In 1928, nine year old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the movies in Los Angeles, setting off a desperate search that would grip the nation. As police scrambled to close the case and protect their reputation, they forced a false reunion and pressured his grieving mother to accept a child who was not hers. When she refused, she was silenced, institutionalized, and left to fight the system alone. Meanwhile, hidden on a remote chicken ranch, a serial killer was abducting and murdering boys, w...
Jan 27, 2026•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 360
In April 2010, twenty five year old Erinn Orcutt was abducted at gunpoint from the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in California as she left her waitressing job. For seventy two minutes, she was held captive inside her own SUV, beaten, sexually assaulted, photographed, and threatened with death. She escaped only after noticing her attacker’s gun had fallen to the floor and sprinting to a nearby liquor store for help. Within hours, investigators would uncover a chilling truth, that the man respons...
Jan 23, 2026•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 359
In October 1994, a young mother in Union, South Carolina, told police that a stranger had carjacked her vehicle and driven away with her two small children still strapped in their car seats. For nine days, the case dominated national news as law enforcement searched roads, lakes, and backcountry while the public watched her tearful pleas for the boys’ return. As the investigation unfolded, however, detectives began to find that the story at the center of the search did not align with the evidenc...
Jan 20, 2026•1 hr•Ep. 358
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall was not her real name, and that the man claiming to be her husband ...
Jan 16, 2026•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 357
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall was not her real name, and that the man claiming to be her husband ...
Jan 13, 2026•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 356
In October 1994, a woman named Emelita Reeves disappeared from her home in Arlington, Texas, leaving behind her young son and a husband who said she had simply walked away. At first, there was no sign of a crime, just a familiar explanation, delivered calmly, by a retired Army master sergeant. But as detectives began to trace Jack Reeves’ past, they realized Emelita was not the first woman in his life to vanish under strange circumstances, and her disappearance would finally force the past back ...
Jan 09, 2026•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 355
On June 13, 2016, Aaron Lee Pajich-Sweetman, an 18 year old with autism, vanished after meeting two women he trusted at a shopping centre south of Perth. Within days, police would trace his final movements through phone records and CCTV footage to a house in Orelia, where evidence of careful planning, digital communication, and amateur concealment began to surface. What followed was the unraveling of a calculated murder carried out by Jemma Victoria Lilley and Trudi Clare Lenon, driven not by ra...
Jan 06, 2026•59 min•Ep. 354
In the spring of 2019, Kelly Jean Warner quietly disappeared from contact, a pattern that didn’t immediately raise concern because of her transient life and history of instability. For weeks, her absence went largely unnoticed, even as she lay dead inside a modest apartment in Sturgis, Michigan, her body deliberately hidden and her death unreported. It would take a single phone call on May 22, 2019, to trigger an investigation that exposed not only a concealed homicide, but a prolonged pattern o...
Jan 02, 2026•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 353
On May 10, 1973, a masked man entered a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in Kenora, Ontario, armed with firearms and a homemade bomb strapped to his body. What began as a bank robbery quickly turned into a public spectacle, broadcast live on radio as police, civilians, and hundreds of onlookers watched the standoff unfold on Main Street. When a single gunshot triggered a massive explosion, the robber was killed instantly leaving behind a scene of destruction, unanswered questions, and a...
Dec 30, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 352
On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homicide, defined by a narrow twelve minute window, unanswered questions, and a truth that has never been ...
Dec 23, 2025•56 min•Ep. 348
In March 2021, a man was found executed on a wooded trail inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park, shot once in the back of the head with no weapon left behind. As investigators reconstructed his final days, they uncovered a deliberate, cross-state plan driven not by chance, but by revenge rooted in a past allegation that had never resulted in charges. This is the true story of how unresolved trauma, perceived injustice, and calculated retaliation collided with consequences that would ultimately cl...
Dec 19, 2025•50 min•Ep. 350
In April 1998, hikers in Northern California’s Trinity Alps discovered a partially burned, shallowly buried body at an abandoned campsite, triggering a homicide investigation in Shasta County. The victim was twenty year old Lora Sinner, who had recently moved to California after her mother’s death and was last seen alive with a small group of friends on a camping trip. As investigators reconstructed her final days, they uncovered a case involving prolonged violence, coercion, and a coordinated a...
Dec 16, 2025•56 min•Ep. 348
On April 26, 2013, 25 year old Jessica Heeringa vanished from her late night shift at a Norton Shores, Michigan gas station, leaving behind her car, purse, cash, and a small trail of blood, while cameras nearby caught a silver minivan fleeing the area. A massive investigation stalled for three years, that is until a terrified teenager escaped an attempted abduction in 2016 and pointed police toward a man named Jeffrey Thomas Willis. What followed exposed a calculated predator tied to Jessica’s d...
Dec 12, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 347
Nobody in Cincinnati imagined a serial killer was moving quietly through its neighbourhoods, especially not a polite young German immigrant mother who cared for lonely, elderly men. But behind Anna Marie Hahn’s warm smile was a trail of sudden illnesses, forged wills, missing valuables, and quiet funerals that never raised suspicion. It wasn’t until one victim collapsed hundreds of miles from home that investigators finally uncovered the poisoner hiding in plain sight. Our other podcast: "FEARFU...
Dec 09, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 346
She left home on a quiet Saturday, promising to be back in a couple of hours. When her truck was found abandoned near the river, with her keys and water bottle on the ground, it was clear something was terribly wrong. What followed was a 28 year nightmare with a cold case buried in silence, until a strand of hair and a sister’s relentless pursuit cracked it wide open. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSyw MERCH:https://www.r...
Dec 05, 2025•54 min•Ep. 345
He confessed years before he was caught, telling his mother he had killed a woman, yet no one believed him until even after the bodies began to surface. This was Frank Gust, the so called Rhine-Ruhr Ripper, a necrophilic predator whose violence escalated from torturing animals to murdering women and posing their remains. Even after receiving a life sentence, Frank remains eligible for release in 2026, raising the unnerving question of whether a self-proclaimed killer can ever be allowed to walk ...
Dec 02, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 344
With 93 confessed murders across 19 states, Samuel Little holds the grim title of America’s most prolific serial killer ever, a distinction confirmed by the FBI in 2019. For more than four decades, he strangled vulnerable women, many of them never to be identified, leaving behind a coast to coast trail of bodies and cold cases. His killing spree, which spanned from 1970 to 2005, went undetected for years, until a DNA hit and a series of chilling confessions exposed the staggering scope of his cr...
Nov 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 343
On a chilly October night in 1995, two teenage girls, Misty Cockerill and Tanya Smith, were walking through a quiet Abbotsford neighbourhood on their way to a party when they were suddenly abducted and brutally attacked. One of them would survive against all odds, but the other would be found murdered, her body discarded near a remote canal. What began as a horrifying assault quickly escalated into a chilling investigation that would consume a city, as police found themselves taunted by a remors...
Nov 25, 2025•58 min•Ep. 342
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who was nothing like the person she pretended to be. Listen to our ot...
Nov 18, 2025•54 min•Ep. 342
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who was nothing like the person she pretended to be. Listen to our ot...
Nov 14, 2025•49 min•Ep. 341
He was the smiling contestant who once made America laugh on Family Feud, joking that the biggest mistake he’d ever made at his wedding was saying “I do.” But just a few years later, Timothy Bliefnick would make headlines for something far darker, accused of gunning down his estranged wife, Rebecca “Becky” Bliefnick, in her Quincy, Illinois home. The shocking fall of the so called “Family Feud Killer” turned a lighthearted game show moment into a haunting symbol of a marriage that had been unrav...
Nov 11, 2025•59 min•Ep. 340
For more than six years, Ireland believed Tina Satchwell had walked away from her life, maybe to England, maybe for “space,” maybe by choice. Her husband repeated that story in every interview, every appeal, every tearful broadcast. But the truth of where she really went was buried less than ten feet from where he sat, sealed under concrete in the home they shared. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM3...
Nov 07, 2025•37 min•Ep. 339
Before she was old enough to ride a bike alone, Shasta Groene had already watched her family die, been kidnapped by a serial predator, and survived seven weeks in the wilderness no child should ever see. Her rescue would make headlines, but the story behind it was far more brutal, calculated, and haunting than the world first realized. Now adult, she has shared the horror she survived, and brought to view the system that failed to stop it. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting...
Nov 04, 2025•52 min•Ep. 339
On Halloween night in 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan handed his son a Pixy Stix filled with cyanide, unknowingly creating one of America’s darkest modern legends. Behind his mask as a churchgoing father and optician, O'Bryan was drowning in debt and had secretly taken out life insurance policies on his children. His desperate act of greed would not only claim his son’s life but forever change how parents viewed Halloween candy. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. ...
Oct 31, 2025•47 min•Ep. 337
The Tranquille Sanatorium, located near Kamloops, British Columbia, opened in 1907 as a tuberculosis treatment center and later served as a psychiatric hospital before closing in 1983. At its peak, it functioned as a small self sustaining community with farms, tunnels, staff housing, and medical facilities. Since its abandonment however, the site has gained a reputation for being one of the most haunted locations ins Canada, drawing urban explorers and paranormal investigators intrigued by its e...
Oct 30, 2025•44 min•Ep. 336
At 3:00 a.m. on November 30, 1989, a Manhattan woman named Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted from her 12th floor apartment window by a beam of blue light and taken aboard a glowing craft hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge. Within months, two alleged government bodyguards and more than twenty witnesses surfaced, saying they’d seen the same impossible event unfold above the East River. What began as a bizarre UFO report soon spiralled into a global sensation of obsession, paranoia, and accusa...
Oct 29, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 336
It's time for the 4th Annual Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends! We have researched 3 urban legends and found the truth and fiction behind each. As we tell the stories, we want to know if you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are false. We will of course reveal the answers, but first we want to test your wicked knowledge! Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSyw MERCH:https:...
Oct 28, 2025•42 min•Ep. 335
Two hundred years ago, a quiet Tennessee farm became the center of one of America’s most terrifying hauntings. The Bell family was stalked, tormented, and ultimately broken by a voice in the dark that claimed to want one thing, the death of their patriarch. What followed remains the only time in U.S. history that a ghost was blamed for murder. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSyw MER...
Oct 27, 2025•53 min•Ep. 334
For centuries, nursery rhymes have been passed down as harmless children’s songs, but their true origins are anything but sweet. It seems as though the innocent words we all remember may have been hiding nightmares all along. In this episode we’re peeling back the cute surface and digging into the dark history that’s been whispered through generations. Trust us when we say, you’ll never hear your childhood favourites the same way again. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting ap...
Oct 26, 2025•38 min•Ep. 332
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre, spent his life crafting horrors that crawled under our skin. But in October of 1849, it was his own final days that became the most chilling mystery he ever inspired. Found delirious in a gutter, wearing clothes that weren’t his, Poe left behind one last unsolved riddle... his own death. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSyw MERCH:https://ww...
Oct 25, 2025•42 min•Ep. 332
