Every Town

How did Lisa Kimmell get the moniker “Lil’ Miss and what happened to her case when she disappeared in 1988? The Lil Miss Murder case baffled authorities in Casper, WY for so long the case went cold. But 14 years later the case was finally solved when the initially-thought abduction of teenager Lisa Kimmell in March 1988 had turned out to be a brutal murder that only a creature devoid of a soul cou...

The 1991 Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders is a Quadruple Murder Mystery that still remains unsolved to this day. The city of Austin was rocked by The Yogurt Shop Murders, when four young girls lives were taken in a brutal way. Today we'll dig deep into the Austin Unsolved Mystery from 1991 known as The Yogurt Shop Murders.🥇 Watch This Episode with like.....visuals! - https://www.youtube.com/watc...

Emilie Morris from Sappington Missouri was 15 years old track star but her 29 yr old Coach James Wilder wanted more from his promising mentee. 17 Years later, Emilie Morris had a suspicious death that rocked the entire state of Missouri. Was it a murder? Tune in to find out the details of the Suspicious Death Of Emilie Morris.🥇 Watch This Episode with like.....visuals! - https://www.youtube.com/w...

This is one of those stories that once you hear the details, it will stick with you forever. There are several strange parts to this crime which you'll learn about once you listen. If you want to watch this episode with all the crime scene photos then check that out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSDrBuMfgA&ab_channel=ScaryMysteries🥇 Watch This Episode with like.....visuals! : https://www...

At 30 years old, the teacher-beauty queen met her untimely end in the hands of two people who studied in the same high school where Tara worked – her former students whom she taught and helped prepare to face the future. This is a story of a woman who seemed to have everything, but in the end, she was unjustly left with nothing.🥇 Watch This Episode like a TV show : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

In this weeks episode we highlight the tragic yet bizarre fate of  World War II veteran Joseph Junior Mulvaney. The murky circumstances of his murder almost 6 decades ago are interesting enough, and how his remains were discovered 3 decades later is equally fascinating, too. What could top them is how his remains were finally identified 54 years after he went missing. This is the detailed account...

In this week’s episode of Every Town we'll head to Aloha, Washington County, Oregon where I’ll present to you the seemingly incomprehensible story of a young boy proven guilty of arson and murder. Equally interesting to know is how Ray DeFord pulled off such a crime at 11 years old.. having had is the kind of childhood he had sustained in the hands of his father. You may abhor him for his criminal...

For more than three decades now, the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia has been beset by the unsolved Colonial Parkway murders. It’s considered the state’s most notorious case of who-done-it -- a string of brutal killings of four young couples, romantically linked or not, between October 1986 and September 1989. No obvious motives were established; there were no signs of robbery or sexual assault. But...

The Church of Scientology has been plagued with controversies through the decades, including its stance against psychiatry. This became a bone of contention in the double murder case against Kenneth Wayne Thompson in 2012, in Prescott Valley, Arizona with the defense team hoping that religion would spare Kenneth from capital punishment. But they failed. Let’s revisit the life of Kenneth Wayne Thom...

Chris Watts, inexplicably murdered his family in Colorado in 2018 in what is now infamously knows as the Watts Family Murders. It was  a shocking crime of family annihilation which is defined as the murder of an entire family, most of which are committed by white men in their 30s. 💥 Exclusive Content Here: https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries 💥 Scary Mysteries Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.c...

💥Get the podcast version - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1235213It is ingrained in all of us, to appreciate natural beauty and all over the world there are places and towns that stick out for one reason or another. Aiken County, located near the mid-point of South Carolina's 250-mile border with Georgia, is famous for its lush gardens, hundreds of rare camellias, and thoroughbred horse racing. It’s...

On September 11, 2011, what seemed to be another bloody triple homicide case in the city of Waltham in Middlesex County, Massachusetts turned out to be not just another violent crime that some random killer mindlessly executed. The homicides, which almost decapitated Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken, were entangled in a controversial mess that involved drugs, terrorism and the 2013 B...

"We thought it was a perfect marriage." Coming from their closest friends, these words may have been the ultimate compliment for Woodbridge Township, New Jersey couple William or Bill and Melanie McGuire. They were a lovely pair blessed with two beautiful boys and stable careers. But life can spring an unexpected surprise, and it was an alleged infidelity in the McGuires' case that shattered to tr...

Even a quaint town with a small population can be filled with the biggest pride just like Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky. In 2012, Bardstown was voted as "The Most Beautiful Small Town in America" in the Destination Marketing Association International's "Best of the Road" competition. It gave credence to the Visit Bardstown website’s description of Kentucky’s second oldest town as ”An atmosp...

Imagine it - you’ve got a special package that arrived in the mail! It’s attractively wrapped, and seems to contain something valuable. Perhaps, an expensive bottle of perfume? Tickets to a Caribbean cruise? Or the latest gadget you’ve been saving up for? Instinctively, you become excited to unwrap the package, leaving no room for any suspicion or fear, as the surprise just fills you with joy. In...

One day in 1994, a police officer arrested a juvenile, and the first thing he asked the teenage boy was “What’s going on?” He replied to the officer matter-of-factly, “I’ve had a bad day today…I’ve killed my whole family.” As if that wasn’t enough for a spring day gone wickedly awry, the boy had also kidnapped his prom date, bringing her along to his school where he held his entire Trigonometry cl...

In the U.S. state of New Mexico, one can find towns with unusual names such as Elephant Butte and Truth and Consequences. But few people know that in these towns there once lived a criminal with an equally unusual moniker - “The Toy-Box Killer.” He was an infamous American kidnapper, torturer, rapist, and suspected serial killer who executed his monstrous crimes right inside his trailer, known as...

To her neighbors, Dorothea Puente seemed almost saint-like. She opened her home to shelter society’s outcasts: the homeless, the mentally-ill, alcoholics, drug addicts, and even frail, sickly old people. She was known to provide meals and medical care for her marginalized tenants, gave out backyard vegetables to her neighbors, and adopted stray cats. How could her neighbors not admire the kind wom...

“Want me to give you a ride?” This 7-word solicitous question may sound like an offer to help that deserves appreciation. But for three young women in Cleveland, Ohio who accepted the ride, it was a decision they would regret for a long time. The invitation turned out to be a bait for a kidnapping spree perpetrated by Ariel Castro, a self-confessed sex and pornography addict. He abducted and impri...

It’s not uncommon for two people to share the same first and last names – and the only detail that doesn’t make their birth certificates identical is the difference in their middle names. Did you know that Hollywood actor Chris Evans shares his name with an equally popular English TV and radio personality? Two different “Michelle Williams’” made it big in show business – one as an Oscar-nominated...

Our public persona is what most people know and see, and it becomes the basis of how they love or hate us, and appreciate or judge us. What we tightly guard and don’t expose though is our private persona which harbors our deepest thoughts, obsessions and fantasies. Some fantasize about having the fame and wealth of Bill Gates or Beyoncé, the powers of a Marvel superhero, or feed their thoughts wit...

Twenty-one year old Massachusetts native Helene Pruszynski had always aspired to be a journalist, and had ventured to Denver, Colorado to pursue her dream.  She wanted to write the next big story, but in 1980, Helene herself became THE big story. She was abducted, sexually-assaulted, and murdered in a random act of unfathomable brutality.. Her story struck an emotional chord among many people beca...

American writer and literary critic Anatole Broyard once opined, “In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.” In the 1970s, the ability to instantly communicate through e-mails, texting, or social media was still decades away, so people employed the use of paper and pen, the mailman, and mailboxes to stay in touch....

Do you want a respite from the hustle and bustle of your daily grind in the city? Close your eyes and imagine this: it’s a bright and cheery weekend, and you’re whiling away the day in the far northern edge of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range surrounded by vast lakes and verdant forests. After communing with nature, you retreat to a rustic cabin, and dine on fresh fish, local barbecued be...

In the U.S. state of New Mexico, one can find towns with unusual names such as Elephant Butte and Truth and Consequences. But few people know that in these towns there once lived a criminal with an equally unusual moniker - “The Toy-Box Killer.” He was an infamous American kidnapper, torturer, rapist, and suspected serial killer who executed his monstrous crimes right inside his trailer, known as...