Serial Napper is the perfect true crime podcast for those who love a good nap, hosted by Nikki Young. Each episode offers a comprehensive and thoughtful deep dive into an unsolved mystery or lesser-known case, told succinctly and with all the key facts, just the way it happened. Let Nikki lead you through some of the most fascinating, chilling, and puzzling true crime stories you've never heard of, all while you drift off to sleep. Follow Nikki on social media for more updates.
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Secrets, Lies, and a Cold Case That Won't Die: The Unsolved Murder of Dana Bradley
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29:44It’s December 14, 1981, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. 14-year-old Dana Bradley says goodbye to her friend and heads home to celebrate her mother’s birthday - but she never makes it. Eyewitnesses report seeing her hitchhiking, climbing into a car with an unknown man. Four days later, Dana’s lifeless body is discovered in a remote, wooded area…
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Graveyard Confessions: The Disappearance of Lee Boxell
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29:05In the quiet suburbs of South London, 15-year-old Lee Boxell was known for his infectious smile and warm personality. On a Saturday morning in 1988, he left home, with his parents thinking he was just off to a football match—unaware that they would never see their son again. Lee was last seen heading to Sutton town center to meet a friend, but afte…
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When Love Turned Deadly: Reeva Steenkamp's Tragic Valentine’s Day
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30:37It was February 14th, 2013—a day meant to be filled with love, romance, and heart-shaped cards... but for one couple, this Valentine’s Day would forever be remembered for tragedy and mystery. It was the moment when Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee and a beloved South African Paralympian runner, fired four shots through a locked bathroom door, kill…
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Uncovering the Tragic Failures of the Justice System: Crystal McCrory Jones
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28:43On the morning of February 9, 2023, 43-year-old Crystal McCrory Jones woke up feeling ill, so she scheduled a doctor’s appointment for the afternoon. She never showed up at that appointment. After repeated calls and texts went unanswered, her husband Tony called the West Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Chuck Harris was dispatched to perform…
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Unraveling the Mystery of His Disappearance: Noah Donohoe
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30:12On June 21, 2020, 14-year-old Noah Donohoe vanished from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland—setting off a tragic mystery that would grip the nation for years to come. His disappearance wasn’t even the most puzzling part: After telling his mom that he was going to meet up with some friends that day, surveillance footage captured Noah riding hi…
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A Lesson on Violence Against Trans Youth: Brianna Ghey
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29:39It was February 11th, 2023. Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old girl from Cheshire, England with fiery red hair and a love for TikTok, was like any other teenager starting her Saturday morning. Dressed in a cozy white hoodie, her head buried in her phone, she stepped out of her home, ready to meet a friend. It all started with a text. Her “friend,” 15-year…
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Lured Into Tragedy with a False Promise: The Disappearance of the Jack Family
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26:05On August 2, 1989, the Jack family—Ronnie, Doreen, and their two young sons, Russell and Ryan—disappeared without a trace. An Indigenous family from Prince George, British Columbia, seemingly just vanished after Ronnie accepted an unexpected job offer. What was meant to be a fresh start for the struggling family would become one of the most chillin…
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The Tragic Case of Innocence Lost: Jordan Browns Traumatic Childhood
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28:54On a cold February morning in 2009, a quiet rural town in Pennsylvania was rocked by a horrific crime: a 26-year-old woman, Kenzie Marie Houk, was found shot in her own home. Katie, eight months pregnant with her unborn child, had been murdered in cold blood. However, the case that followed would raise more questions than answers. The police quickl…
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An Unlikely Suspect: The Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
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34:21In the summer of 1999, two young women were stolen from their small town in Alabama—two lives cut tragically short, leaving behind nothing but questions. J.B. Beasley, just 17 years old, was celebrating her birthday when she and her best friend, Tracie Hawlett, disappeared without a trace. Hours later, their bodies were found—brutally murdered and …
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The Deadly Obsession Behind a Fatal Attraction: Ryan Poston's Questionable Death
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33:46On the evening of October 12, 2012, in Highland Heights, Kentucky, 911 received a call that would shake even the most seasoned dispatcher. The voice on the other line that of 21-year-old Shayna Hubers, who matter-of-factly reported "I killed my boyfriend in self-defence.” When police on arrived on scene, they found a man, dead from gunshot. The vic…
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The Horrifying Date That Turned Into a Nightmare: Sade Robinson's Tragic Murder
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28:00On April 1st, 2024, Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old from Milwaukee, told an employee at her apartment building she was looking forward to a date that evening. Just hours later, stills from a surveillance video captured Sade sitting beside a man at Twisted Fisherman, a local restaurant, before leaving with him. That would be the last time anyone saw he…
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The Shocking Spring Break Murder Tied to Black Magic: Mark Kilroy's Tragic Spring Break
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30:59It’s spring break 1989, a time for fun and relaxation – but for one Texas college student, a week of sun and sand would turn into a nightmare. When Mark Kilroy vanished in the Mexican border town of Matamoros outside of a bar, the initial response from authorities was anything but swift. Local Mexican police treated it like any other missing person…
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On the morning of February 24, 2023, calls to 911 from the Banfield family home set off a chain of events that would unravel a dark and twisted tale of betrayal, love, and murder. When police arrived, they found Christine Banfield, a mother and wife, barely alive with multiple stab wounds to her body. Nearby, a man named Joseph Ryan was found dead,…
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Virginia McCullough: The Diabolical Daughter
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29:26In September 2023, a quiet family home in Essex, England, became the scene of an unthinkable crime. Two elderly people—70-year-old John McCullough and his 71-year-old wife, Lois—had been missing for years. Their doctor, concerned after multiple missed appointments, alerted the authorities. What followed next would leave even the most seasoned detec…
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Kat Torres: From Instagram Influencer to Human Trafficker
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29:56In September 2022, the disappearance of two young Brazilian women sparked a frantic search that spanned across the United States. Their families, along with the FBI, were desperate for answers. The only lead they had? The women had been living with a social media influencer named Kat Torres. At Kat’s instruction, they would post videos saying that …
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Cimarron Thomas: Killed by the UK's Most Prolific Catfisher
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31:03Cimarron Thomas was a beautiful, happy-go-lucky 12-year old little girl from West, Virginia. She was the kind of young lady who loved playing the violin, spending time with her family and chatting with her friends on social media apps, like Snapchat. However, in May of 2018, without warning, she ended her own life using her father’s legally owned h…
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On December 19, 2018, 16-year-old Iyana Sawyer, a straight-A student from Jacksonville, Florida, was seen on surveillance footage leaving her high school early. It started as a typical school day, but what followed would plunge her family into an unthinkable tragedy. Iyana was five months pregnant and her family had been supportive of the young tee…
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Christina Boyer: The Columbus Poltergeist Kid Charged with Murder
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31:42In the mid-1980s, Christina Boyer captivated the nation as a teenager with an extraordinary claim: that she could move objects with her mind. Known as the “The Columbus Poltergeist Kid”, her family’s insistence on her powers catapulted her to media stardom, even earning her a spot in an Unsolved Mysteries episode. But just as quickly as she rose to…
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Martha Moxley: The Night Before Halloween
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31:08It was the night before Halloween - October 30, 1975 - also known as Mischief Night - an evening filled with pranks, like throwing toilet paper on trees and eggs at houses. For 15-year-old Martha Moxley, it was an ordinary night of hanging out with her friends - including 15-year-old Michael Skakel and his 17-year-old brother Tommy. The Skakel boys…
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Gloria Ramirez: Toxic Woman or Criminal Negligence?
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25:25Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old wife and mother from Riverside, California, was known as a warm-hearted joker who was always ready to uplift others. She led a mostly ordinary life, deeply loved by her family and community. But on February 19, 1994, everything changed when Gloria was rushed to Riverside General Hospital, gravely ill. She had recently …
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Corpsewood Manor: Murder, Sex and Satan
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27:40Hidden deep within the desolate Chattahoochee National Forest, sits the haunting remains of Corpsewood Manor, a hand-built brick mansion with a dark history. Its name, given by its former owner and builder, Dr. Charles Scudder, is ominous. Corposewood Manor was supposed to be a sanctuary for Dr. Scudder and his partner, far removed from the chaos o…
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Anneliese Michel: The Exorcism Tapes
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24:52Have you ever seen the 2005 supernatural horror movie, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”? Tonight I’m talking about the true story that inspired the hit flick. Anneliese Michel was a deeply religious young lady from Klingenberg, Bavaria, who had suffered from epilepsy and mental health issues for several years. Despite undergoing multiple medical treatm…
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Christine Falling: The Diabolical Babysitter
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25:15As if being a parent isn’t hard enough, many of us have had to leave our precious children in the care of a stranger at one point or another. It takes a great deal of trust and pure hope that everything will be okay - because how much can you really know about a person, and what they’re like when watchful adults are not around? The crimes committed…
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Kouri Richins: A Children's Book of Grief or Guilt?
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32:14In March 2022, married couple Eric and Kouri Richins were celebrating at their Utah home. Kouri, a real estate agent, had closed on a house that she had planned to flip for her business. They put their three young boys to bed and had a few drinks, including a Moscow mule that Kouri made for Eric to enjoy in bed. The couple then fell asleep, with Er…
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Sarah and Jacob Hoggle: Lost in Psychosis
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31:32On September 8th, 2014, Troy Turner walked into a police station in Maryland to report that his girlfriend, Catherine Hoggle, and their two youngest children were missing. He claimed that he had awoken in their apartment that morning to find them gone - only their eldest son remained at their home. It was alarming, but Troy was relieved when a few …
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Leigh Ann Sabine: The Skeleton in the Garden
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23:35A few months before 74-year-old Leigh Ann Sabine died after battling brain cancer, she told her hairdresser that people were going to talk about her after she passed away because of “the body in the bag”. An alarming statement but one that mostly went ignored as a wild, silly made-up story, one of many that Leigh Ann was known for telling. But the …
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Phantom of Heilbronn: The Woman Without a Face
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25:03We often think of DNA as one of the most solid, fool-proof pieces of evidence in a crime investigation, but our story tonight shows how that isn’t at all true. A female German serial killer, dubbed “the Phantom of Heilbronn” - or the woman without a face, was believed to be responsible for a slew of crimes across the country, including six murders.…
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Scott Watson: A Calculated Conviction?
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29:06Before dawn break, on New Year's Day, 1998, 21-year-old Ben Smart and 17-year-old Olivia Hope were looking for a place to crash after spending the evening celebrating with other partygoers in the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand. They were last seen getting out of a water taxi and boarding a yacht after a strange man offered them a place to sleep…
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Angelika Graswald: The Controversial Story of the Kayak Killer
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30:25It was the early evening hours of Sunday, April 19, 2015. Vincent Viafore and his fiancee Angelika Graswald were trying to enjoy a kayaking adventure in the Hudson River, but the water was cold and choppy, and they were not adequately prepared for the conditions. For one - Vincent wasn’t wearing a life vest and his kayak was missing a drain plug. D…
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Ramona Brown: The Night the Fire Took Her
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25:16The date was March 6th, 1984, the night before Mardi Gras. Hailing from New Orleans, The Brown family, which included parents Johnnie Mae and Aubrey Brown and their 10 children, spent the evening getting ready to celebrate. Excitement was in the air in anticipation of the music, food and floats that they were going to be able to enjoy. The kids wer…
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Johnny Kitagawa: The J-Pop Predator
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28:08One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Tokyo was the smiling faces of J-Pop idols posted everywhere - large billboards, moving trucks, subway cars. Japan has the second largest music market in the world, mostly due to the rising popularity of J-Pop, with millions of fans in Japan and all around the world. One man, known as Johnny Kitagaw…
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Aubrey Dameron: A Life Worth Finding
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28:11It was the very early morning of March 9, 2019 - around 3:30 am, before the sun came up. 25-year-old Aubrey Dameron walked into the living room and told her mother and brother that she was off to meet a friend. She doesn’t specify who this friend is - but she leaves home without her purse or her anti-seizure medication, which she is supposed to car…
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Noah Presgrove: A Small Town Secret
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26:23On September 4th, 2023, at around 5:53 am, 19-year-old Noah Presgrove was found dead on the side of an Oklahoma highway. It was a bizarre scene - Noah was found wearing mismatched shoes, with only one of the shoes belonging to him. His shorts were found a few feet away from his body, along with three pieces of white metal chain and part of his toot…
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Sebastian Rogers is Missing: What Goes Bump in the Night?
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22:17It was the morning of February 26, 2024, and it was supposed to be a day like any other. At around 6am, Katie Proudfoot walked into the bedroom of her 15-year-old son, Sebastian Rogers, to wake him up for school. To her shock, she found his room empty - he was gone. Not in his room and nowhere to be found elsewhere in their Tennessee home. Yes, Seb…
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Thad Phillips: The Lone Survivor of the Bonebreaker Killer
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28:57It was the summer of 1995. 13-year-old Thad Phillips had fallen asleep in his living room watching a movie. Suddenly, he awoke to the feeling of someone lifting him up and carrying him away - initially he thought maybe it was his dad, bringing him upstairs to bed. But it wasn’t. The person holding him was an older teen boy named Joe Clark. Joe carr…
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Teresita Basa: She Solved Her Own Murder From Beyond the Grave
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20:20One early morning in February 1977, the Chicago fire department responded to a call reporting billowing smoke coming from one of the units at the Pine Grove Avenue apartments. After putting out the flames, they discovered that this was much more than a simple fire - it was a crime scene. Inside the smokey apartment, they found the body of Teresita …
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Amy Mullis: The Corn Rake Murder
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29:02“If he catches me, he will make me disappear,” was one of the last things wife and mother of three, Amy Mullis, allegedly told the man she was having an affair with just a few months before she was found lying face down with a corn rake sticking out of her back. She would die from her injuries received in what was initially believed to be a freak f…
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Kanika Powell: A Killer At Her Doorstep
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26:1028-year-old Kanika Powell was a young military veteran who lived in an apartment by herself in Prince George County, Maryland. She has been described as a strong, independent woman, whose life experiences made her very capable of handling stressful situations. However, all of that would change in August 2008, when Kanika would receive a series of s…
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John Christie: The Bad Neighbour/Sex Strangler of Notting Hill
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32:48John Christie was a World War 1 and 2 veteran who lived with his wife Ethel in the bottom floor flat of 10 Rillington Place, a low-income apartment building in London’s Notting Hill district. In the 50s, there was a media storm when one of the tenants living in the same building as John, a man named Timothy Evans, was convicted of murdering his pre…
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Timothy Evans: A Damning Confession and the Bodies in The Wall
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25:12In 1950 Timothy Evans was accused of murdering his wife Beryl, and their baby girl, Geraldine. Timothy, a simple man who couldn’t read or write, lived with his little family in London’s Notting Hill district in the top floor flat. He refuted the accusations, instead claiming that it was actually his downstairs neighbour, John Christie, who killed h…
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Lauren Hugelmaier: It Wasn't the Cough Medicine
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26:16In the early morning hours of September 1st, 2017, around 1 am, a North Carolina 911 dispatcher receives a phone call from 29-year-old Matthew Phelps, an aspiring pastor. He says, “I think I killed my wife. I had a dream, and then I turned on the lights and she’s dead on the floor…I have blood all over me and there’s a bloody knife on the bed and I…
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Kenneth Parks: The Sleepwalking Murder
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21:43In the early morning hours of May 24, 1987, Kenneth Parks got up from the sofa where he had been watching TV, got into his vehicle and drove 20 km - or 12 and a half miles - from his home in Toronto to his in-laws home in Scarborough. He used the spare key that they had given him to enter the residence and proceeded to the master bedroom, where he …
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Reena Virk: Lured With the Promise of Friendship
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27:3714-year-old British Columbia teenager Reena Virk struggled to fit in. She was relentlessly bullied from elementary school, all the way to high school. Self-conscious about her looks and struggling with her strict religious parent's rules, times were tough. So on Nov. 14, 1997, when she received a phone call inviting her out to a social gathering, s…
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Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth
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24:49Life was not always easy for 20-year-old Amanda Wienckowski. At one point, her friends and family had to watch her struggle with an addiction that had her spending time with undesirable people on the wrong side of town. But she was trying to get her life back on track, even enrolling in a criminal justice course at her local community college. Howe…
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Kenny Veach: The Unexplained Disappearance of an Area 51 Adventurer
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22:54In 2014, YouTuber and experienced hiker, Kenny Veach, who went by the handle ‘snakebitmgee’ seemingly vanished while looking for a mysterious cave in the Mojave Dessert. The first time he discovered this cave, which was shaped like a perfect letter ‘M’, he said his whole body began to vibrate and the feeling only grew stronger as he got closer to t…
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Dan Saunders: The ATM Glitch That Made Him a Millionaire Overnight
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22:16One night, as he stumbled out of a bar with only $3 in his bank account, Dan Saunders made a simple decision that would change his luck and his life forever. He stopped at an ATM on his way home to try to withdraw cash from his nearly-maxed-out credit card and discovered a glitch in the system. Somehow, the bank machine allowed him to withdraw a lo…
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Relisha Rudd: The Little Girl Who Was Let Down
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27:00The story of the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd is particularly tragic because, in her short life, she had already survived so much: Neglect, poverty, homelessness and a cycle of trauma within her family. Her mother, Shamika Young, grew up in foster care, struggled with behavioural issues and at one point even had to be place…
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Zohreh Sadeghi: A Podcaster's Parasocial Nightmare
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23:35Zohreh Sadeghi was a 33-year-old young woman living in Redmond, Washington. She was an immigrant from Iran, a successful software engineer and a podcaster, who shared her lived experiences talking about how to find a job in the tech industry as a newcomer. In the summer of 2022, she would have the chance to meet one of her listeners, another Irania…
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Barbara Mackle: Buried Alive for 83 Hours
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28:55Barbara Mackle would regret answering the door in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 1968. On the other side was a masked man, 23-year-old Gary Stephen Krist, who had been researching all of the intricate details of Babara’s life for the last several months. He forced her into the back of a car he had waiting around the corner and drove her out to…
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Cynthia Hoffman: A Heinous Catfish Murder-for-Hire Plot
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20:51When 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman received a phone call from her best friend asking if she wanted to go for a hike, she jumped at the opportunity. The plan was to spend the day at Thunderbird Falls, a scenic hiking trail with a beautiful waterfall view. But Cynthia, who was developmentally delayed, had no idea of the secret sinister intention behind…
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