Mountain Murders

This week's Offbeat focuses on your stories! That's right, listeners like you emailed or messaged us great stories ranging from black eyed people to spooky stuff in the woods! Email us your story at mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support .

Mountain Murders episode 151 takes a look at one of Virginia's most famous cases. Gina Hall was a college freshman who went to a Blacksburg night club on a summer night in 1980. She was never seen again. An investigation leads police to a former college football player with a violent past. Despite the fact there was no body, Stephen Epperly was charged with her murder. The case set a precedent and...

Support the show at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast where you can access bonus content! This week's Offbeat continues our series on asylums. Pennhurst State School and Hospital located in Spring City, PA was known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic. Very quickly, conditions at the institute deteroriated due to overcrowding and funding issues. P...

Keith Gordan Ham was swept up in the counter culture movements of the 1960s and went in search of a guru. He began studying under a Swami in New York City who was spreading a message of love and peace. Ham became Kirtananda betrays his guru in an attempt to seize control of the Krishna movement in America. Kirtandana decides to form his own Krishna commune in West Virginia. Followers flock to the...

On this week's Offbeat, we continue our series on asylums. The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (formerly the Weston State Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital that opened in 1864. It was in operation until 1994. The hospital has a unique history through the Civil War and became a participant of the West Virginia Lobotomy Project. It's dark history has become a hot bed of paranormal activity over th...

Marc Evonitz was a serial rapist and murderer who killed three teenage girls in Spotsylvania, Virginia as well as abducted a teenager in South Carolina. From a troubled childhood to a disturbed young man, Marc learned how to play the part of a normal guy. Intro Music by Joe Buck Yourself Hosts: Heather & Dylan Email: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www....

Mountain Murder's Offbeat brings you the first asylum in our series! Broughton Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Morganton, North Carolina with an interesting history. We examine former psychiatric techniques, the paranormal associated with Broughton, and some of the strange true stories at the hospital. Hosts: Heather and Dylan Email: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.com To support the sh...

During the 1970s in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, there were numerous unsolved homicides--mostly of young women--fitting similar patterns. Our first case involves the murder a 17 year old named Donna Lee Dustin who was killed while her family was on vacation. Her murder has haunted residents of Bowie, Maryland for over 40 years. A story of sex, drugs, and rock n...

Our fourth and final installment of Celebrity Conspiracy Theories dives into the most famous writer in the world: William Shakespeare. Some believe Shakespeare was not the person he claimed to be. Mountain Murders examines this conspiracy theory and who might've been responsible for the most famous theater productions which have endured for centuries. Hosts: Heather and Dylan Email: mountainmurder...

Support the show at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast for bonus content and ad free episodes! ***Trigger Warning*** this show depicts graphic violence against children. Mountain Murders presents one of North Carolina's most infamous murder cases. Jeffrey MacDonald was a Green Beret Army doctor convicted of killing his wife, Colette, and their two daughters in 1970. Evading prosecution for nin...

On this week's Mountain Murders Offbeat, we dive into more celebrity conspiracy theories! We start with discussions on adrenechrome which may be familiar to you if you follow any Qanon conspiracies. But wait, there's more! Are celebrities really harvesting children for this wonder drug or blood rituals? Where did these conspiracy theories generate? We'll take you back to the 1980s when the Frankli...

Support Mountain Murders by joining us at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast where you'll access bonus content! Roger "Butch" Pratt and Ed Swiger were best friends, fraternity brothers, and even roomed together while students at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania. After Butch was found in a shallow grave 16 months after he went missing, it became clear that his "brother" was not the guy...

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In part two of our series on Celebrity Conspiracy Theories, Mountain Murders takes a look at the death of Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain. Cobain was believed to have committed suicide in 1994 but many think he was, in fact, murdered --due to his wife's bidding. Courtney Love hired a private investigator to track down her "missing" husband Cobain. Grant discovers multiple inconsistencies in her sto...

Arthur Shawcross hits all the marks on the McDonald Triad plus... an abusive childhood, head injuries, firestarter, bedwetter, etc. He would grow up to become a petty criminal then a serial killer. Known as the "Genessee River Killer" or "Rochester Strangler", Arthur Shawcross murdered 11 marginalized women who were drug addicts, homeless, sex workers or suffered intellectual disabilities. He was...

Throw support behind the podcast by joining us at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast Mountain Murders kicks off our Offbeat series on Celebrity Conspiracy Theories this week with Paul is Dead. In 1966, Paul McCartney of The Beatles allegedly died in a car crash and was replaced by a lookalike named William Campbell or Billy Shears. We discuss this conspiracy theory, how it picked up steam and...

A small Georgia town is rattled when an elderly couple Sarah and Carl Collier are brutally murdered in their home. Word soon spreads that the culprit is Holly Harvey, their troubled teenage granddaughter and her girlfriend Sandy Ketchum. Holly and Sandy both had broken childhoods. The pair became fast friends which blossomed into a romantic relationship--something that was not widely accepted at t...

Join Heather as she relays the story of a missing Kentucky woman named Brooke Farthing who vanished from a foreclosed home after attending a party. Support the show at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support .

We've all seen the Florida Man memes used to describe people who hail from Florida. Mountain Murders knows weird, dumb criminals are everywhere--however, in this Offbeat episode, we take a look at some of the funny, outrageous and plain unbelievable crimes that have been reported out of the Sunshine state. From sex with plush toys in Target to flinging poo and cake frosting--we've got you covered...

To support the show join us at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast Mountain Murders covers one of the most evil and heartbreaking murders on episode 135. Vera Jo Reigle is an intellectually disabled woman who is lured in by the Brooks family; a cult-like criminal family ran by matriarch Cheri. Vera will suffer profound abuse and torture at the hands of the Brooks'. In 2011, her battered, nude b...

This week's Offbeat is the famous New Orleans true crime case of Zack Bowen and Addie Hall. The young bohemian couple embraced the vibrant French Quarter igniting a passionate but tumultuous relationship. Their relationship meets a tragic end. Hosts: Heather & Dylan Packer Email: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.com support the podcast www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast Become a supporter of this...

Support the show by signing up at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast ! Described by media as the new Ted Bundy, Danny Starrett preyed upon young women in Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Through classified ads, he was hunting for victims--not good deals. The handsome, charming professional with wife and baby shocked his family and the community when they learned of his double life...

To support the show sign up at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast to access bonus content! Discount offered on annual memberships! Welcome to this week's Mountain Murder's Offbeat episode filled with wonderful listener stories! Join us as we read your creepy, strange and just plain weird tales about a slenderman, a palm reader and what happens when you find a dead body. If you've got a spooky...

Support the show by joining us at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast--sign up for an annual membership and save money! In 1922, the bodies of a man and woman are discovered underneath a crab apple tree at a well known lover's lane. The murders sent shockwaves through the community when the victims are identified as a popular minister and his choir singer. A salacious story of murder, sex and t...

Support the show by signing up at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast In 2001, a college student named Clara Schwartz is consumed with online role playing games going as far as creating her own called Underworld. Calling herself Lord of Chaos, Clara creates a scenario where her father Dr. Robert Schwartz, a renowned DNA scientist, is the enemy. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, Cl...