The Treehouse In The Woods

In this episode we examine the disturbing case of Chandler Halderson, a young man whose elaborate lies about college, jobs, and his future eventually spiraled into something far darker. For months, Chandler maintained a carefully constructed story about graduating from college, working for major companies, and landing prestigious opportunities — all while the truth slowly unraveled around him. Whe...

This episode isn’t a basic retelling of the JonBenét Ramsey case; it’s a deep-dive overview into the theories, suspects, strange details, and unanswered questions that keep this case alive nearly three decades later. Instead of walking step-by-step through events, we explore the side trails: disputed evidence, investigative controversies, public speculation, and claims like those from John Mark Ca...

In this episode, we dive into the haunting string of unsolved crimes connected to Bardstown, a small town shaken by violence, secrets, and unanswered questions. We examine the shocking ambush murder of Jason Ellis, the brutal double homicide of Kathy Netherland and Samantha Netherland, and the mysterious disappearance of Crystal Rogers. As we lay out the timeline, evidence, and lingering theories,...

In this third and final installment of our Killer in My Backyard series, we examine the life and crimes of Keith Hunter Jesperson, better known as the Happy Face Killer. Born in Canada and raised in Selah, Washington, Jesperson later lived and worked throughout Eastern Washington, including the Spokane area, before becoming a long-haul truck driver. That access to the open road allowed him to murd...

In this Weird Wednesday, we dive into the legendary Ape Canyon attack of 1924. Prospectors camping near Mount St. Helens claimed they were besieged by a family of Bigfoot, rocks thrown, terrifying noises outside, and a harrowing night in the wilderness. Join me as we retell the story, explore the eyewitness accounts, and unpack one of the Pacific Northwest’s most infamous Bigfoot encounters.

In 2004, 11-year-old Cody Haynes disappeared in Kittitas County, Washington. His father and his father’s girlfriend were at the center of the accusations surrounding his disappearance. No one has seen or heard from Cody since 2004, and his family continues to fight for justice and answers, answers that only one person now can provide. In this episode, we revisit the case of Cody Haynes, lay out th...

This week, we continue The Killer in My Backyard series with the disturbing and often overlooked case of Donna Perry, also known as Douglas Perry, one of Spokane, Washington’s serial killers. In 1990, three women were murdered and dumped along the Spokane River. For years, the cases went unsolved and were even briefly attributed to another serial killer active in the area at the time, Robert Lee Y...

In this Weird Wednesday episode, we break down the disturbing and bizarrely surreal case of Jonathan Gerlack, a 34-year-old man from Pennsylvania arrested in January 2026 for one of the most shocking grave robbing cases in recent memory. Investigators say Gerlack was stealing human remains from Mount Moriah Cemetery, with some of the bodies dating back to the 1800s. Authorities uncovered nearly 10...

In this episode, we launch our new series The Killer in My Backyard with the case that hit closest to home: Robert Lee Yates Jr., Spokane, Washington’s infamous Grocery Bag Killer. Yates lived in a quiet South Hill neighborhood, just minutes from where we live, blending into everyday life while committing a series of murders across Washington State. From his early life and military career to the c...

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the murder of Hae Min Lee, a case that has become one of the most debated and re-examined in modern true crime history. We walk through the events leading up to Hae’s disappearance, the investigation, and the conviction that followed, but we don’t stop there. This episode looks at everyone involved: the friends, the witnesses, law enforcement, and how alle...

Was Stranger Things inspired by a real government experiment? In this episode, we explore the Montauk Project, the infamous conspiracy involving mind control, psychological trauma, MK-Ultra–style experiments, and alleged time manipulation that many believe directly influenced Stranger Things. But beyond the pop culture connection, this story takes a much darker turn. We examine claims made by indi...

In November 1971, the List family vanished from their home in Westfield, New Jersey — and no one noticed for nearly a month. What investigators eventually discovered inside the Breeze Knoll mansion would become one of the most chilling family annihilation cases in American true crime history. John List methodically murdered his wife, mother, and three children, stacked their bodies in the ballroom...

In this episode, we dive into the baffling case of David Glenn Lewis, a Texas attorney who vanished in 1993 and was later struck and killed along a highway in Moxee, Washington, over 1,600 miles from home. For 11 years, he remained a John Doe, with no clear explanation for how or why he ended up there. What makes this case even stranger is what was happening before he disappeared: an upcoming lega...

Hey friends! Quick update episode. We’re officially switching our release day from Mondays to Tuesdays, starting now. So if you were looking for a new episode today, don’t worry, it’s still coming, just dropping on Tuesdays from here on out. Same show, same chaos, just a better day for everyone. We also go off on a little side tangent (because of course we do) about alligator lore… and whether tha...

When the justice system failed her, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez became her own investigator. After her daughter, Karen Alejandra Rodríguez Martínez, was kidnapped and murdered by cartel members in Mexico, Miriam refused to accept silence, corruption, or inaction. Instead, she spent years tracking down those responsible, gathering evidence, identifying suspects, and forcing authorities to make arrest...

In this episode, we dive into the disturbing and deeply mysterious murder of Cassidy Rainwater, a missing woman from Missouri whose case spiraled into dark web rumors, gruesome allegations, and a wave of conspiracy theories. We break down the timeline of Cassidy’s disappearance, the chilling discovery that linked suspects James Phelps and Timothy Norton to her murder, and the cabin photographs tha...

In June of 1999, a man named Ricky McCormick was found in a Missouri field… and nothing about the case has made sense since. Not the location. Not the circumstances. And especially not the two handwritten notes found in his pockets, notes filled with symbols, numbers, and codes that even the FBI’s top cryptanalysts couldn’t break. Tonight, we’re diving into one of America’s strangest unsolved myst...

Grigori Rasputin wasn’t just a mystic, he was a walking fever dream of a man whose life reads like someone mixed a soap opera with a horror movie and said, “Yeah, that’ll work.”In this episode, we break down the real Rasputin: his chaotic rise from a troubled kid in Siberia, to wandering holy man, to member of a sex cult, to somehow becoming besties with the Romanovs… all while surviving more assa...

This week we’re covering the tragic and deeply unsettling case of actor Johnny Lewis — better known to most as “Half-Sack” from Sons of Anarchy. His final days were a whirlwind of arrests, erratic behavior, and escalating instability that ended in a shocking and violent crime that stunned fans and Hollywood alike. We walk through Johnny’s early acting success, the warning signs that appeared long...

This week, we cover the chilling case of Justin Mohn, who murdered his father, decapitated him, and uploaded a YouTube video detailing his motives. We walk through the timeline, his extremist beliefs, and how authorities responded to a crime that unfolded publicly online. And because our brains needed a palate cleanser after that, we also share the surprisingly adorable WWII-era mission that invol...

In this episode, we unpack the disturbing case of Robert “Awake the Rapper” Crimo III — the SoundCloud-aesthetic musician turned mass shooter behind the Highland Park 4th of July parade attack. We walk through the red flags leading up to the tragedy, the system failures that let him slip through, and the internet’s obsession with linking his story to MK-Ultra and government cover-up theories. We k...

This week’s installment of The Real Faces of Horror dives face-first into the greasepaint with one of the most infamous killers in history, John Wayne Gacy, the suburban businessman, party clown, and serial murderer who forever turned our fear of clowns into a national pastime. Join us (and my day-six migraine) as we untangle Gacy’s double life, explore his chilling connection to Stephen King’s IT...

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate are often remembered as the murderous teenage couple who terrorized Nebraska in 1958… but what if that story isn’t quite right? In this week’s Real Faces of Horror, we take a closer look at whether Caril was a willing partner or just a terrified 14-year-old caught in a nightmare. Think Natural Born Killers, but make it “maybe she didn’t even want to be the...

In one of the weirdest true crime stories to come out of the 1980s, a Domino’s Pizza mascot became the accidental target of a real-life hostage situation. This week, we’re talking about the 1989 Chamblee, Georgia Domino’s incident, where a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid stormed a restaurant at gunpoint, all because he believed the “Avoid the Noid” campaign was a personal attack. We unpack the bizarr...

The Real Faces of Horror: The Gainesville Ripper — The Man Who Made Us ScreamDescription:In the third installment of our Real Faces of Horror series, we’re pulling off the Ghostface mask to meet the real killer who inspired Scream. Before the phone calls, the popcorn, and the rules of surviving a horror movie, there was Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper. We’re diving into the crimes that terro...