Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

1/16/2022 Update: Audio fixed and re-uploaded for better listening experience. Christmas Eve 2007 changed Carnation, WA and the Anderson family forever when Michele Anderson and boyfriend Joe McEnroe took the lives of nearly her entire family on the eve of her father's favorite holiday.   Sources Banquet of Consequences: The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson by Paul Sanders https://en.wi...

Like nearly every 14 year old girl, Reena Virk just wanted to fit in.  Unfortunately the people she tried so hard to mesh with ultimately caused her death.  Sara takes us to Saanich, British Columbia to tell the tragic story of the murder of Reena Virk. Sources https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/murder-of-reena-virk https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvpqa7/the-unforgettable-story-of-a...

Our first cryptid case explores the watery depths of Okanagan Lake in Vancouver BC!  Has a Nessie-like creature lived in Okanagan Lake for hundreds of years?   Sources https://www.gaia.com/article/3-new-sightings-confirm-ogopogo-lake-monster-in-british-columbia?utm_source=google+paid&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=1-INTL-PERFORMANCE-MAX&utm_content=performancemax&gclid=CjwKCAiA4veMBhAMEiwAU...

Time travel with Sara back to the US Oregon territory in 1844 where a dispute about a horse went really wrong and inspired some super shitty laws about who could and could not live in the Oregon territory.     Sources: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cockstock-incident/#.YX3y1dnMJ0s https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/skin-summer-2013/dangerous-subjects/ https://www.oregonencyclo...

Known as "Oregon's most prolific serial killer," the Molalla Forest Killer case is a rough one.  These are the stories of the victims of Dayton Leroy Rogers, a monster who should have been locked up permanently years before he would be linked to the murders of 8 women in the summer of 1987. Sources Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer by Gary C. King https://murderpedia.org/male. R/r/rogers...

25 year old Yakama woman Alillia "La La" Minthorn went missing in May 2019 from Toppenish, WA.  She told her sister "If I don't make it back, come look for me."  La La's last words would haunt her sister, Tanya, as La La never came home alive.   Sources: thevanished.org - A project of the Yakima Herald-Republic which is dedicated to the missing and murdered indigenous women of the Yakama reservati...

Our first case takes us to the summer of 1993 in Seattle, WA; punk rock group The Gits were on the precipice of greatness and days away from a cross-country tour when their frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was the victim of an apparent random murder on Seattle's Capitol Hill.  This is the story of Mia Zapata, her untimely and tragic murder, and the legacy she left behind. Sources: https://pitchfork.com/new...