Best Frauke Liebs Podcasts (2024)

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 44: Ryan Waller 29:20

8M ago29:20

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Subscriber-only episode FINAL EPISODE! On December 23, 2006, 18 year old Ryan Waller and his girlfriend Heather Quan were enjoying an evening together, but by Christmas Eve one of them would be dead. Police shook their heads, at another case of what they were sure was domestic violence. Or was it? This horrifying case was so badly mishandled... Wow…

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Season 5, Episode 17: Frauke Liebs 36:54

8M ago36:54

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Today’s case is one of the most bizarre in Germany’s crime history. It’s June 2006 and Germany is hosting the World Cup, with millions of people out and about watching the games. On June 20th, Frauke Liebs, 21, disappeared without a trace after walking home from an Irish Pub in downtown Paderborn. What’s so disturbing about this, is that Frauke sti…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 43: The true story behind Dirty John: Betty Broderick 57:15

8M ago57:15

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Subscriber-only episode "I realize now that he was right when he said our battles would continue until one of us was dead." These are the words from a betrayed wife whose husband seemed to be as bent on her destruction as she was determined to get him back from another woman who took him away. Betty Broderick’s life became notorious due to a highly…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 42: The Wendorf Family Massacre 40:53

8M ago40:53

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Subscriber-only episode Rod Ferrell was introduced to a game that invaded his mind. A game that would actually blur the lines of reality for him, and he would go on to believe that he was in fact a 500 year old vampire. But Rod wasn’t alone with this new found persona. His newfound blood lines would make him a cult leader in which he was willing to…

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Throwback to Season 3, Episode 9: Peter Masden the Trophy Husband & Human 33:22

8M ago33:22

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Danish engineer and mad inventor Peter Masden was intriguing to Swedish journalist Kim Wall. He was inspiring to many and well known for his rockets, space lab, and multiple submarines. But her story of a lifetime turned into making headlines in a very different way that she had expected. Peter secretly plotted to get her alone, under the ocean, an…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 41: Charles Schmid the Pied Piper of Tucson 53:34

9M ago53:34

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Subscriber-only episode Today’s episode is wild. We’re talking about Charles "Smitty" Schmid, a charismatic sociopath who compensated for his below average height by stuffing his cowboy boots with rags and crushed beer cans, wore pancake makeup, and sported a fake beauty mark on one cheek. He murdered three teenaged girls and buried their bodies in…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 40: The 40th Anniversary of Laura Parker 44:53

9M ago44:53

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Subscriber-only episode Laura Parker was a quiet 14 year old girl, who lived with her parents in Lindenhurst, New York. She had been in choir, active in church, and a softball player at her high school. She disappeared on May 25, 1984, but most people believed that she was a runaway. Laura’s parents knew better and wondered where she was, searching…

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Season 5, Episode 16: Far from Home: Philip Fraser 34:35

9M ago34:35

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In June of 1988, 23-year old Philip Fraser started his trek from Anchorage, Alaska to Olympia, Washington - where he was set to start his pre med classes at Evergreen State College. However, a week after he left, his vehicle was found abandoned and set on fire at a car wash in Prince George, British Columbia… and Philip was nowhere to be found… Mer…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 39: The Black Widower: Robert Spangler 50:28

9M ago50:28

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Subscriber-only episode Not long after Robert Spangler learned he was dying of cancer, detectives came knocking at his door on the chance he had something he might want to get off his chest before the end came. And he didn’t disappoint them. Spangler matter-of-factly admitted killing his family in 1978 and pushing his third wife, Donna, to her deat…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 38: The three disappearances of Hannah Upp 26:40

9M ago26:40

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Subscriber-only episode Hannah Upp, a 23-year-old middle-school teacher in New York City has disappeared three times. The first time was in August 2008 in New York City, where she was found floating in the Hudson River almost three weeks after she went missing. She was suffering from a rare form of amnesia called dissociative fugue. The second time…

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Season 5, Episode 15: The Beekman Hill Easter Murders 30:39

9M ago30:39

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On Easter Sunday, 1937, Robert Irwin, a talented and very disturbed young sculptor, who had been in and out of mental hospitals for years, committed a horrific triple murder in the fashionable Manhattan neighborhood of Beekman Hill. The victims were Veronica Gedeon, a beautiful true crime magazine model, her mother Mary, both strangled to death, an…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 37: The Murder of Kalinka Bamberski and a Father’s Revenge 41:13

10M ago41:13

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Subscriber-only episode A father’s love knows no bounds. André Bamberski would have moved heaven and earth for his daughter Kalinka....a fact that became clear after her mysterious death. Kalinka Bamberski suddenly died in July 1982 while living with her mother, Danielle, and stepfather, Dr. Dieter Krombach, at Lake Constance in southern Germany. S…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 36: The Silent Gallaudet Murders 39:31

10M ago39:31

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Subscriber-only episode Gallaudet University located in Washington DC, the only four-year school for the deaf and hearing-impaired in the ENTIRE WORLD, has a grim history. Just four weeks into the fall semester in 2000, a murder quietly took place, or so it seemed. The close knit campus was terrified and the language barrier created chaos between p…

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Season 5, Episode 14: Katie Collman's Revenge 28:57

10M ago28:57

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Katie Collman was a 10 year old girl that went missing in January of 2005 from Crothersville, IN. Five days later, she was found floating in nearby Lake Cyprus. After months of searching for her killer, a rather unusual suspect was convicted. Years later, behind prison walls, the monster would be reminded of what he did in a surprising act of reven…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 35: Tina Watson 38:05

10M ago38:05

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Subscriber-only episode The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of Australia’s most famous tourist attractions. Clear waters and tropical marine life make it popular with scuba divers from around the world. For American newlyweds Gabe and Tina Watson, a visit to the Great Barrier Reef was part of their dream …

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 34, The Kill Seven Murders, Archie McAfferty 50:09

10M ago50:09

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Subscriber-only episode In this exclusive episode of Judgy After Dark, join us as we delve into the case of Archie McAfferty, who vowed to kill seven people because voices in his head were urging him to do so. Archie McAfferty led a sinister life from the young age of just 10 when he started strangling animals. Known as "Mad Dog" in the annals of c…

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Season 5, Episode 13: The Rundle Family Murders 24:07

10M ago24:07

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Today we talk about a Valentine’s Day murder of a mother and her children which is sometimes referred to as the “Lonely Hearts Murders”. On February 14, 1985 Cassandra Rundle and her two children were found brutally murdered in their Colorado Springs home. In the months before her death, Cassandra had taken out personal ads in a local newspaper. Sh…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 33: Jane Andrews 47:37

11M ago47:37

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Subscriber-only episode It was kind of a Cinderella story…a young woman from a poor working class family to living at Buckingham Palace. Jane Andrews was a personal stylist for Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, Duchess of York. But it wasn’t her impeccable styling skills that made her famous. No, she gained worldwide attention for murdering her boyfriend, T…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 32, Part 2 Mother and Son Murder Team Sante and Kenny Kimes 24:59

11M ago24:59

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Subscriber-only episode Part 2 of the Sante Kimes criminal mind involves a plot twist in New York. She puts her son, Kenny, up to the ultimate scheme by creating an alias that allows him to get a suite in the home of a elderly woman's home with the intentions of killing her and forging a deed transfer to the property. Sante even dresses as this wom…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 31, Part 1 Mother & Son Murder Team Sante & Kenny Kimes 32:39

11M ago32:39

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Subscriber-only episode As if forging checks, stealing cars, burning down houses, shoplifting, and slavery wasn’t enough...this woman manipulated the world’s wealthiest people and then went on to murder them. In the 90's Sante Kimes demanded her son, Kenny, do her dirty work for her and together, they became “Mommy” and Clyde. Sante's crime spree l…

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Season 5, Episode 12: The Millionaire Model Murder ~ Iana Kasian 27:30

11M ago27:30

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In 2016, millionaire Blake Leibel tortured and mutilated Hollywood model Iana Kasian who had just given birth to their daughter. Presumed to be out of jealousy of the baby, he scalped Iana and drained her blood. The scene was similar to a grim novel he had helped create in 2010 called “Syndrome,” foreshadowing the tragedy. Non-Profit Mentioned: (Su…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 30: The Mysterious Life and Death of The Isdal Woman 50:54

11M ago50:54

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Subscriber-only episode The Isdal woman case has intrigued me for years and has led me down endless rabbit holes. It remains Norway’s greatest mystery, and for good reason. The Isdal Woman refers to an unidentified woman found dead in Norway in 1970. The case is shrouded in mystery, with elements of espionage and an unknown identity. Was it suicide…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 29, Monster in the Nursery Beverly Allitt 39:23

11M ago39:23

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Subscriber-only episode Beverly Allitt, also known as the "Angel of Death," became one of Britain's most notorious female serial killers. She terrorized 14 innocent babies and murdered four of them in under 60 days. This is the one of the worst cases of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy that I have ever covered, and this episode was extremely emotional …

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Season 5, Episode 11: Sherry Eyerly 33:15

11M ago33:15

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We’re back this week with a spine chilling case from Oregon. We’re talking about the abduction and murder of Sherry Eyerly, an 18-year-old Domino's Pizza delivery driver who disappeared without a trace in Salem, Oregon in 1982 after getting called out for a delivery. Despite an initial promising lead, Sherry’s case went cold. A Dallas psychic's dra…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 28: Marc Dutroux 42:46

12M ago42:46

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Subscriber-only episode When young girls started disappearing throughout Belgium in the 1990s, police had every reason to suspect Marc Dutroux. Not only had his own mother reported to the police that he was keeping girls prisoner in one of his several Belgium homes, but he had already been convicted of kidnapping and raping multiple young women and…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 27, The Unsolved Circleville Letter Mystery 26:36

12M ago26:36

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Subscriber-only episode In 1976, Circleville, OH residents mysteriously began receiving threatening and sometimes sexual letters. All of them were postmarked from nearby Columbus, without a return address, by an anonymous writer who claimed to be watching them. One woman in particular peaked the author’s interest, and her family was watched and tor…

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Season 5, Episode 10: The Little Girl Lost at Sea, Throwback 39:36

12M ago39:36

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An Unlocked Episode of Judgy After Dark! The incredible story of 11 year old Terry Jo Duperrault. She was not only the sole survivor of her family's murder, but she spent four days alone on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean until she was rescued. Subscribe today to hear a case every Friday for just $3/mo and support the show! https://www.buzzs…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 26: Serial Killer The Doodler 40:08

12M ago40:08

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Subscriber-only episode The Doodler is one of San Francisco's most infamous cold-case serial killers — although not for lack of leads. The Doodler is believed to have killed at least six and up to fourteen men in San Francisco between Jan. 1974 and Sept. 1975. He targeted gay men, likely luring them into sexual encounters before killing them and le…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 25, A Hometown Love Triangle with Mark Gerardot 25:49

1y ago25:49

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Subscriber-only episode Mark Gerardo and Jennair Cox met in Fort Wayne, IN and fell for each other as young teenagers. The pair would go on to marry, but like many marriages, it was not without struggles. Shortly after relocating to Deleware in 2017, Mark started falling for his new boss Meredith Chapman. He went on to have a affair with her, all t…

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Season 5, Episode 9: Tanja Ebert 30:49

1y ago30:49

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On August 8, 2017, Tanja Ebert, 23, mysteriously disappeared in Australia after her husband said they had an argument. Tanja, her husband and their two small kids lived on a remote outback property and supposedly Tanja just up and left without any of her belongings or HER CHILDREN after a day trip to Adelaide. She was reported missing two days afte…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 24: Where is Lars??? 33:52

1y ago33:52

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Subscriber-only episode What started as a fun Eastern European vacation ended in a family’s worst nightmare and remains a mystery to this day. 28 year old Lars Mittank, from Germany, joined his friends last minute on a trip to Varna, Bulgaria. His friends would return home safe, but Lars would vanish under extremely bizarre circumstances. Last sigh…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 23, Mary Vincent Survivor Story 31:46

1y ago31:46

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Subscriber-only episode Mary Vincent was picked up when hitchhiking at just 15 years old in CA, not realizing she would soon become the victim of a brutal attack that would include rape, torture, and the maiming of her arms. She would go on to become an advocate for other women, among many other things, and she is known to be an icon of survival. T…

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Season 5, Episode 8: Morgan Fox 32:39

1y ago32:39

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Just three years ago, FedEx turned their heads when Morgan Fox filed a complaint with HR regarding a co-worker that was stalking her. Jason McDermitt had taken her phone, downloaded private information including intimate pictures, and shared those with her co-workers. He was calling and texting her dozens of times a day...even tracking her location…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 22: The Murder of Bob Crane 39:42

1y ago39:42

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Subscriber-only episode On June 29th 1978 Hogan’s Heroes Star Bob Crane was found murdered in his apartment in Scottsdale, Arizona. After his death several details about his personal life were revealed to the public which only deepen the mystery of who was responsible for his death. Nonprofit organization: This organization is especially close to m…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 21, Johnny Gosch Vanished in 1982, then the Chilling Sightings of him Began 58:16

1y ago58:16

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Subscriber-only episode Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished in 1982, then the chilling sightings of him began. The 12-year-old was one of the first in the nation to have his photograph placed on a milk carton. His parents advocated for the Johnny Gosch bill, which passed, changing the way law enforcement handles missing children cases. From cults t…

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Season 5, Episode 7: Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer & Annette Schnee 35:29

1y ago35:29

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January 6, 1982 was one of the coldest nights of the winter, with temperatures dipping down to negative 20 degrees, when two young women vanished from the popular ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado within 3 hours of each other and were later found shot to death. Even though the women — 29 year old Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and 21 year old Annett…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 20: Father Hans Schmidt 44:59

1y ago44:59

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Subscriber-only episode When Hans Schmidt was a child in Bavaria, other kids played sports, but he liked going to the slaughterhouse to watch animals being killed. "Ich seh gern blut!" he'd say ("I like to see the blood"). The blood excited him—sexually excited him, noted his doctor. He also took to killing animals himself and carrying their heads …

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 19, Debbie Wilson's Murder on Campus 35:52

1y ago35:52

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Subscriber-only episode In 1984 Deborah Wilson's body was discovered on campus at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and investigators had four main suspects. The case was a tough one, and sat cold for eight years although the answer was right in front of them. It was presented to the Vidocq Society, a private organization that assists police, and …

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Season 5, Episode 6: Justice for Mercedes Vega 1:00:04

1y ago1:00:04

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You have a chance to help other women and also help solve this murder. This episode contains a detailed interview with both her mother and father, Tom and Erika Pillsbury. On April 16th 2023, Mercedes Vega was captured on CCTV footage walking into her apartment parking garage in Tempe, AZ. Just after the clip ends at 9:15pm, she encountered her kil…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 18: Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke 37:11

1y ago37:11

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Subscriber-only episode On October 6, 1983, the bodies of Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke, two German backpackers, were discovered in a wooded area west of Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada. Both victims had been shot in the head. Bernd and Andrea’s camping gear, passports, and travelers checks were missing from the crime scene. The following day…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 17, Did Johnny Garrett do it? 48:38

1y ago48:38

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Subscriber-only episode Johnny Frank Garrett was accused of murdering a Catholic nun who lived across the street from him. On Halloween in 1981, Sister Tadea Benz was the victim of a horrific murder in her seemingly safe St. Francis Convent. Many speculate that Johnny was wrongfully convicted, and that chilling theory seemed to prove itself when pe…

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Season 5, Episode 5: The Gunter Hotel: The Mysterious Murder and Haunting of Room 636 35:31

1y ago35:31

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Did you know San Antonio, TX is one of the most haunted cities in America? A hotel would not be complete without a ghost story attached to its history. The story goes that in February of 1965, a young man named Walter Emerick checked into the Gunter Hotel with a lovely young lady. Two days later Emerick committed one of the most horrific crimes in …

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 16: The Napa Halloween Murders 46:31

1y ago46:31

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Subscriber-only episode Today’s case is very scary and heart wrenching. We’re gonna be talking about what happened to Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara, both 26. This case happened on Halloween night in 2004 and it’s truly terrifying and so shocking. Home invasions are so frightening. Your home is where you should feel the safest. Roommates Lauren…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 15: Pastor John White's Halloween Murder 32:15

1y ago32:15

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Subscriber-only episode Sally met Pastor John White in 2006 on Halloween in Mount Pleasant, MI. Over the next six years, John did a fantastic job of fooling her as well as the congregation. He had been fantasizing about having relations with Sally's daughter, Rebekah, only he didn't want to just have his way with her. He wanted her to be dead while…

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Season 5, Episode 4: Issei Sagawa, The Cannibal that ate his Friend 19:23

1y ago19:23

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Issei Sagawa had disturbing unspoken fantasies from the age of just seven years old. He longed to eat people...and that is exactly what he grew up to do. Renee Hartevelt, his college friend, would be his meal for days on end. Not only did Issei fulfill his fantasy, he was able to walk freely and talk about it. He became a media sensation in Japan a…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 14: The Mysterious Unsolved Murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison 45:00

1y ago45:00

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Subscriber-only episode On the evening of Sept. 12, 1980, Rose Burkert, 22, and Roger Atkison, 32, checked into the Amana Holiday Inn along Interstate 80 near Williamsburg, Iowa, for a romantic getaway….but they never checked out. The next day, shortly after noon, a housekeeper discovered the couple dead in their room. Blood was splattered across t…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 13, Mysterious Death of Kurt Sova 37:20

1y ago37:20

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Subscriber-only episode Was it an accident, murder, or a conspiracy to hide an unimaginable truth? Over 40 years ago, on October 23rd, 1981, Kurt Sova went to a Halloween house party with a friend. The same night, he disappeared. Five days later, on Wednesday, October 28th, three boys discovered his body in an area that had already been searched. T…

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Season 5, Episode 3: Lisa Hullinger and Gloria Gomez 26:34

1y ago26:34

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Robert and Charlotte Hullinger, from Cincinnati, OH, formed Parents of Murdered Children after their 19 year old Daughter Lisa was brutally attacked by her ex boyfriend and died from her injuries on September 25th, 1978 in Hamburg, Germany while there on a work study program. 20 years later Gloria Gomez was murdered the same way….by the same guy. I…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark, Episode 12: The Lake Waco Murders- A case of mistaken identity? 1:03:08

1+ y ago1:03:08

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Subscriber-only episode On a hot summer night on July 13, 1982, three teenagers, Raylene Rice, Jill Montgomery and Kenneth Franks, were brutally murdered in Speegleville Park, near Lake Waco, Texas. That night the area was full of people, yet nobody saw the trio leave the area, no one heard any screams and no one saw any kind of commotion on the ot…

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🔒 Judgy After Dark: Episode 11: Franki & Johnny Part 2 25:33

1+ y ago25:33

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Subscriber-only episode CRIMINAL BEATS SERIES: Surprise! This is Part 2 of the song, "Franki & Johnny," a murder ballad based on two different murders! This episode includes the second murder, the story of Franki Silver. Franki killed her husband in the remote mountains of North Carolina around 200 years ago and the legend has been talked about eve…

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