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Chapter 140: Anchored in Evil - The Murders of Tom and Jackie Hawks
April 28, 2026

Chapter 140: Anchored in Evil - The Murders of Tom and Jackie Hawks

On the coast of California, in November 2004, retired couple Tom and Jackie Hawks thought they were closing a new chapter, selling their yacht and preparing for a quieter life. Instead, they were lured into a meticulously pla...

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Chapter 139: A Mother’s Voice-The Death of Jax Gratton w/ Rainbow Crimes
April 22, 2026

Chapter 139: A Mother’s Voice-The Death of Jax Gratton w/ Rainbow Cri…

When Jax Gratton disappeares on April 15, 2025, those closest to her knew something was wrong. Weeks later, her body is found, but the answers never came. In this episode, I joined CJ from Rainbow Crimes Podcast to take a deeper look at Jax’s case,...

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Chapter 138: Dog O' War-Diane Whipple and The Aryan Brotherhood w/ Aphrodite Jones
April 6, 2026

Chapter 138: Dog O' War-Diane Whipple and The Aryan Brotherhood w/ Ap…

On January 26, 2001, 33-year-old Diane Whipple returned to her apartment building in San Francisconever knowing she was walking into a deadly encounter. Just outside her door, she was brutally attacked by two massive Presa Ca...

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Chapter 137: The Case Against Liz Golyar-The Twisted Case of Cari Farver Part 2
March 31, 2026

Chapter 137: The Case Against Liz Golyar-The Twisted Case of Cari Far…

After years of terrifying messages, threats, and manipulation, the truth behind Cari Farver’s disappearance finally begins to surface.In Part 2, investigators uncover a chilling web of deception that points not to an unknown ...

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Chapter 136: Stalked From The Shadows-The Twisted Case of Cari Farver Part 1
March 24, 2026

Chapter 136: Stalked From The Shadows-The Twisted Case of Cari Farver…

In 2012, Cari Farver after blowing up at the man she had been seeing, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska but what followed made no sense. Her family, Dave Kroupa who she had been dating, and a woman named Liz Golyar, who dated the...

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Chapter 135: Felony Review-Tales of True Crime & Corruption in Chicago w/ Randy Barnett
March 15, 2026

Chapter 135: Felony Review-Tales of True Crime & Corruption in Chicag…

Today, I sat down with Randy Barnett, professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and former prosecutor for the City of Chicago. He joins me ...

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Chapter 134: Gone in Minutes-The Disappearance of Myra Lewis
March 10, 2026

Chapter 134: Gone in Minutes-The Disappearance of Myra Lewis

Two-year-old Myra Lewis disappeared from her rural Mississippi home in 2014 while playing outside with her siblings. Despite one of the largest searches in state history, she has never been found. This episode explores the ti...

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Chapter 133: Cold Case Breakthrough-The Murders of The Kern and Ventura County Jane Does
March 3, 2026

Chapter 133: Cold Case Breakthrough-The Murders of The Kern and Ventu…

In 1980, two unidentified women were found murdered in California, one in Ventura County and the other in Kern County. For decades, they were known only as Jane Does, their names and stories erased by time. Their killer, Wils...

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The Yuba County Five w/ The Family Plot Podcast
Feb. 24, 2026

The Yuba County Five w/ The Family Plot Podcast

In February 1978, five young men vanished after attending a basketball game in Yuba County, California. Their car was later found abandoned deep in the snowy wilderness of Plumas National Forest far from their route and with ...

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Chapter 132: Buried Beneath The Water: The Death of Olivia Lone Bear
Feb. 17, 2026

Chapter 132: Buried Beneath The Water: The Death of Olivia Lone Bear

In 2017, Olivia Lone Bear disappeared from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Months later, her truck was discovered submerged in a reservoir, but the answers never surfaced. As the investigation stalled, the stor...

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Chapter 131: In the Shadow of the Sun-The Disappearance of Myron Traylor
Feb. 10, 2026

Chapter 131: In the Shadow of the Sun-The Disappearance of Myron Tray…

On a blisteringly hot day in Phoenix, Arizona, 13-year-old Myron Traylor set out with his mother to do laundry. He stopped for a drink as his mother continued on, promising to catch up with her, but he never did. What would f...

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Chapter 130: A Failure of Justice-The Murder of D’Lisa Kelley
Feb. 3, 2026

Chapter 130: A Failure of Justice-The Murder of D’Lisa Kelley

The 2014 unsolved murder of D’Lisa Kelley has raised serious questions about investigative decisions and accountability. In this episode, I explore the timeline of her case and the concerns surrounding the law enforcement res...

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Chapter 129: Small Town Silence-The Murder of Corinne Perry
Jan. 27, 2026

Chapter 129: Small Town Silence-The Murder of Corinne Perry

When 17-year-old Corinne Perry disappeared from Creston, Iowa, she seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving behind only an abandoned car and carefully folded clothes. The mystery of what happened in the hours before her death ...

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Chapter 128: A Stranger Came Home-The Disappearance of Nicholas Barclay
Jan. 20, 2026

Chapter 128: A Stranger Came Home-The Disappearance of Nicholas Barcl…

In 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay vanished from San Antonio, Texas, never to be seen again. Three years later, a young man claiming to be Nicholas resurfaced in Spain, but something wasn’t right. His accent was wrong. His...

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Chapter 127: Gone in the Dark-The Disappearance of Tera Lynn Smith
Jan. 13, 2026

Chapter 127: Gone in the Dark-The Disappearance of Tera Lynn Smith

18 years before Sherri Papini shocked the world with her kidnapping hoax, another girl vanished from Redding, California, but she never came home. When 16-year-old Tera Lynn Smith disappeared on a quiet night in August 1998, ...

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Chapter 126: The Final Call-The Murder of Robbie Doerr
Jan. 6, 2026

Chapter 126: The Final Call-The Murder of Robbie Doerr

What happens when the danger isn’t on the job, but waiting at home? Robbie Doerr was a veteran firefighter who never imagined the greatest threat would come from someone he trusted. When Evansville, Indiana, is rocked by the ...

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Chapter 125: Killed in Plain Sight-The Murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimbene
Dec. 16, 2025

Chapter 125: Killed in Plain Sight-The Murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimb…

A quiet afternoon. A parking garage. A crime that would haunt a community for decades. The murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimbene in 1976 shocked Englewood, New Jersey, but with little evidence and no suspects, her case faded into obscurity for three...

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Chapter 124: Missing in Midland-The Vanishing of Caitlin Denison
Dec. 9, 2025

Chapter 124: Missing in Midland-The Vanishing of Caitlin Denison

In January 2018, Reno native, 19-year-old Caitlin Denison arrived in Midland, Texas, with a man she barely knew, then vanished without a trace. Before she disappeared, she made chilling calls to her family, hinting that she f...

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Chapter 123: Missing from MacKay Court-The Murder of Brianna Denison
Dec. 2, 2025

Chapter 123: Missing from MacKay Court-The Murder of Brianna Denison

When 19-year-old Brianna Denison vanished from her friend's home in the early hours of January 20, 2008, the city of Reno, Nevada was on high alert, rallying to help find her and bring her home. As police worked with minimal ...

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Chapter 122: A South African Champion Silenced-The Murder of Leighandre 'Baby Lee' Jegels
Nov. 25, 2025

Chapter 122: A South African Champion Silenced-The Murder of Leighand…

Leighandre “Baby Lee” Jegels was a rising star in South African boxing; an undefeated fighter, a national karate champion, and a young woman whose strength inspired thousands. But behind the scenes, she was fighting a far mor...

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Chapter 121: Vienna's Ice Cream Shop Murders-The Case of Estibaliz Carranza
Nov. 18, 2025

Chapter 121: Vienna's Ice Cream Shop Murders-The Case of Estibaliz Ca…

When renovation crews began digging beneath a small ice cream shop in Vienna, they didn’t expect to uncover a gruesome secret. What they found unraveled the double life of Estibaliz Carranza, a woman who hid two murders for y...

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Novela 11: In The Matrix-The Death of Erin Valenti w/ The Final Trace
Nov. 11, 2025

Novela 11: In The Matrix-The Death of Erin Valenti w/ The Final Trace

In 2019, 33-year-old tech startup founder Erin Valenti, was on a work trip in Silicon Valley. At the end of her trip, she called her parents, telling them she couldn't find her rental car, but they were concerned by the stran...

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Chapter 120: New Jersey’s Coldest Cases-Who Killed Rosetta Jean-Baptiste and Michelle Lynn Howard?
Nov. 4, 2025

Chapter 120: New Jersey’s Coldest Cases-Who Killed Rosetta Jean-Bapti…

Two women. Two cities. Two tragedies that never made national headlines. Rosetta Jean-Baptiste was found dead in Ramsey in 1993; Michelle Lynn Howard’s body was discovered in Atlantic City almost a decade later. Today, I shed...

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Tales From The Darkcast Network Crypt Keeper
Oct. 30, 2025

Tales From The Darkcast Network Crypt Keeper

Welcome to The Crypt, where our Crypt Keeper awaits to bring you tales fit for a dark and scary Halloween night. From legends of witches and ghost ships, to the stories of recent memory's most horrific real-life killers, ther...

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