Crack House Chronicles

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss the Las Cruces  Bowling Alley Massacre. On February 10, 1990, in the small town of Las Cruces, New Mexico, two gunmen entered the Las Cruces Bowl on East Amador Avenue. The manager Stephanie Senac was getting ready to open up, she was in the office with her daughter, Melissa Repass her friend Amy Houser. Ida Holguin, who worked as the bowlin...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss Dennis DePue, who on Easter Sunday of 1990 killed his ex-wife Marilynn, disposed of her body and then went on the run for almost a year. This story is also loosely featured in the beginning of the horror film Jeepers Creepers. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/user/crackhousechronicles Sponsors:...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we slice right in to the story of Danny Rolling also known as The Gainesville Ripper. Rolling murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida, over four days in late August 1990. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing a triple homicide in his home city of Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 199...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we take a bus ride and discuss the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping which was the abduction of a school bus driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, in Chowchilla, California, United States, on July 15, 1976. The kidnappers held their captives in a box truck buried in a quarry in Livermore, California, intending to demand a ransom for their return. After ab...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss The Murder of Chelsea Bruck. This is a truly horrifying tale of 22 year old Chelsea Bruck's disappearance from a massive Halloween party in Monroe Country, Michigan in 2014 with several twists and turns. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/user/crackhousechronicles Sponsors: https://betterhelp.com...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss Jesse Anderson who on April 21, 1992, in Milwaukee Wisconsin, stabbed his wife Barbara Anderson to death, then staged the scene and fabricated a story that two African-Americans attacked them. He was arrested four days later, convicted of murder in August, and sentenced to life in September. In November 1994, he was attacked by fellow prison...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss The Short Family Murders. On August 15th, 2002, Michael and Mary Short were found murdered inside their Virginia home. Their 9-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was gone. A massive search was started for Jennifer and investigators began to try to find out who killed Michael and Mary. The investigation would include the murder of Jennifer after he...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss The Springfield Three. On June 7, 1992 three women, Sherill Levitt, her daughter Suzanne Streeter, and friend Stacy McCall disappeared from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri, between 02:15am – 07:30am. Suzanne and Stacy had returned to Levitt's home to spend the night after attending graduation parties the night of June 6, 1992. The thr...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss the murder of Erin Corwin. On June 28th, 2014, she left her home on a Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California. She told her husband, Jon, that she was going to Joshua Tree National Park to scout some spots to visit for when her mother visited the next week. She never returned. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH!...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we interview Sue Infinger, mother of Kemberly Lorin Ramer. Kem was last seen about 11:30 p.m. on August 15, 1997, leaving her boyfriend's house in Opp, Alabama to return home, which was about five minutes away. The next morning, Kem's father wasn't worried when he saw Kem wasn't home, thinking at first, she might have spent the night at her mother's ho...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we discuss Officer Davina Buff Jones who was found shot to death on exclusive Bald Head Island, North Carolina. The local DA ruled it a suicide but the evidence said otherwise. Who killed her and why did they go so far to cover it up? https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/user/crackhousechronicles Sponsors: ht...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, we are discussing the murder of a young Fort Bragg soldier.  On April 13, 2012, Kelli Bordeaux went out for drinks at the Froggy Bottoms bar with a new friend in Fayetteville, North Carolina. After walking out of the bar, Kelli disappeared and multiple men would have to be investigated to find out what really happened. https://crackhousechronicles.com...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles we go full circle on the disappearance of Jeremy Bechtel and Erin Foster from Sparta Tennessee on April 3rd 2000. We discuss what happened to them leading up to them going missing.  THEN we are joined by famed YouTuber Jeremy Sides ! who found the missing teens! https://exploringwithnug.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClHubEgFJZQahvKeT1vMeng Fost...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, we are pleased to have as guest on the show; Sam Houston(brother to Jo Lynn) who is an American semi-retired professional wrestler.  He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation from 1987 to 1991. Houston's father Grizzly Smith was also a professional wrestler, as was his half-brother Jake Roberts and his sister Rockin' Rob...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Oakey "Al" Kite, Jr., who on the morning of May 24th, 2004, 53-year old Al Kite failed to show up for work. Later that day, investigators would search his house... and found the remains of Al in his own basement. He had been brutally and methodically murdered by an unknown assailant... who had likely posed as a po...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer.  On January 21, 1959, Alfalfa and a friend went to the Mission Hills home of Moses "Bud" Stiltz, to collect a debt Alfalfa believed he was owed. A fight broke out, during which Stiltz shot and killed Alfalfa . A jury later ruled the incident justifiable homicide. https://crackhousechronicle...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie interviews Ashley McCraw, daughter of Walter Vernon McCraw who was last seen by his parents on July 6, 2018 when they dropped him off at the Waffle House on 1808 E. Dixon Blvd. Shelby North Carolina. An officer found Vernon sleeping in the grass with his leg in the road just down the street at the McDonald's at 206 E. Dixon Blvd. on July 11. Th...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale are pleased to have special guest James Renner on the show to discuss the murder of Lisa Pruett. James Renner is mostly known for his true-crime journalism. As a reporter for Cleveland Scene, he uncovered new clues and suspects in the cold-case murder of Amy Mihaljevic . His work led to the successful closure of the Tina Harmon case in...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the 1990 murder of Lisa Pruett. She was a popular 16-year-old Shaker Heights High School student who snuck out of her house one late September evening to go visit her boyfriend Dan Dreifort. She was found in the early morning hours stabbed to death before she'd made it to his house. Police would focus on Kevin Young, even bring...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the Tylenol murders which were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/user/cr...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale drop in and discuss Lavinia Fisher who was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. S he was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery—a capital offense at the time—not murder. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH!...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the disappearance of Kurt Newton. Kurt was last seen at the remote Natanis Point Campground in Chain of Ponds, Maine, six miles from the Canadian border, on September 1, 1975. He was camping with his parents, his older sister and three other families from their hometown of Manchester, Maine. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Ch...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss Brian James Dugan who is a convicted rapist and serial killer who was active between 1983 and 1985 in Chicago's western suburbs. He was known for having informally confessed in 1985 to the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, Illinois, which was a highly publicized case. He was already...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Marleen Warren. On Saturday May 26, 1990, Marlene was finishing breakfast with her son and his friends when she heard a knock on their front door. Marleen wasn't expecting anyone but answered the door anyway. She was greeted by someone wearing a clown costume and white face paint, clutching a flower arrangement an...

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Gary Lee Grant, Jr.  On January 12, 1984. Atlantic City, New Jersey. Seven-year old Gary Grant Jr. leaves his home after telling his mother he is meeting someone for an appointment. Two days later, Gary's body is discovered in a vacant lot after he has been bludgeoned to death with a pipe. Thanks to Robin Warder f...