Spooky B*tch Walk

In 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers was brutally murdered in her home in Florida. She had left a family trip early because she had a medical practice to run. Her husband and two daughters were thousands of miles away at the time of the murder, but investigators still suspected her husband almost immediately. Mark Sievers was over the top dramatic during his initial interview with police. Unfortunately, in...

During the fall of 1989 in a small Minnesota town, three young boys rode their bikes to the video store to rent a movie. On their way home, they were confronted by a man in a mask who ordered them to lay in a ditch. The man told two of the boys to run away and not to look back or else he would shoot them. The boy that was left with the man was Jacob Wetterling. It would be 27 years before his rema...

Tourists had been visiting White Island in New Zealand for over 30 years. Despite it being an active volcano, no one had ever been injured by it erupting before. On December 9, 2019, there were multiple tour groups visiting the island when it started to erupt. Because White Island is a stratovolcano, it isn’t lava that erupts out of it, but steam. There were forty-seven people on the island when i...

On July 6, 1988, 12-year-old Sarah Cherry was babysitting for the first time. Mr. and Mrs. Henkel had hired Sarah to watch their 10-month-old baby, Monica. When Mrs. Henkel arrived home around 3pm, baby Monica was sound asleep in her crib, but Sarah was nowhere to be found. Her glasses, shoes, and jacket were still in the home so Mrs. Henkel knew something was horribly wrong. She called 911.  When...

In part two of this two part series, Hannah tells Bob all about Ian Bailey and his multiple arrests for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Ian had given a statement to police early on in the investigation just because he was a neighbor and journalist. After Marie Farrell identified Ian as the man she saw on the bridge the night of Sophie’s murder, police closed in on him. Ian was arrested tw...

On December 23, 1996, in the picturesque countryside of Schull, County Cork, Ireland, a woman’s body was found brutally murdered near her holiday home. This was Sophie Toscan du Plantier who was staying on her own at her holiday house for Christmas. She usually came to Ireland on her own so this wasn’t out of the ordinary for her. Her friends and family couldn’t think of anyone who would want to h...

In the summer of 1895, brothers Robert and Nattie Coombes were having the time of their lives. The boys had been left home alone to do as they please. Their dad was away at sea and their mom had gone to visit an aunt out of town. Or at least, that’s what they told anyone who inquired as to their mother’s whereabouts. After ten days of freedom, their mother’s severely decayed body was found in the...

In 1876 in Kentucky and 1994 in Washington, citizens experienced the skies raining down mysterious substances. In Kentucky, the blobs appeared to be meat, while in Washington, the blobs were translucent, gelatinous goo. In both instances, samples were collected, tests were performed, and scientists made conclusions.  In the case of the blobs in Washington, scientists never could agree on what the...

Keith and Elaine Dardeen were a well liked and respected couple in their community of Ina, IL. In November 1987, they had a 2 year old son, Peter, and Elaine was seven months pregnant with a baby girl. On November 18, police were sent to the Dardeen family home for a wellness check after Keith hadn’t shown up for work. They found three bodies all tucked into the same bed: Elaine, Peter, and a bran...

In the summer of 1987, Harrison “Marty” Graham was evicted due to his failure to fix the horrific smell coming from his apartment. When he left, he brought a water bottle, some clothes, and his Cookie Monster puppet that he had had since childhood.  When the landlord’s son and nephew went to the apartment to make sure Marty had gone, they found that a door to one of the rooms was nailed shut. They...

In late August of 1977, the Hodgson family started experiencing paranormal occurrences in their home including strange knocking sounds, furniture moving on its own, and Lego bricks being thrown across the room by an invisible force. The matriarch of the family, Peggy, had contacted the police for help but when they couldn’t help her, she went to the media. This led to the home being investigated b...

From 1991 to 2002, there was a series of random sexual assaults in Utah and Wyoming. DNA was left at the scene of 11 attacks. Unfortunately, this DNA didn’t match any identified person in CODIS and eventually, the cases went cold. In 2017, investigators approached Dr. Barbara Rae-Venter to help solve this case through the use of familial DNA. The science had come a long way since 2002, and Dr. Rae...

Lauren Giddings spent the summer of 2011 studying to take the bar exam. She had just graduated from law school in May and was planning to move in with her boyfriend soon. When her sister hadn’t heard from Lauren in a couple of days, she sent one of Lauren’s friends over to check on her, but nobody answered. The friend used a spare key to get into the apartment. Lauren’s keys, wallet, and purse wer...

On December 28, 1956, sisters Barbara Grimes, 15, and Patricia Grimes, 12, left their home to go see Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” at the Brighton Theater in Chicago. When they didn’t arrive home by midnight, their mother alerted the authorities. Police officers and hundreds of volunteers searched for them for days, but the weather was brutal and searches eventually came to a halt. On January 2...

On today’s episode of Spooky B*tch Walk, Hannah tells Bob about the mysterious disappearance of the Sodder children. On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family was gathered in their home spending a cozy night together. Six of the ten Sodder children asked their parents, George and Jennie, if they could stay up late because they were having such a good time together. Jennie and George allowed this; i...

From 1977-1989, the Ant Hill Kids Cult (AKA the Holy Moses Mountain Family) operated in isolated areas of Quebec and Ontario, Canada. The leader of this group, Roch Thériault, collected followers while working at a homeopathic clinic. Roch was able to convince his followers to sell all of their belongings and sever ties with their family members and follow him. Things were fine at first, but as Ro...

On May 24, 2019, Jennifer Dulos dropped her five children off at school and then was never seen again. Jennifer grew up wealthy and had access to all the best opportunities, but all she ever wanted was a loving husband and children. When she hadn’t met the perfect man by the time she was 35, she started making plans to have a child on her own. But then, she ran into Fotis Dulos. They were married...

On this week’s episode, Hannah tells Lainey a story of survival, betrayal, and shipwrecks. The Walker family set sail on the Wandering Minstrel in the fall of 1887 with the goal of starting a shark fishery near the Hawaiian islands. The Walkers brought their dog, Jessie, and 24 crew members along. In February 1888, they ran into some storms while anchored near the Midway Atoll. After 3 days of sto...

On today’s episode of Spooky B*tch Walk, Hannah tells Lainey about the stalking of Dave Kroupa and the murder of Cari Farver. In 2012, Dave was looking for a casual relationship so he went on the dating app, Plenty of Fish. This is how he met Liz Golyar and Cari Farver. He had only been seeing Cari for two weeks when she sent him a text saying they should move in together. Dave didn’t want to do t...

On this week’s episode, Hannah tells Lainey about the murder of Ajike “AJ” Owens. AJ was a mom to four beautiful children who were all under the age of 13 when she was taken from them. AJ and her children lived in Ocala, FL, in a neighborhood with a big open field to play in. All of the neighborhood kids had been playing in this field for years. Susan Lorincz lived in an apartment next to this fie...

On April 25, 2017, 17-month-old Sema’j Crosby was reported missing by her mother, Sheri Gordon. Approximately 30 hours later, Sema’j’s body was found under the couch in her home. The day after she was found, the home was deemed uninhabitable by the county, and the day after Sema’j’s funeral, the home burned to the ground.  DCFS had been involved with this family for years and had visited the home...

Today’s episode is the second part of our series about Losing Streak Lois. In today’s episode, we pick up where we left off: Fort Myers Beach, FL, where a body had been found in a condo unit. This body turned out to be Pamela Hutchinson who was a beautiful, sunshine person just trying to help out a new friend when she was murdered. Luckily, there was security footage all around this condominium wh...

Today’s episode is the first part of our two part series about Losing Streak Lois who murdered her husband in 2018. Lois’s husband, Dave, owned a successful wax worm farm in Minnesota. In March of 2018, his employees became suspicious after they hadn’t seen Dave in over a week and then saw Lois driving away in Dave’s Escalade. They notified police who discovered Dave’s body on the bathroom floor o...

In 1518, the strangest of plagues swept through modern day France. It wasn’t a plague of boils, swollen lymph nodes, or gangrene. No, this was a plague of dance. On July 14, 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea started dancing in the streets of Strasbourg and couldn’t seem to stop. Citizens couldn’t help but notice this woman dancing until her feet were bloody and bruised. They believed this could be...

On today’s episode, Hannah tells Adriana about the murders of Beshan Brian Sugrim. Brian and Bernadette met when Bernadette was only 16. At first, everything was sunshine and rainbows, until one day when Brian told Bernadette he had murdered someone. Seven years later, Brian woke Bernadette in the middle of the night to tell her he had murdered someone again. Bernadette and her children suffered a...