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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...

This week Kim tells Denae some of her favorite urban legends and if they are fact or fiction.  Sources:  Watch Mojo Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, TV Series on Amazon Urban Legend, the movie Snopes

This week Denae tells Kim two stories- one about the Gainesville Murders that inspired the Scream movie , and the second about the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart, which was inspired by the Scream movie. Sources: Allthatsinteresting.com The True Story Of Danny Rolling, The Gainesville Ripper Who Inspired 'Scream' By William DeLong ABC11 Gainesville serial killer: How a woman in Louisiana helped break...

This week Kim tells Denae a Colorado case. It's the tragic story of Jessica Ridgeway.  Sources:  This is Monsters, the podcast Going West, the podcast  The 911 Calls, the podcast

This week Denae tells Kim the mysterious story of Sergei Ponomarenko, the man who claimed to have travelled time.  Sources: Indy 100 "An infamous Ukrainian time-traveller story has finally been explained" By Harry Fletcher An infamous Ukrainian time-traveller story has finally been explained | indy100 ConspiracyBrew on TikTok  Historic Mysteries "Sergei Ponomarenko, the Man who Slipped Through Tim...

This week Kim tells Denae about Dennis Rabbitt, the Southside Rapist of St. Louis, Missouri. Thank you Cassy for the recommendation! Sources:  Wikipedia- Dennis Rabbitt  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rabbitt Fox 2 News How police caught 'The South Side Rapist' responsible for two decades of terror in St. Louis by Kevin S. Held How police caught 'The South Side Rapist' responsible for two...

This week Denae tells Kim about a man who goes missing in Mexico and his tragic fate.  Sources:  Deadly Cults on Oxygen Season 1, Episode 4  The Work of The Devil – Texas Monthly by Gary Cartwright 

This week Kim tells Denae about the creepy cult of Angel's Landing.  Sources:  Not Your Normal Murder, the podcast True Crime Campfire, the podcast Angel's Landing YouTube video by Dead Kennedy Space

This week Denae tells Kim the still unsolved murder of Ken McElroy.  Sources:   "No One Saw a Thing"- Documentary on Amazon Prime

This week Kim tells Denae about Natalia Grace, the debate about her true age, and her alleged abuse from her foster parents.  Sources:  Natalia Grace Barnett - Timeline Of Events Yahoo Entertainment Article titled  Inside the Natalia Grace Trial: See the Timeline, Verdict of Michael, Kristine Barnett’s Cases  by Elise Nelson

This week Denae tells Kim the amazing survival story of 11 year old Terry Jo Duperrault.  Sources: All That's Interesting: The Horrific Tale Of Terry Jo Duperrault, The 11-Year-Old Girl Lost At Sea by By Gabe Paoletti Reader's Digest: Orphaned on the Ocean: The Unbelievable Story of Terry Jo Duperrault . by Richard D. Logan and Terry Jo Duperrault Fassbender Bluebelle (ship) - Wikipedia YouTube: T...

This week Kim and Denae bring you a special 50th episode about the creepos who write to serial killers in prison. Check us out on YouTube for our first video episode! Mysterious Mavens Pod Sources: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace The Tab article title Chris Watts Receives Dozens of Letters in Prison from Women Every Week by Hayley Soen https://thetab.com/uk/2020/10/07/chris-watts-letters-prison-mai...