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Send us Fan Mail Hello, I want to take a moment right now to say how much The Secret Sits team appreciates you, today we are going to take a bit of a departure from the heavy cases we have been covering and I want to talk about a different type of monster, one who hides in plane sight, has a multitude of coconspirators and is truly evil to the very core. I’m John Dodson, welcome to The Secret Sits...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, it's John Dodson, from The Secret Sits.  We thought we would do something a little special for this holiday season.  Please enjoy this reading of the classic poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Don’t forget to leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcast. Support the show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheSecretSits Send show suggestions to: TheSecretSitsPodcast@g...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to The Secret Sits, I’m your host, John Dodson and today I am bringing you a special episode, just in time for the holiday season.  This time of the year is typically filled with joy and cheer, celebrations based on old pagan traditions and religious ideology, and anticipation of dreams yet to come to fruition.  However; true crime does not take a break during th...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to The Secret Sits, today I am going to take you on a journey through one of the most talked about true crime cases in Connecticut’s history.  And I will tell you now; it is quite a ride.  So, sit back, relax and learn about the Murder of Martha Moxley. Don’t forget to leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcast. Support the show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Th...

Send us Fan Mail Looking at his life from the outside, it would appear that Drew Peterson was a real lady’s man.  But looks can be deceiving and Drew Peterson was no lady’s man, he was a cold-blooded killer.  I’m John Dodson, welcome to The Secret Sits. Searching for Stacy Peterson - Missing Person Fundraiser (searchingforstacypeterson.com) Don’t forget to leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Pod...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to The Secret Sits, I’m your host, John Dodson.  Today I am bringing you a truly bazar story about a man who seemed to be made out of Teflon.  But his criminal acts were so perverse, that he could not get away forever.  Buckle up and get ready for the story about Robert Berchtold. Don’t forget to leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcast. Support the show htt...

Send us Fan Mail If you are ever in Philadelphia, perhaps you could attempt to find 1316 Callowhill St., this use to be the address of a patent office, owned by H.H. Holmes and his partner Ben Pitezel, the elusive address is now a parking lot which stretches the length of an entire city block.  Just across the road stands the North American Building, but there use to be a station servicing the Phi...

Send us Fan Mail When I think of the men and women who spurred on the civil rights movement, I don’t always go right to Martin Luther King jr or Rosa Parks.  A lot of times I think of a 14-year-old kid, who had his entire life ahead of him, but instead of getting to live that precious life, his life was taken from him.  And he unintentionally became one of the most famous names synonymous with the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to talk about the most prolific serial killer ever in the United States of America.  Some of this story will be explicit, so listener discretion is advised.  We are taught to read clues all around us, to keep ourselves safe from people who would do us harm.  Well, what happens when the person who wants to kill you, removes those clues and lulls you into a false...

Send us Fan Mail How would you feel if you signed up to be part of a medical test group, hoping to get better, only to find out that instead of trying to cure your illness, they simply wanted to observe you suffering from it? You would be pretty dismayed am sure.  You would also probably develop an extremely deep-seated distrust of medical professionals.  Today on The Secret Sits, we are going to...

Send us Fan Mail If you follow The Secret Sits on Instagram, you may have noticed in the 5 facts about me, that Jodi Foster is my all-time favorite actor.  But there is one person whose infatuation with the actor almost caused the assassination of the President of the United States of America.  I am of course talking about John Hinckley Jr.  And even though Jodi almost never speaks of this horrid...

Send us Fan Mail What secrets can be unearthed from a spree killer who left the world stunned and besieged with questions that would never be answered.  Well, today on The Secret Sits, we are going to look into one of these spree killers, who left his mark on the world in one of the worst ways possible.  I am speaking of Andrew Cunanan, a man who thought the worst thing in this world was being, or...

Send us Fan Mail When I say Patty Hearst out loud, your first thoughts are probably of a young woman in a beret holding a machine gun.  This young woman, from one of the richest families in the United States of America has an extraordinary story, an account that many did not believe.  And no amount of money could buy her innocence, or could it?  I’m John Dodson welcome to The Secret Sits. Don’t fo...

Send us Fan Mail Los Angeles in the 1980’s was a Meccah for several prolific serial killers.  Many of these monstrous men and women were caught, tried and convicted for their crimes during this toxic time our country’s past, however today on The Secret Sits we are going to discuss one killer who made it out of the 1980’s without being caught until much later and this paved the way for his moniker,...

Send us Fan Mail When I was in college in the 90’s, one of my many part time jobs was at a TCBY frozen yogurt store.  Around this same time, in Austin, Texas another yogurt store, aptly named, I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt became the scene of a horrible murder, which is, to this day, talked about in True Crime circles.  I’m talking, of course, about the Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders.  I’m John D...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when we as a society fall into the trappings of what some call a moral panic?  There have been very few of these mass hysterias recorded, but one which happened during my childhood, shaped me in a way that even I may never have expected.  I am talking about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s which led to over 12 thousand unsubstantiated claims of Satanic ritual abuse.  I’...

Send us Fan Mail People disappear all of the time.  In our story today, a young newspaper delivery boy seemingly disappears off of the face of the earth, the boy’s dog, Gretchen, is the last member of his family to see him, until he mysteriously re-appeared 15 years later on his mother’s doorstep.  This story is wrought with Secrets and conspiracies, so let’s get into the disappearance of Johnny G...

Send us Fan Mail Did you ever go to summer camp?  I mean, like a Camp Crystal Lake type of summer camp.  Cabins in the woods, a big pond or lake with lots of nature noises and barley legal teenagers entrusted with the health and safety of a few dozen kids, away from home, maybe for the first time in their young lives.  Our story today is about a camp like this, but sadly this camp’s summer campers...

Send us Fan Mail Do you think that in today’s world, laden with electronic gizmos and gadgets and CCTV cameras around every corner, that a person can literally just disappear?  Because I can tell you, that they can. Today we are going to discuss the disappearance of a man, who to this day remains one of the most puzzling disappearances of all time.  But maybe today, one of you can help bring Brian...

Send us Fan Mail At 01:30am on Halloween night, Raffaele Minichiello, dressed in camouflage, stepped on to the plane, a $15.50 ticket from Los Angeles to San Francisco in his hand. This was the last stop on Trans World Airlines flight 85's journey across the US, which had started several hours earlier in Baltimore before landing at St Louis and then Kansas City. At 01:30 on Friday, 31 October...

Send us Fan Mail Some people think they can have whatever they want.  And sometimes this includes other human beings.  In today’s case we are going to look at a monster who thought he could take whatever he wanted. And because of his malicious brain, he did just that, he took whatever he wanted, even when it included 3 women, who he would ultimately underestimate. I’m John Dodson and today on The...

Send us Fan Mail Some people use their personalities to lead revolutions. Others to conquer nations. However, one person used his for profit, malice, and murder.  Today, on The Secret Sits we are going to visit the land of the rising sun and shine some light on the insane life of Futoshi Matsunaga.   Don’t forget to leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcast. Support the show https://www.buymea...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s world people are obsessed with shows like the Bachelor and the Bachelorette or Temptation Island.  I personally feel that these shows are a bit cringy and honestly, I am not sure if love is ever discovered during the filming of these type of shows.  But these shows are nothing compared to the creepiest episode of The Dating Game in 1978, which featured a real-life seria...

Send us Fan Mail Every couple of years, countries from around the globe, send tributes to participate in a fierce battle to win precious medals, which they will proudly take back to their respective countries.  No, I am not talking about The Hunger Games, I am talking about our modern-day Olympics.  These games have made brilliantly performing athletes into house hold names and celebrities.  But h...

Send us Fan Mail Have you even been to Las Vegas?  It can be an overwhelming experience, especially on your first visit.  It is a city with an encapsulating environment of lavish sin, which it provides to everyone from your typical bachelor or bachelorette parties, to the worlds most wealthy individuals. Today on The Secret Sits I am going to cover my Top 10 Las Vegas true crime cases. Don’t forge...