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Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins close out their reunion by going down the list of the people who appeared in the Netflix documentary The Keepers, where they are today, who is still fighting, who has found peace, and who the world has lost. It is a warm, reflective conversation about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, the young School Sister of Notre Dame who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, and about the community of survivors, investigators, journalists, and filmmakers her case brought together.The Investigators and AdvocatesGemma gives an honest update on her own life, recovering from a broken hip, stepping back from the day-to-day advocacy, and finding peace in a quiet home in the woods. She talks about her fellow amateur investigator Abbie Schaub, who remains active in the legislative fight and helps run the official Keepers community online.The SurvivorsShane and Gemma share where the survivors are now. Jean Hargadon Wehner, known as "Jane Doe" in the case, is doing meaningful work and published her memoir, Walking with Aletheia. Teresa Lancaster, "Jane Roe, " became an attorney and a leading public voice for survivors, helped pass Maryland's 2023 Child Victims Act, and wrote her memoir, Safe in Socks. Donna testified in Annapolis for the Child Victims Act and helped get Father Neil Magnus added to a public list of credibly accused clergy. They also remember Charles Franz and several of Sister Cathy's former students, including Kathy Hoback, the student Sister Cathy once shielded from Father Maskell, who passed away thispast year.The Journalists and ExpertsThey remember journalist Bob Erlandson of the Baltimore Sun, who covered the case as it happened and died this past year at 94, and renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, who died in 2024 at 97. Shane and Gemma also revisit Delegate C.T. Wilson, the abuse survivor who championed the Child Victims Act, and journalist Tom Nugent, whose reporting first brought the case back into the light.The FilmmakersGemma catches listeners up on the team behind The Keepers, director Ryan White, producer Jessica Hargrave, and cinematographer John Benham, whose work since the series includes the Oscar-nominated, Peabody-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light. And, of course, they give a nod to Kim, who edits this very podcast.What Comes NextShane and Gemma agree to keep going as the story unfolds, and invite listeners to suggest the people they would still like to hear from.Content WarningThis episode discusses clergy abuse and violence.Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is The Keepers about?The Keepers is a 2017 Netflix documentary series about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik, a Baltimore nun and teacher, and the allegations of abuse at Archbishop Keough High School that may be connected to her death.Who were Jane Doe and Jane Roe?Jean Hargadon Wehner was known as "Jane Doe" and Teresa Lancaster as "Jane Roe, " two survivors whose accounts were central to The Keepers. Both have since written memoirs and become advocates for other survivors.What is the Maryland Child Victims Act?Passed in 2023, the Maryland Child Victims Act removed the time limits on lawsuits for survivors of child sexual abuse. Survivors featured in The Keepers, along with Delegate C.T. Wilson, were instrumental in its passage.Is Sister Cathy's murder solved?No. The murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved more than fifty years later. Crisis ResourcesIf you or someone you know has been affected by abuse:US: RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline, 1-800-656-4673US: Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-422-4453UK: NSPCC Helpline, 0808 800 5000UK: Rape Crisis England & Wales, 0808 500 2222

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Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins continue their first sit-down in over a year, working through the second half of the questions listeners submitted through the show's Facebook community. This is the follow-up to "The Mary Statue and Unanswered Questions, " a wide-ranging conversation about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik in Baltimore, Maryland. Known to millions through the Netflix documentary The Keepers, Gemma has spent more than a decade investigating what happened to Sister Cathy, the young School Sister of Notre Dame who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School.The Persons of InterestListeners asked about the figures who have circled this case for years. Gemma explains why "Brother Bob" has never been publicly identified, how the nickname came to stand for more than one man, and why she has stepped back from the theory she put forward in her own 2019 book. She and Shane talk through how a single murder sits at the center of a web of other abuse and other suspected crimes, and why that makes Sister Cathy's case so difficult to untangle.New Questions Around Father KoobGemma describes the women who have come forward in recent years with accusations against Father Gerard Koob, and walks through why, in her understanding, charges have been so hard to bring, including questions of jurisdiction and corroboration, since only some of the accusers were abused in Maryland. She recounts asking Detective Josh Battaglia to put her questions to Koob directly. Koob, who was the subject of a 2023 Baltimore Banner investigation by reporter Justin Fenton, continues to deny wrongdoing and says listeners are thinking of a different man. He has not been charged.Who Knew, and the Attorney General's ReportShane and Gemma discuss how much the staff at Archbishop Keough may have known, and why so many people went quiet after Sister Cathy was killed. They place it in the context of the Maryland Attorney General's 2023 report on clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a 456-page document detailing the abuse of more than 600 children across decades and the conclusion that "no parish went untouched. " That history is part of what is driving the Archdiocese's current bankruptcy.Joyce Malecki and the Sealed FilesThe conversation turns to Joyce Malecki, the 20-year-old whose 1969 murder near Fort Meade has long been discussed alongside Sister Cathy's. Gemma updates listeners on the 2023 exhumation of Joyce's body, the family's still-unanswered request for thousands of pages of FBI files first sought in 2014, and the letter Senator Chris Van Hollen carried to the White House on their behalf. Shane makes the case for why physical evidence in an unsolved murder should never be destroyed.Cathy's FamilyGemma reflects on why Sister Cathy's family chose to step out of the spotlight after The Keepers, the heartbreak of learning their loved one's death may not have been random, and the dignity of their decision to protect their own peace.Content WarningThis episode discusses clergy abuse and violence.Frequently Asked QuestionsWho is Gemma Hoskins?Gemma Hoskins is a retired Baltimore teacher and former student at Archbishop Keough High School. She has spent more than a decade investigating the murder of her former teacher, Sister Cathy Cesnik, and was one of the central figures in the Netflix documentary The Keepers. She was named Maryland Teacher of the Year in 1992.Has anyone been charged in Sister Cathy's murder?No. The 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik remains unsolved, and no one has ever been charged.What is the Maryland Attorney General's report?Released in 2023, the report documented decades of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, naming Father Joseph Maskell among its most prolific abusers and identifying more than 600 victims across the Archdiocese.Who is investigating Sister Cathy's case today?Detective Josh Battaglia of the Baltimore County Police Department currently handles the investigation. He took overfrom Corporal Robin Teal after her retirement.Crisis ResourcesIf you or someone you know has been affected by abuse:US: RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline, 1-800-656-4673US: Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-422-4453UK: NSPCC Helpline, 0808 800 5000UK: Rape Crisis England & Wales, 0808 500 2222

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This episode contains descriptions of murder, mob violence, historical racial violence, and the execution of a convicted killer. If you need to skip this content, advance past the 18:00 mark. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 40: Fifty states, fifty forgotten crimes, America's 250th year. Episode 9 covers California and Alabama — two cases, two communities that looked at the legal system and reached for something uglier. October 10, 1890. A woman named Helen Riche is playing cards in her tavern near a California quicksilver mine when ten men in flour-sack hoods crash through the door. She does not run. She reaches up and rips the mask off the nearest man's face, and in that single act she solves the crime that is about to kill her. This is true crime history from the American frontier, and the legal system that followed would leave you cold.December 1888, Birmingham, Alabama. A railroad engineer named Richard Hawes boards a streetcar with his eight- year-old daughter May. He gets off with her at East Lake. He gets back on alone. The body of a young girl is found floating in the lake the next morning. On the same day, Hawes is across the state line getting married. When Birmingham finds out, two thousand people march on the jail.The VictimsHelen Matilda Riche ran the Campers' Retreat tavern on sixty-two acres near the Bradford quicksilver mine, three miles south of Middletown, California. We do not know where she was born or how she came to run a mining-camp saloon in hard hill country — the historical record is thin on her life before October 10, 1890. What it preserves is a woman who managed a clientele of mercury miners in one of the most physically dangerous industries of the era. She was shot five times during the raid. She fought back, reaching for her husband's .44 Winchester with five bullets already in her body. She died four days later. Her husband J.W. Riche died less than three months after her, his own bullet wound never having healed.May Hawes was eight years old when her father took her on a one-way train ride to East Lake on the evening of December 3, 1888. She had been doing the work of a parent since she could walk, looking after younger siblings in a household already coming apart. She was laid out for public identification at Lockwood & Miller's Funeral Parlor in Birmingham, unidentified for a full day. A local butcher recognized her. May, her mother Emma, and her six-year-old sister Irene — all three murdered by Richard Hawes — lay in an unmarked grave at Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham for more than 135 years. In April 2024, they finally received a headstone.The CrimesThe Lake County White Cap raid followed personal grudges that had been tightening for months. Blackburn, a mine foreman, had been thrown out of the Campers' Retreat after a brawl with the bartender Fred Bennett. Others in the group had boundary disputes, cattle quarrels, neighborhood debts to settle. They put flour sacks over their heads and called it a community morality action — the Whitecapping movement had spread from Indiana through the Southern states and into California by 1890. The plan was to flog Bennett and run him to the county line. Helen Riche unmasked Henry Arkarro the moment the men crashed through the door, and the plan collapsed into gunfire.Richard Hawes murdered three members of his own family to clear the way for a new marriage. Emma and Irene Hawes were found bound with curtain cord and weighted with railroad iron curve-braces in a Birmingham lake on December 8, 1888 — the same day a mob of approximately 2,000 people converged on the Jefferson County Jail demanding to hang him on the spot. Sheriff Joseph S. Smith fired into the crowd. Ten men were killed. Approximately thirty were wounded. The historical murder case that followed Hawes would take fourteen more months and a formal trial to reach the same conclusion the mob wanted.The Investigations and Legal OutcomesIn California, ten men were arrested within days. The mining community was small; Helen Riche had identified one attacker herself. The trial opened February 6, 1891, in Lakeport — People of the State of California v. B.F. Staley et al. Four men were convicted of second-degree murder: Blackburn sentenced to twenty-five years, Staley and Cradwick to twenty years each, Osgood to twelve years. All four were released from San Quentin within approximately three years. The Governor had commuted Blackburn's sentence to ten years following an extensive lobbying campaign. Three years, for a home invasion that killed two people.In Alabama, Richard Hawes was tried beginning April 22, 1889, before Judge Samuel Greene. The prosecution built the case around May's murder — the strongest evidence available, though entirely circumstantial: eyewitness testimony placing father and daughter on the streetcar together, and only the father returning. The jury deliberated fifty-five minutes. Death. After multiple appeals to the Alabama Supreme Court, all denied, Richard Hawes was hanged by Sheriff Smith on February 28, 1890 — the same man who had fired into a crowd to keep him alive for this moment. Hawes wore a geranium in his lapel. The gallows were built by a man who had served on his jury.Historical ContextBoth cases sit at a specific American intersection: communities losing faith in institutional justice and reaching for extralegal violence, with consequences that fell hardest on people who had nothing to do with the original grievance. The Whitecapping movement was already documented across Indiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi before it reached California. In Alabama, the Birmingham riot of 1888 killed ten bystanders, including Maurice Throckmorton, thirty-three, the city's postmaster, who was reportedly trying to calm the crowd when he was shot. The legal system delivered the outcome the mob demanded — it just took fourteen months and cost ten additional lives to get there.California's legislature responded to the broader wave of hooded vigilantism during this period with enhanced anti- vigilante and anti-mask statutes. For the Hawes case, Fannie Bryant — the family's cook and a key witness for the prosecution — was herself sentenced to death for allegedly aiding Hawes. She died in a prison riot before the sentence could be carried out. Her actual level of involvement remains contested. She was a Black woman in 1880s Alabama, easily targeted by a system that offered her no protection.

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This episode contains discussions of murder, execution, racial violence, and a botched public hanging. If you need to skip any section, the chapter markers below will help you find your way around. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 40 of Foul Play covers America's forgotten crimes — fifty states, 250 years, and the stories that slipped out of the history books. Episode 8 closes out the season with a double portrait. One case from New Hampshire. One from Colorado. Eleven years apart. Two thousand miles between them. The same question at the center of both: when the law finally catches up with a killer, does it actually deliver justice?This is historical true crime at its most uncomfortable.Case A: The Great Falls National Bank Murder — New Hampshire , 1897Joseph A. Stickney was sixty-eight years old when a man walked into his bank on Good Friday morning, April 16, 1897, and cut his throat.Stickney was the cashier of the Great Falls National Bank in Somersworth, New Hampshire — a mill city of seven thousand people where the Salmon Falls River dropped one hundred feet over a mile and powered seven textile mills. The bank had operated since 1865. On a holiday morning, with the mills closed and families walking to Mass, Stickney was alone at his desk with $150,000 in money and securities behind him.The man who killed him was Joseph E. Kelley, twenty-four years old, born in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Kelley had been convicted in Somersworth five years earlier for breaking and entering. He had studied the bank's routine. He walked in with a blackjack, knocked Stickney to the floor, cut his throat, and left with approximately $6,000 in cash — leaving $144,000 behind.The historical murder investigation moved fast. Kelley hired a horse team from Whitten's Stable. The team was found the next day at Phoenix Stables. On April 29, investigators searched a boarding house in Berwick, Maine, where they found a box containing a false mustache and goatee. Kelley had already crossed into Quebec on a Boston & Maine train. He was caught in a Montreal brothel, seated between two prostitutes, still wearing a woman's dress he had purchased for $10 in gold from a hotelkeeper in Quebec.At trial in Dover, New Hampshire, in November 1897, Kelley changed his plea to guilty — but only if the hanging could be scheduled for January 16, 1898. He had a contract with the Devil, he explained, that expired January 15.Dr. Charles Bancroft of the New Hampshire State Asylum for the Insane examined Kelley multiple times and concluded he had the instincts of a man but the judgment and capacity of a child of nine. Expert after expert called him a "high-grade imbecile. " Chief Justice Alonzo P. Carpenter, who had served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court since 1896, presided over a bench that ultimately found Kelley guilty of second-degree murder — thirty years in state prison. Kelley was reportedly disappointed. He had wanted to hang.Case B: The Trolley Murder of Joseph C. Whitnah — Colorado , 1886On the night of May 19, 1886, Joseph C. Whitnah was driving a horse-drawn streetcar along the Broadway line of the Denver City Railway when two men approached his car at the southern terminus at Broadway and Alameda.Whitnah was a streetcar operator in a city mid-boom. Denver's population tripled between 1880 and 1890, from roughly 35,000 to more than 106,000. The Denver City Railway operated forty-five coaches across sixteen miles of track.Andrew Green, twenty-five years old, and his associate John "Kansas" Withers had been waiting for Whitnah's car. Green fired two shots from a .38 caliber revolver. The first shot was accidental — triggered when Whitnah screamed. The second was deliberate, close-range, through the heart. Whitnah died on the spot. The $14 in fares in his cashbox went untouched.The true crime investigation broke in six days. On May 21, a private detective received a tip at the G.A.R. Saloon on Larimer Street — the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization for Union veterans. Withers confessed almost immediately and identified Green as the shooter. Green was arrested and confessed on May 25. He told investigators he had been promised the death penalty would be taken off the table if he cooperated.That promise was never confirmed or denied.Green stood trial before an all-white jury. This was Denver six years after a mob of 3,000 attacked the city's Chinese quarter and lynched a man named Look Young. Defense attorney Edgar Caypless worked pro bono. He argued that no robbery had actually been completed, that Green's confession was coerced by a false promise, and that the first shot was accidental. The jury deliberated a little over an hour — was polled four times, one juror holding out for second- degree — and returned a verdict of guilty of first-degree murder. Death.On July 27, 1886, Sheriff Frederick Cramer of Arapahoe County cut the main rope at 2:24 PM before fifteen to twenty thousand spectators gathered between the Broadway and Colfax bridges. Vendors sold lemonade. Families had brought picnic lunches. Children were in the crowd.Green's neck did not snap. Twelve minutes after the jerk-up, doctors could still feel a pulse at his wrist. At 3:45 PM — eighty-one minutes after Cramer cut the rope — undertakers removed Andrew Green from the gallows and placed him in a casket bound for the "colored" section of Riverside Cemetery.The execution was condemned by nearly every Denver newspaper. In 1889, Colorado moved all executions to the state prison in Canon City, limited witnesses, and commissioned a new gallows design. In 1897 — the same year Joseph Stickney was murdered in New Hampshire — Colorado abolished the death penalty. It was reinstated in 1901.Historical ContextBoth cases arrived during the same decade, when American law was negotiating what justice was supposed to look like. In New Hampshire, a court grappled with whether a man who could plan a murder could simultaneously lack the mental capacity to stand fully accountable for it. In Colorado, a court asked whether a Black man could get a fair trial six years after his city had watched a lynch mob go unpunished.Neither question has a clean answer. Both still echo.This is Season 40 of Foul Play: America's 250th Anniversary — the crimes that didn't make the monuments.

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Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins sit down together for the first time in over a year for a wide-ranging conversation about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik in Baltimore, Maryland. Known to millions through the Netflix documentary The Keepers, Gemma has spent more than a decade investigating what happened to Sister Cathy, the young School Sister of Notre Dame who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School. She was found dead two months after her disappearance. This episode is a Q&A, recorded live with questions submitted by listeners through the show's Facebook community.The Investigation: Timeline Questions and New DoubtsListeners asked about the timeline of the night Sister Cathy Cesnik disappeared on November 7, 1969. Father Gerard Koob, who was in a relationship with Sister Cathy, claims he called the police at 11:30 PM after arriving at her apartment. The police report says the call came at 1:30 AM, a two-hour gap that remains unexplained. Koob says he and Father Peter McKeon found Cathy's car around 3:30 AM during a walk, but the police report credits McKeon alone with the discovery.Gemma corrects a long-standing detail from The Keepers: the car was not found directly across the street from Cathy's apartment at Carriage House. It was actually found one court up the street, on Carriage Court, around a curve and out of direct line of sight from Lantern Court. She also confirms that the image of Sister Cathy's car shown in The Keepers was digitally placed into the scene by producer Jessica Hargrave as a visual aid. The steering wheel appears on the wrong side because the original police impound photo was flipped to match the camera angle.Shane and Gemma discuss the suspicious letter Father Koob claims Cathy wrote to him, a handwritten love letter dated 12:30 AM on the Monday before she disappeared. The letter was found in the morgue notes rather than the detective's case file. Shane points out this means it was likely turned over after Cathy's body was found in January 1970, not when she first went missing. A profiler formerly with Scotland Yard analyzed the letter's content and concluded it was not written by Sister Cathy. Koob did not pass his second polygraph examination.They also examine a separate letter Cathy wrote to her sister Marilyn, postmarked after the disappearance, which was admitted into evidence with the Baltimore County Police but has since gone missing. Shane raises the question of whether Father Koob could have written the letter to Marilyn as well, noting the parallels to the other letter and the movie ticket alibi.New Evidence: The Mary Statue at St. Clement'sGemma shares a story that has not been widely reported. Approximately two years ago, Eva Nelson, a publicly identified survivor of Father Joseph Maskell's abuse, told investigators she remembered watching Maskell bury something in the backyard of the St. Clement's rectory in Lansdowne. Police obtained permission from the current property owner and brought in ground-penetrating sonar equipment. Detective Josh Battaglia, the current investigator on Sister Cathy Cesnik's case, was present at the dig.After two visits and multiple excavations, they found a broken statue of the Virgin Mary buried beneath a large bush that had once been small when Eva was a child. Eva recognized the statue immediately. A nun at St. Clement's had given it to her for protection, telling her, "Mary will always protect you." Father Maskell found the statue, broke it in front of Eva, and forced her to watch him bury it. The discovery validates Eva's memory of events that took place decades ago.Historical ContextSister Catherine Ann Cesnik was a 26-year-old School Sister of Notre Dame who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore. She disappeared on November 7, 1969 after leaving her apartment to run errands. Her body was found on January 3, 1970 in a wooded area in Lansdowne. Her murder has never been solved. Father Joseph Maskell, a Catholic priest and school counselor at Keough, was later accused of sexually abusing dozens of students throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Multiple survivors have said they believe Sister Cathy was killed because she was about to report the abuse. Maskell died in 2001 without facing criminal charges. The case was the subject of the 2017 Netflix documentary series The Keepers.Content WarningThis episode discusses clergy abuse and violence.Frequently Asked QuestionsWho is Gemma Hoskins?Gemma Hoskins is a retired Baltimore teacher and former student at Archbishop Keough High School. She has spent over a decade investigating the murder of her former teacher, Sister Cathy Cesnik. She was featured in the Netflix documentary The Keepers and authored a book about herself and the case. She was named Maryland Teacher of the Year in 1992.What happened to Sister Cathy Cesnik?Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik disappeared from her Baltimore apartment on November 7, 1969. She had gone out to run errands, including a stop at a local bakery. Her car was found near her apartment that night. Her body was found on January 3, 1970. Her murder remains unsolved.What was found buried at St. Clement's?Police used ground-penetrating sonar to search the backyard of a former rectory associated with Father Maskell in Lansdowne. They found a broken statue of the Virgin Mary that a survivor remembered Maskell burying in front of her decades earlier.Who is investigating Sister Cathy's case today?Detective Josh Battaglia of the Baltimore County Police Department currently handles the investigation into Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder. He took over from Corporal Robin Teal after her retirement.Crisis ResourcesIf you or someone you know has been affected by abuse:US: RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline, 1-800-656-4673US: Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-422-4453UK: NSPCC Helpline, 0808 800 5000UK: Rape Crisis England & Wales, 0808 500 2222

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This episode contains detailed descriptions of violent death, including axe murders and decapitation. If you need to skip this content, advance to the chapter markers below. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 40 of Foul Play marks America's 250th anniversary with a series of Twin Portraits — two true crimes from two different states, set in the same decade, examined side by side. This week: two axe murders from the 1890s, one in Massachusetts, one in Tennessee, both forgotten by history.On May 30, 1893, twenty-two-year-old Bertha Manchester was killed in her father's farmhouse outside Fall River, Massachusetts — six days before the Lizzie Borden trial opened fifteen miles away in New Bedford. In March 1897, five members of a German immigrant family were slaughtered on a Tennessee ridge, their house burned to the ground, their case never solved. Two women named in this episode lived into their nineties and never saw justice. Shane and Wendy tell both stories.The Victims (Case A — Massachusetts )Bertha Mabel Manchester was born May 7, 1871, in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was twenty-two years old. Her mother had died when she was young, and she helped run the family dairy farm on New Boston Road — the quiet, rural edge of a city better known for cotton mills and crowded streets. She was home alone on the morning of May 30, 1893, when her father Stephen and her twelve-year-old brother Freddie left with the milk wagon.She fought back. The medical examiner found twenty-three wounds to the back of her skull, defensive cuts on her hands and arms, and clothing torn in the struggle. Five teeth had been knocked out. The same doctor who performed those wounds had examined two other bodies less than a year before — Andrew and Abby Borden, murdered with a hatchet eight miles away the previous August. Dr. William A. Dolan was the medical examiner for Bristol County. He had seen this kind of violence before.The Victims (Case B — Tennessee)Jacob Ade was a German immigrant who had farmed 410 acres on Paradise Ridge, in the northwestern corner of Davidson County, Tennessee, for twenty years. His wife Pauline was fifty. Their daughter Lizzie was eighteen. Their son Henry was thirteen. On the night of March 23, 1897, a ten-year-old neighbor named Rosa Moirer was sleeping over at the Ade farm.By 9:30 that night, a neighbor named Squire Simpson saw a glow on the horizon. He went to investigate with a potato fork lashed to a long pole, probing through the burning debris. He pulled four bodies from the sitting room. All four Ade family members had been decapitated. Rosa Moirer, the neighbor's daughter, was found outside. She had not been decapitated. Her head was still intact. Five people were dead.The Crimes and InvestigationsIn Fall River, a nineteen-year-old Azorean immigrant named José Correia de Mello — who had arrived in America barely one month earlier, spoke no English, and had worked a day or two on the Manchester farm before disappearing — came back to the property on May 30 looking for money he believed Stephen Manchester owed him. When his uncle was told police needed him as a witness to a horse theft, de Mello went to the station without any idea he was a suspect. A shoe store owner testified that de Mello had tried to pay for new shoes using a trade dollar and a plugged half-dollar — the distinctive coins known to have been in Bertha's stolen purse. On September 18, 1893, de Mello changed his plea to guilty of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison. He walked out on January 31, 1914 — twenty-one years later — and was deported to the Azores. No record of him survives after that.In Tennessee, the case produced theories but no convictions. Jacob Ade had withdrawn approximately $200 from a Nashville bank the day he died, intended as a loan for a neighbor. The money was never found. Investigators considered the neighbor Henry Moirer, whose daughter Rosa was among the dead; a man named Ed Anderson with whom Jacob had quarreled over hogs; and a group of men from Ashland City whose confessions didn't match the physical evidence and who were eventually released. Every trial ended in acquittal. The Paradise Ridge axe murders have never been solved.Historical ContextBoth cases belong to the same decade — the 1890s — when the United States was processing waves of immigration, rapid industrialization, and deep regional tensions a generation after the Civil War. In Fall River, José de Mello arrived in a city with one of the largest Portuguese-American populations in New England. The community that helped deliver him to police later spent years petitioning for his release. In Tennessee, the racial climate meant that multiple Black men from Ashland City were arrested, subjected to interrogation, and coerced into confessions that investigators ultimately couldn't use. Both cases carry the shadow of a justice system that worked very differently depending on who stood before it.Rosa Ade married Lawrence James Hehir in Nashville on January 20, 1897 — just two months before her family was killed. She lived until May 17, 1962. She was ninety years old. The Tennessee Centennial Exposition opened in Nashville five weeks after her family was buried on the Ade property in March 1897. The state was celebrating. A family had been erased.In 2023 — a hundred and thirty years after Bertha Manchester's death — William D. Spencer published The Other Fall River Tragedy through the Fall River Historical Society. It was the first full-length account of her case. A historical marker for the Ade family was erected in 2018 at 3000 Morgan Road in Joelton by the Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. A small road called Jacobs Valley runs through what was once the Ade homestead, named in honor of Jacob Ade.

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This episode contains discussions of murder, arsenic poisoning, the deaths of children, and historical criminal trials. Ifyou need to skip any portion, advance past that segment using your chapter markers. This EpisodeSeason 40 of Foul Play marks America's 250th anniversary by examining two cases that expose how the justice system treated killers differently based on wealth, gender, and class. This week: a double feature — one case from Texas, one from Pennsylvania, eleven years apart, and both asking the same question. Was justice served?In January 1877, a woman known as Diamond Bessie crossed a footbridge over Big Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas. She never came back. Her companion — the wealthy son of a Cincinnati jeweler — walked away with her rings on his fingers and her luggage on his arm. What followed was one of the most contested murder trials in Texas history, in a town that was already losing everything. This is true crime at its most infuriating: a woman's life weighed against a powerful family's money.Then we cross to Philadelphia, 1888. Sarah Jane Whiteling, a forty-year-old factory worker's wife in a rear apartment on Cadwallader Street, lost her husband, her daughter, and her son inside sixty-seven days. The insurance companies paid out $399 total — $47 for her two-year-old boy. Arsenic trioxide was in every body. The prosecution called it wholesale murder. The defense called it insanity. The jury took two hours. This is historical true crime that doesn't let you look away.The VictimsDiamond Bessie — real name believed to be Annie Stone, born around 1854 in upstate New York — had built a life on her own terms in an era that gave women almost none. She worked in upscale establishments in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Hot Springs, accepting fine jewelry as payment, which earned her the name everyone knew her by. Dark- haired, pale-skinned, with grey or steel-blue eyes that period newspapers described as striking, she was intelligent and charming by every account. She married Abraham Rothschild in Danville, Illinois on January 11, 1877. Ten days later, a Black woman named Sarah King found her body propped against a twisted oak in the bayou woods — fully clothed, stripped of every piece of jewelry, a single gunshot wound to her temple.The Whiteling victims were a family. John Whiteling, thirty-eight, worked as a streetcar conductor and factory worker. Bertha was nine years old. Willie was two. John died on or around March 20, 1888. Bertha died April 25. Willie died May 26. Sixty-seven days, start to finish. Each death had a doctor's signature and a natural cause on the certificate. None of those causes were arsenic. The bodies at Mechanics' Cemetery held the truth that the living room had hidden.The CrimesAbraham Rothschild — son of Meyer Rothschild, a prosperous Cincinnati jeweler — had been traveling with Bessie since meeting her in Hot Springs around 1875. On January 21, 1877, he bought two picnic lunches from Henrique's Restaurant in Jefferson, crossed the footbridge over Big Cypress Bayou with Bessie, and came back alone. He told the hotel staff she was visiting friends. The next morning he wore two of her large diamond rings to breakfast. Two days later he boarded the eastbound train with both sets of luggage. He was traced to the Capitol Hotel in Marshall, then arrested after shooting himself outside a saloon — blinded in his right eye — in Cincinnati. His family spent what contemporary sources called "no fewer than ten high-priced attorneys" on his defense, led by U.S. Congressman David B. Culberson. The first trial ended in a conviction and a death sentence. The Texas Court of Appeals threw it out on a procedural technicality. The second trial ended in an acquittal. The jury deliberated four hours.Sarah Jane Whiteling purchased Rough on Rats — an arsenic trioxide compound manufactured by Ephraim S. Wells of New Jersey — and administered it to three members of her household between March and May of 1888. Coroner Samuel H. Ashbridge ordered the bodies exhumed. Professor Henry Leffmann, a chemist, and Dr. Henry F. Formad, a pathologist, found arsenic in every body. A drugstore clerk confirmed the purchase. Sarah confessed. Her defense centered on Dr. Alice Bennett — the first female physician to lead a department at an American asylum, Norristown State Hospital — who testified that Whiteling suffered from "physiological insanity" linked to reproductive dysfunction. The prosecution answered with their own experts: Drs. Charles Mills and John Chapin, who acknowledged she was of weak mind but said she was not legally insane. The jury deliberated approximately two hours. Guilty. First-degree murder. Death.On June 25, 1889, at 10:07 in the morning, Sarah Jane Whiteling was executed at Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia. She was the first woman executed in Philadelphia since colonial times. She reportedly appeared calm and believed she would be reunited with her children in heaven.Historical ContextBoth cases unfold during America's Gilded Age — that era of violent contradiction between spectacular wealth and grinding poverty. Jefferson, Texas had been the biggest riverport in the state until the Army Corps of Engineers removed the natural logjam on the Red River in 1873, and the railroad bypassed the city for Marshall. What had once shipped more than 75,000 bales of cotton annually was already hollowing out when Bessie's body was found. Reconstruction was collapsing across the South. Democrats had retaken the Texas state government three years earlier. In this context, the Rothschild family's ability to hire an army of lawyers — including a sitting U.S. Congressman — and purchase an acquittal reads as something beyond a legal outcome. It reads as a statement about whose life counted.In Philadelphia, 1888, a factory worker's full-year wages ran between $300 and $500. Sarah Whiteling collected $399 from three life insurance policies — nearly a year's salary — for the deaths of her husband and two children. The arithmetic is not subtle. Dr. Alice Bennett's insanity defense was, by the standards of 1888 forensic psychiatry, genuinely innovative — her theory of "physiological insanity" in women with reproductive dysfunction would later be examined in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2020). But the jury didn't buy it, and Sarah Whiteling hanged.Together these cases are a portrait of American justice in 1877 and 1888: brilliant, broken, and priced according to what you could afford.

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Historical SignificanceIn Georgia, a Webster County posse pursued Susan and Enoch one hundred twenty-five miles to Coffee County, Alabama. The grand jury indicted both on May 27, 1872 — twenty-three days after the murder. Enoch's trial lasted a single day; the jury deliberated for three minutes. Both were sentenced to death on May 30. Twenty-six days from murder to death sentence. The Georgia Supreme Court denied Susan's appeal in Eberhart v. State 47 Ga. 598 (1873), with Justice H.K. McCay dismissing calls for mercy. Governor James M. Smith refused clemency four days before Susan was to die.Sheriff L.R. Barnard traced the Potts family over five hundred miles to Rock Springs, Wyoming, arresting the couple on February 16, 1889. Josiah Potts claimed Fawcett had killed himself after sexually abusing their daughter Edith, then approximately five years old. The abuse allegation was never investigated. The jury deliberated four hours — unanimous guilty verdict. Two hundred sixty-seven residents of Carlin petitioned the state board of pardons to commute both sentences to life imprisonment. The board refused. Sheriff Barnard himself opposed the execution.The Investigations and TrialsCase B — Georgia (1872): On May 4, 1872, after ten o'clock at night, Enoch Spann strangled his wife Sarah with a plow line, breaking her neck. According to his confession, Susan Eberhart held a handkerchief over Sarah's mouth at his command. Susan maintained she had been asleep and was compelled to participate under direct threat from a man who had already attempted murder twice — including a staged buggy accident where Susan had pulled Sarah from a swollen creek to save her life.Case A — Nevada (1888): Miles Fawcett entered the Potts household on New Year's Day to collect a debt and leverage knowledge of Elizabeth's bigamous marriage in Fresno, California. He was never seen alive again. His remains — charred, dismembered, buried in pieces throughout the cellar floor — were discovered on January 16, 1889, by the new tenant George Brewer. The only identifying object: a fragment of burned trouser pocket containing Fawcett's pocketknife.The CrimesSarah Spann was approximately fifty years old. She had lost a leg and lived as an invalid in a one-room log cabin inWebster County, Georgia, dependent on her husband Enoch for everything. A Confederate veteran whose own fellow soldiers had described him as "very ignorant and very imbecile, Enoch Spann was the man she was married to and the man who killed her.Miles Fawcett was born around 1830 near Manchester, England. He came west following the railroad, settling in Carlin — a Central Pacific division point established in 1868 with a population of roughly eight hundred. Fawcett worked a small ranch outside town. He kept to himself, known well enough that his pocketknife was recognized on sight but private enough that neighbors called him "Old Man Fawcett" and left it at that. He was fifty-seven when he disappeared.The VictimsNew Year's Day, 1888. A fifty-seven-year-old English carpenter named Miles Fawcett walks into a house on Silver Street in Carlin, Nevada, to collect a debt. He never comes back out. For a full year, the town absorbs his absence. When a new tenant probes the cellar floor and pulls up what he takes for a rotten turnip, it turns out to be a charred, decapitated human head. The woman who lived above that cellar — Elizabeth Potts — would become the only female ever legally executed in the state of Nevada. Meanwhile, in post-Civil War Georgia, an eighteen-year-old named Susan Eberhart is sent to cook and wash for a one-legged woman in a one-room cabin. Within days of her arrival, the man of the house begins telling her how he intends to kill his wife. Susan once waded into a swollen creek to save that woman's life. She would be convicted of helping to end it.Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary. Fifty states, fifty crimes, two hundred and fifty years of history. This double-feature covers Nevada and Georgia — two women sentenced to hang, separated by seventeen years and two thousand miles, connected by a question neither court could answer.This EpisodeThis episode contains discussions of murder, execution by hanging, domestic violence, sexual coercion, and dismemberment. Support Foul Play: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foulplaypodcast Website: https://www.mythsandmalice.com/show/foul-play/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foul-play-crime-series/id1525832703 Follow us: Instagram: @foulplaycrimeseries Twitter: @foulplaypod

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July 1877. A dirt road in rural Missouri. A fifty-eight-year-old woman named Martha Parrish is shot dead by her own son-in-law while trying to rescue her daughter from an abusive marriage. Fifteen years later and five hundred miles east, an eighteen-year-old maid named Ellen Smith is shot behind a luxury hotel in Winston, North Carolina — and someone writes a song about it. Two historical murders. Two women killed by men who claimed to love someone close to them. One ended in a double coffin. The other became a folk song you may have heard without knowing it was real.Season 40: Twin Portraits — double-feature true crime episodes exploring two historical murders from different American states, connected by a single theme. In Episode 3, the theme is love that kills — and the songs that outlive the dead.This episode contains discussions of domestic violence, murder, suicide, and public execution. If you need to skip this content, support resources are listed at the end of these notes.

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Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence, intimate partner violence, poisoning, and discussions of coercive control in same-sex and heterosexual relationships. Crisis resources are listed at the end of these notes.In this episode of Foul Play, Shane and Wendy examine two cases from the American Gilded Age connected by the same institutional failure: not a lack of evidence, but a refusal to act on it. The Ashtabula bridge disaster killed 92 people and led to the silencing of the one man who told the truth. The Hells Canyon massacre left as many as 34 Chinese miners dead — and an all-white jury acquitted the confessed killers.Season 40: Twin Portraits — two states, two stories. Ohio, 1877. Washington and Oregon, 1887. A murdered railroad engineer whose autopsy was hidden for 123 years, and Chinese gold miners massacred in the deepest gorge in North America while federal law declared them less than citizens. Two historical murder cases where the evidence existed and the institutions responsible chose silence.

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Billy Wimbish - was born around 1859. A Black man who made his life in the Alaska Interior, Wimbish earnedrespect among the miners of the Fairbanks district. In 1906, he served as lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against mineowner D.H. Cascaden on Cleary Creek. Judge James Wickersham ruled in the miners' favor, finding Cascadenliable for all wages owed. That legal victory, won in Alaska Territory as a Black man against a white mine owner,defined the kind of man Wimbish was.Lloyd Magruder - was born in 1825 in Maryland, descended from a Scottish ancestor who arrived as a prisonerof war in 1653. He served in the Mexican War, rising from private to second lieutenant. After a stint in Californiapolitics representing Sacramento in the State Assembly, Magruder moved to Lewiston, Idaho Territory, in July1862. He built a mercantile store and a pack train operation in a frontier capital still called "Ragtown" for its canvastents. He had a wife named Caroline and three children.
Idaho and Alaska. 1863 and 1910. Two murders separated by forty-seven years and two thousand miles,connected by gold and the calculation that it was worth more than a man. In Idaho, a merchant named LloydMagruder loaded a fortune onto pack mules and trusted the wrong men. In Alaska, a miner named Billy Wimbishdisappeared from his claim, and the system did not look for him. Both cases were solved not by authorities butby friends who refused to stop searching. This is the story of gold fever and what it cost.Season 40: Two hundred and fifty years of American history. Fifty states. Fifty crimes. Two per episode, pairedby what connects them.
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Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence, intimate partner violence, poisoning, and discussions of coercive control in same-sex and heterosexual relationships. Crisis resources are listed at the end of these notes.Historical ContextIn Indiana, public pressure forced an exhumation four months after Hattie's death. Organs shipped to Chicago forchemical analysis revealed large quantities of strychnine. Pettit was arrested and charged with murder. The trial in Crawfordsville drew journalists from across the Midwest. Lew Wallace — the author of Ben-Hur, a former Union general, and a member of the military commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators — attendedregularly from the gallery. The jury convicted Pettit and sentenced him to life in prison at hard labor. He died oftuberculosis in 1893, the same day the Indiana Supreme Court granted him a retrial. Elma Whitehead, who funded his defense and fled the state to avoid subpoenas, was never tried.Lilly Duer was captured in Baltimore and tried at the Worcester County courthouse in Snow Hill, Maryland, in May 1879. She was housed not in jail but at the National Hotel across the street — jail being unsuitable for a woman of her standing. The jury convicted her of manslaughter. The sentence: a five-hundred-dollar fine and no prison time. For shooting a woman in the face.The InvestigationsIndiana, 1889: While Hattie Pettit visited a friend in South Bend, her husband moved into the home of Elma Whitehead — the wealthiest woman in the county, daughter of church patron David Meharry. Pettit proposed to Elma, and she accepted. When Hattie returned on July 12, she was poisoned with strychnine on at least three separate occasions over five days. The poison produced violent convulsions — the body arching, the muscles seizing, the face drawn into what the Victorians called the risus sardonicus. Hattie told her doctor she believed she had been poisoned. He did nothing. She died July 17, 1889. The official cause: malaria.Maryland, 1878:On November 5, Lilly Duer walked into the Hearn family home in Pocomoke City with a revolverconcealed in a specially sewn pocket of her dress. She shot Ella Hearn in the face. The bullet passed through Ella's lip, shattered a tooth, and lodged in her skull. Through the blood, Ella spoke: "Don't, Lilly, please don't. I'll marry you." Lilly fled to Baltimore disguised in her brother's suit with her already-short hair cropped shorter.The CrimesHattie Sperry Pettit: was a schoolteacher who married the Reverend William Pettit through church connections inNew York. In 1889 Indiana, teaching was one of the very few professional callings available to educated women, andHattie was practical, self-sufficient, and disciplined. She did not know that the man at the head of her table had oncebeen jailed for theft, had lied his way into the Masonic Brotherhood, and had used those connections to secure his ordination. The minister she married was a fabrication.Ella Hearn was nineteen years old in the autumn of 1878, the daughter of an established merchant family in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Quiet, gentle, trusting — she had graduated from a boarding academy where she shared a room with the woman who would shoot her. She observed what the newspapers called a delicate, unassuming grace. That grace made her extraordinarily vulnerable.The VictimsBoth cases are about desire that could not be spoken aloud and justice systems that decided the people who caused harm deserved more mercy than the people who were harmed.In a river town on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a nineteen-year-old woman is shot in the face by her closest companion— and through the blood and agony speaks five words that have echoed for nearly a century and a half. In the farming country of western Indiana, a minister poisons his wife with strychnine so he can marry the richest woman in the county — and the dying woman figures out exactly what is happening to her. No one lifts a finger.Season 40 of Foul Play begins a year-long journey across all fifty states, pairing two historical crimes per episode —connected by a single thread. Tonight: Maryland, 1878, and Indiana, 1889. Two women trusted the people closest to them. Both paid for that trust with their bodies.Crisis Support ResourcesIf you or someone you know is experiencing intimate partner violence:-US: National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233-US: Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741-UK: National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247-UK: Victim Support: 0808 1689 111

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Content WarningThis episode contains discussions of murder, suicide, and Victorian scandal. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 39 Finale: The Balham Mystery. The jury deliberated for three hours. Their verdict would haunt this case for one hundred and fifty years: "Willful murder by person or persons unknown."Murder--but no murderer. Four suspects. Four possible killers. And no way to know which one poisoned Charles Bravo.The VictimCharles Bravo died on April 21st, 1876. On August 12th, after twenty-three days of testimony, the jury confirmed what his family had always believed: he was murdered. But they could not--or would not--name the killer.This was not acquittal. Florence Bravo, Jane Cannon Cox, and Dr. James Manby Gully walked free not because they were innocent, but because the evidence against each was insufficient for prosecution. The cloud of suspicion would follow all three for the rest of their lives.The CrimeFour suspects. Four possible murderers.Florence Bravo had motive: freedom from an unhappy marriage and control of her fortune. She had opportunity: she was present at The Priory that evening. But she was not alone with Charles, and her psychological profile--a woman who had fought for independence her entire life--suggested she might simply have waited for divorce.Jane Cannon Cox had motive: Charles wanted her dismissed, threatening her livelihood. She had opportunity: she was the last person to interact with Charles before his collapse. She had means: the coachman testified she had asked about the antimony in the stables. But her alleged confession story, if fabricated, created enormous risk--the very outcome she feared would result from investigation.Dr. James Manby Gully had motive: jealousy, revenge against the man who had taken his lover. He had knowledge: as a physician, he knew exactly how much antimony would kill. But he was not at The Priory that night. If he killed Charles, he did so through an intermediary--most likely Mrs. Cox.Charles Bravo himself might have committed suicide, as Mrs. Cox claimed. But he left no note, settled no affairs, and had taken out life insurance that would be void if he killed himself--leaving his devoted family with nothing.The InvestigationThe evidence pointed everywhere and nowhere.The antimony was definitively identified--enough tartar emetic to kill three men. It was kept in the stables at The Priory, accessible to anyone in the household. The poison most likely entered Charles's system through his bedside water jug.The servants testified about a household filled with tension. Charles and Florence argued constantly. Mrs. Cox's position was precarious. The shadow of Dr. Gully hung over everything.The jury faced an impossible task: convict without proof, or release without justice.Historical Context

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Content WarningThis episode contains discussions of adultery, abortion, and Victorian scandal. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 39: The Balham Mystery. For twenty-three days, the secrets of The Priory were stripped bare in the longest inquest in English legal history. Forty witnesses. Thousands of pages of testimony. Florence Bravo finally forced to admit her affair. Dr. Gully humiliated on the stand.Every scandal exposed. And still no murderer named.The VictimCharles Bravo's death demanded answers. The open verdict of the first inquest—held in private, concluded in three days—satisfied no one. His family demanded justice. The newspapers demanded scandal. On May 15th, 1876, the Attorney General ordered an unprecedented second inquest.What followed was theatre as much as justice. The Bedford Hotel in Balham was transformed into a makeshift courtroom. Crowds queued for hours to witness proceedings. The Attorney General himself, Sir John Holker, took personal charge—an extraordinary intervention for a coroner's inquest.The CrimeFlorence Bravo had avoided testifying at the first inquest. Her doctor declared her too ill to appear. This time, there would be no escape.On July 13th, 1876, Florence walked to the witness stand in mourning clothes—black from head to toe. Sir John Holker's questions began gently, then turned to the matter everyone had come to hear."Mrs. Bravo, were you acquainted with Dr. James Manby Gully?""I was.""And what was the nature of that acquaintance?"The room held its breath. Then Florence spoke the words that would define her forever."Dr. Gully and I were... intimately connected. For approximately two years."The crowd erupted. Florence Bravo's reputation died in that moment. But she held firm: she had not killed her husband. She did not know who had.The InvestigationJane Cannon Cox faced far more hostile questioning. Her alleged confession—"I took poison. Don't tell Florence"—was the foundation of the suicide theory. Now it crumbled under scrutiny.Sir John Holker walked her through April 18th minute by minute. The housemaid Mary Ann Keeber heard no confession. The doctors received none. Only Mrs. Cox, alone and uncorroborated, claimed Charles had taken responsibility for his own death.

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Content WarningThis episode contains detailed descriptions of poisoning and prolonged death. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 39: The Balham Mystery. For seventy-two hours, Charles Bravo lay dying at The Priory while doctors—including Queen Victoria's own physician—watched helplessly. He suffered. He convulsed. He said almost nothing about who poisoned him.One woman claims she heard a confession. No one else heard a word. Was it truth, or a convenient lie to make murder look like suicide?The VictimCharles Bravo had three days to name his killer—and chose silence.From April 18th to April 21st, 1876, the thirty-year-old barrister endured unimaginable suffering at The Priory in Balham. The antimony that had entered his system through his bedside water destroyed him methodically—causing relentless vomiting, organ failure, and slow collapse.Throughout his ordeal, Charles remained lucid for extended periods. He could speak. He could understand questions. Yet when doctors pressed him about what he had taken, he mentioned only rubbing laudanum on his gums for a toothache. When they begged him to name anyone who might have harmed him, he said nothing useful.The CrimeThe parade of physicians began within hours of Charles's collapse. Dr. Joseph Moore arrived first, administering mustard water to induce vomiting—standard treatment for suspected poisoning. By morning, Charles's condition had deteriorated so drastically that Florence summoned reinforcements.Dr. George Harrison came from London. Dr. Royes Bell, a specialist in internal medicine, examined the patient. None could identify the poison or stop its progress. Charles vomited until nothing remained. His body rejected water, medicine, even champagne.On April 20th, Sir William Gull arrived—the physician to Queen Victoria herself. His verdict was grim: Charles was beyond saving. Whatever poison he had ingested, the damage was irreversible.The InvestigationThe alleged confession came from Jane Cannon Cox, Florence's companion. According to Mrs. Cox, Charles turned to her in the sickroom and whispered: "I took poison. Don't tell Florence."Five words that could explain everything—or nothing at all.But the housemaid Mary Ann Keeber was present in that room for much of the ordeal. She heard no such statement. The doctors who questioned Charles directly received no confession. Only Mrs. Cox, alone and uncorroborated, claimed to hear Charles take responsibility for his own death.Sir William Gull made his own attempt. "Did you take anything to cause this illness?" he asked. Charles reportedly answered: "I took nothing intentionally."Nothing intentionally. The words of a man who did not know how poison entered his body? Or a man protecting someone else?Historical Context

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Content WarningThis episode contains discussions of poisoning and death. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 39: The Balham Mystery. April 1876—a young barrister collapses in agony minutes after retiring to bed. For three days, Charles Bravo suffers while doctors, family, and suspects gather. He names no one. The poison is antimony—enough to kill ten men.Behind the gaslit elegance of The Priory, a household harbors dangerous secrets. A wife with a scandalous past. A companion facing dismissal. A former lover humiliated by her marriage. And a husband who knew everything—and paid the ultimate price.The VictimCharles Delauney Bravo was thirty years old when he died on 21 April 1876. A barrister called to the bar only recently, he had married Florence Campbell just four months earlier, on 7 December 1875. The marriage brought him access to Florence's considerable fortune—approximately £40,000, inherited from her first husband Alexander Ricardo.Charles was ambitious. His chambers at Essex Court in the Temple represented the foundation of a legal career he hoped would match his new social position. But colleagues described a man preoccupied with money—Florence's money—and control over the household he had married into.On that final Tuesday, Charles argued with Florence in their carriage, his horse bolted during an afternoon ride, and by nightfall he had consumed enough antimony to "kill a horse," according to the doctors who watched him die.The CrimeThe evening of 18 April 1876 began unremarkably. Charles, Florence, and her companion Jane Cox dined together at The Priory on Bedford Hill. Charles ate well—whiting, lamb, eggs on toast—and drank several glasses of burgundy. Neither woman touched the wine.After dinner, they retired to the morning room. Around nine o'clock, Charles suggested Florence retire to bed. She had been unwell. Jane accompanied her upstairs.Charles remained alone.Approximately fifteen minutes later, he climbed the stairs to his bedroom. The housemaid Mary Ann Keeber passed him on the staircase. She would later tell police that he looked at her strangely—pale, silent, studying her face.In his room, Charles undressed and reached for the water jug that servants prepared fresh each evening. He drank. Within minutes, his bedroom door flew open and he staggered onto the landing, screaming for Florence, for hot water, vomiting violently.The post-mortem revealed thirty to forty grains of tartar emetic—a derivative of antimony—ten times the lethal dose. The poison had been in the water.The InvestigationThe first inquest convened on 25 and 28 April 1876. Coroner William Carter sought to spare the family's feelings, keeping the inquiry private. The jury returned an open verdict.But Charles's stepfather, Joseph Bravo, was not satisfied. He demanded a second investigation.The second inquest ran for an unprecedented twenty-three days, from 11 July through 11 August 1876, at the Bedford Hotel in Balham. It became a Victorian sensation. Crowds gathered in the streets. Newspapers printed every salacious detail—Florence's affair with Dr James Manby Gully, the abortion in Bavaria, the household tensions, Charles's jealousy.

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Content WarningThis episode contains discussions of domestic abuse, poisoning, and death. Support resources are listed at the end of these notes.This EpisodeSeason 39: The Balham Mystery. April 1876—a successful barrister collapses in his bedroom after drinking from a bedside water jug. For three agonizing days, doctors begged him to name his poisoner. He never would. This is the story of Charles Bravo, and the Victorian murder that has never been solved.Behind the elegant facade of The Priory, a villa in Balham, South London, lay a tangle of secrets: a wealthy widow's scandalous past, a controlling husband who knew everything, and a companion with everything to lose.The VictimCharles Delauney Turner Bravo was thirty years old when he died. A barrister called to the bar, Charles came from a prosperous family of Portuguese Jewish ancestry. He was ambitious, charming, and by all accounts, determined to control every aspect of his household—including his wife's considerable fortune. Charles married Florence Campbell Ricardo in December 1875, knowing full well about her four-year affair with the famous hydropathy physician Dr. James Gully. What should have been a fresh start for Florence became something else entirely: a marriage built on leverage and suspicion.The CrimeOn the evening of April 18, 1876, Charles Bravo dined at The Priory with his wife Florence and her companion, Jane Cannon Cox. He retired to his bedroom around 8:30pm. Shortly after, servants heard a bedroom door crash open. Charles staggered into the hallway, his face contorted in agony, crying out for hot water. Jane Cox reached him first—a detail that would later prove crucial.Charles had been poisoned with antimony, likely administered in his bedside water jug. The dose was massive: 20-40 grains of tartar emetic, ten times the lethal amount. For three days, as doctors fought to save him, Charles was asked repeatedly who had poisoned him. His only answer: "I have told you all I know."The InvestigationCharles Bravo died at 5:20am on April 21, 1876. The first inquest returned an open verdict—insufficient evidence to determine what had happened. But public outrage demanded answers. A second inquest, lasting 23 days and calling over 40 witnesses, became a Victorian sensation.Florence Bravo took the stand and admitted everything: the affair with Gully, a pregnancy, a possible miscarriage. Dr. James Gully, 66 years old and once one of England's most respected physicians, saw his reputation destroyed. Jane Cox, whose position in the household was under threat from Charles's cost-cutting, gave contradictory testimony that convinced no one.The verdict: "Wilful murder by person or persons unknown." Three suspects. No conviction. No justice.Historical ContextThe Bravo case emerged during a period when Victorian marriage laws trapped women in impossible situations. Florence had inherited £40,000 (approximately £5 million today) from her first husband, an alcoholic who died at 27. Yet as a married woman, she had limited control over her own life. Divorce required proving both adultery and cruelty—nearly impossible for women of her class.The case also highlighted Victorian England's reputation as a "poisoner's paradise." Antimony was readily available in most households, used to treat horses in stables. The science of toxicology was still developing, and many poisonings went undetected or unprosecuted.Sources (Chicago Notes-Bibliography format):Primary:The National Archives, Coroner's Inquest Records, Bravo Case (1876)

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A Victorian courtroom drama unfolds as a chilling murder verdict is delivered in 19th-century London, a place of evolving laws and societal norms. This episode, nestled in the heart of Season 38's exploration of 'The Rugeley Poisoner,' uncovers the judicial outcomes and societal impact of murder trials during this transformative era. Episode 3 follows the toxic trail left by the infamous Dr. William Palmer. This physician, perceived by many as a respectable figure, secretly loitered in deceitful practices. Before accusations shadowed over him, Palmer was known for his medical expertise and charm, captivating the trust of many. This case's significance lies in its pivotal role in shaping forensic science and challenging perceptions of professionalism and truth within Victorian society. It underscored the era’s limitations in legal frameworks concerning evidence and the interpretation of scientific data. Case details chart Palmer’s methodical approach to eliminating those around him, using poison, an agent of death that walked hand in hand with mystery. As the case unravelled, evidence pointed to a methodical plot built on small errors and oversight, leading detectives through a maze of deceit. The Victorian era bridged the old and new in terms of judicial practice. Emerging scientific techniques clashed with antiquated beliefs, reflecting broader social unrest amidst rapid industrialization and class divisions. Listeners will enter the Victorian courtrooms, visualizing the tension-laden trials through dramatizations and expert narratives. Insights into legal and social standards will illuminate the blurred lines between truth and justice in a rapidly changing world. --- Support Foul Play: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foulplaypodcast Website: https://www.mythsandmalice.com/show/foul-play/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foul-play-crime-series/id1525832703 Follow us: Instagram: @foulplaycrimeseries Twitter: @foulplaypod

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Enter 'The Doctor's Care' in New York—a chilling glimpse into the remaining shadows of the Rugeley Poisoner series, Part 2. This four-part narrative dissects the devious manipulations of Dr. William Palmer, a man whose affable facade masked cruel intentions. Diving deeper than mere medical malpractice, these stories reveal how once-respected figures turned to devious strategies to stave off ruin at any cost. The 19th-century medical realm provided fertile ground for deception and desperation, vividly encapsulated within these tales. From court trials to societal repercussions, each episode keenly explores layers of deceit. Shane Waters continues to guide audiences through accounts where moral boundaries blur, accentuating both historical intrigue and the human proclivity towards malfeasance.

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Season 38 examines one of Victorian England's most infamous murderers: William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner. This four-part series traces his crimes from gambling addiction to serial murder—and the groundbreaking forensic investigation that brought him to justice.The Fatal WagerNovember 1855. A man lies dying in Room 10 of the Talbot Arms inn. His back arches off the mattress. His jaw locks. Every muscle seizes at once.John Parsons Cook had won big at the Shrewsbury races just days earlier. His horse Polestar crossed the finish line first, putting nearly a thousand pounds in his pocket. He should have been celebrating.Instead, he's being murdered—slowly, methodically—by his own friend and physician.Dr. William Palmer stands beside the bed, taking Cook's pulse. He doesn't call for help. He waits.The VictimJohn Parsons Cook was twenty-eight years old in 1855. Born into comfortable circumstances, he inherited enough money from his father to live without working. He trained for the law but never practiced—the racing circuit called to him instead.Cook followed the horse racing meets across England: Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Chester. He owned horses. He wagered heavily. He lived for the thundering hooves and the roaring crowds.But Cook suffered from chronic poor health. Stomach troubles plagued him. This made him dependent on physicians—a dependency that would prove fatal when his racing companion William Palmer decided he needed to die.The CrimeWilliam Palmer was a surgeon, a family man, and a serial killer.By November 1855, Palmer owed more than twenty thousand pounds to moneylenders. His gambling addiction had consumed him. He had already murdered for money—his wife Anne (insurance payout: thirteen thousand pounds), his brother Walter (insurance claim pending), possibly his mother-in-law, and at least four of his own infant children.When Cook won at Shrewsbury, Palmer saw an opportunity. The two men traveled together back to Palmer's hometown of Rugeley. Cook took his usual room at the Talbot Arms—directly across the street from Palmer's house.Palmer began visiting Cook immediately, administering "treatments" for his illness. Each time Cook improved, another dose sent him back to agony.Cook suspected. He told friends: "I believe that damn Palmer has been dosing me." But suspicion wasn't proof, and Palmer was a doctor. Doctors could be trusted.The InvestigationWhat followed Cook's death would transform British forensic science and create new legal precedent.Dr. Alfred Swaine Taylor, England's foremost toxicologist, examined Cook's remains. He found no strychnine in the body—the poison metabolized too quickly. But the symptoms were unmistakable: tetanic convulsions, locked jaw, arched back.Taylor's testimony established a critical principle: absence of poison does not equal absence of poisoning. Clinical symptoms and circumstantial evidence could establish murder even when the weapon couldn't be found.Palmer's trial became so notorious that Parliament passed special legislation—the Central Criminal Court Act 1856, forever known as "Palmer's Act"—to move the case from Staffordshire to London's Old Bailey.Thirty-two medical experts testified. The jury deliberated eighty-two minutes.Verdict: Guilty.Historical ContextThe Palmer case exposed the vulnerability of Victorian society to medical murderers. Physicians held almost unquestioned authority. Patients trusted them with their lives—literally.Palmer exploited this trust systematically. His medical knowledge allowed him to choose poisons that were difficult to detect, calculate doses that would kill without immediate suspicion, and explain away symptoms as natural illness.The case accelerated the development of forensic toxicology across Europe. Scientists raced to develop more sensitive tests for alkaloid poisons like strychnine.Sources consulted: Old Bailey Online trial transcripts (May 1856); The Times contemporary coverage; British Newspaper Archive; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; forensic toxicology historical analysis.ResourcesPrimary Sources:* Old Bailey Online: Trial of William Palmer (May 1856) — oldbaileyonline.org * British Newspaper Archive coverage of Rugeley poisoner case

Further Reading:* Katherine Watson, "Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims" (2004) * Robert Graves, "They Hanged My Saintly Billy" (1957) — literary treatment

Crisis Resources:* For concerns about elder financial abuse or medical exploitation: Adult Protective Services

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This is the fourth and final episode of our series examining the 1860 Road Hill House murder, the case that gave birth to modern detective fiction. Previous episodes covered the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent, Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher's groundbreaking investigation, and the five years of cold case torment that preceded Constance Kent's confession.The gallery was packed to suffocation. July 21, 1865. Five years they'd waited for this moment. Five years since Francis Saville Kent was found with his throat cut in the family privy. Five years since Inspector Whicher accused Constance Kent of murdering her baby brother—and was destroyed for saying so. When the clerk asked how she pleaded, Constance spoke one word: "Guilty." No mitigation. No excuse. No insanity defense that might have saved her from prison.When Constance Kent stood in the prisoner's dock at Devizes Assizes on July 21, 1865, she refused the insanity defense her counsel had carefully prepared. Instead, she pleaded guilty to murdering her three-year-old half-brother Francis—a single word that silenced the packed courtroom and condemned her to death.But Queen Victoria's government commuted her sentence. At sixteen when she committed the murder, Constance had carried the secret for five years before confessing voluntarily. She served twenty years in Victorian prisons—first at Millbank, then Fulham Refuge—transforming from a troubled teenager into a model prisoner who educated herself and learned nursing skills.In 1886, a woman named Ruth Emilie Kaye boarded the ship Carisbrooke Castle bound for Sydney. Constance Kent ceased to exist. For fifty-eight years, she built a new life in Australia, rising to Matron at several institutions, nursing the sick and elderly, living in quiet anonymity until her death at one hundred years old in 1944. No one in Australia knew they were burying England's most notorious Victorian murderess.Key Case DetailsTrial and Sentencing (July 1865):* Thirty-minute trial at Devizes Assizes * Justice Willes presiding, John Duke Coleridge defending * Guilty plea rejected insanity defense * Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment

Prison Years (1865-1885):* Twenty years served at Millbank and Fulham prisons * Model prisoner with no disciplinary incidents * Self-educated in nursing skills * Release conditional on leaving England

Australian Reinvention (1886-1944):* Emigrated as Ruth Emilie Kaye aboard Carisbrooke Castle * Nursing career spanning four decades * Matron at Parramatta Industrial School for Girls * Matron at Pierce Memorial Nurses' Home for twenty-one years * Died April 10, 1944, at age 100, identity unknown

Literary Legacy:* Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868) directly inspired by the case * Sergeant Cuff character modeled on Inspector Whicher * Foundation for Sherlock Holmes and entire detective fiction genre * Inspector Whicher died June 29, 1881—exactly twenty-one years after the murder night

Francis Saville Kent was three years and ten months old when he died. He was not a plot device or a mystery to be solved. He was a child with dark hair and bright eyes who ate his porridge at a small table by the window, who played in the June sunshine of a Wiltshire garden, whose small voice fell silent on a night that would echo through a century and a half of English history. He was not the mystery. He was the cost.Historical Context & SourcesThis series draws extensively from Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008), the definitive modern account based on extensive primary research. Original trial transcripts from the National Archives and contemporary newspaper coverage from The Times and Morning Post (1860-1865) provided additional verification. Bernard Taylor's Cruelly Murdered (1979) contributed alternative perspectives on William Saville-Kent's potential involvement—a mystery that remains unresolved.Resources & Further ReadingKate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detectiveremains the essential text for understanding this case. Readers interested in the literary legacy should explore Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868), widely considered the first modern English detective novel. The Victorian crime history section at the National Archives maintains original documents from the investigation and trial.

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Road Hill House was no longer home. It was a crime scene that everyone recognised and no one could forget. The servants whispered in corners. New staff refused positions. And somewhere across England, a teenage girl carried a secret that would rattle the nation.Three-year-old Francis Saville Kent had been dead for five years, but his presence haunted everyone connected to Road Hill House. His wicker cot had been moved to the attic. His toys—the wooden rocking horse, the tin soldiers, the stuffed rabbit he couldn't sleep without—were packed away in trunks. The family attempted to erase all physical evidence of the child who had been murdered in his own home, but some things cannot be buried. This episode examines the devastating aftermath of the Road Hill House murder, tracing five years of silence, scandal, and psychological torment that led to one of the most unexpected confessions in criminal history.By early 1861, Samuel Kent had made an impossible decision: the family would abandon Road Hill House forever. The whispers, the stares, the neighbours who crossed the street to avoid them—it had become unbearable. Constance Kent, the sixteen-year-old half-sister whom Detective Inspector Whicher had accused of murder, was sent far from England. First to a French convent across the Channel, far from English newspapers. Then, in 1863, to St. Mary's Home for Religious Ladies in Brighton—a place of strict Anglo-Catholic ritual that would transform her utterly. Meanwhile, her brother William built a successful career as a marine scientist, seemingly untouched by scandal. But questions lingered. Had he been involved that June night? Was Constance protecting someone?At St. Mary's, Constance encountered Father Arthur Wagner—a charismatic Anglican priest whose theology emphasized confession and penance. Wagner's version of Christianity demanded that sins be spoken aloud, that guilt find voice, that secrets be exposed before God. For nearly two years, Constance resisted. Then, in early 1865, something broke. She requested a private meeting with Father Wagner. What she told him changed everything. On the morning of April 25, 1865, Father Wagner and Constance Kent boarded a train for London. At Bow Street police station, she dictated a written confession to the murder of Francis Saville Kent. She provided details that matched evidence Inspector Whicher had gathered five years earlier—details only the killer could have known. Headlines screamed across England: ROAD HILL HOUSE MURDERESS CONFESSES.The Road Hill House case became a watershed moment in British criminal justice and religious history. Constance Kent's confession raised profound questions about the intersection of faith and law. Had Father Wagner provided genuine spiritual guidance, or had he manipulated a vulnerable young woman? The Anglo-Catholic confession practices at St. Mary's drew intense scrutiny. Victorian society, which had destroyed Inspector Whicher's career for daring to accuse a "young lady of breeding," now had to confront its own prejudices. The detective had been right all along—class bias had protected a murderer for five years. Constance's case also highlighted emerging Victorian understanding of psychological trauma. Her childhood losses—mother's death, father's remarriage to the governess, blatant favouritism toward the second family—would today be recognized as severe emotional abuse.What remains unexplained is why Constance confessed after five years of freedom. The investigation was closed. The world had moved on. She could have stayed silent forever. Some historians argue the confession was genuine religious transformation—Wagner's theology finally breaking through her defences. Others suggest coercion—a priest manipulating a vulnerable woman consumed by guilt. A third theory persists: that Constance was protecting her brother William, who may have been involved that night in June 1860. Her confession mentioned resentment but offered no specific. Listeners fascinated by Victorian detective work should explore Episode 2 of this series, which details Inspector Whicher's revolutionary investigation methods. For more cases involving religious confession and criminal justice, Foul Play's archives include coverage of other nineteenth-century crimes where faith and law intersected in unexpected ways.Next episode: The trial lasted thirty minutes. The death sentence wasn't carried out. And England's most notorious murderess would live to be one hundred years old under a completely different name. Episode 4 reveals the extraordinary aftermath of Constance Kent's confession.

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This is Episode 2 of 4 in Foul Play's Road Hill House Murder series, covering Victorian England's most notorious family crime. Episode 1 established the Kent family's toxic dynamics and the discovery of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent's body. This episode follows Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher's revolutionary investigation and his tragic downfall at the hands of Victorian class prejudice.On July 16, 1860, a train departed Paddington Station carrying a middle-aged man with a smallpox-scarred face and blue eyes that catalogued every detail. Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher—one of England's first professional detectives—was about to solve the Road Hill House murder in just five days. What he couldn't solve was Victorian society's refusal to believe...Episode SummaryWhen Scotland Yard's finest detective arrived in Wiltshire to investigate the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent, he brought revolutionary investigative techniques that would shape criminal investigation for generations. Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher interviewed witnesses separately, compared their stories for inconsistencies, and built psychological profiles—methods modern detectives would instantly recognize.Within five days, Whicher had identified his suspect: sixteen-year-old Constance Kent, the victim's half-sister. His evidence centered on a missing nightgown—one of three that Constance owned, now mysteriously absent from the household laundry. In an era before DNA analysis or forensic laboratories, Whicher understood that the absence of evidence could itself be evidence. A bloodstained nightgown couldn't be cleaned or hidden—it had to be destroyed.But Whicher faced an obstacle more formidable than any criminal: Victorian class prejudice. He was a gardener's son who had risen through merit. Constance was a "young lady of good breeding." When he arrested her, the public erupted in fury. Newspapers condemned him for persecuting an innocent girl. Her defense attorney, Peter Edlin, transformed the preliminary hearing into a trial of Whicher himself—questioning what kind of man interrogates a teenage girl alone in her bedroom.The magistrates released Constance due to insufficient evidence. Whicher returned to London in disgrace. His career was destroyed, his health broken. He was right about everything—and it cost him everything.Key Case DetailsDetective: Jonathan "Jack" Whicher, Detective Inspector, Scotland YardSuspect: Constance Emily Kent, age 16Victim: Francis Saville Kent, age 3 years 10 monthsLocation: Road Hill House, Road (now Rode), Wiltshire, EnglandTime Period: July 16-27, 1860Key Evidence: Missing nightgown from household laundry recordsOutcome: Constance released; Whicher's career destroyed by class prejudiceThe First Modern DetectiveJonathan Whicher represents a pivotal moment in criminal justice history. Before professional detectives, crime investigation relied on informants, rewards, and confessions obtained through pressure. Whicher pioneered systematic investigation: separate witness interviews, timeline reconstruction, psychological profiling, and the revolutionary concept that physical evidence—or its absence—could tell a story.His techniques at Road Hill House read like a modern investigation manual. He interviewed the household staff individually, noting inconsistencies in their stories. He reconstructed the timeline of the murder night hour by hour. He examined the crime scene for physical evidence. He built a profile of the likely killer based on access, motive, and opportunity.The tragedy is that his brilliance couldn't overcome the social barriers of his era. Victorian society wasn't ready to accept that respectable families could produce murderers—or that a working-class detective could be right about an upper-class suspect.Victorian True Crime ContextThe Road Hill House case exposed fundamental tensions in Victorian society. The emerging professional police force—Scotland Yard was barely thirty years old in 1860—represented a threat to traditional class hierarchies. When Whicher accused Constance Kent, he wasn't just accusing a girl of murder. He was claiming that a working-class detective could penetrate the secrets of respectable families and judge their daughters.The public backlash was immediate and fierce. Newspapers that had demanded answers now demanded Whicher's resignation. The same society that was horrified by Francis's murder was more horrified by the suggestion that his killer came from within his own family.Historical Context & SourcesWe highly recommend Kate Summerscale's acclaimed 2008 book "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective," which provides the most comprehensive modern analysis of the case. Additional details come from contemporary newspaper accounts in The Times and Morning Post, trial transcripts from the National Archives, and Victorian police records documenting Whicher's investigative methods.Resources & Further Reading* Kate Summerscale, "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" (2008) * The National Archives (UK) - Victorian Crime and Punishment Records * British Newspaper Archive - Contemporary coverage 1860

Related Media:* "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" (2011 TV film starring Paddy Considine)

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Season 37, Episode 1 of 4This is the first episode in Foul Play's four-part investigation into Victorian England's most notorious family murder and the case that birthed modern detective fiction.Elizabeth Gough checked Francis Saville Kent's cot at five in the morning on June 30, 1860. The blankets were gone. The three-year-old was gone. And somewhere in Road Hill House, someone who knew exactly what had happened was waiting for the search to begin—On the last night of June 1860, three-year-old Francis Saville Kent was lifted from his nursery bed in the family's Wiltshire mansion. Hours later, a servant discovered his small body in the outdoor privy, his throat cut nearly to the spine.The killer came from inside the house. That much was immediately certain. But who among the nine people sleeping at Road Hill House that night would murder a child? And why?This episode traces the fractured Kent family—a household divided between a tyrannical father's first marriage and second, where teenage Constance and her brother William existed as ghosts in their own home while their half-brother Francis received everything they'd been denied. We witness the horror of discovery morning, the bungled local investigation, and the arrival of Detective Inspector Jonathan "Jack" Whicher from Scotland Yard—a working-class detective about to walk into a class warfare trap that would destroy him.Some walls don't protect families. They hide what families are capable of doing to themselves.Key Case DetailsVictim: Francis Saville Kent, age 3 years and 10 months, murdered June 29-30, 1860Location: Road Hill House, village of Road (now Rode), Wiltshire, EnglandCrime: The boy was taken from his nursery bed between midnight and five in the morning, carried through the dark house, and murdered in the outdoor privy. His throat was slashed from ear to ear with a razor or knife, cutting nearly to the spine. His body was stuffed into the privy vault and hidden among waste.Initial Investigation: Local police focused on servants and outsiders, refusing to suspect the respectable Kent family. Critical evidence—including a bloodstained nightgown belonging to sixteen-year-old half-sister Constance Kent—was destroyed by her father with police cooperation. The inquest returned "willful murder by person or persons unknown."Scotland Yard Intervention: Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher arrived July 16, 1860, and within five days identified Constance Kent as his primary suspect—the first time in English history a young lady from a respectable family faced formal murder charges.Section 4: The Victim - Francis Saville KentFrancis Saville Kent deserves to be remembered as more than a murder victim. He was three years and ten months old—dark-haired, curious, his father's favorite child. He collected smooth stones from the garden and named them after colors. He asked endless questions about where stars came from and why dogs didn't talk. He had a stuffed rabbit he couldn't sleep without and an imaginary pack of dogs that followed him everywhere.He was learning to count but always skipped the number nine. He negotiated extra bedtime stories with remarkable persistence for a toddler. He called his half-sister Constance "Tannie" because he couldn't pronounce her name.He was three years old. Someone murdered him anyway.Section 5: Victorian True Crime ContextVictorian England in 1860 was obsessed with respectability. Gas lamps flickered in drawing rooms across the countryside while servants moved silently through service corridors. Behind heavy curtains and locked doors, families performed daily rituals of propriety—morning prayers, afternoon tea, church attendance every Sunday.The outside world saw polished brass door knockers and manicured gardens. Inside, secrets festered.The Road Hill House case shattered Victorian assumptions about where crime originated. Respectable families didn't produce murderers. Young ladies of good breeding didn't commit violence. Working-class detectives couldn't accuse gentlemen's daughters.These assumptions would destroy Detective Inspector Whicher's career—and let a killer walk free for five more years.Section 6: Historical Context & SourcesThe Road Hill House Murder became Victorian England's most notorious domestic crime and directly inspired the birth of detective fiction. Wilkie Collins used case details when writing The Moonstone (1868), widely considered the first modern detective novel. Charles Dickens followed the investigation closely and incorporated elements into his final, unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood.Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher's methods—systematic crime scene analysis, methodical witness interviews, evidence-based deduction regardless of social class—represented revolutionary policing. His destruction by class prejudice exposed how Victorian justice protected the respectable while prosecuting the poor.Primary Source: Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008) provides the most comprehensive modern account, drawing on original trial transcripts, contemporary newspaper coverage, and National Archives documents.Content Advisory: This episode contains clinical description of violence against a child, consistent with documented historical records.Section 6A: Resources & Further Reading* The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (2008) - Definitive modern account of the case * Cruelly Murdered by Bernard Taylor (1979) - Alternative analysis exploring brother William's potential involvement * The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) - Detective fiction directly inspired by the Road Hill House investigation * The National Archives (UK) maintains original trial transcripts and investigation documents from 1860-1865

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This episode is part of Season 36: Serial Killers in History—a single-episode deep dive into one of the most disturbing and least-known serial killers of the Weimar era.December 1924. A homeless stonemason narrowly escapes death in a small Silesian town. What police discover in the aftermath reveals twenty-one years of murder hidden behind the most respectable facade imaginable—a church organ blower who sold his victims as pork at public markets. The story of Karl Denke forces us to confront how society's indifference to its most vulnerable creates perfect hunting grounds for predators.The VictimVincenz Olivier was a homeless stonemason wandering the streets of Münsterberg in search of work, food, or somewhere warm to sleep. Like dozens before him, Olivier was invisible to society—the kind of man whose disappearance would never make headlines, whose death would never prompt an investigation. He accepted an offer of twenty pfennigs to write a letter for a respected local citizen. That simple act of desperation brought him face-to-face with a killer who had evaded detection for over two decades. When Denke dictated a bizarre opening line and Olivier turned his head in confusion, that moment of hesitation saved his life—and exposed one of history's most methodical murderers.The CrimeKarl Denke operated his killing enterprise from 1903 to 1924, targeting society's invisible people: homeless vagrants, unemployed journeymen, recently released prisoners, and travelers seeking work during Germany's economic collapse. His reputation as "Papa Denke"—the charitable organ blower who helped travelers—was his hunting tool. He would offer small payments for simple tasks, then strike from behind with a pickaxe as victims sat distracted at his desk. After death came systematic processing that would have impressed a professional butcher. Denke dismembered bodies, pickled flesh in brine, rendered human fat for soap, and tanned human skin to manufacture leather goods. He held an official vendor's license and sold his "boneless pickled pork" at public markets in Breslau.The InvestigationWhen police searched Denke's apartment on Christmas Eve 1924, they discovered a museum of murder. Two wooden tubs filled with pickled human flesh. According to Friedrich Pietrusky's 1926 forensic report, 351 human teeth were recovered and sorted in containers. Belts, suspenders, and shoelaces crafted from tanned human skin. A ledger documenting thirty-one victims by name—and their slaughter weight. The evidence documented at least thirty victims, with estimates suggesting forty or more. Denke's suicide by hanging with a handkerchief in his holding cell before interrogation meant the full scope of his crimes would never be known. Among verified victims: confectioner Adolf Salisch and fur dealer Rochus Pawlick (Denke's last known victim before Olivier's escape). Victims ranged from sixteen to seventy-six years old. The case revealed significant weaknesses in law enforcement practices, as his victims' marginal status meant their disappearances were never investigated.Historical ContextKarl Denke operated during one of Germany's most turbulent periods—the Weimar Republic era marked by hyperinflation, widespread poverty, and social displacement following World War I. Meat shortages made cheap protein precious as gold, and no one questioned why a gentle church organ blower had steady supplies of quality meat. His crimes coincided with those of other notorious German killers Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kürten, yet while those names echo through criminal history, Denke became a footnote. His immediate suicide prevented any sensational trial. After World War II, Münsterberg became Polish Ziębice, German residents were expelled, records scattered, and the case fell between German and Polish historiography—nearly lost entirely.Sources: Friedrich Pietrusky forensic report (1926), Lucyna Biały research (1999), Casefile Podcast Episode 212, German criminal archivesResourcesThe location of Denke's crimes was Teichstraße 10 (now Stawowa Street 13) in Ziębice, Poland. Note: Sources conflict on whether the original structure still stands—a 1999 report indicated the building had been replaced by newer construction. For those interested in Weimar-era crime, Fritz Lang cited Denke as one of several inspirations for his 1931 film "M," alongside Fritz Haarmann, Carl Großmann, and Peter Kürten (the primary model). Casefile Podcast covered this case in Episode 212, titled "The Forgotten Cannibal" (May 21, 2022).

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Episode 14 of 15 | Season 36: Serial Killers in HistoryIn a locked storage chamber in rural Hungary, seven sealed metal drums waited to reveal their terrible secrets—each containing the perfectly preserved body of a woman who had answered a marriage advertisement.The investigation into Hungary's most prolific lonely hearts killer reaches its chilling conclusion as we trace Béla Kiss's extraordinary escape from justice during the chaos of World War One.VICTIM PROFILE:Katherine Varga sold her dressmaking business for the promise of marriage. Margaret Toth trusted her mother's choice of a husband. These women weren't victims of circumstance—they were successful, independent, and looking for partnership in an era when marriage advertisements represented a respectable path to companionship. They responded to notices in Budapest newspapers, exchanged romantic letters with a successful tinsmith named Béla Kiss, and traveled alone to his home in Cinkota with their valuables and their hopes. The skills that had supported Katherine's independence—her precise needlework—would later identify her remains years after Kiss strangled her and sealed her body in an alcohol-filled drum.THE CRIME:This case changed how Hungarian law enforcement approached missing persons cases and marriage advertisement fraud. Kiss's crimes exposed the vulnerability of women seeking companionship in early twentieth-century society and demonstrated how a charismatic predator could weaponize social conventions for years without detection. The preserved bodies—so pristine that victims remained recognizable years after death—stand as haunting evidence of how ordinary systems can shield extraordinary evil. Béla Kiss remains one of criminology's greatest unsolved mysteries, his ability to disappear so completely ensuring his story continues to captivate researchers worldwide.Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence against women and discussions of serial murder. Listener discretion advised.KEY CASE DETAILS:The investigation into Béla Kiss began in mid-1916 when landlord Márton Kresinszky and pharmacist Béla Takács discovered seven metal drums in Kiss's locked storage chamber. Each drum, professionally sealed with lead solder, contained a woman's body preserved in wood alcohol and strangled with a rope or garrotte. Investigators found seventeen more bodies throughout the property, bringing the total to twenty-four victims—all killed with the same methodical approach.Timeline: Kiss operated between 1912-1914, placing matrimonial advertisements in Budapest newspapers under the alias "Hofmann." Conscripted to the 40th Honvéd Infantry Brigade in 1914, he left his home in housekeeper Mrs. Jakubec's care. The discovery came nearly two years later during renovation preparations.Method: Kiss corresponded with 174 women, actively pursued 74, and lured victims by emphasizing his financial stability and respectable tinsmith business. He requested women travel alone and bring their valuables. After strangling them, he took their assets and preserved bodies in alcohol-filled drums—a technique that astounded medical examiners with its effectiveness.Escape: In October 1916, Detective Chief Charles Nagy traveled to a Serbian military hospital after reports Kiss was alive. He arrived to find a corpse in Kiss's bed—but the face was wrong. Kiss had switched identity documents with a dying soldier and walked out of the hospital into the chaos of war-torn Serbia.Aftermath: In 1932, New York City homicide detective Henry Oswald was certain he spotted Kiss emerging from the Times Square subway station. The sighting was never confirmed. Whether Kiss died in the trenches, lived out his days under an assumed identity, or met some other fate remains unknown. The mathematics of his notebook—174 contacts, 74 pursued, 24 found—leaves terrible questions about fifty unaccounted women.HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND SOURCES:This episode draws on contemporary Hungarian police records, the detailed account by Austro-Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy who witnessed the body examinations, court documents from earlier proceedings against Kiss by victims Julianne Paschak and Elizabeth Komeromi, and historical research into World War One-era military hospital conditions in occupied Serbia. The investigation reveals how wartime chaos enabled Kiss's escape and how early twentieth-century record-keeping failures allowed a serial killer to vanish completely.RESOURCES AND FURTHER READING:For listeners interested in exploring this case further, these historically significant sources provide additional context:* The Hungarian National Archives maintains police investigation records from the original 1916 Cinkota discovery and subsequent manhunt * Academic research on early twentieth-century matrimonial fraud and lonely hearts schemes in Austro-Hungarian newspapers * Military hospital records from WWI-era Serbia documenting the typhoid epidemic and identification challenges that enabled Kiss's escape * Contemporary newspaper coverage from Budapest publications reporting on the barrel discoveries

RELATED FOUL PLAY EPISODES:If you enjoyed this early twentieth-century Hungarian case, explore these related Foul Play episodes:* Season 36, Episode 12: Maria Swanenburg - Another insurance-focused serial killer from the 1880s Netherlands who targeted vulnerable community members * Season 36, Episode 9: Maria Jeanneret - Swiss poisoner who exploited positions of trust to prey on isolated victims * Season 36, Episode 15: Karl Denke - German serial killer who evaded detection through community respectability until the 1920s

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Season 36, Episode 13 of our Serial Killers in History series. This episode examines one of North Africa's most notorious crimes and the execution that shocked the world.In the spring of 1906, authorities in Marrakesh make a discovery that will reverberate across continents. Beneath the packed-earth floor of a modest shoemaker's workshop, they uncover the remains of twenty-six women. Ten more bodies lie buried in a garden nearby. Thirty-six victims in total—women who came to a trusted craftsman for help and never walked out alive. What follows is a story of community betrayal, colonial politics, and a punishment so brutal that diplomats from New York to London demanded intervention. But the screaming from inside the marketplace walls continued for two days before...VICTIM PROFILE:The thirty-six women murdered by Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi remain largely unnamed in historical records—a final cruelty in a case dominated by its killer's infamy. They were working-class women from Marrakesh's medina, women who needed help with everyday tasks in a society where female literacy was rare. Some came to dictate letters to relatives in distant cities. Others needed shoes repaired. They were mothers, daughters, sisters who trusted a man their community trusted. They walked into his shop for legitimate business and vanished into the earth beneath his floor, their identities lost to time while their murderer's name lives in infamy.THE CRIME:Between 1902 and 1906, Mesfewi operated his shop near one of Marrakesh's public bathhouses, positioning himself perfectly to encounter women conducting business without male accompaniment. His method was consistent across all victims: he offered tea laced with narcotics, likely opium, rendering women unconscious. Once incapacitated, he killed them with a dagger and buried them beneath his workshop floor or in a garden he owned, using quicklime to accelerate decomposition. His seventy-year-old accomplice, a woman named Annah, assisted in the crimes until her capture in April 1906.KEY CASE DETAILS:The murders unraveled when families noticed a pattern—women who mentioned visiting Mesfewi's shop were never seen again. One young woman named Fatima escaped after growing dizzy from drugged tea, providing the first direct testimony against the shoemaker. When Annah was captured by a victim's family and forced to confess, she revealed the burial sites before dying from her injuries. Authorities excavating Mesfewi's workshop found twenty-six bodies, methodically buried with layers of quicklime. A second property yielded ten more victims. Forensic science in 1906 Morocco was rudimentary—no fingerprinting, no crime scene photography—so investigators relied on shovels, sketches, and eyewitness accounts to document the horror.HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND SOURCES:Mesfewi's crimes occurred during Morocco's final years of independence before European colonization. As his victims were being discovered in April 1906, diplomats gathered in Algeciras, Spain, carving up Morocco's future at an international conference. Within six years, the Treaty of Fez would establish the French Protectorate, ending twelve centuries of Moroccan sovereignty. European powers seized on Mesfewi's execution—he was sealed alive inside a wall in the Marrakesh marketplace—as evidence of "barbaric" Moroccan justice requiring European oversight. Contemporary newspapers from The Times and Democrat to the St. John Sun published detailed accounts and illustrations, framing the case within colonial narratives that justified intervention.RESOURCES AND FURTHER READING:For those who want to explore further:* Wikipedia article on Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi provides comprehensive case details and contemporary source citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadj_Mohammed_Mesfewi * Murderpedia entry includes execution details and victim count documentation: https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mesfewi-hadj-mohammed.htm * Yabiladi article examines the case from a Moroccan historical perspective: https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/94637/hadj-mohammed-mesfewi-morocco-serial.html

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In the fog-shrouded streets of 1880s Leiden, a woman everyone called "Good Mary" brought food to the sick, consoled the grieving, and prepared the dead for burial. For three years, she was the angel of her neighborhood—the trusted caregiver who helped when no one else would. No one suspected that the porridge she served was laced with arsenic. No one questioned why so many of her patients died. Until a doctor noticed somethingMaria Swanenburg's victims included 27 confirmed deaths among the most vulnerable members of Victorian Leiden's working-class community. Among them were her own parents—Johanna Dingjan and Clemens Swanenburg—murdered for whatever meager inheritance they might leave. Two young sisters died while Maria babysat them, followed by attempted poisonings of six mourners at their wake, including their pregnant mother.The Frankhuizen family lost three members: Maria Frankhuizen, her infant son, and her husband Hendrik, whose agonizing final days would ultimately expose the killer. Elderly neighbors who trusted Maria with their care, relatives who welcomed her help, and community members who saw her as Goeie Mie—"Good Mary"—all fell victim to her arsenic-laced kindness. Another 45 survivors lived with permanent health damage, many walking Leiden's streets on crutches for the rest of their lives.Between 1880 and 1883, Maria Swanenburg systematically poisoned at least 102 people in Leiden, Netherlands, killing 27 and permanently disabling dozens more. Operating in disease-ridden working-class neighborhoods where cholera deaths were common, she exploited the era's limited medical knowledge and the community's trust in her caregiving reputation.Maria purchased arsenic from multiple pharmacies across Leiden—ostensibly for pest control—accumulating lethal quantities without raising suspicion. She poisoned her victims through food and drink while nursing them, then collected on small life insurance policies she'd secretly taken out. When victims displayed symptoms of violent gastric distress, doctors assumed cholera or typhoid. When they died, Maria helped prepare their bodies for burial and consoled grieving families.Her downfall came in December 1883 when Dr. Wijnand Rutgers van der Loeff connected multiple patients with identical symptoms to one common factor: all had been under Maria Swanenburg's care.The Investigation: Dr. van der Loeff's suspicions led police to arrest Maria on December 15, 1883. When searched, she carried multiple insurance policies in her pockets—policies taken out on people currently under her care. Authorities exhumed thirteen bodies from Leiden cemeteries; all tested positive for arsenic.The Trial: Proceedings began April 23, 1885, drawing national attention. Medical experts explained how arsenic accumulated in victims' tissues. Family members testified about their loved ones' rapid deterioration under Maria's care. Throughout, she maintained an eerily calm demeanor, claiming she was being framed.The Verdict: On May 1, 1885, Maria Swanenburg was convicted of three murders from the Frankhuizen family case—though prosecutors had evidence for 27 deaths. She became the first woman in Dutch history to receive a life sentence.The Sentence: Maria was sent to Gorinchem Correctional Facility, where she died on April 11, 1915, at age 75, having served thirty years.Victorian Leiden provided the perfect hunting ground for a poisoner. The textile industry had drawn workers into overcrowded slums where families of ten lived in cramped cottages with earthen floors, no sanitation, and no ventilation. Cholera, typhoid, and tuberculosis killed regularly. Child mortality was staggeringly high. Doctors rarely visited poor districts because residents couldn't pay.In this environment, additional deaths barely registered. Arsenic was legally sold in pharmacies for pest control with minimal regulation—no questions asked, no records kept. The poison was tasteless, odorless, and produced symptoms indistinguishable from endemic diseases without expensive chemical analysis that the poor could never afford.Maria's role as a community caregiver—taking in elderly boarders, nursing the sick, preparing bodies for burial—gave her unlimited access to vulnerable victims and made suspicion seem impossible. She was Goeie Mie. Good Mary. The angel.Primary research for this episode draws from Dutch criminal archives and the work of historian Stefan Glasbergen, whose book on Maria Swanenburg provides crucial contemporary documentation including court testimony and neighborhood accounts.The case fundamentally changed Dutch law. Following Maria's conviction, the Netherlands implemented strict regulations on arsenic sales, requiring pharmacies to maintain detailed purchase records and verify legitimate need. Dutch law enforcement developed standardized protocols for investigating suspicious deaths and recognizing serial murder patterns.The Swanenburg case became a cornerstone study in criminal investigation training throughout Europe, demonstrating how serial killers exploit community trust and institutional blind spots to operate undetected for years.For those interested in exploring this case further:* The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden maintains records from the Victorian era * Dutch National Archives hold original court documents from the 1885 trial * Academic studies on Victorian-era poisoning cases and forensic toxicology development *

Maria Swanenburg's victims trusted her completely. She was their neighbor, their caregiver, their friend. In the fog-shrouded slums of Victorian Leiden, the angel of the neighborhood was actually its deadliest predator—and the 45 survivors on crutches walked as permanent reminders of her betrayal.

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The shepherd saw everything—watched as El Chalequero dragged an elderly woman toward the Consulado River, pulled a knife from hisEpisode 11 of 15 | Season 36: Serial Killers in HistoryMexico City's first documented serial killer hunted working-class women for nearly three decades. This episode examines the systemic failures that allowed Francisco Guerrero Pérez to operate freely while authorities looked the other way.The Women History ForgotMurcia Gallardo was 47 years old when she died—a market vendor in La Merced who sold chilies and produce from the same corner stall she'd operated for over a decade. Her customers knew her voice calling out prices before dawn. She had three children and six grandchildren. Her daughter worked a stall two rows over. When Francisco Guerrero Pérez offered to help carry her baskets home that evening, she had no reason to refuse. He looked respectable. Spoke politely. Everyone in the market district knew El Chalequero by sight—the well-dressed craftsman in his elegant vests.She became one of at least 21 women murdered along the Consulado River between 1880 and 1908. Market vendors, washerwomen, sex workers—women who worked brutal hours for subsistence wages, who walked to and from work in darkness because they had no choice. Women whose deaths barely registered in police records because the Porfirian authorities considered their lives disposable.Why This Case MattersThe El Chalequero case exposes a stark truth about institutional failure. For eight years, bodies appeared near the same river, bearing the same method—strangulation with the victim's own clothing. Authorities knew the pattern. Neighbors whispered the killer's name. Yet systematic investigation never came because these were poor women from working-class neighborhoods. Their deaths weren't worth resources or urgency. When Francisco Guerrero Pérez was finally convicted in 1888, it was for just one murder despite evidence suggesting at least 20 victims.Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence against women and sexual assault references. Listener discretion advised.Key Case DetailsThe investigation into El Chalequero represents one of the earliest documented serial murder cases in Mexican history, spanning nearly three decades of the Porfiriato era.• Timeline of Terror: Guerrero Pérez began killing around 1880, continued until his arrest in February 1888, was released in 1904 due to a bureaucratic error confusing him with political prisoners, and killed again in June 1908. His final victim, an elderly woman named Antonia, was witnessed by a shepherd and the Solorio sisters.• Pattern and Method: All victims were working-class women from neighborhoods along the Consulado River—Tepito, La Merced, Peralvillo. He used their own clothing, particularly rebozos (traditional shawls), to strangle them. Witnesses reported he would return to crime scenes days later to observe the aftermath.• Justice Delayed: Despite confessing and being sentenced to death twice, Guerrero Pérez never faced execution. His first death sentence was commuted to 20 years imprisonment. He died of natural causes in Hospital Juárez in November 1910—the same month the Mexican Revolution began—while awaiting his second execution.• Survivors Who Testified: Two women—Emilia, a washerwoman left for dead, and Lorenza Urrutía, a sex worker who fought back—survived attacks and later testified. Their courage provided crucial evidence that authorities had long ignored.Historical Context & SourcesThis episode draws on Mexican court records from the 1888 and 1908 trials, contemporary newspaper accounts from the Porfiriato era, and historical research into late 19th-century Mexico City's criminal justice system. The investigation reveals how the rapid industrialization under Porfirio Díaz's regime created stark divides—electric streetlights and European architecture for the wealthy, while working-class neighborhoods along the Consulado River became hunting grounds where women's deaths went largely uninvestigated. Additional insights come from studies of Porfirian-era policing priorities, which focused on protecting elite interests and suppressing political dissent rather than solving crimes against the poor.Resources & Further ReadingFor listeners interested in exploring this case and its historical context further, these sources provide additional perspective:• The Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City maintains criminal court records from the Porfiriato era, including trial documentation from both Guerrero Pérez proceedings.• Academic studies of crime and policing during the Porfiriato, particularly work examining class dynamics in Mexican criminal justice, offer crucial context for understanding institutional failures.• Historical maps of 1880s Mexico City show the stark geographical divide between wealthy neighborhoods and the working-class districts where El Chalequero hunted.

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Episode 10 of 15 | Series 36: Serial Killers in HistoryFinland's first documented serial killer terrorized two continents across three decades. This episode traces Matti Haapoja's brutal journey from famine-ravaged Finland to Siberian exile and back—a life defined by escape, violence, and ultimately, one final act of defiance.Victim HumanizationHeikki Impponen was forty-two years old when he walked along that frozen road in December 1867. A farmer with a wife named Kaisa and three children waiting at home, he had known young Matti since childhood—their fathers had worked neighboring fields, they had been boys together in the harsh Finnish countryside. He carried what little money he had, perhaps hoping to buy food during Finland's devastating Great Famine. Maria Jemina Salo was in her early twenties, trying to survive in Helsinki's rougher districts, wearing a silver necklace her mother had given her. Guard Juho Rosted had worked at Kakola Prison for eleven years, with a pregnant wife expecting their fourth child—a daughter who would never know her father.Why This Case MattersMatti Haapoja's crimes fundamentally reshaped Finland's approach to criminal justice and prison security. His four successful escapes from Kakola Prison exposed critical weaknesses in the nation's penal system, earning the facility the mocking nickname "Pakola"—the escape prison. His case prompted a complete overhaul of prison architecture and security protocols throughout Finland. The investigation techniques developed to track him helped establish the framework for modern Finnish police procedures, while the case demonstrated how the Great Famine of 1866-1868, which killed 270,000 Finns, created conditions where desperate violence flourished.Content WarningThis episode contains descriptions of violent murders and suicide. Listener discretion advised.Key Case DetailsHaapoja's criminal career spanned three decades across two continents, leaving eight confirmed victims dead and exposing the limitations of 19th-century criminal justice systems across Finland and Siberia.• Timeline: First murder December 6, 1867, during Finland's Great Famine; sentenced to Siberian exile in 1880; returned to Finland September 1890; final escape attempt October 10, 1894; death by suicide January 8, 1895• Investigation: Haapoja's escapes revealed major security flaws in Finnish prisons; his capture after Maria Salo's murder came when his notorious reputation led to his recognition in Porvoo just days after the crime• Resolution: Sentenced to death in 1891 (automatically commuted to life imprisonment as Finland had abolished capital punishment in 1826); died by his own hand while awaiting trial for murdering Guard Juho Rosted• Historical Context: The puukkojunkkari (knife-fighter) culture of Southern Ostrobothnia shaped Haapoja's violent identity; his skeleton was displayed in the Finnish Museum of Crime for 99 years before burial in 1995Historical Context & SourcesThis episode draws on records from the National Museum of Finland, the National Biography of Finland, and the BiographySampo database. Prison museum collections preserve the tools of Haapoja's escapes—rope, wooden slats, and a floorboard with a drilled hole. Contemporary newspaper accounts from the 1890s, which sensationally compared his crimes to Jack the Ripper's London murders, provide crucial details about his final trial and death. The Circuit Court records of Hausjärvi from 1891 document his arrogant confession and the commutation of his death sentence.Resources & Further ReadingFor listeners interested in exploring this case and era further, these historically significant sources provide additional context:• The National Museum of Finland maintains archival materials on 19th-century Finnish criminal justice and the puukkojunkkari phenomenon• The Finnish National Biography database (Biografiakeskus) contains verified biographical details on Haapoja and his contemporaries• Academic research on the Great Famine of 1866-1868 illuminates the devastating conditions that shaped Haapoja's early crimesCall-to-ActionNext week on Foul Play: Francisco Guerrero Pérez terrorized Mexico City for decades, targeting women the newspapers refused to mourn. Subscribe now to follow Season 36: Serial Killers in History to its conclusion.

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On a warm June afternoon in 1868, a 24-year-old woman accepted a glass of lemonade from her nurse at a Geneva boarding house. Within moments, her pupils dilated grotesquely, her heart pounded violently, and reality dissolved into nightmare. That glass of lemonade broke open one of Switzerland's most disturbing criminal cases.

SEASON & EPISODE CONTEXT

This is Episode 9 of Foul Play Season 36: "Serial Killers in History," examining murderers from ancient times through the early 1900s. This season explores 15 cases spanning centuries and continents, revealing how serial murder predates modern criminology by millennia.

THE CASE SUMMARY

Between 1865 and 1868, Marie Jeanneret worked as a private nurse in Geneva and surrounding areas of Switzerland, moving between respectable boarding houses and private hospitals. Everywhere she went, patients died under mysterious circumstances. Eleven-year-old children. Elderly widows. Entire families.

Her method was both calculated and cruel. She used cutting-edge poisons for the 1860s—plant alkaloids like atropine from belladonna and morphine from opium poppies. These substances were so difficult to detect in corpses that she might never have been caught. She offered candy she called "princesses" to children. She served sweetened water to friends. She predicted deaths days before they happened—not because she had medical insight, but because she knew exactly when the poison would finish its work.

When authorities finally exhumed the bodies in 1868, they found chemical signatures of murder in decomposing tissue. The trial revealed at least six confirmed murders and perhaps thirty attempted murders. But the verdict the jury reached would create one of criminal history's most profound paradoxes—her case helped abolish the death penalty in Geneva three years later.

THE VICTIMS

Marie Jeanneret's victims weren't random—they were people who trusted her completely during their most vulnerable moments:

Marie Grétillat, 61, hired Jeanneret for what should have been a minor illness. She died in February 1867 after weeks of escalating agony.

Sophie Juvet, 58, died in September 1867 at the Maison de Santé hospital where Jeanneret worked as a nurse.

Jenny-Julie Juvet, Sophie's daughter, was only 11 years old. She loved candy and trusted the nurse who brought her special bonbons called "princesses." Before she died in January 1868, she begged her family not to let the nurse near her anymore. They thought she was delirious. She wasn't—she knew.

Auguste Perrod (around 80), Louise-Marie Lenoir (72), Madame Hahn, Demoiselle Gay, Demoiselle Junod, Julie Bouvier, and Jacques Gros (Julie's father) all died under Jeanneret's care between 1867 and 1868.

KEY CASE DETAILS

THE METHOD: Jeanneret used belladonna (deadly nightshade) and morphine as her primary weapons. Belladonna poisoning produces distinctive symptoms: grotesquely dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat, extreme light sensitivity, terrifying hallucinations, and eventually seizures and respiratory failure. Morphine suppresses breathing until victims simply stop inhaling—the death looks peaceful but is actually suffocation.

As a nurse, she had legitimate access to these substances and professional cover for every action. She mixed poisons into sweet items—lemonade, sweetened water, candy—because sugar masks the bitter taste effectively. For some victims, she administered lower doses over time, creating slow declines that mimicked natural illness. For others, she used massive doses intended to kill quickly.

THE BREAKTHROUGH: The case broke open when Marie-Catherine Fritzgès, 24, survived a belladonna poisoning in June 1868. Her doctor recognized the symptoms immediately and contacted authorities. Police searched Jeanneret's rooms and found bottles of belladonna extract, containers of morphine, and detailed nursing notes documenting every symptom, decline, and death—inadvertently documenting her own crimes.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT & SOURCES

The 1860s represented a turning point in forensic medicine. Swiss medical examiners used groundbreaking techniques to test tissue samples for alkaloid compounds in exhumed bodies—finding chemical signatures consistent with belladonna and morphine poisoning. This case marked one of the first instances where forensic medicine played a crucial role in securing a conviction in Switzerland.

The trial opened in Geneva in late 1868 with overwhelming evidence: poisoned bodies, survivors' testimony, bottles of poison, and Jeanneret's own nursing notes. On November 19, 1868, the jury returned a stunning verdict—guilty on all counts, but they recommended clemency. Instead of execution, Jeanneret received life imprisonment with hard labor.

Three years later, in 1871, the Canton of Geneva abolished the death penalty. Jeanneret's case was cited as a key example—a jury had looked at overwhelming evidence of serial murder and chosen mercy over execution.

RESOURCES & FURTHER READING

Swiss criminal history archives maintain extensive records of the Jeanneret case, including original trial transcripts and forensic reports that revolutionized poison detection methods. The case remains a standard reference in medical ethics courses throughout Europe, illustrating the catastrophic consequences of betrayed medical trust.

The Geneva State Archives houses original court documents from the 1868 trial. Swiss forensic medicine institutes continue to study the case as a landmark example of early toxicology and the systematic safeguards developed in response to healthcare serial killers.

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If you found this episode compelling, explore other Foul Play cases involving Victorian-era poisoners and medical professionals who betrayed their sacred trust. Season 36 examines serial killers throughout history, from ancient Rome through the early 1900s, revealing how murder predates modern criminology and how society responded to unimaginable crimes.

Each episode of Foul Play combines meticulous historical research with victim-centered storytelling, honoring those whose lives were taken while examining the criminals who took them.

THE LEGACY

Marie Jeanneret's crimes fundamentally transformed Switzerland's approach to medical safety and criminal investigation. The case exposed critical gaps in poison control, leading to strict measures including detailed record-keeping of sales and mandatory identification checks. Background checks for medical staff became more thorough, references were more carefully vetted, and supervision was enhanced throughout Europe.

Perhaps most significantly, Jeanneret's case transformed public consciousness about the nature of evil. The idea that a healthcare professional could systematically murder patients while maintaining an appearance of respectability forced society to confront uncomfortable truths. The poisoner who took at least six lives became part of the movement that saved countless others from execution—the most paradoxical legacy imaginable.

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In 1826, fellow priests caring for an ailing Father Juan Severino Mallari made a horrifying discovery in his residence: bloodstained clothing belonging to dozens of missing parishioners. Over the next ten years, investigators would uncover fifty-seven murders committed by the parish priest of Magalang, Pampanga—a man who believed killing his congregants would break a curse afflicting his mother. Father Mallari's victims trusted him completely. They came to him for confession, for blessings, for spiritual guidance. And then they disappeared. What makes this case even more tragic is that Spanish colonial authorities meticulously documented Mallari's education and artwork, but never bothered to record a single name of the fifty-seven Filipinos he murdered. This is the story of colonial erasure, untreated mental illness, and a murderous priest.

This is Episode 7 of Season 36: Serial Killers in History, our ambitious exploration of forgotten murderers from ancient Rome through the early 20th century. This season examines how social inequality, colonial systems, and institutional failures enabled killers across continents and centuries. Juan Severino Mallari's case reveals the devastating intersection of Spanish colonial racism, primitive mental healthcare, and religious authority in early 19th-century Philippines. The next episode continues our journey through history's darkest moments with another case of power, isolation, and the victims erased from official records.

Historical Context & Background

Juan Severino Mallari was born in 1785 in San Nicolas, Pampanga, into a respected Kapampangan family with church benefactor status. He earned his philosophy degree around 1800, his theology degree in 1805 at San Carlos Seminary, and was ordained at the University of Santo Tomas in 1809 by Archbishop Juan Antonio Zulaybar. But being a Filipino priest in Spanish colonial Philippines meant systemic discrimination. From 1809 to 1812, Mallari served as coadjutor in multiple parishes, applying repeatedly for parish priest positions in Orani, Mariveles, Lubao, and as chaplain at the Port of Cavite. Spanish authorities rejected him every time—not for lack of qualifications, but due to colonial racism that viewed Filipino secular priests as inferior to Spanish friars. Finally, in 1812, he became parish priest of San Bartolome Parish in Magalang, the first Filipino to hold that position in all of Pampanga. In that isolated agricultural community, trusted completely by his parishioners, Father Mallari would commit fifty-seven murders over the next decade.

The Descent into Madness

Around 1816, four years after becoming parish priest, Mallari's mother fell gravely ill. He became convinced she was cursed—a belief that merged Catholic faith with pre-colonial Filipino traditions about mangkukulam (witches) who could cast deadly kulam (curses). Historical accounts describe Mallari experiencing severe hallucinations during Mass, stopping mid-sermon to converse with invisible figures. Spain had pioneered psychiatric treatment in Europe, and the Hospicio de San Jose psychiatric facility in Manila had been operational since 1811. But Mallari was in rural Pampanga, miles from Manila, and he was the parish priest—the highest religious authority in Magalang. No one recognized his psychotic delusions as treatable illness requiring intervention. When Mallari decided that killing the people he believed were witches would cure his mother, no one stopped him. His first victim likely came to confession in 1816. We don't know this person's name, age, or family situation—Spanish colonial records didn't consider such details worth documenting.

The Ten-Year Killing Spree

Over the next decade, Father Mallari murdered fifty-seven of his parishioners. He killed in the privacy of the parish house—people who came for spiritual guidance, to arrange marriages, to request baptisms. After each murder, he carefully folded the victim's bloodstained clothing and preserved it in his residence. This level of organization existing alongside complete psychotic delusion reveals the terrifying complexity of his mental state. His mother died December 4, 1825. The killings hadn't saved her. Everything had been for nothing. But Mallari didn't stop because of his mother's death—he stopped because sixteen days later, several families finally gathered courage to file a formal complaint with the gobernadorcillo (town mayor). Imagine the bravery required: Filipino families in 1825 Spanish colonial Philippines accusing the parish priest—the most powerful religious figure in their town. In February 1826, when Mallari fell ill and fellow priests came to care for him, they discovered the horrifying evidence: bloodstained belongings of dozens of missing parishioners, folded and stored in his residence. Word reached the constabulary. Townspeople gathered with torches. Ten years of disappearances converged on that moment.

Investigation, Trial & Execution

When Spanish authorities arrested Mallari in 1826, he confessed immediately—not with remorse, but with explanation. He detailed his mother's curse, identifying fifty-seven witches, explaining why their deaths would break the curse. The trial began later that year, drawing unprecedented attention across Spanish colonial territory. Prosecutors methodically presented bloodstained clothing, stolen items from victims' families, witness testimony about Mallari's erratic behavior during Mass. The defense attempted to portray him as a respected leader framed by jealous rivals, but couldn't explain the overwhelming physical evidence or Mallari's own detailed confession. He was convicted, but not executed immediately. Mallari spent fourteen years imprisoned—fourteen years between his 1826 arrest and his 1840 execution. The colonial legal system required multiple levels of review for an unprecedented case: a Filipino priest convicted of fifty-seven murders. Those victim families waited fourteen years for justice. Finally, in 1840, Juan Severino Mallari was hanged at Bagumbayan field (today Luneta Park in Manila). He was fifty-five years old, the first Filipino priest ever executed by Spanish colonial authorities. Thirty-two years later, three more Filipino priests—the GOMBURZA martyrs—would be executed for allegedly inspiring revolt, helping spark the Philippine Revolution.

The Unnamed Fifty-Seven

Father Juan Severino Mallari's life is extensively recorded. Spanish colonial documents detail his birth in San Nicolas, his family's church benefactor status, his philosophy degree (circa 1800), theology degree (1805), ordination (1809), every parish appointment, every rejected job application. Examples of his calligraphy—ornate ecclesiastical documents—survive in historical archives. The Spanish system found Mallari worth documenting in extraordinary detail. The fifty-seven Filipinos he murdered? Not one name recorded. Not one age. Not one occupation. Not one family detail. Were they farmers? Merchants? Young? Old? Parents leaving behind children? We don't know. Spanish authorities didn't care. This isn't accident—it's colonial violence manifesting as bureaucratic erasure. The Spanish system existed to extract wealth and maintain control. Individual Filipino lives didn't serve Spanish interests, so they weren't recorded. Somewhere in Pampanga, descendants of those fifty-seven victims exist. People who grew up hearing family stories about a great-great-grandparent who vanished mysteriously in the 1820s, inheriting trauma without closure. Those descendants deserve to know their family member's death mattered, that their ancestor's life had value, that we haven't forgotten them even if we can't name them.

Resources & Further Reading

The National Archives of the Philippines in Manila maintain limited records from Spanish colonial Pampanga, though documentation of crimes against Filipino civilians remains incomplete. The University of Santo Tomas archives preserve ecclesiastical records from the period, including ordination documentation for Filipino priests like Mallari. Historical studies of Spanish colonial mental healthcare reveal the stark disparity between psychiatric facilities available in Manila (like the Hospicio de San Jose, operational from 1811) and the complete absence of mental health resources in rural provinces. Research into the principalía class structure and Spanish colonial racism illuminates how systemic discrimination created the conditions for Mallari's prolonged killing spree. Philippine Revolution history provides context for understanding how cases like Mallari's—and the later GOMBURZA executions—contributed to growing Filipino resistance against colonial rule.

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In February 1842, a dingo unearthed a shallow grave near Ironstone Bridge, revealing the decomposing body of an Irish immi

Kearns Landregan was twenty-seven years old when he died on a dusty colonial road seven miles from Berrima. An Irish immigrant who'd traveled halfway around the world seeking opportunity in Australia, Landregan worked as a carrier—hard labor that required strength, reliability, and trust. On February 19th, 1842, he was driving his cart to market when he accepted what seemed like innocent companionship from a fellow traveler. He had no way of knowing that the man walking beside him had already murdered at least eight people. Among Lynch's victims was thirteen-year-old Mary Macnamara, a child who watched her entire family die before being assaulted and killed herself. There was Thomas Smith, a skilled plowman respected for his agricultural expertise. And there was an unnamed Aboriginal boy whose murder was barely recorded in colonial documents—a child whose name we'll never know but whose life mattered just as much.

Why This Case MattersJohn Lynch's killing spree across colonial New South Wales exposed the brutal vulnerabilities of frontier justice and the systematic devaluation of certain lives in 1840s Australia. His 1836 acquittal for Thomas Smith's murder—despite clear evidence—taught him he could kill with impunity in a justice system stretched impossibly thin across vast wilderness. The case reveals how colonial authorities treated crimes differently based on victims' race and social status: a white child's murder shocked the colony, while an Aboriginal boy's death warranted barely a sentence in court records. The 2019 memorial plaque installed at All Saints Anglican Church in Sutton Forest represents a crucial shift toward victim-centered historical narrative, finally naming those whose stories were nearly lost to history.

Content WarningThis episode contains descriptions of violence against children and references to sexual assault. Listener discretion advised.

Key Case DetailsLynch's methodical approach to murder began after his 1836 acquittal emboldened him. Operating along isolated bush tracks in the Razorback Range, he targeted travelers with money or goods, striking them from behind with a tomahawk before stealing their possessions and assuming their identities.

Timeline & Investigation:

• March 1836: Thomas Smith murdered at Oldbury Farm; Lynch tried and acquitted
• 1836-1837: Multiple murders in Razorback Range (exact count unknown)
• November 1841: Mulligan family massacre (four victims including 13-year-old Mary)
• February 19, 1842: Kearns Landregan murdered near Ironstone Bridge
• February 21, 1842: Lynch arrested after Landregan's body discovered by Hugh Tinney

Resolution: Chief Constable James Chapman's investigation connected Lynch to Landregan's distinctive felt hat, which Lynch had been wearing openly around Berrima. Excavation of the Mulligan property revealed four shallow graves. Lynch confessed to all murders during questioning, showing no remorse. He was tried, convicted of Landregan's murder, and hanged at Berrima Jail on April 22nd, 1842 at age 29.

Historical Context & SourcesThis episode draws on colonial court records from the 1842 Supreme Court trial proceedings in Sydney, contemporary newspaper accounts from the Sydney Morning Herald, and historical research from the Berrima District Historical and Family History Society. The case documentation reveals the challenges of frontier policing in 1840s New South Wales, where vast distances and limited communication made coordinating murder investigations exceptionally difficult. Sergeant James Wilson's creation of a primitive geographic profile to track disappearances along the Berrima-Campbelltown Road represented early criminal investigative innovation. The 2019 memorial plaque commemorating Lynch's victims by name marks an important shift toward victim-centered historical narrative, particularly significant in finally acknowledging the unnamed Aboriginal child whose murder colonial authorities barely recorded.

Foul Play CreditsFoul Play is hosted by Shane Waters and Wendy Cee. Research and writing by the Foul Play production team. For more historical true crime stories from the Victorian era and beyond, subscribe to Foul Play wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In 1790s colonial India, a secret brotherhood known as the Thuggee cult perfected the art of ritual murder. At its center stood Thug Behram—history's most prolific serial killer with 931 confirmed victims over a 40-year career.

From the roads of Madhya Pradesh, Behram built a shadow empire of organized killers who used deception, patience, and sacred devotion to the goddess Kali to strangle travelers with silk handkerchiefs. His victims never saw death coming—they were murdered by the companions they trusted most.

In 1840, British investigator William Henry Sleeman launched one of history's first criminal intelligence operations to dismantle the Thuggee network. Behram's capture and confession would revolutionize law enforcement forever.

This is historical true crime you've never heard.

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This is a re-release of a special Holiday collaboration episode I put together a few years ago. I have gotten a lot of requests to hear it again and thought now would be a great time to share it.

…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In the last Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series

• Murder She Told

• Crime Salad

• Crimelines

• Frightful

• Reverie True Crime

• Rotten to the Core

• The Trail Went Cold

• Once Upon A Crime

• Criminology

• The Peripheral & Generation Why

• Live, Laugh, Larceny

• The Hidden Staircase

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now?

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster

In this Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island

• Based on a True Story

• The Asian Madness Podcast

• Sistas Who Kill

• Hometown History

• Coffee and Cases

• Military Murder

• Dystopian Simulation Radio

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet

• Morbidology

• Dark Pountine

• Hillbilly Horror Stories

• True Consequences

• Gone Cold

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series

• Murder She Told

• Crime Salad

• Crimelines

• Frightful

• Reverie True Crime

• Rotten to the Core

• The Trail Went Cold

• Once Upon A Crime

• Criminology

• The Peripheral & Generation Why

• Live, Laugh, Larceny

• The Hidden Staircase

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now?

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster

In Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island

• Based on a True Story

• The Asian Madness Podcast

• Sistas Who Kill

• Hometown History

• Coffee and Cases

• Military Murder

• Dystopian Simulation Radio

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet

• Morbidology

• Dark Pountine

• Hillbilly Horror Stories

• True Consequences

• Gone Cold

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories

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This week we step into the shadows with a very special bonus episode. Shane sits down with paranormal investigator, author, and TV star Amy Bruni (Ghost Hunters, Kindred Spirits, Haunted Road).

Amy shares chilling stories of hauntings rooted in real tragedies—from childhood encounters with “Mr. Green Jeans” to cases where skepticism gave way to the unexplained. Together, Shane and Amy explore the intersection of crime, history, and the paranormal—and why treating the dead with dignity is as important as uncovering the truth.

If you’re near Indiana, you can hear even more stories live:

📅 October 7 at 7 PM — Amy Bruni appears at the Eagles Theatre in Wabash, Indiana.

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In 1772 Portugal, an 18-year-old caregiver named Luísa de Jesus turned the era’s child-welfare “foundling wheel” into a murderous money scheme. Before authorities intervened, at least 33 abandoned infants lay buried on Monte Arroio or hidden beneath her cottage floorboards. We expose the systemic cracks, the killer’s psychology, and the reforms her crimes set in motion.

Episode Breakdown00:00 Opening scene on Monte Arroio

04:15 How foundling wheels worked—and failed

09:02 Luísa’s early life & public façade

15:30 The money trail: 600 réis per child

22:47 Forensic discoveries: graves & hidden clay pots

30:18 Confession to 28 murders

36:55 Trial, garrote, and public execution

43:20 Child-welfare reforms that followed

48:05 Today’s take-aways on safeguarding the vulnerable

Why This Case Still Resonates* First female serial killer executed in Portugal—and the last woman ever put to death there. * Exposed lethal flaws in 18th-century child-protection policy, triggering nationwide reform. * Challenges myths that women “only poison”; Luísa strangled newborns for profit. * A cautionary tale of how financial incentives plus lax oversight can weaponize charity.

Fast Facts Years active: 1771–1772 * Confirmed victims: 33 infants (one child remains unaccounted for) * Method: Strangulation or suffocation within days of state payout * Motive: Collecting stipends meant for wet nurses * Sentence:* Hands severed, garroted; body burned, ashes scattered (1 July 1772)

Sources & Further Reading National Archives, “Casa da Roda” foundling-wheel records, 1760-1775 * António Barata, Infanticídio e Justiça em Portugal Setecentista* (2018) * Royal Chancellery of Coimbra trial transcripts, 1772–1773

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In the 18th century paradise of Jamaica, Lewis Hutchinson, an immigrant from Scotland, became the island's first documented serial killer.

Known as the Mad Master of Edinburgh Castle, Hutchinson's strategic property in Saint Ann Parish became a deathtrap for wealthy travellers. He would invite them into his home or shoot them from his gunports, dispose of their bodies in underground chambers, and proudly display their possessions.

His reign of terror ultimately resulted in a manhunt, arrest, and a sensational trial that exposed the flaws in colonial law enforcement. Hutchinson was sentenced to death in 1773, leaving a dark legacy in Jamaican history.

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Beneath the chandeliers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, whispers of love and ambition turned lethal. Episode 2 of Serial Killers in History chronicles Catherine Monvoisin—La Voisin—the fortune-teller whose poison ring ensnared France’s elite and sparked the explosive Affair of the Poisons.

In this episode:

• How a Parisian herbalist built a criminal empire of black masses and murder-for-hire
• The secret pact with Madame de Montespan, the King’s mistress, to keep royal affection at any cost
• Gabriel de La Reynie’s investigation that unmasked 17th-century high-society corruption
• The Chambre ardente: France’s first special court for poison and witchcraft—and the 36 deaths it ordered
• Why La Voisin’s trial signaled the twilight of witchcraft fear and the dawn of Enlightenment scepticism

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Poison seeped through the marble corridors of ancient Rome—and one woman mixed every drop. In the Season 36 opener of Serial Killers in History, we track Locusta of Gaul, the herbalist-turned-assassin who helped Emperor Nero carve a blood-stained path to power.

What you’ll hear:

• How a captive chemist became the world’s first documented serial killer
• Deadly dinners: the mushroom that felled Emperor Claudius and the draught that doomed Britannicus
• The Senate’s panic and the birth of Rome’s anti-poison laws
• Modern forensic insights that finally decode Locusta’s toxic recipes

Stay to the end for a teaser of Episode 2—Paris’s infamous Affair of the Poisons.

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In the final episode of our series on Charles and Jennifer Chia, we examine the known evidence and unanswered questions that continue to surround their tragic case. With insight from retired detectives Allan Fox and Ron Dreher, we revisit the timeline, key suspects, and overlooked details from the original 1989 investigation. From a mysterious ransom call to a suspicious shovel found near the burial site, every piece of information could be vital. If you remember anything—no matter how small—please come forward. This is a haunting, unsolved murder of two children that still cries out for justice.

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In this third installment of our series on Charles and Jennifer Chia, we delve into the discovery of their remains nine months after they vanished on October 18, 1989. Retired Detective Allan Fox and Retired Detective Ron Dreher share their firsthand experiences of this tragic case, describing the remote location where the children’s bodies were found and discussing the investigative steps that followed. We also explore how the authorities confirmed Charles and Jennifer’s identities and how the grisly discovery has shaped ongoing efforts to find their killer. Though more than three decades have passed, the children’s mother, Ann, is still seeking answers—and hoping that someone will come forward with information that could finally bring resolution.

Key Topics

• Recap of Charles and Jennifer’s Disappearance: A brief overview of the events leading to their disappearance and the efforts by law enforcement to locate them.
• Discovery of the Remains: How the children’s bodies were found by a Caltrans employee in a shallow grave near Highways 70 and 89, miles away from their Reno home.
• Insights from Law Enforcement: Commentary from Allan Fox and Ron Dreher on the crime scene, the surrounding area, and the significance of evidence (including a shovel found at the scene).
• Identification and Aftermath: Matching the children’s clothing to the descriptions from the day they went missing, and the grim confirmation via dental charts.
• Mother’s Plea for Justice: Ann Chia’s heartbreaking statement about her children and her call for anyone with information to speak up.

Why This Episode Matters

This episode underscores the profound impact of Charles and Jennifer’s tragic story and highlights the continued efforts to uncover what truly happened. By revisiting the scene and hearing directly from detectives who were there, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the challenges law enforcement faced—and the desperate need for any new leads that might finally solve this case.

Listener Discretion

While this episode does not include graphic forensic details, it addresses the sensitive topic of child abduction and murder. Some listeners may find parts of the discussion upsetting.

Call to Action

If you have any information regarding the disappearance or deaths of Charles and Jennifer Chia, please contact the Reno Police Department. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can reach out to us at itsfoulplay.com, and we will forward any tips to law enforcement.

Looking Ahead

In our fourth and final episode of this series, we will examine the evidence, publicly known suspects, and the open questions that linger decades after Charles and Jennifer were taken from their family. Be sure to tune in to learn how you can help keep their memories alive—and possibly move the case forward.

Thank you for joining us on this journey. Every detail, no matter how small, has the potential to help. If you’ve found this episode valuable, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with friends.

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In this episode, we continue our investigation into the heartbreaking case of Charles and Jennifer Chia, two young children who vanished in 1989. Retired Detectives Allan Fox and Ron Dreher help piece together the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, shedding light on key locations and witness accounts. As Shane retraces their last known steps, questions arise about how and when they went missing—did they board the school bus that day, or was something more sinister at play? Despite a busy neighborhood, no one reported anything unusual, leading investigators to believe the children may have known their abductor. Their mother, Ann, was still in Taiwan when they were reported missing, returning home to a nightmare no parent should endure. Join us as we explore the lingering mysteries of this unsolved case and the relentless pursuit of justice.

If you have any information, please contact the Reno Police Department or reach out anonymously through our website.

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In this episode of Foul Play, we delve into the heartbreaking and chilling unsolved case of the Chia children from Reno, Nevada. On October 18, 1989, Charles, 8, and his younger sister Jennifer, 6, vanished after a seemingly ordinary day, only for their tragic fate to unfold amid the media frenzy following a devastating earthquake. With firsthand accounts from retired detectives and a detailed look at the events surrounding their disappearance, we explore the lives of these kind, innocent children and the lingering questions that have haunted the community ever since. If you have any information about this case, please come forward, as even the smallest detail could be the key to solving this mystery.

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In this episode of Foul Play, Shane and Gemma are joined by Mike, an expert in detecting deception through body language, as they dive deep into the perplexing case of Sister Cathy. The trio scrutinizes the most promising suspects and unpacks intriguing visuals from The Keepers, shedding new light on evidence that has long baffled investigators. Combining detailed analysis with engaging discussion, they explore the nuances of witness behavior and the subtle cues that may reveal the truth behind the murder. Tune in for an insightful and suspenseful investigation that challenges everything you thought you knew about this cold case.

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In the final episode of Foul Play: Casey Anthony - Truth or Lies, we unravel the shocking verdict delivered after Casey Anthony's high-profile trial. The jury's decision to acquit Casey of murder, manslaughter, and child neglect leaves lingering questions about what truly happened to Caylee Anthony. Rob Dick shares his firsthand insights, highlighting the prosecution's challenges and the troubling details that suggest Casey’s potential culpability. This episode also examines Casey's life after the trial and the emotional impact on her family. What do you think happened to Caylee? Let us know your thoughts as we conclude this gripping series.

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In this episode of Foul Play: Casey Anthony - Truth or Lies, we delve deeper into the six-week trial that captivated the nation. Witness testimony reveals insights from Casey's friends, housemates, and her mother, Cindy, painting a chilling portrait of events leading up to Caylee's disappearance. Emotional moments in court highlight Cindy Anthony’s distress and Casey’s unsettling jailhouse demeanor. With 116 witnesses and 400 pieces of evidence presented, the prosecution and defense make their closing arguments. Was justice served? Stay tuned for the jury's verdict in the next episode.

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In this episode, we jump to May 24, 2011—the opening day of Casey Anthony’s trial—and hear the prosecution and defense lay out two very different narratives about Caylee’s fate. We explore Rob Dick’s firsthand recollections, including his time living with Casey and her family while she was out on bail. The episode also features key trial audio clips, giving insight into the shifting accusations and tense courtroom exchanges. Join us as we break down the powerful claims made on both sides and set the stage for the weeks of testimony to come.

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In this gripping episode of Casey Anthony: Truth or Lies, we delve into the harrowing discovery of Caylee Anthony's remains and the subsequent fallout. From the persistence of Ron Kronk, the utility worker who first raised alarms, to the controversial courtroom interrogations he faced, we explore the pivotal moments that shifted the case. Hear about the shocking details of the autopsy report, the unsettling involvement of individuals seeking fame, and the heart-wrenching memorial service organized by Caylee's family. Join us as we unravel the tragic truths and lingering mysteries surrounding this infamous case.

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In this episode of Foul Play, Shane and Gemma pick up where they left off, completing the intricate timeline of events surrounding the disappearance and murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik. They shed light on pivotal moments, uncover new connections, and discuss the lingering questions that continue to haunt this decades-old case. Listeners will also hear thoughtful responses to more submitted questions, as Shane and Gemma explore fresh perspectives and theories that deepen our understanding of the tragedy. Join them as they continue their pursuit of justice and uncover the stories that demand to be told.

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In this episode of Casey Anthony: Truth or Lies, we explore the growing chaos surrounding Casey Anthony while she was out on bond. Rob Dick shares how tensions peaked during a live broadcast outside the Anthony home, where protestors and media created a volatile spectacle. Texas EquuSearch's arrival and Casey’s hostile refusal to cooperate only deepened suspicions about her involvement in Caylee’s disappearance. After Casey’s second arrest for writing bad checks, Leonard Padilla and his team seized the opportunity to step away from an increasingly dangerous situation while continuing their pursuit of answers. This episode sets the stage for a turning point in the case, as forensic evidence begins to transform the investigation into a search for justice.

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In this episode of Foul Play, Shane and Gemma discuss the significant developments and unanswered questions surrounding the disappearance and murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik. They outline a detailed timeline leading up to and following her disappearance, touching on key events and interactions with people close to her. The episode also delves into the potential involvement of certain individuals, the investigative efforts by the police and FBI, and the forensic analysis of evidence. They address numerous listener-submitted questions, providing comprehensive answers and exploring various theories around the case.

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In Episode 5 of Casey Anthony: Truth or Lies, titled “What’s for Dinner?”, Casey’s behavior after being released on bond paints a chilling picture. Her first moments back home with her grieving parents show no signs of a mother searching for her missing child—her priorities seem unsettlingly trivial, focused on dinner plans and appearances. Rob Dick and Leonard Padilla, tasked with ensuring her safety, quickly observe her lack of concern for Caylee and an alarming fixation on media attention. Even as the Anthony home becomes a circus of protesters, news crews, and chaos, Casey’s demeanor remains disturbingly detached, sparking deeper doubts about her story. This episode exposes Casey’s manipulative tendencies and the mounting tension surrounding her release, leaving everyone wondering: where is Caylee, and why doesn’t Casey seem to care?

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In Episode 4 of Casey Anthony: Truth or Lies, we delve into the tense period following Casey's arrest, as the investigation intensifies. With Caylee still missing, detectives rely on clues from Casey’s Pontiac Sunfire and explore leads from coast-to-coast sightings, but none bear fruit. The introduction of cadaver dogs adds a haunting layer as they detect signs of human decomposition, both in Casey’s trunk and the Anthony family’s backyard. Despite her arrest, Casey secures a $500,000 bond with the help of renowned bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, a decision that provokes public outrage. As Casey returns home, her demeanor, marked by a lack of visible grief or urgency, continues to raise troubling questions about her involvement, painting a disturbing portrait of a mother seemingly unfazed by her daughter’s disappearance.

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In Episode 3 of Casey Anthony – Truth or Lies, we explore the events leading up to Cindy Anthony's frantic 911 calls on the evening of July 15, 2008. Cindy, concerned after not seeing her granddaughter Caylee for 31 days, reaches a breaking point. In this episode, we delve into the escalation of tension as Cindy confronts her daughter Casey, demanding answers about Caylee's whereabouts. The 911 calls reveal Cindy's growing panic, Casey's evasiveness, and the unsettling details that emerge. As law enforcement steps in, the mystery deepens, setting the stage for the legal battles that follow.

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In Episode 2 of our Casey Anthony series, "Playing Games," we dive deeper into the troubling timeline following the last sighting of little Caylee Anthony. Casey’s behavior during these critical days raises unsettling questions as we hear from Tony Lazarro, who recounts how Casey spent time with him, seemingly carefree, while Caylee was missing. From borrowing a neighbor’s shovel to attending a "hot body contest," Casey’s actions paint a disturbing picture. We also explore George and Cindy Anthony’s growing desperation as they struggle to get answers from their daughter, culminating in the discovery of Casey’s abandoned car—reeking of something far more sinister than mere garbage. Tune in as we piece together the chilling details that continue to haunt this case.

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Welcome to the new season of Foul Play—Casey Anthony: Truth or Lies. In this first episode, titled "Where is Caylee," we begin unraveling the tragic and infamous case of Caylee Anthony's disappearance. Caylee, a bright and beautiful 3-year-old girl, was last seen in June 2008. Her mother, Casey Anthony, soon became the prime suspect in a case that captivated the nation. In this episode, we’ll lay out the timeline leading up to Caylee’s disappearance and explore the mysterious behavior of her mother, Casey. Along with Wendy, we are joined by private investigator Rob Dick, who offers insider knowledge about the case. As we revisit the events, the lies, and the investigations, we’ll ask the question everyone was left wondering: what really happened to Caylee?

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In this final episode of our series on the Zodiac, we explore a radical new theory that challenges everything we've come to believe about one of America's most infamous killers. Professor Thomas Henry Horan, an academic with a controversial stance, suggests that the Zodiac Killer never truly existed. Through his "Zodiac Hoax Theory," Horan argues that the murders attributed to the Zodiac were, in fact, the work of multiple unrelated killers, with the infamous letters and ciphers being the product of hoaxers. Join us as we unravel this alternative perspective on a case that has perplexed investigators and captivated the public for over five decades.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comJoin our Patreon at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayListen to Shane's history podcast: Hometown History and his mystery podcast Mystery Inc.

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Hello friend, in this episode of The Zodiac, we dive deep into one of the most captivating mysteries of the infamous Zodiac Killer—his cryptic Z340 cipher. For over 50 years, this 340-character code baffled experts, evading even the most skilled cryptographers. In 2020, a breakthrough finally came when a team of codebreakers solved the cipher, revealing chilling new insights into the Zodiac’s twisted psyche. I’ll take you on a journey through decades of attempts to crack the code, the modern technologies used, and the remarkable collaboration that ultimately unraveled one of the most elusive puzzles in true crime history. Join me as we explore this long-awaited victory in the hunt for the Zodiac Killer.Visit me online at itsfoulplay.comJoin me on Patreon at Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

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In this episode of the Foul Play Zodiac Crime Series, we dive deep into the film adaptation of the Zodiac Killer case, exploring how the movie portrayed one of the most infamous unsolved mysteries in American history. Through a blend of film clips, interviews, and behind-the-scenes insights, we analyze how the filmmakers captured the intense psychological toll on those involved in the investigation and the haunting uncertainty that still lingers today. The episode not only revisits the chilling events but also delves into the challenges of bringing such a complex story to the big screen, revealing the intricacies of both the case and its cinematic retelling.Visit me online at http://itsfoulplay.com

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In this episode of Foul Play, we delve into the enigmatic figure of Ross Sullivan, a man whose unsettling behavior and proximity to the 1966 murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, California, have long fueled speculation about his potential connection to the Zodiac Killer. We explore the circumstantial evidence and eerie coincidences that have led some to suspect Sullivan, from his disturbing poems and cryptographic studies to his resemblance to the Zodiac's composite sketch. Despite the compelling connections, the case against Sullivan remains inconclusive, leaving his role in these infamous crimes shrouded in mystery.Visit me online at itsfoulplay.com

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In this episode of Foul Play, we explore the lives and possible connections of two men who have long been suspected of being the elusive Zodiac killer. Lawrence Kane and Gary Francis Poste, both with troubled pasts and eerie coincidences linking them to the Zodiac’s crimes, have captured the attention of investigators and amateur sleuths alike. As we piece together their histories, psychological profiles, and the circumstantial evidence that ties them to the infamous murders, we confront the chilling possibility that one of them could indeed be the Zodiac. Join me as we unravel the mysteries surrounding these two suspects and their potential roles in one of America’s most enduring unsolved cases.

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In this conclusion to Brooklyn’s Night of Terror, we dive deeper into the case of the New York Zodiac Copycat. Following the disturbing attacks that left the city in fear, we uncover how the assailant, Heriberto ‘Eddie’ Seda, sought to emulate the infamous San Francisco Zodiac. With astrological signs as his twisted guide, Seda’s spree of violence spanned years, leaving a trail of terror and tragedy. This episode unravels the complex investigation that ultimately led to his capture, revealing the painstaking efforts of law enforcement and the crucial break in the case that brought Seda to justice. Join us as we explore the mind of a copycat killer and the relentless pursuit to end his reign of terror. Don’t miss this gripping conclusion to one of New York’s most harrowing crime stories.

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In this episode of Foul Play's Zodiac Crime Series, we delve into the chilling case of the New York Zodiac Copycat. Beginning in 1990, a series of brutal shootings in Brooklyn eerily mirrored the infamous Zodiac killings of California. The assailant, adopting the Zodiac moniker, sent taunting letters to law enforcement, detailing his heinous acts and threatening to kill more. With each attack seemingly linked to astrological signs, the NYPD launched an intense manhunt. Join me as we uncover the terror that gripped New York and the desperate efforts to stop this copycat killer.

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In this bonus episode we delve into the chilling events surrounding the mysterious April 1978 letter and the ensuing scandal that rocked the San Francisco Police Department. After a four-year silence, the infamous Zodiac killer seemingly re-emerged, sending a cryptic message to the San Francisco Chronicle that reignited the hunt for the elusive murderer. However, the spotlight soon shifted to Detective Dave Toschi, the lead investigator, when suspicions arose about his potential involvement in fabricating the letter. We explore the intricate web of doubt, the media frenzy, and the impact on Toschi's career as we unravel the layers of this complex case. Join us as we examine the evidence, the accusations, and the legacy of a detective forever haunted by the shadows of the Zodiac.

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In Episode 17, we delve into the intricate case against Richard Gaikowski, one of the many suspects in the Zodiac murders. The episode explores the series of letters sent to Detective Ken Narlow by an informant named Blaine Blaine, who claimed Gaikowski, a journalist and editor, was the infamous Zodiac Killer. Despite Blaine's fervent allegations and detailed reports, law enforcement found no substantial evidence linking Gaikowski to the murders. Through a careful examination of Blaine's claims, Gaikowski's background, and the broader context of the Zodiac investigation, we navigate the fine line between suspicion and proof, highlighting the challenges faced by investigators in solving one of America's most notorious cold cases.

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In Episode 16 we dive into the shadowy world of Richard ‘Rick’ Marshall, a man whose life intersected with the ongoing mystery of the Zodiac killer. The episode unravels the intriguing story that began with an anonymous letter sent to the Sheriff of Napa County in 1976, suggesting Marshall’s involvement in the Zodiac murders. Through the lens of amateur sleuths and dedicated law enforcement officers, we explore how Marshall’s peculiar interests and unsettling hobbies led him to be scrutinized as a potential suspect. Despite some striking coincidences and eerie similarities, the evidence against Marshall remained inconclusive, leaving more questions than answers in the pursuit of the infamous serial killer.

Listeners will be captivated by the tale of how journalist Robert Graysmith’s relentless investigation into the Zodiac case brought Marshall back into the spotlight. From anonymous phone calls to clandestine meetings and detailed personal investigations, Graysmith's quest for truth shines a light on the murky waters of the Zodiac investigation. The episode also discusses the broader impact of such unsolved cases on public psyche and the fine line between uncovering hidden truths and fostering unfounded speculation. Tune in as we delve into the complexities and the lingering mysteries surrounding one of the most enigmatic figures linked to the Zodiac killings.

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In this episode, we delve deeper into the life of Arthur Leigh Allen, a key suspect in the Zodiac killer investigation. The spotlight intensified on Allen as his troubling behaviors and circumstantial evidence painted a suspicious picture. The search of his trailer in 1972 yielded no direct links to the Zodiac murders, but his arrest for molestation in 1974 cast a darker shadow over his character. Despite passing a polygraph test about the Zodiac, the question of his guilt remained a haunting possibility.

As the years progressed, the scrutiny on Allen didn't wane. The publication of Robert Graysmith's book "Zodiac" in 1986 reignited public interest and speculation about Allen's involvement. Even though Graysmith used a pseudonym for Allen, whispers of his identity spread. Renewed searches and a final interrogation in the early '90s failed to produce conclusive evidence. Allen's death in 1992 left the mystery unresolved, but the debate over his connection to the Zodiac killings endures, highlighting the complexities and enduring intrigue of one of America's most notorious unsolved cases.

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In this episode we delve into the life and suspicions surrounding Arthur Leigh Allen, the most compelling suspect in the infamous Zodiac killer case. From his eerie conversations with Donald Cheney to his disturbing behaviors and connections to the Zodiac's chilling crimes, we unravel the evidence that casts a dark shadow over Allen. Discover how the detectives' relentless pursuit and mounting circumstantial evidence brought Allen into the spotlight, raising the haunting question: was he the elusive Zodiac killer?

Join us as we explore the unsettling parallels between Allen's actions and the Zodiac's terrifying spree. From his fascination with the macabre to his ominous statements and peculiar behaviors, this episode paints a vivid portrait of a man whose life and alleged crimes remain shrouded in mystery. Tune in to hear the chilling details and decide for yourself whether Arthur Leigh Allen was the true face behind the Zodiac's mask.

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In this episode of Foul Play, we dive deep into the enigmatic world of the Zodiac Killer, reviewing the evidence and discussing the possible motivations behind his terrifying spree across Northern California in the late 1960s. We explore the chilling details of his crimes, from the cryptic ciphers he sent to newspapers to the psychological games he played with law enforcement.

Join us as we dissect the Zodiac’s complex profile, analyzing how he managed to evade capture and instill fear in the public. We also examine the recent breakthroughs and ongoing efforts to unmask this elusive killer. Don’t miss this gripping discussion on one of America’s most infamous unsolved cases.

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In this episode of the Foul Play, we delve into the final letters of the Zodiac Killer, exploring his chilling correspondence from 1971 to 1974. Discover the eerie silence that fell over California and the unsettling resurgence of communication that kept the nation on edge. We’ll examine the chilling threats, cryptic ciphers, and the taunting messages that left investigators and the public in a state of constant fear and uncertainty.

Join us as we unravel the mysteries behind these cryptic messages, the taunts to law enforcement, and the lingering questions that continue to haunt investigators to this day. We’ll explore the various theories about the Zodiac’s identity, his possible motives, and the enduring impact of his reign of terror. Don’t miss this deep dive into the mind of one of America’s most enigmatic and elusive serial killers.

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In Episode 11 we delve into the tragic tales of young couples whose lives were cut short in brutal attacks that foreshadow the infamous Zodiac killer's reign of terror. Before the Zodiac became a household name for fear and intrigue, there were eerily similar murders. This episode explores the sunny day in Lompoc, California, in 1963 that ended in darkness for Bobby and Linda, and the heartbreak in San Diego in 1964 for Johnny and Joyce, unveiling the chilling possibility that these violent acts were the early works of the Zodiac.

Through detailed investigation and storytelling, the episode paints a vivid picture of the idyllic settings turned crime scenes at Gaviota Beach and Ocean Beach. It meticulously pieces together the victims' final hours and the relentless pursuit for justice that followed. Featuring insights from retired Sheriff’s Investigator Bill Baker, the narrative explores the potential link between these early cases and the Zodiac's notorious killing spree. This episode invites listeners into a haunting reflection on the origins of the Zodiac saga, highlighting the unresolved mysteries and the enduring quest to understand the true scope of the killer's dark journey.

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In this episode, we journey back to the haunting night of April 10, 1962, when Oceanside cab driver Ray Davis was found murdered under mysterious circumstances. Discover how this chilling crime left investigators puzzled and locals gripped by fear, following an anonymous phone call that eerily predicted the tragedy. As detectives scrambled to find the elusive killer, a pattern emerged that would later draw striking parallels to the infamous Zodiac murders that terrorized California in the late 1960s.

We'll delve into the unsettling similarities between Ray Davis' case and the Zodiac's known victims, exploring how the ominous threats against bus drivers, taunting police phone calls, and the brutal nature of the slaying all hinted at a potential connection. Was Ray Davis the Zodiac Killer’s victim? Or was this just a grim coincidence? Join us as we unravel the chilling details and piece together a story that continues to confound and captivate true crime enthusiasts.

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In this episode we delve into the chilling disappearance of Donna Lass, a 25-year-old nurse who vanished under mysterious circumstances from the Sahara Tahoe Casino Hotel in 1970. As we weave through the sinister trails left by the infamous Zodiac Killer, this episode explores how a cryptic postcard sent to the San Francisco Chronicle might be linked to her disappearance.

The card, filled with perplexing symbols and dire messages, hints at the possibility that Lass could have been one of Zodiac’s victims. Our investigation takes us through the eerie details of the postcard, the ongoing Zodiac investigation, and the haunting reality that Lass was never seen again after her shift at the casino.

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In this bonus episode we delve more into the unsolved murder of Cheri Jo Bates. On the night of October 30, 1966, Bates, an 18-year-old college student, met a tragic end on the campus of Riverside College in California. In this episode we discuss the Riverside Suspect and new evidence that came forward.

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This bonus episode unfurls the perplexing case of Cheri Jo Bates, murdered in 1966, whose death sparked not only grief but a series of sinister letters that shook the Riverside community. Delve into the dark twists of this case as anonymous letters once believed to be from the infamous Zodiac Killer come to light as a disturbing prank by a troubled teen. Explore how these revelations shift the focus back to the quest for the real killer, reigniting a cold case that refuses to be silenced.

Uncover the interplay of fact and fiction in an investigation that spans over five decades. As detectives employ cutting-edge DNA technology to solve the puzzle of the 2016 confession letter, the story takes a startling turn, offering a glimpse into the complexities of human conscience and the shadows of past actions. Join us as we piece together the intricate details of this haunting tale, reminding us that sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. Tune in to confront the enigma of Cheri Jo Bates's untimely death and the eerie aftermath that continues to echo through the corridors of time.

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Explore the haunting details of Cheri Jo Bates's brutal murder in 1966, set against the backdrop of a society captivated by the likes of the Beatles and the debut of Star Trek. Delve into a meticulously detailed recounting of her last known hours, the gruesome crime scene, and the chilling letters that followed, which stoked the fear and fascination surrounding the Zodiac Killer.

This episode takes a deep dive into the complex web of evidence, from the infamous confession letter to the sinister poems left behind, as investigative journalist Paul Avery links the murder to the Zodiac's cryptic messages. Journey through the twists and turns of a case that has perplexed investigators for decades, featuring interviews, forensic analyses, and a look at the prime suspect "Bob Barnett." Tune in to unravel the layers of this cold case and the shadowy figure of the Zodiac, whose taunting games with the police and media continue to intrigue and horrify.

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In this bonus episode we dive into a haunting chapter of the Zodiac killer saga when the notorious serial killer directly reaches out for help through a dramatic interaction with famed attorney Melvin Belli. On October 22, 1969, in an audacious move, the Zodiac demanded Belli appear on a popular morning TV show, igniting a series of events filled with hope and deception. The episode unravels this bizarre engagement through the lens of Belli and the call-in show, capturing the tense exchanges and the desperate pleas of a caller identifying himself as 'Sam,' claiming to suffer from unbearable headaches since committing his crimes.

The narrative takes a darker turn as it explores the aftermath of the televised plea, detailing a planned but failed meeting between Belli and the Zodiac in Daly City, and the investigative twists that followed. This episode sheds light on the complexities of tracing the Zodiac's calls, the skepticism around the authenticity of 'Sam,' and the chilling realization that the Zodiac’s communication might just be another manipulative game in his terrifying spree. In December 1969, a letter arrives at Belli's office, accompanied by a piece of blood-stained clothing from victim Paul Stine, reinforcing the grim reality of the Zodiac's deadly actions and his cryptic interactions with the public figures he drew into his orbit.

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In this episode we delve into the cryptic and chilling world of the Zodiac Killer's communications through his letters and the infamous 340 Cipher. This episode unveils the terror that began with a series of menacing letters starting in November 1969, where the Zodiac threatened the lives of school children and baffled authorities with his complex ciphers. We explore how these letters not only continued to instill fear across California but also taunted the police with clues that seemed almost within reach yet remained unsolvable for decades.

Further intensifying the narrative, the episode covers the evolution of Zodiac's threats from targeted public taunts to more sinister and broad threats, including a detailed plan to create a "death machine" aimed at a school bus. The capture of this period of terror is complemented by insights from law enforcement officials, cryptologists who later cracked the 340 Cipher, and chilling audio clips from the era. As we dissect the psychological warfare waged by the Zodiac through his communications, listeners are drawn into the complex puzzle that has captivated and horrified the public and investigators for over fifty years.

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In this episode we delve into the haunting narrative of Paul Stine’s murder by the Zodiac Killer. On a seemingly ordinary night in the tranquil neighborhood of Presidio Heights in San Francisco, the silence is broken by a heinous act that propels Stine, a hopeful academic moonlighting as a cab driver, into the midst of a terrifying killing spree. Through detailed reconstructions, firsthand accounts, and police reports, this episode pieces together the events that led to Stine's untimely death, set against the backdrop of the Zodiac's reign of terror over the Bay Area.

The investigation into Stine’s murder unveils a series of critical missteps and a chilling correspondence from the Zodiac, mocking the police and threatening further violence. We explore the dispatch error that misdirected the initial search efforts, highlighting the challenges faced by law enforcement and the deepening mystery of the Zodiac's identity. Archival material enrich our understanding of this complex case, offering a compelling and disturbing glimpse into one of American criminal history's most perplexing unsolved cases.

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In this episode, we explore the sinister shift in the Zodiac killer's methods during the daylight attack on Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard beside the tranquil yet foreboding shores of Lake Berryessa. This encounter, marked by the killer's transition to a more personal and horrifying mode of assault, unveils the chilling audacity of a murderer willing to confront his victims face-to-face. As the episode unfolds, the narrative captures the initial bliss of the victims' day out, spiraling into the terror that ensues when they realize they're not alone.

The aftermath focuses on Bryan Hartnell's miraculous survival and the critical information he provides, offering a rare insight into the Zodiac's psyche. The episode is further enriched by a haunting anecdote about three young women who unknowingly escaped a potential encounter with the Zodiac earlier that day. Through a blend of suspenseful storytelling and detailed analysis, the episode not only delves into the horror inflicted by the Zodiac but also highlights the eerie courage and calculated preparation behind one of history's most elusive serial killers, leaving listeners pondering the depth of his malice.

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In this harrowing episode of Foul Play, we delve into the bone-chilling Lake Berryessa attack by the enigmatic Zodiac Killer. Late September 1969, amidst the serene backdrop of Lake Berryessa's sprawling waters in California, a young couple's peaceful day turns into a nightmare. The Zodiac, craving attention and control, executes one of his most brutal assaults, stabbing and leaving them for dead. The attack sends shockwaves through the local community and law enforcement, escalating the urgency to capture this elusive predator. Our narrative reconstructs the events of that fateful day, drawing from firsthand accounts, police reports, and the Zodiac's own cryptic communications, immersing listeners into the depth of this terrifying mystery.

The episode not only recounts the physical aftermath of the attack but also the emotional and societal ripples it created. The detailed investigation, led by determined detectives, unravels amidst a backdrop of fear and fascination with the Zodiac's macabre game of cat and mouse. As the story unfolds, the tragic loss of Cecelia Shepard, the resilience of Bryan Hartnell, and the relentless pursuit of justice by Napa County police paint a vivid picture of a community united in the face of horror. Through meticulous research and gripping storytelling, this episode of Foul Play brings to light the Zodiac's reign of terror at Lake Berryessa, offering insights into the investigation and the lasting impact of these heinous crimes.

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Dive into the chilling world of The Zodiac, the elusive predator who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s. With five confirmed victims and a claim of thirty-seven, his taunting letters, cryptic ciphers, and menacing calls left an indelible mark of fear.

This season on Foul Play: Crime Series, The Zodiac takes you on a dark journey through the killer's mind and the decades-long quest to uncover his identity. From the detectives on his trail to the cryptographers decoding his messages, we explore every facet of the case that continues to fascinate and horrify.

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In this gripping episode we focus on the chilling events surrounding the first Zodiac letters and ciphers sent by this enigmatic murderer. July 1969 marked not just a monumental achievement in human history with the moon landing but also a dark period in California's history as fear gripped the communities of Benicia and Vallejo.

The Zodiac's brutal attacks on young couples, his cold and calculated demeanor, and the mysterious phone call to the Vallejo Police Department declaring responsibility for these horrifying acts set the stage for a terrifying game of cat and mouse. As we unravel the twisted mind behind these crimes, the episode takes a deeper look into the killer's desire for attention and control, shedding light on his cryptic messages to the press and the police.

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In this chilling episode we delve into the harrowing night of July 4th, 1969, when the city of Vallejo, California, became the backdrop for a devastating attack by the infamous Zodiac Killer. As the festive atmosphere of Independence Day faded, Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau found themselves in the serene setting of Blue Rock Springs Park, unaware of the horror that awaited them. This episode meticulously reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting, painting a vivid picture of a peaceful night turned nightmare. Through details and analysis, we explore the immediate aftermath of the attack, the emergency response, and the cryptic call that linked this act of violence to the Zodiac's reign of terror.

The investigation unfolds with gripping detail as we follow the law enforcement response to the Blue Rock Springs attack, the painstaking efforts of medical personnel to save the victims, and the subsequent police work that connected this brutal shooting to the Zodiac Killer's series of crimes.

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...1 historic steam train...

...9 exceptional true crime podcasts...

...9 tales woven with the spirit of Women's Day...

...Will YOU unravel the mysteries aboard?

This International Women's Day, join Shane Waters and Wendy Cee on an unprecedented journey through the heart of England to Crimecon UK in London. Mysteries on the True Crime Express is not just a podcast episode; it's an immersive voyage into the depths of true crime, history, and the indomitable spirit of women.

Aboard this old-world locomotive, you'll encounter the hosts of 9 distinguished true crime podcasts, including Shane and Wendy of Foul Play: Crime Series. Each host presents a captivating story that not only chills the spine but also illuminates the historical essence of Women's Day. From the comfort of Shane and Wendy's compartment to the lively ambiance of the dining car, each tale unfolds in a unique setting on the train, adding layers of intrigue and ambiance to this auditory experience.

So, secure your ticket and settle into your seat...

...but be forewarned...

...the journey ahead is filled with twists and turns.

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2. The Trail Went Cold
3. The Cult Vault
4. Extinguished
5. Once Upon a Crime
6. True Crime and Wine with Sherrilyn Dale
7. Defense Diaries
8. Dip in and Out with Lucy
9. Foul Play: Crime Series

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Hello friend. This week we delve into the enigmatic and terrifying world of the Zodiac Killer, a murderer whose identity remains a mystery to this day. This episode transports listeners back to the late 1960s in Northern California, where the Zodiac Killer commenced his infamous killing spree. With a keen focus on the first confirmed attacks on Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday, we set the stage for a series that promises to explore the depths of one of the most bewildering true crime stories in American history. The meticulous recounting of the initial crimes, combined with a comprehensive overview of the subsequent investigation, provides a solid foundation for understanding the complexity and brutality of the Zodiac Killer's modus operandi.

As we navigate through the episode, listeners will immerse themselves in the chilling narrative, enriched with detailed descriptions of the crime scenes, the killer's cryptic messages to the police and media, and the palpable fear that gripped the communities affected by these heinous acts. This series aims not only to shed light on the facts of the case but also to explore the psychological and societal impact of the Zodiac Killer's reign of terror. By leveraging a combination of historical research, expert interviews, and a storytelling approach that emphasizes the human elements of this tragic saga, this series endeavors to provide a comprehensive and engaging exploration of one of true crime's most haunting mysteries.

Join us as we attempt to unravel the enigma of the Zodiac Killer, examining the clues left behind in a quest for answers that have eluded investigators for decades.

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In this episode, we unravel the decades-long mystery surrounding the disappearance of Aundria Bowman and the interconnected web of crimes committed by Dennis Bowman. This journey takes us through a chilling narrative of amateur sleuths Cathy Terkanian and Carl Koppelman, whose tireless investigation exposes a sinister pattern of violence hidden beneath the facade of an ordinary family life. The discovery of a concrete slab in the garden of Bowman's property becomes a pivotal moment, leading to a series of revelations that would ultimately bring closure to multiple unsolved cases.

The episode also delves into the harrowing tale of Peggy Johnson, whose tragic fate was intertwined with Bowman's history of abuse and murder. With the aid of DNA technology and genealogical research, authorities are finally able to connect the dots, resulting in Bowman's arrest for crimes spanning across states and decades. This story is not just about the pursuit of justice; it's a testament to the perseverance of those who refuse to let the truth remain buried. Through detailed investigative work and a bit of serendipity, Cathy and Carl’s efforts highlight the impact of dedicated individuals in solving crimes that had long been consigned to cold case files.

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In this second installment of Just Family Busines, the focus narrows on the enigmatic disappearance of Aundria Bowman in 1989. With the advent of social media, new avenues open for investigation, leading Cathy Terkanian and Carl Koppelman to challenge the deceptive calm surrounding Dennis Bowman, Aundria's adoptive father. Their relentless pursuit uncovers a disturbing trail of past transgressions, linking Dennis to a series of allegations and cold cases that reveal a pattern of violent behavior meticulously hidden behind the facade of normalcy.

As the investigation intensifies, the narrative unfolds revealing a complex web of deceit, abuse, and manipulation. The determination of Cathy and Carl brings to light shocking revelations about the man who posed as a devoted family man, as they edge closer to the truth about Aundria's fate. This episode of the series is a testament to the power of perseverance and the quest for justice, as it navigates through the dark secrets of a seemingly average family, exposing the monstrous reality lurking beneath. Join us in piecing together a decades-spanning puzzle, where every discovery moves us closer to solving a deeply haunting mystery.Support our podcast by becoming a patron.

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In the gripping season opener of Season 32, Just Family Business, we embark on a chilling journey through a decades-old mystery. Episode 1 introduces us to a seemingly ordinary family caught in an extraordinary and sinister predicament. The disappearance of Aundria Bowman unravels a tapestry of secrets, deceit, and a cold case that refused to die. As amateur sleuths and unexpected twists bring us closer to a disturbing truth, this three-part saga promises to delve deep into the heart of darkness that lies beneath the facade of just family business. Join us as we peel back the layers of a story where hope battles despair and the quest for truth confronts the specter of the past. This is more than a tale of crime; it's a profound exploration of family, loss, and the relentless pursuit of justice.

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In this episode, recorded as 2022 drew to a close, Shane and Gemma are joined in Maryland by Catherine Rentz, a seasoned journalist and producer from Maryland. Also present is, John Benam, the esteemed Director of Photography known for his work on "The Keepers."

Catherine Rentz takes us deep into the heart of a story that unravels like a tapestry of mystery against the backdrop of 1970s Maryland. At the center of this narrative is a doctor whose meticulous preservation of evidence from sex crimes forms a crucial bridge to solving cold cases that seemed forever lost to time. His extraordinary collection, meticulously cataloged on microscope slides and glass tubes, harbors DNA evidence vital to cracking cases of 'stranger rape' and other heinous crimes, many of which had their original evidence tragically destroyed or mishandled.

Through Catherine's eyes, we delve into her investigative journey, uncovering the significance of this unparalleled collection and its pivotal role in the pursuit of justice.

This episode does not shy away from the darker corners of human history and the search for truth. We discuss the chilling indifference and alleged complicity of Police in a massive pedophile ring orchestrated by Father Maskell, highlighting the pressing need for transparency and external oversight in the DNA testing process.

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In the gripping conclusion of our two-part series on the Vanishing Blonde, we delve deeper into the mysterious disappearance and subsequent investigation of Inna Budnystska. Private investigator Ken Brennan's relentless pursuit leads him down a path filled with twists, turns, and an unexpected suspect. With meticulous analysis and a keen eye for detail, Brennan uncovers shocking evidence that challenges initial perceptions and highlights the complexities of seeking justice.

Listeners are invited to join us on this compelling journey as we uncover the layers of a case that captivated the nation.

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In Episode 1 of The Vanishing Blonde, a two-part series on Foul Play, we delve into the chilling and perplexing case of Inna Budnystska. Discovered in a Floridian construction site, Inna, a 21-year-old Ukrainian woman, is found beaten, bloodied, and with no memory of the traumatic events that led to her state. As she regains consciousness in a hospital, her fragmented recollections and the severe injuries she sustained paint a horrifying picture of assault and abandonment. The episode unravels the complexities of Inna's life, her work on a cruise ship, and her stay at the Airport Regency Hotel, where she alleges the attack took place.

The investigation intensifies as detectives explore Inna's claims and the hotel's security footage, uncovering a web of unanswered questions and suspicious details. Private investigator Ken Brennan's involvement adds a new dimension to the case, challenging conventional theories and prompting a deeper analysis of the evidence. The episode navigates through the intricate maze of the investigation, exploring potential motives, suspects, and the elusive truth behind Inna's harrowing experience.

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Tina’s murderer or murderers have never been found, in this episode we go through the suspects and the theories.

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After disappearing from her night shift at a Little Crickets convenience store in Anderson County, Tina’s body was found dumped just off Highway I-85 the following day.

But what had happened to Tina Milford, and why?

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In this episode, Shane and Gemma dive into a new twist in the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy. They are joined by Ronnie Norpel, whose parents were friends with Gerry Koob, a Jesuit priest who was close to Sister Cathy and a person of interest in the case. Ronnie shares her shocking allegations against Koob, and reveals how he often brought Sister Cathy to her parents' house. What secrets did Koob and Sister Cathy share, and how are they connected to the dark web of corruption and cover-ups that surrounded her death?

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Tina Milford went missing from her night shift in Little Cricket convenience store, Anderson County, on the 254 June 1983, leaving behind her shoes, her purse and her car.

Her parents were convinced that Tina would not just leave her job for no reason, the police agreed.

What happened to Tina Milford?

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In Episode 3 of The Darknet Assassin, the focus shifts to the aftermath of Amy Allwine's murder and the broader implications of the darknet's murder-for-hire schemes. The episode delves into the arrest and trial of Stephen Allwine, revealing his intricate web of deceit and the damning digital evidence that led to his conviction. Listeners are taken through the twists and turns of the trial, including Stephen's repeated attempts to maintain his innocence against overwhelming evidence.

Simultaneously, the episode explores the efforts of Chris Monteiro, a cyber-sleuth, in unraveling the operations of Besa Mafia and its successor sites. Monteiro's investigation exposes the alarming reality of these platforms and the potential real-world consequences of their activities. His efforts, fraught with personal risk and ethical dilemmas, highlight the complexities of battling online criminal networks. The narrative weaves together these parallel stories, showcasing the disturbing interplay between virtual crimes and their tragic outcomes in the real world.

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In Episode 2 of "The Darknet Assassin," we delve deeper into the unsettling case of Amy Allwine, a mother and active community member found dead in her Minnesota home. The investigation uncovers her idyllic life as a devout churchgoer, dog trainer, and family woman, which contrasts sharply with the dark revelation of a murder-for-hire plot against her. As the FBI and local police become involved, we explore the disturbing details of the Besa Mafia website, where an anonymous user, "Dogdaygod," orchestrated a sinister plan to eliminate Amy.

The episode further reveals the intricate and alarming communications between "Dogdaygod" and the admin of Besa Mafia, outlining various murder methods and transactions. Amy's life takes a harrowing turn upon learning about these threats, leading to increased security measures at home. However, the plot thickens with the mysterious circumstances surrounding Amy's death, challenging the initial assumption of suicide. As new evidence comes to light, suspicions and theories abound, drawing listeners into a complex web of deceit, betrayal, and the dark underbelly of the internet.

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Step into the enigmatic realm of the dark web in this gripping episode, where the eerie tale of the Darknet Assassin unfolds. This journey takes you deep into the heart of the internet's shadowy corners, a place where anonymity breeds nefarious activities, and the concept of a murder-for-hire service becomes a disturbing reality. We dissect the perplexing and often deceptive world of dark web marketplaces, unraveling how they operate under a veil of secrecy and the impact they have on their unwitting victims.

As the narrative progresses, listeners are introduced to the intricate web of characters involved – from the operators of these sinister sites to the law enforcement agents tirelessly working to bring them down. We explore the chilling cases linked to these platforms, where the line between an elaborate scam and genuine criminal intent is alarmingly thin. The episode meticulously pieces together the puzzle, revealing the dark side of human nature and the digital age's new face of crime.

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In this gripping episode, Shane delves into a harrowing and sobering topic: the extensive report by the Attorney General on child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. With a meticulous approach, he reads and analyzes key sections of the report, shedding light on the distressing findings and the systemic failures that allowed such abuses to persist. The episode navigates through the intricate web of cover-ups, the indelible impact on victims, and the response (or lack thereof) from the church hierarchy.

As Shane explores the report, he not only focuses on the facts and figures but also humanizes the narrative by discussing the real-world implications and emotional toll of these revelations. The episode, though challenging, is essential listening for those who seek to understand the depth of this crisis and the ongoing quest for justice and healing.

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In this thought-provoking episode of Foul Play, hosts Gemma and Shane delve into the profound implications of the Maryland Attorney General's recent report on clergy abuse. Joined by advocate and paralegal Mary Beth and survivor Kim, the episode offers an in-depth analysis of the report's findings and its impact on the ongoing struggle of survivors.

Listeners will be drawn into a heart-rending discussion about how the report sheds light on the traumatic experiences of abuse survivors and the steps taken by the Archdiocese of Baltimore in response to these revelations. The conversation critically examines the Archdiocese's decision to file for bankruptcy, exploring how this move affects the survivors and their quest for justice.

Throughout the episode, Gemma, Shane, and their guests navigate the emotional landscapes of both survivors and the accused. This episode is more than just a recounting of events; it serves as a resonant call to action, encouraging survivors to come forward and demand accountability from the Archdiocese. This episode is a poignant tribute to Sister Cathy and a powerful voice for those who have been silenced, making it an essential listen for anyone seeking to understand this tragic and unresolved story.

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In the gripping final installment of The Phantom Killer of Texarkana, Part 3 on Foul Play: Crime Series, we delve into the heart of darkness that engulfed the small town of Texarkana. This episode takes you on a chilling journey through the twisted paths and dead ends of one of history's most baffling and terrifying unsolved mysteries.

As the community reels under the shadow of a ruthless killer, we explore the intricate web of suspects, the psychological profile of the murderer, and the haunting impact of these crimes on the town and its people. The line between myth and reality blurs as we scrutinize each clue and lead, unveiling the complex layers of this enigmatic case.

Join us as we traverse the murky waters of fear, suspicion, and intrigue, shedding light on the various theories and suspects that emerged during the investigation. From the chilling modus operandi of the killer to the numerous suspects who captured the public's imagination, we dive deep into the psyche of the elusive Phantom. As we edge closer to the conclusion, the question remains: who was the real Phantom Killer? This episode promises to keep you on the edge of your seat, offering insights that challenge what we think we know about the darkest corners of human nature.

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In this suspenseful second episode of the Foul Play: Crime Series podcast titled "The Phantom Killer of Texarkana, Part 2," we delve deeper into the harrowing tale of a series of brutal attacks that terrorized the small town of Texarkana in 1946. This episode takes you through the unnerving investigation and the scant evidence that baffled authorities. As the town grapples with fear, we explore the unique challenges posed by Texarkana's geographical location and its impact on law enforcement efforts.

Witness how the community's reaction to these crimes ranged from extreme vigilance to paralyzing fear, with families resorting to extraordinary measures for safety. We recount the grisly details of each attack, from the lovers' lanes to an isolated farmhouse, and examine the aftermath of this chilling spree. The episode offers a deep dive into the law enforcement's struggles with limited forensic capabilities and the complexities of inter-state policing, providing insights into the psychological and societal impact of the Phantom's reign of terror.

As we unravel the intricate layers of this dark chapter in Texarkana's history, "The Phantom Killer of Texarkana, Part 2" is not just a recounting of events but a journey into the heart of a community forever changed by fear and uncertainty. For true crime enthusiasts seeking an immersive experience into one of America’s most haunting mysteries, this episode promises to be a compelling and thought-provoking listen.

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In the premiere episode of this Season on The Phantom Killer of Texarkana, we travel back to the year 1946. The small, tranquil city of Texarkana is caught in the grip of terror as a masked predator known as the Phantom Killer emerges, leaving a trail of unspeakable crimes in the moonless night. From lovers' lanes to the quiet of a home, no place is safe from the Phantom's reach. This episode takes listeners through the haunting events as they unfolded—from the first attacks on unsuspecting couples to the chilling home invasion that left the community paralyzed with fear.

Join us as we piece together the horrifying details of the Phantom's brutal assaults and murders, diving into a series of crimes that remain unsolved to this day. We explore the anguish and chaos that ensued, the eerie silence of a predator who vanished as mysteriously as he appeared, and the relentless pursuit for justice by the authorities, Texas Rangers, and FBI.

Foul Play brings to life the dark shadow that fell over Texarkana. Stay tuned for the shocking twists, the cloud of paranoia, and the legacy of fear that the Phantom Killer left behind. Will the identity of the masked murderer ever be revealed, or will he remain an enigma, lurking in the annals of true crime mystery? Tune in to find out.

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Episode 2 continues the grim saga of the murderous spree that plagued the Tuscan countryside. This installment plunges into the labyrinth of the investigation's most turbulent years. We examine the pressure-cooker environment of the 1980s, where the local police's frantic search for the Monster led to several wrongful arrests that cast a long shadow of doubt over the law enforcement's competence.

The episode dissects the case of Enzo Spalletti, whose wrongful accusation and subsequent exoneration underscored the investigation's flaws. As the narrative unfolds, we encounter Francesco Vinci, another man caught in the investigation's dragnet, painting a picture of an inquiry fraught with desperation and hasty conclusions. The series reveals the scandalous media circus and the public's macabre fascination with the satanic cult theories, adding layers of complexity to an already intricate case.

Listeners are taken on a journey through the twists and turns of evidence and hearsay that led to Pietro Pacciani's conviction—and the shocking reversal that followed. We close with a sobering reflection on the unsolved mystery that remains, pondering the true identity of the Monster and the fate that befell the accused. As the episode concludes, we are left with more questions than answers, keeping the terrifying legacy of the Monster of Florence alive in the collective memory.


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In the first episode of "Foul Play: Crime Series" titled "The Monster of Florence," we unmask the horrors lurking in the idyllic Tuscan hills. The story begins on a gruesome note with the discovery of Antonio Lo Bianco and Barbara Locci, marking the onset of a series of brutal slayings between 1968 and 1985. This episode probes into the killer's calculated strikes on unsuspecting couples in secluded spots, culminating in chilling surgical mutilations that perplexed investigators and instilled terror in the heart of Florence.

As we trace the sequence of these cold-blooded crimes, the episode reveals the Monster's twisted modus operandi, the palpable fear that swept through Tuscany, and the intense media frenzy that followed. With each account, we attempt to penetrate the psyche of the enigmatic killer and his possible motivations, ranging from sadistic pleasure to cult involvement or a vendetta against romance.

The episode also explores the futile attempts to capture the elusive killer, whose crimes spanned nearly two decades, ceasing as abruptly as they began with no definitive conclusion. Listeners will be left with haunting questions about the nature of evil and the persistence of unsolved mysteries that still overshadow the beautiful Tuscan landscape. Join us as we dive deep into the dark history of The Monster of Florence, in a tale of murder, mystery, and the relentless quest for answers.


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In this special episode of "Foul Play: Crime Series," recorded live from Crimecon in Glasgow, we're excited to sit down with the formidable Jo Millington, a forensic scientist with over 25 years of experience. Jo will guide us through her incredible journey—from her early days in Scotland, specializing in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA), to working on high-profile cases in London's Forensic Science Service and her own consultancy. She'll also discuss her impactful work with Inside Justice, a charity focused on investigating potential miscarriages of justice. As we delve into the complex world of forensics, Jo will share insights on how science plays a critical role in solving crimes and even correcting wrongful convictions. Fans of popular crime dramas are also in for a treat, as Jo peels back the curtain on her role as a forensic advisor for TV shows like 'Silent Witness.' Whether you're a true-crime aficionado or just intrigued by the science that solves crimes, this episode promises to be a riveting exploration of the forensics field. If you want to learn moare about Blood Pattern Analysis, head over to Jo’s page and enter FOULPLAY50 at checkout for a whopping 50% discount. There also some free resources on Jo’s website. (Please note that the discount is only available to the first 50 people to sign up, so don’t wait or you might miss out) Here are more resources:

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...1 eerie corn maze...
...9 haunting figures...
...9 spine-tingling tales...
...Will YOU find your way out? This holiday season, step into a labyrinth of shadows and suspense with Shane Waters as your guide. In this chilling collaboration, you'll encounter the hosts of 9 acclaimed true crime podcasts, each offering a dark tale and a life lesson to send shivers down your spine. This is not just a special episode; it's an immersive journey through a maze of twisted paths and unsolved mysteries. So, lift your lantern high and venture into 'Maze of Secrets'...
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 ...not everyone makes it to the end… Prepare to get lost in the stories, but find yourself in their lessons. It's an odyssey of crime, mystery, and eerie life lessons that you won't soon forget. This is Shane’s 5th holiday collaboration. If you dare to walk this twisted path with us, you're in for a night you'll never forget. Are you ready? Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

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Who Stands to Gain? The Complex Web of Archdiocesan Bankruptcies and Sister Cathy’s Unsolved Murder. After funneling an extensive amount of resources into fighting against survivors in Maryland to preserve the statute of limitations, the Archdiocese of Baltimore has now opened a new legal front—filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Astoundingly, the archdiocese seems willing to spend millions more in legal and court fees to essentially carve out their own type of statute of limitations, a privilege that bankruptcy can afford them. This unsettling move is not unique to Baltimore; it's part of a wider pattern with 30 other archdioceses across the United States following suit.

As this unfolds, Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins reunite in Episode 87 of Foul Play: Crime Series to continue their dedicated investigation into who killed Sister Cathy. Kicking off Season 2 back in September 2018, we've now arrived at a critical juncture that compels us to ask: Who had the most to gain from Sister Cathy's tragic death? In this episode, listeners will be guided through the labyrinthine world of bankruptcy filings, legal strategies, and the disturbing lengths to which these religious institutions are willing to go to avoid accountability.

The timing of these bankruptcy filings is not coincidental; it has the potential to thwart ongoing investigations and silence survivors indefinitely. Shane and Gemma dig deep into the financial intricacies and legal loopholes that these archdioceses are exploiting. Alongside this, they also scrutinize the possible connections between Sister Cathy's unsolved murder and the powerful entities now using bankruptcy as a shield.

As financial power plays become a focal point, this episode doesn't just scratch the surface; it delves deep into the complex machinations that could be hiding the truth behind Sister Cathy's murder. Don’t miss this compelling episode that seeks to unravel the complex tapestry of legal and moral questions surrounding one of the most puzzling cold cases in Maryland. Your engagement and thirst for the truth are what make this work possible. Subscribe, share, and stay vigilant as we continue to seek answers and justice. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

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In this gripping episode the courtroom becomes the stage as we recount the trial and sentencing of Robert Ben Rhoades, the notorious Truck Stop Killer. The episode unravels the intense legal battle that ensued following Rhoades's arrest. From the prosecution's demand for the death penalty to the defense's attempts to downplay the atrocities, we explore the intricate details of a trial that held the rapt attention of a community seeking closure.

Listeners will hear of the monstrous crimes recounted in testimonies, the disturbing evidence presented by the state, and the defendant's audacious attempts to challenge his sentencing. The episode dramatizes the trial's most poignant moments, including the harrowing accounts of Rhoades’s victims and the emotional turmoil of the families affected. We also scrutinize Rhoades's manipulative legal maneuvers post-conviction, which added to the anguish of those left in the wake of his violence.

This episode not only captures the culmination of Rhoades's legal proceedings but also reflects on the broader implications of his case. It's a story of justice's complex machinery, the pursuit of truth, and the resilience of a community scarred by senseless brutality. As the series progresses, it promises to keep the memory of the victims alive and honor the relentless spirit of those who worked to ensure that such evil does not walk free.

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Episode 2 on the Truck Stop Killer season intensifies as we explore the depths of Robert Ben Rhoades's depravity. This episode recounts the chilling breakthrough in the case when a state trooper's routine check turned into a rescue of a chained, tortured victim from Rhoades's truck. The discovery unearthed Rhoades's horrifying double life as a long-haul trucker and a sadistic predator, with his 18-wheeler doubling as a mobile torture chamber.

Listeners will hear how Rhoades was linked to unsolved murders and missing person cases, his personal history with the Houston BDSM scene, and the sinister evidence found in his apartment. The episode also details the heartbreaking story of Regina Walters, one of Rhoades's victims, whose life and tragic end were documented through Rhoades's own photographs.

The episode further examines how close calls and narrow escapes of potential victims aided the investigation, with personal accounts adding emotional depth to the narrative. As detectives and the FBI untangled the dark thread of Rhoades's acts, the story captures the clash between the search for truth and the struggle for justice.

The description sets up the anticipation for the next episode, promising a focus on the trial and sentencing of Rhoades, and the unresolved questions that torment the victims' families. It's a harrowing journey through the impact of Rhoades's crimes and the search for closure in one of the most disturbing cases of serial murder in America.

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In Episode 1 we delve into the grim story of Robert Ben Rhoades, whose reign of terror along the American highways during the late '70s and '80s culminated in the nightmarish transformation of his 18-wheeler into a chamber of horrors. This episode recounts the harrowing escape of his would-be victim, Shana Holts, and the subsequent complacency of law enforcement that allowed Rhoades to continue his murderous spree.

Listeners will be taken through a chilling narrative that includes Rhoades's beginnings, from his unsettled childhood marked by his father's suicide to his drift into the world of long-haul trucking, where he found an outlet for his sadistic impulses. The episode paints a sinister portrait of Rhoades's life, revealing the disturbing duality of his existence and his ventures into the underground scenes that possibly fed his cruel fantasies.

As the episode unfolds, we learn of the tragic fate of Regina Kay Walters, the young girl whose brutal end was discovered in a secluded barn, and the close call that led to the capture of Rhoades, as recounted by an Arizona Highway Patrol Trooper. The description leads up to the anticipation of further investigation into the depth of Rhoades's crimes in the following episode, promising more insights into the exhaustive efforts to bring him to justice. This account serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerability of those who cross paths with such hidden predators.


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This is the second episode in our series on the mysterious murder of 24-year-old Phoebe Handsjuk. In the last episode, we learned about how Phoebe Handsjuk died and the conflicting theories surrounding her demise. Despite the police's conclusion that it was an accidental death caused by Phoebe's drunken state, her grandfather, Lorne Campbell, a retired police detective, believed that foul play was involved.

The medical examiner and Coroner's reports and suggestions raised more questions than answers, leaving the case unsolved. Some can't help but feel that the examiner and Coroner had something to hide, only because they were adamant about letting the court know of Phoebe's drinking habits and shady past, perhaps in an attempt to protect someone. But who?

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In the darkest recesses of the human psyche lies an insatiable curiosity for the bizarre and the unexplained… a desire to peer behind the veil of the ordinary and uncover the secrets that hide just beneath the surface.

These strange and confounding cases ignite the imagination and send shivers down the spine as we struggle to comprehend the sinister forces within our seemingly familiar world.

And those are the cases we dive into here on Foul Play. And while we usually cover some old unsolved cases, today we're going to discuss a fairly recent case that has completely vexed true crime fans and detectives alike.

This is the story of Phoebe Handsjuk, a 24 year old Australian girl who found herself in a strange, strange situation.

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In our previous episode, we discussed the death of Mary Cecilia Rogers, famously known as The Beautiful Cigar Girl, in 1841. In this episode, we will delve deeper into the investigation of her death, the various theories surrounding it, and the haunting legacy of her story.

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In the shadowy corners of human creativity, where imagination and reality intersect, the mysterious figure of the muse has long been a guiding force. Some artists find inspiration in fleeting glimpses of beauty, while others find it in the depths of darkness and despair. For renowned writer Edgar Allan Poe, a master of the macabre, it was the tragic tale of the Beautiful Cigar Girl that sparked a fire within his haunted soul.

New York City, 1841. Beneath the gaslit cobblestone streets, a gripping tale of intrigue and suspense was unfolding. It was a story that would make headlines across the nation, casting an eerie light on the city's burgeoning underworld. In the heart of this Gothic metropolis, a young woman named Mary Rogers captured the public's imagination with her striking beauty and tragic fate.

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Tinseltown shines just enough to blind you from the horrors that go on behind the curtains. This is episode 2 in our series on the murder of Thelma Todd, a celebrated comedic actress, and businesswoman who was found dead in a car in her lover's garage.

‌Could it have been Jewel Carmen, the lover's wife, who learned about his affair? Or could it have been the lover himself, Roland West? Or… could it have been suicide?

‌We dive deeper into the lives of the old Hollywood stars in this episode.

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The 1920s and 1930s were the golden age of Hollywood, a time of glitz and glamour, where movie stars were treated like royalty. But amidst all the glitter and fame, there was a dark side to the movie industry, a side that often saw stars fall from grace and suffer tragic ends.

Thelma Todd was a shining star of the silver screen, known for her comedic chops and stunning beauty. She was the epitome of the old Hollywood glamour, but her life was far from a fairy tale. On the morning of December 16th, 1935, Thelma was found dead in her car, parked in a garage. The cause of death was ruled as carbon monoxide poisoning, but to this day, the circumstances surrounding her death remain shrouded in mystery.

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This is episode 3 of the Hall-Mills Murder story. Be sure to listen to episodes 1 and 2, where we learn about Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Mills and uncover deeper details of their love affair and families. As the clock struck 12, the imposing figures of the officers could be seen marching towards the door of Frances Hall's secluded mansion. Tension filled the air as they prepared to place the most powerful woman in town under arrest for the brutal murder of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills.

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This is episode 2 of the Hall-Mills Murder tragedy. Be sure to listen to episode 1, where we learn about the victims, Edward Wheeler Hall and his lover, Eleanor Mills. The Hall-Mills murder mystery of the 1920s is a tale of scandal, tragedy, and intrigue that has captivated the public for decades. On a fateful September night in 1922, two innocent bystanders stumbled upon a gruesome scene while on a romantic stroll down a secluded lover's lane. What they saw would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

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Mystery, Intrigue, Tragedy, Scandal. These are the themes that embody the most notorious crime of the 1920s - the Hall-Mills murder mystery. On a dark, moonless night in September of 1922, a couple named Raymond Schlender and Pearl Bahmer, lost in the moment, strolled down a secluded lover's lane. But little did they know their romantic walk in the dark would soon turn into the stuff of nightmares.

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This is episode 2 of the McMartin preschool trials, and it contains mentions of the sexual abuse of minors. We recommend proceeding with caution. Judy Johnson's outcry about the abuse her son faced in the McMartin preschool launched investigations countrywide into other daycares, with numbers going up to 200 and teachers getting arrested with little to no evidence. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Find us on all platforms. Visit us online. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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The McMartin pre-school trial was one of the most infamous and controversial child sexual abuse cases in American history. The case, which began in 1983, involved allegations of widespread abuse and satanic rituals at the McMartin pre-school in Manhattan Beach, California. This series on Foul Play will discuss difficult themes of sexual abuse and pedophilia. We recommend proceeding with caution. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Find us on all platforms. Visit us online. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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This is episode 4 in our Murder at Lake Waco series. A trigger warning for our listeners: this series contains gruesome depictions of murders and mentions of sexual assault. This episode looks at the trial proceedings of the Lake Waco murder case, which will reveal troublesome details about the night of April 1982. We advise proceeding with caution.

In a shivering hand, David Spence scrawled a chilling account of a conversation that had taken place between Deeb and himself. It was June of 1982, Spence claimed, when Deeb posed the question, 'Would you kill someone for 5 thousand dollars?' Spence had answered in the affirmative.

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Gayle Kelley was no fan of policemen, but she was less a fan of Lucky Deeb, her former employer, who had just admitted to killing Kenneth Franks, Jill Montgomery, and Raylene Rice in the wooded area around Lake Waco. Though he brushed it off as a joke, Gayle didn't believe him. She saw the look in his eyes and knew she was looking at a killer.

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Sergeant Truman Simons stood silently, staring down at the lifeless body of the young girl. Her long, dark brown hair was a stark contrast to the still-shiny gold necklace that hung around her neck, the chain now broken and partially embedded in the wound. She had been gagged with her own blouse, and her hands were tied behind her back with a strip of cloth.

The officer could tell that she had been dead for some time, with ants and pillbugs already crawling over her bloodstained body and flies having laid their eggs in her nasal cavities.

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"I want you to understand… I speak the truth when I say I didn't kill your kids. I have not killed anyone." These were the last words of the alleged murdered before the executioners filled his chamber with toxic chemicals and his heart… stopped beating. We rewind back to a quiet Monday afternoon in 1982. 18-year-old Kenneth Franks stood at his window, waiting for his friends to arrive. Jill had just called to tell him she'd be in the area to pick up her paycheque from work, so she'd be free to hang out for a few hours. Her friend Raylene Rice would be with her, and they could all go down to Koehne Park with a few burgers and watch the sunset. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Find us on all platforms. Visit us online.

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[Part 2] This Mother’s Day, join Shane Waters on a chilling adventure featuring 14 podcasters as they share sinister stories of motherhood. Mother’s Day is typically a time to honor the love and sacrifices of mothers, but today we’ll be exploring the twisted tales that lurk behind the shadows. 

It’s an extra special, two parts, more than two-hour, Mother’s Day event. 

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1. Foul Play: Crime Series
2. Music City 911
3. Crimes from the East 
4. Cults, Crimes, Cabernet 
5. A Nefarious Nightmare 
6. Crimelines 
7. The Asian Madness Podcast 

1. Once Upon A Crime 
2. PNW Haunts & Homicides
3. The Trail Went Cold 
4. Coffee & Cases
5. Already Gone 
6. Twisted and Uncorked 
7. Mystery Inc 

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This Mother’s Day, join Shane Waters on a chilling adventure featuring 14 podcasters as they share sinister stories of motherhood. Mother’s Day is typically a time to honor the love and sacrifices of mothers, but today we’ll be exploring the twisted tales that lurk behind the shadows. 

It’s an extra special, two parts, more than two-hour, Mother’s Day event. 

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2. Music City 911
3. Crimes from the East 
4. Cults, Crimes, Cabernet 
5. A Nefarious Nightmare 
6. Crimelines 
7. The Asian Madness Podcast 

1. Once Upon A Crime 
2. PNW Haunts & Homicides
3. The Trail Went Cold 
4. Coffee & Cases
5. Already Gone 
6. Twisted and Uncorked 
7. Mystery Inc 

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Joseph Orton did it, something he told himself he would never do. Shoot a man to kill, in order to please his lover. John’s words still echoing in his mind after he pulled the trigger. “Oh Lord!” Joseph jolted back a few steps before slipping on the roof of the shed. He dropped his rifle and fell to the ground beside it. He took a moment to make sure he wasn’t injured, grabbed his rifle and ran off into the woods. He needed to get rid of the rifle as fast as he could. Earlier that day he had stowed away his coat, a bundle and his boots near the northwest corner of the property. He did this as he knew he boot prints would be recognized.

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Welcome back to the Foul Play Podcast. I’m sure many of you are wondering. If this is the Confession of Jesse Strang, when does he appear? I promise, it will all become clear as this series continues. We last left off with Joseph Orton agreeing to write Elsie Whipple a letter. Which left him confused as to what her motive was. Did she want a letter because she had mutual feelings for him? Or was it a ploy, to get him in trouble with her husband and have him removed from Cherry Hill?

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Welcome to another riveting episode of Foul Play: Crime Series. In this three-part series, we explore the tragic story of Joseph Orton, a man whose life took a dark turn when he encountered the enigmatic Elsie Whipple. In part one, we dive into the fateful events that led to their meeting and the beginning of the end for Joseph Orton. Join us as we unravel the intricate web of deceit, love, and obsession that led to one of the most notorious crimes of the 19th century.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we further uncover the shocking confession of Jesse Strang and the tragic consequences of his actions. Immerse yourself in this tale of passion and betrayal in this episode of Foul Play: Crime Series.

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Welcome to Foul Play: Crime Series.

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This Easter, join Shane Waters on a whimsical adventure featuring 13 podcasters as they share true stories of con artists and fake deaths. Delve into the magical world of the Enchanted Easterlands, where you’ll encounter peculiar characters and captivating true crime tales. Discover the history and origins of Easter, and experience a journey like no other.

It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Easter event.

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

Part 1:

1. Crimelines
2. Rotten to the Core
3. Frightful
4. Mind over Murder
5. The Trail Went Cold
6. The Hidden Staircase
7. Hometown History

Part 2:

1. Wicked Deeds
2. Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
3. Hillbilly Horror Stories
4. History Goes Bump
5. Judgy Crime Girls
6. Foul Play: Crime Series

If you enjoyed this holiday collaboration special, check out the other collaboration specials: My Bloody Valentine and A Nightmare before Halloween. Stay tuned for upcoming holiday collaborations for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Until our next adventure, stay safe and stay vigilant.

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This Easter, join Shane Waters on a whimsical adventure featuring 13 podcasters as they share true stories of con artists and fake deaths. Delve into the magical world of the Enchanted Easterlands, where you’ll encounter peculiar characters and captivating true crime tales. Discover the history and origins of Easter, and experience a journey like no other. 

 It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Easter event. 

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2. Rotten to the Core
3. Frightful
4. Mind over Murder
5. The Trail Went Cold
6. The Hidden Staircase
7. Hometown History

1. Wicked Deeds
2. Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
3. Hillbilly Horror Stories 
4. History Goes Bump
5. Judgy Crime Girls
6. Foul Play: Crime Series

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As Robert was taken to be booked into jail he made further comments to Detective Sanchez. He told him he had lied again in one part of his confession. He said Emily had woken up when he reached the ranch and began to fight him. He had said that’s why he hit her with the bicycle pump. The truth was Emily had never regained consciousness. She posed no threat to him at all. His continued brutal attack had been his active choice.

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Detectives were beginning to look more closely at Robert Earley. They asked him to come to the station for an informal recorded interview. Robert was happy to cooperate. At the station, he was shown into a square interview room with a round table in the corner and a chair on either side. Wearing a red baseball cap, grey sweatshirt with black long sleeves, and black faded jeans, Robert went in and casually hung his jacket over the back of the chair. Sitting down with his back to the wall, he is facing the camera pointing straight at him from its quiet position in the top corner of the room.

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In the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico in March 2014, Emily Lambert, a beautiful mother of two, would vanish without a trace. Desperate pleas from her family, friends, and boyfriend begged for information and her safe return. Behind the eyes of one individual, there was an undercurrent of violence. It simmered on the surface, occasionally bubbling up before settling back down. A menacing threat just waiting to explode. When that moment came, there was a loss of temper so violent the results were catastrophic.

When control was regained, the violence didn’t stop. The level of callous cruelty was taken up a notch again and again as the focus shifted to self-preservation. A monster is defined as a wicked being. Exerting control and power while carrying out truly heinous acts intended to cause ultimate harm. We go through our lives day to day believing people around us are inherently good. It makes the unmasking of a true monster all the more terrifying. The anguish and fear of those first days searching for Emily were followed by a deeper everlasting horror. When the truth was finally revealed, the devastation was a double blow. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Find us on all platforms. Visit us online. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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Shocking revelations from the Emily Dimmock case left not one but two people heartbroken. The trial of Robert Wood had the public gallery filled with actors, writers, and artists jostling for reserved seats while members of the general public, who had been following the case closely, flooded the streets outside. On the terrible night of September 11th, 1907, Emily Dimmock was killed in her sleep by a man she knew well. The home that she shared with Bertram Shaw was ransacked, and her prized possession, a collection of postcards from around the world, was strewn about the bedroom floor. It looked like someone had made an effort to find a particular one and left unsuccessful. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Find us on all platforms. Visit us online. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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The investigation into Emily Dimmock’s murder wasn’t an easy one… at least not for Bert Shaw, who was convinced Emily had left her dark past behind and was living an honest life with him in their home in Camden. The police asked him several rather uncomfortable questions, ranging from Emily’s past as a sex worker named Phylis to how they met and decided to live together.

It was clear, during the questioning, that Bert had no reason or motivation to ever hurt Emily. When they first met, Emily was working the streets, and Bert offered to give her a good, comfortable life if she left the profession. Some people, however, don’t want to be rescued from their lives and enjoy their situation, even if it seems unconventional to others.

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Bertram Shaw's life was torn apart when he opened the door to his bedroom and found the love of his life, Emily Dimmock, pale and ashen on their shared bed with her throat slit. Somewhere in his heart, Bertram knew this girl was trouble… and even then, he couldn't quite grasp just how dark and twisted Emily's past had been. At the age of 22, Emily Dimmock was leading a double life. By day, she was Mrs. Shaw, the dutiful young housewife, and by night, she was Phyllis, London's most sought-after escort.

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Broken promises, broken hearts, and a heart-wrenching, horrifying scene. This is what greeted young Bertram Shaw when he opened the door to his home on Saint Paul's Road in Camden Town. It was early morning on September 12th, 1907, and Bertram had just come back from his night shift at Midland Railway as a dining car cook.

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Last time we talked about the senseless massacre that took place in a Be-Lo grocery store in the small town of Windsor. Three employees, Grover Cecil, Joyce Reason and Johnnie Rankins, were left dead and two others severely injured, while one person miraculously walked out of the store unharmed. A white sedan was seen speeding out of the town shortly after the incident—but despite all the eyewitnesses, this was not an open-and-shut-case.

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…12 dates …
…14 love gone wrong stories…
…Will YOU be my Valentine?
This Valentine’s Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event. 
Part 2 of 2.
Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:
In this Part 2 Episode: 
1. Sirens
2. The Trail Went Cold
3. Method and Madness
4. True Crime Cases with Lanie
5. Crimelines
6. Love Murder
7. Foul Play: Crime Series

In the Part 1 Episode: 
1. Murder She Told
2. True Crime Island
3. Hillbilly Horror Stories
4. Tapes from the Darkside
5. Coffee and Cases
6. Gone Cold – Texas True Crime
7. Live, Laugh, Larceny

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…12 dates …
…14 love gone wrong stories…
…Will YOU be my Valentine?
This Valentine’s Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event. 
Part 1 of 2.
Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:
In this Part 1 Episode: 
1. Murder She Told
2. True Crime Island
3. Hillbilly Horror Stories
4. Tapes from the Darkside
5. Coffee and Cases
6. Gone Cold – Texas True Crime
7. Live, Laugh, Larceny
In the next Part 2 Episode: 
1. Sirens
2. The Trail Went Cold
3. Method and Madness
4. True Crime Cases with Lanie
5. Crimelines
6. Love Murder
7. Foul Play: Crime Series

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I‌n the last episode, we talked about this little town called Windsor in North Carolina and the Be-Lo grocery store where six workers were taking care of closing shift tasks on Sunday, June 6, 1993. They just were unaware of the 7th person, a stranger that was observing them from a hiding place, waiting for the right moment to strike.

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On June 16th, 1993, six employees in a small grocery store in the town of Windsor, NC were finishing their day when they experienced a living nightmare. Windsor is located in Birdie County and has a rich history, as one of the oldest towns in the state of North Carolina.

Today, the town is home to about 3,500 people and 300 year old homes still line King Street. Everyone in Windsor knows everyone, making this crime particularly shocking to the community and leaving many in disbelief. As this case is more nearly 30 years old, we will be exploring the details of this massacre and its impact on the town in a series of episodes.

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On the Sunday evening of August 27, 2006, just after 9 PM, police responded to a call regarding a missing child in Leesburg, Florida. As the officers arrived at the scene, the mother, 21-year-old Melinda Duckett, explained that she had put her son, 2-year-old Trenton, to bed around 7 PM. She had then watched a movie with two of her friends before going to check on Trenton—but to her horror, the 2-year-old's bed was empty.

Melinda was quite sure that the little boy could not have gotten out of
the crib, but it was another thing that caused her and her friends to panic someone had cut through the window screen of the room.

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It’s the end of the season. Time for final thoughts, conclusions and alternative motives. And we have an expert analyse the 999 call, which is fascinating.

Documentaries about Sharon’s murder:
-Who Killed Sharon Birchwood - Police Tapes with Susanna Reid
-The Murder of Sharon Birchwood - Murder Detective with Graham Bell

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The police are off to Thailand. No, it’s not a holiday, it’s time to arrest the hitman and he’s off to the Old Bailey.

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Who Killed Sharon Birchwood - Police Tapes with Susanna Reid
The Murder of Sharon Birchwood - Murder Detective with Graham Bell

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We know George is a suspect, he doesn’t, awkward !  This is one funeral I won’t forget in a hurry.  It’s time for us to bury Sharon.

Oh, and George gets finally gets his comeuppance.

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If you’ve ever wondered why and how someone becomes a hitman, then tune in to episode 5, where I will tell you everything I know about a certain Paul Cryne.

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When the DNA results come back the police are crushed, and it’s a hard Christmas for everyone as the case of my aunt Sharon’s murder remains unsolved.

But wait……who is Paul?

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From the same team that brings you Foul Play: Crime Series, I want to introduce you to Shane's new show Mystery Inc.

If you enjoy talking about shady mysteries, Aliens, murder, legends, and of course the occasional tea - then Mystery Inc is the podcast for you! Together brothers Shane and Josh Waters travel in their Mystery Machine Tesla scouting out some of the world’s best mysteries to share them here with you on Mystery Inc - which can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In this episode there are more shocks for our family as the truth about Sharon’s marriage to George are revealed.

And the relentless police interviews with George finally start to unravel the truth.

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Gemma and Survivor Donna are in Maryland today (12/7/2022) to speak at a press conference along with SNAP and their attorneys. They are filing with the court in regards to the Attorney General's attempt to release the 456-page report on child sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. They want to make their voice heard asking for full disclosure of the report with no redactions.

The Maryland Attorney General investigation into the sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore (AOB) has concluded. The 456-page report details the sexual abuse of more than 600 victims at the hands of 158 Catholic Priests that were part of the AOB. Attorney General Brian Frosh has turned his report over to the courts and has asked the court to release it to the public saying his investigation uncovered many attempts of coverups of priests abusing children by those in the Archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore said they want full transparency and will not fight the release of the report, however they are paying for the legal fees of an "anonymous" group of people who are trying to prevent the report's release. Survivors Jean and Teresa have filed with the court to have their voices heard previously. 

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As the investigation into the murder of my aunt, Sharon Birchwood, continued it became clear that she wasn’t killed on the 7th of December 2007 after all.

But in a hoarders home, with piles and drawers full of paperwork, will the police find the evidence that they need to get to the truth?

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"Are you hoping I die so that you can use the insurance money to sort out your mess"? These words were found on a scrap of paper in the home of my Aunt, Sharon Birchwood, following her murder in December 2007.

But who had murdered my aunt, and why?

The investigation begins.

Written and Narrated by Foul Play's crime writer Wendy Cee.

‌Voiceover help from Trevin @ Live Laugh Larceny Podcast

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The Maryland Attorney General investigation into the sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore (AOB) has concluded. The 456-page report details the sexual abuse of more than 600 victims at the hands of 158 Catholic Priests that were part of the AOB. Attorney General Brian Frosh has turned his report over to the courts and has asked the court to release it to the public saying his investigation uncovered many attempts of coverups of priests abusing children by those in the Archdiocese.

While Shane travels to Baltimore to do some podcasting with Gemma, he stops at a hotel in Pittsburg and records this phone conversation with Teresa Lancaster about the conclusion of the report and where we are now... as well as a mysterious group of individuals who have come forward to oppose the report being released. Concluding the episode is Jean Wehner at the SNAP press conference after news of the report being finished.

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Season 15 of Foul Play: Crime Series is starting December 4th.

This series is created and narrated by the typical crime writer of our show Wendy Cee.

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We discuss the murder trial of Nell Cropsey, which has been postponed several times. Finally, on January 16th, the trial begins. We describe the events leading up to the trial and the anticipation of the outcome.

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Jim Wilcox was accused of murdering Nell Cropsey, but the evidence against him was weak and circumstantial. As Jim Wilcox sat in a jail in the town of Elizabeth City, Nell's body was released to her family. Over 200 family members awaited her arrival at the Van Pelt Manor in Brooklyn. Deep blank with heavy white curtains, the hearse traveled across the north river to the Pennsylvania Terminal. Once the hearse was at the terminal, it would await the arrival of the Southern Express to take Nell to her final resting place. Back home, back with her family.

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Nell Cropsey was missing, and fingers were quickly pointed at Jim Wilcox. He was the last person to see her, so it would make sense. But things are never that clear-cut. The following day, Jim appeared in front of the Mayor, but with no solid evidence. Jim was free to go, but with a catch, he was required to see the Mayor every day at 12 until told otherwise.

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From the same team that brings you Foul Play: Crime Series - introducing our podcast Hometown History.

Since 2016, Shane has been traveling to hometowns across America in search of forgotten history. Sure, these places may not be your hometown, but they are someone's and that is what makes them important. Shane travels to these places of forgotten historical significance and shares these stories with you.

We all love hearing the unknown stories of the places we visit when planning a trip - like the Redwoods National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, or Sun Studio. But what about Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee? Or the Island in Michigan where the only American King ruled? But if you also enjoy traveling vicariously then this is also a podcast for you.

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From the same team that brings you Foul Play: Crime Series - introducing our podcast Hometown History.

Since 2016, Shane has been traveling to hometowns across America in search of forgotten history. Sure, these places may not be your hometown, but they are someone's and that is what makes them important. Shane travels to these places of forgotten historical significance and shares these stories with you.

We all love hearing the unknown stories of the places we visit when planning a trip - like the Redwoods National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, or Sun Studio. But what about Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee? Or the Island in Michigan where the only American King ruled? But if you also enjoy traveling vicariously then this is also a podcast for you.

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From the same team that brings you Foul Play: Crime Series - introducing our podcast Hometown History.

Since 2016, Shane has been traveling to hometowns across America in search of forgotten history. Sure, these places may not be your hometown, but they are someone's and that is what makes them important. Shane travels to these places of forgotten historical significance and shares these stories with you.

We all love hearing the unknown stories of the places we visit when planning a trip - like the Redwoods National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, or Sun Studio. But what about Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee? Or the Island in Michigan where the only American King ruled? But if you also enjoy traveling vicariously then this is also a podcast for you.

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There is a house in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Its Queen Anne style Frame sits on Riverside Ave near the Pasquotank river. It stands two stories high, with green and white siding and trim. This house, like so many, holds a dark history. Onlookers of the house claim to see a ghostly figure standing in front of a window of the second story. A young girl, taken before she could truly live life. A girl who has a secret.

Her name is Nell Cropsey, and the town still talks about her story to this day. But no-one truly knows what happened to Nell. The best we can do for her is to tell her story. The good, the bad, and the dark.

Joining Shane to host this season is Justin Evans from Generation Why and The Peripheral.

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There is a house in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Its Queen Anne style Frame sits on Riverside Ave near the Pasquotank river. It stands two stories high, with green and white siding and trim. This house, like so many, holds a dark history. Onlookers of the house claim to see a ghostly figure standing in front of a window of the second story. A young girl, taken before she could truly live life. A girl who has a secret.

Her name is Nell Cropsey, and the town still talks about her story to this day. But no-one truly knows what happened to Nell. The best we can do for her is to tell her story. The good, the bad, and the dark.

Joining Shane to host this season is Justin Evans from Generation Why and The Peripheral.

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Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite unsolved murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! 

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There is a house in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Its Queen Anne style Frame sits on Riverside Ave near the Pasquotank river. It stands two stories high, with green and white siding and trim. This house, like so many, holds a dark history. Onlookers of the house claim to see a ghostly figure standing in front of a window of the second story. A young girl, taken before she could truly live life. A girl who has a secret.

Her name is Nell Cropsey, and the town still talks about her story to this day. But no-one truly knows what happened to Nell. The best we can do for her is to tell her story. The good, the bad, and the dark.

Joining Shane to host this season is Justin Evans from Generation Why and The Peripheral.

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Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite unsolved murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! 

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Shane and Gemma welcome Retired FBI Special Agent William Ortiz to the Sister Cathy series to discuss Polygraph Examinations. William is a Marine Corps veteran, retired from the FBI after 22 years as a Special Agent, and is the founder of Ortsec - a polygraph service company. 

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Shane and Gemma welcome Retired FBI Special Agent William Ortiz to the Sister Cathy series to discuss Polygraph Examinations. William is a Marine Corps veteran, retired from the FBI after 22 years as a Special Agent, and is the founder of Ortsec - a polygraph service company. 

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Shane and Gemma welcome Retired FBI Special Agent William Ortiz to the Sister Cathy series to discuss Polygraph Examinations. William is a Marine Corps veteran, retired from the FBI after 22 years as a Special Agent, and is the founder of Ortsec - a polygraph service company. 

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Foul Play. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

In the last Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Foul Play. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

In the last Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Foul Play. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

In the last Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

In the next Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

In the next Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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…1 campfire…

…1 dark forest…

…31 bone-chilling stories…

…Will YOU survive the night?

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?

So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’

…but be warned…

…bad things happen in these woods….

Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:

In this Part 1 Episode:

• Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]

• Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]

• Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]

• Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]

• Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]

• Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]

• Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]

• The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]

• Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]

• Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]

• The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]

• Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]

• The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]

• True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]

• Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]

In the next Part 2 Episode:

• True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]

• Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]

• The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]

• Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]

• Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]

• Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]

• Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]

• Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]

• Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

• Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]

• Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]

• Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]

• True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]

• Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]

• Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]

• True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com

Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay

Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com

Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

Are you obsessed with true crime and rotten people? If you have a favorite murder and you’re a crime junkie with a slight morbid since of curiosity you’re in the right place. If you can’t get enough Dateline or 20/20 and you don’t quite trust going out alone in your own back yard because people are shady - yeah me too! And if you also enjoy listening to Generation Why, True Crime Garage, The Vanished, My Favorite Murder or basically any podcast about unsolved cases and mysteries - well you’ll probably enjoy this one!

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From the team behind Foul Play: Crime Series, we thought you might enjoy our podcast Rotten to the Core hosted by Josh Waters! (Shane's brother)

You can find Rotten to the Core here: https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

Visit us online at: Itsfoulplay.com
Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itsfoulplay
Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

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Lizzie Borden was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

Join Shane as he breaks down the crimes behind the Borden murders in this crime series.

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Shane and Gemma sit down with Jean and Teresa from Netflix's The Keepers to discuss the courts, the church, and the cops. If you are curious what the status of the 4 year Maryland attorney general investigation into Clergy abuse is then you have come to the right place.

Jean and Teresa are inviting you to stand up for truth, and support them and all survivors of child sexual abuse, by using your voice, making noise, sending e-mails and sharing their conversation to demand accountability and serious change.

People you can contact to inquire about ongoing Attorney General investigation: Kurt Wolfgang KWolfgang@mdcrimevictims.org, David Lorenz glydonct@gmail.com, Claudia Reminton claudia.remington@maryland.gov, and Andrea Mason AMason@mdcrimevictims.org

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Shane and Gemma sit down with Jean and Teresa from Netflix's The Keepers to discuss the courts, the church, and the cops. If you are curious what the status of the 4 year Maryland attorney general investigation into Clergy abuse is then you have come to the right place.

Jean and Teresa are inviting you to stand up for truth, and support them and all survivors of child sexual abuse, by using your voice, making noise, sending e-mails and sharing their conversation to demand accountability and serious change.

People you can contact to inquire about ongoing Attorney General investigation: Kurt Wolfgang KWolfgang@mdcrimevictims.org, David Lorenz glydonct@gmail.com, Claudia Reminton claudia.remington@maryland.gov, and Andrea Mason AMason@mdcrimevictims.org

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More than a century ago, the body of 20 year old Hazel Drew was found floating in Teal's Pond near the bottom of Taborton Mountain in Sand Lake, New York. An autopsy found that she'd died of blunt head trauma to the back of her head prior to ending up in the pond. Her death was labeled a murder.

In the weeks that followed the discovery of her body, many suspects were investigated including among others: her recently widowed, and suicidal, uncle William Taylor who lived nearby; a simple-minded 17 year old farm hand named Frank Smith, who fancied Hazel and his friend Rudolph Gunderman, a charcoal peddler, the two of whom had seen her along Taborton Road, near the pond, shortly before she died; and a pair of unknown men seen by a couple driving by, about the time the murder was supposed to have taken place, at the scene - one waiting in a horse drawn runabout, and the other beating around in the bushes near the pond, as if looking for something!

What made Hazel's murder all the more mysterious, was that only a few days prior to it, she'd suddenly, and unexpectedly left her job as a domestic at the home of Professor E.R. Cary in Troy, and nobody knew what her intentions were. Also her luggage had been left - checked at the train station.

In the end, all the leads the investigators had ran out. Nobody was ever arrested or charged with the murder, and to this day - Hazel Drew's murder remains unsolved!

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More than a century ago, the body of 20 year old Hazel Drew was found floating in Teal's Pond near the bottom of Taborton Mountain in Sand Lake, New York. An autopsy found that she'd died of blunt head trauma to the back of her head prior to ending up in the pond. Her death was labeled a murder.

In the weeks that followed the discovery of her body, many suspects were investigated including among others: her recently widowed, and suicidal, uncle William Taylor who lived nearby; a simple-minded 17 year old farm hand named Frank Smith, who fancied Hazel and his friend Rudolph Gunderman, a charcoal peddler, the two of whom had seen her along Taborton Road, near the pond, shortly before she died; and a pair of unknown men seen by a couple driving by, about the time the murder was supposed to have taken place, at the scene - one waiting in a horse drawn runabout, and the other beating around in the bushes near the pond, as if looking for something!

What made Hazel's murder all the more mysterious, was that only a few days prior to it, she'd suddenly, and unexpectedly left her job as a domestic at the home of Professor E.R. Cary in Troy, and nobody knew what her intentions were. Also her luggage had been left - checked at the train station.

In the end, all the leads the investigators had ran out. Nobody was ever arrested or charged with the murder, and to this day - Hazel Drew's murder remains unsolved!

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More than a century ago, the body of 20 year old Hazel Drew was found floating in Teal's Pond near the bottom of Taborton Mountain in Sand Lake, New York. An autopsy found that she'd died of blunt head trauma to the back of her head prior to ending up in the pond. Her death was labeled a murder.

In the weeks that followed the discovery of her body, many suspects were investigated including among others: her recently widowed, and suicidal, uncle William Taylor who lived nearby; a simple-minded 17 year old farm hand named Frank Smith, who fancied Hazel and his friend Rudolph Gunderman, a charcoal peddler, the two of whom had seen her along Taborton Road, near the pond, shortly before she died; and a pair of unknown men seen by a couple driving by, about the time the murder was supposed to have taken place, at the scene - one waiting in a horse drawn runabout, and the other beating around in the bushes near the pond, as if looking for something!

What made Hazel's murder all the more mysterious, was that only a few days prior to it, she'd suddenly, and unexpectedly left her job as a domestic at the home of Professor E.R. Cary in Troy, and nobody knew what her intentions were. Also her luggage had been left - checked at the train station.

In the end, all the leads the investigators had ran out. Nobody was ever arrested or charged with the murder, and to this day - Hazel Drew's murder remains unsolved!

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More than a century ago, the body of 20 year old Hazel Drew was found floating in Teal's Pond near the bottom of Taborton Mountain in Sand Lake, New York. An autopsy found that she'd died of blunt head trauma to the back of her head prior to ending up in the pond. Her death was labeled a murder.

In the weeks that followed the discovery of her body, many suspects were investigated including among others: her recently widowed, and suicidal, uncle William Taylor who lived nearby; a simple-minded 17 year old farm hand named Frank Smith, who fancied Hazel and his friend Rudolph Gunderman, a charcoal peddler, the two of whom had seen her along Taborton Road, near the pond, shortly before she died; and a pair of unknown men seen by a couple driving by, about the time the murder was supposed to have taken place, at the scene - one waiting in a horse drawn runabout, and the other beating around in the bushes near the pond, as if looking for something!

What made Hazel's murder all the more mysterious, was that only a few days prior to it, she'd suddenly, and unexpectedly left her job as a domestic at the home of Professor E.R. Cary in Troy, and nobody knew what her intentions were. Also her luggage had been left - checked at the train station.

In the end, all the leads the investigators had ran out. Nobody was ever arrested or charged with the murder, and to this day - Hazel Drew's murder remains unsolved!

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The interview room was eerily silent, Marshall had just admitted to decapitating and dismembering the body of Anna May Dietrich. He didn’t kill her; he was adamant about that. But if the discovery of a body was found in his office. His reputation, his family’s reputation, would be tarnished. He did the only thing he thought he could do.

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Hi, I’m Shane. At the beginning of 2014, I launched the very first crime series podcast called Foul Play. Each season I present mind boggling crime cases. From a man falling in love with an underage girl, which turned into the first federal court case of it’s kind. To a nun who was murdered in 1969 Baltimore for trying to stop a giant child sex ring among priests and police - which went on to become the Netflix docu-series “The Keepers”. Then there is the Throwaway season… where I share how I overcame homelessness in high school, and how that experience lead me to solving the identity of a serial killer and identifying 3 of his Jane Doe victims. These seasons are out there and are ready for you to listen too right now - And I release a new episode each week for new seasons. You can find Foul Play wherever you get your podcasts. I’ll meet you there.

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The murder of Anna May Dietrich was one of the most gruesome cases Philadelphia had seen in a long time. With what police had learned about Anna’s life, they were baffled. Who would murder a woman who by all accounts was a sweet, and caring woman? When police made the discovery of her head, they noticed something was missing…

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When we ended the last episode, we left off where the discovery of a dismembered body was identified as Anna May Dietrich, although it wasn’t 100% certain, everything she was wearing matched with what Anna was wearing the day she was last seen. Today, we will learn more about Anna, how her friends and family knew her. But did they know her completely?

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, city of Brotherly love and Sisterly affection. A city full of history, home of the liberty bell, the signing of the Declaration of independence, and the location of execution for the notorious murderer H. H. Holmes. But we are not here to discuss the gruesome crimes of H. H. In this series, we will be talking about the death of Anna May Dietrich, a 35-year-old Milliner. A woman who wanted love, a love that ultimately resulted in her death.

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Gemma and Shane sit down with Jean and her brother to discuss the details in her new book, Walking with Aletheia

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How did your family react to the video and the fallout from the sting at the movie theater?

My dad really, really didn't really say a whole lot. He was just, I could see it in his face he was pretty stressed out, but just like me take things into. My mom is also not the type of person to basically lash out, but super understanding. So when I first brought all of this to them, she was didn't completely, fully understand the magnitude of what was actually going on.

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Last episode, we learned that the men at the theater waiting for Brent were his former roommates, Sean (bleep) and Jacob (bleep). Not only were they former roommates, but they were also fellow Ball State students in the music department.

The three men lived together for a year and a half, from the summer of 2009 to the fall of 2010.

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The last time we saw Brent, he was at the AMC IMAX theater, on the east side of Noblesville, Indiana. A sophomore at Ball State University, Brent had arranged to meet an underaged girl in for a movie that afternoon.

But rather than the pretty blonde teenager he’d been communicating with over the last six months, he was met by two men with video cameras.

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Our story begins with a man walking into a movie theater in Noblesville, Indiana – 22-year-old Brent Allred.

Brent is shy, self-effacing, and junior at nearby Ball State University. He’s meeting a woman here, or rather a girl, for the very first time. They’ve been talking for six months now, and today he’s wearing the appropriate amount of overpriced cologne, a button-down shirt, black leather shoes, and he’s holding a pair of movie tickets for the two of them that he bought in advance for this day.

Trigger warning, this episode discusses a relationship with an underage girl

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I have so many questions about Holmes and we are sure you do too, so in this episode we will be answering some of them.

Let’s start with Why Did Holmes Kill Pitezel?

Holmes had written to Mrs Pitezel from prison just before she was released and the letter included the phrase [quote] we never quarreled [end quote]
Well, this is Holmes we are talking about, so it won’t come as any surprise I am sure, that what he wrote was pure fiction.

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Holmes was sentenced to hanging for the murder of Benjamin F Pitezel on May 7th 1986, when he was aged just 34 years old.
While there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that he also murdered Alice, Nellie and Howard Pitezel, and there were suspicions surrounding many others, he was never tried for them.

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Of course, nobody in the District Attorney’s office believed a word that came out of Holmes mouth, so the investigation to find the children continued in earnest.
It was going to be like finding a needle in a haystack, but they were determined.

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Frank Geyer, started his career with the City of Philadelphia Police Department on 6 May 1876 as a patrolman. In January 1888 he was promoted to detective and in 1894 was assigned a new case, involving suspected insurance fraud by H H Holmes.
This should have been a straight forward case, but as Geyer scratched the surface, he uncovered a lot more than he bargained for

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Holmes settled in comfortably in Chicago, he was well liked, he was charismatic, intelligent and fun to be around, nobody had a bad word to say about him.

He worked hard and saved his money, his family was an inconvenience and he sent very little back to his wife Clara and their son Robert.

In 1887, 2 years after arriving in Chicago Holmes bought the empty lot across the road from the drugstore that he worked at.

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Releasing May 25th is Season 9 of Foul Play: Making a Predator. It’s a crazy case, and the story is probably unlike whatever it is you’re thinking. Stay tuned!

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Just a month after the beginning of the American Civil War, on May 16th, 1861, arguably the world's most infamous serial killer was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. In this episode Shane explores the early life of Herman Webster Mudgett, also known as H. H. Holmes, to discover if there are any clues that could hint to the monster her is rumored to become in Chicago during the World's Fair. Join Shane as he explores the life and crimes of the infamous H. H. Holmes on this season of Foul Play.

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In 2009, a young woman walked out from a Lost Hills Police Station in the middle of the night and disappeared without a trace.

Today, over a decade later, the case of Mitrice Richardson still remains a bizarre mystery.

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Today’s story is one of lust, despair, illusions, and an unbridled affinity for putting up deceptive fronts. Today, we talk about Kristie Evans.

Our story begins sometime around 1974 in Roland, Oklahoma, when Kristie Dawnelle Evans was born. Born and bred in Roland, Kristie didn't know of any other world, and as a town of only a few thousand in Arkansas, Kristie grew up as a small-town girl. In high school, she met David Evans, a senior 3 years older than her. David had a flair about him... call it relaxed or call it nonchalance.

It wasn't exactly love at first sight. Naturally, they were both in different head spaces, given their age difference. But it was clear that they were interested in each other because by 1991, when Kristie was only 17 years old, she began dating David Evans.

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Before we begin, we want to give our listeners a warning: this story contains mentions of sexual assault, necrophilia, and forceful oral sex, also termed ‘irrumation’.

In this episode, we bring to you one of the most notorious serial killers of the 60s. Famously known as the Co-Ed Killer, Edmund Emily Kemper the Third was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California.

Although Edmund was born in Burbank, the Co-Ed killer was born on Christmas day in 1963 in North Fork, California, when he murdered his grandparents in cold blood.

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A seemingly happy family belonging in a Norman Rockwell painting would soon turn into a thing of nightmares… this is the story of Ann and Anthony Anastasi, it's one of jealousy, rage, and murder.

Ann Marie Anastasi was born sometime around 1973. There's not much background information on where she grew up or came from, but she was a traditional young woman who grew up in Maryland.

Anthony Anastasi was also born sometime in 1975, and while his past is still unknown too, we know he fell in love with and married Ann in Maryland.

Our story picks up right in the middle of their marriage. They had moved from Maryland to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, because Anthony was working as a volunteer youth hockey coach. By this point, Ann and Anthony had already had five kids and were already deep in the trenches of a full-fledged marriage.

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Shane and Gemma continue the conversation on the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy. The pair interview Teresa Lancaster and her daughter Annette to discuss Teresa's new book Safe in Socks.

You can find her book on amazon here: Safe In Socks: My Memoir

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A few months ago, Shane received an email from a high school teacher in Hartwell, Georgia, named Leanne. Leanne explained that she was using true crime to teach a Freshman and Sophomore course in World Literature in a very out-of-the-box way. She was requiring her students to investigate an unsolved local case and develop a podcast episode presenting their findings.

In her email she explained she learned of Shane from his work with another high school teacher, Alex from Elizabethton, Tennessee, on the Redhead Murders case. She asked for any advice he could throw her way.

Shane responded immediately, saying he and our audio engineer would travel the 11 hours down to Hartwell, Georgia from the studio in Wabash, Indiana, to help teach her students how to create a true crime podcast.

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(Part 3) In late 2006 a small town in the East of the United Kingdom was shaken by a killing spree of 5 women, over a very short 6 week period.

Ipswich, a tranquil, historic town in the county of Suffolk in England is now a thriving tourist hotspot, with a waterfront location. The town is has many lovely bars and restaurants surrounding it’s historic docks.
Back in 2006, like most towns, Ipswich had its fair share of issues, including a thriving sex worker industry, based in the red light district in London Road.

In fact, the problem was so bad, that the London Road area of Ipswich was actually a no go zone for local residents.

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(Part 2) In late 2006 a small town in the East of the United Kingdom was shaken by a killing spree of 5 women, over a very short 6 week period.

Ipswich, a tranquil, historic town in the county of Suffolk in England is now a thriving tourist hotspot, with a waterfront location. The town is has many lovely bars and restaurants surrounding it’s historic docks.

Back in 2006, like most towns, Ipswich had its fair share of issues, including a thriving sex worker industry, based in the red light district in London Road.

In fact, the problem was so bad, that the London Road area of Ipswich was actually a no go zone for local residents.

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(Part 1) In late 2006 a small town in the East of the United Kingdom was shaken by a killing spree of 5 women, over a very short 6 week period.

Ipswich, a tranquil, historic town in the county of Suffolk in England is now a thriving tourist hotspot, with a waterfront location. The town is has many lovely bars and restaurants surrounding it’s historic docks.
Back in 2006, like most towns, Ipswich had its fair share of issues, including a thriving sex worker industry, based in the red light district in London Road.

In fact, the problem was so bad, that the London Road area of Ipswich was actually a no go zone for local residents.

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People tend to stick with what they know. If you've been a criminal for the majority of your life, it can be difficult to envision another way of living. While it's true some former inmates do emerge from prison reformed, there are many others who are repeat offenders.

This was certainly the case with David Early. For most of his life he was incarcerated and then given second chances by parole boards who wanted to believe in the power of rehabilitation. Unfortunately, they gambled on the wrong man. After decades beyond bars, Early went on to slaughter the Knight family.

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Nancy and Robert Kissel had a life that would exceed most people's wildest dreams. A luxury apartment in a serene setting just a stone's throw from Hong Kong. A spacious vacation home in rural Vermont. And three healthy young children, with enough money to indulge their every whim.

Yet sometimes, the most idyllic lives mask a shadowy truth. A reality check surfaced in September 2003, when the body of 40-year-old Robert Kissel was found discarded in a storage facility. Was this a crime of envy? Or something much more personal? As the world watched in fascinated horror, the truth would prove to be stranger than fiction.

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While you may have never heard of the Papin sisters, their story may sound familiar: two domestic servants seeking revenge on their wealthy employer for the cards they’ve been dealt in life.

If you do recognize that premise, it’s probably because South Korean film director Bong Jong Ho’s Oscar-winning 2019 film Parasite was inspired by this case.

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Longview Washington, Friday 20 December 1985, The Daily News, lead with the headline ‘Congress bogs down in battle to cut federal deficit’.
The front page was filled with stories about property tax increases, economic growth, politics and at the very bottom, a story about the Winter Solstice.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that there were no crimes from reading this, but if you delved deeper through the pages of advertising and light hearted stories there were a few hidden in there.
Page 11, the Area News section contained headlines on the latest news about the local theatre redevelopment, and the local crab fishermans decreasing catches, then tucked right near the bottom of the page ‘Ethel couple disappears’.

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For almost 40 years there stood a huge billboard on route 19 near Fayatteville, West Virginia.

It showed the images of 5 children and the following inscription
‘On Christmas Eve 1945 our home was set afire and five of our children, ages five through fourteen kidnapped. The officials blamed defective wiring although lights were still burning after the fire started.

The official report stated that the children died in the fire however no bones were found in the residue and there was no smell of burning flesh during or after the fire.

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Michigan’s Northern Peninsula was rife copper mining country. This was big business, making huge profits for the mining companies, but giving little pay and benefits to their workers. Many of the workers were immigrants, who had moved from Europe in the search of the New World and the amazing opportunities that had been promised to them if they moved to the United States.

By 1913 there were three dominate copper mines in the area, then known as Copper Country, Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, Quincy Mine and the Copper Range Company.

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In the 1992 horror cult-classic film Candyman, curiosity takes a grad student places she never thought she’d find herself. Our lead, Helen Lyle, played by Virginia Madsen, is a young white woman who wanders into Chicago’s Near North Side housing projects. She is there to research an urban legend - chant ‘Candyman’ 5 times in front of a mirror and a one-armed maniac with a knife will appear.

This concept is reminiscent of the ‘Bloody Mary’ legend that terrified many of us as kids. The idea you could be alone in the safety of your own home and suddenly have a violent predator in front of you is more than a little unsettling.

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For some people, attempts made to rise above the hand they’ve been dealt are met with success. Other people strive to better themselves and encounter notable resistance - maybe even a sense of futility.

This was the case with Rubin Carter. It seemed anytime he tried to transcend his impoverished background or society’s rampant racism he was met with yet another obstacle.

While he became a highly respected professional boxer and was once named a top middleweight contender by Ring magazine, fate had other plans in store. Events that transpired at the peak of his career would set him back so far that his reputation never recovered.

Stick around to hear about the curious case of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a man who beat the odds but was knocked out by misfortune.

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Shane and Gemma continue the conversation on the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy. The pair interview “the brother” who shares his experience working with Sister Cathy in a setting that ultimately lead Cathy to teach in a public school.

The Brother also shares a very strange encounter with Father Maskell after Sister Cathy disappeared.

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The act of taking someone’s life through poisoning has been around since Ancient Rome and Greece, when it was the preferred method of assassination. Plants like nightshade, hemlock, oleander, and snakeroot were often mixed into a target’s food or drink. These natural poisons became less useful in Medieval Europe, when antidotes were developed for many poisonous plants.

You’ll see the focal point of this case is the involvement of an atypical form of poison. While it may seem like an archaic method of inducing harm, the case we’re about to explore proves that it’s a very modern threat.

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When seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in 1929, their killers thought nothing of it. After all, they had been engaged in a hostile war against each other, and the victims were merely collateral damage.

What they didn’t expect, though, was that these killings would mark the end of the powerful grip that they had over American society. With these seven murders, they managed to topple the organized crime syndicates that terrorized the country’s citizens.

This is the story of the 1929 Valentine’s Day Massacre.

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Season Finale. For three years now I’ve been nailing these little red crosses into the ground. I know it doesn’t mean very much, but what the hell else am I supposed to do? Forget? Walk away with the same indifference I’ve resented in others? I know they don’t fix anything; I know they don’t make anything right. Maybe most people don’t even know what they are. In fact, I’m sure they don’t.

I could have marked the actual burial plots – but with what? I can’t put a name on them. I can’t fit my outrage on a little stone marker (what’s the character limit on those anyway?) Besides, putting a memorial in some remote corner of some equally remote cemetery, overtop of a forgotten body, is only going to result in a forgotten memorial.

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The best imaginable alibi, outside of lunch with the Dalai Lama, is simply to place yourself in police custody at the time the crime is committed. If the police are with you, they know it’s not you – or so the logic goes. This is, in fact, the very thought process that stalled the prosecution of Jerry Johns for the Redhead Murders.

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[Part 7] By the time someone becomes a lot lizard, they have, by and large, already suffered enough. Truck stop sex work is a late stop on a tour of misery that almost always begins at home. And if it doesn’t begin at home, it begins just outside of it, with bad boyfriends, bad uncles and other predators with their foot already in the door. Interview any one lizard, or twenty, and you’ll hear a similar story - their home life or love life was, to put it mildly, problematic.

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Rather than adoring and desiring his mother according to the Freudian complex, Jerry Johns appears to have hated her subtly and relentlessly under the guise of run of the mill spree-killing. Hearing all this, you might be able to guess what Johns’ mother did for a living, and what color her hair was. 

She was a redheaded prostitute.

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In pitch darkness, shortly after 2AM, Jane Doe #7 stumbled into the median of I-40, near Junction 58, in Kingston, Tennessee. The strangling had ruptured the blood vessels in her eyes and rendered her virtually blind, though only temporarily. Her hearing was also damaged by the astronomical physical stress of her murder.

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[Part 4] When you were in school you probably had class projects. You made terrariums and did that thing with a papier-mâché volcano filled with Mentos and Coca-Cola. If you were lucky you got to dissect a pinecone or two, or maybe even a worm if you lived in the right district.

A class project of a different sort, led by fearless innovator (and now friend) Alex Campbell, changed this investigation yet again when he and his class of high schoolers – yes, high schoolers, worked with an FBI profiler to establish that we did in fact have a serial killer on our hands.

They also provided a name for our killer – the Bible Belt Strangler.

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[Part 3] After Shane started researching the case of the Barbourville Jane Doe, and sharing this story on Foul Play, smaller newspapers around the Bible belt began reviving the story. Crime bloggers began writing about it online. Encouraged by this surge of interest, I called up a dear friend of mine who is a fellow investigator, Gemma Hoskins, and discussed some of the ways in which we might draw yet more attention to the case.

Her suggestion was simple, but it touched on something that would soon change the face of our investigation: create a Facebook page to share information.

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“Lot lizards” - that’s what they call them. The kind of prostitutes who work truck stops and trailer parks. These are not the high-end rent girls of Abu Dhabi. These are blue collar, minimum wage hustlers closer to the Hollywood stereotype of the rustbelt hooker. You know the one – she has a heart of gold and a drug problem, high heels, a leopard print skirt, and probably some red lipstick and a C-section scar.

The term “Lot Lizard” was coined by a comedian in the 1970s and took off from there. Even if you take offense at the sneering attitude of this label, you have to admit it has a kind of ring to it. It might make you think of leathery old women prowling parking lots past their sexual prime and willing to do anything for a buck. More fundamentally, it evokes the image of a slimy predator lurking in the sunlight and looking to draw unsuspecting flies into its mouth.

But these women, and sometimes men, are less predator than prey.

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This new series details the investigation of the Redhead Murders, including details of how Shane got involved all the way to identifying the serial killer and 3 of his Jane Doe victims. You will get an insiders look inside the mind of this serial killer, learn how easy it was in the 80s to be trafficked, and hear from a woman who was once known as a 'Lot Lizard.'

It involves murder, betrayal, prostitution, investigation, and threats. I hope by the end of the series it will help change the public's perception of people living on the fringe of society.

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Gemma and Shane interview 'Liz', who shares details from her time working for Dr. Christian Richter.  You may recall that Father Maskell allegedly took students he was sexually abusing to Dr. Richter for abortions.  Trigger Warning for survivorsVisit us online at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Get $15 off to grow thicker, healthier hair with Nutrafol at Nutrafol.com promo code FOULCRIMEProtect yourself and your family with Taser's line of smart-defense products. Save 15% at Taser.com promo code FOULPLAY Take your free mental health assessment and get up to $100 credit on your first month of treatment at Brightside.com/foulplay Get delicious fresh meals delivered directly to your door and get 12 free meals by going to HelloFresh.com/Foul12 and use code foul12  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma discuss the unsolved murder of Pamela Lynn Conyers with Pam's niece Ingrid. Detectives believe Pamela's murder may be related to the murder of Sister Cathy and Joyce. Pamela Lynn Conyers attended Glen Burnie High School's homecoming bonfire and pep rally on Oct. 16, 1970. She later drove her family's 1967 Dodge Monaco to the Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie, the last place she would be seen alive before her body was found in a wooded area between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Maryland 177. It is presently known as Route 100 near the Waterford Road and Route 648 overpass.Episode Sponsorships:Add essential protein to your multivitamin ritual from Ritual, save 10% at Ritual.com/FOULDownload the 5 star-rated puzzle game Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Protect yourself and your family with Taser's line of smart self-defense products. Save 15% now at taser.com promo code FOULPLAYGrab your Liquid I.V. and get 25% off when you go to LiquidIV.com and use code FOUL Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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(Part 3) I’ve been receiving requests from some of you to release the three podcasts I created years ago on the 1964 unsolved murder of Beverly Jarosz. These 3 episodes were among the first podcasts I ever created,  and it was under the name American Crimecast. You will hear interviews from Beverly’s sister Carol along with her mother Eleanor. I am very saddened to share that Eleanor has since passed away. On the 52nd Anniversary of Beverly Jarosz's 1964 Garfield Heights, Ohio Murder - we interview the Lead Detective in Beverly's case. GHPD Detective Carl Biecki provides an insight on the case, discussing avenues explored in 1952, 2003, and today. Together with case-expert Diane McClellan and Detective Carl Biecki we further explore our leading suspect Harry Joseph Madol. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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(Part 2) I’ve been receiving requests from some of you to release the three podcasts I created years ago on the 1964 unsolved murder of Beverly Jarosz. These 3 episodes were among the first podcasts I ever created,  and it was under the name American Crimecast. You will hear interviews from Beverly’s sister Carol along with her mother Eleanor. I am very saddened to share that Eleanor has since passed away. Beverly Jarosz was slain in her Garfield Heights, Ohio home on December 28th, 1964. An unknown person made the decision to end this 16 year old's life by strangling her with a rope, and viciously stabbing her 42 times. On this Part 2 episode we will be speaking with an expert and discussing who we feel may have murdered Beverly.  Our #1 Suspect: Harry Joseph Madol. Several reasons and the history of Madol is revealed in this episode.  Featuring a reading of a Medium who lead us to find Madol as our primary suspect. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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(Part 1) I’ve been receiving requests from some of you to release the three podcasts I created years ago on the 1964 unsolved murder of Beverly Jarosz. These 3 episodes were among the first podcasts I ever created,  and it was under the name American Crimecast. You will hear interviews from Beverly’s sister Carol along with her mother Eleanor. I am very saddened to share that Eleanor has since passed away. On December 28th, 1964, sixteen year old high school junior Beverly Jarosz was slain in her home in Garfield Heights, Ohio.  Almost 52 years later we sat down with her family. This is her story.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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(Part 2) Shane and Gemma did their first LIVE on-the-air podcast, take a listen as they answer questions and clarify a few things in relation to Sister Cathy's case! Learn more at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Grow thicker and healthier hair by going to Nutrafol.com and using promo code FOULCRIME to save 20% Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma did their first LIVE on-the-air podcast, take a listen as they answer questions and clarify a few things in relation to Sister Cathy's case! Learn more at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE today on the apple App Store or Google Play! Try Ritual's new Protein Powders and get 10% off your first 3 months at Ritual.com/foulTo match with a licensed therapist today, go to Talkspace.com and use code FOUL to get $100 off your first month.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma Hoskins, from Netflix's 'The Keepers', sit down with a former student and friend of Sister Russell's to discuss some of her experiences, interactions, and memories. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Grow thicker and healthier hair by going to Nutrafol.com and using promo code FOULCRIME to save 20% Download June's Journey FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google PlaySupport our show by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/itsfoulplaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma Hoskins from Netflix's 'The Keepers' discuss the consequences of surviving childhood sexual abuse with an abuse Survivor named Erin. Erin has suffered tremendously from addiction that she traces back to how she learned to cope with her abuse. Stick around for the end of the episode where Shane and Gemma discuss an unfortunate death to someone they have spoken to while creating this podcast series to further the investigation of Sister Cathy's murder and also helping to bring awareness to sexual abuse of children. Learn more about our Sister Cathy Series at itsfoulplay.com/2-sister-cathyEpisode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play.Get 25% off when you get better hydration at LiquidIV.com and use promo code FOUL at checkout!Now is the time to prioritize your health - go to Zocdoc.com/foulplay to download the Zocdoc app to sign up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor as soon as today!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Harry has now recanted his confession, claiming it was made under duress. He was beaten and kept awake. He states that he confessed because all he wanted to do was sleep. However, with the amount of evidence against him, he would still end up in front of a Jury.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comSupport our show by becoming a Foul Play Patron at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayEpisode Sponsors:Get 10% off during your first 3 months of Ritual's Multivitamin at ritual.com/foulDownload Best Fiends FREE today on the apple App Store or Google PlayGet $100 off your first month with your licensed therapist at Talkspace.com and use code FOULDownload June's Journey FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google PlaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In one of the numerous trunks confiscated from the Powers home, something caught their attention. A bankbook that belonged to Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, North Uxbridge Mass. Police made inquiries to the Worcester Police and they ended up interviewing Mr and Mrs Charles Flemming, Dorothy’s brother in law and her sister. She identified Powers by his picture.“That’s the man my sister Dorothy took away to marry.” She said he went by the name of D. P Lowther, from Virginia . “Dorothy told me she was writing that matrimonial agency for a thrill. I warned her of the dangers but she just laughed.”Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:To match with a licensed therapist today, go to Talkspace.com or download the app. Use Code FOUL to get $100 off your first month!Download BEST FIENDS free on the Apple App Store or Google Play!Get 25% off when you order your Liquid I.V. at LiquidIV.com and use code FOUL at checkoutSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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The first of April is widely regarded as an unofficial holiday reserved for pranks and hoaxes that seem too ridiculous to be believed yet are surprisingly enough to fool several hundreds of people. The pages of history are littered with such incidents, from claims of a flying saucer to news reports of a shocking theft.  For decades now, individuals – and even, reputable organizations – have been trying to outdo each other with the craziest yet most believable tales. These may not always result in laughs, but they do make for pretty good stories! In this episode, we’ll dive into three of the strangest pranks to have ever been carried out on April Fools’ Day. Given how outlandish they were, it’s hard to believe that they managed to fool thousands of people across the world! Visit us at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play!For 10% off your first 3 months of the Ritual Multivitamin go to Ritual.com/foulGet 15% off your first order when you use promo code FP15 at american-giant.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This episode begins after the grisly discovery of Asta Eicher and her three children’s remains at the Garage of Harry Powers; who is currently in custody at the Clarksburg West Virginia Police Department.He said he knew nothing about their deaths. Mobs surrounded the stations, angry wanting to lynch Harry for his crimes. “Bring the man out!” they shouted angrily.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Join us 3 times every two weeks exclusively on the Stereo App! Stereo.com/foulplayCheck out the Stuck at Home Podcast where ever you stream podcastsTo match with a licensed therapist today, go to Talkspace.com or download the app. Use Code FOUL to get $100 off your first month!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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An arrest warrant was issued for Cornelius Pierson, who turned out to be Harry F. Powers of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Catfishing is a term most people recognize today as someone who pretends to be someone else - most of the time when meeting over online dating sites. It seems Harry learned to hunt his prey by catfishing over the letters he would write. Episode Sponsors:Grow thicker, healthier hair by going to Nutrafol.com and using promo code TRUECRIME to get 20% off! To match with a licensed therapist today go to Talkspace.com and use code FOUL to get $100 off your first monthWe're doing LIVE podcasts 3 times between each episode over on the Stereo App! To join in on the conversation go to Stereo.com/Foulplay and follow @foulplay - Talk to you there!You can support our show by becoming a Patreon at patreon.com/itsfoulplay(Visit us online at itsfoulplay.com)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In this day and age, the chance at finding love has never been easier. It’s literally in the palm of your hand. The internet has opened the door to so many possibilities, online dating websites such as Match.com, eHarmony. Many using mobile dating apps such as Tinder, where you can swipe left or right on a potential match. When meeting someone you’ve been only talking online, or messages, in their case, by mail. The warning is this:  When you first meet someone you never know what their true intentions are.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comEpisode Sponsors:Join us for weekly live podcasts over on the FREE smartphone app Stereo : Stereo.com/foulplayGet 15% off your first order of the highest quality of clothing! Use code FOULPLAY15 at american-giant.com Get key nutrients-without the BS. Ritual is offering listeners 10% off your first 3 months. Visit Ritual.com/Foul Special thanks to Samii from the podcast It's Frightful for her help with writing this series! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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On November 5, 1990, Ghislaine Maxwell flew to New York to hand deliver an envelope for her Father. What she did not know was that this envelope was part of a plot, that Robert Maxwell had initiated to steal $200m from the shareholders of Berlitz Corporation. Exactly a year later his naked body would be found floating in the Atlantic.  Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow us on Twitter!Support the show on Patreon.Episode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play!Right now get 15% off orders over $90 only at Mancrates.com/FOULPLAYGrow thicker, healthier hair at Nutrafol.com and use promo code TRUECRIMESupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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The Maxwell family were initially poor but as Robert Maxwell’s empire grew, so did the families wealth, and in 1959 they moved into Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, which they rented from Oxford City Council. Headington Hill Hall was a huge, imposing building, with the oldest part of the building dating back to 1824. The house was originally built for a local brewing family, called the Morrell’s.  Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow us on Twitter!Support the show on Patreon.Episode Sponsors:You deserve to know what's in your mulivitamin. That's why Ritual is offering our listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/FOUL to start your ritual today.Start buying clothes that are ethical, sustainable, and local. Get 15% off your first order when you use promo code FOULPLAY15 at american-giant.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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You've no doubt heard about the infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and his association with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine worked for her father, the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, until his mysterious death in 1991, when she relocated to the US and became associated with Epstein. The Maxwell family has a very interesting story, and we are here to tell it. Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow us on Twitter!Support the show on Patreon.Episode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play!Visit Ritual to start your Ritual today with 10% off your first 3 months!Grow thicker, healthier hair by going to Nutrafol.com and using promo 'FOULPLAY' for 20% off!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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During this season we have not only told you about those that we know were victims of the Speed Freak Killers, we have also included some unsolved cases that are believed to be attributed to Shermantine and Herzog.Can you imagine living minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, not knowing what happened to your Parent, your sibling, your child or your friend?Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow our Facebook Page, Twitter, and Instagram!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In 2014 Miss Shelley and her daughters sued the county of San Joaquin, Sheriff Steve Moore in his official capacity as Sheriff, and Steve Moore individually for the way that the remains of Jo Ann Hobson were handled. They asked for damages due to negligence and emotional stress. Episode Sponsors:Best Fiends - Download Shane's favorite game to play on his phone for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play.Nutrafol - With Promo code "FOULPLAY" new customers get 20% off - gain control of your weakening or thinning hair! Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow our Facebook Page, Twitter, and Instagram!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Following the dig at the well site, Leonard Padilla tried to get Shermantine out of prison to show them the exact spot where other sites were so that more digs could happen.Bounty Hunter, Rob Dick, tells us what happened next.Episode Sponsors:Ritual - 10% off your first 3 months at Ritual.com/foulHunt A Killer - Use promo code FOUL at checkout for 20% off! (huntakiller.com/foul)Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow our Facebook Page, Twitter, and Instagram!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane & Gemma reunite to chat with a new friend of Gemma's - who shares with us the story of her English teacher and mentor that was murdered in Maryland. Stay tuned for more episodes that we are working on for Sister Cathy's case! You can find her book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628062762/ Visit our website at itsfoulplay.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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The huge maps that Shermantine was drawing WERE accurate, it was time to look into other locations that he had marked. It was time to bring home the other missing people, to end this horrendous ordeal for those other families that had spent years not knowing what happened to their loved ones.Surely, with the assistance of Shermantine and his maps, along with the correct resources, this should be relatively simple, shouldn’t it?Episode Sponsors:Best Fiends - Download FREE on the Apple app store or Google playHunt A Killer - Use promo code FOUL at checkout for 20% off! (huntakiller.com/foul)Support our show by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/itshometownhistory.Join our Facebook Discussion Group.Follow our Facebook Page, Twitter, and Instagram!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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As you know from earlier episodes, there are many missing people in the area where Shermantine and Herzog lived who are suspected to be victims of the pair. But their killing spree wasn’t contained to the Linden area of California, they are thought to have committed heinous crimes in each and every state they visited on their various hunting trips.In this episode, we will be telling you about two ladies who are believed to be victims of the Speed Freak Killers.Episode Sponsors:Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App store or Google Play10% off your first 3 months of Ritual Multivitamins at Ritual.com/foulSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Happy Halloween from the Foul Play team! This special bonus episode includes the history of Halloween and how different cultures celebrate it. Of course, any good Halloween episode wouldn't be complete with some creepy true stories...To answer the special question email: shane@itsfoulplay.com Episode Sponsorship:Nutrafol.com - Promo code "FOULPLAY" : 20% off plus free shipping! Support our show by supporting us on Patreon.Visit our website to learn more: itsfoulplay.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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While researching for The maps we have come across the same thing time and time again. Issues with law enforcement in the area, shady stories from within law enforcement,  families feeling like things were being brushed under the carpet, and families feeling like they were being targeted if they made a complaint or raised any concerns.Episode Sponsorships:CBDMD.com - Use promo code "foulplay" at checkout for 25% offHuntAKiller.com/foul - 20% off your subscription to this murder mystery box! ModernFertility.com/foul - $20 off your fertility testJoin our Facebook Discussion GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In February 2012 Cyndi Vanderheiden and Chevy Wheeler's remains were recovered and the families could finally put their daughters to rest. After everything they had been through, surely, this was the end of their nightmare, wasn’t it?Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comSponsors:CBDMD.com enter promo code 'FOULPLAY' for 25% offDownload Best Fiends FREE on your apple or android device Ritual.com/foul for 10% off your first 3 monthsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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After years of not knowing where Wes and Loren dumped the remains of Cyndi and Chevy, finally convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine draws a detailed map of where they could be found. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comSponsors for this episode:Modern Fertility - $20 off your fertility test at ModernFertility.com/foul CBDMD - 25% off your purchase of CBD products at CBDMD.com promo code FOULPLAYBest Fiends - Free game to download on the Apple App Store or Google PlaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Convicted serial killer Loren Herzog was paroled from prison on September 18th, 2010 after serving a reduced 14-year sentence. The circumstances leading up to and after his parol is shocking, join us as we share the unbelievable details. Visit us at itsfoulplay.com Support the show: Patreon.com/itsfoulplaySponsors:CbdMD.com enter promo code FOULPLAY for 25% offModernFertility.com/Foul $20 off your testritual.com/FOUL for 10% off Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In this episode, Gemma Hoskins reads a chapter out of her new book "Keeping On". You can find the book for purchase here: https://mascotbooks.com/mascot-marketplace/buy-books/nonfiction/bios-and-memoirs/keeping-on/Book Description: Fifty years ago, beloved teacher Sister Catherine Cesnik was the victim of a brutal unsolved murder. Ever since then, her students, colleagues, friends, and family have all been asking the same question: who killed Sister Cathy? Gemma Hoskins is one of Sister Cathy’s formers students. She appeared on The Keepers, the 2017 Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries that had the world also wondering what happened to Sister Cathy. Gemma has been both deeply inspired and haunted by Sister Cathy’s life and death, leading her to decide to make her life’s purpose to uncover what really happened that November night in 1969. In Keeping On, Gemma takes readers on a journey of her life, from her time as Sister Cathy’s student at Archbishop Keough High School through present day. She reflects upon the experiences that have shaped her, including her personal experience as a teacher, grassroots investigator, and fierce advocate for truth and justice. Gemma openly continues the search for the truth behind Sister Cathy’s murder, but also reflects upon how Sister Cathy’s life profoundly impacted those who knew and loved her.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Shane and Wendy as they discuss accusations of ethics violations at the Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Baxter Dunn (1991-2005) and Sheriff Steve Moore (2009-2019) with the current Sheriff Pat Withrow. Episode Sponsors: Feals - 50% off w/free shipping CBD Feals.com/foulEveryPlate - 3 weeks of meals for $2.99/meal go to EveryPlate.com and enter promo code 'foul3' at checkout! Ritual - 10% off during your first 3 months: Ritual.com/FoulVisit our website to learn more: itsfoulplay.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Wendy sit down with Paul Holes to discuss his experience with San Joaquin, California, and general information about Serial Killers. Paul became familiar with this area while investigating the Golden State Killer. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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On July 31, 2001, jury selection began in Herzog's murder trial. The trial was also held in Santa Clara County, due to the notoriety of the pair and concerns that it would not be a fair trial otherwise. After two weeks of deliberations, the jury returned with 3 counts of murder for Cyndi Vanderheiden, Paul Cavanaugh, and Howard King - and for being an accessory to the murder of Henry Howell. On December 10th, 2001, Herzog was sentenced to 78 years in state prison.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma are joined with Behavior Detection Analyst Mike again to discuss more deceptive behavior observed in Netflix's 'The Keepers' Visit us at itsfoulplay.comSupport our show: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Wesley Shermantine's trial started in Santa Clara County on November 22, 2000. Shermantine was charged with four murders - Howard King, Paul Cavanaugh, Chevy Wheeler, and Cyndi Vanderheiden. Episode Sponsored by Ritual: https://www.ritual.com/shadows (10% off vitamins for first 3 months)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma organized a Zoom meeting with many key players of Netflix's docu-series 'The Keepers' - along with many people you've heard from in our podcast so far. Visit us at itsfoulplay.comSupport us: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This is the second half of our discussion with the professional Behavior Detection Analyst. We listen and process through Loren Herzog's interview from February 1st, 1999 (second part) along with his later arrest and interrogation from March 1999. We also process Wesley Shermantine's interrogation from March 1999. The video interrogations are posted on our Facebook podcast discussion group.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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With the help of a professional Behavior Detection Analyst, we listen and process through Loren Herzog's first police interrogation from November 20th, 1998, as well as the first part of his police interrogation from February 1st, 1999. Episode SponsorshipsSun Basket: $35 off your order at https://sunbasket.com/foulplay and use promo code "foulplay" at checkoutRitual: 10% off first 3 months at https://ritual.com/ShadowsFeals: 50% +Free Shipping at https://feals.com/foulHoney: Free at https://joinhoney.com/foulSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Rob Dick and Leonard Padilla are Bounty Hunters who got involved in the 'Speed Freak Killers' case very early on. Without their involvement the maps never would have been drawn, and the locations of the remains of most victims would still not be known. We also introduce the missing person case of Gayle Marks. Gayle went missing at 18 years old, and at the time was 5'4" and weighed 110 pounds. Gayle is caucasian with naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. She has not been seen since 10/18/1988.Rob Dick has his own podcast called 'Human Hunters' which can be found at thehumanhunters.comEpisode SponsorsExpress VPN: First 3 months free at https://www.expressvpn.com/shadowsRitual: 10% off first 3 months at http://www.ritual.com/SHADOWSSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In this episode, we will be talking about Cyndi Vanderheiden. Cyndi was the last known victim of the Speed Freak Killers as they were both arrested shortly after her disappearance. You will also be presented with the missing person case of Phillip Cabot Lloyd Martin. Phillip went missing on September 30th, 1993, and is believed to be a possible victim of Shermantine and Herzog.Episode sponsors:betterhelp.com/outBest FiendsSunBasket.com/foulplay and enter promo foulplayOur website: itsfoulplay.comSupport us on Patreon: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayEpisode transcriptions are available on our website for Patreon SupportersFacebook Discussion: Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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October 16th, 1985, Chevy Wheeler disappeared after telling friends she was going to be skipping school with Wesley Shermantine. Chevy's mother Paula describes the last day she saw Chevy, and the events that lead up to her disappearance. Twenty-seven years after she went missing, Chevy is finally found in a shallow grave.Episode sponsors:expressvpn.com/shadowsritual.com/shadowsbetterhelp.com/shadowsOur website: itsfoulplay.comSupport us on Patreon: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayEpisode transcriptions are available on our website for Patreon SupportersFacebook Discussion: Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down with Michael Salter to discuss the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and the reasons behind why they shut down at the end of 2019.Visit our website at itsfoulplay.comSupport the podcast: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'This is episode is sponsored by:-Best Fiends -Sun Basket: $35 off your order by going to Sunbasket.com/foulplay and enter code 'foulplay' at checkout!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Jo Ann Hobson and Robin Armtrout disappeared from Stockton in August 1985. Robin's body was found within a week, she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed more than 40 times. Jo Ann's disappearance remained a mystery until Wesley Shermantine drew a map of the location of a well where her remains were located.If you have any information about these cases, please contact us. You can remain anonymous if you wish itsfoulplay.com.Sponsors for this episode:Betterhelp.com/out (10% off first month of online counseling)ExpressVP.com/shadows (3 months free!)Best FiendsYou can help support our on-site investigation as well as receive member benefits by becoming a Foul Play Patreon. Donations start from as little as $3 a month. Just visit itsfoulplay.com and click Patreon at the top. Join in on our discussion on Facebook by searching for Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion Group. You can also show support by simply visiting websites provided during our sponsorships reads, even if you don’t sign up, you’re helping us just by visiting their site to learn more. Thank you for listening, together we can make a difference.Patreon.com/itsfoulplayitsfoulplay.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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All seemed well in and around the community of Linden, California, in the early 1980s. Methamphetamine made its way into the life of many impressionable young people as they navigated a social life outside of High School. It's not uncommon for two best friends to enjoy hunting, but unbeknownst to the community, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog decided they would start hunting people. Their reign of terror spanned for 15 years and their victim count is estimated conservatively at 60 people. How did the two serial killers get away with dozens of murders for so long? Why did the two evolve from hunting animals to humans? Who fell victim to their torture? Join us as we dive deep into the case.If you have any information about these cases, please contact us. You can remain anonymous if you wish: Shane@itsfoulplay.com.Sponsors for this episode: - Betterhelp.com/out (10% off first month of online counseling) - ExpressVP.com/shadows (3 months free!) - Ritual.com/shadows (10% off first 3 months of essential multivitamins for women)You can help support our on-site investigation as well as receive member benefits by becoming a Patreon. Donations start from as little as $3 a month. Just visit itsfoulplay.com and click Patreon at the top. Join in on our discussion on Facebook by searching for Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion Group. You can also show support by simply visiting websites provided during our sponsorships reads, even if you don’t sign up, you’re helping us just by visiting their site to learn more. Thank you for listening, together we can make a difference.Patreon.com/itsfoulplaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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On the new season of Foul Play: The Maps, Shane and Wendy traveled to Lodi, California to investigate the cases of serial killer duo Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. The pair are known as the Speed Freak Killers and their reign of terror spanned 15 years with an estimated 60 victims. Follow along biweekly as we dive deep into the cases to find out why two best friends evolved from hunting animals to hunting humans - and how two serial killers got away with dozens of murders for more than a decade. You can help support our on-site investigation as well as receive member benefits by becoming a Foul Play Patreon. Donations start from as little as $3 a month. Just visit itsfoulplay.com and click Patreon at the top. Join in on our discussion on Facebook by searching for Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion Group. You can also show support by simply visiting websites provided during our sponsorships reads, even if you don’t sign up, you’re helping us just by visiting their site to learn more. Thank you for listening, together we can make a difference.Patreon.com/itsfoulplayitsfoulplay.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down with an expert behavioral detection analyst who analyzes interviews with key figures surrounding Sister Cathy's case. **Correction to the episode: Timestamp referenced to Dr. Richter is on Episode 4 of The Keepers Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down with an expert behavioral detection analyst who analyzes interviews with key figures surrounding Sister Cathy's case. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 2] In Annapolis Maryland on Feb 20th survivors Teresa Lancaster and Jean Wehner joined other survivors and experts to speak at a hearing to state committee members on why the Hidden Predator Act of 2020 should be passed. This act would eliminate the statute of limitations for abuse victims, allowing them to have their day in civil court to expose their abuser. Last year this act passed the Maryland House, but failed in the Senate. This year, they continue their fight for survivors in Maryland. The full hearing is around two hours long, so we will release them one after another. During this first part the panel, consisting of survivors and experts, will speak to the committee members. After each panel speaks, the committee members ask questions prior to the next panel. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In Annapolis, Maryland on Feb 20th survivors Teresa Lancaster and Jean Wehner joined other survivors and experts to speak at a hearing to state committee members on why the Hidden Predator Act of 2020 should be passed. This act would eliminate the statute of limitations for abuse victims, allowing them to have their day in civil court to expose their abuser. Last year this act passed the Maryland House but failed in the Senate. This year, they continue their fight for survivors in Maryland. The full hearing is around two hours long, so we will release them one after another. During this first part the panel, consisting of survivors and experts, will speak to the committee members. There are 3 panels in this first episode, with Jean speaking in the last one. After each panel speaks, the committee members ask questions prior to the next panel. Next week’s episode will include Teresa Lancaster.This podcast is sponsored by Best Fiends Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 3] Gemma and Shane discuss different aspects of the case, along with answering questions submitted by listeners. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 2] Gemma and Shane discuss different aspects of the case, along with answering questions submitted by listeners. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane discuss different aspects of the case, along with answering questions submitted by listeners. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma discuss ways to speak to children about abuse, and how to possibly recognize non-verbal signs/indications of possible abuse.  Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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CAUTION: This episode contains graphic forensic contentGemma discusses Sister Cathy's case with Forensic Pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, who was the Medical Examiner for Baltimore when Cathy was murdered. Dr. Spitz has worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the investigations of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. He also testified at the trials of Casey Anthony and Phil Spector, the 1996 civil trial against O.J. Simpson, and consulted on the investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's 1996 death. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 4] Shane sits down for an in-depth Four-part podcast to examine the case with Investigative Journalist Tom Nugent.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 2] Shane sits down for an in-depth four-part podcast to examine the case with Investigative Journalist Tom Nugent.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 2] Shane sits down for an in-depth four-part podcast to examine the case with Investigative Journalist Tom Nugent.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane sits down for an in-depth four-part podcast to examine the case with Investigative Journalist Tom Nugent.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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50 years ago today, at approximately 7 pm Eastern Time, Sister Cathy would leave her Carriage House Apartment for the very last time. The world has become aware of Cathy’s tragic fate that night - so today Gemma and I ask you to take a moment to remember Cathy. You see, Cathy was a real person, with dreams and goals of her own. On November 7th, 1969 Cathy’s life was taken - but her memory lives strongly in those whose lives she touched. These are some of those memories… Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down to discuss the day Hunter George found Sister Cathy's remains. This is the first time Hunter George has been questioned about the case since that day in 1970.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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{Part 2} Shane and Gemma sit down with Journalist Tom Nugent to discuss his role in Netflix's docu-series "The Keepers" along with Sister Cathy's case.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down with Journalist Tom Nugent to discuss his role in Netflix's docu-series "The Keepers" along with Sister Cathy's case.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us at itsfoulplay.comSupport the show: Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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[Part 2] Gemma and Shane sit down with Sr. Rose Pacatte to discuss Sr. Cathy leaving the convent and her status at the time she was murdered.Sr. Rose Pacatte, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, is the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles.She is an award-winning film journalist and author or co-author of fifteen titles on film, film, and scripture and media literacy education. She has a Master's of Education in Media Studies from the University of London and is a D.Min candidate. You can learn more about her at www.sisterrosemovies.net. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane sit down with Sr. Rose Pacatte to discuss Sr. Cathy leaving the convent and her status at the time she was murdered. Sr. Rose Pacatte, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, is the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles.She is an award-winning film journalist and author or co-author of fifteen titles on film, film, and scripture and media literacy education. She has a Master's of Education in Media Studies from the University of London and is a D.Min candidate. You can learn more about her at www.sisterrosemovies.net. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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During last week’s conversation with MKUltra Survivor, we discussed briefly some of the documents the CIA released that touched slightly on their psychological testing done under MKUltra. What I am about to read to you is a redacted CIA document from 1951, two children were used in the experiment and the document explains both are young girls. Although this document does not talk about sexual testing, please be advised that what you are about to hear may be triggering if you are a survivor. This document is proof of one type of testing the CIA did on children involving being in a trance and ensuring their subjects had complete amnesia. TRIGGER WARNING Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comNetflix's 'The Keepers'You can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma further their discussion with MKUltra Survivor Lynn, who links the CIA program with Gynecologist Dr. Christian Richter and Maskell's abuse ring. * TRIGGER WARNING ****Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Shane and Gemma as they discuss the MKUltra program with survivor Lynn, who also is able to link the program with the Gynecologist Dr. Christian Richter.  Trigger Warning Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Trigger Warning Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Ross.Could Fr. Maskell have been a part of the CIA Program MKUltra? Shane and Gemma sit down with Dr. Colin Ross to discuss the CIA program MKUltra as well as memory. Dr. Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of dissociation and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Dr. Ross has authored 29 books and over 200 professional papers, has reviewed for numerous professional journals and grant agencies, and is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Could Fr. Maskell have been a part of the CIA Program MKUltra? Shane and Gemma sit down with Dr. Colin Ross to discuss the CIA program MKUltra as well as memory. Dr. Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of dissociation and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Dr. Ross has authored 29 books and over 200 professional papers, has reviewed for numerous professional journals and grant agencies, and is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This is the second part of our discussion with Attorney Beverly Wallace.Gemma and Shane sit down with Attorney Beverly Wallace to discuss her role in the 90s "Doe Roe" trial where she represented Jean Wehner in her case against Fr Maskell, Dr. Richter, SSND, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Join us next week for the last half of the discussion!Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane sit down with Attorney Beverly Wallace to discuss her role in the 90s "Doe Roe" trial where she represented Jean Wehner in her case against Fr Maskell, Dr. Richter, SSND, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Join us next week for the last half of the discussion!Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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TRIGGER WARNING Final Part 3 : Shane and Gemma sit down with Ellen Lacter, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist to discuss extreme abuse and how it can impact victim-survivors and their memories. Joining us on this multiple part episode discussion is Jean Wehner, also known as Jane Doe during the mid-90s lawsuit.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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TRIGGER WARNING Part 2 : Shane and Gemma sit down with Ellen Lacter, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist to discuss extreme abuse and how it can impact victim-survivors and their memories. Joining us on this multiple part episode discussion is Jean Wehner, also known as Jane Doe during the mid-90s lawsuit.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down with Ellen Lacter, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist to discuss extreme abuse and how it can impact victim-survivors and their memories. Joining us on this multiple part episode discussion is Jean Wehner, also known as Jane Doe during the mid-90s lawsuit.TRIGGER WARNING Jean is aware that the topic we are about to discuss is difficult to hear, so she warns that the conversation you are about to listen to is painfully raw and can’t help but be upsetting, especially if you are a survivor. However, it is necessary to talk about such things in order for us to separate victim from abuser, so we can see how systematically premeditated Maskell and other perpetrators are in their efforts to make their victims believe they are solely responsible for what happened to them. Knowing how triggering it is for her to just talk about what the abusers made her do, feel & think she recommends that survivors have their therapists or close supporters listen to this 3 part interview before or with them. As always don’t feel you need to listen!Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane sit down with two long time listeners who are very active in the 'Foul Play' discussion group to discuss some new information recently learned. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane sit down to discuss the details surrounding Joyce Malecki's unsolved murder case with Joyce's family. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters sit down with Mary Spence, a former Keough student who overheard a man yelling loudly from the direction of Cathy's apartment building around the time Cathy could have made it back from shopping. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma explore Baltimore, specifically at the places of importance to Sister Cathy and Joyce's cases. The audio from this episode was recorded remotely along streets and in woods so be prepared for noise from passing traffic and stubborn wind.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. GoFundMe for Survivors: https://www.gofundme.com/5au8h7cVisit our website: itsfoulplay.comNetflix's 'The Keepers'Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This week Gemma and Shane sat down to discuss the crazy 'Kelly the box girl' scenario we reminded you of last week when we searched all over the world for a box of evidence. Our special guest is who we later found out to be a victim in this scam - and who we referred to as 'Jane the phone lady' when we first presented the episode last week. Make sure you have already re-listened to last week's episode! Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Many of you have been reaching out asking where you can find two episodes Gemma and I have referenced in the podcast a few times on Kelly the Box Girl. In February of 2018, Gemma and I worked together to chase a promising lead after The Keepers was released. The two episodes are really far back in the podcast’s archives so to help listeners find it we decided to release the two episodes combined for this week’s episode in our Sister Cathy series. What you are about to hear is a series of odd events that resulted in us trying to track down a box of what seemed to be very important evidence. Stick around to the very end to hear our conclusion. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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A few weeks ago we shared that House Bill 687, also known as The Hidden Predator Act of 2019, was being sponsored by CT Wilson. House Delegate Wilson’s Bill would end Maryland’s statute of limitations for civil claims against perpetrators of child sex abuse - and would also include a 2 year look-back window, a time which victims could bring claims in cases where the previous statute of limitations has expired. If you’ve seen The Keepers, you will remember Delegate Wilson speaking on his experience as a survivor and how hard it is to pass laws that the Archdiocese fights against. This week we want you to hear Delegate Wilson’s speech as well as the back and forth in Annapolis, Maryland in March at the Judicial Proceedings Committee. 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused in the United States - and to this day most still have not disclosed their abuse publicly. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Follow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In Maryland Shane and Gemma sit down to discuss the Cemetery dig that uncovered a large room-sized hole in the ground that Fr Maskell used to hide documents and photos. Accompanying this podcast is a short video on the cemetery dig which can be found in the Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion Group.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down in Gemma's kitchen to discuss the entirety of the timeline surrounding Sister Cathy's case. From the life and death of Fr Maskell, to the time leading and after Cathy's disappearance - we hope this episode will let you know a clearer picture of the sequence of events. This is part 2 of the conversation.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane and Gemma sit down in Gemma's kitchen to discuss the entirety of the timeline surrounding Sister Cathy's case. From the life and death of Fr Maskell, to the time leading and after Cathy's disappearance - we hope this episode will let you know a clearer picture of the sequence of events. This is part 1 of the conversation. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane travels to the Baltimore area for a week - recording many episodes including this one in Greenbelt, MD with Survivor Teresa and call-in with Survivor Donna. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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PART 2: Gemma and Shane discuss the case, as well as answer questions that listeners have sent in.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma and Shane discuss the case, as well as answer questions that listeners have sent in. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This is part 2 of our discussion with Lil. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Around the same time Sister Cathy went missing in 1969, Father Maskell started looking for a confidential secretary. Student Lil Hughes (Knipp) agreed to fill this position.Some episode corrections: Lil has 7 siblings, not 8. Her dad was in the service but was home for Christmas. When Lil mentioned that those who work in a private school has access to a lot of information, she would like to clarify that files are kept confidential HOWEVER she believes Fr Maskell bullied the nuns at the school and acted as though he was the person in charge. This provided him with access to private and confidential information on students.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In last week’s interview with Sean Caine from the Archdiocese of Baltimore - one of the subjects we discussed was when abuse allegations against Father Maskell first happened. Caine says according to their documents the first accusations were in the 90s when Jean Wehner came forward during the Doe/Roe lawsuit. When asked about Charles’ statement that his mother went to the diocese when he as being abused, Caine said they have no documentation of it happening. What we know is that after Charles’ mother found out, Maskell was moved. Now we bring you the story of another who says they too reported the abuse - which resulted in Fr Maskell being removed from Archbishop Keough High School.Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Part 2: The following interview is with the Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. We will release this interview in two parts, and there have been no edits or production added to the interview. If you are a survivor of clergy abuse in Baltimore, please take caution when listening as this could be a trigger. This is the first time we have been able to sit down for a discussion with the Archdiocese, so please remember as a journalist, I will be remaining respectful but determined.  Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Part 1: The following interview is with the Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. We will release this interview in two parts, and there have been no edits or production added to the interview. In the second part, it was mentioned they fear being taken out of context by editing. If you are a survivor of clergy abuse in Baltimore, please take caution when listening as this could be a trigger. This is the first time we have been able to sit down for a discussion with the Archdiocese, so please remember as a journalist, I will be remaining respectful but determined.  Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Part 2: We continue our conversation with Sharon Bush - she explained she was present in the apartment shortly before Sister Cathy disappeared. Later that night Sister Russell, Sharon’s best friend, called her worried that Cathy never returned. Early the next morning Sharon made her way to their apartment, being confronted by Sister Russell and a detective once she made it inside the apartment. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Part 1: I’ve seen it before, a cold case stays unsolved until someone comes forward with information they thought was unimportant. It’s an important lesson to learn - if you know anything, no matter how insignificant and small you think it may be, it may be an important piece to the larger puzzle. We have thought for a long time that surely Cathy’s friend and roommate Sister Russell must have known of the abuse at Keough - and wondered if they ever told the police. Now - we have a first-hand eye witness account of the man in the trench coat. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Part 2: Joining Gemma and Shane for a two-part episode in our series on the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik is Ryan White and Jean Wehner. Ryan White is the director of Netflix's 'The Keepers' and provides an insight on the making of the docu-series and speaks to the aftermath of its release. Jean Wehner was the first survivor to come forward in the 90s which resulted in her being known as 'Jane Doe' during the trial against Maskell and the Baltimore AOB. Jean Wehner's book 'Conversations with My Self: A Collections of Poems' referenced in this episode can be found on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-My-Self-Collection-Poems/dp/1974010066 Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Joining Gemma and Shane for a two part episode in our series on the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik is Ryan White and Jean Wehner. Ryan White is the director of Netflix's 'The Keepers' and provides an insight on the making of the docu-series and speaks to the aftermath of its release. Jean Wehner was the first survivor to come forward in the 90s which resulted in her being known as 'Jane Doe' during the trial against Maskell and the Baltimore AOB. Jean Wehner's book 'Conversations with My Self: A Collections of Poems' referenced in this episode can be found on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-My-Self-Collection-Poems/dp/1974010066 Correction: The judge Jean speaks of is named Hilary Caplan. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This special episode features hosts Shane and Gemma discussing the details that have led them here. We will return on January 8th with an interview with Jean (aka Jane Doe) and Ryan White (director) of Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers'. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This episode is dedicated to teachers and their students. Teachers, stay vigilant because you never know. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This week’s guest has a unique insight into both Cathy and Russell’s personalities. They were her teachers, and later her friends. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Dr. Lee Richmond was a professor of Education at Loyola University Maryland in the area of school counseling. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maryland and is well known for her knowledge in counseling. Dr. Richmond is also uniquely qualified to tell us about her friendship with a previous post-master student of hers at Loyola - someone we know as Father Joseph Maskell. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Please be advised this episode contains content and language that is graphic in nature, listener discretion is strongly advised. Where were you at in life at the age of 13? Personally, I remember being in 8th grade using my free time to binge read Harry Potter books. Charles Franz had a much different experience… For more than 5 years Charles fell victim to a predator - someone he knew as Father Joseph Maskell. You have heard from female survivors so far in this series, but Maskell’s reign of terror wasn’t limited to gender or age. Charles is an amazing person, we thank him for sharing his story with us. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This special episode consists of Gemma and Shane answering questions many listeners have sent in about this case. We have several very eye-opening interviews coming up so stay tuned! Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Podcaster Brooke Gittings joins us to discuss her knowledge of the assistant state's attorney Sharon May. This is an episode you do not want to miss! Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Sharon’s uncle Billy happens to live in the apartment complex, granting him access to always being able to know when Cathy enters and leaves. He could easily be seen as someone who wouldn’t bring attention to himself for lingering around the place while waiting for Cathy to return home from shopping. And conveniently her car is later dropped just around the corner to his patio door. Sharon joins us again to talk more about her Uncle Billy - I will leave it up to you to decide what is more than just a coincidence. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's "The Keepers"Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Although several victims of Father Maskell came forward in the 90s, Sharon May at the prosecuting office refused to go forward with charges. Many questions arose as to why​ in 'The Keepers' Sharon May suggested she just didn’t think she had enough to convict him of charges… more on this later. When criminal charges were going nowhere, two women, who choose to keep their identity secret, came forward to sue in civil court: Jane Doe and Jane Roe. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's 'The Keepers'Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This is a short special episode for Halloween 2018. Shane shares a story about a haunted forest in Peru, Indiana.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private Facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Today you are going to hear from a very brave survivor who wasn’t featured in The Keepers. Michele Stanton can link Edgar Davison with Officer James Scannell, a very important connection. We know already of Father Maskell’s strong ties to the police department, its starting to get harder to doubt the involvement of this monster whom seems to have always been lurking in the shadows. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupNetflix's "The Keepers"Survivors' FundSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This episode may not be appropriate for all listeners. Details about sexual abuse will be discussed - listener discretion is advised. Now a Nurse Practitioner, Donna Vondenbosch was ritually abused by Father Joseph Maskell. After years of abuse, Maskell also left Donna with a hypnotic suggestion that if she ever told anyone about her experience she would then have to commit suicide. This is Donna’s story. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Investigative Reporter Bob Erlandson sits down with Gemma and Shane to discuss all aspects of Sister Cathy's murder, cover up of abuse, as well as the ongoing events surrounding sexual abuse in Baltimore. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Survivor Cindy Lovell suffered for a year and a half of ritual rape and abuse by Father Joseph Maskell while attending Archbishop Keough High School. She had no control, no choice, and those whom she told and asked for help did not believe her. When 'The Keepers' was being filmed she was not quite ready to share her horrific story with the world - but now she is. Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters as they continue the conversation that Netflix's Docu-Series "The Keepers" shared with the world in 2017. Although Gemma and many people you hear from were featured in the Docu-Series; This production is not affiliated with Netflix. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters sit down with Sharon Schmidt to discuss her family, including her uncle that lived across from Sister Cathy at the time of her murder. Sharon also discusses another bizarre unsolved murder that happened in her family only a couple years after Sister Cathy's murder. Two unsolved murders happening around the same man, is it a coincidence? Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters in this new podcast series about the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, featured on Netflix's Docs-Series 'The Keepers'. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Gemma Hoskins and Shane Waters in this new podcast series about the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, featured on Netflix's Docs-Series 'The Keepers'. On this episode you are introduced to the series and hear the very first conversation Shane and Gemma shared about the docu-series, murder, and abuse from the beginning of 2017. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Shane and Gemma as they discuss the final victim of the Redhead Murders, Summarize what we know so far, and end the series with a very promising update and lead! Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane discusses the very first victim thought to be linked to the Redhead Murders found in Wetzel County, West Virginia. Also in on the discussion is grassroots amateur investigator featured on Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' - Gemma Hoskins, along with Kayla Vandeventer who was a student in Teacher Alex's high school sociology class featured previously in the series. Could a trucker navigate the winding road this Jane Doe was found off of? Could this victim be related although she was older than all the others? With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster, Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Today is Father's day, so I wanted to share with you a special story about a tragedy that happened in my own family. On November 14, 1979, my dad was hit by a drunk driver - after 42 days in a coma he defied the doctors and woke up. My dad, and my family, were never the same again - but the question remains on if some things happen for a reason. If my dad were never in this horrific accident, I never would have been born.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Shane as he drives the same route the Bible Belt Strangler took after he picked up the Redheaded Jane Doe from King's Truck Stop In Barbourville, Kentucky. You will also hear about the stories of two other redheaded women who were almost kidnapped around the same place and time as our murder victim. Are they related or is it a coincidence? With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster, Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane travels again to Elizabethton, Tennessee, to join the high school sociology class at a press conference to tell the world about the Redhead Murders and the Bible Belt Strangler. With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster, Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Join Shane as he travels to Barbourville, Kentucky to trace the steps the Bible Belt Strangler made when he killed an innocent victim along 25E. With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster, Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Traveling to Elizabethton, Tennessee, Shane speaks with a Sociology class at Elizabethton High School about the Redhead Murders. This semester they have been challenged by their teacher to study and report on the Redhead Murders. After discovering my podcast, I traveled to their school to hear about the work they have done so far. On this episode, you hear from these students as they read to you their 8-page Profile of the person responsible for these murders. To express that we all do believe that these six women were victims of a serial killer, I challenged the class to give him a name. The Bible Belt Strangler. With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster, Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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In our third installment in the series on the Redhead Murders, you hear from a young lady that believes the Jane Doe found murdered inside a fridge in 1985 Barbourville, Kentucky, is her mother. With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Join host and investigative podcaster Shane Waters, alongside Netflix's Docu-Series 'The Keepers' grassroots investigator Gemma Hoskins as they explore this forgotten serial killer case.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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This is the second episode in our series on the Redhead Murders. With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. Shane visits the site where the victim covered in episode one was found, and Gemma Hoskins joins the podcast to help find answers to who these women are and who is responsible for their murders. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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With numerous female victims, this series of murders remains an unsolved murder mystery. This introduction episode will tell you a little about the Redhead Murders, which was investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) initially thirty years ago. This episode introduces the only victim whose identity is known, Lisa Nichols. Lisa was 28 at the time of her murder and was originally from West Virginia. There is no publicly shared photo of Lisa, and not much is known about her life and past. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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If you haven't listened to the first episode Gemma Hoskins and I created two weeks ago, please go back and listen before listening to this! This is an important update to hear, after our search for the lead on the box of evidence in Sister Cathy's murder.  "The Keepers" is a Netflix Documentary series that Gemma Hoskins is featured in as one of the two grassroots amateur detectives who refuses to let the murder of Sister Cathy die from the public eye.  Disclaimer: This podcast episode has no affiliation with Tripod Media or Netflix Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Shane teams up with Gemma Hoskins, featured on 'The Keepers', to find Kelly 'the box girl'. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion Group Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Marie was 18 years old when she went missing, she was last seen wearing a sweater and blue jeans. She and her fiance had gone to an indoor flea market at Eagles Hall in Chico, CA, on January 31, 1976. It was there that an argument ensued between the two. Marie decided that she was going to go home, before leaving the market she stopped to ask for directions as she wasn’t very familiar with the area. Marie would then set out alone, on foot, walking down the side of a Chico street. That would be the last time anyone ever saw Marie again.That is until a lady comes forward years later with a crazy story about abduction, rape, torture, and murder. Join us on this episode as we discuss this case fully, with narration performed by Justin Rimmel.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Early Tuesday morning on April 10th, 1933, freshly fallen snow surrounds Johnson's farmhouse in Chisago County, Minnesota. The dark night air is chilly, and outside the house is a flatbed truck packed full of the family's belongings. Later this day the family is going to move into a new home... at least that was the plan. This is the story of the death of Alvira Johnson and her 7 children, and the disappearance and manhunt of her husband Albin. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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April 13, 1977 - Tofield, Alberta, Canada. Charlie and his wife Mavis McLeod decided today they will start installing a new septic tank on their rural property. The sky was clear, the sun was bright, and the temperature was a warm 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit - a perfect day for such a project. Until they find human remains in the old septic tank. DISCLAIMER: This episode features graphic detail that may not be suited for all audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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While exploring an old museum in Wabash, Indiana - Shane discovers the old basement holds a secret. Join Shane as he sits down with a Historian to discuss why there is a box in the basement of the Wabash County Historical Museum that is full of the bones of a mid-1800s serial killer. This episode was recorded at the Wabash County Historical Museum in Wabash, Indiana. Visit their website at WabashMuseum.org.Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)

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Catherine Winters was only nine years old when she disappeared from her hometown of New Castle, Indiana on March 20th, 1913. Catherine's disappearance remains the oldest Unsolved Disappearance in the state of Indiana, as well as one of the oldest in the United States. Featuring Author Lisa Perry. Visit us online at itsfoulplay.comYou can support our show at Patreon.com/itsfoulplayFollow and interact with us:Twitter - @thefoulplaypodInstagram - @itsfoulplaypodJoin in on the discussion on our private facebook group:Foul Play - Crime Podcast Discussion GroupSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/itsfoulplay)