Podcast Episodes

The Hook Man

The Hook Man is an urban legend dating back to the 1950s. The terrifying story tells of a killer with a hook for a hand who preys on young couples parked in lovers’ lanes. The legend found new life i…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Postcard Killer: J. Frank Hickey

After a young boy vanished in 1911, police received mysterious postcards. The horrifying allegations and broad inconsistencies led them to believe the notes were a hoax – until it was too late. With …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Phone Call From a Serial Killer: Larry Gene Bell

May, 1985. Two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her parents’ driveway in broad daylight. Her kidnapper taunted Shari’s family by phone for days, calling in t…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 2

Ervil LeBaron, the prophet of a Fundamentalist LDS sect in Mexico, has grasped power after being released from prison for orchestrating his brother’s murder. Now, Ervil has a list of names of those w…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 1

In the 1920s, the LeBaron family settles in Mexico to practice their own sect of Mormonism. They establish a settlement, open a church, and work the farms. But after the family patriarch dies, the se…

Published on 3 months ago

The Red Barn Murder

Happy solstice, listeners! Join our guest host this week, Sapphire Sandalo, for a summertime tale of betrayal, murder, and the bizarre journey of a criminal corpse.

It's 1827, and the Marten family h…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Zodiac or Bundy? The Unsolved Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

In the 1970s, at least seven young women and girls go missing around Santa Rosa, California. Seven are found dead, and one remains unidentified. Several killers, including the Zodiac and Ted Bundy, w…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Taco Bell Strangler: Henry Louis Wallace

His modus operandi is shocking: years before he strangled his victims, Henry Louis Wallace befriended them. By and large, they were his coworkers at Bojangles and Taco Bell. But under interrogation, …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Shapeshifting Fugitive: Franklin Delano Floyd

A missing woman in Florida leads police to a fugitive who’s been on the run for 17 years. But that’s just the beginning. Franklin Delano Floyd not only becomes a suspect in that case, but he’s then t…

Published on 4 months ago

A Body in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen

When a boneless torso possibly belonging to a woman named Cora Turner is found in the cellar of a London home, the culprit seems almost obvious. Her husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, seems to have …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago