The Macabre Family Podcast

Season 2 Episode 3 of The Playboy Murders called Run Bambi Run. This can be found on Max. Christine Schultz was a mother of 2 sons and was murdered in her home on May 28th 1981. Someone went to jail for the crime but was it the right person? Listen now as we tell you the tale of Laurie Bembenek also known as Bambi. How is Bambi a part of the case? How does her escape help show holes in the murder...

Season 2 Episode 2 of the Playboy Murders. This episode is called The Bunny and Charles Manson. You can find the episode on Max or discovery plus. On October 16th 2010 in Los Angeles, California there was multiple 911 calls that came into LAPD. There was a shooting in progress with a victim down.   Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening plat...

In the early morning hours of September 2nd, 2002, the police received a 911 call from an affluent North Hollywood neighborhood. There was a Mercedes SUV on fire. When the fire was put out the police made a gruesome discovery. 2 bodies in the passenger seat of the burned-out SUV shot to death.   Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening platfor...

Having a picture-perfect life is something everyone dreams of. That was the dream Mary Jane Baker had as a young girl. To marry a handsome Jehovah Witness man, have children and live happily ever after. At first this is the life Mary Jane thought she was living until the tower of lies her husband told not only her, but the world came crashing down taking her and the whole family down with it.   Th...

After Labor Day Weekend home improvement plans fell through. Richard and his wife Belinda made the last-minute decision to take their 2 children 5-year-old David and 5-month-old Melissa and their Basset Hound Droopy and go on a camping trip in the Siskiyou Mountains in Copper Oregon. This seemingly normal camping trip would end up going from a missing persons case to a homicide case in a period of...

Father's Day weekend in 1969 started out like a normal weekend for the Martin Family. William and his sons Dennis and Douglas and their grandfather Clyde went to the Great Smoky Mountains for their annual camping trip. It may have started out normal, but it would end in tragedy.   Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening platforms also, fo...

When it comes to the Great Smoky Mountains, a place that is so full of history, it isn't always bright and happy. There is darkness among the trees, and it is full of stories that will give you goosebumps.  Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening platforms also, follow and like us on all our social media accounts:  Instagram: MacabreFamil...

The world of online dating is filled with catfish, swindlers and even murderers. A simple swipe right on Tinder lead to the untimely death of a beautiful young girl that had her whole life ahead of her. Finding love in the modern age should be easier, it shouldn’t be the end of your life.   Sydney's Scholarship: https://www.setmefreeproject.net/ Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’...

Josh Gates' travels to the remote and land-mine-riddled jungles of Cambodia to investigate the lost city of the Khmer Empire and search for a mystical relic that gave its god-king the power to incinerate his enemies more than 1,000 years ago. Listen as we recap the episode with updates and highlights. The Macabre Family Podcast on facebook MacabreFamily on tiktok and Instagram macabrefamilypod...

Today we put on some comfy pants and chill out with some small helpings of true crime. Thank you to all our Macabre Family for being there and all the support. Check us out on all our socials. The Macabre Family Podcast on Facebook MacabreFamily on Instagram and TikTok macabrefamilypod@gmail.com for all emails. Stay Spooky!

July 2nd 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan left Papua New Guinea for the final leg of their trans world flight never to be seen from again. New details and theories and some answers are all found in Season 1 Episode 1 of Expedition Unknown. Join us as we recap the episode and give you updates from what was found in the show. Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget...

February 25th, 1957, on a rural road in Pennsylvania a young boy was found murdered inside a cardboard box. It would take until December 8th, 2022, before we even knew who this young boy was. We may know his name, but his killer would still elude authorities to this day. Will we ever know who killed the boy in the box? Welcome to the Macabre Family Podcast.   Thank you all so much for listening. P...

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water. Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 sq miles. Its average depth is 80.5 fathoms or 483 feet with a maximum depth of 222.17 fathoms or 1,333 ft. The great lakes which consist of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario and they hav...

Grovetown is a small suburb of Georgia with only 12,000 residents. The crime rate is low and this is a place where your neighbors end up being your best friends. March 2009 the safety and quiet of this close-knit community on Hot Springs Drive was shattered when a beloved neighbor was brutally assaulted on a quiet morning. Welcome to the Macabre Family Podcast.   Thank you all so much for listenin...

At 2:00pm on Monday April 26th 1993 a janitor entered a bathroom on the 2nd floor of Bartlett Hall, a dorm at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The janitor was there to clean up on the women's floor of the dorm. When she entered the private stall with a bathtub she was faced with a horrifying discovery. Terrified, she ran out screaming but unable to speak from shock she grabbed a student to...

On November 12, 1966, a group of 4 or 5 gravediggers were digging a plot inside Clendenin's Reamer Hill Cemetery in Clendenin West Virginia. The group was led by Kenneth Duncan. While working the group noticed something above their heads. It was a massive figure that was moving quickly from tree to tree basically soaring in the tree tops. It was a brown human-like figure with wings. They didn’...

March 7th, 2019, 25 miles outside of Vegas a 911 call came in at 9:30 am about a 2017 Mercedes-Benz left abandoned near the Lake Mead recreational center. When the police got there, they noticed that the car's windows were down. They saw latex gloves in the front seat and the back seat was covered in blood. They also noticed a foul smell when they got near the trunk of the car. Once they opene...

March 16, 1997, a woman was found strangled behind a Coral Springs, Florida pharmacy. The only clue the police had to start with was a star tattoo on her bikini line. At the beginning of this case the police had no idea the women they found murdered use to live at the Playboy mansion and date a famous rockstar. How did she wind up here and what led to her horrific murder. Welcome to the Macabre Fa...

“I’ve labored long and hard for bread/ For honor and for riches/ But on my corns too long you’ve tred/ You fine haired Sons of Bitches.” This was a poem left by the famous gentlemen bandit Black Bart. He was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers in Northern California and Southern Oregon. In the 1870’s and 1880’s. He was known for sophistication and style. Over 110 years later a man who sha...

August 22nd, 2018, a call comes into the 911 dispatch in Lower Merion Township Pennsylvania from Alexander Ciccotell. He wanted a well fair check done on his fiancé Christina Carlin-Kraft whom he couldn’t get ahold of. Christina was at their high-end condo complex in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Alex stated to dispatch that Christina wasn’t answering her phone and the door was deadbolted so he couldn’t...

October 29th, 1991, shots ring out in broad daylight in quite Bellefontaine, Ohio. As people came running out to see what happened they see a man laying on the ground. As they run to go and tend to the man, they hear another gunshot come from a car down the street.   Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening platforms also, follow and like us o...

August 15, 2009, the Buena Park, California police department received a 911 call from a man saying that he had found the body of what appeared to be a child in a suitcase. When the police arrived at 7:30am they discovered it was not the body of a child but that of a woman. That wasn’t the only thing they found when they opened the lid of the suitcase.   Thank you all so much for listening. Please...

Let’s take a trip to rural Poland Maine.  When you think of Poland you may think of the crisp water from Poland Springs. I doubt you are thinking of a troubled teens facility that ran from 1970 until 2011. This was not your ordinary school and many of the people who left there are still traumatized to this day because of the diabolical things that happened to them there. Some were never able to go...

As a true crime podcaster, I have heard the saying a hundred times. Why true crime now. Usually, it is from someone who has no idea about true crime or how it has been a fascinating people since forever.  May 18th,1927, Bath Township in Michigan was rocked by an attack on a school. To this day it is still the deadliest attack on a school. In the days following the massacre Bath Township was overru...

Bill Nelson was a larger than life cowboy who thought he met a new love but in the end his new love was his downfall. Listen as we tell you the tale of the horrific murder of Bill Nelson and the sometimes model who took his life.  Thank you all so much for listening. Please don’t forget to rate and review us on all listening platforms also, follow and like us on all our social media accounts:  Ins...