Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. The Fatal Nightcap: The Mysterious Death of Mary Marrs CaweinOn the night of July 4, 1965, the Idle Hour Country Club in Lexington, Kentucky, was bustling with the sounds of celebration. Among the attendees were Dr. Madison Cawein, a prominent hematologist, and his wife, Mary Marrs Cawein. The couple, known for the…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. Unveiling the Mystery: The Case of Susan Schwarz, The Queen of HeartsIn the quiet suburban town of Lynnwood, Washington, the autumn of 1979 was forever marked by a chilling discovery. On October 22, 1979, the body of 24-year-old Susan Schwarz was found in her home, a victim of a brutal crime that would haunt the co…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. On November 19, 1987, a young Canadian couple, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, embarked on what should have been a straightforward business trip to Seattle, Washington. Tasked with picking up furnace parts for Jay's father, they decided to make a fun outing of the errand, crossing the border from their home in B…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. January 31, 1896. Pearl Bryan has left her home in Greencastle Indiana and is traveling by train to Cincinnati. When she arrives, she’s to meet the man she’d been seeing, Scott Jackson, a dental student at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. You see, Pearl is pregnant with Scott’s child, and even though she wants t…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. Tuesday, July 28th, 1987, Stephenville, Texas. The summer heat clings to the small town, where everyone knows everyone. In a modest house on a quiet street, Susan Woods is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. Recently separated from her husband, Michael, Susan is determined to start anew. Little does she know,…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. On April 26, 2011, the small town of Snellville, Georgia, was shaken by a brutal crime that left a young mother dead and a community searching for answers. Heather Strube, a 25-year-old mother, met her estranged husband in the Target parking lot for a routine custody exchange of their 18-month-old son, Carson. What…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. May 5th, 2009. The lives of a family in a small town near St. Louis are shattered. Husband and father, Chris Coleman's routine trip to the gym unraveled into a nightmare. Unable to reach his wife, Sheri, upon returning home, Chris's world collapsed when he received the chilling news from a neighbor and detective, J…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. Billy Chemirmir and the Pillowcase Murders In the realm of true crime, there are stories that shock, stories that haunt, and then there are stories like that of Billy Chemirmir, the face behind the chilling moniker "The Pillowcase Murderer." Between the years 2016 and 2018, the Dallas-Fort Worth area was gripped by…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. April 24, 2004, Laurel, Maryland. In the suburbs of Laurel, Maryland, the night of April 24, 2004, held a darkness far more chilling than the streets would suggest. Walter Rogers lay sound asleep, blissfully unaware that his life was about to end. Meanwhile, his wife, Laura Rogers, paced the living room with a tumu…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. He was a big man with bad table manners, who liked to flash wads of cash as he told of his tales of daring blockade runs during the American Civil War. But what started as swindling, turned into mass murder, and one man’s greed would cost eighty-one people their lives in a single blow. This is the incredibly true t…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 w…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 vehic…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 f…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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,…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 th…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 pol…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 alon…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 fami…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 th…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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, esca…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 a…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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-b…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 he…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 wra…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 we…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 throu…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 bro…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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, …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 ma…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 m…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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,…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 ars…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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, Virgini…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 do…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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 …

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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, o…

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message. 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…