Camping is Canceled.

Gen & Kait go down a Reddit Rabbit Trail of harrowing and hilarious responses to the Reddit question: "Serious campers only....what's the craziest thing that's happened to you while out in the woods?" & things get....weird.

Jump to episodes 81 & 82 for Chapters 9-14 In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 dete...

In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 collections of short storie...

In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 collections of short storie...

we have arrived at the final installment of this absolute brain-bender of a case. today we are going to finish breaking down everything else that we know about the investigation and the theories of what happened to Maura, (some more plausible than others) as to what the hell could have happened to Maura Murray on February 9th, 2004, and thanks to Julie Murray's work on the podcast Media Pressure:...

We're so far deep into this case that we might not ever come back. In today's episode, we break down everything we know about the day Maura went missing: February 9th, 2004. And we mean everything. But be forewarned: we’ve got a lot of bizarre details and twists and turns to cover, so it might feel like you're trying to sip water out of a fire hydrant. And like we’ve been saying for the last two e...

This is Part II of our three-part coverage of The Vanishing of Maura Murray, so make sure you listen to Part 1 first if you haven’t already, which we covered in Episode 42. This past February marked 20 years since 21-year old Maura vanished without a trace, and her car was found abandoned on a New Hampshire road in the middle of winter. Like we mentioned in Part 1, our main source for this case is...

Gen & Kait take turns terrifying the living daylights out of one another while going through the responses to a Reddit question from 6 years ago: "[Serious] Murder attempt Survivors of Reddit: Who has had an attempted murder upon them, how did you survive? Was there a point that you accepted you were going to die? (link directly below) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9heqcq/serious...

TW: this episode contains discussions of disordered eating. The bizarre disappearance of 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray from a New Hampshire highway in February 2004 has become one of the most infamous cold cases in the true crime world. It’s a story that's been told over and over, and with every re-telling, a little bit more of Maura's humanity felt stripped away in favor of wild specul...

In 1947, a huge collection of true crime stories from many of the extremely popular "murder pamphlets" floating around Victorian England were published in an Anthology called “The Fatal Caress…& Other Accounts of English Murders from 1551 to 1888”. We’ve decided today to bring you a few of these stories just as they appear in the Fatal Caress…and perhaps make you feel like you’ve picked up a m...

We’ve all heard the cautionary tales about how money and fame can go to people’s heads and bring out the true ugliness in them. And our story today is no exception—but as we will go on to see, the person that fame and greed made capable of murder turned out to be the last one most people expected (or was it...). If you’ve never heard the full shocking story of the cold-blooded murder of beloved NB...

With all the murder and mayhem of the last few episodes, we thought we’d have some fun this week and dive into the Internets to bring you some ghost & unexplained encounters that had us WTFing…..with a few of our own personal stories, of course! We hope you enjoy this light-hearted good time; because we’ll be sure to bring ya right back down next week😉 Lights Out Campers🏕️ sources: Mermaid en...

Before this episode, we had never even heard of Stephen Morin, or as law enforcement would eventually dub him: "The Chameleon Killer". He would completely change his "look" and his name, hopping from state to state and preying upon as many as 48 victims before he was finally apprehended in December 1981. While fleeing San Antonio police for a murder he'd committed that morning, he made the decisio...

At this point, Vampires are commonplace in pop culture...and the nice thing about being undead is being able to inhabit every possible style, time period and hot bod. However....our "vampire" today had questionable style, and we'd rather throw up than say he was hot. He also wasn't truly a vampire...but he did sincerely believe that unless he consumed human blood, he would surely die. Unfortunatel...

"Daniela Mendoza", "Bella", & "Angel Dulce"....these are some of the nicknames that men saw attached to the face of a beautiful woman with dark eyes on the dating app "Badoo"...but it was all a lie. SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/18fuhwp/bella_daniela_and_dulce_the_badoo_triple_crime/ In Egypt on June 17th, 2020, a 21 year old college student and mother would be found stra...

THE CONCLUSION IS HERE. According to the subject of our horrible story today: he was two completely separate people. One was a loving father, a reputable business-owner and respected community member, a skilled woodworker and outdoorsman & an adored older brother. The other was a terrifying ambush predator with an overwhelming sadistic urge to abduct, torture, degrade, & murder—& then...

According to the subject of our horrible story today: he was two completely separate people. One was a loving father, a reputable business-owner and respected community member, a skilled woodworker and outdoorsman & an adored older brother. The other was a terrifying ambush predator with an overwhelming sadistic urge to abduct, torture, degrade, & murder—& then vanish into thin air, le...

In 2012, GQ opened their 2012 culture article titled “The Truck Stop Killer” with the following: “He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who’d run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. Now, years later, she re...

In 1978, the quiet Southern town of Walterboro South Carolina was changed forever when a beloved young woman in the community was found brutally murdered inside her own home after an evening spent babysitting for some friends. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence at the crime scene….in 2015, Elaine Fogle’s murder was still the oldest cold case listed on SLED’s website….until a retired speci...

You’ve arrived at the conclusion & PART 2 of the Jennifer Levin case... we’ve got the trial, the media horrors, and even more Catholic Church shenanigans to get into. Sources: AMC Documentary The Preppy Murder: Death In Central Park https:// www.foxnews.com/entertainment/preppy-murder-doc-jennifer-levin-robert-chambers https://apnews.com/article/ad848f2d9c0873b074613bec6a50834ahttps://www.upi....

The 1980’s in New York City was a decade of glamor & glitter, and the privileged world of the Upper East Side prep school scene was having a glorious time…until one of their own was brutally murdered one summer night in Central Park. What happens in a high-profile murder trial when the media has the hots for the killer, the victim gets blamed for her own death, & the Catholic Church gets i...

On Christmas Eve 1945, George and Jennie Sodder & 9 of their 10 their children were sleeping peacefully in their home in Fayetteville West Virginia, when a sudden & devastating house fire tore through their two-story farmhouse and burned it to the ground in less than an hour. 6 members of the family escaped the flames unharmed….but 5 of the young Sodder siblings seemed to simply vanish int...

On March 22nd 2018, 24 year old Alex Woodworth was found viciously stabbed to death in the back of a white car that was stuck in the mud on the outskirts of a remote Wisconsin diary farm. When the girl he was last seen with appeared at the front door of that same dairy farm--barefoot, disheveled & shaking, & pleading for help with the word "boy" carved into her arm...law enforcement believ...

Episode Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstance

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstances