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Send us Fan Mail Today marks five years since the disappearance of Elaine Park. The 20-year-old student and actress was last seen leaving her boyfriend's home in Calabasas, California early in the morning. Her car was found abandoned 10 miles away. What happened to Elaine remains a mystery, but there are some speculative theories worth exploring.  Writing and research by Aurora Cady. Original...

Send us Fan Mail When Breana Noojin Nix was found dead in her bathroom in March of 2020, her husband Steven Nix had an explanation for everything. But Steven's stories were full of holes. He suggested his wife had died of an accidental overdose, after hiding a secret drug problem from everyone she knew. Brittany Noojin knew that would have been completely out of character for her sister, and...

Send us Fan Mail Today in true crime history, on January 14th 1964, the González sisters, Guinness World Record holders for Most Prolific Murder Partnership , were arrested after a reign of terror that killed over 91 people. The sisters, known locally as Las Poquianchis , operated a brothel in Mexico called Guadalajara de Noche, which housed around a dozen captive girls between the ages of 13-17 a...

Send us Fan Mail The mystery of the murder of graduate student Jane Britton cast a dark shadow over Harvard University for half a century. Rumors murmured around campus explored the possible suspects that the Cambridge Police Department allegedly never looked into. Could the young aspiring archaeologist have been killed by a professor she had a secret affair with? Student sleuth, Becky Cooper, who...

Send us Fan Mail After Aurora's Tiktok video about the disappearance of Mary Johnson, Mary's best friend Kari reached out to share some more information about her situation. Mary has been missing for just over a year, and there are few clues about what could have happened to her. However, Mary's tumultuous relationship with her husband seems like it may have been a factor. Mary is a...

Send us Fan Mail This time last year, David Fuller was arrested at his flat in Kent, England in connection with two murders dating back to 1987. 25-year-old Wendy Knell and 20-year-old Caroline Pierce were killed in a similar fashion and their cases had enough similarities that police instantly connected them and dubbed them 'The Bedsit Murders.' But with DNA analysis still in its early...

Send us Fan Mail On November 22nd 2016, 20-year old Sarah Butler was murdered by Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, now known as the Dating App Killer.  The serial killer had already claimed the lives of two prior victims that year and attempted to murder a third, Tiffany Taylor. In fact, his spree could have been cut short and Sarah's murder prevented if only authorities had taken Tiffany seriously when...

Send us Fan Mail Forty-three years ago this week, over 900 people lost their lives in the Jonestown Massacre. The mass-murder-suicide took place just a year and a half after Jim Jones moved hundreds of his followers from California to a large plot of land outside Georgetown, Guyana. Aurora and Angelina retrace the history of the dangerous cult, from the founding of The People's Temple in 1954...

Send us Fan Mail Today marks four years since Randall Tashio Saito's escape from the Hawaiian psychiatric hospital where he was being held. Saito had murdered 29-year-old Sandra Yamashiro in a random attack in 1979, and had taken a plea that made history in Hawaii. Angelina and Aurora weave through the twists and turns of Saito's trial, the anonymous testimony that nudged his case closer...

Send us Fan Mail This week Angelina and Aurora unwrap an especially disturbing case from Russian true crime history.  Ten years ago, on November 2nd, 2011, Anatoly Moskvin was arrested. The historian and polyglot was a renowned linguist, writer,  and contributor to a number of Publications -- but he hid a dark secret. Moskvin's doll-making hobby was not what it appeared. Writing and research...

Send us Fan Mail Actress Dominique Dunne was strangled to death by her abusive boyfriend, John Sweeney, on October 30th 1982. Aurora and Angelina review the red flags leading up to Dominique's murder, the ties her story has to Halloween, and how her case inspired her already-famous father, Dominick Dunne, to pursue a career in the realm of True Crime. This episode also features a tribute to o...

Send us Fan Mail Back in 1989, the case of the Lesbian Vampire Killer took Australia by storm. There had been a random attack on an innocent victim in Brisbane one night in October, and a man lost his life in the name of drinking blood. When Tracey Wigginton and her accomplices went to trial, stories of vampirism, satanic panic, witches' covens and dark rituals were on everyone's lips. A...

Send us Fan Mail 38-year-old Peter Schnellhardt was found brutally murdered at his job in Williams Lake, British Columbia on July 4th, 2006. With very little movement in Peter's case, and very little media coverage, his family has been desperate for answers. Now 15 years later,  although it seems obvious who was involved in Peter's death, it remains a cold case. Angelina and Aurora spoke...

Send us Fan Mail During this week in true crime history, Suzanne Rene Richerson was reported missing after she disappeared while working at a Galveston resort in October of 1988. Authorities associate Richerson's presumed murder with a number of unsolved cases connected to the Texas Killing Fields, for which police suspect several serial killers are responsible. Angelina and Aurora examine th...

Send us Fan Mail Derek "Ritzy" Ritz was 51 years old when he disappeared from Sebringville, Ontario sometime on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day in 2017. What happened to Ritzy remains a mystery, though some very plausible rumours have been circulating. Friends believe the police did not take his disappearance seriously because he had a substance abuse problem. Aurora and Angelina spoke...

Send us Fan Mail Mark and Debby Constantino were the superstars of the paranormal community until 2015 when they were killed in a double-murder suicide event that had friends and fans shook. It wasn't public knowledge prior to their deaths, but the pair had a tumultuous relationship. Aurora and Angelina unpack the escalating events of domestic violence, how things unraveled that day in 2015,...

Send us Fan Mail This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary rapper Tupac "2Pac" Shakur. While driving on the Las Vegas strip, Tupac was shot by someone in a passing Cadillac. The murder of Tupac Shakur is a cold case, no suspect was ever named and the Cadillac was never found. Aurora and Angelina tell Tupac's story from the beginning. They explore who he was, wha...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Marie Young disappeared 19 years ago while out celebrating a friend's birthday in Nanaimo, British Columbia. While it seems clear now that Lisa was murdered, hers is a tough case to close. A number of barriers stand in the way, including Lisa's indigenous heritage and misguided rumors about the night she was killed. We heard from Cyndy Hall -- advocate for justice f...

Send us Fan Mail On this day 9 years ago, a South Korean cult mourned the loss of their leader, Sun Myung Moon. The Unification Church, otherwise known as Moonies, may seem mostly harmless on the surface, but survivors and cult experts alike have spoken about the group's destructive beliefs and behaviour. Aurora and Angelina laid out what it means to be a Moonie, how the group got started, it...

Send us Fan Mail Gainesville, 1990 -- On this week in true crime history, the Gainesville Ripper terrorized a college town in Florida, targeting students just as the new school year was getting started. As the killer's murderous spree kicked off, students made a mass exodus back home to be with their families. Those who remained in town were under a strict curfew, classes were canceled, and y...

Send us Fan Mail Today in true crime history -- on August 20th 1978, five teenage boys were reported missing from Newark, New Jersey. The boys came to be known as the Clinton Avenue Five as news of their disappearance spread. Investigators were baffled as the search for their bodies and any suspects that could be responsible for whatever happened to the missing teens stretched over 3 decades. Toda...

Send us Fan Mail In August of 1980, Carol Bundy confessed to some fellow nurses at the hospital where she worked that she had a connection to the so-called Sunset Strip Slayer who they had been hearing about on the news. She and her live-in boyfriend had been on a bit of a murder spree that kicked off when the pair discovered they shared some dark fantasies and decided to start turning them into r...

Send us Fan Mail The life story of Alberta Odell Jones is a fascinating one, and the story of her death remains a bit of a mystery. Alberta was the first black woman to pass the Kentucky Bar exam, as well as Muhammed Ali's first lawyer, and 56 years ago this week her body was found in the Ohio River after dying under pretty suspicious circumstances. We explore some theories about what might h...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy Kleiner was just 20 years old when the infamous Ted Bundy entered through the back door of her sorority house at FSU armed with a piece of firewood he had found outside. Bundy had just escaped from jail for the second time when he committed the brutal attack on the Chi Omega house. Though Kathy and her roommate survived, their lives were forever changed, and this assault wen...

Send us Fan Mail You probably know Sarah Turney from Tiktok -- she's the one whose sister Alissa was murdered by her father back in 2004, and she risked it all to bring attention to her sister's case and went viral in the process -- which is just what it took to get an arrest in the case. You're likely pretty familiar with that story, so we brought you a fresh interview that steps o...