From the Dark Side: Podcast

September 1st 1974. Richard and Belinda Cowden set off with their children for a Labor Day weekend camping trip. By the end of the second day, their campsite lies eerily abandoned. The family of four vanished without a trace. It will be months before the chilling truth of what happened comes to light. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/true-crime-in-the-outdoors/cowden-murders ▫️ https...

August 22 2005. Stacey Castor calls police and tells them her husband David locked himself in their bedroom and won’t come out. After breaking down the door, they find David deceased. His death was quickly thought to be a suicide by ingesting antifreeze. Forensics will prove otherwise and this death unlocked a tangled web of deceit.  
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May 28th 2022. 19-year old Utah farmer Dylan Rounds tells his grandmother on the phone he was moving his grain truck into the shed before a storm. No one heard from him again. His disappearance turns to a murder investigation after evidence is linked to a 58-year old man who was squatting in a camper near his farm.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets.eastidahonews.com/wp-cont...

October 1st 2018. Scattered, dismembered body parts were found on an Ohio highway. 39-year old David Carter had been reported missing a few days earlier by his family. Once a connection was made between the two, all evidence pointed to someone close to him that is described as “obsessive and controlling”. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://screenrant.com/unsolved-mysteries-body-in-bags-timeline-explained/ htt...

March 29th 2019. 21-year old Samantha Josephson was out partying at bars with her friends to celebrate her upcoming graduation from University of South Carolina. At 2:00 am, she called an Uber, but mistakenly got in the wrong car and met a tragic fate.  💀SOURCES💀 ▫️ https://www.wyff4.com/article/new-details-released-timeline-created-in-kidnapping-homicide-of-usc-student/27006501 ▫️ https://www.w...

April 15th 1990. 46-year old Dennis DePue goes to his ex-wife’s house for visitation with the kids. A violent encounter ensues and Dennis tells the kids he is taking Marilyn to the hospital. She is never seen again. Dennis is the real life inspiration for the iconic car chase and abandoned schoolhouse scene in the film Jeepers Creepers. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/dennis-de...

April 28th 2021. 45-year old Amy Carlson was found mummified in a home and adorned with Christmas lights and makeup. Her followers rejoiced she had finally shed her physical vessel and ascended to the fifth dimension. Today we’re talking about the bizarre “Love Has Won” cult and the death of their leader, Mother God. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/love-has-won-time-line ▫️https:...

Oct 5th 2006. 28-year old Zack Bowen and 30-year old Addie Hall were both bartenders in New Orleans. They were published in national news as symbols of resilience and hope in the Hurricane Katrina tragedy one year prior. But they had a toxic relationship that took a sinister turn one day. This case became one of the city's most gruesome. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2590814&pag...

Hey everyone. I just wanted to quickly check in with you all and let you know I will not be airing any new episodes for the next few weeks. I’m taking a short break but plan to return sometime in the beginning of July. When I return, I’ll have new episodes every Monday morning as usual. I feel you guys deserve an explanation for my absence. It’s quite normal circumstances. I just need a break and...

December 8th 2004. Concert attendees heard multiple loud bangs. A guitar emitted shrieking feedback that seemed to linger forever as the bands guitarist collapsed on stage. 25-year-old Nathan Gale, a deranged fan, had stormed the stage and fatally shot Damageplans’ lead guitarist Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott. Navigating through gunfire, chaos ensued as fans rushed onstage to shelter Dimebag, while thr...

May 26th 1828, 16-year old Kaspar Hauser emerges from the woods and wanders nervously through the town square of Nuremberg, Germany carrying a note in his pocket. He claims he spent his entire life in a dark cell. Some believe he was once a child of royalty who was stolen at birth. While others believe he’s a con man. 💀SOURCES💀 ▫️The enigma of Kaspar Hauser: Secret prince, hoaxer, or victim? | S...

**** I incorrectly stated Tim’s date of birth was in 1984. It was 1964. 😮My apologies! ////// January 24th 1984. After dropping his younger brother off at school, 19-year old Tim Molnar doesn’t show up for an important class and is never seen again. 12 years later, a major break in the case would come from 1200 miles away. ▫️https://web.archive.org/web/20030813065429/http://www.unsolved.com:80/UD...

March 29th 2000. 21-year-old Rachel Siani was paying her way through college by dancing at Divas International in Levittown, PA. She was last seen with a customer who was a regular. Her killer unknowingly left a major clue leading right to him. 💀SOURCES💀 https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/opinion/columns/2017/04/12/mullane-years-later-murder-case/17665125007/ ▫️https://www.oddmurdersand...

April 5th 2008. Cheryl Williams Frady was a 44-year old loving Mom of three. Recently divorced, she was adjusting to being single and navigating her new journey of independence. Cheryls life was taken from her leaving her family in shock, disbelief and with more questions than answers. 💀SOURCES💀 https://www.dawsonnews.com/news/crime-courts/she-was-always-willing-to-help-victim-in-2008-dawson-cou...

July 20th 2020. 18-year old rising high school senior Grant Solomon had a rocky relationship with his Dad. He met his Dad alone for the first time in two years at a baseball training facility. Within minutes of meeting him, Grant died in a freak accident after his truck allegedly malfunctioned and rolled backwards. The only witness was his Dad who had been accused of horrific crimes that Grant pla...

On the snowy night of February 24th 1978, five friends attended a college basketball game together. Instead of returning home afterwards, their car is found abandoned 70 miles in the wrong direction in a remote area of a National Forest. As Spring arrives and the snow begins to melt, major findings surface. It's been almost 50 years and the Yuba County Five are still one of the biggest mysteries....

January 25th 2002. 20-year old Christopher Thompkins was working as a lineman on a survey crew. He was positioned at the end and having a conversation with his coworker who was in formation 50 feet away. His coworker looked away for a moment and when he turned back around, Christopher was gone leaving only his tools and one work boot found nearby. He hasn’t been seen since. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tin...

January 27 2013. A beloved high school librarian disappears while alone on his boat one sunny afternoon. His body was located nine days later and quickly ruled a suicide. But evidence painted a picture that foul play was involved. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/4ddyv8jy legacy https://tinyurl.com/8a7m8zvx projectcoldcase https://tinyurl.com/yhf4bu5e newsweek https://tinyurl.com/mtht3wfs unsolvedm...

May 30th 1999. 66-year old widow Angela Spence-Shaw doesn’t arrive at her part time job at the local greenhouse. Her coworker becomes concerned and drives to her house in a quiet coastal town in Rhode Island. She sees Angela’s car is still in the driveway. On the other side of her front door was a gruesome scene. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/5n8zsa35 southcoasttoday https://tinyurl.com/yc7rnah2...

April 2008, 54-year old Fred Engel walks to his mailbox and is quickly ambushed. His body was found 30 yards away in a wooded area next to their upscale neighborhood. Cell phone forensics will help determine who is responsible. 💀SOURCES💀 https://tinyurl.com/2xumavcp forensicfilestheambush https://tinyurl.com/2p8m6ds4 caselaw https://tinyurl.com/yjxd6tnj legacy https://tinyurl.com/3jfefenf wmbfne...

July 23 2018. An unidentified hiker was found deceased in his tent weighing just 83 lb. His bag contained food, $3600 in cash and a notebook filled with handwritten programmer codes. His photo was circulated online in a quest to identify him. Many hikers came forward with their photos and stories of meeting him on the trail over the last year, but he never gave his real name. Instead he referred t...

July 13 2011. 27-year old Laura Ackerson disappeared during the middle of a custody dispute with her ex-partner Grant Hayes. He and his new wife, actress Amanda Perry, became the prime suspects in this gruesome case. ⬜️⬜️ “Feral Angel Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ⬜️⬜️ 💀SOURCES💀 h...

April 18th 2016. 45-year old fitness instructor Missy Bevers arrives at Creekside Church of Christ at 4:18 am to get her equipment set up for her 5:00 am fitness class she teaches. Missy was found deceased in her classroom shortly afterwards. Her killer was seen on surveillance wearing police tactical gear and casually walking through the church hallways breaking glass with a hammer and opening do...

July 2021. Life was going well for 23-year old college student Chandler Halderson including a new job with SpaceX he was set to begin in a few weeks. He reported his parents missing after they didn’t return home from their vacation home three hours away. It wouldn’t take long before Chandlers’ elaborate land of make-believe began to unveil. ///// ◻️◻️ “Feral Angel Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech...

March 1st 2019. When 29-year old business owner Andreen McDonald failed to show up for work, her employees immediately knew something was wrong. A search of her home provided clues that Andreen had been met with foul play by someone close to home. 💀SOURCES💀 http://tinyurl.com/38cxr3rk ksat http://tinyurl.com/bp5zwfz9 sawomen http://tinyurl.com/nhe9hnmk foxsanantonio http://tinyurl.com/yeyjrjpk f...