Hitched 2 Homicide

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692: Witch Hunts, Executions, and Salem's Haunted History In 1692, the devil supposedly came to Salem, Massachusetts. But the real evil wasn't supernatural. It was the fear, suspicion, and religious hysteria that turned ordinary neighbors into accused witches—and sent 20 innocent people to their deaths. The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the most disturbing cases of ma...

The Villisca Axe Murders of 1912: Eight Victims, One Axe, and a Killer Who Was Never Caught On a quiet Sunday evening in June 1912, the Moore family attended a children's church program in the small, close-knit community of Villisca, Iowa. Afterward, Josiah and Sarah Moore returned home with their four children and two young sisters, Lena and Ina Stillinger, who had been invited for a sleepover. I...

They believed Nelson Rehmeyer had cursed them. Their solution was murder. In November 1928, the Hex Hollow murder turned a quiet corner of York County, Pennsylvania, into the center of a sensational true-crime story. Rehmeyer, a farmer and practitioner of Pennsylvania Dutch powwow—a traditional form of folk healing—became the target of John Blymire’s conviction that he had been hexed. Blymire and...

The Greenbrier Ghost is the name given to Elva Zona Heaster Shue, a young bride murdered in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in January 1897. After only a few months of marriage to blacksmith Edward “Trout” Shue, Zona was found dead in their home. A local doctor called it heart disease. She was buried the next day at what is now Soule Chapel Methodist Cemetery near Smoot. Her husband had dressed...

In March 1954, 25-year-old Constance Fisher was living with her husband, Carl, and their three young children in Waterville, Maine. In part one of this case, we look into Constance's struggle with severe mental illness following childbirth. Following a voice she believed was God's, she drowned her three children–Richard, 6, Daniel, 4, and baby Deborah in the family home before attempting to take h...

In March 1954, 25-year-old Constance Fisher was living with her husband, Carl, and their three young children in Waterville, Maine. In part one of this case, we look into Constance's struggle with severe mental illness following childbirth. Following a voice she believed was God's, she drowned her three children–Richard, 6, Daniel, 4, and baby Deborah in the family home before attempting to take h...

Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt looked more like retirees than ruthless killers, but prosecutors said the two women spent years building an elaborate life insurance murder scheme in Los Angeles. Their victims, Paul Vados and Kenneth McDavid, were vulnerable men living on the margins when Golay and Rutterschmidt entered their lives with offers of food, housing, and help. Behind that apparent gen...

In September 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was one of the most recognizable figures in American entertainment: a silent-film comedian, director, and major Paramount star. Virginia Rappe was a model, designer, and working actress with ambitions of her own in the young film industry. After both attended a Labor Day gathering in Arbuckle’s suite at San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel, Rappe became crit...

On August 23, 1987, teenagers Don Henry and Kevin Ives were struck by a Union Pacific freight train near the Crooked Creek trestle in Alexander, Arkansas. The first official explanation was shocking: authorities said the friends had become incapacitated by marijuana, fallen asleep on the tracks, and died in a tragic accident. Their families did not accept it. Independent medical opinions challenge...

On December 10, 2003, the Whitaker family sat down for what they thought was a graduation dinner. By the time they got home, a masked gunman was waiting inside their house — and two of them wouldn't survive the night. On the surface, it looked like a burglary interrupted. But within days, investigators discovered that the "victim" sitting in the back seat, 24-year-old Bart Whitaker, had...

FROM THE H2H VAULT: On June 27, 1977, one of Minnesota’s grandest mansions became the scene of a brutal double murder. Inside Glensheen, the sprawling Congdon family estate overlooking Lake Superior in Duluth, 83-year-old heiress Elisabeth Congdon was found smothered in her bed. Her night nurse, Velma Pietila, had been beaten to death nearby. What followed was a sensational investigation involving...

In the fall and early winter of 1982, two young women were abducted and brutally murdered within weeks of each other in Morris County, New Jersey. Eighteen-year-old Amie Hoffman disappeared on November 23 after leaving her job at the Morris County Mall. Two days later, her body was discovered in a secluded water-retention tank. On December 5, twenty-five-year-old Deirdre O’Brien was run off the ro...

In the early morning hours of June 3, 1991, 23-year-old Denise Huber vanished after a flat tire left her stranded along a California freeway. Her abandoned car was discovered, but Denise was nowhere to be found. For three agonizing years, her family searched for answers—until a suspicious truck in Arizona led investigators to a horrifying discovery: Denise’s body, handcuffed and frozen inside a ch...

In October 1961, 19-year-old Betty Gail Brown — a promising sophomore at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky — was found brutally murdered in her car on campus. Strangled to death with her own brassiere, her killer has never been brought to justice. This remains one of Kentucky’s most haunting unsolved murders. On this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide, we dive deep into the shocking true s...

In October 2019, 47-year-old Ella Jackson disappeared from her home in Richmond, Kentucky. Her cellphone, wallet, vehicle, and five-year-old son were left behind—but her husband, Glenn Jackson, claimed she had simply walked away. Ella’s family knew better. Days before she vanished, the Ukrainian-born mother of two had met with a domestic violence advocate and consulted a divorce attorney. Investig...

When Ron Ruse Jr. ended his relationship with Linda Ricchio, he hoped for a clean break. Instead, he became the target of an ex‑girlfriend whose obsession escalated from constant phone calls and public confrontations to full‑blown stalking and death threats. In this episode, we take a deep, narrative‑driven look at the case that would become known as the “Fatal Attraction Killer”: Ron’s life in Ca...

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner’s life had all the makings of a tragedy long before there was blood in the snow. Born into privilege as the favored daughter of Loyalist Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, Bathsheba married wealthy farmer Joshua Spooner and settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Behind the facade of status and respectability was a deeply unhappy, allegedly abusive marriage—and a woman who...

A young biotech worker is found dead in his La Jolla apartment, his body carefully laid out on a bed sprinkled with rose petals and framed by a wedding photo. His wife—an ambitious county toxicologist with access to some of the most powerful drugs in the world—tells police it was suicide. Investigators aren’t so sure. In this episode, we unpack the chilling “American Beauty” murder of Gregory de V...

In December 2020, 21-year-old Texas State University student Jason Landry left San Marcos, Texas, headed home to Missouri City for Christmas break. He never made it. Just after midnight, Jason’s wrecked Nissan Altima was found on a rural gravel road near Luling, Texas, with the lights on, the keys in the ignition, and Jason nowhere in sight. His phone, wallet, backpack, and clothing were later fou...

In the early hours of July 31, 2022, a 2018 Toyota Camry slammed into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio at nearly 100 mph. Two young men — Dominic Russo (20) and Davion Flanagan (19) — were killed instantly. The driver, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, survived. What followed was one of Ohio’s most disturbing true crime cases of the decade.   In this deep-dive episode, we examine every angle o...

Before Kansas had fully shaken the dust of the frontier from its boots, a small homestead in Labette County became a house of horrors. In the early 1870s, travelers moving along the Osage Trail stopped at the Bender family’s roadside inn for a meal, a bed, or a glimpse of Kate Bender—the self-proclaimed healer and spiritualist who promised supernatural insight to the desperate and curious. But beh...

In September 2006, the quiet Black Bear Bed & Breakfast in Newry, Maine became the center of one of the state’s most disturbing murder cases. Over Labor Day weekend, Christian Charles Nielsen shot and killed four people: inn owner Julie Bullard, her daughter Selby Bullard, handyman James “Jimmy” Whitehurst, and Selby’s friend Cynthia “Cindy” Beatson. What began with a supposed fishing trip to Upto...

Katherine Knight is one of Australia’s most notorious female killers. She murdered, butchered and dismembered her lover before cooking his head. But behind the infamous headlines is the story of John Price, a father who saw the danger coming and tried to protect himself and his children. In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide , we examine the disturbing case of Katherine Knight, the former abattoir...

They planned it in prison. Then they built the van. Now the toolbox is open… and the girls are disappearing. In Part 2 of this chilling true crime series, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris take their deadly prison pact on the road. Their custom-built torture van—dubbed “Murder Mac”—becomes a rolling chamber of horrors as the pair begins hunting young women across Southern California in 1979. What f...

️ Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of abduction, violence against women, and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised. They called themselves "the Toolbox Killers." But before they had a name, before the tape recorder, before the tools — there were two men who found each other inside a California prison and made a pact that would shock even the most hardened FBI pr...