The Right Shoe

Tracy Byrd and Mark Himebaugh - two separate children - both walked off and were never seen or heard from again. Both stories are equally chilling. Tracy bird was 14 and possibly pregnant when she was last seen walking in the rain walking away from a Bucks County PA high school, her mother was found murdered 7 months later.  Was the same person who murdered her mom the one who murdered Tracy? Mark...

Keisha Jones was a loving mother of four,  living in West Philadelphia,  with her husband Tyrone Taylor when tragedy struck. One night,  she, Taylor and her cousin, Tamara Stanford decided to go out separately but meet up later after drinks.  Her and her Tamara did meet up with Tyrone later on as planned, but what wasn't planned was what happened afterward.  An argument broke out about an inc...

Julie Barnyock was an 18 year old girl with the whole world in front of her.  She had just graduated the previous June from high school and was on her way to visit friends when something happened to stop this adventurous young woman in her tracks. But who or what hasn't been known for almost 30 years now.  Julie Barnyock was found murdered in a dank and cold train yard three weeks after she w...

Mayhem started in the 1980s from a guy named Oystein Aarseth whose stage name became Euronymous. It all started so fantastically....what transpired was the MegaGod's of Black Metal would go into dark territory, not only would the face of their band, the lead singer, Dead (Per Ohlin) commit suicide in a brutal way but the guitarist that Euronymous himslelf hired, Varg Vikernes wound up killing...

Byberry... the mere name sends shivers down one's back.  A modern day horror story where unspeakable things happened, myriads of movies and TV shows (Asyym, the second season of American Horror Story always comes to mind) have been spawned by this hospital alone. And how? Why did something that started in 1907 supposedly as the model and at the forefront of the new age of medical facilities f...

Mel Ignatow was accused of killing the beautiful Brenda Schaefer. He was tried and acquitted of this crime, though investigators held fast to their beliefs that he did this terrible thing to Brenda. He could not be retried, however, due to a clause known as double jeopardy in our court system (one cannot be retried a second time for murder after being aquitted) even after other material came forth...

Since her passing in 1989 of an "unknown event" no one knows quite what happened with Cindy James. One thing that is a "known" - she was tortured mercilessly for over 7 years. In the very beginning the police attempted to help her but they gave up after she failed a few polygraph tests and began to what they perceived as fabricated stories. Was she making things up? Did she hav...

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most beloved legends of our time. Yet her death remains a never ending mystery, one that has endured for decades. What happened that strange and elusive night of August 4, 1962?  Did she become so overwhelmingly depressed she simply took a handful of pills and just gave up as her autopsy suggests? Was it an accident? Or was it something more sinister? Did the Kennedys...

HIS NAME IS JOSEPH AUGUSTUS ZARELLI THIS AND OTHER CASES WILL BE DISCUSSED Jan 2023 in updates The Boy in the box is one of Philadelphia's enduring mysteries. Who was the little boy found battered bruised and deceased in a box, in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia? Who was this child who was found in a box that's outside read "Fragile Handle with Care" but in life did not r...

December 28, 2000 the most horrific mass shooting occurred in the Mill Street Section of West Philadelphia known by locals as "the bottom". Why it happened is truly unbelievable. What happened in the middle, between getting together who did the crime and who merely confessed to the crime was nothing short of a bloody nightmare, no pun intended. It caused such an embarrassment to the Phil...

Cosmo Dinardo was a good kid from Bensalem PA, only a few miles outside of Philadelphia.  All is well until over the span of July 5, 2017 and July 7, 2017, four kids go missing within Bucks County, PA Jimmy Patrick Dean Finocchiaro Tom Meo Mark Strugis What happened to them? And why are all roads seemingly being led back to Cosmo DInardo, who went from Bensalem's most eligible bachelor to Ben...

Back in 1981, Joey Coyle was just a longshoreman down on his luck. Until one day, running around in the back of a Chevy Malibu with his two friends, Jed and John, he found in the streets of Philadelphia a large container that held inside 1.2 million dollars. What happened next is a remarkable story of cat and mouse, a story that became as passed down from person to person as any other Urban Legend...

Dolores Della Penna was a young girl from the Tacony who got off the 56 bus one day and was never seen or heard from again. The Philadelphia Police Homicide is still actively investigating this case but up until this time no arrests have been made.  Her parents never got any kind of closure for Dolores because while her arms, legs, and torso were found in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, her head n...

Alex Miller lives in the beautiful Garden district of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill. She puts an ad in Craigslist for a roommate and, oh boy, does she get one.  A man named Jed Creek comes and fills the shoes for what Alex needs, or does he? Follow this most unusual tale of what happens when you don't do the background checks you should have, and what happens when an unwanted house guest turns...

Angel Bumpass was a single mother of two, living in Louisville, Kentucky, about to enter a nursing program when in 2018, two detectives knocked on her front door. She was surprised, but even more so when they explained to her why they were there. They were arresting her for the first degree murder of a man who was suffocated during a robbery, a Franklin "Cookie" Bonner, who died during t...

Nancy Spungen and Gia Carangi were both two women who lived fast and furiously; what they did in their short life times a good portion of people don't even do a fraction of- I adored both of them. Nancy's life was cut short by Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols (or was it?) and Gia's life was cut short by AIDS.  Here are their stories. Also in a few short days therightshoepodcast.com...

Ellen Greenberg was a beautiful 27 year old woman living in the trendy section of Manayunk, a section of Philadelphia PA, about to get married to her fiancé. She was teaching in an elementary school and for all intents and purposes her life was one of comfort and luxury. So how was it that she was found in her upscale apartment dead, stabbed multiple times, and it was rendered a suicide?  Her pare...

LIMITED SOLUTIONS - these cases being solved are highly improbable - most unfortunately. Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone were two people just hanging down at Abilenes on south street in Philadelphia (2005)- they walk to their truck and disappear into the night - FOREVER - what happened to them? The case of Amber Long and her mother, Stephanie is similar in that while Amber alone was the one who...

Three tragic suicides- the last one has always been a Hollywood question mark.  I tie in my friend Cliffs suicide in 1989 with that of two other tragic suicides- Freddie Prinze from Chico and the Man - he died so young and tragically - had he lived he would be even more of an icon that he already is and was, today, yesterday and tomorrow.  Also I read an excerpt from the excellent book that his mo...

Between 1985 - 1990 there was a serial killer in the mist of Philadelphia's Frankford section. Not only was the slasher truly a terrifying figure who was never caught (though a man named Leonard Christopher spent the remainder of his life in jail tried and convicted initially as being the Frankford slasher, where he would ultimately die in jail never having his name exonerated) but here I was...

Matthew Larsen, also known as Pipus The Wise, was a young man on his way up artistically, until a cold winter night ended in his death. Through a series of bizarre events that night, including falling from a shipping container In the middle of the Fairmont Park section of Philadelphia.  My first podcast will take you through the strange circle of Matthew's short life, his obsession with Kelpi...