Episodes

  • Episode 197: Jessica Dishon | What the River Bottom Revealed

    Episode 197: Jessica Dishon | What the River Bottom Revealed
    Jan 26 2025
    17 year old Jessica Dishon was abducted from the driveway of her when she was leaving for school on the morning of September 10, 1999. The investigation, or lack thereof, that would follow would call into question just how safe the people of Shepherdsville, KY were and would shatter entire families in the process. Nothing can prepare you for this case.

    Trigger Warning: Sexual assault and abuse

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    Sources:
    https://www.wdrb.com/news/stanley-dishon-pleads-guilty-in-1999-death-of-jessica-dishon/article_0f2fd29d-c76b-5599-b6ba-ae80a4c09cd3.html
    https://www.belivewire.com/9864/features/too-close-to-home-the-tragic-case-of-jessica-dishon/
    http://kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/Details/92165
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jessica-dishon-cold-case-stanley-dishon-ky-teens-uncle-charged-with-her-murder-14-years-later/
    https://www.belivewire.com/10649/features/too-close-to-home-the-tragic-case-of-jessica-dishon-2/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/111647898/?terms=Jessica%20Dishon
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/180897664/?match=1&terms=david%20brooks
    Local newspapers accessed through Newspapers.com
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 196: Colleen Slemmer | The Cult of Christa

    Episode 196: Colleen Slemmer | The Cult of Christa
    Jan 12 2025
    On January 13, 1995 Detectives in Knoxville, TN arrived at a murder scene in Tyson Park. This was unlike anything they had ever seen before. In the dirt leading up to the victim’s body they found finger marks, which implied the victim had been physically dragged to a more remote location while fighting desperately to save her life. Her clothes were strewn up in the surrounding trees, covered in blood, and she had been beaten horrifically and slashed with what they assumed as a knife. She had a deep impact wound on the left side of her head and it appeared that brain matter was visible. This was a brutal murder and they knew it would rock the community of Knoxville, especially because the victim was college aged, and they had many universities and post high school programs located around them. But what the detectives feared far more than fielding phone calls from concerned parents was the fact that, in the midst of America’s ‘Satanic Panic’, their victim had a pentagram carved into her chest.

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    Sources:
    A Love to Die For by Patricia Springer
    Amazon Link for book
    https://casetext.com/case/state-v-shipp-13
    Newspapers.com Access to TN newspapers
    https://myfox8.com/news/court-upholds-sentence-for-only-woman-on-death-row/
    https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/09/17/christa-pike-death-sentence-isolation/
    https://casetext.com/case/pike-v-state-15
    https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0205p-06.pdf
    https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/response_-_to_motion_1.pdf
    https://archive.ph/20130127053544/http://www.ksdk.com/news/crime/article/311792/147/Death-row-inmate-woos-NJ-man-and-guard-to-help-plan-escape
    https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0205p-06.pdf
    https://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/3/11/319852/Chattanooga-Federal-Judge-Upholds.aspx
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode 195: The Duffield Family | Terror in Olathe

    Episode 195: The Duffield Family | Terror in Olathe
    Dec 29 2024
    On the night of January 27, 1983 John Duffield fell asleep to his television in his bedroom. His wife, Carole, was a nurse who worked the night shift, so sleeping alone was something that he had grown accustomed to, and why the droning noise of the television kept him company. But in the early morning hours he was awoken by the worst sound a parent could hear. He heard the frantic calls and moans of pain from his 15 year old son Paul, whom he knew had fallen asleep on the couch in the family living room. He rushed downstairs to his son and found him unresponsive and in a large pool of his own blood, a massive wound to his head. John could barely process what was happening. He was in shock. He rushed to the phone to call 911…but the phone lines were dead. He had no idea that the chaos of that night had only just begun.

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    Sources:
    Newspaper articles obtained through Newspapers.com ranging in date from January 29, 1983- February 2018 from the following news sources:
    Wichita Eagle
    Olathe News
    Council Grove Republican
    The Salina Journal
    Kansas City Star
    Kansas City Times
    St. Joseph’s News

    State v. Cade, Johnson County, No. K-44347
    https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1987/59-019-2.html
    https://www.kmbc.com/article/man-convicted-in-35-year-old-olathe-murder-wants-out-of-prison/18917466
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/in-loving-memory-of-john-carole-paul-kelly-and-janelle-duffield-273705412361/
    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal-duffield-murders-20/49041/
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Episode 194: Melissa Brannen | No One Saw a Thing

    Episode 194: Melissa Brannen | No One Saw a Thing
    Dec 15 2024
    In the tightknit community of the Woodside Apartments the residents gather each year for the Yuletide fest where everyone in the complex can eat, drink, and be merry as their children play games and visit with Santa. But, as is often the case, when we feel comfortable to let our guard down, that evil takes its opportunity to strike. In the middle of the residents catching up and talking about their holiday plans on that December night in 1989 a 5 year old girl, who had just been seen by her mother a minute prior, was kidnapped in the presence of 115 people. No one had seen anything.

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    Sources:
    https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9704a/11branne.htm
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/27/005r-112799-idx.html
    https://casetext.com/case/hughes-v-commonwealth-7
    https://www.woodsideapartmentslorton.com/sitemap.aspx
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1071961330/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/919607331/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
    https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-convicted-in-1989-child-abduction-sent-back-to-prison/3728108/
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/19/abductor-year-old-melissa-brannen-be-released-prison-after-years/
    Forensic Files: Innocence Lost (TV 1999) Season 4 Episode 5
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • Episode 193: Barbara Mackle | Loved one, please come home

    Episode 193: Barbara Mackle | Loved one, please come home
    Dec 1 2024
    Jane Mackle had been nursing her daughter, Barbara, back to health after she caught the flu during her finals week at Emory College in December of 1968 when two masked assailants rushed into their motel room and kidnapped 20 year old Barbara. What would follow would be one of the largest manhunts and rescue missions the FBI would ever take on. Join me as I tell John the story of Barbara Mackle.

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    Sources:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackle_Brothers
    https://www.themacklecompany.com/index
    https://people.com/barbara-mackle-kidnapping-buried-alive-8736831
    https://web.archive.org/web/20071110191155/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900442,00.html
    https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-293-RuthEismannSchier.jpg/view
    https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057-0
    "Buried Alive". FBI: The Untold Stories. Season 1. Episode 13

    Book: https://www.everand.com/read/305263613/True-Crime-Florida-The-State-s-Most-Notorious-Criminal-Cases
    https://www.everand.com/read/606716727/The-Fall-of-the-FBI-How-a-Once-Great-Agency-Became-a-Threat-to-Democracy
    Barbara’s Book: 83 Hours Until Dawn

    Herald from that day:
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621746964/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747024/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747030/
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Bonus Episode | Patreon Episode 120: The Case of Deborah Brown | A Knock at the Door

    Bonus Episode | Patreon Episode 120: The Case of Deborah Brown | A Knock at the Door
    Nov 27 2024
    Getting Ready for Thanksgiving? We have a bonus patreon episode for you to listen to. If you want another 128 bonus episodes join our patreon today!
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    As five residents slept peacefully in their beds in Lebanon, Maine, on the night of March 29, 1999, a sudden knock at their door would change all of their lives forever. Join me as I tell John about the case of Deborah Brown.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 192: Roy Melanson | The Smooth Talker

    Episode 192: Roy Melanson | The Smooth Talker
    Nov 17 2024
    Over the span of three decades a man left bread crumbs for law enforcement officers to find all over the country. Luckily, time and technology would eventually catch up to him and Roy Melanson would have to pay for the crimes he had committed and what he had taken from his victims and their families.

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    Sources:
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/?clearUserState=true
    https://vocal.media/criminal/murder-on-kebler-pass-road-michele-wallace
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9551613/michele_cecile-wallace
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/02/20/now-they-can-say-goodbye/
    https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2008/07/06/state-case-with-local-link/8483778007/
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83432208/margaret-cecilia-wallace
    https://www.wafb.com/story/12581570/deputies-charge-73-year-old-in-connection-with-1988-murder/
    Smooth Talker: Trail of Death by Steve Jackson
    Available: https://www.amazon.com/Smooth-Talker-Trail-Steve-Jackson/dp/194226643X
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Episode 191: The Colegrove Family | Blood in the Barrel

    Episode 191: The Colegrove Family | Blood in the Barrel
    Nov 3 2024
    Three members of the Colegrove family were brutally murdered in their home during a thunderstorm in a Pennsylvania town of roughly 379 people. Is the killer walking among them or is it the residents of the town that can help detectives find out who the killer is with their inside knowledge of the family.

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    Sources:

    https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2020/1220-mda-2019.html

    Newspaper articles arcdieved through Newspapers.com from:

    The Star-Gazette

    Times Tribune

    Citizen's Voice

    Press and un Bulletin

    2007-2009
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    1 hr and 21 mins