Send us a Text Message. In this week’s episode, we welcome host of the podcast 3 Spooked Girls, and true crime TikTok creator Spooky Sleuth, aka Tara. She shared her true crime origin story, what it’s like to be a magnet for the paranormal, and detailed some of the cases she has unpacked on Tiktok recently. Original music and audio production by Lo…

Send us a Text Message. In this week's episode, we spoke to the hosts of true crime and spooky time podcast, Bloodbath. Jamie and Ashley have been through a lot together -- friends since childhood, they teamed up to start a podcast in 2020 and very quickly became embroiled in a battle to save their brand. They shared how it all went down, the cases…

Send us a Text Message. On May 2nd, 27 year old mother Karlie Langley was killed in a crash by a drunk acquaintance taking her to work. For her family, the nightmare was just beginning as they came to discover that the driver of the car, Jacob Hall, had several previous DUIs, and witnesses have alleged that Karlie had desperately wanted out of the …

Send us a Text Message. After a fight with his girlfriend, Calvin “Johnny” Hunt allegedly asked to be let out of the car on the side of a freeway in Cleveland, TN on May 29th, 2019. But Johnny hasn’t been seen or heard from since, and his brother, Brian, isn’t sure what to believe about what happened that night. This week, we’re joined by Brian, wh…

Send us a Text Message. On the evening of January 17th, 2020, Veronica Reyes Diaz went out to dinner with friends in Dover, Florida. After putting her kids to bed, she stepped outside, never to be seen again, leaving her keys, wallet, and cash inside of her car parked at her home. At a glance, Veronica’s case is a mystery with no leads in sight, bu…

Send us a Text Message. The future of law enforcement has arrived, through a ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Program’ with a tiered system aimed at rehabilitation using aversion therapy on tougher cases like serial rapists and killers. But Grace Gunnarsson, a highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrist, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the syst…

Send us a Text Message. Aurora and Angelina chat with Katrina Overstreet, whose sister Cieha Taylor is missing. Cieha was last seen when she dropped her boyfriend off at a friend's place on February 6th, 2020. Her car was found running near the railroad tracks that evening, with her belongings inside. Katrina has been fighting to spread the word ab…

Send us a Text Message. Aurora and Angelina welcome to the show Brittany Rohr, trafficking survivor and founder of Kind I Am. As a busy college student juggling two jobs, Brittany didn’t immediately identify the red flags in her new relationship. It wasn’t until her physical and mental health began to deteriorate that she sought help and realized s…

Send us a Text Message. We're back with updates on the case of Derek "Ritzy" Ritz, which we first discussed on the show in October of 2021. Ritzy is the only missing person in Stratford, Ontario, and has been missing for over six years, yet the local police department isn't giving his case any attention. But thanks to the determination of Ritzy's f…

Send us a Text Message. While we're on hiatus, enjoy this episode from fellow Darkcast Podcast, Horrifying History: ----- Through the years, the little tasks that we have to do evolve with time and technology. We don’t have to go to the grocery store any longer with grocery delivery or meal preparations services. We don’t have to vacuum our floors,…

Send us a Text Message. While we're on hiatus, enjoy this episode from fellow Darkcast podcast, Beyond the Rainbow: ----- Join C.J. as she tells you how citizen detectives helped to solve a 33 year old cold case of porn star Billy London who was murdered in West Hollywood. This story has a bunch of twists and turns! The true crime quickie is that o…

Send us a Text Message. While we're on hiatus, enjoy an episode from our fellow Darkcast podcasters at ODFM: ----- Can being on drugs be a viable defense for murder? We’re not talking prescribed drugs, here. Travel to Canada with us for this creepy Halloween day story complete with a zombie and a psycho killer. Hosted by Jenna Swanson and Kelly DeV…

Send us a Text Message. This week marks seven years since the death of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson in Burlington, Iowa. The teen was gender nonconforming and non-binary, and was murdered seemingly in response to that gender expression. Still Kedarie's killers, two cisgender men, were not charged with a hate crime. Writing and research by Aurora Cad…

Send us a Text Message. The tiny town of Texarkana, which straddles the state line separating Texas from Arkansas, was tormented by a string of violent attacks in the 1940s. A mysterious assailant dubbed 'The Phantom Slayer' preyed upon young couples parked on lovers' lanes, sending Texarkana into a tailspin. Residents gripped by mass hysteria boug…

Send us a Text Message. After she was found brutally murdered in December of 1995, the community of Mansfield, Texas mourned the loss of 16-year-old Adrianne Jones. Investigators were baffled as to who could have wanted to harm the bright, popular high school student. The details of her vicious attack came to light during a trial that wrapped up tw…

Send us a Text Message. Part one of a true crime Valentine's Day special featuring the hosts of a selection of Darkcast podcasts. Check out www.darkcastnetwork.com for more info! Support the Show.By MurderMurder.News

Send us a Text Message. Part one of a true crime Valentine's Day special featuring the hosts of a selection of Darkcast podcasts. Check out www.darkcastnetwork.com for more info! Support the Show.By MurderMurder.News

Send us a Text Message. For years in Salt Lake County, February 9th was a date fraught with nervous anticipation. After the slaying of 6-months-pregnant Sonia Mejia in 2006 and Damiana Castillo in 2008, a dedicated police task force patrolled the area in hopes of preventing a repeat killing in the years that followed. It wasn’t until 2016 that auth…

Send us a Text Message. Have you ever wondered if traumatic brain injuries increase one’s likelihood to commit a violent crime? Or if there’s a correlation between bedwetting and serial killers? We chatted with Neuropsychologist Dr Fanny about indicators that may or may not predict a tendency to commit a crime. Original music and audio production b…

Send us a Text Message. On January 26th 2011, 27-year-old schoolteacher Ellen Rae Greenberg was found dead in the kitchen of her Philadelphia loft. Ellen's fiancé, Sam Goldberg, allegedly came home from the gym to find the door locked from the inside. When there was no answer from Ellen, Sam broke the door down and discovered her lifeless body insi…

Send us a Text Message. Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead grew up in a family that their counsellor says "thrives in chaos." The twins bounced back and forth between their mother and great-grandmother's houses while a generational power struggle simmered. By the time Jas and Tas were teenagers, they were sick of it. A heated argument at their mother'…

Send us a Text Message. Three years ago this week, Jocelyn Watt was found murdered in her home alongside her partner on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Her mother and sister, Jade Wagon, became unexpected activists for MMIWG2S, but tragedy struck again when Jade disappeared almost a year to the day after her sister was murdered. Their mother…

Send us a Text Message. While we're on a short holiday break, enjoy an episode from one of our favorites, Lagim: A Filipino True Crime Podcast. This episode covers the murder of Caroline Crouch, a Greek student of Filipino and British descent, who was found dead in her home in an Athens suburb in May of 2021. From Lagim: In this episode of Lagim, I…

Send us a Text Message. Back to cheer you up after part 1's naughty stories, podcasters from Darkcast Network share some holiday stories from the 'Nice' category. Support the Show.By MurderMurder.News

Send us a Text Message. Podcasters from Darkcast Network share their naughty tales of true crime committed during the holiday season. Support the Show.By MurderMurder.News

Send us a Text Message. While we're on a short holiday break, we've decided to share some episodes from a few of our favorite podcasts with you. In this episode, Margot from Military Murder shares the story of lesser-known serial killer Rosendo Rodriguez III. ----- From Military Murder: In 2005, Summer Baldwin was discovered dead and stuffed into a…

Send us a Text Message. While we take a short holiday break this December, we're sharing some of our favorite podcasts with you. Today we're sharing an episode from a fellow Darkcast podcaster, Jasmine Castillo, who hosts 'Hands Off My Podcast.' The POD focuses on missing persons cases affecting the BIPOC community. A note from Jasmine about this e…

Send us a Text Message. We're on holiday for the month of December, so enjoy one of our fave episodes of the Cause of Death podcast, a fellow Darkcast member! ----- Contact me at the website: www.causeofdeath100secs.net Check it out, leave a review, leave me a voicemail or an email. Look at the blog posts. Join my mailing list. There are so many wa…

Send us a Text Message. Since the early 1970s, the area surrounding Canada's Highway of Tears has seen a number of mysterious disappearances and discoveries of human remains. It's difficult to estimate the number of victims who have fallen prey to murderers and serial killers who have made this corner of British Columbia their hunting grounds. RCMP…

Send us a Text Message. Just one year after buying their first home together, Keith and Elaine Dardeen had decided it was time to move from the small city of Ina, Illinois. With a population of under 500, Ina had a surprisingly violent history, and the young couple dreamed of moving their growing family to a community that felt safer. The Dardeens …

Send us a Text Message. Fourteen years ago this week, 14-year-old Sabrina Matthews lost her life in a vicious stabbing attack that took place in her family home in Cambria Heights, a predominately black, middle class neighbourhood in Queens, NY. The heinous crime's mysterious perpetrator evaded capture as the case went cold for almost a decade. Six…

Send us a Text Message. Gwendolyn Graham and her girlfriend Cathy Wood met while working in a nursing home in Grand Rapids, MI. Their volatile relationship escalated as the two shared dark fantasies of committing murders together. They discussed targeting their coworkers at the nursing home, before settling on much more vulnerable victims -- the pa…

Send us a Text Message. Everyone's entitled to one good scare on Halloween but the podcasts of the Darkcast Network have enough scares to fill any trick-or-treat sack -- No razor blades, we promise! Featuring spooky stories told by the hosts of Murder Murder News, Sinister Story Hour, Beyond the Rainbow, Cause of Death, Octoberpod AM, Rogue Darknes…

Send us a Text Message. Fourteen years ago this week, tragedy tore through the close-knit family of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson. When Jennifer's sister Julia Hudson tried to separate herself from her possessive husband, William Balfour, domestic abuse escalated to triple homicide. While still processing the loss of their closest relatives, t…

Send us a Text Message. Elizabeth Olten was just 9 years old when she disappeared from her neighborhood in St. Martins, MO on October 21st, 2009. Authorities were puzzled as to how this sweet girly-girl could have vanished so suddenly, and so close to home. The community quickly assembled to perform an all-out search of the woods nearby to where sh…

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to our first ever LIVE show, recorded at the PNW True Crime Fest in Auburn, WA! Thirty two-year-old actress Misty Upham disappeared from her family home in Auburn, WA eight years ago this week. After a lifelong struggle with mental health issues and navigating a very broken system, the system failed Misty one last ti…

Send us a Text Message. Today marks the 24th anniversary of one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in American history. Beaten, tortured, and left for dead, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was found tied to a fence in a remote field near Laramie, Wyoming. Irreparable damage to his brain stem left Matthew in a coma, and he never regained conscio…

Send us a Text Message. An unprecedented act of domestic terrorism hit the United States 40 years ago this week. Prior to 1982, there was no tamper-resistant packaging, and every product on store shelves across the country was vulnerable. Our approach to food and drug safety was forever changed when an unknown assailant left cyanide tainted bottles…

Send us a Text Message. Ten years after the release of the horror classic Scream, the film served as the disturbing inspiration for the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. Hired to house sit for family members, the teen was killed in a quiet country home in Pocatello, Idaho. Tucked away out of view from neighbors, Cassie's attackers …

Send us a Text Message. Fifty nine years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of…

Send us a Text Message. Twenty three years ago today, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft was murdered by her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, and his girlfriend, Linda Henning. Girly Chew met Diazien during one of several trips to the United States from her home country of Malaysia in the early 1990s. After immigrating to marry and start a n…

Send us a Text Message. When mummified human remains were discovered inside of a 55-gallon drum stashed in the crawlspace of a Long Island home, Nassau County investigators had to work backwards to solve a mysterious murder case three decades in the making. The victim was a young, Latinx woman with an almost full-term pregnancy, but a search of mis…

Send us a Text Message. Forty years ago today, 3-year-old beauty queen Rachael Runyan was abducted from a playground near her family's home in Sunset, Utah. After a nearly month-long manhunt, her body was found in a canyon about 15 miles away. Rachael's 5-year-old brother Justin and another older boy witnessed the abduction and saw the man who took…

Send us a Text Message. In August of 1987, Donald Harvey pled guilty to 37 murders committed over a span of nearly two decades. Harvey mostly preyed upon patients at hospitals where he was working, and he proclaimed himself to be an 'Angel of Death,' killing to relieve sick people of their pain. As the manner of his sadistic crimes came to light, i…

Send us a Text Message. Georgia Leah Moses disappeared from Santa Rosa, CA on August 13th 1997. Nine days later, the 12-year-old girl's dead body was found alongside Highway 101 in Petaluma. Georgia's short life was marked by failures of the system, which sadly continued to fail her in death. Even Georgia's name was printed incorrectly by the media…

Send us a Text Message. On July 29th 1999, Mark O. Barton unleashed his paranoid wrath in the form of a shooting spree that targeted his colleagues at two day trading firms in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The close proximity and similar settings of the two office buildings made for much confusion among authorities and 911 dispatchers, allowing Bar…

Send us a Text Message. Jacqueline Reyes has been missing from Boynton Beach, FL since June 1, 2022. Thirty-year-old Jacky left the home she shared with her aunt in the middle of the night, after the two had an argument. Though neither authorities nor the media seem to be giving her case much attention, Jacky's family know that it isn't like her to…

Send us a Text Message. Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler targeted women addicted to crack, incorrectly assuming that none of his victims would be missed. Sowell sexually assaulted countless women, and murdered eleven, whose decomposing bodies were found hidden around his family home in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Cleveland Poli…

Send us a Text Message. Today marks the 46th anniversary of the largest ever kidnapping for ransom in the US, which spawned the largest manhunt in California history. The unprecedented abduction saw 26 children aged 5-14 and their 55-year-old bus driver intercepted on their regular route and redirected to an underground prison dug out by their capt…

Send us a Text Message. Alton Coleman and Debra Brown were a young couple from Illinois who together went on a murderous rampage across the midwest in 1984. The duo's 53 day reign of terror spanned 6 states, and resulted in a trail of murders, rapes, and robberies. This violent spree resulted in the deaths of eight people, and left many traumatized…