November 24, 2009. A husband and wife are splitting up. Maybe they’ve grown apart. Or maybe one of them put them 1 million dollars in debt just before the FBI begins an investigation into the family business for fraud. Whatever the reason, two go to bed and the next morning, only one is still alive. This is a story of greed, betrayal, fraud, murder…

From 1969 to 1975, one man known for his small stature and penchant for murder, claims to have killed between 80 and 90 people along the Carolina coast. Did he do it? Possibly. Much of what this killer told people about his life was fiction—or was it? What we do know is that he murdered at least fourteen—eight of whom were found buried in his perso…

Gerard John Schaefer was a man you would think you could trust. He was after all, a sheriff’s deputy. But after a botched encounter with two unsuspecting girls, Gerard is forced to turn in his badge, and what his fellow officer’s thought was merely bad judgement, turned into a nightmare of dead bodies, mementos and written stories of lust and murde…

As they embark in year five of podcasting and producing, Kris and Rob look back at some of the best moments in Season 4's, Well, Bless Your Heart. As they embark on the journey ahead, they express gratitude to their dedicated listeners for their unwavering support throughout the years. Join them in celebrating this milestone and stay tuned for what…

January 15, 1978, Blenheim House Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland. The hotel proprietor is suspicious about two new guests. Worried they wouldn’t be able to pay their bill when they checked out, he telephones the local police asking them run the registration plates on their car. When the plates didn’t match the vehicle, police arrested the two men, b…

February 21, 1977, Chicago, Illinois. Fire fighters and police are called to the scene of an apartment on fire. When they battle their way through the smoke on the 15th floor, they put out a blaze of clothing and a mattress. Underneath the mattress was 48 year old Teresita Basa, a respiratory therapist originally from the Philippines—dead with a bu…

July 10, 1981, Skidmore, Missouri. A man climbs into the cab of his pick-up truck after leaving the D & G Tavern. He starts the truck. Pausing to light a cigarette, shots ring out behind and in front of him, shattering glass and killing the man inside. Forty-five people witnessed the shooting, but when it was over, no one called 911. After picking …

March 15, 1947, Newport Harbor, California. Walter and Beulah Overell are enjoying a night on their yacht the Mary E. With their daughter, Louise and her fiancé, George Gollum, better known as Bud. Around 11 pm, Louise and Bud leave the yacht to go ashorelooking to get food at a late night burger joint. But when they returned to the pier, the yacht…

Mary Horton, Sharon Hensley and Annette Craver. Three beautiful women who either turn up dead or simply vanish from the earth. They were from all parts of the country, but with one thing in common. A man named William Felix Vail, Sr. It would be 54 years before he’s held accountable, and it would take more than police, but the families of his victi…

June 1, 1987, Fresno, California. 16-year-old, Theresa Ann Bier has made plans to skip school and go on an adventure into the Sierra Nevada Mountains with a 43-year-old self-proclaimed mountain man who is a known drug addict. His name is Russell Welch, better known as Skip. But when Skip came down the mountain alone, the story of what happened to T…

February 14, 2013, Peoria, Illinois. It’s the morning of Valentine’s Day, and Baptist Missionary, Nathan Leuthold has already adorned the kitchen table with roses and a heartfelt card for his wife, Denise. From the outside, the home of Nathan, Denise and their three precious children was filled with warmth and familiar love, but it would soon becom…

April 15, 2012, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Nineteen year old Tucker Cipriano and his new friend, twenty year old Mitchell Young are high on synthetic marijuana—K2 or Spice. Tucker, a troubled kid from the time he was adopted by the Ciprianos has decided he wants to murder a family for money and leave town never to be seen again. After several atte…

September 26, 2012, Los Feliz, California. Film and TV actor Johnny Lewis has moved back into a home at 3605 Lowry Lane. It’s a place affectionally known by writers, directors and actors as the Writer’s Villa. It’s a place Johnny has lived once before. But after only two days back in the home, Johnny will murder the owner of the house, Catherine Da…

October 16, 1931, Phoenix Arizona, Winnie Ruth Judd is visiting her two best friends, Anne and Sammy at their small bungalow—they’d been playing bridge. But when the night is over, only Ruth Judd is alive. And what follows would be a saga of death, dismembered bodies, playboys, leaking trunks, death sentences, escapes, confessions and commutations.…

September 13th, 1980, Fremont County, Wyoming. Gerald Uden is taking his two adopted sons Richard and Reagan bird hunting. His ex-wife Virginia has been giving him heartburn over child support payments—something that didn’t sit well with Gerald’s new bride, Alice. When the boys and their mother disappear that day and their abandoned car is found we…

February 23, 2023, Quincy, Illinois. Becky Bliefnick is home alone at her house on Kentucky Road when an intruder breaks in through the second story window. Chased down a hallway and trapped inside the master bathroom, Becky is shot 14 times and will suffer for minutes lying in the dark, waiting to die. The would-be assailant took nothing from the …

January 15, 1947, Hollywood, California. The lifeless body of a young woman is discovered severed at the waist, drained of all blood and washed clean. Her raven hair and porcelain skin a sharp contrast to the brutality of her murder. As the story goes, she was an aspiring actress who’d come to Hollywood to chase her dreams of fame, but she’d only b…

December 30th 1610. A powerful member of the Báthory clan of Transylvania is arrested after allegedly being found soaked in blood while tormenting a young girl. In fact, Elizabeth is said to have murdered as many as 650 young virgins according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Why? So she could bathe in their blood in order to stay young. Or w…

December 24, 2007. The Anderson Family is gathering in Carnation, Washington State. Parents Wayne and Judy, are celebrating Christmas with their son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Also joining the party is their daughter, Michele and her boyfriend, Joe McEnroe. But before all the Christmas presents are wrapped, Michele and Joe will open fi…

December 24th, 1992, Dayton, Ohio. Folks are enjoying the last days before Christmas. Families have gathered, children are keeping an eye out for Santa Claus, but something more sinister is afoot. Bored and looking for something to do, four teens and young adults decided they needed drama in their lives. So they went on a killing spree that lasted …

From July of 1974 until his capture four months later, an attractive man by all accounts, went on a killing spree. Officially, twenty victims have him to blame for their demise. Unofficially, the count could be much higher. He traveled over twenty thousand miles in four months, stopping, murdering and driving through twenty-five states—all with a c…

June 18, 1977, Tucson, Arizona. 39 -year-old Chuck Morgan is found lying near his new car, 40 miles west of his home—11 days after he disappeared. An escrow agent who owned his own business, police rule his death a suicide, but many believe it was cold-blooded murder due to his involvement with the mafia. A mystery to this day, two more deaths have…

Thanksgiving weekend 2016, Knoxville, Tennessee. The Guy family has gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving on Goldenview Lane. Joel and Lisa Guy are breaking bread and carving turkey with their three daughters from his previous marriage, their grandchildren, husbands and significant others. Also in town for the family gathering is twenty-eight year old…

In 1950, a man named Timothy Evans of South Wales is charged with the murder of his young wife and infant daughter. He told the court he was innocent, but no one believed him. He told the court the man responsible was John Reginald Christie—a man who testified against him for the prosecution, ultimately leading to Tim Evans’ death. Three years late…

August 6, 1966. A young man recently paroled from many burglaries is back on the streets of Texas. But on this night, he looking for more than just a break-in. After murdering three teens, he’d go to prison and sit on death row only to be set free and kill again. And again. And again. He had a few monikers, the broomstick killer, the broomstick mur…

In the early 70’s, over than span of two years, three young girls were taken in broad daylight just blocks from their homes in Rochester, New York. All with alliterative first and last names. All from broken homes. All dumped in areas with the same initial of their name. There were a few who were eyed as suspects, but even now, fifty years later wi…

August 1990, Gainesville, Florida. The University of Florida is ready to start a new fall semester on campus. But just days before, two Freshman girls are murdered in their apartment. One day later, another female at a nearby college is also murdered. Two days after the first murders, two more Florida students a male and female are killed—all bruta…

March 10, 2012 Draper, Utah. 15-year-old Annie Kasprzak sneaks out of her parent’s home to meet a boy—14-year-old Chris Bagshaw. She leaves behind a note for her mom and dad telling them she’s lied to her friends and she’s running away to California What happens that night will take the police on a wild goose chase and four years of waiting before …

May 10, 2019. It’s Mother’s Day, and mom Suzanne Morphew is home while her husband Barry is an hour and a half away on a job site. When Suzanne’s daughters can’t get in touch with their mother that Sunday they worry. But they aren’t the only ones. No one can seem to find Suzanne. Where had she gone? This case has more twists and turns than a cheap …

June 27, 1977 Elisabeth Congdon, heir to a copper and iron ore fortune is murdered in the family mansion in Duluth, Minnesota. Also murdered? Her unsuspecting night nurse. What happened after is a mystery many think is solved. But is it? The real question is how far will a family member go to acquire money. This is the Mysterious Homicide at Glensh…

August 11, 2016, the African country of Zambia. A married couple—Americans who were avid exotic game hunters—are packing up to go home to Arizona. But before they leave their cabin in the Kafue National Park, one of them is dead from an apparent accidental gun shot wound. But was it an accident? This case will span six years, two continents and thr…

August 14th, 1980. A man and woman are found dead in a West Hollywood home. One is a smalltime hustler, the other? A Playboy Playmate who’d gone from serving ice cream, to being in a movie with Audrey Hepburn. This true crime has been studied, captured in films and written about in songs. It is a story of jealousy, hatred and fear. One man would di…

June 13, 1980. Allan Gore is leaving his Texas home, his wife Betty and two daughters for a business trip in Minnesota. While he's gone, friend of the family, Candy Montgomery stops by the Gore home to get a bathing suit for the Gore's oldest daughter who's spending the night with Candy's kids. But when Candy shows up that day at 410 Dogwood Street…

He was evil personified in the 1900’s, murdering at least twenty-one people; although many say the number is closer to one hundred, and the number of men and boys he sexually assaulted according to him was in the thousands. He was a serial killer, a spree killers, a mass murderer, a rapist, a child molester, an arsonist, a thief and … an author. He…

September 5th, Labor Day weekend, 1921. Silent movie star and comedian Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle is in San Francisco with his buddies for a weekend holiday. There was a party. The illegal alcohol flowed, and women joined in the mayhem. But when the Labor Day holiday is over, a twenty-six-year-old starlet named, Virginia Rappe is dead—seemingly sufferin…

From 1875 until his death on July 14, 1881, one young man stirred up more controversy and eluded the law­ in his short life than any other outlaw. Many say his killed twenty-one men—one for each year of his life, others say it was closer to nine or ten. It was after all the wild, wild west. When all was said and done, the young expert horseman and …

From 1990 until 1994, a man in Charlotte North Carolina, preyed on women—raping and strangling his victims. He would go unnoticed by the police for years. Choosing his victims from women he knew—women he’d worked with at a fast food restaurant—and their friends, he was looking for money to fuel his drug habit, but before leaving his victims, he wou…

He was a man bigger than life. A rock n roller that made girls weak in the knees and preachers clutch their Bibles. But was he a killer? Seven wives and two mysterious deaths, but only one would go in front of a grand jury—but did the facts really come to light? In the world of rock n roll, they say anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Even ma…

July 12, 1991, Salem, Massachusetts. Local artist and interior designer, Martha Brailsford goes for a short sail on the boat, Counterpoint with her new friend, Tom Maimoni. Two would sail away that day, but only Tom would return. When Martha’s husband becomes worried when his wife is missing, the people of Salem, one witch and law enforcement will …

When Shannan Gilbert disappeared near Ocean Parkway on Long Island, New York, May 1st 2010 after a 23 minute 911 call, no one could’ve ever imagined what it would spark. While training a cadaver dog, and looking for Shannan near Ocean Parkway, a body is discovered wrapped in burlap type material. When police looked closer, there were actually four …

Summer 2016, Anchorage Alaska. An unknown man is randomly shooting people in the parks and bike paths of the stunning city and state known for its beauty and long summer days. When the people of Anchorage begin to buzz on their own that a serial killer is on the loose, the police keep it cool; not playing into the hysteria. After all, there was a s…

April 26, 1895, Little Italy, New York, New York. Maria Barbella, a twenty-two year old Italian immigrant who worked in a sweatshop, is angry with her boyfriend, Domenico Cataldo. He’d promised to marry her, but was now reneging and leaving out of New York harbor on a boat back to Italy. She followed him to a saloon and begged, but when he told her…

July 4, 1995 Wayne City, IL. 38 year old Sue Marshel Gerslinger and her 13 year old daughter have missed the family’s Fourth of July get together. An ex of Sue’s is back in town and unbeknownst to her relatives, Sue and her daughter are going to the town’s 4th of July celebration and fireworks with him. The next day, Sue’s car is found halfway subm…

November 10, 2010, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan, along with their daughter Jennifer are in their home for the night. Around 10 p.m., three men burst through the door. It was a robbery. Or was it? When the night was over, Bich would be dead and Hann would be in a coma—both shot in the face and head. Still alive is their twenty…

April 4, 1958, Oscar nominated actress Lana Turner is fighting with her boyfriend—a man with known connections to the mob. In the house, listening to this escalating argument is Lana’s daughter. When the fight is over, the boyfriend is dead and a fourteen-year-old is named the killer. What happened that night in the pink bedroom of the Beverly Hill…

June 6, 1996, Rowlett, Texas. Two small boys and their mother are sleeping in the family room for the night. The mother wakes, and a man in dark clothing and a baseball hat is standing at her feet. In a frenzy, she screams and runs through her house after him. When she turns on the lights she sees that both of her children have been mortally wounde…

From June of 2009 until May of 2010, a man in Bradford, England murdered three sex workers using a crossbow. Thought of as mild-mannered, somewhat controlling, and often peculiar, he was obsessed with serial killers, and in fact was a Phd Student using homicide for his thesis. He was brazen––killing, dismembering and yes, eating some of his victim’…

August 22, 2005, Liverpool, New York. A frantic wife calls 911. she believes her husband has barricaded himself in their bedroom and she can’t get a response. When police arrive, they break down the bedroom door and find David Castor, dead of an apparent suicide––killing himself with antifreeze. When police think it’s an odd scene, they meticulousl…

February 24, 1986, Van Nuys, California. Twenty-nine-year-old nurse supervisor and newlywed, Sherri Rasmussen kisses her husband John Reutten goodbye­­ at 7:20 in the morning, saying she’s thinking of calling in sick. When John arrives home that night , his beautiful wife is dead—beaten and shot three times at close range. When LAPD arrives, they d…

Louisiana, 1939. Toni Jo and her husband Cowboy had a special kind of love. Like Bonnie and Clyde or Romeo and Juliet, they would go to great lengths to love each other and…to be together. But star-crossed lovers usually end in tragedy, and this story is no different. After her husband is convicted of murder, Toni Jo hatches a plan to spring him fr…