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193. Spiderman of Denver: Theodore Coneys
December 07, 2022 22:00 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBIt is October 17, 1941, and 73-year-old Phillip failed to answer his front door. Since his wife was in the hospital, the neighbors took turns having him over for dinner so he would not be all alone. This evening Phillip was excepted to come to the neighbor's house for food, and he didn’t show up. Not sure why the neighbor went to Philip’s house and knocked on the door, but no one answered. Worried something was wrong, she gathered a few more neighbors and went back to the house. After checkin...
192. The Monster of Worcester: David McGreavy
November 30, 2022 22:00 - 37 minutes - 86.1 MB****This is a brutal episode. Listener discretion is advised **** In April of 1973, on Friday the 13th, Elsie Ralph was at work, bartending at the Punch Bowl Tavern in the Rainbow Hill district of Worcester, England. At closing time, her husband came to pick her up and left their three young children at home with their lodger, David McGreavy. An hour later, as the couple approached their home, they were met by police, informing them that they could not enter their home. Elsie panicked an...
191. The Suitcase Killer: Steven Zelich
November 23, 2022 22:00 - 41 minutes - 94.5 MBWe are headed to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a resort town in the Midwest. The summer tourist season is about to kick off. The popular destination is located on Geneva Lake and has been popular for years, with everyone from the elite to kids hitting up the water parks. On June 5, 2014, a call came into the Walworth County Sheriff's Department at about 3:20 pm. The dispatch informed them that laying on the side of Como Road, were two suitcases discovered by a local farmer. The farmer attempted to ...
190. A Serial Killer Walked In: The Death of Mary Michelle Fleming
November 16, 2022 22:00 - 41 minutes - 95.7 MBOn July 25th, 1980, a couple looked out the window and saw a young woman running toward their apartment. She had long blond hair, and she was covered in blood. She was also naked from the waist down with her bikini top pulled over her breasts. The man says to his wife, “If she’s running like that, somebody’s chasing her.” As the girl knocked on the door, Robert swung it open. “Help me,” she muttered and then collapsed onto to the porch. The couple called 911, and Robert covered her up with...
189. Sins of the Mother: Diane Downs
November 09, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MBIt was Thursday, May 19, 1983, at 10:48 pm when a red Nissan pulled up to the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital emergency room drop-off door honking the horn repeatedly. A blonde woman hops out of the car, screaming for help, and points to her car. Someone shot my kids, she yelled. Nurses Rose Martin and Shelby Day ran to the car and were momentarily stunned, noticing all the blood inside the vehicle. Inside there were three small children, one in the front seat and two in the backseat. When conf...
Amazon Music Presents MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark, and Mysterious Stories
November 07, 2022 15:00 - 7 minutes - 17.4 MBA hiker terrorized for days by two unknown figures… A man stalked through the woods while camping who barely escaped with his life… two cops who quit their job at a local theater because of unexplained encounters with an alleged demon… These are just some of the unbelievable cases you’ll hear on the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music. Each week you’ll get new inexplicable encounters, shocking disappearances and other strange, dark and mysterious stories. Hey Prime Members, listen to the Amazo...
Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree
November 03, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 20.8 MBSheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspicious eyes towards the husband. And although there was distrust ...
188.The Missing Women of Yonne
November 02, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutes - 95.1 MBAbout two hours from Paris, the body of 23-year-old Sylviane Lesage was found in a pasture. The case fell into the hands of Constable Christian Jambert. He was considered an outstanding policeman and a dogged investigator for the National Gendarmerie. Constable Jambert began hearing stories of girls that had gone missing in and around Auxerre in the Department of Yonne, just up the road from Rouvray. But they weren’t just any girls. They were teenagers and students, children of the DDASS o...
187. The Stranger in my Home: Carolina Killer
October 26, 2022 21:00 - 39 minutes - 89.3 MBIt is December 23, 1999, in Easley, South Carolina, located right outside Greenville. People were getting ready to celebrate the holidays by cooking, cleaning, and wrapping goodies for loved ones. One of those getting ready to welcome family for a celebration was 87-year-old Martha Browning. Martha was always a hard worker and started working at the local mill at 12 years old. Like most grandmothers, Martha loved her family and fed them until they burst. As Martha was prepping for company, he...
186. Gatekeeper of Hell: Pazuzu Algarad
October 19, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes - 126 MBToday's episode is a Listener Request! Thanks to Christina Young for her request. Big thanks to Wondery and The Generation Why Podcast for sponsoring this episode Make sure you go listen to Justin and Aaron. They are amazing. Down the road from Costco, past the Hobby Lobby, and the Chick-fil-A. stood a home on Knob Hill Drive that was in stark contrast to its surroundings. It was filthy and run-down, with a stench that assaulted people before they even reached the front porch. Once you...
Introducing: The Generation Why Podcast
October 17, 2022 05:00 - 8 minutes - 19.8 MBThe 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. One of the longest-running true crime podcasts out there, Generation Why has a little something for every true crime listener. Follow The Generation Why Podcast on Amazon Music or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or you can listen ad-fre...
185. Children of Thunder: Cult of Killers
October 12, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes - 123 MBWe are headed to a small town named Woodacre which is located right outside of San Francisco, California. It is Marin County which is beautiful if you have never been there, truly postcard pretty. The town is a small community where the center of the action is a bar named The Paper Mill Saloon where the locals meet to catch up and unwind. Bartender Jennifer Villarin worked hard to make all the patrons welcome. It was August 2nd, 2000 and Jim had brought Jenny dinner and Jenny closed up the b...
184. Bellevue Murders: The Wilson Family
October 05, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBOn January 4th, 1997, two eight-year-old boys were playing in the park when they came upon what they thought was a pile of clothing. When they realized it was a body, they ran to tell their parents, who immediately called the police. After identifying the body as twenty-year-old Kim Wilson, police go to the Wilson residence to notify her family. When Detective Gomes arrived at the house, he saw cars in the driveway and all the Christmas lights twinkling, but no one answered the door. Walkin...
183. Little Girls Lost: The Lyon Sisters
September 28, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBIt is a parent’s worst nightmare. The abduction of a child is more than traumatic but what if two of your children simply disappeared. That is precisely what happened on March 25, 1975, when 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and her little sister, 10-year-old Katherine departed from their home to walk ½ mile to the local shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. The girls made it to the mall but never made it home, they would never be seen again. This case has many twists and t...
182. Romana Wilson, MMIWG and the Highway of Tears
September 21, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 92.4 MBSituated in the middle of a wild and beautiful outdoor playground, the town of Smithers, British Columbia, Canada, rests at the foot of the luminous Hudson Bay Mountain. The town is located halfway between Prince George and Prince Rupert along the 450-mile evergreen-lined Highway 16. Currently, most of the inhabitants of Smithers are of European descent. The First Nations people, notably the Wet’suwet’en, called this land home for thousands of years. Now there are only about 8% of the current...
182. Ramona Wilson, MMIWG and the Highway of Tears
September 21, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 92.4 MBSituated in the middle of a wild and beautiful outdoor playground, the town of Smithers, British Columbia, Canada, rests at the foot of the luminous Hudson Bay Mountain. The town is located halfway between Prince George and Prince Rupert along the 450-mile evergreen-lined Highway 16. Currently, most of the inhabitants of Smithers are of European descent. The First Nations people, notably the Wet’suwet’en, called this land home for thousands of years. Now there are only about 8% of the current...
181. The Missing Girls: Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis
September 14, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIt is Jan. 9, 2002, in Oregon City, Oregon, 12-year-old Ashley Pond left her home to walk to the bus stop for Gardiner Middle School. Ashley was hurrying as she was going to be late and miss the bus stop located approximately 10 minutes from her home. Ashley was popular in school but what she loved most was dance. She was on the school’s dance team, The Fallen Angels. The team would be rehearsing that day for the big competition they had coming up. Since she was late, Ashley started running ...
SPECIAL: Our Precious Hope Revisited: St. Louis' Little Jane Doe
September 12, 2022 21:00 - 2 hours - 134 MBBack in 2018, we covered this case with our first episode of The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas. It is the most infamous unsolved murder in the state of Missouri. The case is open, and the child's identity is still unknown. It was February 1983 when two men entered the basement of 5635 Clemens Avenue, a derelict and vacant apartment building in northwest St. Louis, and stumble upon a grisly scene that would haunt the authorities and the community for years. The 40th year anniversary is upo...
180. Hell Ride: The Murder of Hannah Cornelius
September 07, 2022 21:00 - 48 minutes - 110 MB****Content Warning**** Sexual Assault**** Cape Town, South Africa: In the early hours of May 27, 2017, Hannah Cornelius drove her friend Cheslin Marsh home after a night out. Before Cheslin could say goodbye, four men hijacked the car at knifepoint and kidnapped the two Stellenbosch University students. Cheslin was beaten with bricks and left to die. The gang members brutally assaulted Hannah and then murdered her in a senseless, brutal, and barbaric attack. The gang members would then g...
Introducing: Blood Ties S3: Strange Days
August 29, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 12.9 MBOur family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “The Shrink Next Door” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Christian...
179. Fighting for Katie Palmer: An Interview with John Palmer
August 24, 2022 21:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBEarlier this month, Cam and Jen sat down with John Palmer and discussed the tragic accident that took his wife Katie's life. April 21st, 2020, in Denison, Texas, situated on the border of Oklahoma. Thirty-eight-year-old Katie Palmer decided to take an early morning walk with her husband, John Palmer, hoping to see the nesting spot for a bird known as a killdeer. As the couple was returning home, they walked along Glenwood Drive at 7:45 A.M, on the left-hand side, facing the traffic, as ...
178. Hiding in Plain Sight: Henry Wallace
August 17, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutes - 93.9 MBAs little kids, we are scared of monsters and things that go bump in the night. We hear stories about big scary, hairy creatures that would get you if you weren’t being good. You had to always be aware of your surroundings and, of course, beware stranger danger. We grow up and imagine that bad guys are like the ones in the movies. But what if the monster was nothing like that, what if they were kind and helpful. What if they were your good friend? What if the monster was hiding in plain si...
177. The Boys In Barking: Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack
August 10, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes - 123 MBOn September 20th, 2014, dog walker Barbara Denham entered the walled graveyard of St. Margaret of Antioch church in Barking, London. She saw a young man sitting up against the cemetery wall amidst the ruins of the old abbey. As Ms. Denham approached, the young man never reacted or indicated that he heard her or the collie. Hesitantly, she walked over and found that twenty-one-year-old Daniel Whitworth was dead. Ms. Denham immediately phoned the police saying, “I was the same woman that found...
177. The Boys In Barking: Anthony, Gabreil, Daniel and Jack
August 10, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes - 123 MBOn September 20th, 2014, dog walker Barbara Denham entered the walled graveyard of St. Margaret of Antioch church in Barking, London. She saw a young man sitting up against the cemetery wall amidst the ruins of the old abbey. As Ms. Denham approached, the young man never reacted or indicated that he heard her or the collie. Hesitantly, she walked over and found that twenty-one-year-old Daniel Whitworth was dead. Ms. Denham immediately phoned the police saying, “I was the same woman that found...
176. Joseph Naso: His List of Ten
August 03, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MBImagine you are a probation officer and you get a phone call that one of your offenders hasn’t checked in with you as of late. Since he is an elderly man in his late 70s, you hope he is ok. It is April 13, 2010, an officer goes to the home to check on him. The officer goes into the home and talks to the man. He then walks about the house to get a look around which is standard. It all looks ok. Located in the back of the home, the officer discovers a room. This room has a giant padlock on the ...
Introducing Chameleon: Scam Likely
August 01, 2022 08:00 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MBWhen a small team of government investigators learns that ordinary citizens all around the U.S. are losing their life savings to scam callers, they go on the hunt for the shadowy multinational mob behind the con, unraveling a plot that stretches from suburban Texas to the outskirts of Singapore to a drab office complex in one of the largest cities in India. In the latest season of Chameleon, host Yudhijit Bhattacharjee retraces the steps of the cops and the crooks – and goes deep into the Ind...
175. The Cannock Chase Murders
July 27, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 138 MB****Content Warning**** Cannock Chase is 26 square miles of deciduous and coniferous woodland, open heathland, and small lakes in the West Midlands of England. It's a popular place to go hiking and mountain biking. As beautiful as Cannock Chase is, it has a bit of a dark past. In the 1960s, children in the area were abducted, assaulted, and murdered; their bodies were discovered later in the dense foliage of Cannock Chase. A human monster was on the loose. Join Cam and Jen as we discuss ...
174. Deadly Getaway: Randy Roth
July 20, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBHe seemed like the perfect man, at first. He wined and dined that special one who caught his eye, at the beginning. He would sweep them off their feet and marry them, quickly. He was after more than marriage, in fact, marriage was just a way to get what he was after. What he was after would cost more than one woman her life. After all, tragic accidents happen but when these tragic accidents happen with the same person at the center of incidents, you have to take a closer look. Join Jen and ...
173. Abduction at the Adelaide Oval : Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon
July 13, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBOn an unseasonably warm day in August of 1973, while a crowd of around 13,000 fans watched the North Adelaide football team play the Norwood Red Legs at the Adelaide Oval, 11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe assisted 4-year-old Kirste Gordon to the bathroom. The girls never returned to their seats. Although there were many witnesses, the girls have never been found. Their disappearance is one of South Australia's best-known crimes. Join Jen & Cam ass the discuss the case and possible suspects in ...
172. Flashing Red Light: The Bridget Drobney Murder
June 29, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 92.6 MBIn the summer of 1985, the folks in the small town of Gillespie, Illinois were shaken to their core when 16-year-old Bridget Drobney was found brutally murdered. Three men were arrested and one, Robert Turner was sentenced to death. In January of 2003, Governor Ryan commuted all 167 of Illinois’ death row inmates to life sentences. One of those was obviously, Robert Turner. Years later, In March of 2011, Governor Pat Quinn would abolish the death penalty in the state of Illinois altogether....
171. Mafia Murder Mystery: Johnny Boy D'Amato
June 22, 2022 21:00 - 43 minutes - 99 MBThe Mafia, the Mob, the family. It has many names but there is only one thing this organization is concerned about: money. This long-standing group has members operating from the streets hustling all the way up to corrupt government officials. In the neighborhoods they run, they are feared by some and adored by others. This family follows a set of rules demanding loyalty to each other above all else, including, well, your own family. To break these laws not only goes against what they stand ...
Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
June 20, 2022 06:00 - 5 minutes - 13.6 MBOn May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. Not since the O.J. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide. The search for Bonny’s killer took det...
170. Long Road To Justice: Lisa Kimmell
June 15, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBFriday, March 25th, 1988, Lisa got in her Honda and headed north. She would take Interstate 25 to Casper, Wyoming, and from there she would take the mostly two-lane US-20/26 to Greybull, where she would then finish the trip at her boyfriend's house in Cody, Wyoming, on US14. She’d planned to stay the night there and make the remaining hour-and-a-half trek to Billings the next morning with her boyfriend in tow. When Lisa Marie didn’t arrive at Ed's house in Cody, as planned, he was immediat...
169. The Price of Doing Business: Bob Eidman
June 08, 2022 21:00 - 37 minutes - 85.6 MBToday we are going nearby to St Charles Missouri where a local businessman was found shot to death inside his office on June 8, 2007, by a postwoman. It was about 12:30 in the afternoon when she called 9-1-1 and informed the operator that the man had been shot and, she thought he was dead. As she is on the phone with 911, a police officer drives by and she flags him down. The officer enters the business and finds the man. The officer clearly identifies a gunshot to the head. The man’s name wa...
Introducting Persona:The French Deception
June 06, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBIntroducing the true crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? Host and award-winning journalist, Evan Ratliff, investigates how Chikli successfully duped some of the world’s most powerful people into handing over their fortunes. He explores how Chikli evaded the law for years and became a Robin Hood-like hero. More than just a tale of c...
168. Made The Devil Do It: The Speed Freak Killers
June 01, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBOn a flat and lonely stretch of highway in San Joaquin County, California, in February of 2012, onlookers were horrified as a backhoe violently tore into an abandoned well, nicknamed "Loren's Boneyard." The giant claws of the backhoe rose out of the ground holding a massive amount of dirt and the skeletal remains of the victims buried within—the victims presumably of Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine, AKA The Speed Freak Killers. While only convicted of murdering four people, they are suspe...
167. Dressed to Kill: Hadden Clark
May 25, 2022 22:10 - 57 minutes - 132 MBWe are headed to Cape Cod where the Montgomery County police just received a phone about a female body on the beach. When they arrive, they found a young woman on her stomach, both her arms reaching into the sand. She was topless and her back was severely sunburned. As they get a closer look, they realize both of her hands have been cut off and part of her face is missing. Police discover she has been out here for several days, with beach-goers simply thought she was sunbathing. The woman had...
166. The Death of Tanner Ward
May 18, 2022 21:00 - 49 minutes - 112 MBOn a beautiful Midwestern June evening in 2017, nineteen-year-old Tanner Scott Ward told his mom, Lisa, he was headed out to see his friend, Jeremiah, and to fix him a plate for dinner because he’d only be gone about thirty minutes. He kissed his baby girl, Sophia, and left on foot with only the clothes on his back. It was the last time his family would see him alive. Six month s later Tanner's body would be found hanging from a tree not far from his home. Tanner's death is ruled a suicide b...
165. The Eyes Have It: Charles Albright
May 11, 2022 21:00 - 44 minutes - 102 MBToday we are headed to the outskirts of Dallas to a seedy area known as Oak Cliff, where income is low, and crime is high. It is 1990, and gangs, drugs, and sex workers frequent the area. Crack was big, and people would do almost anything to get it, including selling themselves for enough money to get a hit of crack, and then the cycle would repeat itself. Officer Regina Smith is on duty on December 13, 1990, when a call comes in pertaining to a body. It was a sex worker by the name of Mary ...
164. Another Girl Gone: Paula Sims
May 04, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBAt 11:24 PM on Saturday, April 29th, 1989, police in Alton, Illinois received a call from Robert Sims who said he had found his wife, Paula, unresponsive on the floor of their home, and their six-week-old baby girl was missing. Paula Sims said that she had been taking out the trash an hour earlier when she was confronted by a masked man carrying a handgun. After ordering her back into the house, the armed intruder struck her on the back of the head causing her to lose consciousness. The t...
163. All for the Money: Black Widow Judy Buenoano
April 27, 2022 21:50 - 48 minutes - 111 MBA woman comes out of the river water screaming for help. Frantic and barely able to get the story out, tells the man that she and her two sons were on a boat, and the boat capsized and her oldest son is missing. As police begin to question Judy about the accident, things become questionable from the start. Judy changes her story. In fact, she tells them 4 different stories. She tells officers that they were enjoying the day in the canoe, when they must have hit a tree stump and then tells ano...
162. The Monster of Marcinelle: Marc Dutroux
April 20, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MB***Content Warning*** 12-year-old Sabine Dardenne was riding her bike to school In Tournai, Belgium, when two men in a white van grabbed her off of her bike. Sabine was held captive for nearly three months in an underground dungeon by one of Belgium's most notorious pedophiles, convicted rapist, and murderer Marc Dutroux. We mentioned him briefly on Day 8 of the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas in 2021. Now listen as Jen and Cam discuss The Monster of Marcinelle: Marc Dutroux. Promo by our ...
161. Violent Vichy Murders: Brouk Family
April 13, 2022 21:00 - 28 minutes - 65.1 MBA home is a place where we feel most comfortable, relaxed, and safe. It is where we spend time with loved ones making homemade meals and memories. It is where we let our hair down and relax. It is where we are our most vulnerable. The tranquility and safety can be shattered in just a split second when the uninvited decide, for themselves, to become the invited. If you never lock your doors, you will start after hearing this horrifying episode. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True C...
160. Twin Terrors: The Murder of Nikki Whitehead
April 06, 2022 21:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBJust after 3 PM on January 13th, 2010 a deputy driving through a gated community in Conyers, Georgia noticed two distraught teenage girls running frantically towards his car. 16-year-old identical twins, Jasmiyah & Tasmiyah Whitehead told the deputy that they had just come home from school and found their mother brutally murdered inside their home. Upon entering the house, police find signs of a violent struggle. The medical examiner said Nikki's death was a crime of passion; the killer b...
159. Three's A Crowd: Kahler Family Massacre
March 30, 2022 21:00 - 42 minutes - 96.3 MBHusband and father James Kraig Kahler took really good care of his family by being a great provider. His wife Karen was a pillar of the community who was busy raising their three children. From the outside, they seemed to be the perfect family but as we know no one is perfect. It seems Kraig liked things a certain way and by a certain way, I mean his way. He made rules for not only the children but for Karen as well. When things started to change, Kraig was not happy. When it was clear things...
158. An Unholy Death: The Murder or Margaret Ann Pahl
March 23, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes - 122 MBOn April 5, 1980, Sister Madalyn Marie went to prepare for Easter Sunday which was the following day, entered the sacristy and stumbled across a horrifying scene. 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl lay dead on the floor. Father Robinson was the main suspect but there wasn't enough evidence for him to be charged and the case went cold. Twenty-three years later the case would be reopened after a woman comes forward with allegations of ritualistic abuse within the Toledo diocese. The woman s...
158. An Unholy Death: The Murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl
March 23, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes - 122 MBOn April 5, 1980, Sister Madalyn Marie went to prepare for Easter Sunday which was the following day, entered the sacristy and stumbled across a horrifying scene. 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl lay dead on the floor. Father Robinson was the main suspect but there wasn't enough evidence for him to be charged and the case went cold. Twenty-three years later the case would be reopened after a woman comes forward with allegations of ritualistic abuse within the Toledo diocese. The woman s...
157. Smotherly Love: Kevin Boyd
March 16, 2022 21:00 - 44 minutes - 102 MBWe are headed north to Lake Orion, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. On August 6, 1994, a man was discovered on his apartment floor. His body is surrounded by blood. The man had fought furiously to escape his killer, as demonstrated by all the injuries on his face and body. His apartment showed no signs of a break-in, but it did look like someone had gone through the apartment. The man was Kevin Boyd, and his body was discovered by his son, Kevin, Jr. What the 16-year-old would encounter would...
156. Die, My Daughter, Die: The Murder of Tina Isa
March 09, 2022 22:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MBOn the night of November 5, 1989, first responders arrived at the 3700 block of Delor St in St Louis, Missouri. Inside of an apartment, next to two bloody knives, lay the body of 16-year-old Tina Isa. Tina's father said that he had killed her in self-defense. Police would learn Tina's father, Zein Isa, was a suspected ringleader of a Palestinian terrorist cell and had been under the watchful eye and ear of the FBI. The Isa's house had been bugged for some time and Tina's abuse and murder h...
Wondery Presents American Hostage: The Man with the Gun
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 10.6 MBIn the series premiere, radio DJ Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) receives an unexpected call from a listener that turns his life upside down. Follow American Hostage on Amazon Music, to hear all 8 episodes right now: wondrey.fm/OTC_AmericanHostage