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Kristine
Love true crime? Cold cases? Even weird stuff? Me too. With no banter (it is just me after all and I don't talk to myself; at least in public), I give you stories that cover all these bases. Welcome to your new favorite place.
On February 13, 2017, two friends, ages 13 and 14, were dropped off near a nature reserve in Delphi, Indiana. Parents were coming to pick them up later that afternoon.
Their bodies were found the next day, near a creek embankment, and for over 5 years, there were no arrests and barely any suspects...until now, and he was far closer than anyone thought.
This is the story of Abby Williamson and Libby German, also known as the Delphi Murders.
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First and foremost, I want to preface this by saying that when I started to investigate the case of The Springfield Three, I had no idea what I was getting into. As you know, I do my best to give you an episode a week, but that is not nearly enough time to delve into all of the intricate details about this case.
That being said, what you’ll learn here today are details from local Springfield newspapers at the time of the crime up to and including this year, 2022. I’ve included as much as I could find without it being completely overwhelming, but just know that for every piece of information available, there were countless others just waiting in the wings to get added. The whole case is like a multi-layered Rubix cube; when you turn one corner, something else changes.
Others have covered this case incredibly well, and one, in particular, is a woman who grew up in the area at the time the crime occurred. I’ll have her information available for you at the end of this podcast if you want to hear more. It’s a fascinating case full of “whodunnits,” and just when you want to point the finger at someone, someone else pops up.
I sincerely hope that, for the sake of the families, that one day, this will be solved. It’s been a long 30 years.
With that said, let’s get to the case of The Springfield Three.
It was June of 1992 and Suzie Streeter and her friend Stacy McCall were getting ready to finally graduate from high school. They had been friends since 2nd grade. A month earlier, a Springfield, MO newspaper published the names of all the high school graduates in the area, which included Kickapoo High School, where Suzie and Stacy attended.
On Saturday, June 6th, around 4:00 in the afternoon, Suzy and Stacy attended their graduation ceremony at the Hammons Student Center. In addition to all of the parents, grandparents, and siblings that attended, was Suzy’s mom, Sherrill Levitt.
By Monday, June 8th, the Springfield police department would officially consider them missing.
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This episode is about The Amityville Horror. First came the book which became a best-seller, next came the movie, which is what most people are familiar with. The movie debuted in 1979 and shattered box office records not to mention scaring millions of people.
To date it remains one of the scariest movies ever made, not because it was just a scary horror movie but that it was based on incidents that really occurred to a family over a 28-day period.
Along with the movie’s popularity, also came the skeptics who think the whole thing was made up just to make some extra cash.
Part of the reason some people believe the story is made up is because the book and the move both took quite a bit of creative license, in other words, what happened to the family was quite real, but how it was portrayed in the book and the movie was…shall we say…made more for entertainment purposes rather than actually telling the truth.
The truth was scary enough, there was really no reason to elaborate on it.
What isn’t in factual dispute however, is that a man who lived in the home prior to it becoming known as the Amityville house, Ron DeFeo, did kill his entire family and was sentenced to 6 sentences of 25-years to life at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate Fallsburg New York. He died in prison in 2021 at the age of 69.
This 2-part podcast will cover the DeFeo murders, what supposedly led to them, and the Lutz’s who moved into the home shortly after the murders happened so grab your popcorn…
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This episode is about The Amityville Horror. First came the book which became a best-seller, next came the movie, which is what most people are familiar with. The movie debuted in 1979 and shattered box office records not to mention scaring millions of people.
To date it remains one of the scariest movies ever made, not because it was just a scary horror movie but that it was based on incidents that really occurred to a family over a 28-day period.
Along with the movie’s popularity, also came the skeptics who think the whole thing was made up just to make some extra cash.
Part of the reason some people believe the story is made up is because the book and the move both took quite a bit of creative license, in other words, what happened to the family was quite real, but how it was portrayed in the book and the movie was…shall we say…made more for entertainment purposes rather than actually telling the truth.
The truth was scary enough, there was really no reason to elaborate on it.
What isn’t in factual dispute however, is that a man who lived in the home prior to it becoming known as the Amityville house, Ron DeFeo, did kill his entire family and was sentenced to 6 sentences of 25-years to life at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate Fallsburg New York. He died in prison in 2021 at the age of 69.
This 2-part podcast will cover the DeFeo murders, what supposedly led to them, and the Lutz’s who moved into the home shortly after the murders happened so grab your popcorn…
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This episode is about Annabelle a doll inhabited by a demonic entity, which was the basis for the 2014 movie "Annabelle." While the doll in the movie (and a good portion of the movie story) was fictionalized, it was in fact, based on a true story.
This is the REAL story of Annabelle. Listener discretion is advised.
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In 2013, a terrifying movie made its debut. The movie was called “The Conjuring” and it tells the story of a family of seven, mom, dad, and their five daughters, who moved to the house of their dreams in 1971 in Rhode Island only to be terrorized by multiple spirits inhabiting the home.
What you will hear today are several, but not all, of the incidents that occurred inside the home while the Perron’s resided there, as well as what has occurred to various paranormal teams who have investigated the home since the Perron’s moved out in 1980.
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**This episode is about The Sallie House, a house in a small town in Kansas whose entities, some believe to be demonic, terrorized a family in the early 90s. The house continues to affect people even today. This is not intended for children; listener discretion is advised.
Today, and for the upcoming weeks, I’ll be covering the paranormal because, well, Halloween is approaching. The thing with the paranormal is that there’s usually some kind of crime behind it, whether it be a murder, a body disposal, or even death by suicide; otherworldly things just seem to hang around.**
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In the spirit of Halloween approaching, I'll be covering true ghost stories. As with all ghost stories, there's always a crime behind it. So come, listen to Bobby Mackey's and find out why it's called the most haunted bar in the United States.
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This is the heartbreaking story of a sweet, caring man who thought he'd found love only to discover he was living a nightmare.
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In 2015, the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma police department received a call from a quiet and very scared child saying, "Help." What authorities didn't know at the time was that as the child was on the phone with police, the entire family was being massacred.
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In 1978, two men sat together in the California Men’s Reformatory Prison, discussing plans for what they wanted to do once they were both released. The plan would set in motion a series of events in the summer of 1979 that would put fear into the hearts of families in and around Los Angeles, California.
This episode is NOT for children. Listener discretion is advised.
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In the mid-90s, a group of men got together to defraud a few banks and used a well-known corporate name to do so. Find out how they got away with it and why John Ruffo is now on the FBI's most wanted list.
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Beginning in 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan would find herself kidnapped and tortured for over seven years. For several of these years, she was kept hidden in a box underneath a waterbed. She eventually got out of her living nightmare and you'll never believe who helped her.
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