From the Dark Side: Podcast

December 3rd, 2003. 38-year-old Federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna tells his wife and two children he needs to head back to the Baltimore courthouse to finalize a plea agreement for the next morning. He finished up around 11:30 pm. Instead of returning to his home in Elkridge MD, he drove over 100 miles and was found deceased the next morning in a creek in rural Lancaster County, PA. Jonathan’s myst...

December 4th 2022. 27-year old Gretchen Fleming disappears during a night out at the My Way Lounge and Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. All leads point to a certain individual, but Gretchen has not been found and no arrest has been made. Her family and community are determined to get answers. 💀SOURCES💀 http://tinyurl.com/5duemynn NY Post http://tinyurl.com/mtzt7yw3 Disappeared Blog http...

September 12 2019. Officers enter the apartment of 33-year old Brandon Embry for a wellness check. Inside they find his apartment has been destroyed. They find Brandon alive but badly beaten, unrecognizable and unconscious. He died shortly after. The medical examiner ruled his death as pneumonia and self-inflicted injuries. His family is determined to find the truth starting with his girlfriend wh...

On the snowy night of January 12th 2010, Joann Matouk Romain walked out of an evening prayer service at her church. Her Lexus was found abandoned in the parking lot. Her body was located 2 months later in the Detroit River. Investigators claim she walked through the snow, then submerged herself into a nearby icy lake. Her death was ruled a suicide. However, Joann claimed she was in danger in the w...

March 31 2023. A 58-year old single mom has a date at a Seattle Mariners game with a man she met a few weeks earlier at Costco. She is enjoying herself and even takes a photo of them together. This is the last time she would be seen alive. The next day, her phone was still active and sending bizarre messages before being powered off. Who is this mystery man in the photo and where is Leticia Martin...

March 4th 2022. Kouri and Eric Richins are a young, successful couple with three small boys and two businesses. Eric was found deceased one morning. He had told his family prior, “if anything happens to me, Kouri did it.” Kouri publishes a children’s book about dealing with grief. Weeks later, she was arrested for his murder. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/yc7y9bws NBC News https://tinyurl.com/df...

An iconic bar nestled at 8852 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, CA holds a shocking past and many secrets. From the mobsters who frequented there in the 1940s to the death of actor River Phoenix in 1993 to the disappearance of the co-owner/Johnny Depps business partner in 2001. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/59uk8td7 ranker https://tinyurl.com/59mncc52 visit West Hollywood https://tinyurl.com/38mennn5 vi...

June 10 2016. Christina Grimmie started her career on YouTube as a young teenager posting vocal covers of pop songs in her bedroom. She eventually gained 2 million followers on YouTube and placed third on The Voice. By age 22, she was touring and making a huge name for herself. Until one night an obsessed fan shows up at her meet and greet. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/4rvrdy27 Amalafterwards h...

The Boy in the Chimney. May 8th 2008. 18-year old Joshua Maddux went for a walk in the woods and didn’t come home. His family reported him missing, but considered he may have left to start a new life as he was struggling with the death of his brother from two years earlier. Seven years later, Joshua’s remains were located in a chimney just two blocks from his house. Strange evidence left behind su...

April 20th 1998. Debbie and Nino Puglisi had recently purchased their dream home in an upscale neighborhood in Newark, Delaware. Debbie worked as a nurse and Nino worked as a funeral director. Their twins were 19 years old and away at college. Life was great until one sunny afternoon. Debbie is attacked inside her home by an intruder. She is taken from the home and in the fight for her life for th...

May 7th 2017. David Kinney arrives at his best friend Brad McGarrys house to drop off a weed trimmer he borrowed. Inside a grisly scene is discovered. Shocking secrets are revealed that leave their small town in Ohio in disbelief . 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/3nrpx8fp Supreme Court of Ohio https://tinyurl.com/2dv6hke3 Odd Murders & Mysteries https://tinyurl.com/ydj7wrsx Oxygen True Crime https...

December 25 2006. Ryan Waller & Heather Quan didn't show up for a family Christmas dinner and no one can reach them. Officers arrived at their home for a welfare check. They find Heather deceased from a gunshot wound and Ryan walking around battered and saying he doesn’t remember what happened. He is quickly arrested and placed in the police car for four hours. The detective (finally) realizes dur...

December 2nd 2018, 22-year old Grace Millane was touring New Zealand after recently graduating college. She matches with a man on Tinder and the two meet up for dinner and drinks before heading back to his hotel room. Days go by and no one back home has heard from her. Her date was seen exiting the hotel alone and wheeling a very full suitcase. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/katbwep4 https://tiny...

June 1st 1989 was a normal day at the office for accountant Bob Clark. He’s busy adding numbers when he is approached and placed under arrest for the murder of his entire family 18 years prior in Westfield, NJ. He had been living under a new name, a new family and had evaded police until a viewer watching Americas Most Wanted saw her friendly neighbor, Bob the accountant, was wanted for murdering...

January 30 2022. 29-year old Alexis Ware dropped her two children off with her ex-boyfriend at 7/11. The plan was to follow him to his mothers house. They begin driving and Alexis instead hit the gas, sped past him and vanished into the night. Her family says she had been harassed and stalked by an unknown person she referred to as “the devil” in the days leading up to her disappearance. 💀sources...

March 2000. The state of Maryland was terrorized by a man on the run. He killed anyone in his path and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend. Ultimately, his reign of terror ended with a 97-hour standoff with a family of three as his hostages. This is the case of Joseph Palczynski. (tw: domestic violence) 💀sources💀 https://tinyurl.com/bp725ddk https://tinyurl.com/3dwb987j https://tinyurl.com/3k95mrd6 http...

December 1978. Billy Milligan is on trial for several violent crimes. Crimes he swears he didn’t commit even though there’s plenty of evidence that it was him. He claims the crimes were instead committed by a 19-year old lesbian named Adalana who was one of his personalities. He claims there are 24 people living inside of him and he’s just the vessel that transports them around and he has no contr...

Feb 1 2012. An 18-year old barista was taken during her evening shift at the coffee shop. Her abductor placed her in his shed which was close to his home where his girlfriend and child were inside sleeping. The next morning, he leaves for his Caribbean vacation for two weeks. Samantha Koenig was the final victim of serial killer Israel Keyes. 💀sources💀 https://tinyurl.com/2hfwcvuh https://tinyur...

December 7th 1958: a family of five loaded into their Ford station wagon to go look for Christmas greenery for decorations. They are never seen again. The biggest search in Oregons’ history still doesn’t provide all the answers. This is the Disappearance of the Martin Family. 💀sources💀 https://tinyurl.com/yx5kdejz https://tinyurl.com/43nu8j5s https://tinyurl.com/4x6jskym https://tinyurl.com/mr4c...

April 4th 1991. A 20-year old woman calls her boyfriend from a payphone in a shopping plaza. They chat for 20 minutes. Then she tells him there is a dark green truck circling around the empty parking lot and she is beginning to feel scared. More panic sets in when she says the driver got out and is walking towards her. Her boyfriend says he heard the phone fall, screaming and a struggle taking pla...

Chris Coleman was the chief bodyguard of televangelist Joyce Meyer. He seems to have a perfect life that he shares with his wife and two young sons. In November 2008, he began receiving threatening letters in the mail. The final one reads, “This is my last warning. Your nightmare is about to happen”. What unfolded next, no one could have imagined. 💀sources💀 https://tinyurl.com/rdk5ad5f https://t...

In March 1998, 23-year old Amy Bradley boarded a cruise ship with her parents and brother to celebrate her college graduation and new job. Just two days into their trip, Amy disappeared. The ship docked temporarily in Curaçao and all passengers exited before a search was conducted. Many years later, in addition to several credible sightings of Amy, a photo was circulated from an advertisement for...

In 2014, a YouTuber named Snakebitmgee who is an experienced, well respected member of the hiking community discussed a mysterious M-shaped cave he found in the Mojave desert near Nellis Air Force base/Area 51 in Nevada that caused his body to vibrate when he got near it so he quickly left. He received lots of comments urging him to go back and find it. He went back twice to look for it and the se...

November 15 2006. 40-year old Abraham Shakespeare bought two lottery tickets with the last few dollars he had. Abraham learns later that night, he won the $31,000,000 jackpot. His phone rang everyday for months with “friends” asking for a loan. Abraham was very generous and paid off mortgages and gave away a lot of his winnings even to people he hardly knew. Abraham met a tragic ending after being...

December 31 2010, the body of 66-year old Jack Wheeler was found by employees at a landfill in New Castle County, Delaware. Jack was a prominent Washington DC insider, a graduate of Harvard, Yale and West Point Academy and presidential aide to Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and George W Bush. Surveillance footage of Jack loitering around Wilmington and his strange behavior during the days leading up...