Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

Fred Shipman was an odd young man. When his mother got cancer Fred was only sixteen. He watched as her nurses injected her with morphine to ease her pain and when she died a year later, Fred decided he was going to go into medicine and become a doctor. Soon, a nurse noticed that Dr. Shipman's patients were dying at an alarming rate but when she sounded the alarm, nothing was done. It wasn't until...

Cassidy Rainwater was down on her luck and staying with family friends on a rural property in Dallas County, Missouri. She thought the man, James Phelps, was trustworthy and had no idea that he and his friend, Timothy Norton, were planning to murder her. First Cassidy was locked in a cage and then the two men killed her and dismembered her body. During this gruesome process, the men took photos an...

Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi were vicious and violent men, two cousins living together in Los Angeles. Kenneth Bianchi also had a police fetish and a lust for power. The two men acquired fake police badges and began using them to imitate cops in order to get women to stop on the streets. Soon, those women began turning up dead in the hills around Los Angeles. Body after body is discovered and...

1990s Las Vegas was a wild place to be. The mafia was still running the show but the FBI was onto them. The mob task force opened a fake bar and restaurant meant to draw Las Vegas gangsters to the club. It was called Sea Breeze. The FBI had the entire place bugged and listened as the mobsters got more and more comfortable speaking openly in the club about their criminal activity. Fat Herbie was ru...

Ben and Lynlee Renick had it all; a booming business making a lot of money, beautiful children, fame in the world of snake breeding and a YouTube channel that brought them more clients. Then, Ben ended up dead on the floor of his large snake breeding facility. At first, people thought Ben had been killed by one of his snakes but a further investigation revealed he had been murdered, shot eight tim...

Gerard John Schaefer was known as a weirdo and a pervert. The girls he went to high school with wanted nothing to do with him. He married and divorced after college and then became a teacher. He was promptly fired for going on wild political rants during class. After that, he decided to become a police officer and because no background check was done, he slipped through the cracks. He was promptly...

Juan Corona was a violent man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He was always trying to prove he was the most macho man in the room, but Juan was secretly gay. Migrant workers and drifters began disappearing in the farmlands and orchards of Northern California and then one day, a Japanese farmer noticed a strange mound of dirt in his orchards. He called the sheriff who decided to dig it up. C...

Marlene Warren was at home on a Saturday afternoon when her doorbell rang. She opened the door to see a clown standing on her porch holding flowers and balloons. As she took the gifts from the clown, the clown pulled out a gun and shot Marlene in the face right in front of her son, Joe Warren. Joe chases the clown who gets into a car and drives away. As the police investigate, they discover a trai...

This is an infamous story but one that remains fascinating. Cindy James called the police to her house over 100 times. She was receiving harassing phone calls and creepy letters in the mail. Her tires were slashed. Her porch light was smashed. Someone hung dead cats from her trees. Then Cindy's friend found her tied up in her own yard. The police came. The harassment continued. Cindy was found tie...

Bruce Longo believed he was God. He was excommunicated from the Mormon Church and gathered a small group of followers. He took their money as he lived well and they had nothing but still, they believed. Bruce Longo changed his name to Immanuel David. His wife became Rachel David. Their seven children were totally isolated as they lived in a hotel room with their parents. The FBI began to look into...

As a filmmaker, Emma Smith and her crew are following genius inventor, Peter Madsen, a celebrity in his world, all is going as planned on the film. One day, Emma gets a phone call informing her that Peter has taken a journalist named Kim Wall for a dive on his submarine and Kim has now disappeared. Peter's submarine is recovered and he claims to have dropped Kim off on the dock. The police are sus...

Allan Legere was a menace even as a child. His own mother disliked him. His teachers were afraid of Allan and the other kids bullied him but as he grew, he started lifting weights and became more confident. Sadly, he also became more violent. Allan goes from petty crime to murder and he is captured and sentenced to life in prison. He then causes himself to become ill over and over so he is taken t...

This is the shocking and disturbing story of Jeff Lundgren, an offshoot Mormon who believed that he was a prophet of God. Jeff is excommunicated from the RLDS church and starts a small cult of devoted followers. In this episode, we delve into his beliefs and the way he used chiasma to create his own doctrine which he called Dividing the Word. Jeff and his followers begin living on a small compound...

Ramsay Scrivo suffered with paranoid schizophrenia. He had a violent temper and troubles with the law. His father died and then his mother, Donna Scrivo's house burned down. She was forced to move in with her angry and alcoholic son. Their volatile relationship and violent arguments got worse and then, neighbors began smelling a strong chemical odor, the scent of burning, and the sounds of a power...

Glen Taylor Helzer believed he was a prophet of God. Raised a devout Mormon, Taylor gained a deep knowledge of the Book of Mormon. He served a Mormon mission and went to work at Morgan Stanley as a stockbroker. He was then introduced to the program known as Impact, which many call a cult. This new belief system changes Taylor Helzer. He begins living a wild lifestyle and soon, his brother Justin H...

The story of Daniel LaPlante is almost too terrifying to believe, but it's all true. Daniel was a strange a disturbed boy who spent a lot of time in the woods. He then became obsessed with Tina Bowen, who was grieving the death of her mother. Strange things began to happen in the Bowen household and Tina and her sister Karen were convinced, the ghost of their dead mother was visiting them. But the...

Dennis and Marilynn DePue had an unhappy marriage. After years, Marilynn divorces Dennis but he won't leave her alone. One Easter Sunday, Dennis comes to collect their children for visitation but the kids don't want to go with him. A fight ensues and Dennis throws Marilynn into his van and drives away with her. A couple then sees Dennis driving on a back country road and what they witness is terri...

Matthew Hoffman was known as a weirdo. He acted strangely, he spent most of his time alone, and he was always in the trees around his yard. He commits a serious arson in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and does six years in prison for that crime. He returns to Ohio and begins breaking into homes. When Tina Hermann, her son 11 year old son Kody Maynard, her 13 year old daughter Sarah Maynard and family...

College student Anita Knutson was found murdered on her bed in her Minot, North Dakota apartment in the summer of 2007. Everyone who knew Anita was aware that she and her roommate, Nichole Rice disliked each other and Nichole had even been physically violent towards Anita. For years, the police were unable to solve this murder but then, the Oxygen Network's Cold Justice got involved. After the new...

This is the story of one of the most evil and depraved serial killers you've never heard of. Thomas Mulcahey, Anthony Morero and Michael Sakara all left their favorite piano bars never to be seen again. Their bodies, carefully dismembered into seven pieces by someone with surgical knowledge begin to turn up in public garbage cans and along roadways in the North East. The police are desperate to ca...

You probably haven't heard the name Johnny Meadows before. He is a convicted serial killer on a case most people know nothing about. Linda Cougat, Eula Kay Miller, Ruth Maynard, Gloria Sue Green, Nix as she was called, and others turned up bound, raped and murdered in the late 1960s and early 1970s near Odessa, Texas. The police were stumped and then, they got a phone call from Aztec, New Mexico....

Scott Farris found his father Gary dead and burned on the family farm's burn pile. At first, he thought he'd had a heart attack and fallen into the fire but then the coroner finds bullets inside Gary's body. Melody Farris hated her husband. They lived in the same house but barely spoke and Melody had a boyfriend. She was spending Gary's money to see him. The tension in the house was palpable and w...

Gary DeVore worked with the A-List of Hollywood. He was successful beyond his wildest dreams but he was also disillusioned with his work and had become more interested in writing about politics. When he came across a story about Manuel Noriega blackmailing US Officials with secretly videotaped sex acts with children, he went down the rabbit hole. Then he ended up dead. Or did he? His Ford Explorer...

Many years ago, I was very fascinated with the TV show Forensic Files and all of the new science that was being shown to the public for the first time. As I watched the story of this murder, I learned about how blood spatter analysis helps solve crimes and helps catch killers. When Karen Pannell is found murdered, with the name Roc written above her on the wall in her own blood, the police think t...

Britney Ujlaky was living the small town American life in Elko, Nevada when she disappeared in March of 2020. The cops found out Britney had some real enemies in town, girls she'd been in physical fights with. Britney was also talking with several older men on social media. As the police investigate her disappearance, and searchers continue looking for her, a horrific discovery is made. Britney's...