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Our True Crime Podcast

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Our True Crime Podcast focuses on bizarre, lesser-known crime cases from around the globe delivered with respect, a bit of humor, and a smidge of song. Everything you’ve come to love from Jen and Cam.

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253. Taking the Bait: The Carly Ryan Story

March 27, 2024 21:01 - 50 minutes - 115 MB

In 2007, Carly became friends with a musician named Brandon Kane on MySpace. The two initially bonded over their love of music, and soon, Brandon regaled her with stories of growing up in the wide-open spaces of the American Southwest and traveling to other exotic places. Carly hung on to his every word. Carly soon shared with her mother that she’d “met” this awesome guy named Brandon Kane.  Within 18 months, Brandon quickly became Carly’s entire world.  Unfortunately, Brandon Kane didn't ex...

252. Wild Child: Evan Ebel

March 20, 2024 21:00 - 39 minutes - 90.3 MB

Commerce City, Colorado, is a working-class community with a higher-than-average crime rate. On March 17, 2013, Nate Leon embarked on a journey to Domino's Pizza around 10:45 a.m. Nate, a devoted father of three and a full-time employee at IBM, also worked weekends at Domino's to supplement his income. On that particular day, Domino's received a call requesting a pizza delivery to an unspecified intersection. The employee informed the caller that an exact address was needed for delivery, prom...

251. Best Laid Plans: Teresa Sievers

March 13, 2024 21:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

Come travel to the UK with Jen and Cam! Find out how to join the tour HERE. To book, you can call 800-438-7672,  & mention the group reference number # 70971994 Seats are filling up! On the balmy night of June 28th, 2015, 46-year-old Dr. Teresa Sievers lugged her suitcases through Southwest Florida International Airport. At 4’ 11” tall, Teresa was known as a “little dynamo.” She was intelligent, abrupt, forceful, and, above all, caring. She always wore high heels, and she always spoke in ...

250. Unspeakable Horrors: Gary Heidnik

March 06, 2024 22:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MB

Want to travel to the UK with Jen and Cam? Go to ourtruecrimepodcast.com and find out how to join the tour, or click HERE. To book, you can call 800-438-7672, and mention the group reference number # 70971994 Today, we are headed to North Philadelphia. It is March 25, 1987, and police are about to enter a run-down home on North Marshall Street. Even though officers were told what they were about to encounter, there was no way anyone could ever prepare for what they saw. The smell hit them fi...

249. Speedboat Killers: The Deaths of Charlotte Brown & Nancy Manni

February 28, 2024 22:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MB

Sometimes, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can have deadly consequences. Sometimes, it's not just the place that's the problem; it's the who that you're with. In the two cases we discuss in this episode, neither of these men intended to kill their victims. They did not set out that morning to take the life of another human being. Nor did they gain anything from the demise of their victims. But they were responsible for their deaths all the same. The first case is in London, Englan...

248. Innocent Victims: Eastburn Murders

February 21, 2024 22:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MB

Katie Eastburn had posted a classified advertisement in a local newspaper catering to the military community near Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg to sell their English setter, Dixie. At the time, Katie's husband Gary, an Air Force captain, was away attending a squadron officer's school in Alabama, leaving her at home with their three young children. The couple had met twelve years prior at a singles' softball game, and Gary vividly remembers her powerful impact on him, saying, "It was like...

247. Death of a Butterfly: Heather Palumbo-Jones

February 14, 2024 22:05 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

Want to travel to the UK with Cam and Jen in June of 2025? Check out the itinerary for Our True Crime Podcasts Dark History Tour. Or go to ourtruecrimepodcast.com and check out the link there. Thank you to Holly Elenor for the episode request. The entertainment district of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, draws people from all over the world to participate in its blues music and dine on the famous Memphis-style barbecue. Home of Sun Studios and Graceland, it’s often referred to as...

246. The Leaf Killer: Matthew Hoffman

February 07, 2024 22:00 - 36 minutes - 82.7 MB

It is 4 pm on Thursday, November 11, 2010, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, when a phone call comes from police. On the line is Valerie Haythorn, manager of the nearby Dairy Queen, who is concerned that her employee 32 year- 32-year-old Tina Herrmann, has not shown up to work today or the previous day. This was very unlike Tina’s character, who has always been dependable. Valerie tells the police she is so worried she goes to Tina’s house to check on her. She is there as she is phoning the police. She i...

245. The Happening: West Nickel Mines Massacre

January 31, 2024 22:00 - 36 minutes - 84.2 MB

***This episode talks about the school shooting at West Nickels Mines Amish School. If you are sensitive to this subject, you may want to skip this one. ***Jen had points where her voice cracked and tightened as this topic is very difficult for her, so please bear with her. On October 2, 2006, the sun peeked over the horizon at 7:05 a.m. in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, bathing the green, undulating hills in a warm glow. It should have been a perfect day filled with friendship and laughte...

244. Soul-Less: The Crimes of Jacob Kinn

January 24, 2024 22:00 - 44 minutes - 101 MB

We are headed to Bemidji, Minnesota, where firefighters are at the scene of a mobile home fire where 35-year-old single mother Melissa Norby lived. As they worked to put out the fire, they noticed that windows had been blown away from the building by as much as 12 to 15 feet. They determined that the start of the fire seemed to be the primary bedroom. Once inside the home, in the bedroom they locate a gas can that had not burnt up in the fire. What else they find is much more disturbing. They...

243. Coffee, Crackers & DNA: The Wichita Falls Serial Killer

January 17, 2024 22:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MB

This is a listener request from Kari Schaan on our FB discussion page. Thank you Kari! On a cold January night in 1985, just outside Wichita Falls, Texas, a bloodied and naked Toni Jean Gibbs tumbled from an abandoned trolley car where she had just been brutally raped and stabbed. Her attacker, knowing his job was done and that her death was inevitable, had already fled the scene, driving away in Toni’s brand-new Camaro. Stumbling through the dark across the thick and scratchy grass of a n...

242. The Gig's Up: Rori Hache & Kandis Fitzpatrick

December 27, 2023 22:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MB

SURPRISE! We have one last episode for 2023! Thank you to Tina for requesting this episode. She's been a listener since pretty much the beginning of OTCP. On the evening of September 11th, 2017, a fisherman spotted an unusual object floating along the surface of Lake Ontario near Oshawa Pier. After several attempts to bring the object closer with his fishing line, he realized he had made a grim discovery - the dismembered torso of a woman. There were no signs of identification, such as ag...

Little White Corvette: Robert Lee Yates Jr Day 12:12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 24, 2023 22:00 - 41 minutes - 94.5 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. We made it to Day 12! We hope you've had a wonderful holiday season! Thank you all for such a great 2023! Most people have heard of the Green River Killer. Washington State’s most notorious serial killer was hard to miss in the 1990s. His moniker and his horrendous deeds could be...

The Torture Dungeon of Charles Ng and Leonard Lake: Day 11: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 23, 2023 22:00 - 43 minutes - 99.7 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. On June 2, 1985, the Southern San Francisco police department received a report of a shoplifting incident. A man calmly exited a store with a tool called a vice, placed it in the trunk of a beige 1980 Honda Prelude, and vanished before apprehension could occur. Officer Daniel Wrigh...

The Saskatchewan Stabbings Day 10: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 22, 2023 22:00 - 32 minutes - 74.3 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. Day 10 is here! On September 4, 2022, 32-year-old Myles Sanderson went on a killing spree in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada, on the James Smith Cree Nation. Eleven people lost their lives, and eighteen more were injured. This event is considered to be one of the deadliest massacres ...

The Family That Kills Together: India’s Baby Killers Day 9: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 21, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 65.4 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. On the 9th day of our "12 Nightmares before Christmas," our journey takes us to Pune, India, where we encounter twenty-one-year-old Renuka Kiran Shinde. She had just returned to her home, which she shared with her second husband, her son from her first marriage, her mother, Anjanab...

The Glynn County Massacre: Guy Heinze Jr Day 8: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 21, 2023 01:55 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. It's already day 8! On an August morning in 2009 in Brunswick, Georgia, twenty-two-year-old Guy Heinze Jr returned to the trailer that he shared with nine family members. When he stepped inside, he found the beaten bodies of seven people: his father, Guy Sr, Russell Toler Sr, Russ...

The Backpack Killer: Ivan Milat Day 7: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 19, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 66.7 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. On Saturday, September 19, 1992, Ken Seily and his companion Keith Caldwell were pursuing their shared passion for running. Both were running club members and regularly trained on various trails within the Belangalo State Forest. They spent a significant part of the day running thr...

Bye Bye Velma: Death Row Granny Day 6: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 18, 2023 22:00 - 31 minutes - 71.1 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. Day 6! We are halfway there! ​The revival was just getting started when 56-year-old farmer Rowland Stuart Taylor felt a wave of nausea and abdominal discomfort. Thinking it was just something he ate, Stuart fidgeted but wanted to stay for the revival. As the service went on, he be...

Wicked Romance: Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow Day 5: The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 17, 2023 22:00 - 31 minutes - 72 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. On November 10, 1986, the Redlands, California, police department received an urgent phone call from a concerned woman. She reported that her highly responsible employee, 20-year-old Corinna Novis, had failed to show up for work for several days, which was uncharacteristic of her. ...

Broken: Leslie Allen Williams Day 4: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 16, 2023 22:00 - 27 minutes - 64 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. It's Day 4! On a cold and cloudy May of 1992, a middle-aged man and his mother visited the Hillview Memorial Cemetery in the Springfield township of Oakland County, Michigan. They were there to leave flowers for his father, who had passed away two years before. The man noticed som...

A Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity: Amy Bishop Day 3: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 15, 2023 22:00 - 24 minutes - 56 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. Today, we are going to the University of Alabama at Huntsville. It was February 12, 2010, and the day commenced like any other typical school day. The campus bustled with activity, featuring a mix of young students envisioning their future and more mature individuals returning to c...

Room 354: Jeffrey Gorton Day 2: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 14, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 66.2 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. Welcome to day 2 of The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas Fifty-five-year-old Margarette Eby lived a rich and full life as a music professor at the University of Michigan. Margarette was well-liked by her students and coworkers and had several grown children of her own. Around 4:30 i...

With Friends Like These: Adrianne Reynolds Day 1: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

December 13, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes - 75.9 MB

Welcome to Our True Crime Podcast’s original “12 Nightmares Before Christmas,” where we discuss a true crime story daily for the days leading up to December 24. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tune in each day. High school is brutal. To quote my dear friend Dexter from season 6, “High school, a small world unto itself, combining all the elements of a federal work camp with those of a third-world poultry farm.” Adrianne Reynolds, a 16-year-old, had recently arrived in town in November. O...

241. Burning Anger: Stanley Ford

December 06, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes - 128 MB

We are heading to Akron, Ohio, specifically to the Sherbondy Hill neighborhood, where families are actively engaged in their lives and the upbringing of their children. This well-established neighborhood is home to a diverse group of middle-class families, ranging from elderly residents to brand-new parents. The quiet area was shocked when, on April 18, 2016, a deadly house fire killed two of the neighborhood's own citizens. Friends wonder how this could happen to such sweet and loving peopl...

Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic

December 04, 2023 09:00 - 5 minutes - 13.2 MB

From Wondery, and hosted by Laura Beil - The new season of Dr. Death, BAD MAGIC is a story of miraculous cures, magic, and murder. When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of researchers makes a startling discovery, they begin to suspect the ...

240. Picture Perfect: Karla Brown

November 29, 2023 22:00 - 49 minutes - 112 MB

It was the summer of 1978 in America. The minimum wage was 2.65 an hour, the Bee Gees ruled the pop music airwaves, and Star Wars enjoyed a rerelease in select theaters nationwide. On the east side of the Mississippi River, just thirty minutes from St. Louis was the small residential town of Wood River, Illinois, where summer activities like fishing, swimming, and backyard barbecues were in full swing. Most of the residents of Wood River had lived in the town their whole lives and considered ...

239. From Cop to Killer: The Murder of Sherri Rasmussen

November 22, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MB

In the summer of 1984, John Ruetten met Sherri Rasmussen, and the two immediately hit it off. Their deep bond led to their marriage in November 1985, and they were thrilled to start life as a couple. On February 24, John left for his job at an engineering company, allowing Sherri to sleep in a little longer. Typically, Sherri would have already left for work by this time, but that particular day brought a change in routine. Sherri had contemplated calling in sick because she was slated to att...

238. Two Hours and Seventeen Minutes: The Skelton Brothers

November 15, 2023 22:00 - 44 minutes - 103 MB

It's a typical situation across America, in hundreds of towns and thousands of homes. As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, a recently separated couple hashed out the details of which parent would get the kids on what day and at what times. For now, Tanya Skelton had full custody of the children she shared with John Russell Skelton. Still, Tanya felt that their three sons, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner, should get to spend part of the holiday with their father, so she allowed them to spend ...

237. We Need To Talk About David Barnett

November 08, 2023 22:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Warning: This episode deals with child abuse. Listener discretion is advised. At approximately 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 4, 1996, 19-year-old David Barnett went to the residence of his adoptive grandparents, Clifford and Leona Barnett. His grandparents were away, attending church services at the Kirkwood Baptist Church in St Louis. David accessed their home by entering through a bedroom window, where he sat on the couch, turned on the television, and eventually drifted off to sleep. Upon...

236. The Short Family Murders

November 01, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 99.2 MB

In August 2002, Michael Short, his wife, Mary, and their daughter, Jennifer, lived in a red brick ranch-style home right off Hwy 220 in Oak Level, Virginia. Michael owned a business named M.S. Mobile Home Movers, employing various people, most of whom were temporary or transient. The company was not doing well, so Michael decided to put their house up for sale and move into a mobile home until he could figure out his next move. He had even made a trip to the coast of North Carolina to see if ...

235. Sleep My Babies: Sandi Nieves

October 25, 2023 21:00 - 42 minutes - 96.7 MB

On July 1, 1998, at nearly 1 p.m., a call came into the 911 emergency call center to report a fire at her home on Cherry Creek Drive in Saugus, California. The woman caller had a dry, matter-of-fact tone “The house is all smoke.” The dispatcher asked if the house was still smoking and the woman said “No, not now, it’s over.” She then went on to say “We had a fire last night. I woke up and everything was black.” The dispatcher in a bit of confusion confirms what she heard. “You had a fire last...

Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story”

October 23, 2023 17:47 - 9 minutes - 20.9 MB

Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife’s great-grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered – killed by two gunshots to the face. Could there be a connection? Tr...

234. The Fatal Exorcism of Joan Vollmer

October 18, 2023 21:00 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MB

On February 1st, 1993, a minister was summoned to a house off Dimboola Road in the outback town of Antwerp, Australia. When he arrived, he was greeted by a man named David Klingner, who said, “It’s a long story,” as he led the pastor into the house. Inside, the minister was overcome by a foul stench. Blowflies were buzzing around the house, attracted to the putrid smell of decay. The minister was pretty confident that whoever they had called him for was beyond saving. ​He made his way past ...

Listen Now: Mr Ballen’s Medical Mysteries

October 17, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutes - 16.3 MB

Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first eight episodes early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it can be the stuff of nightmares. In this new series from master storyteller MrBallen, we share medical horror stories and diagnostic mysteries that are surgically calibrated to make your blood run cold. From bizarre, unheard-of diseases and miraculous recove...

233. Visions: The Murder of Tracey Schoettlin

October 11, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 99.3 MB

Today, we are en route to Birmingham, Alabama, where we'll meet Tracey Schoettlin, a 26-year-old with big aspirations. In the summer of 1986, Tracey worked as a waitress at the Southpoint American Cafe while diligently preparing for the LSAT, the crucial exam for law school admission. She took the LSAT multiple times until she achieved the necessary score for acceptance into Samford Law School. Her ultimate aim was to become a lawyer and serve an underserved community. Tracey's determination ...

Introducing: Southern Gothic

October 07, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 78.5 MB

Step into the world of the unknown and unravel the dark history and infamous legends of the American South. Join us as we journey into the heart of this rich and fascinating region, uncovering its ghostly stories, haunted places, and eeriest tales through captivating storytelling, in-depth historical research, and an immersive audio soundscape. From the Bell Witch of Tennessee to the haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium, the ghostly tales of the Myrtles Plantation, the Curse of Lake Lanier, and ...

232. Napa Valley Nightmare: Adriane Insogna & Leslie Mazzara

October 04, 2023 21:00 - 42 minutes - 96.9 MB

Pumpkin spice season is often people's favorite time of the year. Relief from scorching summer temperatures arrives, and with it, a glorious orange, gold, and red blanket splays across the countryside. And in October of 2004, California's Napa Valley, home of America's wine country, was amping to be a spectacular autumn. In one of Napa's cozy neighborhoods on Dorset Street, a house was decorated for Halloween like many others. In that house lived three women, friends who decided it was wiser...

231. New York City Zodiac: Eddie Seda

September 27, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

On May 31, 1990, in New York City, a call came into the police about a 78-year-old man named Joseph "Joe" Proce, who was shot in the back outside his home by a stranger New York City has seen its share of homicides. In fact, Newsweek magazine said that 1990 was one of the worst years for homicides in the city. This shooting was different because the shooter left a note. A circle at the top of the letter is divided into sections with symbols inside each piece. It was later determined these sym...

New York City Zodiac-Eddie Seda

September 27, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

On May 31, 1990, in New York City, a call came into the police about a 78-year-old man named Joseph "Joe" Proce, who was shot in the back outside his home by a stranger New York City has seen its share of homicides. In fact, Newsweek magazine said that 1990 was one of the worst years for homicides in the city. This shooting was different because the shooter left a note. A circle at the top of the letter is divided into sections with symbols inside each piece. It was later determined these sym...

Listen Now: Generation Why

September 25, 2023 08:00 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MB

The Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries, and conspiracies. Follow The Generation Why Podcast on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to Generation Why ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus. Listen Now: Wondery.fm/GY_OTCP

230. Killing Cousins: Susie Newsom Lynch & Fritz Klenner

September 20, 2023 21:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MB

On June 3rd, 1985, in Summerfield, North Carolina, police watched in horror as a Chevy Blazer full of passengers exploded on NC150 right before their eyes. There were no survivors. Within minutes, the dark clouds hovering in the sky let loose, dumping rain and hail on the grotesque scene. “It was like the Lord was mad,” one officer said later. “Like He was real mad. I mean, really pissed off.” In the Blazer was Susie Newsome Lynch, her first cousin and lover Fritz Klenner, and Susie's young...

229. A Mother's Intuition: Ashley Wilson

September 13, 2023 21:00 - 47 minutes - 110 MB

We are headed to the great state of Texas, Houston, to be exact. Renee and her 19-year-old daughter Ashley Wilson are very close, talking often, usually every day. There was no answer when Renee tried to reach out on the phone to have their usual chat. Usually, this may scare Renee, but she thought she knew why. Ashley had called her mom a few days earlier to tell her she had some news, and that news came with lots of crying in about nine months. Renee thought Ashley was upset with her as her...

228. Gone In A Flash: Holly Jones

September 06, 2023 21:00 - 38 minutes - 87.1 MB

Content Warning This episode deals with the rape and death of a young child. Ten-year-old Holly had been playing with a neighborhood playmate a bit younger than her. When it came time for her friend to go home, Holly didn’t want the little girl to walk back alone. So her mother, Maria, gave her permission to escort her friend home since the walk wasn’t very far, only about six minutes. In fact, it was the same route that Holly took every day to get to school. By 8:30, darkness had fallen, a...

227. Silenced Witness: Donna Willard

August 30, 2023 21:00 - 31 minutes - 71.6 MB

Donna Willard, a single mother of three, lived in a tight-knit community of South Philly, doing her best to raise her three children. Her oldest was Todd, 12, with his baby sisters, 10-year-old Donna and 7-year-old Jessica, following. They were the light of her life, and she worked hard as a hairdresser to give them a good life. Donna was petite, weighing just over 80 pounds at 4’10, but she was big in her principles. She believed in working hard and doing the right thing. She was energetic a...

226. Massacre in Muskegon: The Privacky Family Murders

August 23, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 99.7 MB

In many ways, the Privackys were your average American family. They lived in western Michigan, in rural Dalton township just north of Muskegon. The family consisted of Stephen Privacky, a his wife Linda, and their two sons. Jedidiah, and Seth. Around noon on November 29th, the already tense family relationships were strained to the breaking point when Seth and his father had yet another fight. Only this time, his father told Seth that he wanted him to move out of the house. This enraged Seth...

225. I Will Not Be Ignored: Cari Farver

August 16, 2023 21:00 - 36 minutes - 82.6 MB

Today, we are going to a small town in Iowa called Macedonia. The city is located just outside of Omaha, Nebraska, and boasts a population of around 250 residents. It is the kind of town in America where everyone knows each other, and you can’t get away with much because you are either related to them or someone you know is related to them. When a 37-year-old single mom named Cari Farver disappeared in 2012, it was all hands on deck. It would take many people to get some answers for those who...

224. Preconceived Notions: Patricia Stallings

August 09, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 101 MB

David and Patricia Stallings married in August of 1988, and with the belief that they were about to embark on their part of the American Dream, the couple bought a small white farmhouse on Lake Wauwanoka in Hillsboro, Missouri Twenty-four-year-old Patricia gave birth to the couple’s first child, Ryan Stallings, in April of 1989. Even though Ryan suffered from gastronomic distress since birth, the couple were overwhelmingly happy in their new roles as parents. But on July 9th, 1989, that woul...

223. Death in Davie: Donna Decker

August 02, 2023 21:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MB

Today we are heading south to a town called Davie, just outside of Florida’s Gold Coast. It is a small town where not a lot happens, and that is precisely how the townfolk like it. A massacre in this sleepy town would disrupt the calm community, leaving them in fear. It would take a long time to finally get justice, but how the case unfolds is genuinely one of the most bizarre. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of ‘Our True Crime Podcast’ entitled 'Death in Davie: Donna Decker.' Promo by our...

222. Together Forever: Barbara and Patricia Grimes

July 26, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Life in America in the 1950s often conjures up images of an idyllic suburban life. Fueled by unprecedented economic growth after the lean and stressful years of World War II, Americans enjoyed the stability and prosperity that they craved. The innocent and wholesome portrayal of the nuclear family was often depicted in programs like Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver as one where every problem could be solved with a good ol’ heart-to-heart talk and a slice of apple pie. But look closer...

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