Shadows In The Pines

🎙 Harry Tracy — The Last of the Wild West Outlaws In the summer of 1902, the Pacific Northwest became the stage for one of the most dramatic manhunts in American history. A prison escape. A trail of violence stretching across Oregon and Washington. Posses, bloodhounds, and terrified communities watching the forests and wheat fields for a man who seemed impossible to catch. His name was Harry Tracy...

On February 18th, 1983, thirteen people gathered inside the Wah Mee Gambling Club in Seattle’s Chinatown–International District. By the end of the night, twelve of them would be dead. This episode covers the full story of the Wah Mee massacre — from the neighborhood it happened in, to the robbery that turned into one of the largest mass killings in Washington state history, to the investigation th...

Robert Pickton — Part Four: The Outcome Podbean Description: The search of the farm expands. What began as a firearms warrant becomes one of the largest and most expensive crime scene investigations in Canadian history. In Part Four of our Robert Pickton series, we walk through the excavation of seventeen acres in Port Coquitlam — the slaughterhouse, the freezer, the buckets beneath it, the pig pe...

Episode Title: The Red Light of the Silver Valley For nearly a century, the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho operated one of the most openly tolerated red-light districts in the American West — not in secret, not underground, but woven directly into the fabric of the community. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step back into the boomtown chaos of the 1890s, when silver ruled the Silv...

Shadows in the Pines — Willie Pickton Part Three: The Women By 1999, this was no longer rumor. The names were stacking. Women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were disappearing within a compressed window of time. Families were reporting them missing. Friends were organizing their own searches. Bad date lists were circulating. And inside police departments, files were beginning to feel less isola...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION — PART TWO   In Part Two of our three-part series on Robert William Pickton, we move beyond the missing women and into the place where everything converged: the farm.   This episode examines daily life on the Pickton property—how it functioned, who passed through it, and why so many warning signs went unchallenged for years. We look closely at the family dynamics between Robert...

The Centennial Trail: A Walk from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene This is not a travel guide. It’s not a history lecture. And it’s not about distance. This episode is a slow, full-length walk along the Centennial Trail — a gentle, continuous journey following the Spokane River from the heart of Spokane, Washington, to the still waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Moving mile by mile, the episode traces...

Episode Description — Robert Pickton: The Horrors on the Farm (Part One)   In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we begin our deep-dive into one of the most disturbing and devastating cases in Canadian history — the crimes of Robert Pickton.   Before the headlines. Before the farm. Before the missing women became numbers.   Part One focuses on the origins of the Pickton family and the environme...

Israel Keyes — Part 4: What He Took With Him In Part 4 of our deep-dive into Israel Keyes, the violence stops moving — but the damage doesn’t. After his arrest, Keyes enters federal custody not as a confessed murderer, but as a fraud suspect tied to a missing woman. What follows is not a breakdown, but a negotiation. Over months of FBI interviews, investigators attempt to determine the true scope...

The Davenport Hotel: History, Hauntings, and the Shadows of Spokane In the heart of downtown Spokane stands the Davenport Hotel — a landmark synonymous with elegance, ambition, and a century of Pacific Northwest history. But beneath the polished marble floors and grand ballrooms lies a quieter legacy, shaped by loss, transition, and stories that refuse to fade. In this episode, we explore the full...

Episode 3 — The Unraveling In Episode 3 of Shadows in the Pines, the investigation finally gains traction — not through a witness or a confession, but through a debit card. As ransom-linked ATM withdrawals begin appearing outside Alaska, investigators shift from reacting to a disappearance to tracking a moving trail. Each transaction produces a timestamp, a location, and eventually a pattern — one...

Israel Keyes – Part Two: The Curriers & Samantha Koenig In Part Two, the distance becomes the weapon. After leaving Alaska, Israel Keyes travels thousands of miles to rural Vermont, where a quiet farmhouse becomes the site of the abduction and murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier—a crime with no bodies, no traditional crime scene, and only the details he would later choose to reveal. From Vermo...

Roy Olmstead was one of the most successful bootleggers in American history — and one of the least suspected. Known as The Gentleman Bootlegger, Olmstead built a sprawling Prohibition-era liquor empire across the Pacific Northwest while presenting himself as a polite, soft-spoken family man. He bribed officials, coordinated fleets of boats and trucks, and moved massive quantities of alcohol throug...

In Part One of our three-part series on Israel Keyes, we examine how preparation became a way of life. Long before any known murder, Israel Keyes was laying groundwork — not impulsively, not emotionally, but deliberately. Raised in extreme isolation and shaped by rigid authority, he learned early how to exist without drawing attention, how to test boundaries quietly, and how to move through the wo...

Flypaper Lyda — Idaho’s First Serial Killer At the turn of the twentieth century, sickness was a part of everyday life. People got ill at home, doctors offered few answers, and deaths—especially slow ones—were rarely questioned. That silence created the perfect conditions for something far more dangerous to hide in plain sight. This episode tells the story of Lyda Southard, often cited as Idaho’s...

🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to e...

🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to e...

Between late 2022 and mid-2023, the bodies of multiple women were discovered across Oregon and southern Washington—found weeks apart, across jurisdictions, and under circumstances that initially appeared unrelated. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we examine the case of Jesse Lee Calhoun, an Oregon man charged with the murders of four women, with a fifth death remaining legally uncharged....

Donna Perry — Part Two: The Investigation Closes In In Part Two of the Donna Perry case, investigators begin to connect what first appeared to be isolated tragedies along the Spokane River. As tips surface and witness statements sharpen, law enforcement zeroes in on a suspect whose movements, behaviors, and history raise disturbing red flags. This episode follows the methodical unraveling of the c...

Stepping inside St. Ignatius Hospital isn’t like walking into a building… it’s like walking into everything it refused to forget. 🕯️ Shadows in the Pines returns to Colfax with our full paranormal case file. If you love abandoned places, this one stays with you. #stignatius #stignatiushospital #colfaxwa #hauntedhospital #pnwhaunted #paranormalpodcast #shadowsinthepines #minipines #truecrimepodcast...

Donna Perry: The Spokane River Murders In the early 1990s, a series of women vanished along the margins of Spokane’s sex-work corridor. Their bodies surfaced near the riverbanks—discarded, unidentified, and quickly forgotten by a system that never protected them. For decades, the files sat unsolved. No witnesses. No fingerprints. No suspect who made sense. But time has a way of exposing what peopl...

Step beneath the canopy and into the shadows of the Pacific Northwest, where the forest breathes, the silence listens, and the land remembers every story ever buried beneath its trees. In this extended 45-minute feature hosted by Bekah, Mini Pines goes deeper than ever into the region’s oldest folklore — from the silent zones where sound disappears, to the watchers who stand between the trees, to...

Forest Park carries darkness in a way that feels deliberate. On the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1960, nineteen-year-olds Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan left for an ordinary night at Portland’s brand-new Lloyd Center…and never made it home. By the next day, Larry’s Ford was found abandoned off a remote turnout in Forest Park, his body inside, the driver’s door ajar. Beverly was gone. In this episod...

Due to unforeseen circumstances outside of our control we are unable to upload this weeks episode on Saturday as planned, we are working hard to release it asap

In this episode we rap up the case of Jerry Brudos, The Oregon Lust Killer.