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When Elliington police arrived at the Dabate home two days before Christmas in 2015, they were greeted with a shocking scene.

Richard Dabate was laying on the living room floor, tied to a folding chair that lay on top of him. His wife Connie lay dead, shot twice, in the other room.

The story Richard would tell police was terrifying- it was the story of 6'2 masked intruder with a voice like Vin Diesel. A man who would threaten the D...

Adam Hecht had what seemed like a good life. Adam was not only smart and good looking, but he was also extremely kind according to people who knew him.

But when Adam befriends the mysterious Tony soon his personality would begin to change, and he would start spending more and more time away from his family and friends and more time venturing onto the rougher streets of California.

Adam would soon disappear but what happened to the ...

 On Halloween night 1957, Peter Fabiano and his wife Betty are already asleep when they hear a knock on the door. Peter, of course, is annoyed that someone is trick or treating so late, but Peter gets up from his bed, grabs the bowl of candy reserved for trick or treaters and makes his way to the front door.

Unknown to Peter however, the masked person standing on the other end of the door is not looking for a treat- they are l...

17-year-old Carla Walker was blonde and popular and was looking forward to going to college and maybe starting a life with her boyfriend Rodney Mccoy, the Western Hills Cougars star quarterback.

But the night of February 16th, 1974, would be the beginning of an unimaginable nightmare for not only Rodney, but also for Carla's family when Carla was abducted out of a bowling alley parking lot, all while her boyfriend Rodney sat helple...

It wasn't unusual for 13-year-old Mary Louise Day to run away, in fact, she had done it multiple times after her family had moved to Seaside California. What was unusual however, was that when Mary had run away sometime in July of 1981 her family never reported her missing nor seemed too concerned with where the teen had gone.

This was a fact that didn't sit too well with Mary's younger sister Sherrie, who as soon as she turned an ...

20-year-old Angela (Angie) Hammond had plans to meet up with her boyfriend Rob after spending some time with another friend. But, as the night of April 4th, 1991, progressed Angie was starting to get tired. Without a phone at home Angie decided to stop by a local payphone in order to call Rob and let him know she was going to return home instead.

As the two talked however, a two-tone green truck would begin to circle the payphone. ...

Today's case is a case with hard any information on it- and yet it is one of the most intriguing cases I have ever heard. I am willing to bet you haven't heard it either.

At around 3 am on the morning of December 22nd, 1939, Stephen Melkey wandered out into a busy highway and was struck by a car. Once officers arrived at the scene, they soon realized that this wasn't an accident- someone had bound and gagged Stephen and either...

In January of 1993 Karen Lewis and her daughter Lauren returned home to Amarillo Texas from a shopping trip the two had taken to Dallas. It was Super Bowl weekend and the two were expecting to see David, Karen's husband and Lauren's father-knowing that he, as a fan of the Dallas Cowboys - who had been playing in the Super Bowl that year, would more than likely be watching the game.

However, they were shocked to find instead of Davi...

25-year-old Chance Englebert would spend the afternoon of July 6th, 2019, golfing with a few of his in-laws. When he called his wife Baylee that day he seemed to be in a good mood. But, by the time Baylee arrived at the golf course however, Chance's mood had drastically changed.

Though the two were visiting Baylee's family in Gering Nebraska Chance had insisted that Baylee drive him back home to Moorcroft Wyoming instead- no longer...

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Today's episode is a super special episode- it's the podcast's 50TH EPISODE!! (It's kind of a big deal!)

First, I want to thank all of you for pushing the play button every week- your support means so much to me! I wouldn't have gotten here without you. 

For today's episode we are taking a look back on not only my favorite episodes but also yours! The best way I could think of doing that was to separate episodes by ...

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At 2:28 am on the morning of September 7th, 2015, Kareen McCabe received a phone call that would completely change her life forever.

On the other line her husband, Henry McCabe is screaming out...

When Joe Cinque met Anu Singh in 1995, he was immediately smitten with her, and why wouldn't he be? Anu wasn't only pretty, but she was also smart, going to the Australian University for her law degree. And although Anu was dating someone else at the time of their meeting, she would begin an affair with Joe that would turn into an actual relationship.

Two years later however the relationship between Joe and Anu would begin to sour,...

On the morning of June 2nd, 2018, as students at the Portland Oregon Culinary Institute filed in for their usual morning classes, they would make a tragic discovery. Beloved Culinary Instructor Daniel Brophy was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood, shot twice.

His death would be a mystery, almost like something his wife of 27 years Nancy Brophy would have written about in her suspenseful romance novels that she was known for wri...

Charles Holden was nervous when he saw the stranger lurking outside of his home on the evening on June 22, 1991. Fearing for not only his safety, but the safety of his mother- 70-year-old Dororthy Donovan, he rushed to the nearest payphone to call the police.

When an officer arrived at the residence, she accompanied Charles to check on Dorothy, who had lived in a farmhouse behind Charle's trailer.

It was there that the two would fi...

Amber Ashfaq was growing concerned for her co-worker Karen Navarra. Karren, who had worked with Amber as pharmacy technician at Reginal Medical Center in San Jose California hadn't been known for missing days for even being late in her last 27 years of employment.

And yet Amber hadn't heard from her friend despite both calling and texting her.

So, on September 13, 2018, Amber would decide she need to go and check on Karen to make s...

When a human torso is found sitting in a shopping cart in the middle of New York City detectives are immediately aware they have a situation on their hands. They don't know whose headless body it is or who could have possibly put it there. Days later, a few blocks away, a leg from the same body would be found.

The killer would quickly be identified, but who it was- was someone no one expected of such a heinous crime.

Since thi...

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Taylor Schabusiness had several run-ins with law enforcement prior to February 2022. She also had an addiction, an addiction that would lead her to commit arguably one of the most horrific crimes in Wisconsin history since the 1990s.   

It's a case unlike any I have covered so far on the show, and despite the fact that I try t...

When two family members die from natural causes and yet another one falls terribly ill it seems as though the Staudte family is under some sort of terrible curse.

But the truth in today's case is something far FAR more sinister.

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After the death of her first husband- teen author Helen Bailey struggled to deal. She found solace in a group aimed at helping people deal with their grief after the loss of loved ones.

It was while in this group that Helen would meet Ian, a man she would later write about and call the "gorgeous grey-haired widower."

Helen was certain she had finally found her happiness, but unfortunately, it was not to be.

What Helen didn't k...