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Reddit’s Craziest Serial Killer Encounters
<p>Most people will never knowingly meet a serial killer. The people in these Reddit stories did, and only realized how close they came when a familiar face showed up on the evening news…<br><br>Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga swap four real-life brushes with serial killers from Reddit, hearing each story for the first time, and they're joined by a special guest, SNOOK, for one of them. A charming stranger asks a woman and her niece to meet him under a bridge at 2am, a mother at a remote garbage station locks eyes with a man who would be...
Keeshae Jacobs: A Mother's Suspicion Pt. 1
<p>On the evening of September 26, 2016, 21-year-old Keeshae Jacobs left her mother's house in Richmond, Virginia in black basketball shorts, pink Nikes and a pink headscarf. She told her mother and brother she'd be back in the morning to make pancakes. A friend drove her to a red brick row house in Church Hill. Just after 11 p.m. she texted her mother that she'd made it there safely, and that she loved her. Her phone went dead the next morning. Her mother suspected one man. It would take years before investigators finally agreed.</p><p>For part 2, follow The Final...
Ed Gein: Two Murders, Three Horror Films
<p>In November 1957, police in Plainfield, Wisconsin went looking for a missing hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, and found her body in a shed behind Ed Gein's farmhouse. Inside the house, they found furniture, clothing and keepsakes made from human remains. Gein admitted killing Worden and a tavern owner named Mary Hogan, and to robbing more than 40 graves. He was found unfit to stand trial; when he was tried in 1968, a judge convicted him of a single murder and found him legally insane. He died in a state hospital in 1984. In the meantime, his farmhouse had reshaped American horror three...
Halloween Terrors: Best of Horror Explained | The Backrooms
<p>In 2018, an anonymous user posted a photograph of an empty yellow room on 4chan — no caption, no story, no name. A year later, two paragraphs turned that image into one of the most elaborate horror mythologies the internet has ever produced. What followed was a global phenomenon: hundreds of levels, thousands of contributors, and a teenage filmmaker handed a feature film deal by A24.<br><br>For more, follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226</p><p>If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case! To hea...
The Black Dahlia
<p>Before she was “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was a movie-struck kid from Massachusetts whose father vanished off a Boston bridge, then turned up alive twelve years later. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring traces who Elizabeth really was: the fiancé she lost days before the war ended, the stories she told strangers to get by, and the last place anyone can prove she was seen alive.<br><br>Follow America's Most Infamous Crimes to hear the rest of the story: https://pod.link/1882861002</p><p>If you’re new here, don’t f...
Carl Panzram: The Man Who Hated Everyone
<p>Carl Panzram wrote his autobiography in prison — a document so violent and psychologically raw that the guard who helped him smuggle it out spent decades trying to publish it. He claimed murders on three continents and crimes across America, Africa, and Central America. In Part 1, Vanessa and Dr. Engels trace Panzram's catastrophic childhood in Minnesota reform schools where every attempt at rehabilitation produced only greater fury.<br><br>Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769285458</p><p>If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case...
UNSOLVED: Villisca Axe Murders Pt. 1
<p>On the evening of June 9th, 1912, Josiah and Sarah Moore walked their four children home from a Children's Day program at the Presbyterian church in Villisca, Iowa. Two young sisters, Lena and Ina Stillinger, had been invited to stay the night. By the next morning all eight of them had been murdered with an axe in their beds while the small southwestern Iowa town slept, in what became known as the Villisca axe murders. Josiah ran the local farm implement dealership and Sarah had organized the church program that evening; the Moore children were 11, 10, 7 and 5. There was no forced...
Reddit’s Creepiest Halloween Crimes
<p>On the one night a year everyone wears a mask, how do you know who's really dangerous?<br><br>Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga trade four chilling Halloween stories from Reddit, hearing each one for the first time. A masked intruder hides in the dark watching a shop owner, then vanishes without a trace. A stranger in a truck turns a walk home into a nightmare. Michael Myers follows two girls all the way to their front door. And a five-year-old casually describes the last time he was murdered. Plus, the spookiest Halloween moments Reddit has ever shared.<br><...
Cindy Song: The Last Halloween
<p>On Halloween night 2001, 21-year-old Penn State senior Cindy Song went out dancing with two friends in State College, Pennsylvania. Just before 4 a.m., one of them dropped her off and watched her climb the stairs to her apartment. After that, she vanished. Inside, police found a pair of false eyelashes set down on the counter and her backpack with her cell phone still zipped inside — the only signs she ever made it home. Her keys, her wallet, her ID and her costume were gone. And the front door was locked from the outside.<br><br><br>For part 2, follow Th...
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Amityville: Hoax or Haunting?
<p>In November 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed six members of his family in their house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Thirteen months later, George and Kathy Lutz moved in with their three children and left after 28 days, describing green slime, swarms of flies, a demonic pig and voices in the walls. The book that followed sold in the millions and launched one of the most profitable horror franchises in history. Then the story started coming apart, and the word attached to it was hoax: neighbors reported nothing, and investigators found no records supporting key events. DeFeo's...
