Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

Time travel with Sara back to the US Oregon territory in 1844 where a dispute about a horse went really wrong and inspired some super shitty laws about who could and could not live in the Oregon territory.     Sources: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cockstock-incident/#.YX3y1dnMJ0s https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/skin-summer-2013/dangerous-subjects/ https://www.oregonencyclo...

Known as "Oregon's most prolific serial killer," the Molalla Forest Killer case is a rough one.  These are the stories of the victims of Dayton Leroy Rogers, a monster who should have been locked up permanently years before he would be linked to the murders of 8 women in the summer of 1987. Sources Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer by Gary C. King https://murderpedia.org/male. R/r/rogers...

25 year old Yakama woman Alillia "La La" Minthorn went missing in May 2019 from Toppenish, WA.  She told her sister "If I don't make it back, come look for me."  La La's last words would haunt her sister, Tanya, as La La never came home alive.   Sources: thevanished.org - A project of the Yakima Herald-Republic which is dedicated to the missing and murdered indigenous women of the Yakama reservati...

Our first case takes us to the summer of 1993 in Seattle, WA; punk rock group The Gits were on the precipice of greatness and days away from a cross-country tour when their frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was the victim of an apparent random murder on Seattle's Capitol Hill.  This is the story of Mia Zapata, her untimely and tragic murder, and the legacy she left behind. Sources: https://pitchfork.com/new...