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Guys, it's time to talk about the elephant in the room. Or I guess the elephant in the WOMB. If you’re reading this, Megan was induced early and has had her baby boy! The podcast posting plan is up in the air with baby Bennett’s arrival BUT we promise to still crank out content even if it means a few weeks of solo episodes for Mal. We just wanted to have an open and honest conversation with everyo...

SOMEBODY GET KEITH MORRISON ON THE PHONE! This case is an episode of Dateline in the making. Megan takes a deep dive into a listener suggestion on a missing persons case in Muncie, Indiana a.k.a our college stomping grounds. A 27-year-old mother of three, Ashley Morris Mullis, was last seen by family and friends in September of 2013. No one has made contact with her since. There was little to no m...

We have one more spooky episode for the Halloween season. We're bringing you 10 of the most haunted hangouts in the Hoosier state! You might have heard of a few of them... and some even have true crime-related origins. As former journalists do, we're breaking down facts versus fiction in these tales of local lore. Plus, Mallory tells us about one local legend in her hometown in Michigan that traum...

We're back with another Spooky Season episode and this time we're going international! At the height of the Second World War, four young boys in the U.K. went into the woods looking for bird's eggs. Instead, they were met with an unforgettable and terrifying discovery. A human skull was hidden inside the hollow trunk of a wych elm. To this day, the woman killed and placed inside the tr...

It's officially spoooky season! In this episode, we discuss what has been called one of the most haunted houses in Indiana. Here's the catch... no one knew it was haunted until over 100 years after it was built. It all started when a photographer with the Indianapolis Star snapped a photo of a historic house being moved to a new location. That photographer, many people believe, captured th...

In June of 2018, 20-year-old Melissa Runnels was shot to death, set on fire, and left behind an abandoned Indianapolis home. Five years have passed since her brutal murder but her case remains unsolved. This week we discuss the case with FOX59 & CBS4 Anchor and Reporter, Jenny Dreasler. We also had the pleasure of speaking to Melissa's mother, Barbara Harvey, who reached out to Megan about...

Time for another Indiana Cold Case! 11-year-old Brandie Peltz was found dead in her home floating face down in a bathtub full of water. An upstairs bedroom of the residence was set on fire. The cause of death was strangulation. The victim was found by a passerby who noticed the second story of the residence on fire and stopped to see if anyone was inside. To this day, no one knows what truly happe...

GUYS! This is by far the biggest crime case in Indiana that you've never heard of. On Valentine's Day in 1977, four men broke into a small Parke County mobile home, to carry out the heinous thrill killings now known as the Hollandsburg Massacre. Betty Jane Spencer was forced to lie on the ground next to four of her children as the men fired shots into their bodies. Spencer somehow managed...

18-year-old Dorothy Poore went to Indianapolis in 1954 looking for a career. What she found was a monster. In this episode, we discuss what is often known as 'The Dresser Drawer Murder,' one of the most sensational crimes in Indiana state history. Many only know about the crime due to its historic backdrop: the former Claypool Hotel. However, Dorothy wasn't the only victim of a brutal...

In May of 2010, police responded to a father's frantic 911 call from Steve Herr. After not hearing from him in a few days, he went to visit his son, only to discover a woman's body inside Sam's apartment. Detectives identified the victim as a friend of Sam's, Julie Kibuishi. Police initially launched a manhunt to track Sam down. But once investigators began digging deeper, things t...

WE'VE HIT 25 EPISODES Y'ALL! Joining us for this podcast milestone are two of our former coworkers (and current friends) Darius Johnson and Alexa Green. For this episode, we discuss the worst mass shooting in Indianapolis history. It happened on April 15, 2021 at a FedEx Ground facility. Eight people were killed by the gunman, who eventually turned the gun on himself. Several others were i...

One name. That is the very last thing Houston investigators need to finally identify all 28 victims of Dean Corll, aka, the Candyman Killer, active from 1970 - 1973. Fifty years later, experts with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are hoping new technology can help give the last remaining victim his identity back. All it takes is one tip. Can you help? SOURCES: ⁠https://www.m...

You asked. We answered. If you've ever wanted to know what working in a newsroom is like, you'll want to check out this episode! We tell you all about producing, the news industry, our favorite anchors... even our fun fact is news-related! Don't worry though, we'll be back to our regularly scheduled material next week. Enjoy!

Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Rape GUYS, WE ARE MAAAAAD. This week's episode hit us really hard. In September of 2022, Memphis teacher, Eliza Fletcher went out for her typical morning run except this time she never came home. The 34-year-old mother was snatched off the street and thrown into a van... the entire abduction was caught on camera. Within days, her alleged kidnapper and killer wa...

The day before Halloween in 1995, the body of Wilma Cheek was found slumped over the steering wheel of her grey Pontiac Grand Prix. The vehicle was parked in the rear of Willow Grove Cemetery in Fountain City, Indiana. In this episode, we discuss the odd circumstances of her death, the STEAMING hot family tea, and the continuing efforts by Indiana State Police and others to solve this 30-year-old...

In 2014, 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton was found brutally murdered and dismembered in her Jeffersonville home. When police responded to the scene, Tammy's ex-boyfriend Joseph Oberhansley opened the door. This case would go on to become infamous across Indiana and the midwest as Oberhansley was eventually convicted of killing, dismembering and eating parts of Tammy's remains. Abby (Lutz) Wal...

On December 8, 2012, 85-year-old Lowell R. Badger was found dead on the bedroom floor of his rural Sullivan County, Indiana home. Mr. Badger died from a gunshot wound suffered during a burglary of his residence. The clues that could help crack the case? A safe, a TV, and surveillance footage. SOURCES: https://www.in.gov/isp/crime-reporting/cold-case-investigations/ https://www.newspapers.com/image...

16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier disappeared on June 1, 1987. Friends and family say her last moments were likely spent in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on a search for Big Foot. Despite the insane circumstances surrounding her death, Theresa's story is one many people have never heard of and it remains unsolved today. SOURCES: https://oag.ca.gov/missing/person/theresa-ann-bier https://www.strangeou...

In 1979, the body of Mary Ann Higginbotham was found in a 55-gallon drum in White Lick Creek in Mooresville, Indiana. She was shot in the back of the head. Her boyfriend, Timothy Willoughby also went missing at the same time. Willoughby’s body has never been found, but police believe he died the same day as Mary Ann. Who killed them? And why? SOURCES: https://www.in.gov/isp/crime-reporting/cold-ca...

After 14 years of questions and agonizing pain, a New Mexico family got heartbreaking confirmation of their worst fear... William "Bill" Blodgett was dead. The 69-year-old had gone missing in the days before Christmas of 2008. Police searched in and around Bill's home but couldn't find enough evidence to close the case. Nearly 15 years later, a suspect decided to come forward and...

This week we welcome our third guest to the podcast. Our friend and former colleague, Kayla Sullivan, joins us to discuss the shocking murder of 10-year-old Skylea Carmack in Grant County, Indiana. Kayla spent a full week continuously covering this case in Gas City as it turned from the search for a missing girl to a murder investigation. Kayla shares firsthand stories of community search parties,...

In March of 1989, two employees at the Monical's Pizza in Danville, Illinois were closing up shop when a man came in for a last-minute order. The two staffers were then shot in the head and left for dead. Miraculously, one of the victims survived the shooting and would go on to identify and testify against his attacker. Thanks to one of our listeners, we know that the suspect was already in ja...

Is she a six-year-old orphan or a 'con artist' adult? This week we're diving head first into one of the strangest cases we've ever covered. In 2019, an Indiana couple was charged with neglect after leaving the young girl they adopted in an apartment alone... before moving out of the country. Before the Barnett's fled to Canada, they legally changed Natalia's age from 8 to 2...

In 1989, Charles "Chip" Flynn was found shot in a Florida citrus grove. He had been hanging out with his ex-girlfriend, who claims the duo had been robbed and carjacked by a black man. Despite inconsistent details in what happened that night and an uncertain line-up, Kim Hallock identified Crosley Green as the alleged shooter. The state of Florida took the questionable case against Green...

This week we’re diving into one of Indiana’s oldest cold cases. In 1950, high school teacher Garnet Ginn was found dead in her garage. Her body was discovered hanging from the handle of her car door. Police immediately wrote it off as suicide, ignoring glaring physical evidence including blood spatter at the scene. Garnet’s family refused to believe their daughter would take her own life. Thanks t...