Dark Side of the Land

Dark Side of the Land

Podcast by 19 News

Episodes

October 28, 2025 57 mins

In this final episode, Bionca Ellis learns her punishment for killing three-year-old Julian Wood.  Hear the powerful messages from Julian's mother and father as the judge hands down Justice for Julian.  

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Two-year-old Nevaeh Holton vanished more than a decade ago but the little girl wasn’t reported missing for years. Now, the father who never knew she existed is speaking out for the first time, desperate ...

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October 16, 2025 47 mins

After six days of testimony and 7 hours of deliberations, the jury in the Bionca Ellis trial has reached a verdict. Did Bionca Ellis knowingly kill 3-year-old Julian Wood?  

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October 10, 2025 38 mins

A three-year-old boy stabbed to death in a brutal, random attack at a grocery store parking lot.  In this episode we hear from Julian's mother who had to witness the murder of her son.  We'll also hear from medical experts who argue whether Bionca Ellis was insane when she committed the horrific crime. 

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October 6, 2025 37 mins

Three-year-old Julian Wood was at an Ohio grocery store with his mother when, suddenly, a woman attacked, stabbing him to death in a brutal, random act of violence. Police would arrest Bionca Ellis only about a hundred yards from the crime scene. In this special Dark Side of the Land series, you can listen to key testimony in the trial and get expert legal analysis as a heartbroken family and a devastated commu...

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Nearly 30 years after a young Cleveland mother vanished without a trace, a suspect has now been arrested and charged with her murder. Cathy Parisi was working as an escort when she disappeared in April 1997. Her body has never been found. In this episode, 19 News investigative reporter Sara Goldenberg goes inside the investigation and the courtroom, and takes a closer look at what kind of possible evidence...

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July 17, 2025 42 mins

19 News investigator Sara Goldenberg has uncovered new developments in the disappearance of Keshaun Williams. It has been more than two years since the teenager mysteriously vanished after going to a party in Cleveland and we have just learned investigators are now looking into new leads regarding persons of interest in the case. In this episode, Sara takes you inside the investigation with Deputy U.S. Marshal ...

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July 8, 2025 44 mins

Reality show producer Jonathan Walton is not your average scam victim. After losing nearly $100,000 to a career con artist, Walton set out to take her down and then went on to become somewhat of a con artist hunter. After investigating hundreds of scam cases, he suspects you may fall victim next. In this episode, Walton teams up with 19 News investigator Jen...

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19 Investigates has uncovered new developments in the mysterious disappearance of a Cleveland mother who went missing four years ago. Rajah McQueen was last seen on June 26, 2021. In an exclusive interview with 19 News investigator Sara Goldenberg, Cleveland Police and the FBI identify two persons of interest in Rajah's disappearance and reveal how this missing persons case has sadly turned into a death investi...

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Six years after Kate Brown and Carnell Sledge were shot and killed in a busy park, investigators are still searching for answers. Could a recent murder suicide near the original crime scene be the key to this dark mystery? Was the only witness more than just an innocent bystander? Will new DNA technology finally bring justice for two grieving families? 19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky reveals new information on ...

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Martha Wise was obsessed with funerals - so much so that the Medina County woman made sure she had plenty to attend. She pretended to have a rat problem and bought massive amounts of arsenic under the pretense of wanting to rid her rural homestead of rodents. But it wasn't rats she was feeding the poison to; it was more than a dozen members of her own family. In this episode, 19 News reporter Jen Picciano digs ...

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The Kaber House along Lakewood’s wealthy Gold Coast looked like a happy home from the outside. But behind closed doors, Eva Kaber was slowly poisoning her husband. When the arsenic she was putting in his food didn’t kill him fast enough, this original ‘Desperate Housewife’ hired a couple of hitmen to finish the job. And it seems Eva w...

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Velma West craved the Cleveland nightlife so much that she killed for it. 
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Around the turn of the century, Cassie Chadwick conned Clevelanders out of millions of dollars - and she did it all by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan Andrew Carnegie. In this episode, 19 News reporter Jen Picciano unravels the wild story of the original "Queen of the Con," who also operated as a jewel smuggler, a brothel mad...

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April 9, 2025 31 mins

After 35 years, the answer to the question, "who killed Amy Mihaljevic" may finally be answered thanks to new DNA testing and a group of dedicated scientists working in labs from coast to coast.  In this episode, 19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky takes us inside the Florida lab that uncovered new DNA in the case.  Find out how they did it and how soon experts can go from science to a suspect.

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On March 24, 1972, a team of professional thieves from Northeast Ohio pulled off a multi-million dollar bank heist in a sleepy California beach town. The crew of top-notch crooks almost got away with it too, but a few tiny mistakes turned their almost flawless burglary into one of the most notorious busts in American history. In this episode, 19 News investigator Kelly Kennedy goe...

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On March 24, 1972, a team of professional thieves from Northeast Ohio pulled off a multi-million dollar bank heist in a sleepy California beach town. The crew of top-notch crooks almost got away with it too, but a few tiny mistakes turned their almost flawless burglary into one of the most notorious busts in American h...

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November 26, 2024 25 mins

Charles Rini was a suburban father and businessman who vanished on March 30, 1981 after leaving his home to meet someone. Could his ties to the Cleveland Mafia and selling diamonds be the reason he disappeared? In this episode, 19 News investigative reporter Sara Goldenberg goes into the theories behind Rini’s mysterious disappearance and the dismantling of the mob by the federal government in the 1980s. ...

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November 21, 2024 40 mins
Pete DiGravio was known as the mayor of Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood. He was also a loan shark who any number of people could have wanted dead. On June 21, 1968, DiGravio was gunned down on the 16th hole of the Orchard Hills Golf Club - shot by a sniper hiding in the nearby woods, waiting for his target to tee up. In this episode, 19 News investigator Jen Picciano outlines the many characters in DiGrav...
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November 19, 2024 55 mins
Infamous Irish-American gangster Danny Greene declared war on the Italian mafia and he nearly won. Greene escaped death countless times and his reputation as "unkillable" grew with each bullet and blast he dodged. His son, who is now a Cleveland city councilman, says his father was fearless. But Greene's luck finally ran out in October 1977. In part 3 of this series, 19 News investigator Kelly Kennedy takes you...
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