Mysterious Circumstances

On Monday, October 18, 2010 Sergeant Sean Drenth of the Phoenix Police Department was found shot to death in an alley. What fellow officers found when they responded to the scene continues to haunt them. Sgt. Sean Drenth, a well-liked 12-year veteran, sprawled on his back, dead from a blast from his own police-issue shotgun. Because there is evidence to support suicide or homicide, the case has be...

*** WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT*** Theresa Knorr is a mother and murderer, known for severely abusing, torturing, and murdering two of her children while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. The circumstances of his death are still questionable today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Henry McCabe was last seen on September 6th, 2015 and his death occurred sometime in the early morning of September 7th. His wife receives a bizarre voicemail on Sept. 7 at 2:28 a.m. which features two minutes of undecipherable noises, including what sound like growls and moans of pain. Near the end of the voicemail, the sounds suddenly stop and a voice can be heard saying, "Stop it." This is one...

Barbara Miller was reported missing by her estranged ex-boyfriend on July 5, 1989, after attending the wedding of her best friend, Lori Wands, in Mifflinburg on June 30. In 1990, Sunbury police first reported they believed Barbara Miller may have been murdered. Police began interviewing potential witnesses, including Mike Egan, a former Sunbury police detective who was also her boyfriend at the ti...

On October 8, 2009, William Hurley disappeared from Boston, Massachusetts. He had been attending a Boston Bruins game at TD Garden and had called his fiancée to pick him up halfway through the match. She drove to the stadium, but when she arrived, Hurley was nowhere in sight. She called him to find out where he was waiting, and she heard him ask someone where he was. A man said "99 Nashua Street,”...

The Westies, a gang long known to law enforcement officials, if not to the public, as one of the most savage organizations in the long history of New York gangs. Led by Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, The Westies' savagery permitted them to murder with virtual impunity - no one would testify against them. New York law enforcement officials hold the Westies responsible for more than 30 murder...

Josh Rubin was thirty years old when he disappeared from New York on Halloween night 2011. The next day his remains were found on a country road in Pennsylvania. Josh had been shot in the chest and his body was burned. The only lead on this case is an HD picture of the suspects using Josh's credit card within 12 hours after his body was found. So, with such a great picture of the suspects, why has...

The Westies, a gang long known to law enforcement officials, if not to the public, as one of the most savage organizations in the long history of New York gangs. Led by Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, The Westies' savagery permitted them to murder with virtual impunity - no one would testify against them. New York law enforcement officials hold the Westies responsible for more than 30 murder...

If you are into true crime, you're familiar with the West Memphis Three. Well, today I interviewed Terry Hobbs. We talk about him, some of his personal thoughts on the case, and his book that is out now called 'Boxful of Nightmares: Terry Hobbs' personal memoirs on the West Memphis Three Murders'. Music is courtesy of Terry Hobbs Link to Terry's book is here: https://www.amazon.com/Boxful-Nightmar...

The Westies, a gang long known to law enforcement officials, if not to the public, as one of the most savage organizations in the long history of New York gangs. Led by Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, The Westies' savagery permitted them to murder with virtual impunity - no one would testify against them. New York law enforcement officials hold the Westies responsible for more than 30 murder...

When I first talked to Darren Schaefer about the D.B. Cooper case, I was blown away. His podcast, The Cooper Vortex, is the one stop shop for a deep look into this case and the suspects. Join us as we talk about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy DeMeo was a made man of the Gambino crime family and a notorious serial killer. He is infamous for heading the "DeMeo Crew" which operated out of his bar the Gemini Lounge. A gang suspected by the FBI of somewhere between 75-200 murders between 1973 and 1983. The majority were disposed of so thoroughly that they were never found. The crew also gained notoriety due to their use of dismemberment...

Roy DeMeo was a made man of the Gambino crime family and a notorious serial killer. He is infamous for heading the "DeMeo Crew" which operated out of his bar the Gemini Lounge. A gang suspected by the FBI of somewhere between 75-200 murders between 1973 and 1983. The majority were disposed of so thoroughly that they were never found. The crew also gained notoriety due to their use of dismemberment...

Shadow people are supposedly supernatural beings that believers claim to see wandering about in their peripheral vision or tormenting them during stages of sleep paralysis. While various creatures of this description have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories, the modern version gained popularity from the discussions of Heidi Hollis on Coast to Coast AM radio talk show, in 2002. Learn m...

Hailey Dunn left her mother’s home on Dec. 27, 2010 and was never seen again. Shawn Adkins, the live-in boyfriend of Hailey Dunn’s mother, Billie Jean Dunn, told authorities Hailey reportedly told him that she was walking to her father’s house, then planned to spend the night with a friend. Adkins, who soon was named the primary person of interest in the case, is considered the last person to have...

Hailey Dunn left her mother’s home on Dec. 27, 2010 and was never seen again. Shawn Adkins, the live-in boyfriend of Hailey Dunn’s mother, Billie Jean Dunn, told authorities Hailey reportedly told him that she was walking to her father’s house, then planned to spend the night with a friend. Adkins, who soon was named the primary person of interest in the case, is considered the last person to have...

Hailey Dunn left her mother’s home on Dec. 27, 2010 and was never seen again. Shawn Adkins, the live-in boyfriend of Hailey Dunn’s mother, Billie Jean Dunn, told authorities Hailey reportedly told him that she was walking to her father’s house, then planned to spend the night with a friend. Adkins, who soon was named the primary person of interest in the case, is considered the last person to have...

On April 14th, 2004 - Roger Lindberg and his brother Sune were attacked in their home in Kalamark, Sweden. Sune survived while Roger did not. Within days the local police zeroed in on their suspect who was identified as Kaj Linna. He was charged and found guilty of the crime. Then, out of nowhere a Swedish podcast picked up the case and found that Kaj might have been wrongfully convicted and it tu...

On November 17, 1989 the body of an infant girl was found in Rupert, Idaho. This was not just any unsolved case though. She had been dead for no more than five days and was dismembered, disemboweled, possibly skinned, and burned. Both hands were missing. So was the right arm, at the shoulder. The abdominal organs had been cut out, leaving only the lungs and a portion of the upper heart chamber. Th...

In 1922 William Desmond Taylor was shot in his home in the middle of the night and his death, in the midst of other Hollywood scandals, led to the start of people’s interest in the inner-workings of Hollywood. With every twist imaginable, William Desmond Taylor’s story could have been a movie in itself. Now Taylor will forever be remembered for his unsolved whodunit murder and the mystery surround...

During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. He operated with a group of men known as the "Dillinger Gang" or "Terror Gang", which...

During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. He operated with a group of men known as the "Dillinger Gang" or "Terror Gang", which...

During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. He operated with a group of men known as the "Dillinger Gang" or "Terror Gang", which...

In this episode I got to fire questions at a Deputy for almost two hours. I fielded some questions from the Facebook group and had a few of my own. So we sat down, had a drink and a cigar, and just let the conversation go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices