BELOW THE SURFACE

Episode 11  Grigori Rasputin Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire. For a time, he was the equivalent of a modern day rock star or celebrity, but as time went on, he began to be viewed by many...

Episode 10 Louisa Ioannidis 24-year-old Louisa Ioannidis was found floating in Darebin Creek in the Melbourne Australian suburbs on October 11, 2011. While her death was ruled an accidental drowning, her brother, Tass, believes she was murdered, and has spent the last fifteen years urging Victoria authorities to reopen her case. In 2024, new evidence was brought to the Australian public, but was i...

Episode 9 Tucker Hipps Clemson University sophomore, Tucker Hipps, was found floating in one South Carolina's larges revisors, Hartwell Lake. Twenty-nine members of Tucker's fraternity were with him as he ran across the Seneca River Bridge on a fraternity initiation run. But when his body was found several hours later, none of them came forward to explain how he'd gone from running, to drowned. To...

Episode 8 Rafael Hernandez-Torres Rafael Hernandez-Torres was a well liked, and respected member of his Tulsa, OK community. He was known by everyone as a kind and giving person, and was a fixture to locals who knew him from the time he spent driving his taxi cab. So in 2015 when Rafael was found shot to death and his body submerged in his cab in the Caney River, detectives struggled to find anyon...

Episode 7 The Kettlebell Drownings On February 19 th , 2014, New Orleans couple, Kenneth and LaKieffa Joseph went missing and no one could have predicted the twists and turns their case would take before their bodies emerged in the Intracoastal waterway several weeks later. Blue nylon rope and thirty pound kettlebells painted a disturbing story of exactly what happened to them.    To listen to eve...

Episode 6 Elisa Lam Though a forensic pathologist ruled Elisa Lam's death at the Cecil Hotel as an accidental drowning in 2013, the internet disagreed. Her death fueled the imaginations of thousands of online web sleuths and youtubers who sought the answer to her 'mysterious' end. After a decade of speculation and hundreds of podcasts, videos, and documentaries, Elisa has become less a person and...

Episode 5 Colleen Wood Colleen Wood moved from Dayton, OH to Boca Raton, FL to get a fresh start after losing her job and ending a long term relationship. She viewed it as a chance to lead the life she had always wanted. She settled in and got a new place and landed a new job, and before long, she met a new man that she became interested in. His name was John Paul. He was a Wall Street investor an...

Episode 4 Susan Smith Many of our listeners may be familiar with the story of Susan Smith. Her case made headlines across the US, and even internationally, in the early 90s when it came to light that she had murdered her two young children by drowning them in her car, before concocting a cover story. But as with all cases, the deeper you dive, the more you find….   To listen to every episode of Be...

Episode 3 Debbie Wolfe After completing her Christmas day shift in December, 1984,  28 year old nurse, Debbie Wolfe dropped from sight inexplicably causing those closest to her to worry. She was soon found dead on New year's day, 1985 in a pond behind her Fayetteville, NC home. Investigators ruled her death a tragic accident, but her mother, Jenny, believed that Debbie had been murdered and submer...

Episode 2 Dan Short  In October of 1989, bank president, Dan Short, was found floating in Grand Lake, near Grove Oklahoma, five days after his bank was robbed and he'd gone missing. Police were initially stumped, but the investigation into how Dan ended up in the lake would soon reveal not one, but two deadly perpetrators.   To listen to every episode of Below the Surface early, and ad-free, and g...

Episode 1 Kim Wall  Best known for her articles in the Guardian, New York Times, and Vice, journalist, Kim Wall, disappeared in a submarine beneath the Oresund Strait after interviewing the inventor of the sub, Peter Madsen, on August 10, 2017.  We can only speculate what exactly happened below the surface, but upon the submarine's resurface, Kim was missing, but Peter Madsen was not. When confron...

Below the Surface is a true crime podcast covering a variety of strange and bizarre cases with one common theme; a water connection.  The show features both solved and unsolved cases, some of which are well known, while others have received little attention.   Below the Surface is hosted by Olivia McKenzie (Co host of True Crime Society). It's produced by Mike Morford of AbJack Entertainment (Co h...