Episodes
March 6, 2024
50. The Snowden Family Murders
Send us a text Martha McKay was found murdered on her family property in Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas. Her mother was found murdered on the same property twenty-four years earlier. . Travis Lewis was Martha's killer--the same pe...
Feb. 28, 2024
49. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 2
Send us a text In early 1970 Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald is awakened by the screams of his wife and daughters being attacked. He claims a group of drugged-up hippies were the intruders, but authorities quickly begin to question ...
Feb. 21, 2024
48. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 1
Send us a text At the height of the hippie culture and "Satanic Panic" in the early 1970s, a gruesome murder is committed at Fort Bragg, NC. A pregnant mother and her two small daughters are repeatedly stabbed to death. Her...
Feb. 14, 2024
47. A Valentine from Belle Gunness
Send us a text Belle Gunness also known as Hell's Princess was a pig farmer in the early 1900's. She posted help wanted and lonely hearts ads in newspapers--luring men to their deaths with promises of love and wealth. Music B...
Feb. 7, 2024
46. Horror Story on Smuttynose
Send us a text On March 5, 1873, two women were found brutally axed to death on the secluded Smuttynose Island just off the coast of Maine. Music by Isaiah Hildreth Male Narrator Curtis Hildreth Sources: Mystery on the Isles ...
Jan. 24, 2024
45. The Mysterious Death of Smith Reynolds
Send us a text Accident? Suicide? Or Murder? The question of "Z" Smith Reynolds' death is still not answered to this day more than ninety years later. The wealthy heir of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco fortune was shot on his sleepi...
Jan. 17, 2024
44. Grave Consequences
Send us a text On March 1, 1922, Tennessee sent four men ( under the age of twenty) to the electric chair to pay with their lives for the life they took. Music by Isaiah Hildreth Male Narrator: Curtis Hildreth Sources: news...
Jan. 10, 2024
43. The Crimes of Georgia Tann
Send us a text Georgia Tann was a social worker whose crimes spanned three decades from the 1920s to 1950. What appeared to be benevolence on her part was actually greed and downright evil that affected many families during t...
Dec. 24, 2023
42. Christmas Eve Special - Lowe Daniels
Send us a text In 1914, Lowe Daniels lived in the Uwharrie forest. He made his living making and selling whiskey. One day he came home from a trip and out of nowhere, shot his wife, his wife's seventeen year old sister, his ...
Dec. 20, 2023
41. Serial Killing Mother
Send us a text In 1966 a father in Georgia died suddenly from an apparent heart attack. He was just 39 years old. Just seven months later his 13-year-old son became sick suddenly and passed away within a short time. Mysterio...
Dec. 13, 2023
40. A Christmas Mystery - What Happened to the Five Sodder Children?
Send us a text A fire broke out around midnight on Christmas Eve in 1945 at the Sodder house in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five of the Sodder family's ten children didn't make it outside with the rest of their family. Geo...
Dec. 6, 2023
39. The Boone Bathtub Murders
Send us a text During a snowstorm in early 1972, a Boone, NC family is shockingly murdered in their own home. At first, it appears to be a robbery gone bad, but upon further inspection, that theory does not seem to add up. It...
Nov. 22, 2023
38. Lowell Lee Andrews- Thanksgiving Day Murders
Send us a text Lowell Lee Andrews was a bright university student, and beloved son of a Kansas farmer. On Thanksgiving day in 1958, he would shock his community by murdering his family in order to get his inheritance. Sourc...
Nov. 15, 2023
37. The Confession of Alma Petty Gatlin
Send us a text In the Spring of 1927, Reverend Tom 'Thunderbolt' Pardue traveled to the tobacco growing town of Reidsville, North Carolina to hold a revival in the big McCollum tobacco Warehouse. One night after the ser...
Nov. 8, 2023
36. The Natalie Wood Thanksgiving Tragedy
Send us a text In 1981, Hollywood darling Natalie Wood invited friends to spend the after-Thanksgiving weekend with her and her husband Robert Wagner on their yacht Splendor . Most invitees declined due to bad weather but c...
Oct. 25, 2023
35. Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
Send us a text In 1892, in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, a wealthy older couple was axed to death in their own home in broad daylight. Almost immediately their thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, is suspect...
Oct. 18, 2023
34. "Countess Dracula" - Elizabeth Bathory
Send us a text Countess Elizabeth Bathory is in The Guinness Book of World Records for being the most prolific serial killer in the western world. She is alleged to have killed more than 600 virgins in order to drink their b...
Oct. 11, 2023
33. The Austrian Angels of Death
Send us a text Beginning in 1983, a group of four nurse aides began a killing spree that lasted for over six years. It began with a "mercy killing" but soon escalated into murder. The mastermind of the group came up with hor...
Oct. 4, 2023
32. The Man Who Stole Halloween
Send us a text If you were a child of the 70's and 80's , did your parents ever check your Halloween candy for poison or razor blades? If so, rumors surrounding the story in today's episode might have had something to d...
Sept. 27, 2023
31. Nell Cropsey: A Murder That Still Haunts North Carolina
Send us a text On the night of November 20, 1901, Nell Cropsey vanished from her family's home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Thirty-seven days later her body was found floating in the Pasquotank River. There was only eve...
Sept. 20, 2023
30. Who Would Want Patricia Dead?
Send us a text When a house fire in Pleasant Garden, NC is determined to have been started by arson, and a resident is found inside dead from a gunshot, the sheriff's department has its work cut out for it. Friends, family, a...
Sept. 13, 2023
29. The Hanging of Thomas Bowman
Send us a text In 1877, 47 year old Thurza Bowman died a violent death. An autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by strychnine. Suspicion would immediately fall on her husband. After many conflicting testimonies and two tri...
Sept. 6, 2023
28. Pardon Me: A Double Murder And The Question of Redemption
Send us a text During the early morning hours of July 16, 1898, eleven year old Wesley Elkins, with his baby sister in tow, alerted his neighbors that he had discovered his parents murdered in their bed. When authorities arri...
Aug. 23, 2023
27. Poor Naomi Wise
Send us a text Naomi (Omie) Wise was an orphan girl. She fell in love with a young gentleman named Johnathan Lewis. Naomi found out she was pregnant. When she told Lewis, he told her to meet him that night so they could ru...