Eric and Shelley

Gruesome and Unnatural

A true crime podcast about murder, cold cases, missing people, and unnatural events in the world.

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Eric and Shelley

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True Crime

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Jul 28, 2025

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Episodes

Episode 89: Alison Botha 28.07.2025

Alison Botha was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on September 22, 1967. One day in December 1994, 27-year-old Alison and some friends hung out at the beach and later at her apartment to eat pizza and play games. After everyone left, she drove a friend home. Alison arrived back home around 2am, but before she could even get out of her car, a man stuck a knife to her throat and told her to move...

Episode 88: The Story of Dalia and Mike Dippolito 07.04.2025

Dalia Mohammed moved to Boynton Beach, Florida at the age of 13. She later went into real estate but when that fell through, she became an escort. After Dalia met a man by the name of Mike Dippolito online they spent some together and before you know it he was divorcing his wife. Mike married Dalia the week his divorced finalized. The two were happily married but after six months a horrible traged...

Episode 87: The Murder of Alan Helmick 12.03.2025

Alan Clarke Helmick was born August 27th, 1945 in Delta, Colorado. He attended school in Delta graduating from Delta High School in 1963. While in High School Alan met a woman by the name of Sharon Leonard and the two became high school sweethearts. After High School he went on to graduate from Adams State College with a degree in physics. Alan and Sharon ended up getting married and the two over...

Episode 86: The Story of Victoria Cilliers 24.02.2025

Victoria who also went by Vicki was living in Wiltshire, England and working as a physiotherapist enjoying life and loving her main hobby of skydiving. In the winter of 2009, Emile Cilliers walked into her place of work and soon after the two were married and they had two children of their own. However, Emile started putting the family into a lot of debt and for him there was only one way for him...

Episode 85: The Murder of Jessica Chambers 11.02.2025

Jessica Lane Chambers was born to Ben Allen Chambers Sr. and Lisa Lynn Daugherty on February 2nd, 1995 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Jessica was their second child as they already had a son named Ben Jr. The two divorced and Jessica's father spent some time in prison and eventually was released starting a new life as a mechanic. However, her relationship with her mother was troubled so she moved in...

Episode 84: The Cleveland Torso Murderer 04.02.2025

An unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1930s was known to have murdered anywhere from between thirteen to twenty plus victims. A woman dubbed the "Lady of the Lake" could be included and would be the first victim to the person(s) that was known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run or the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Kingsbury Run is a prehistoric riverbed running from...

Episode 83: Elizabeth Short "Black Dahlia" 21.01.2025

Elizabeth Short was one of five girls born to Cleo Alvin Short Jr. and Phoebe May Sawyer on July 29th, 1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. At the age of 15, Elizabeth she was suffering from bronchitis and severe asthma attacks, so she had to undergo surgery. After the successful surgery the doctors did recommend that she relocate to a milder climate in order to prevent any further respiratory proble...

Episode 82: Amber Hagerman 14.01.2025

Amber Hagerman received a new pink bike for Christmas in 1995 and was ecstatic to ride it. On January 13th, 1996 Donna took her 9-year-old daughter Amber and 5-year-old son Ricky to their grandmother’s house so they could ride their bikes around the neighborhood. Amber and her brother took off down the street telling their mother they wouldn’t go too far however Amber did not listen to her mother’...

Episode 81: Ellen Greenberg 08.01.2025

Josh and Sandee Greenberg gave birth to their one and only child a daughter they named Ellen Rae Greenberg on June 23rd, 1983. It wasn’t until 9 years later in 1994 that the family of three decided to move to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where Ellen later attended Susquehanna Township middle school. After graduating high school, she attended Penn State graduating with a major in communications later r...

Episode 80: The Murder of James Bulger 30.12.2024

On Friday February 12th, 1993 little two-year-old James Bulger and his mother Denise went to the New Strand Shopping Center in Bootle, England to do some shopping. They were there for a short time before Denise decided to go into the butcher shop to purchase some meat. She held James’ hand the entire time until it was time to purchase her chops, as Denise let go of his hand James wondered off and...

Episode 79: Jaime Osuna 27.05.2024

Jaime Osuna had a horrible upbringing starting with his mother neglecting him and allowing his stepfather to physical abuse Jaime. His mom and stepfather would deprive him of food while his siblings were not, although he was allowed to eat on the floor like a dog. This treatment led him into a life of crime, abuse, and murder in the most gruesome way.

Episode 78: The Murders of Claudia Maupin and Oliver Northup 29.04.2024

Daniel Marsh first made local headlines in 2008 at the age of 10 after receiving an American Red Cross Heroes Award for using CPR to save his father’s life who was having a heart attack. Although, it was around the same time his parents were going through a divorce due to his mother's affair with his former kindergarten teacher. This really stuck with Daniel and at the young age of 10, he was begi...

Episode 77: The Murders of Wendy and Randall Bjorge 09.04.2024

17-year-old Cassandra Bjorge was sent to live with her grandparents Wendy and Randall Bjorge in Georgia after she had been having some behavioral issues with a past of using drugs and running away. She spent several years doing Kung Fu at this point so shortly after moving in with her grandparents she was able to go to China with her grandparents help. They were hoping this would help Cassie to ch...

Episode 76: Zachary Davis 01.04.2024

Zachary Everett Davis was born on July 29th, 1997, to Melanie and Christopher Davis. Growing up Zach was always a quiet child but also had a history of mental illnesses. In 2007, when he was nine years old, his father Chris passed away due to Lou Gehrig’s disease. After his father’s passing Zach became extremely depressed so much so that he eventually wound up in the hospital for psychiatric treat...

Episode 75: Brian Cohee 26.03.2024

On the night of February 27th, 2021, Brian Cohee Jr. and his parents enjoyed a nice family movie night in before Brian went out to take a drive and get some fresh air. Unfortunately, his car would later get stuck in the Colorado River and would take hours to get out. After finally retrieving his car, Brian’s father went to clean the car out and see if they could salvage it although his father woul...

Episode 74: Paul Stephani - The Weepy Voiced Killer 18.03.2024

Paul Stephani was the youngest of ten children. His mother remarried his stepfather when Paul was 3 years old, although he claims his stepfather was abusive towards him and his siblings when he came into their lives. Paul moved to Saint Paul, Minneapolis later on in his life taking on various jobs but just couldn’t keep one and would blame this on the fact that as a child he was diagnosed with epi...

Episode 73: The Murder of Shad Thyrion 04.03.2024

Taylor Coronado met Shad Thyrion when they were in middle school and later dated one another in high school. Although that relationship didn’t last, they did remain friends after high school. One night on February 21st, 2022 Taylor picked up Shad from his mother’s house at around 9:30pm. They drove to her apartment on Eastman Avenue and there one of their friends joined them to hang out and smoke...

Episode 72: Murders of Dorothy Scott & Bernd Brandes/Survival Story of Gayle Corris 27.02.2024

Dorothy Scott was enjoying a night out with co-workers when she noticed one of her co-workers did not look well and had a red mark on his arm. Dorothy and another one of her co-workers, Pam Head, decided to take him to the emergency room where they found out he had been bitten by a spider. Dorothy and Pam sat in the waiting room for their friend to be released. After being released Dorothy left th...

Episode 71: Nannie Doss - The Giggling Granny 12.02.2024

Nannie Doss grew up working on a farm and quitting school by the 6th grade as her father was very controlling and abusive. When Nannie was just 9 years old her family took a train to see family but while on the train it made a sudden stop making Nannie hit her head on a metal pole located in front of her, Nannie was not the same after that. She went on to marry her first husband at just 16 years o...

Episode 70: Kurt Cobain 05.02.2024

Kurt Cobain was the first born to each side of his family, so he was a spoiled little boy. He grew up drawing and singing at a very young age although by the time he was 9 years old his parents were going through a divorce, and this really tore him apart. He began using drugs, smoking, and drinking alcohol at a young age and didn’t have a stable living situation. After high school Kurt started to...

Episode 69: Serial Killer - Joel Rifkin 22.01.2024

Bernard and Jeanne Rifkin adopted Joel three weeks after he was born. He was bullied a lot in his younger years of life which ultimately left him by himself most of the time. Joel started to have deep disturbing thoughts about hurting women and unfortunately, he made those thoughts a reality. He ended up murdering 17 women in the New York area even dismembering some of them. Sadly, a couple of the...

Episode 68: The House of Horror - The Turpin Family 16.01.2024

After meeting at church and eloping at a young age Louise and her new husband David Turpin continued practicing their religion as Pentecostal Christians. As a part of their belief, they were to have numerous children because, “God called on them to do so.” The couple went on to have thirteen children, ten daughters and three sons. Although, after the oldest child was born and attended school for a...

Episode 67: Adam Strong 08.01.2024

18-year-old Rori Hache was last seen leaving a hospital without being seen by a healthcare professional but where did she go and what happened to her? 12 days later a fisherman and his grandson came across a female torso which would later be identified as Rori Hache. Thankfully answers to where the rest of her body was would come soon than later but would she be the only victim?

Episode 66: Serial Killer - Ronald Gene Simmons 01.01.2024

Ronald Gene Simmons spent 20 years in the military and retired as Master Sergeant. During his time in the military, he and his wife Becky had 7 children together although Ronald would later be investigated for fathering his daughter’s child and this is when he moved the family in fear of being arrested. This move would be the last for the Simmons’s family as Ronald snapped one day on not only his...

Episode 65: JonBenet Ramsey 12.12.2023

JonBenet Ramsey a beautiful little 6-year-old girl who won many beauty pageants at such a young age. December 25th, 1996 Christmas day the family woke up, opened presents, and then attended a Christmas party that night. Although the next morning would be the worst days of their lives when Patsy finds a ransom note and her daughter missing.  

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