Lurking In the Shadows Podcast

Episode 62: The Stacy Robinson Hunsucker case centers on the 2018 death of a 32-year-old preschool teacher from Mount Holly, North Carolina, whose husband, former flight paramedic Joshua Lee Hunsucker, is accused of fatally poisoning her with over-the-counter eyedrops. The case has garnered widespread national attention due to the highly unusual method of murder, a financial motive, and a subseque...

Episode 61: In Oregon in May 1983, a blood-soaked car pulled up to an emergency room, carrying a mother with a minor gunshot wound and her three young children who had been brutally shot at close range. The mother, Diane Downs, spun a terrifying tale, but as investigators looked, they found a chillingly calm, narcissistic woman who seemed more concerned with a love affair than the survival of her...

Episode 60: Ryan Shtuka is a 20-year-old Canadian man who mysteriously vanished from the Sun Peaks Resort village in British Columbia on February 17, 2018. Despite immense volunteer efforts and extensive law enforcement investigations, his disappearance remains an unsolved missing person case with no traces or clues ever recovered. https://ryanshtuka.com/contact/ https://sunpeaksmunicipality.ca/re...

Episode 59: Angie Zapata was an 18-year-old transgender woman living in Greeley, Colorado. In July 2008, Zapata met 31-year-old Allen Ray Andrade through an online social networking site. The two went on a date and spent nearly three days together at Zapata's apartment. After finding photographs that made him question her sex, Andrade confronted Zapata and beat her with his fists and a fire exting...

Episode 58: Brandon Teena was a 21-year-old American transgender man who was brutally raped and murdered in late 1993 in southeastern Nebraska. His death, along with the subsequent systemic failure of law enforcement, became a landmark catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and inspired the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry. Tune in to hear his story. HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! https://www.britann...

Welcome to True Crime In a Dime, our short stories segment. In this themed episode we are sharing 4 cases where couples or individuals have been murdered in a state park- Heidi Childs & David Metzler (couple from Virginia Tech, unsolved), Julie Williams and Lollie Winans (couple, solved after many years), Matthew Dunmire (murdered by ex-girlfriend), and Louise Chaput (unsolved murder). https://www...

Episode 57: A 19-year-old girl goes for a bike ride in New Mexico and never comes back. A year later, a Polaroid is found in Florida showing a girl who looks exactly like her, bound and gagged in the back of a van. Is it Tara Calico? For nearly forty years, that photograph has haunted investigators, but the truth behind her disappearance might be closer to her hometown than anyone ever wanted to a...

Welcome to Lurking In the News Vol. 14, our True Crime News segment. In this episode we share the stories of Joseph Patrick Reardon (John Doe identified), Leyla Monserrat Lares Becerra (murder), Shalyn Shantel Harvey (remains found), Kouri Richins (murder trial verdict), Roxanne Sharp (cold case- solved), and Roberta Walls (cold case- solved). https://dnasolves.com/articles/ventura-county-camarill...

Episode 56: In London in September of 2005, 22-year-old Clare Bernal was murdered by her stalker, Michael Pech, at Harvey Nichols Dept. store. With just ten minutes left in her shift, Michael Pech, a former security guard who had been stalking her for months, emerged from the shadows and raised a gun to the back of her head in front of customers and staff, forever changing lives and exposing criti...

Episode 55: What’s more dangerous than a serial killer? A serial killer with an FBI badge in his pocket. Scott Lee Kimball was a master manipulator who convinced the feds he was their best asset, even as he was murdering the very people he was supposed to be 'informing' on. We’re peeling back the layers on how the Bureau got conned by 1 man—and the four victims who paid the price for their mistake...

Episode 54: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, MMIW, is a silent crisis of disproportionate violence against Native populations in North America. Many Indigenous women experience violence, abduction, and murder that often goes underreported or ignored by authorities and media, with systemic issues like misclassification, lack of data, and jurisdictional complexities hindering investigations. A...

Episode 53: In December 2016, 19-year-old Sarah Stern was murdered in her home by her childhood friend, in Neptune City, New Jersey. The killer plotted for six months to rob Stern of what he believed was $100,000 in cash hidden in her home, money inherited after her mother’s death. In a recorded confession, the killer detailed how he used a stopwatch on his phone to time her death, which took 30 m...

Welcome to Lurking In the News, our True Crime News segment. In Vol. 13 we discuss the stories of Ian Huntley (child killer murdered in prison), Laura Ann Aime (cold case solved- victim of Ted Bundy), Molly Miller & Colt Haynes (missing persons- remains found), Alexander Kazanowski (unsolved murder), Walter Karl Kinney (remains identified), and Sandra Kaye Davis (arrest made in cold case). https:/...

Welcome to True Crime In a Dime, our short stories segment. In Chapter 10, we discuss the cases of Kanika Powell (unsolved murder), Nicole Van Den Hurk (murder), The Subway Murders (unsolved double homicide of Nicholas Kunselman & Stephanie Hart-Grizzell, Columbine students),), and the Arizona State Prison Break (and other crimes). https://truecrimenews.com/2015/10/09/unsolved-national-security-wo...

Episode 52: At the height of the Great Depression, the Barker-Karpis gang was building a criminal empire that would stir up the Midwest. They were bank robbers that graduated from small-town heists to high-stakes, multi-million dollar kidnappings of the American elite. At the center of this criminal enterprise was a supposed villain: Ma Barker, the matriarch who J. Edgar Hoover branded as the most...

Episode 51: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17) carried out a mass shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 people (12 students and one teacher) and injured 24 others before both perpetrators turned their guns on themselves. In February 2025, the death of a paralyzed survivor was ruled a homicide,...

Episode 50: On February 2, 2009, a resident walking her dog found a human femur bone on the West Mesa, a desert area then slated for residential development in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Subsequent excavations revealed the largest crime scene in the city's history. Authorities identified 11 females and one fetus. Most of the victims had disappeared between 2003 and 2005, were Hispanic, and were know...

Episode 49: On the night of June 24, 1993, two high school friends, Jennifer Ertman (14) and Elizabeth Peña (16) were walking home from a pool party and took a shortcut along railroad tracks. There, they encountered six gang members who were in the middle of an initiation ritual. The gang ambushed the girls, subjected them to over an hour of physical torture and gang rape, and eventually strangled...

Welcome to Lurking In the News Vol. 12, our True Crime News segment. In this episode we discuss the stories of Monika Rubacha (murder-suicide), the Wayne County triple homicide (murders of Margaret Olroyd, Linda Dewey, and Natalie Graves), Robbie Crites (murder suspects arrested), Marjorie "Christie" Luna (new suspect in disappearance), Morgan Violi (cold case- solved), and Ashley Okland (murder s...

Episode 48: For over two decades, a predator haunted the streets of South Los Angeles, leaving a trail of bodies in the dark alleys and trash heaps along Western Avenue. Because of a 14-year hiatus in his crimes, he was dubbed the "Grim Sleeper". This killer targeted vulnerable Black women during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. This case eventually became solvable with the help of DNA. T...

Welcome to True Crime In a Dime Chapter 9, our short stories segment. In this episode we share the cases of Alan Wood (unsolved murder), Jennifer Daugherty (brutal murder), Sara Bushland (disappearance), and The Kelly Family (serial killer family). https://truecrimeenthusiast.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/who-murdered-alan-wood/ https://www.lincs.police.uk/police-forces/lincolnshire-police/areas/campai...

Episode 47: IT'S OUR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE! Every time a person steps into a room, they leave behind a microscopic 'ID card' that they didn't even know they were carrying. Today, we’re cracking open the ultimate biological blueprint: DNA. From a single stray hair to a smudge on a doorknob, we’re exploring how forensic science turns invisible crumbs of code into the keys that unlock the answers into...

Episode 46: In 1988, 28 year-old British tourist Julie Ward traveled to Africa to carry out her passion for wildlife photography, a trip she had taken before, but this time she never returned home. After not hearing from his daughter for a few days, her dad John grew concerned and called the places she had been staying in and hospitals, but she wasn’t there. He travelled to Kenya himself and came...

Welcome to Lurking In the News Vol. 11! This is our True Crime News segment where we keep you up to date on current events in True Crime. In this episode we tell the stories of Sarah Geer (cold case, solved), Maleeka Boone (unsolved murder), Dorothy Tate (cold case, solved), Clarence Edwin Asher (John Doe, solved), Mary Beth Isbell (murder trial verdict), and Lynn Vest & Jeremy Pickens (cold case,...

Episode 45: She was a self-proclaimed psychic, a 'medium' who claimed she could speak to the dead. Little did her clients know, Kate Bender wasn't just talking to spirits—she was busy creating them. Tucked away in a small cabin in Labette County, Kansas the Bender family ran a business where guests checked in, but their souls never checked out. Today, we’re digging into the cellar of the infamous...