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Send us Fan Mail While we're on a short holiday break, enjoy an episode from one of our favorites, Lagim: A Filipino True Crime Podcast. This episode covers the murder of Caroline Crouch, a Greek student of Filipino and British descent, who was found dead in her home in an Athens suburb in May of  2021. From Lagim: In this episode of Lagim, I re-explore the case of Caroline Crouch. I have fea...

Send us Fan Mail Back to cheer you up after part 1's naughty stories, podcasters from Darkcast Network share some holiday stories from the 'Nice' category. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Podcasters from Darkcast Network share their naughty tales of true crime committed during the holiday season.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail While we're on a short holiday break, we've decided to share some episodes from a few of our favorite podcasts with you. In this episode, Margot from Military Murder shares the story of lesser-known serial killer Rosendo Rodriguez III. ----- From Military Murder: In 2005, Summer Baldwin was discovered dead and stuffed into a suitcase in a landfill in Lubbock, Texas. Inve...

Send us Fan Mail While we take a short holiday break this December, we're sharing some of our favorite podcasts with you. Today we're sharing an episode from a fellow Darkcast podcaster, Jasmine Castillo, who hosts 'Hands Off My Podcast.' The POD focuses on missing persons cases affecting the BIPOC community.  A note from Jasmine about this episode: DISAPPEARANCE: A call at 9:3...

Send us Fan Mail We're on holiday for the month of December, so enjoy one of our fave episodes of the Cause of Death podcast, a fellow Darkcast member! ----- Contact me at the website: www.causeofdeath100secs.net Check it out, leave a review, leave me a voicemail or an email. Look at the blog posts. Join my mailing list. There are so many ways to interact with me on that site that there’s no...

Send us Fan Mail Since the early 1970s, the area surrounding Canada's Highway of Tears has seen a number of mysterious disappearances and discoveries of human remains. It's difficult to estimate the number of victims who have fallen prey to murderers and serial killers who have made this corner of British Columbia their hunting grounds. RCMP officers doubt they will ever be able to solve...

Send us Fan Mail Just one year after buying their first home together, Keith and Elaine Dardeen had decided it was time to move from the small city of Ina, Illinois. With a population of under 500, Ina had a surprisingly violent history, and the young couple dreamed of moving their growing family to a community that felt safer. The Dardeens had a toddler, and Elaine was expecting a new baby when t...

Send us Fan Mail Fourteen years ago this week, 14-year-old Sabrina Matthews lost her life in a vicious stabbing attack that took place in her family home in Cambria Heights, a predominately black, middle class neighbourhood in Queens, NY. The heinous crime's mysterious perpetrator evaded capture as the case went cold for almost a decade. Six years ago this week, the case came full circle, and...

Send us Fan Mail Gwendolyn Graham and her girlfriend Cathy Wood met while working in a nursing home in Grand Rapids, MI. Their volatile relationship escalated as the two shared dark fantasies of committing murders together. They discussed targeting their coworkers at the nursing home, before settling on much more vulnerable victims -- the patients. No one at the home suspected the couple of their...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone's entitled to one good scare on Halloween but the podcasts of the Darkcast Network have enough scares to fill any trick-or-treat sack -- No razor blades, we promise! Featuring spooky stories told by the hosts of Murder Murder News, Sinister Story Hour, Beyond the Rainbow, Cause of Death, Octoberpod AM, Rogue Darkness, Over the Fence, and Horrifying History. Visit Dar...

Send us Fan Mail Fourteen years ago this week, tragedy tore through the close-knit family of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson. When Jennifer's sister Julia Hudson tried to separate herself from her possessive husband, William Balfour, domestic abuse escalated to triple homicide.  While still processing the loss of their closest relatives, the surviving siblings teamed up to create charitabl...

Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Olten was just 9 years old when she disappeared from her neighborhood in St. Martins, MO on October 21st, 2009. Authorities were puzzled as to how this sweet girly-girl could have vanished so suddenly, and so close to home. The community quickly assembled to perform an all-out search of the woods nearby to where she was last seen playing with a friend.  She was found bru...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first ever LIVE show, recorded at the PNW True Crime Fest in Auburn, WA! Thirty two-year-old actress Misty Upham disappeared from her family home in Auburn, WA eight years ago this week. After a lifelong struggle with mental health issues and navigating a very broken system, the system failed Misty one last time when she was found dead and the medical examiner'...

Send us Fan Mail Today marks the 24th anniversary of one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in American history. Beaten, tortured, and left for dead, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was found tied to a fence in a remote field near Laramie, Wyoming. Irreparable damage to his brain stem left Matthew in a coma, and he never regained consciousness.  Shepard's case sparked a national and inter...

Send us Fan Mail An unprecedented act of domestic terrorism hit the United States 40 years ago this week. Prior to 1982, there was no tamper-resistant packaging, and every product on store shelves across the country was vulnerable. Our approach to food and drug safety was forever changed when an unknown assailant left cyanide tainted bottles of Tylenol on shelves in several stores around the great...

Send us Fan Mail Ten years after the release of the horror classic Scream, the film served as the disturbing inspiration for the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. Hired to house sit for family members, the teen was killed in a quiet country home in Pocatello, Idaho. Tucked away out of view from neighbors, Cassie's attackers saw her as the perfect target. Sixteen years ago thi...

Send us Fan Mail Fifty nine years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.  The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars. The suspects were members of th...

Send us Fan Mail Twenty three years ago today, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft was murdered by her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, and his girlfriend, Linda Henning. Girly Chew met Diazien during one of several trips to the United States from her home country of Malaysia in the early 1990s. After immigrating to marry and start a new life with Hossencofft, Girly's life in America wa...

Send us Fan Mail When mummified human remains were discovered inside of a 55-gallon drum stashed in the crawlspace of a Long Island home, Nassau County investigators had to work backwards to solve a mysterious murder case three decades in the making. The victim was a young, Latinx woman with an almost full-term pregnancy, but a search of missing persons reports filed over the years failed to find...

Send us Fan Mail Forty years ago today, 3-year-old beauty queen Rachael Runyan was abducted from a playground near her family's home in Sunset, Utah. After a nearly month-long manhunt, her body was found in a canyon about 15 miles away. Rachael's 5-year-old brother Justin and another older boy witnessed the abduction and saw the man who took her. However, some misunderstandings resulted...

Send us Fan Mail In August of 1987, Donald Harvey pled guilty to 37 murders committed over a span of nearly two decades. Harvey mostly preyed upon patients at hospitals where he was working, and he proclaimed himself to be an 'Angel of Death,' killing to relieve sick people of their pain. As the manner of his sadistic crimes came to light, it became clear that nothing could be further fr...

Send us Fan Mail Georgia Leah Moses disappeared from Santa Rosa, CA on August 13th 1997. Nine days later, the 12-year-old girl's dead body was found alongside Highway 101 in Petaluma. Georgia's short life was marked by failures of the system, which sadly continued to fail her in death.  Even Georgia's name was printed incorrectly by the media, creating further barriers to justice. ...

Send us Fan Mail On July 29th 1999, Mark O. Barton unleashed his paranoid wrath in the form of a shooting spree that targeted his colleagues at two day trading firms in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The close proximity and similar settings of the two office buildings made for much confusion among authorities and 911 dispatchers, allowing Barton to flee the scene. As a manhunt for Mark ensued, inve...

Send us Fan Mail Jacqueline Reyes has been missing from Boynton Beach, FL since June 1, 2022. Thirty-year-old Jacky left the home she shared with her aunt in the middle of the night, after the two had an argument. Though neither authorities nor the media seem to be giving her case much attention, Jacky's family know that it isn't like her to disappear without contacting anyone. We spoke...