Mysterious Mavens

This week Denae tells Kim about the mysterious S.O.S. sign of Daisetsuzan National Park in Japan.  Sources: A Miracle and a Tragedy: Kenji Iwamura and his SOS - Historic Mysteries  by Robbie Mitchell SOS incident - Wikipedia

This week Kim tells Denae the unbelievable story of how McDonald's employees got roped into a scam that goes way too far. Sources:  Compliance, the 2012 movie Sinisterhood Episode 271 My Favorite Murder  Episode 341  Netflix Documentary:Don’t Pick Up The Phone The Vault: The highly publicized strip-search hoax that stunned a Kentucky community By: Shay McAlister, Todd Prinz, CJ Daniels

This week Denae tells Kim the story of Indonesia's highly publicized Cyanide Coffee Case.  hiyy Sources: Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso on Netflix New Netflix Documentary Examines One of Indonesia’s Most Salacious Cases – The Diplomat  by Aisyah Llewellyn Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin - Wikipedia Guilty as charged?: New documentary reignites debate on Jessica Wongso's infamous case  T...

This week Kim tells Denae the strange story of Marlene Warren's murder.  Sources:  Marlene Warren - Chilling Crimes True Crime Mysteries on YouTube: Marlene Warren 

This week Denae tells Kim about the incredibly smart abduction survivor, Lisa McVey. Sources: All That’s Interesting Article by Genevieve Carlton How Lisa McVey Outsmarted A Serial Killer — And Led Police Straight To His Door Netflix's Believe Me The Abduction of Lisa McVey True Story | Glamour UK Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey 2018 documentary

This week Kim tells Denae the deeply disturbing story of Colorado family annihilator, Chris Watts.  Sources:  Red Handed: Family Annihilator Chris Watts (Episode 77) An inside source An American Murder: The Family Next Door

This week Denae tells Kim about the badass vigilante mother, Miriam Rodriguez. Sources: All That’s Interesting Article by Kaleena Fraga: Miriam Rodríguez, The Mother Who Took Down Her Daughter's Killers The New York Times article: She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One by Azam Ahmed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html The offic...

This week Kim tells Denae about the Southside Strangler, not to be confused with the Southside Rapist.  Sources:  Forensic Files Season 1, Episode 6 A Spotify Podcast: Serial Killers Carolyn Jean Hamm's Obituary https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97142192/carolyn-jean-hamm

This week Denae tells Kim the very old story of the Lady of the Lake.  Sources:  18 Fucked Up Vintage Murder Cases you Probably Haven’t Heard of Unitl Now by Anna Kopsky https://www.buzzfeed.com/annakopsky/the-fuck-word-murder-mystery-show HistoryLink.org Lady of the Lake by Mavis Amundson Lady of the Lake - HistoryLink.org Blog: The Cowboy and The Vampire Collection with Clark Hays and Kathleen M...

This week Kim tells Denae the horrible story of Sydney Powell and her mother.  Sources:  YouTube Channel Killer Instinct with Savannah Brymer: Solved: Sydney Powell: Pleading Insanity in Mom's Murder  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJT7fCw--4 Akron Beacon Journal article Sydney Powell, convicted of killing her mother, argued insanity. Looking back at the case by Chad Murphy  https://www.beaconjo...

This week Denae tells Kim the details of the Honolulu Phrogger.  Sources:  Phrogger:Hider in my House Lifetime series on HULU Season 1 Episode 1: Bump in the Night   New York Post article 'He Wanted To Play Doctor On Us': Terrifying Stranger Secretly Lived in Our Home by Dusica Sue Malesevic 'Phrogging: Hider in My House': Stranger secretly lived with us   Spectrum News article  'Phrogger' sentenc...

This week Kim tells Denae the case of Brianna Denison, a young woman from Reno, Nevada.  Sources:  Dateline NBC: The Night Brianna Vanished, Season 3 Episode 30 YouTube Channel, Unheard Of: The Case of Brianna Denison  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ntGRyBGgOU Reno Gazette Journal article From February 2008: Obituary of Brianna Denison https://www.rgj.com/story/news/crime/2018/01/26/february-200...

This week Denae tells Kim the muti-layered story of Baby Holly and the Christ Family Cult.  Sources: 'They knew too much': 'Baby Holly' breaks her silence 40 years after she was abducted - and says she believes religious cult that left her at Arizona church brutally murdered her parents because they 'wanted to get away' | Daily Mail Online by Alice Wright 'Baby Holly' found alive after missing for...

This week Kim tells Denae the tragic tale of beauty queen, Irene Garza.  Sources:  Crime Watch Daily: Irene Garza case: Texas beauty queen goes missing after going to confession Cold Case Files: Season 2, Episode 6

This week Denae tells Kim the backstory of her Dad's famous campfire tale, The Sickle Man.  Sources:  Media Life: Sickle slayer shattered peace of summer of 1971 UCR Center for Bilographical Studies and Research California Digital Newspaper Collection Desert Sun, Volume 44 Number 311 3 August 1971 “Survivor Certain Wrong Man Sought” Link: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710803.2.27&e=-----...

This week Kim tells Denae about the very mysterious case of Dorothy Scott.  Sources: Scary Mysteries  The True Crime Database  https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/dorothy-scott/ Bella Fiori

This week Denae tells Kim the awful story of the Osage Nation Murders. Sources: 6 Unbelievable FBI Cases That Remain Unsolved, And 6 That Were Successfully Closed (msn.com) History.com article by Greg Daugherty William Hale’s Brutal Role in the Osage Murders  https://www.history.com/news/william-k-hale-osage-murders?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2023-1023-10232023&om_rid=%20~campaign%20%3D%2...

This week Kim tells Denae the unbelievable story of Iron Mike- The Man Who Wouldn't Die.  Sources:  The Infographics Show- Sam O'Neils Academy 

This week Denae tells Kim some spooky true stories of people being buried alive and how grave bells and safety coffins came to be.  Sources:  All That's Interesting: 5 Terrifying Stories of People Being Buried Alive by Erin Kelly  https://allthatsinteresting.com/buried-alive People Feared Being Buried Alive So Much They Invented These Special Safety Coffins | Sponsored | Smithsonian Magazine Is th...

This week Kim tells Denae the unbelievable story of a vile man who tried to ruin Halloween.  Sources:  Criminal Connections Podcast

This week Denae tells Kim about the Coors Kidnapping.  Sources:  A Look Back at the Coors Kidnapping Case — FBI Forensic Files Now: Adolph Coors III's Kidnapping by Rebecca Reisner https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2022/06/30/adolph-coors-iiis-kidnapping/   Forensic Files Season 11, Episode 41 - Bitter Brew - Full Episode

This week Kim tells Denae about the majorly messed up murder of young teenager, Skylar Neese.  Sources:  Facing Evil - Dateline NBC

Urban Legends have their roots in some truth. This week Denae tells Kim about the true story that inspired the Babysitter Urban Legend.  The Truth Behind ‘The Babysitter & The Man Upstairs’ Urban Legend | by ClaireLinic | OMGFacts | Medium The Babysitter Murder: The Story of Janett Christman and Marylou Jenkins . By Gina Glaub

This week Kim reads the terrifying twitter thread titled Dear David by Adam Ellis. Check out our YouTube to watch the videos and look at photos with us!  Sources:  Adam Ellis' Twitter (or X) thread All Things Dark and Horrorful, the podcast Dear David- Wakelet  https://wakelet.com/wake/e6275d03-7bce-4789-9961-f3a04723cc71

This week Denae tells Kim all about strange case of the Lindow Woman.  Sources:  Episode 227: The Bodies in the Bog - Criminal | Podcast on Spotify Iflsicence.com A Man Confessed To Murdering His Wife, But The Body Turned Out To Be 1,600 Years Old By James Felton https://www.iflscience.com/a-man-confessed-to-murdering-his-wife-but-the-body-turned-out-to-be-1600-years-old-59326 Sciencehistory.org B...