Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

Young Living Oils, doTerra, Tahitian Noni, Paparazzi, Nature's Sunshine, Nu Skin and many more, all huge companies got their start in Utah. Why? Because Mormons are primed for the thinking required inside an MLM. Multi Level Marketing companies make billions each year but many who get involved don't make any money, they lose money. ❤️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9SNFGpY_odhZT_Lev...

Sandra Birchmore had a difficult life. She was the only caretaker to a chronically ill mother and she had no father. Sandra joined the Stoughton Explorers program, a place for kids to interact with cops. She wanted community and support. Instead she was groomed and sexually exploited by those who should have protected her. When Sandra became pregnant, Matthew Farwell, a thirty five year old marrie...

This is a story about drug abuse and terrible parenting. It's also a story about what happens to people when they fall down the conspiracy rabbit hole and it takes over their lives. Eldon Samuel Jr. was a bad father. His wife, Tina abandoned the family leaving her two sons, Eldon Samuel III and Jonathan in the care of their father who took the kids from California to live in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. O...

This is a story about the Jensen family but it is also a story about Utah, the fraud capital of America. James Lael and Kelly Walker Jensen were living the life of rock stars in the hills of Sandy, Utah. Their twenty seven square foot stone and glass mansion a testament to their incredible success. But in April of 2025, it all came crashing down. James and Kelly Jensen, along with their two adult...

Miles, not his real name, was living a usual life as a web designer. His life was on the internet even in the early days. When Twitter went live, Miles grabbed a very coveted cool handle to use on Twitter and then he used that same handle across other platforms like Instagram and Facebook. In 2016, someone decided they wanted Miles online handle and they started sending messages to Miles. Soon tho...

Keli Lane is a celebrated water polo champion. She had a very successful career in that sport but friends noticed something strange about Keli. Her weight fluctuated dramatically and people wondered at times if she was pregnant but Keli never talked about a pregnancy and no babies ever appeared. Then, when she was pregnant for a fourth time that we know of, she gave birth to a baby girl she named...

Rory Enrique Conde was an angry man. He abused his wife and kids, and he lived a double life. By day, he was a friendly and helpful lumber salesman. By night, he was visiting area prostitutes and peeping in his neighbors windows. After years of this behavior, it escalated and Rory murdered his first victim. Soon, body after body were turning up along the Tamiami Trail near Miami and the press dubb...

This is a serial killer we don't talk about much because his horrific crimes are mainly unsolved. Robert Ben Rhoades took some of the most desperate women from truck stops around the country and they were never seen again. The problem is that no one was looking for them. These were women with no families, mostly drug addicted, and women who would not be missed. That doesn't mean their stories do n...

Roch Thériault, who later claimed he was Moses and then changed his name to Rock believed he was chosen by God to do a great and important work. He gathered a small group of followers and took them into the Canadian wilderness. As his followers worked to build a small commune, one day Rock said, "you look like ants on a hill." So the group became known as The Ant Hill Kids. Rock began to...

Ben Novack grew up in the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. His parents, Ben and Bernice Novack divorced and then Ben Novack Sr. died. Benji, as he was known, went on to start a successful convention planning business but his personal life was riddled with problems. Benji had the world's second largest collection of Batman memorabilia and he spent a lot of money acquiring every item of Batma...

Paul and Betty Jeanne Solomon were living a quiet life in Greenburgh, New York. Paul came home one night after bowling with friends to find that his wife had been murdered, brutally shot nine times. She was dead inside their townhome. When the police begin to investigate, they quickly learn that Paul Solomon is a womanizer. He was having an affair with twenty eight year old Carolyn Warmus, a rich...

Pete Coones father Olin was elderly and in poor health. His caretaker, Kathleen Schroll was intentionally driving a wedge between Pete and his father. Then Pete found out that Olin had signed his house and all his property over to Kathleen Schroll. A court battle ensued and Kathleen was losing. Then, she and her husband Carl Schroll ended up dead, shot to death in their own home. The police examin...

Kelly Cochran claims she has killed up to twenty one people. When she married her high school sweetheart, Jason Cochran, the two made a pact. If either of them ever cheated, they would be forced to kill their lover. So when Kelly had an affair with coworker Chris Regan, the Cochrans honored the pact. Christopher Regan was murdered and then dismembered. Kelly claims parts of his body were fed to fa...

Cullen Davis and Priscilla Davis were the talk of the Texas social scene. Cullen Davis was a billionaire in today's money and Priscilla Davis was a petite bleached blonde who liked to wear revealing and flamboyant clothing. When the two separated and Priscilla filed for divorce, things quickly turned ugly. Priscilla then began dating six foot nine inch Stan Farr, a former TCU basketball player and...

Steven and Alyssa Pladl were in an abusive relationship. Alyssa decided to give their eight month old up for adoption and Denise then became Katie Fusco. Katie was raised in Dover, New York but decided to try and find her biological family. When she did, she began a twisted and illegal sexual relationship with her own biological father, Steven Pladl and became pregnant with his child. The courts f...

Ben and Kristi Strack were a Mormon family living in Springville, Utah. Kristi began to believe that Dan Lafferty, the convicted murderer featured in the story Under the Banner of Heaven, was the reincarnated prophet Elijah and that he was here to usher in the second coming of Christ. As the Strack's beliefs become more and more extreme, they isolate their little family and cut off all communicati...

When Mary Catherine Edwards parents couldn't get a hold of her on the phone, the drove to her house to check on her. What they found was a horrific murder scene. Catherine had been sexually assaulted, brutally murdered, and left in the bathtub with her hands handcuffed behind her back using a set of police issue handcuffs. The Beaumont Texas police worked the case but couldn't find her killer and...

Wadsworth Ohio was experiencing a rash of crimes and then there was a horrific murder. Margaret Douglas, 98 years old, was brutally murdered and defiled in her own home. As police begin to go through surveillance footage from the area, they find two teenaged boys sneaking around the neighborhood. Gavon Ramsay is brought in for questioning and soon, the police become convinced they've found their k...

Mark and Debby Constantino wanted to be famous ghost hunters. When Zak Bagans put them on his show, Ghost Adventures, the couple thought they'd hit the big time. Unfortunately, their constant violent fighting and drinking hurt their reputation and soon, Mark and Debby were on the outside of the community they'd fought so hard to get into. Their marriage began to fall apart. Debby's jealousy and dr...

Reagan Simmons Hancock was a beautiful young wife and mother who was expecting her second baby girl. She got a call from her friend, Taylor Parker, saying she was going to come and visit her. When Taylor Parker left Reagan's house, Reagan was dead and her baby was gone. Taylor Parker had been lying to everyone in her life. She lied about being rich, she lied about her family, and she lied about be...

Nona Dirksmeyer was a college student and beauty pageant participant living in Arkansas. When her boyfriend Kevin Jones couldn't get a hold of her, he went to her house where he found her murdered in her living room. Kevin was taken in for questioning and soon realized, he was a suspect. The police and the public got tunnel vision. The crime scene investigation was botched so poorly that it looked...

Gudni Gudnason always knew he was destined for stardom. When he failed as a movie star and then as a karate master and bodyguard, he found the world of new age spiritualism. From Iceland to Sweden to Utah and Japan, he's built a small following of people who believe they can hack their "24 strands of DNA" (we have 23/46), activate a "24th" strand of DNA spiritually, and use anc...

Brian and Amy Fanion were not getting along. Brian was about to retire from the Westfield, Massachusetts police department and the couple had different ideas about how they would spend the next chapter of their lives. Amy Fanion was completely unaware that her husband of thirty years had been cheating on her with a church friend, Cori Knowles. Brian claims Amy pulled his service revolver from his...

How can one house be the site of so much death? When Bill Harrison is found dead in his bathroom, it is ruled a heart attack. When Bridget Harrison is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, it is ruled an accident. But when Caleb Harrison, the father of the children at the heart of a bitter custody battle is found murdered in that same home, the police re-open Bill and Bridget's deaths. What they...

When Thomas Mulcahy's carefully dismembered body parts are found on the side of a road by city workers, the police hope this is an isolated incident but then, a second body is found in the same manner. Then a third. The police cannot catch this maniac and the case goes cold for some time, but early 1990's forensic technology is improving and with the help of a Canadian laboratory, police identify...