes to tell a terrible tale. Her kidnapper Royal Russel Long will go to jail for kidnapping charges but is linked back to the first pair of missing girls. Royal, a long haul trucker and part time "carnie" is suspected of having been operating as a kidnapper, rapist and murderer of many women all over the US, in the 70...
Sep 04, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Imagine you and your best friend sailing to a deserted island and trying to live there, relying only on yourselves for a year. What would you be most concerned about? In 1974, two couples had the same idea, to enjoy themselves on an island of their very own. The first couple, the Grahams were married and experienced sailors. The second couple, an ex-con named Buck Walker and his hippie girlfriend Stephanie Stearns, wanted to create their own garden of Eden. One with out authority and rules. Afte...
Aug 09, 2023•55 min
In 1981, a 10 year old girl was biking come from her aunts house. It had been a fun filled and busy day. She had just started secondary school and her parents let her bike home alone through a two mile stretch of woods between her aunts house and her own. It wasn't the first time she'd taken this route but it was her last. She disappeared. It was 16 days before she was found dead, buried in a box that looked like it had been designed to sustain her. A man named Werner Mazurek would become the pr...
Jul 22, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 106
After a series of murders spark terror and intrigue in Madrid authorities search for a suspect. A deck of playing cards are the center of his gloating. He left one at three different crime scenes. The killer brutally murdered his victims, shooting them from point blank range. As month went by, the police struggled to find a suspect that fit the crimes. The citizens of Spain were angry. Four months after the last murder a drunk man would confess to the crimes. The next morning, he soberly denied ...
Jul 08, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In 2007, the city of Kurim in the Czech Republic was left shaken by a monstrous case of child abuse, one that involved cannibalism and cults. A new father broke the case when his baby monitor picked up a video feed showing a little boy being held captive in the house next door. When one of the children rescued from the home, later went missing, the authorities went on a wide spread manhunt for members of secretive organization and a 13 year old girl who had more surprises up her sleeve than Houd...
Jun 25, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Natalia Grace Barnett has been called many things, a loving child, an adult sociopath masquerading as a child, an Ukrainian orphan brought to the States, a knife wielding maniac, a dwarf, a con artist and a beloved unofficially adopted daughter. Only some of them are true. The trouble is figuring out which ones.In a recent saga that captivated public interest, Natalia Grace Barnett's story is perplexing . Adopted from Ukraine and brought to Indiana, Natalia found herself at the center of a legal...
Jun 10, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 103
In the aftermath of what appeared to be a tragedy at sea, a mystery would grow. One that over 20 years later still puzzles investigators and most of France. Dr. Yve Godard, a man of intellect and charm, was once revered, but now his name is tarnished. A storm of suspicion swirls, suggesting that Dr. Godard, orchestrated a sinister plot, or someone else wanted him and his family dead. DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/twisted...
May 24, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 102
We’ve all heard the phrase love is blind. We put on rose-colored glasses and think we have found the perfect person. Sometimes it takes a broken heart before we can see what was in front of us all the time. In this case, it took a slew of Texas Rednecks, a man so crooked you couldn’t tell if he was coming on going, the loss of an eye, and the near loss of a life before things became crystal clear for Nancy Howard. DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal...
May 15, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 101
She fought her executioner, bloodying his face before running for the nearest treeline, but she wasn't faster than his bullets. Bobby Jo Oberholtzer's body would be found on a snowbank the following day, 10 miles from Breckenridge, Colorado. Six months later the body of Annette Schnee was found just 10 miles south of Bobby Jo's. She was laying in a desolate area, face down in a stream. She too had been shot as she ran. The mysterious circumstances that bound these two women together would haunt ...
May 05, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 100
When 11 year old Tere Jo Duperrault was found after nearly four days of being stranded at sea on a tiny cork raft, her rescuers couldn't believe their eyes. She and her family had been on what was supposed to be the beginning of a year long adventure at sea but what she told them next, was even more unbelievable. What was at first presented as a terrible accidental sinking at sea, was much, much worse. DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal: https://ww...
Apr 28, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 100
The girl raised herself from the mud. She was in pain having been beaten and bloodied. She staggered out from underneath the dark and dirty bridge. Her only desire was to get to her parents. She never made it home that night. 14-year-old Reena Virk, a shy and introverted girl of Indian descent, was mercilessly beaten and then drowned by a group of her own peers, most of whom were girls. The case made headlines not only for the gruesome nature of the crime, but also for the disturbing issues it b...
Apr 21, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 99
When three officers entered Chris Colemans home after a stressful call from Chris, they were appalled find Chris's wife Sheri Coleman, and their two sons in bed. They weren't sleeping. They weren't alive. Their bodies were stiff and cold. It seemed as though the threatening letters and emails the family had been receiving for months had been acted on. When Chris heard the news, he fell to the ground sobbing. Cyberstalking, televangelism and a bodyguard gone bad take the stage in this episode. DO...
Apr 16, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 98
The couple woke up with a hangover after a long night of partying and an argument but that didn't stop them from taking a kayak trip they had been looking forward to on an early spring day in New York. Angelika Graswald and Vincent Viafore would enter the water together that afternoon but only one would return. Angelika would later make a chilling confession. She let him drown and was soon dubbed the Kayak Killer. Her case left many wondering if she was a cold hearted killer or a victim of socie...
Apr 06, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Marcus Schrenker, a financial adviser from Indiana, had it all. He enjoyed a high roller, work hard/play hard lifestyle, a beautiful wife and family and expensive toys galore. He even had his own plane, one that crashes suspiciously, with no body to be found. This is followed by a man hunt and then a media storm reporting on his victims who lost millions. Marcus would be described as a pathological liar, thief and one of the worlds most quickly caught fugitives. DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://...
Mar 26, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Tammy Grogan's 2006 dream cruise turned into a nightmare when the single mother never returned. She was given an all inclusive cruise along with her mother, aunt and son. The gift was from a man whom Tammy felt had an inappropriate relationship with her son. She'd even spoken with police about the relationship months earlier. Regardless, she took the cruise and once aboard, they unexpectedly ran into the sister of the man who gave her the free cruise. The group spent a couple days in paradise, l...
Mar 23, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 95
In 1974, Michelle Wallace lost her life in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The first predator, the human that took her life, was bad enough but there were many more that would follow, picking at her carcass and scattering her remains throughout the wilderness. Twenty years later, before her body returned to dust, a young, smart and tenacious investigator and members of a team called Necrosearch worked together to find her. With a lot of skill and some good luck, they found her skull. Roy Melans...
Mar 11, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 94
The hikers clutched their throats, tore off their clothes, some began bleeding from their eyes, ears, noses and mouths. Their deaths were quick and mysterious. Even with one miraculous survivor and witness, their deaths can’t be explained in a way that satisfies. How could six young, strong, healthy people die in the middle of the summer on mountain at a relatively low elevation and were their deaths simply an accident or something much worse? DONATE: One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user...
Mar 03, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 93
The murder of British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand in 2018 was so heartless that her death would cause an outpouring of sympathy on 2 sides of the world. She swiped right on a man who killed her on their first date. She hadn't known that 8 month earlier, her date, Jesse Kempson raped another backpacker and had a history of violence. The world would watch on as police pieced together her last moments and caught her killer who would later use what was termed the "50 Shades of Gray Defen...
Feb 26, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 92
A man, named Arthur Knight walked into a Scottish hospital. he was sick, Really sick, with Covid. He fell into a coma and when he woke the police were there ready to arrest him. They said he was a fugitive named Nicholas Rossi Alaverdian from the United States. One that was wanted for fraud and sexual abuse. He'd been identified by his tattoos. "This isn't right", he wheezed through his oxygen mask, "My wife will tell you. I’m Irish, not American. There must be some mistake. Someone must have ta...
Feb 20, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 91
A romantic gesture, a scenic early morning boat ride, turned deadly when Larry Isenberg fell overboard bringing an end to his early retirement. He and Lori, his wife of 17 years, shared a love that others aspired to and were leaders in their community. So, it was shocking when allegations of embezzlement would cut her grieving short. Within days, people would wonder if Larry was in on the fraud and later, they wondered whether Lori had been grieving at all. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/co...
Feb 10, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 90
The desert can be a brutal tormentor especially for people who aren't prepared. The hot sun licking at exposed skin, the dry air sucking its victims dry. Park rangers find dehydrated hikers rambling around, incoherent, some barely able to stand. But on August 4th 1999, just a Stones throw from a trail head, Park rangers would come upon something they never could have anticipated….. the body of a man covered in stones and his apparent killer resting in a tent nearby. The death would be blamed on ...
Feb 06, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 89
A dedicated brother wanted to fulfill his brothers dying wish which was to be buried. The problem was that in China, especially in densely populated areas, burials have been forbidden. Cremation is encouraged instead. In some instances, a dead persons will is not allowed to be executed without proof of cremation. In an attempt to get around the "no burial law" the Huang family had no idea that their actions, would lead to the death of another person and that another family would mourn the loss o...
Jan 27, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 88
A once happy mail order bride, Michelle Rivera Nyce’s life would end, murdered and surrounded by drama; including her millionaire husband Jonathan, a lustful gardening lover, an international romance and extortion. Sponsor Links: https://magicmind.co/twistedtravel Discount Code: twistedtravel DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=42048051&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare...
Jan 23, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Farah Fratta was just 33 years old when she was a shot twice in the head at close range in her own garage. Her husband, Robert Fratta, a police officer and their three children were attending a church service at the time of the attack. When the investigators found out the couple were in the midst of an ugly divorce concerning Robert's strange sexual proclivities attention turned toward him. Was he guilty of murder for hire? Sponsor Links: https://magicmind.co/twistedtravel Discount Code: twisted...
Jan 13, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 86
A young professional cyclist named Moriah "Mo" Wilson is found dead after returning from a night out in Austin, TX. She was staying there with a friend in order to compete in an upcoming event. Initially police turned to fellow professional cyclist Colin Strickland who Mo had gone out with earlier that night. Police were able to eliminate him using cameras in the neighborhood and throughout town but that same video footage gave police a big clue. One that led to Kaitlin Armstrong, Colin’s girlfr...
Jan 09, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 85
