Southern Shadows: A Mother-Son True Crime Podcast

In the summer of 1984, in Salisbury, NC, Reesa and Jodie Trexler were typical teens enjoying their time with friends. After a day of TV with pals Paul and Jim, Reesa visits their grandparents next door while Jodie opts for a quiet afternoon at home. As evening falls, Jodie sees her grandfather rushing outside, urgently calling for help. Little did she know, this moment would set off a series of ev...

"All eyes were on Hampton County and the Lowcountry. If the Murdaughs had skeletons in their closet... it's out now"- Michael DeWitt, Hampton County Guardian.  While awaiting trial for the boating accident that killed his friend Mallory Beach, a call comes into 9-1-1 that Paul Murdaugh and his mom, Maggie, were both fatally shot at their Moselle home. When the police arrive on the s...

“In Hampton County, South Carolina, everybody knows everybody… and everybody knows who the Murdaughs are.” -Michael DeWitt, Hampton County Guardian . Paul Murdaugh was the carefree, party-loving youngest son of Alex and Maggie Murdaugh and the great-grandson of Randolph Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina solicitor who started the Murdaugh dynasty that has dominated Hampton County for decades. In...

In the United States, there are only 27 states where the death penalty is an allowable conviction for especially heinous crimes of murder or terrorism. Tennessee, being one of those states, currently holds the youngest woman of her time who was convicted of the death penalty: Christa Pike. The crime she committed was so brutal that an investigator quoted her as being "the most evil person&quo...

When Roxanne Charles Nelson planned to pick up her son Quawan from his dad Kenneth's house to get a haircut, she became increasingly concerned when she couldn't reach him. Frantically calling Kenneth, they soon realize that Quawan is nowhere to be found. What happened next was a disorganized investigation and a delay in responding, which made his family wonder if acting sooner could have...

The 1970s were marked by significant strides in civil rights for African Americans and deep-seated societal unrest. On college campuses across the nation, you would often find students staging protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, but that wasn't the reason why students at Jackson State University, then Jackson State College, were upset. Students and administration were involved in...

Riley Crossman was kind, gentle, and as dramatic as teenagers come. She was a gifted singer and dancer and loved spending her free time with her best friend, Jasmine.  On May 8, 2019, when her high school called to inform her mom that she hadn't been present that day, the search would lead to a monster in her home.  Full Source Notes: southernshadowspodcast.com  Produced by 4Seven Media, LLC...

When the story of Lowndes High School sophomore Kendrick "KJ" Johnson started to make national news, many of us asked ourselves the same question... "HOW!?" How does a student, let alone a three-sport athlete, get stuck upside down into a rolled-up gym mat? How did no one hear him scream or see him dive in, even though surveillance showed other students enter the gym with him?...

On November 7, 2023, day laborers hired by Samuel Haskell, IV, to move trash bags from his Tarzana home discovered what appeared to be part of a human body inside. Does the name sound familiar? That's because he's the son of renowned Hollywood executive Sam Haskell, III, former head of the Williams Morris Agency and CEO of Miss America, whose roots stretch back to Mississippi. His wife,...

When Jacque Rawson met Clay Waller in the early 1990s, she pictured an ideal life of raising a family. After years of trying, the couple finally welcomed triplets, but that didn't do much to turn Clay into a more doting husband and father. Clay had been allegedly having affairs, was abusive, and tried to put a divide between her and her family. As time went on, Jacque finally saw an opportuni...

Rebekah Gould was just starting her college life in Fayetteville with dreams of following her sister to the University of Arkansas. She would often come home for the weekend to visit family and her on again/off again boyfriend, Casey.  On the day that she's scheduled to head back to school, no one can get ahold of her. What follows is an unsolved case of more than 18 years, until one day, a t...

In today's society, where there's always a camera watching, we have access to situations where we tell ourselves, "that would never happen to me!" Like when we see criminals ring doorbells and rob the people who open the door. That must have been what neighbors were thinking when two teens, one of them shirtless and both barefoot, go from home to home in the early morning hours...

Emma was a home-schooled, only child, who found her people through the underground music scene known as Horrorcore. She would spend hours on MySpace chatting with friends in the community and even met her new bestie, Melanie. Emma attracted the attention of an up and coming horrorcore rapper named Richard, aka Syko Sam, and when a music festival was announced, she, her bestie, and the boy she&apos...

Jesus, Messiah, Malcolm X, and God... all names that New Age Prophet, Rashad Jamal, refers to himself when speaking to his over 300,000 followers online. He exposed them to the "truth" about governmental control of the weather, surveillance birds, synthetic NBA robots coming to impose COVID vaccinations, and the Anunnaki deities in which humanity was created, but is he responsible for th...

Grant Solomon was going into his senior year of high school with several Division 1 offers in baseball. On top of that, he was a National Merit Scholar with a 4.4 Honor GPA. His mother was a pharmacist and his father was a well known news anchor. From the outside, the family had it all, but the shadows concealed a more sinister story. On July 20, 2020, after not being alone with his father in over...

When 25-year-old mother, Daniella Vian, finally accomplishes a longtime goal of owning a car, a night out celebrating with friends leads to her mysterious disappearance. A year later, a dive team running a standard training discovers her submerged vehicle with her lifeless body inside. Why weren’t the last three to see her alive investigated further? Could she really have done this to herself? Ful...

In Meridian, MS, a young man's life was tragically cut short under mysterious circumstances. 21-year-old Christian Andreacchio had a promising future and was on the fast track of becoming the youngest tugboat captain in his company's history. But on February 26, 2014, Christian is found lifeless from an apparent gunshot wound after suddenly leaving his assignment on the tugboat. Warrants...

Welcome to Southern Shadows: A Mother-Son True Crime Podcast. Join us, each Tuesday, as we delve into the mysterious and chilling tales lurking beneath the magnolia trees and Spanish moss. First episode airs January 2, 2024. ...See you in the shadows Produced by 4Seven Media, LLC Music written and produced by J.Chris