Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

On a chilly September evening in 2009, five members of the Gee family living in tiny Beason, Illinois went to bed. After they did, a monster snuck into their home and slaughtered the entire family. As the story unravels we learn about Rick and Ruth Gee's sex life, their drug use, their troubled children and their adult daughter. The investigation reveals not only a shocking motive, but an even mor...

A thirteen year old boy Nicholas Barclay goes missing in San Antonio, Texas. Years later, Texas cops get a call from a detective in Spain telling them he has that boy in custody half way across the world. Nicholas' family flies to Spain to pick him up, grateful and excited about this miracle. But as soon as they see Nicholas, they know....something is wrong. Join me for this story about one of the...

This is the stuff horror films are made from. One night, a beautiful young woman named Sierah Joughin was riding her bike home down a country road. A monster appeared by the cornfields, dragging her into the rows and taking her life. When police were led to his property, what they found inside his barn? Almost too sinister to believe. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-hearts-wit...

Two Mormon Fundamentalist men with some very strange ideas take their children into the Southern Utah desert to wait out what they believe to be the coming apocalypse. Samuel Shaffer and John Alvin Coltharp take their children, two boys and four girls under the age of eight and hide them from the law and their mothers. When the cops finally catch up to them, they almost cannot believe the stories...

You probably haven't heard of this serial killer or his doppelgänger. In this crazy story, we have not one, but two suspects and the police are stumped. The suspects look almost identical. They could be brothers. So which one of them was taking and killing sex workers in Rhode Island? The answer is even more shocking than the resemblance. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-hearts...

A little boy is found frozen and wrapped in a blue blanket on the side of a rural Nebraska road on Christmas Eve. For years, his identity is unknown. And then, as men begin turning up murdered first in Colorado and then in Texas, the police connect their killer to the little boy's father. Eli Stutzman left the Amish community behind him and walked into a world of drugs, alcohol and murder. Support...

This is one of the most incredible stories I have ever covered with an ending that sadly, we don't usually see here in the true crime community. When Ethan Walton and Amanda Burney went to sell a piece of land to Glen Gouker they had no way of knowing they were walking into a trap. Ethan is attacked and Amanda is captured and assaulted. This story could easily be a horror film. When Amanda is tied...

I don't know why this brutal and gruesome crime hasn't received more attention. Ashley Young was a beautiful young woman entering a new chapter of her life. Unfortunately for her, she was in the midst of a monster named Jared Chance. They were just starting to see each other as more than friends when they went out for a drink one night. Ashley was never seen again. Her tenacious mother and step mo...

There is a shocking update to this old case. Bradford Bishop had it all; an important job with the State Department, three beautiful sons and a beautiful wife, and a nice home. He spoke five languages, he could fly a plane, and he'd lived all over the world. But when he doesn't get the promotion he desperately wants and needs, something snapped inside Brad Bishop...or maybe his plans had been a lo...

Someone is abducting and murdering hikers on the Appalachian Trail. He's not just killing them, he's decapitating them. Police catch a suspect and as they begin to look into his past, they realize, his history of killing goes much farther back in time than they originally suspected. Gary Hilton is a vile, evil man who did unthinkable things to people who were just out trying to enjoy nature. He is...

This story is strange. The crime is strange, the murder scene is strange, even the victim's profession is strange. This is a story about a wild night of partying gone wrong but the question is...who is to blame for the death of Dr. Marianne Shockley, one of the world's foremost experts on insects but specifically, insects as a source of food. Her playboy boyfriend Marcus and a friend of his, Dr. C...

Ronald Cohen is moving out of his house in 1999. He and the movers drag an old metal fifty gallon drum out onto the curb but the garbagemen won't take it away. It weighs too much. So he decides to open it. When he does, he uncovers a mystery that dates back thirty five years. Who is the woman in the barrel and who put her there? Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-hearts-with-stac...

*Podcast Exclusive* The powerful Mormon Church finds out a rare documents collector has uncovered something that makes Joseph Smith, the church's founder look very, very bad. The document, which comes to be known as The White Salamander Letter appears to be a letter from Martin Harris, Joseph Smith's right hand man, to WW Phelps in which Harris tells Phelps that Joseph did not get the golden plate...

I've got a wild story for you today. There is a Las Vegas escort service for women called Cowboys for Angels. You may have seen this escort service featured on the now cancelled Showtime TV series simply called, Gigolos. The service is still active but there is one profile that is glaring absent from the choice of gigolos for hire, that of Ash Armand. Ash Armand joined Cowboys for Angels and quick...

I have a ghoulish tale for you today. Michael Mastromarino was a successful oral surgeon but he got addicted to demerol and lost his license. He had to find a new way to make money. Grave robbing went out of fashion a hundred years ago but the demand for human corpses is now higher than ever. Michael knew, he could use his skills to harvest bone and tissue and sell it to the highest bidder. Before...

*Podcast Exclusive* Today we are discussing the rising phenomenon of "trad wives" which is slang or traditional wife; a woman who stays home, takes a back seat to her husband, cooks for him, cleans for him, and has lots of babies. We talk about Nara Smith and other trad wife content creators and then we discuss a very recent controversy involving Hannah Neeleman who is known on social media as Bal...

A serial killer is stalking Montreal and Canada in the late 1960s. Women begin turning up dead and they have deep, vicious bite wounds to their breasts. The police search for the killer for months but cannot seem to catch him. Then, a very lucky break and a bobble head toy lead them to their killer. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-hearts-with-stacy-lee-podcast/donations Hosted...

An explosion in the desert leads police to a gruesome discovery on John Pinder's ranch. John Ponder is an eccentric loner who keeps a full grown African lion as a pet. The lion lives with him in the house. The police are more concerned about what's happened to Rex Tanner and June Flood who have disappeared and they're more concerned with the little pieces of bone and tissue being found all over th...

A killer on a drug fueled rampage kills two women in Cape Coral, Florida. What happens next is almost as disturbing. When the killer makes his appearance in court, video of him quickly spreads through social media. Why? Women are falling all over themselves talking about how hot and how sexy this man is. Before I knew it, I was in the middle of a controversy involving a very popular social media p...

Today we discuss what goes on at Bohemian Grove, a secret meeting place in the California Redwoods forest where the most rich and powerful men in America meet for two weeks every summer. We talk about the history of the club, what goes on at the summer camp every year, and the conspiracy theories that swirl around the rituals. Is this simply a social gathering for the one percent or are dark and n...

Serial Killer Patrick Mackay has been all but forgotten, locked away in a British prison for the past four decades. Once he was convicted, the police stopped investigating the other deaths tied to him but there are those who want the investigation to continue. Patrick Mackay is still alive and is often allowed to go on day trips, leaving the minimum security prison where he is housed. Someone rece...

Today we are talking about an anti-semitic cult that has invaded Germany. The members use a series of fantasy books called Anastasia The Ringing Cedars as their guide. The books, written by Vladimir Megre are racist, misogynistic, and poorly written to boot. I have a very strange personal story about a woman who attempted to introduce me to this cult and I share that story here. This is a kooky st...

Maybe you've seen the movie, but are you aware of the controversy surrounding it? A Utah Mormon man named Tim Ballard has conned millions of dollars from good hearted people who want to help end child trafficking. The Mormon Church has formally denounced this man and there is very serious and real evidence that he has engaged in criminal activity including the sexual assault of women he worked wit...

You won't hear this story on my YouTube channel. This is a podcast exclusive; a deep dive into The Luby's Massacre. This is a conversation about Incels, about mental health and about guns. George Hennard was an Incel before that term was coined. He blamed women for all of his problems and like so many other mass shooters, he took his anger and rage out on innocent victims. ❤️ Subscribe: https://ww...

Just weeks ago, Jonathan Candy of Yukon, Oklahoma murdered his wife and three of their four sons. Today I want to talk about Family Annihilators, what they have in common, and how they are different. We are seeing a troubling uptick on social media surrounding men who openly hate women. How does this uptick affect the Family Annihilator? What makes men like this do the unthinkable and what do they...