Looks That Kill

On the morning of February 10, 1996, Jerry and JoAnn awoke to find Tanya gone. Although Jerry initially thought it was another instance of his daughter running away, he grew nervous after a few days and officially filed her as a missing person on February 14, Valentine’s Day. But Thomas had come up with a plan to get Tanya to leave her home for good. This is the story of Tanya Kach.

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On the morning of September 4, 2023, Noah's body was discovered on the side of Highway 81 in rural Jefferson County, Oklahoma. A passing trucker reported finding him lying in a fetal position, wearing mismatched shoes, and suffering from severe injuries. Initially, law enforcement suspected a hit-and-run accident, but as details emerged, the case became increasingly suspicious.

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Ruth Finley was 47 years old when she began receiving strange calls and letters from someone who threatened and stalked her. Later on she was also abducted by this person stalking her who earned the nickname “the poet” for the strange rhymes and poems in the letters Ruth received.  

Ruth’s story is a crazy one. Buckle up.  

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As a young teenager, Daniel LaPlante did a lot of horrible things… he broke into homes, stalked a young girl, secretly lived in the same home with a family he terrorized, and committed horrific murders.

In today’s episode, we talk about Daniel LaPlante’s disturbing case and also address some urban legends surrounding this case as well.  

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Lena Chapin, Gary's step-daughter, confessed to her previous step-father, and current uncle, that her mother had murdered Gary. Not long after that, Lena herself went missing and was never heard from again. This was all too convenient for the mother, Sandy. Am I right? Listen to this episode to learn more.

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Today’s episode is a 2 for 1! A two-fer! 

The first case is about Carlina White. Carlina was kidnapped at birth and did not find out until she became pregnant with her own baby and needed a copy of her birth certificate. 

The second case is about the Jim Twins. Two brothers who were separated at birth and found each other almost 40 years later.  

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Cari Farver was a 37-year-old woman from Iowa who had a quick fling with Dave Kroupa of Omaha, Nebraska in October 2012 — and two weeks later, she vanished, never to be seen again. The complex craziness that actually took place in this case never ceases to amaze me.

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On November 9th, 1971 the List family was found brutally murdered in their New Jersey mansion. All that was left behind by the murderer was a disturbing letter. 

Police noticed that the family photos had been altered. John List, the husband and father, had been cut out from all family photos. He was also nowhere to be found in the home. John wouldn’t be discovered until almost 20 years later. 

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At the time of her disappearance, Courtney Holden was living in a home with her son, her adoptive mother, Judy, and her adoptive brother, Joshua. Many knew about the abuse Courtney was experiencing, but Courtney never received the help she so desperately needed.

Judy and Joshua were known to refer to Courtney as “Cindy” – short for “Cinderella” – in reference to the amount of household chores they made her do. 

A neighbor r...

After Paul’s attack, police started looking into Sheila’s life. They uncovered a web of lies that Sheila had created and her atta...

This is the story of a Milwaukee love affair between Dolly Oesterreich, the wife of a wealthy apron manufacturer, and her teenage lover that she secretly moved into the attic of the home she shared with her husband. This began a decade-long deception that ended in the murder of Fred Oesterreich.

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On New Year’s Eve 1999, Kaylene “Katy” Harris and her friend Krystal Surles were brutally attacked. Krystal rushed to get help, but unfortunately Katy lost her life. Krystal later woke in the hospital determined to get justice for her and Katy. She remembered exactly what their attacker looked like and was ready to tell police everything she could remember. 

The man responsible for this horrific crime is the serial killer, Tommy Lyn...

This episode is about a man that was murdered, dismembered, and discarded along a highway in Ohio. The prime suspect, his girlfriend at the time, left town shortly after being released from police custody and hasn’t been seen since. 

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Nannie Doss had dreamt of romance almost her entire life. She would do anything to have the life she wanted. Getting rid of everything that wasn't working out for her… including killing four of her husbands. 

Nannies murders didn’t stop with her husbands. She went on to murder eleven people total.  

When she was eventually caught, Nannie giggled while speaking of the horrific things she did. She became known as “The Giggling Gra...

On an afternoon in August of 2017, a very pregnant Savanna Greywind, then just 22-years-old, was asked by a neighbor named Brooke Crews to come upstairs and help her with a sewing project. Savanna agreed and went to try on a dress at the apartment shared by Brooke Crews and her boyfriend, William Hoehn. This was the last time anyone saw Savanna alive.

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In July 1984, Dan Arnold was found brutally murdered in the parking lot of Immanuel Baptist Church in Clinton, North Carolina. Where Dan worked as the minister of music. His death shocked the small town of Clinton. 

Dans murder wouldn’t be solved until four years later. Dan and his wife Donna were involved in a complicated secret life, with a man named Carl Stuffel. In this episode, we talk about how Dan and Donna became tangled in ...

The Fritzl case drew a lot of attention beginning  in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl told police in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl. Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter repeatedly during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the cellar of the family home. The abuse resulted in the birth of seven children: three o...

Anna Bachmeier was a sweet, spunky little girl who everyone in town knew. She had a tough upbringing, being raised by a single mother who struggled to provide a stable life for Anna. One morning when Anna was walking around her neighborhood, she was abducted and murdered. 
Anna’s life was robbed from her by an evil man named Klaus Grabowski. 

Anna’s mother was heartbroken, enraged and decided to take matters into her own hands. ...

Robert Ackermann, also known as the Vienna cannibal, was a 19 businessman and doctor impersonator with a morbid curiosity about the inner workings of the human body who, after several hospitalizations for untreated schizoaffective psychosis, murdered his roommate, ate him, and then tried to blame it on mice. Yes, mice. Other criminals fear Ackermann enough to choose prison over the possibility of being eaten alive by Ackermann at A...