Tapes from the Darkside

Exactly what happened during the early morning hours of July 2, 2021? Through the fire and flames, we continue on with our coverage of the Halderson case. Episode GIF: https://i.imgur.com/ltDxXc9.mp4 Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it really helps...

Date: July 1, 2021 Location: The Halderson's basement Bart and Krista's lifeless bodies are sprawled across the cold cement floor. Various blood soaked tools are strewn about the room. Hedge clippers, scissors, a keyhole saw, a hacksaw, and an axe. The air is thick with death and desperation. Chandler is bent over his father's half naked body, hacksaw in hand, as he begins the slow and methodical...

Where was Cat Mellender on July 1, 2021? Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it really helps! ) https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/rate/ Join us on Facebook... facebook.com/groups/tapesfromthedarkside Follow us on instagram... @theDARKSIDEpod — Musi...

A horrific discovery is made at Cottage Grove. Episode images (non-graphic): https://imgur.com/a/izkpD0s The following link contains EXPLICIT IMAGES showing a dismembered body. Please approach with caution and respect: https://imgur.com/a/oazEdAk Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com...

In this episode, we'll travel to Tarkov, Russia. Where Chaz and his friend, Smitty, fought side-by-side in a brutal never-ending war. Episode images: https://imgur.com/a/cfVdtRh For more info about the online community that Smitty mentions...for veterans, first responders, and medical personnel: https://www.forwardoperatorsgroup.com/ Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.co...

Let's step inside the interrogation room with a cold-blooded killer. Episode gifs: https://imgur.com/a/RIgLpdx Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it really helps! ) https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/rate/ Join us on Facebook... facebook.com/groups...

The date was June 29, 2021. An ordinary Tuesday afternoon. But in just two days time, Bart and Krista Halderson would be dead. Their body parts strewn across rural Wisconsin. Omar Jobe, 33-years-old, answers the phone while working his job at the Madison Area Technical College help desk. He's connected with a man named Bart Halderson (pictured below). Bart would assume his son's identity in an att...

On June 17, 2021, Chandler slipped and fell down the stairs at his parents' house. And in that one brief moment the entire trajectory of his life was forever changed. Episode images. https://imgur.com/a/HoYpVoL Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it r...

We travel into the interrogation room with Cat. And also learn more about her background. Pic: https://i.imgur.com/tdyk1yq.png Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it really helps! ) https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/rate/ Join us on Facebook... fac...

The twenty-three-year-old Chandler Halderson appeared to be living the ideal life. Beautiful girlfriend, a loving family, and the dream job. How did it all go so wrong? Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Make a one time donation... https://www.tapesfromthedarkside.com/paypal/ Leave us a Review ( ...it really helps! ) https://www.tapesfromthedar...

A jailhouse phone call. An interesting phenomena in its own right. The prison industrial complex in the USA generates an estimated 1.3 billions per year. In March of 2020, when the Dane County Jail stopped all in-person visitations due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus they implemented a policy in which every inmate was allotted two 15-minute phone calls per day. No matter if it's free or...

Bart and Krista Halderson went missing in July of 2021. Their bodies were found dismembered, decapitated, and strewn throughout rural Wisconsin. The last person to see them alive was their son, Chandler, and he quickly became the lead suspect in a criminal case. But what could possibly lead a person to murder their own parents? This is "The Haldersons" presented by Tapes from the Darkside .

Part 1 of 1. This story is about an artificial intelligence chatbot named LaMDA and the Google engineer who thinks it has become sentient. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — This is Season X. Our anthology season where we bring you a new case each episode. We'll return to this season occasionally to bring you more 1-off stories. Episode Website: tapesfromthedarkside.c...

Part 1 of 1. Call transcript: >Police Department. >A man is trying to break in my door. I don’t know who he is. He said, ‘let me in.’ >He’s doing what? >He’s trying to break in my door! >What’s your address? >[redacted] >What’s your name, ma’m? >Karen [redacted]. >Karen, I want you to stay on the telephone, okay? >Okay. >Where are you now? >I locked the front do...

“In the end, however, despite all the mystery still surrounding Otto, it is essential to remember two facts that endure as unyielding as gravestones: Otto’s death and the grief of those he left behind.” —Doug Bock Clark, investigative reporter Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — 50% of September’s Patreon pledges will go to Liberty in North Kore...

The intricacies of international diplomacy and political power-plays unravel while a young man's life hangs in the balance. While Otto Warmbier faces 15 years in a North Korean prison camp, the tension between superpowers begins to boil, political tides shift, and strategies of the past are weighed against the fate of an American held hostage abroad. Amidst these high-stakes negotiations, who coul...

If convicted of this alleged crime what kind of punishment was awaiting Otto Warmbier? Allow me to introduce you to the North Korean "re-education" prisons; a network of concentration camps that perpetually holds and brutally tortures approximately 200,000 people. Support the show and get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Lead writer this season: Carissa Collinge Cariss...

It was the last time his family would hear him speak. This is Otto Warmbier's confession. Support the show and get bonus content... https://www.patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside — Lead writer this season: Carissa Collinge Carissa.collinge@gmail.com Main theme music: 20Six Hundred https://20sixhundred.bandcamp.com/ Additional music: Augusta Treverorum https://soundcloud.com/agsttrvrrm — Make a one t...

Calvin says that the first thing you noticed right away was the low ceilings. It was half that of the other floors. This truly felt like a nonexistent floor. Built between the crawlspaces of two actual floors. The taller members of the group buckled their knees to give the necessary headroom. And then excited, but also anxious, the group spread out and began to explore. Calvin cautiously walked th...

The story of Otto Warmbier, an all-American boy with an adventurous spirit. A former high school standout who would decide to take a daring vacation to North Korea during his college years. This episode begins to unravel the mystery of his New Year's Eve night in Pyongyang that would forever change the trajectory of his life. Discover the untold truths behind his capture, the resulting internation...

The extended version of this episode is available ad-free on Patreon and Apple Plus. https://www.patreon.com/posts/87357593 — Bob Motta has been practicing law for over 20 years. He graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law and became licensed in 2001. Since then, he helped found the law firm Motta & Motta where he practiced law alongside both his father and his wife. Mr. Motta has been named...

Part 2-of-2 In a video on the official Facebook page for the USA's largest volunteer-supported child mentoring group, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America , Eleanor Hunton Hoppe stares down the barrel of the camera's lens and states: "I'm Eleanor and I support Big Brothers and Big Sisters because our mentoring model works." Eleanor was employed by the organization from December 2017 to June 2019 an...

Part 1-of-2 Ad-free, premium version. Exported in 320kbps mp3 format for high-definition audio (approximately 2x the quality of the public feed). Available at patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside . — During the afternoon hours of March 16, 2023, a forty-five-year-old woman named Eleanor Hoppe got into her SUV and began the one-and-a-half-hour drive from her home in Charlottesville, Virginia to a hotel...

"It is undoubtedly the most hideous and dastardly crime I have ever known," the medical examiner, Dr. Weisman, said, as he left the autopsy room. Sheriff Ludwick agreed. "[It’s] the worst thing that’s happened in Knox County while I’ve been here.” Leaves crunched under his shoes and the sun’s last rays pried their way into his squinted eyes as John walked down Crescent Street. He had an errand to...

You have heard bits and pieces of this audio already in the Jacob Jeremiah Landin season. But this is the full uncut interview. I actually recorded this as a sort of "aftershow" before the season was even completed—mainly to ask Eric about his relationship with his brother. I hope you find it interesting. — Support TAPES FROM THE DARKSIDE. patreon.com/tapesfromthedarkside Please subscribe to Eric'...