From the Dark Side: Podcast

November 11th 1998. When Janette Piro and Chris Benedetto suddenly vanished, friends immediately knew something was wrong. A gruesome discovery inside their home soon revealed a shocking murder plot driven by greed and betrayal. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37877142/ ▫️https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-waters-with-captain-lee/crime-news/what-happened-to-janette-piro-chris-bebedetto-murde...

January 7th 1989. 33-year old Dr. Kathryn Hinnant stayed late at Bellevue Hospital in New York City preparing a lecture. When she never arrived at a gala that night, her husband went looking for her. What followed exposed terrifying security failures inside one of America’s most famous hospitals. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.hbomax.com/shows/dark-nights-in-the-city/s1/8efd4129-ec98-4e85-985e-734c5b38...

January 2016. 21-year old American Otto Warmbier traveled to North Korea with a tourist group. After allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel, he was detained and sentenced to 15 years hard labor. But, 17 months later, he was returned to his parents in the United States in a vegetative state and died within days. An exam showed he was well cared for during his time in captivity, so wh...

December 18th 2013. In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 20-year-old Heather Elvis vanished after a late-night phone call…leading investigators into a tangled case involving a secret affair, obsession, and a disappearance that still doesn’t have 100% closure. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://thecontextofthings.com/2014/02/04/the-heather-elvis-case-is-kind-of-a-hot-mess-but-focus-on-the-names-sidney-moorer-and-je...

June 7th 2017. 19-year old Tanner Ward told his mom he had to run out and he would be back in 30 minutes for dinner. He never returned. The search for Tanner ended six months later with a shocking find. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://truecrimenews.com/2018/03/01/mystery-in-missouri-what-happened-to-tanner-ward/ ▫️https://medium.com/@nikyoung/suicide-or-something-more-in-small-town-missouri-d36515642948 ▫️h...

April 25th 2010. 25-year old Heidi Firkus called police as an intruder broke into her home. When police arrived, Heidi was dead and her husband Nick was shot in the leg. His version of events wasn’t adding up. It would take 11 years before justice was served. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://abcnews.com/US/2nd-wifes-suspicions-confirmed-husbands-arrest-murder/story?id=98498114 ▫️https://www.cbsnews.com/news/...

November 15th 2010. 16-year old Delvonte Tisdale was found deceased in the middle of a street in a residential neighborhood 800 miles from home. The investigation into his death took a very unexpected turn. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://clclt.com/news-2/the-last-days-of-delvonte-tisdale-2177028/ ▫️https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35617138/ ▫️https://www.cbsnews.com/news/delvonte-tisdale-teen-found-dead-near-b...

September 7th 2019. 40-year old Aimee Betro traveled to Birmingham, England to carry out a murder plan hatched by a man she met on a dating app. She was quickly dubbed the world's worst hitman. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SENTENCING-REMARKS-AIMEE-BETRO.pdf ▫️https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72x5p8801o ▫️https://medium.com/@felixnanda/she-is-the-worst-hitm...

June 2010. 91-year-old Jean Stevens was a quiet widow living in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. She lived alone…but not really alone. Inside her home was a secret she’d been keeping for years. Folks in the town speculated, but no one said a word. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.tnonline.com/20100703/the-unbelievable-story-of-jean-stevens/ ▫️https://www.discoveryplus.com/shows/curious-case-of/s2/61a59a72-d476-4...

October 1999. A mysterious young author named JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with raw stories of abuse, addiction, and survival. Celebrities and fellow authors rallied behind the fragile, soft-spoken writer who appeared in public only in disguise. But as JT’s fame grew, so did the questions. Whispers began circulating through Hollywood. Who was this mysterious young man? 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️http...

April 8th 1980. 28-year-old Frankie Pullian was found deceased on a city side street partially pinned underneath an abandoned car. What initially was thought to be a hit and run was later discovered to be something more sinister. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20150412_070000_Forensic_Files ▫️https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0904471/ ▫️https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-di...

May 5th, 2018. When 62-year-old Nancy Woodrum vanished from her rural home in Paso Robles, California, investigators found unsettling signs of violence in her home, but no trace of her. What followed was a seven month long search that would expose a brutal murder. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/harlan-cobens-final-twist/photos/ ▫️https://moviedelic.com/...

July 11th, 1804. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr crossed the Hudson river to New Jersey to settle a long time feud. Their hatred for one another spiraled into a deadly duel. By dawn, one man was mortally wounded, the other was running from murder charges, and American history had taken a sharp turn. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.biography.com/political-figures/alexander-hamilton-aaron-burr-relations...

November 12th, 2012. 37-year-old Cari Farver told her mother she had met someone special and was planning to spend the night in Omaha. She was never seen again. For years, Cari appeared to be alive by sending texts, emails, and messages. Until investigators uncovered the disturbing truth behind her disappearance. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30852970/ ▫️ https://caselaw.findlaw.com/...

March 26th, 2018. Along California’s rugged Pacific Coast, a family’s SUV was found at the bottom of a cliff, all eight occupants dead. Jennifer and Sarah Hart were celebrated online as devoted mothers and had spent years curating a picture of love, activism, and joy with their six adopted children. But as investigators looked closer, a far darker story emerged.   💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.cnn.co...

December 3rd 1999. Billionaire banker Edmond Safra was found dead in his Monaco penthouse after a fire tore through his bathroom. At first, authorities believed he had been the victim of a botched burglary. But within days, suspicion turned toward his own nurse, Ted Maher. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt38984577/ ▫️ https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2000/12/dunne200012?srsltid=AfmBOoqZ...

December 24th 2010. 42-year old Lori Ruff died by suicide after her husband filed for divorce. While going through her possessions, her husband learned a shocking truth: Lori Ruff never officially existed. It would take six years before the truth of who she really was was discovered.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/special-reports/she-stole-anothers-identity-and-took-her-...

May 24th, 2006. After a sudden phone call sent 32-year-old Rey Rivera rushing from his Baltimore home, he vanished. His body was discovered days later beneath a hole in the roof of the historic Belvedere Hotel. The odd trail he left behind, including a note filled with cryptic references...no one can figure out what happened during his final hours. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.newspapers.com/image-v...

June 5th 2004. When 23-year-old college student Jesse Valencia was found murdered near his apartment, a shocking truth unraveled: he’d been secretly involved with a married police officer.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/missouri-cop-steven-rios-killed-jesse-valencia-after-affair ▫️ https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/missouri-colleg...

September 19th, 1961. Betty and Barney Hill spotted a strange light on a dark New Hampshire highway and soon found themselves with missing time, unsettling memories, and a story that became America’s first major alien-abduction case. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/the-abduction-of-betty-and-barney-hill/ ▫️ https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/history/the-story-of-betty-an...

April 29th 1989. Paula Sims reported that a masked intruder had taken her six-week-old daughter, Heather. What began as a shocking home invasion stuns investigators when they learn this is not the first time this had happened to this family.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Sims,%20Paula.pdf ▫️ https://youtu.be/r6Y0KWmOrzo?si=U_0maPjcMZfVHSed ▫️ https://f...

March 13th 2020. Just one day before the pandemic started, 33-year-old Holly Williams and 36-year-old Bill Lanway were found deceased inside a crashed car at a Nashville construction site. What first looks like a tragic car accident instead reveals the two had gunshot wounds. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/four-men-arrested-alleged-elaborate-murder-hire-case-invol...

February 9 2004. 21-year-old college student Maura Murray disappears after crashing her car on a remote New Hampshire road. Investigators encounter dead ends at every turn, from cryptic emails to strange behavior in the days leading up to her disappearance.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://people.com/maura-murray-disappearance-what-to-know-8786014 ▫️ https://www.mauramurraymissing.org/ ▫️ https://www.wmur....

November 16th 1957. In the small, quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, the local hardware store owner went missing. Her last sales receipt pointed to one man, Ed Gein. When police arrived at his isolated farmhouse, they stepped into something out of a nightmare. Inside, they uncovered human remains turned into furniture, masks, and clothing… a scene that would forever redefine horror in America. W...

June 21st 1996. 20-year-old Karina Holmer from Sweden came to Boston for a summer of adventure and working for an American family. In her letters she wrote to family and friends back home, she wrote about how happy she was. Then the letters became darker. After living in the US for just 3 months, her partial remains were found, leaving behind one of Bostons’ most chilling, unsolved mysteries. 💀SO...