Coffee and Cases Podcast

Pebbles materializing above their heads. Household knives thrown at them. Messages written in rocks and with markers on walls. Since January 1998, the six residents of 90 McMinns Drive in Humpty Doo, Australia were terrorized by a presence that kept them up at night and sometimes gave them no reprieve from its menacing activities. Was it all a hoax or were the residents truly plagued by what is no...

Flower pots were stacked in front of 1815 Driscoll Street in Houston when the detective arrived to do a welfare check on Fred and Edwina Rogers, who resided at the address with their son, Charles. What the detective found was one of the most gruesome, yet calculated crime scenes many had ever seen. Magic Spoon is keto-friendly, gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, and low-carb. So, no matter the way...

Gareth Williams was intelligent beyond his years, which is why he was recruited by GCHQ to be an intelligence agent and use his skills with computers and code-breaking to serve his country. Once Gareth was sent to work for a different intelligence agency, however, the joy he previously found in his career began to wane. Then, just weeks before he was to return to his previous position, Gareth stop...

There is something bittersweet about growing up. For the child, they step into new roles with new responsibilities. They learn to earn trust from the adults in their lives. In return, the adults have to let go just a little of the baby they have raised. They watch with tears in their eyes as some of the innocence of their child slips away into a teen and one day adult. It’s hard, but it is life. W...

She had left before, with her kids in tow, trying to escape an unhealthy situation. This time she was just gone… without taking her children, without taking her medication, without taking her things. It has been seven long years since the Sleeper family has seen their caring and beautiful Danielle; they are still fighting to get her story out there and, most importantly, to find out answers. Want...

Long before the state of Vermont had a state police agency, several teens went missing from the same area. One of those teens was college sophomore Paula Welden. Paula disappeared without a trace in 1946, and we are left all these years later wondering what happened to her. Want to create your own podcast but don’t know where to start? Give Zencastr a try. Recording is as easy as clicking “New” an...

Nirmala Panta was just a young girl walking to a friend’s home one Thursday morning in late July 2018. Then her rape and murder became national headlines. No longer just a 13-year-old from Kanchanpur, Nepal; her face soon represented the growing epidemic of violence against young girls across the country. But Nirmala’s family, like the families of so many of those girls whom she came to represent,...

Birthdays are special. They’re a time to celebrate a year of achievements and to look forward to the year to come. Birthdays are a time for family, so when little Dana Bradley was late for her mom’s birthday celebration, her family knew something wasn’t right. And they were correct. Want to create your own podcast but don’t know where to start? Give Zencastr a try. Recording is as easy as clicking...

May 5th, 1993 was a tragic day for so many people in West Memphis Arkansas as three eight-year-old boys (Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore) went missing . By the next morning, instead of panic, the town felt palpable fear with the discover that the young second-graders had been brutally and senselessly murdered. By 1994, three local teens were in prison, convicted of the murders;...

May 5th, 1993 was a tragic day for so many people in West Memphis Arkansas as three eight-year-old boys (Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore) went missing . By the next morning, instead of panic, the town felt palpable fear with the discover that the young second-graders had been brutally and senselessly murdered. By 1994, three local teens were in prison, convicted of the murders;...

May 5th, 1993 was a tragic day for so many people in West Memphis Arkansas as three eight-year-old boys (Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore) went missing . By the next morning, instead of panic, the town felt palpable fear with the discover that the young second-graders had been brutally and senselessly murdered. By 1994, three local teens were in prison, convicted of the murders;...

A widowed millionaire was surprised with a bottle of whiskey delivered to her door after one of her lavish vacations. She had no idea that inside that bottle, there was a deadly poison that would claim her life. Her extravagant lifestyle left many wondering who wanted her dead and why? But just as extravagant as her lifestyle was the trial surrounding her murder. Want to create your own podcast bu...

The case of an unknown woman’s burnt body found in Norway’s Isdal Valley seemed an easy one when her luggage was found days later. However, everyeement in the suitcases and every trail law enforcement followed only led to more questions. Want to create your own podcast but don’t know where to start? Give Zencastr a try. Recording is as easy as clicking “New” and sharing a link with cohosts or gues...

 Every family we talk about on this show has been shaped and changed by grief; their lives have been reshaped by a hole in their hearts that just won't go away. They continue searching, they continue hoping, but nothing is the same. For the family in our case this week, every picture, every letter could be news about their missing loved one, but each just leads to more questions.  Want to create y...

Yearly, the spirits can see the line of red marching from the Saskatoon Police Department to North Battleford-- a march to bring Ashley Morin home. Today, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and every day, we here at Coffee and Cases want to show our support and love for the victims all too often ignored and vow to continue to support the Morin family...

When a two-year-old girl went missing in the middle of the night and her foster family insisted that she must have left of her own accord, concerns of the validity of those claims were raised in everyone’s minds. Given the questionable history of the family she was with, many wonder if Everlyse Cabrera was just another child who fell through the cracks of the foster care system.  Want to create yo...

It was the beginning of his sophomore year at Marshall University. He had plans for the upcoming weekend to meet up with old friends. He attended both of his classes that morning and made a trip to the gym. By that evening, law enforcement said that he had jumped to his death-- a scenario that his family and friends refuse to believe. Want to create your own podcast but don’t know where to start?...

Mary had been telling her family that she was going to work as usual, but they later found out that she hadn’t been. So where had she been going? Not only were the family members confused by this news, but now they had an added worry since Mary Flanagan was now missing. What could have happened to her? Want to create your own podcast but don't know where to start? Give Zencastr a try. Recording is...

Tony Urciuoli, Jr. went out the night of January 24th, 2001 to play pool after receiving a page from someone. He told family that he’d only be out an hour or two before returning home, but Tony, Jr. never returned. Two days after Tony Urciuoli, Jr. disappeared, a relative found his car, which was abandoned, free of fingerprints, and provided no further clues. Today, 21 years later, we are still no...

 Sometimes following our hearts can lead us down unexpected and scary paths. Hasty decisions and haphazard choices can also lead to those closest to us giving us sideways glances and whispering concern under their breath. And, sadly, sometimes, those decisions can lead to death. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CoffeeAndCases) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

We never knew that our bodies could give so much of our personal backgrounds, until we heard about the science in this case. Could that science, in turn, lead to answers in the murder of Little Miss Panasoffkee? Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CoffeeAndCases) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine how hard it must be to have a job where you hold the fate of someone in your hands. Think about all of the enemies you may make along the way and how terrifying that must be. What’s even more terrifying is to think that some people would seek revenge on the people who have judged them, and sometimes they carry out their revenge so masterfully that we are left to wonder if it were an accide...

When a young girl who was afraid of the dark and very shy disappeared, her mother knew it was the result of foul play. She wouldn’t have run away at night. She wouldn’t have gone with someone she didn’t know. But who was close enough to Theresa Woods that she would trust them... only for them to betray that trust? Goodpods: Coffee and Cases podcast will be featured on Goodpods March 11th, 2022. Pl...

In today’s case, a loving mother and wife seemingly falls off the face of the earth. After a brutal attack several years earlier, Dorothy Forstein was living a shell of her former life, but one night she would vanish and be gone without a trace. This episode is sponsored by Vinovest, a company that allows accessible and affordable investing in fine wines, an investment that is less volatile and of...

Brianna Maitland had been struggling lately with school and with friends, but she had just begun turning her life back around and regaining control. The morning of Friday, March 19th, 2004, she had earned her GED and was talking with her mother about college. By that evening, she had vanished. This episode is sponsored by Vinovest, a company that allows accessible and affordable investing in fine...