Two Unhinged Trash Pandas

A promising Craigslist job offered good pay, a place to live, and the chance for a fresh start on a remote Ohio cattle farm. The job never existed. In this episode, Lit and Kissy examine how Richard Beasley used an ordinary-looking employment ad to locate vulnerable job seekers, evaluate who might resist or be quickly missed, and lure selected men into the woods. We follow the lives of Ralph Geige...

It’s Halloween—and the Trash Pandas are playing a dangerous little game called Trick or Trash. Lit has prepared three deeply unsettling stories for Kissy: 🪦 A dead outlaw whose journey didn’t end when he died 🐇 A hatchet-wielding rabbit haunting a lonely stretch of road 🔔 A forgotten logging camp, a buried bell, and something beneath the outhouse that refuses to stay quiet Each story could be d...

In December 1900, three experienced lighthouse keepers—James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur—vanished from Eilean Mòr in Scotland’s remote Flannan Isles. When the lighthouse tender Hesperus finally reached the island, relief keeper Joseph Moore found an empty station, an extinguished light, and no trace of the three men. Their bodies were never recovered. More than a century later, the...

Before Auschwitz tried to reduce her to a number, Erika Kounio Amariglio had a name, a family, a home and a life. She was a daughter, a sister and a young girl growing up beside the sea in Thessaloniki, Greece—a city once home to one of Europe’s most vibrant Jewish communities. In this episode, Kissy and Lit examine the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, the machinery of propaganda and perse...

In 1977, Teresita Basa was murdered inside her Chicago apartment. With few leads and no apparent witnesses, her case seemed destined to remain unsolved—until another woman began speaking in a voice that allegedly belonged to Teresita herself. According to the story that followed, Teresita named her killer from beyond the grave, described the jewelry stolen from her apartment, and told investigator...

Canada had a national emergency—and it was sticky. Between 2011 and 2012, thieves quietly emptied approximately 9,500 barrels from Quebec’s strategic maple syrup reserve, stealing nearly six million pounds of syrup valued at more than $18 million Canadian. Barrels were drained, replaced with water, transported by the truckload, and funneled back into the legitimate syrup market. Yes, Canada really...

In 1985, a hunter discovered a barrel on private property beside Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Inside were the remains of a woman and a young girl. Fifteen years later—and only about 300 feet away—a second barrel was found containing two more children. For decades, the four victims were known only through forensic estimates, facial reconstructions, and the place where someone...

In 1921, 23-year-old Iñupiaq mother and seamstress Ada Blackjack joined four inexperienced young men on an expedition to Wrangel Island. She wasn’t chasing glory or trying to claim foreign territory—she needed money to bring her sick son home. Nearly two years later, Ada and the expedition cat, Vic, would be the only ones to leave the island alive. This week, we follow the Wrangel Island Expeditio...

Season Two begins with The Boy Minnesota Never Stopped Looking For. On October 22, 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted while returning home from a convenience store with his brother Trevor and best friend Aaron. His disappearance changed his family, transformed Minnesota, and became one of the most recognizable missing-child cases in America. But Jacob was never merely a case. He w...

🎙️ Episode 12: The Yuba County 5 ~ America’s Most MACABRIOUS Mystery Five men. One abandoned car. And questions that still don’t make sense. It’s the Season One Finale, Trash Pandas—and apparently we decided the appropriate way to celebrate was to choose a case that leaves us with approximately four answers and 7,492 questions. In February 1978, five friends set out for a basketball game in Califo...

🎙️ Episode 11: The Servant Girl Annihilator ~ Austin’s “Macabrious” Midnight Nightmare What happens when one of America’s earliest unsolved serial killers stalks the streets of 1880s Austin… and your co-host accidentally invents a brand-new vocabulary word? This week, Lit takes the lead with the chilling story of The Servant Girl Annihilator, the mysterious killer who terrorized Austin, Texas year...

🐼🦝 Episode 10: Hitler Had Nine Lives… Unfortunately Some people have guardian angels. Hitler apparently had a whole damn committee. This week, Kissy dives into the unbelievable true stories of the many times people came this close to changing history forever. From bombs that barely missed to plots that unraveled at the last second, we’re counting down some of the most fascinating assassination a...

Episode 9: Israel Keyes — Murder Kits Across America Get your snacks, your alibi… and maybe a fucking map for this one. 🗺️🦝 This week, Lit & Kissy dive into the disturbing case of Israel Keyes, a serial killer who traveled thousands of miles across the United States, buried “murder kits” years in advance, and deliberately tried to make his crimes nearly impossible to connect. From unexplained...

🎙️ Episode 8: What Happened to Maura Murray A young woman crashes her car on a snowy New Hampshire road… and less than twenty minutes later, she’s gone. This week, the Trash Panda Research Department opens MAIN INVESTIGATION FILE #008 as we dive into one of the most debated missing person cases in modern history: Maura Murray. Together, we separate confirmed facts from internet folklore, walk thro...

For more than a decade, the Long Island Serial Killer was a ghost. The evidence was there. The clues were there. The victims deserved answers. But the case remained unsolved. In Part Two of our Gilgo Beach series, we follow the investigation that finally brought new momentum to one of America’s most infamous serial murder cases. From a forgotten witness description of a green Chevrolet Avalanche t...

Before the headlines… Before the arrest… Before the suspect had a name… There were mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends who simply never came home. This week, the Trash Pandas head to the lonely stretch of Ocean Parkway where the search for one missing woman unexpectedly uncovered one of the most infamous serial murder investigations in American history. We take a step back from the killer to...

Episode 5: The Sodder Children | A Fire, Five Missing Children, and Decades of Questions On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. While most of the family escaped, five children were believed to have perished in the flames. But almost immediately, things stopped making sense. A missing ladder. A cut phone line. Fire trucks that never arrived. N...

Episode 4: Brandon Swanson Part 2 | Into the Fields After covering Brandon Swanson’s disappearance, we packed up the Trash Panda Mobile and headed to western Minnesota to see the area for ourselves. In this episode, we discuss our field investigation, the terrain, the rivers and waterways, the scent dog trail, Jeff Hassey’s years of research, and how differently this case feels when you’re standin...

A college student gets lost on a rural Minnesota road, calls his parents for help, and disappears while talking to them on the phone. Nearly 18 years later, we’re still asking the same question: What happened to Brandon Swanson? This week, we cover the story. Next week, we’ll take you along on our own field investigation into the area where Brandon vanished.

A mysterious night in the Ural Mountains. Nine experienced hikers. A campsite abandoned under bizarre circumstances. More than six decades later, the Dyatlov Pass Incident remains one of the world’s most puzzling unsolved mysteries. Join Talitha and Kissy as they dive into the strange events of February 1959, explore the theories, examine the evidence, and inevitably wander off into a few side que...

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