Monday, April 23rd, 2018 was a surprisingly warm day in Toronto, Ontario, causing residents to be out in droves, ditching their winter coats, eager to enjoy the sunshine. Among those taking advantage of the warmer weather, was 68 year old Catherine Riddell, headed to the library off of Yonge Street, when a van suddenly struck her from behind. The vehicle had hit Catherine with such force, it sent her body flying in the air, before crashing through a transit shelter. The strange thing was, Cather...
Nov 07, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the night of December 3rd, 1997 Frank Dosso was supposed to be home from work by 5:30 pm, just in time to celebrate his twin daughters’ 10th birthday. But when he never showed up, his family drove out to his office looking for him. When they arrived they discovered, what would later be described as the worst mass murder in the history of Polk County Florida. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website I...
Oct 23, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 1980s, many of the staff at Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky Montana were like a close-knit family, both working and living together on the property. Not only did the Lone Mountain actually function as a working cattle ranch, it also offered luxury guest accommodations for tourists looking to get a taste of the Old West. On a hot July day in 1984, one of the staff members had decided to go out for a run along a well-used trail through the scenic beauty of the surrounding area and neve...
Oct 09, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us, as we take a look at the case of the Frankston Serial Killer. You’ll hear how three young women became victims of a remorseless murderer who chose his victims at random, striking whenever he felt the urge to kill. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Special Thanks: Dr. Sohom Das https://www.youtube.com/c/apsychforsoreminds Phil https://classicedge.ca Research &am...
Sep 25, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast What if I told you that the boogeyman was real? That there really was a dark figure running around out there waiting to strike, where exactly, nobody knows. Maybe hiding out in the woods, the toolshed, or somewhere even closer....like your closet. And because the possibilities are endless, that’s precisely why it's so terrifying. Now, what if I told you that there were two of them? How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How ...
Sep 11, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1989, Collier Landry was 11 years old, living with his parents in Mansfield, Ohio. His father was a highly respected physician, his mother Noreen Boyle was a full-time caregiver, raising and doting on her son and his adopted sister Elizabeth. From the outside looking in, the Boyles seemed like the perfect family. But everything wasn’t as it seemed. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram F...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast A Scottish mother and daughter uncovered a horrifying conspiracy within the pharmaceutical industry A drug company literally being paid to kill the participants in a clinical stem cell trial and the government was in on the cover-up. But because of an ironclad confidentiality clause, participants and their families couldn’t tell ANYONE ANYTHING without facing a 20-year prison sentence. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon ...
Aug 14, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for the conclusion of our 2-part series on the false conviction of Russ Faria. You’ll learn how Pam Hupp’s greed eventually opened the door for the justice system to right a wrong that should’ve never happened in the first place. And Russ’s mission to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone, ever again. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Special Thanks: Russ Faria ...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast We take a look into a case with so many twists and turns, that it’s made its way into a dramatized series “The thing about Pam” starring Rene Zellweger. However, in this version of events, Pam Hupp takes a backseat as we focus on the destruction she left in her wake. Her victims, the survivors, and how Russ Faria was left picking up the pieces of his life, ignited by a single mission - to prevent his experience from ever happening to someone else. How to support: For extra perks including extra ...
Jul 17, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast On August 4th, 2015 in Pensacola, Florida. Escambia County Sheriff, David Morgan delivered a disturbing press conference, giving insight into a recent triple homicide that had taken place inside a quiet suburban home. The grizzly crime scene he described and the brutal way the victims had been murdered was disturbing, but it’s what he said next that sent chills down reporter's spines. The murders appeared to have been ritualistic. Part of some sort of witchcraft ceremony coinciding with the rece...
Jul 03, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast It was undeniable, that Eudy Simelane was born to play soccer. From an early age, she gravitated to the sport and by the time she was an adult, was being recognized as one of South Africa's star players. But while Eudy proudly represented her country with her gifted athletic abilities, she eventually decided to dedicate herself to representing a different community. A community in need of a champion, a strong voice against hate crimes in South Africa. A force that would continue, even into her h...
Jun 19, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” It's the kind of rhetorical question asked in jest, expressing pleasant surprise when someone has a change in behavior or attitude. But what if this wasn’t a rhetorical question? What if someone believed their spouse had actually been replaced by someone else? An imposter. A lookalike. Suddenly “Who are you and what have you done with my wife” takes on a much darker, and more sinister tone. How to support: For extra perks including extra content...
Jun 05, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Watch enough crime shows and it doesn’t take long to figure out the steps a killer will take to get away with murder. They stage the crime scene, they ditch the murder weapon, they fabricate an alibi, and at all costs, make sure to keep their mouths shut until the day they die. But in the case you’re about to hear the killer takes things a step further by actually manipulating information in the case file. Even making evidence disappear. All while hiding in plain sight for more than two decades....
May 22, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the mid-1980s, numerous bodies were discovered along the highways of the American South over the course of several years. They were all women. They all had red hair. And all of them had been murdered. This is a unique case unlike any other we’ve ever told. Because it involves a podcast host who went beyond what you’d normally expect of a podcaster. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram F...
May 08, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast The courtyard of an elementary school is probably the last place on earth you'd expect someone to attempt hiring a hitman. Not for a mom in Southern Australia in 2001. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Special Thanks: Dr. Christina Forzani Psy.D Research & Writing: Ryan Deininger Sources: Dead By Friday, Derek Pedley (2012) Contract Killers: Who Killed Carolyn Matth...
Apr 24, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the morning of August 30th, 2000 - Mark Lundy left a series of messages on his wife’s phone, sounding increasingly irritated that she hadn’t called him back. When he finally did receive a callback, it wasn’t from his wife, but from a friend telling him that the police were at his house…Something horrible had happened. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Special Thanks:...
Apr 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 40-year-old mother Carole Packman had been living in a toxic household - with a husband who physically abused her, and was openly having an affair with another woman he’d invited to live with them. Carole had the means, motive, and opportunity to vanish completely and start fresh somewhere else. And for nearly ten years, that’s exactly what everybody thought she’d done. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: ...
Mar 27, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In June 2011, UK author Helen Bailey began writing a blog after the death of her husband as a way to deal with her grief and to provide comfort and a voice to the bereaved. She openly chronicled her journey following her loss - the ins and outs, the highs and lows, and eventually revealed that things were, indeed, getting better for her - she’d met someone: a man she called “The Gorgeous Grey-Haired Widower.” How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free epi...
Mar 13, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Charlotte and Brent Springford Sr. were well-respected, successful, progressive-minded pillars of their community in Montgomery, Alabama. Everything in their lives seemed perfect, but that was all about to change. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Research & Writing: Ryan Deininger Special Thanks: Mark Pinsky Drifting Into Darkness Editing: Justin Hellstrom Recommen...
Feb 28, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Valentine’s Day 2010 was supposed to be the perfect day for Richard and Stacey Schoeck to re-stoke old fires of desire. Like many couples, work, kids, and other commitments had meant little time for passion. But they were about to change all that. Their plan was to meet up in a secret, secluded spot, in the pitch-black darkness of the North Georgia countryside. A perfect place to drink some wine, exchange their Valentine’s …and maybe more. Tragically, they’d never get that chance. How to support...
Feb 14, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jo Rogers and her two daughters disappeared after taking their first vacation together.. Tragically it would be their last. Their bodies were later discovered floating in Tampa Bay with all signs horrifically pointing to the probability they’d been thrown overboard alive - bound and weighed down with cinder blocks. It would be a crime that would go unsolved for three years. That's until a group of determined cold case investigators decided to take another look at the case - a case that would mak...
Jan 30, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Nicole Addimando fatally shot her partner in what she claimed was self-defense, she was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. At her trial the details surrounding her history of abuse were excluded, essentially removing the context for what happened the night of the shooting from the jury. As much as this case examines the darker side of the judicial system it also highlights human strength and the immense power of friendship, love, and compassion - the unstoppable force behind a...
Jan 24, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast To many residents in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, Nicole Addimando and Christopher Grover appeared to be an ideal couple raising two young children. So how did Chris wind up dead, and Nikki behind bars? When the truth behind the shooting was finally revealed, the details would be more shocking, and more devastating, than anyone wanted to believe. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Imagine TLC's 90 Day Fiancé meets the hit series Breaking Bad in an all-new twisted case of online romance. In 2006, an unlikely couple living two worlds apart found love over the internet and ventured into a marriage together that would later be mired in suspicion and deceit, ending with a woman missing and police conducting an experiment using two pig carcasses to determine what might have happened to her. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free epis...
Jan 03, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast December 24th, 2007 would mark the fifth year, three generations of the Anderson family living in Carnation, Washington would spend Christmas together. They had no idea a murderous pair sharing paranoid delusions made plans for it to be their last, becoming one of the worst mass killings in Washington State’s history. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go to - Patreon How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Music Credits: The...
Dec 20, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the best things about traveling is getting to meet new and interesting people along the way. But just how much do you really know about the guy sitting two rows behind you on the plane… or the person offering to split a taxi with you? In this whirlwind episode, you'll hear about three unsuspecting tourists who suddenly disappeared without a trace. That is until their body parts started showing up in Singapore and Thailand. The perpetrator - a fugitive who'd mastered butchery skills in pri...
Dec 06, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In March 2021, London along with the rest of England was under a full national lockdown in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. An unusual mix of boredom, fear, and frustration permeated the country as it grappled with the ever-changing rules and restrictions. The entire world it seemed, was just waiting for things to go back to normal. But there was one man who didn’t see these once-in-a-lifetime circumstances as an obstacle - instead, he saw in them - a depraved opportunity to turn locked-down ...
Nov 22, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben and Narcy Novak's marriage was held together by mutually-assured destruction. He had all the money. She had all the dirt. Ben Jr. Novack had it all - wealth, influence, and a thriving convention business that made him millions each year. He was also the son of one of the world’s most successful hoteliers. But none of that would protect him from a gruesome death at the hands of the person he should have trusted the most. A wife who took her vows of “til death do us part” to a whole new twiste...
Nov 08, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Halloween is without a doubt considered the spookiest time of year. It’s the time of year when we binge watch all of the horror classics, sure to induce a good jump scare - like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. There are also those other classics that take us to a much darker place - like Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen, where we question the existence of demons. For one young man in the town of Manteca, California, there came a time where he didn’t just question the exist...
Oct 24, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Whether or not you're into mafia films like The Godfather or Goodfellas, you're guaranteed to love this episode - a story filled with all the makings of a Hollywood movie: comedy, romance, schemes, scams, sketchy characters, violence...and the occasional murder. This is a story about a man born into a life of crime and raised by a prominent mafia family in Detroit, Michigan - Gunner Alan Lindbloom. In this episode, he takes us back to his troubling childhood and into his professional life of cri...
Oct 10, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast