Killer Heart To Hearts
Hosted by real-life couple William Cannon and Elise Buedel, Killer Heart to Hearts isn’t just another true crime podcast. It’s immersive, sharply written, and emotionally honest. With a tone that’s darkly witty, culturally aware, and often chilling, each episode dissects stories of murder, disappearance, and betrayal — always with a human heartbeat beneath the horror. Whether it’s the psychology of an incel, the mystery of a locked hotel room, or a murder staged to look like a suicide, we dive into the shadows — and bring our listeners with us.
Episodes
In 1933, Michael Malloy was a regular at a Bronx speakeasy when a group of men decided he was worth more dead than alive.
But Malloy kept surviving.
The newspapers would call him Iron Mike.
The man who wouldn’t die.
The truth was uglier.
Source Material:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/09/23/molloy-the-mighty
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-man-who-wouldnt-die-89417903/
Jesse James Hollywood wanted to be feared.
In the San Fernando Valley drug scene, fear came cheap — a little money, a little swagger, a few friends willing to do what they were told.
Then a debt got personal.
And fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz was pulled into a world where everyone wanted to act dangerous, but no one wanted to be responsible.
Source Material:
Portbou, Spain. 1990.
A young woman is found hanging from a pine tree above the sea.
No passport.
No money.
No name.
Just a pair of black sandals placed neatly nearby — and a death investigators were quick to call suicide.
For thirty-two years, she was known only as the girl in the tree.
Then, finally, she got her name back.
Source Material:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/15/mystery-girl-found-hanged-spanish-border-town-por...
New Orleans, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina is moving toward the city, and two French Quarter bartenders decide to stay.
Zack Bowen and Addie Hall ride out the storm together, falling in love inside an emptied-out Quarter where the lights are off, the rules are loose, and survival starts to feel like freedom.
But when the power comes back on, reality returns.
One year later, Zack jumps from the roof of the Omni Royal Orleans with a note...
In March 2000, twenty-three-year-old Leah Roberts packed her white Jeep Cherokee and drove west.
No warning. No clear destination.
Nine days later, her Jeep was found wrecked in the woods near Mount Baker, Washington.
Her belongings were still inside.
Leah was gone.
And the crash scene left behind more questions than answers.
Source Material:
https://www.whatcomcounty.us/292/Missing-Leah-Roberts
Virginia. 2015.
A routine morning live shot by the lake.
Reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were covering a local tourism segment when a former colleague unexpectedly stepped into frame.
And what happened next would turn an ordinary local news segment into one of the most horrifying moments ever captured on live television.
Source Material:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-no...
Baltimore. 2006.
Rey Rivera leaves home after a sudden phone call.
He never comes back.
What happened next would leave behind more questions than answers — and a case that still feels suspended between explanation and impossibility.
Source Material:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/mystery-on-the-rooftop/
He was the frontman of a band people loved.
Famous. Charismatic. Familiar.
But behind the image was something far more disturbing — a pattern of manipulation, abuse, and unchecked access that would eventually expose one of the most horrifying cases in modern music history.
This is the story of Ian Watkins.
A predator hidden in plain sight.
And the warning signs too many people failed to stop.
Source Material:
https://www.judiciary.u...
Bergen, Norway. 1970.
The burned body of an unidentified woman is found in a remote valley known as Isdalen — “Ice Valley.”
She has no name.
No clear past.
And no shortage of questions.
Suitcases packed with wigs, coded notes, and false identities only deepen the mystery, as investigators begin to realize this was no ordinary death.
More than fifty years later, she is still known only as… the Isdal Woman.
Source M...
Western Massachusetts. 1994.
Twelve-year-old Becky Savarese gets away.
And in doing so, exposes a quiet predator with a kidnapping kit, a secret plan, and ties to horrors that had already begun.
Because once Lewis Lent started talking… the story only got worse.
Source Material:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-lewis-lent-timeline/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/becky-saverese-attempted-abduction-massachusetts-sara-an...
Auckland, New Zealand. 2006.
Seventeen-year-old Liam Ashley is placed in the back of a prison transport van for what should have been a routine ride.
He never makes it out alive.
What happened inside that moving cage would horrify a country — and expose a system that failed to protect the very person in its custody.
Source Material:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liam-revelled-in-the-pirates-life/O3CBAYLS7NKVU3KJY746LAQKFM/
Lake Tahoe. 2021.
A wealthy family is torn apart after a late-night shooting inside their home.
At the center of it all: former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini.
Source Material:
https://people.com/daniel-serafini-ex-mlb-player-murder-lake-tahoe-exclusive-11784990
https://people.com/daniel-serafini-murder-mistress-samantha-scott-11787493
https://www.kcra.com/article/dan-serafini-murder-trial-tahoe-may-27/64891447
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. April 2005.
Ray Gricar has spent years building cases, following evidence, and knowing exactly where to look when something doesn’t add up.
Then one day, he vanishes.
And the deeper people look, the stranger it gets.
Source Material:
https://www.lockhaven.com/news/local-news/2020/04/the-hunt-for-ray-gricar-15-years-of-clues-theories-and-the-search-for-answers/
https://www.statecollege.com/articles/lo...
Anchorage, Alaska. Summer 2016.
Over five days, three men are attacked in their homes by the same stranger — a man with a black leather jacket, a claw hammer, and a terrifying sense of purpose.
What looks, at first, like a violent spree… is something far more complicated.
🖤🔨🖤
Source Material:
https://apnews.com/general-news-4eb303a6227b4ce38707ab1d16d9529f
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/content/news/Man-allegedly...
Salado, Texas. July 1997.
Lela and Raymond Howard leave home for a local music festival just 15 miles away.
They never arrive.
Days pass. Then weeks. And the farther the search stretches, the harder it becomes to explain how two people can disappear so completely… without ever meaning to.
This is THE WAY.
https://nij.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/decomposition
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10538644/
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An heiress from Duluth.
A trail of fires stretching from Minnesota to the Mexican border.
And a quiet little mining town in Arizona… that never saw her coming.
Marjorie Congdon Caldwell Hagen carried wealth, suspicion, and misery wherever she went.
Her tale is part true crime… and part ghost story that still haunts this desert town.
For this special episode, we’re going local, and recording live from ground zero &mda...
Port Clinton, Ohio. December 2019.
A 14-year-old boy leaves home on a Friday morning and walks to school like he always did. Except this day, Harley Dilly never makes it there.
For weeks, the town searches. Streets, water, woods — every place a kid could disappear into.
Until the answer turns up in the last place anyone could ever imagine.
🖤🧱🖤
Source Material:
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/continuing-coverage/harley-dilly/...
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. 2015.
A family inside a quiet suburban home —
a mother.
a father.
and their seven kids.
And then, in the middle of the night…something breaks.
A 911 call.
And a crime scene so brutal it forces the question nobody wants to ask out loud:
How does a family implode from the inside?
Resources:
National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence: ht...
A young American YouTuber builds a life in a remote town in the southern Philippines.
Then armed men—posing as police—drag him from his home and force him onto a boat headed out to sea.
No proof of life. No body. Tons of questions.
Source Material:
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-reported-abduction-american-sibuco-a7708d6483d43616df8cbddf65aed84e
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-kidnapped-american-eastman-...
They thought it was just a drive.
One friend in the backseat.
One boyfriend riding shotgun.
And a teenage girl behind the wheel.
But what happened next wasn’t an accident.
It was a decision.
And once the car hit 100 miles per hour…
there was no turning back.
Source Material:
https://apnews.com/article/88c1c8ab2a292a72fe3f66b6da81b825
https://people.com/bodycam-shows-bizarre-post-arrest-behavior-teen-killed-boyfriend-driving-100-...
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