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Jan. 8, 2023

Chapter 22: The Murder of Sherri Rasmussen Part 1

In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen was newly married and had the career of her dreams. she was beautiful and intelligent and had a wonderful life ahead of her with her husband, John Ruetten. On February 24th, 1986 tragedy would strike...

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Dec. 18, 2022

Chapter 21: The Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott *Reupload*

Reuploaded without the metronome sound :,) 32 year old Dorothy Scott was a loving, single, single mother who loved nothing more that spending time with her 4 year old son when she wasn't at work. she was known for living a ve...

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Dec. 11, 2022

Chapter 20:The Murder of Lynnette Quast Craft

Lynnette Quast and Thomas Crafts were high school sweethearts when they got married at 21 in august of 1985. For a few years, everything is great and they're building a good life together. After Lynnette gets pregnant with th...

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Dec. 4, 2022

Chapter 19: The Mysterious Death of Geetha Angara

In 2005, Geetha Angara was a 43 year old chemist working for the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, New Jersey. On February 8th, she went down to the facility's underground water tanks in order to do some routine reca...

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Nov. 27, 2022

Chapter 18: The Murder of Colleen Ritzer

Colleen Ritser was a 24 year old Algebra Teacher in Danvers Massachusetts, known for her passion for teaching, her big heart, and her warm smile. Philip Chism was a 14 year old freshman, new to Danvers from Tennessee with a p...

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Nov. 20, 2022

Chapter 17: The Murders of the Kern and Ventura County Jane Does

In July of 1980, the bodies of two unidentified women were found. One in an Almond Orchard in Kern County and one 4 days later, 180 miles away in Ventura County, California. No one knew who they were or who killed them. Over ...

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Nov. 13, 2022

Chapter 16: The Brutal Murder of Junko Furuta

This Chapter comes with a very big trigger warning. if anyone planning on listening to this chapter is sensitive to or triggered by discussion of SA or graphic details, please skip past this chapter. we don't want anyone to b...

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Nov. 6, 2022

Chapter 15: The Disappearance and Mysterious Death Of Elizabeth Salga…

In march 2015,Elizabeth Salgado came to America from Mexico in order to learn English and be among fellow Mormons in Provo, Utah.She was described as being a shy, spiritual woman, who was excited for new opportunities.After j...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Chapter 14: The Vampire Cult Murders Part 2

Happy Halloween guys!! In Part 2 of The Vampire Cult Murders we fall down the rabbit hole into the Wendorf Murders, discussing how they were murdered, and the events leading up to, and following them. Rod Ferrell is just as s...

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Oct. 30, 2022

Chapter 13: The Vampire Cult Murders Part 1

On November 25th, 1996, Jennifer Wendorf came home from an evening with her boyfriend to find her parents, Richard and Ruth Wendorf, brutally murdered in the family home. to add to this horrific sight, her younger sister, Hea...

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Oct. 29, 2022

Chapter 12: The Death Ship of the South Seas Feat. Special Guest

In the late 1940's, the S.S. Ourang Medan sent out an S.O.S. to near by ships asking for urgent help and that everyone was dead. when help arrived, the whole crew was dead, including the ship's dog, and every single one of th...

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Oct. 23, 2022

Chapter 11: The Man That Killed Halloween

Ronald Clark O'Bryan never really took his children, Elizabeth and Timothy, Trick r' Treating. On October 31st 1976, he decided this was the year he was going to take them. This should be a fun night for a father and his chil...

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Oct. 16, 2022

Chapter 10: The Mysterious Death of Christina Kettlewell *Reupload*

On May 20, 1947, Christina and Jack Kettlewell were spending their honeymoon in a cottage in a remote area of Severn Falls in Canada.....along with Jack's roommate, Ronald Barrie. When the cottage suddenly catches fire, and J...

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Oct. 10, 2022

Chapter 9: The Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart

On September 22nd 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart, a beautiful, kind, and intelligent 16 year old girl was house sitting for her Aunt and uncle. She hung out with her boyfriend, Matt Beckham, and 2 school friends, Torey Adamcik and ...

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Oct. 2, 2022

Chapter 8: The Icebox Murders Feat. Special Guest Gerald Ferra

On June 23rd 1965 police were called to do a welfare check on 81 year old Fred Rogers and his 72 year old wife, Edwina Rogers. Police were unprepared for the horrific scene that would await them concealed within the Rogers' I...

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Sept. 25, 2022

Chapter 7: The Disappearance of Nicholas Barclay

On June 10th 1994, 13 year old Nicholas Barclay went to the park near his home in San Antonio, Texas. When it was time for him to come home he called for a ride but was told to walk home. Nicholas never came home from the par...

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Sept. 18, 2022

Chapter 6: The Farmville Murders

In 2009, 20 year old Richard Sam McCroskey was going to a horror core music festival with two girls he met on myspace, 18 year old Melanie Wells and 16 year kid Emma Neiderbrock whom sam saw as his long distance girlfriend. w...

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Sept. 11, 2022

Chapter 5: Sakakibara Seito-The Kobe Child Killer

In 1997, The town of Kobe Japan had a killer targeting children on the loose. The only true leads investigators had to go on was notes written in red ink that had been left at the crime scene and mailed to the press. these le...

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Sept. 4, 2022

Chapter 4: The McStay Family Murders Pt. 2

In Part 2 of the Mcstay family murders, we go over the absolute mess that was the Trial of Charles Ray Merritt, and a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence. we also discuss Dan Kavanaugh and the theory surrounding him. Court...

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Aug. 28, 2022

Chapter 3: The McStay Family Murders Pt. 1

In Part 1, We discuss the disappearance and eventually discovery of the McStay Family. Who killed this loving family and why did it take almost 4 years to find them? This case goes down one hell of a rabbit hole and I took a ...

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Aug. 21, 2022

Chapter 2: The Murder of Breck Bednar

Breck Bednar was 13 years old and the brightest future ahead of him. He was incredibly intelligent and an absolute whiz at computers, he could have done anything he wanted with his life, until Breck met Lewis Daynes and every...

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Aug. 14, 2022

Chapter 1: The Lainz Angels of Death

From 1983-1989, 4 women terrorized the patients in Pavilion 5 at Lainz Hospital in Vienna Austria. From administering overdoses to torturing them with "the water cure" the Lainz "Angels of Death" murdered anyone that they dee...

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