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⚠️ Content warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of s***** assault, attempted murder, and trauma recovery. Alison was only 27 years old when she was abducted outside her home in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. What happened next is a story that sounds like fiction but is very, very real. She was severely attacked and left for dead. This amazing woman summoned all the courage she had to...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 It was almost midnight—December 6th, 1991—when an Austin patrol officer noticed smoke rising over a strip mall in Austin, TX. It was later discovered to be the "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!" shop and upon entering...not gonna lie, one of the most haunting crime scenes I've ever read about. Four teen...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 In 1989, a single mom named Jackie moved into a small home in San Pedro, CA. What she was hoping would be a fresh start, ended up being a nightmare that she never saw coming. It would become one of the most chilling hauntings ever documented. What started with a pencil cup and ended up scaring Jacki...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 Deputy Dan Kucharski is still on the stand and this time he's under cross-examination. He actually says that it's possible that the RAV4 key could have been planted. How he never saw the key before Lt. Lenk "found" it even though it was right in Kucharski's eyesight. Then, we learn that a bag contai...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 👀 Watch from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJ3mSH5sYXsw6fiiDWTDAL0bYtfSwvKz ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✦━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMINDER: For podcast listeners only. All of the trial episodes including Avery, Routier, and those coming in the future will be moving to The Trial Files. Nothing ch...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime & paranormal episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 For twelve years, the Smurl family of West Pittston, Pennsylvania said their home turned against them—voices, knocks, and something darker that even priests and investigators couldn’t explain. Subscribe & join the community: 🔔 YouTube: @BeachHouse34 🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 👀 Watch from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJ3mSH5sYXsw6fiiDWTDAL0bYtfSwvKz REMINDER: For podcast listeners only. All of the trial episodes including Avery, Routier, and those coming in the future will be moving to The Trial Files. Nothing changes on YouTube. They'll still...

🔔 Be sure to subscribe to "The Trial Files" to keep up to date on the most recent episodes and new trials coming down the line. REMINDER: All trials are being moved over to "The Trial Files" for podcast listeners. For those on YouTube, they will remain in the same place they've always been: within their own playlist. Subscribe to The Trial Files : https://pod.link/1845381299 Subscribe to Beach Ho...

🔔 Be sure to subscribe to "The Trial Files" to keep up to date on the most recent episodes and new trials coming down the line. REMINDER: All trials are being moved over to "The Trial Files" for podcast listeners. For those on YouTube, they will remain in the same place they've always been: within their own playlist. Subscribe to The Trial Files : https://pod.link/1845381299 Subscribe to Beach Ho...

Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 👀 Watch from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJ3mSH5sYXsw6fiiDWTDAL0bYtfSwvKz Lt. Lenk wraps up his testimony and under the defense's questioning, some things don't quite add up. He gets called to a homicide investigation...but then stops at a fast food restaurant first? During...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 👀 Watch from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJ3mSH5sYXsw6fiiDWTDAL0bYtfSwvKz We hear more from Lt. James Lenk and we hear about the key. Oh, the infamous key. How he says it was found. How it weirdly just showed up. He also gets questioned about his role as "evidence custodi...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 In Episode 31 of The Avery Trial, we hear from Lt. James Lenk. This is the detective who just "happened" to find the key inside Steven Avery's bedroom. The key that wasn't there on several other searches and just so happened to fit Teresa Halbach's vehicle. But the weird thing is that the two office...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 When the key to Teresa's RAV4 was located, it was after multiple searches had already been done inside Steven Avery's home. The discovery of it was...well...sketchy. In this episode, we'll hear how it was found straight from Colborn himself. He was right near the bookcase, he said he was shaking the...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 In Episode 29 of The Avery Trial, we hear more from Sergeant Colborn and find out how the key to Teresa Halbach's vehicle was discovered - and the timeline that seems a bit fishy. Colborn claims he was shoving a bookcase back in place in Steve Avery's tiny bedroom when all of a sudden, Lieutenant Le...

🔔 Subscribe for more true crime episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachHouse34?sub_confirmation=1 The Avery Trial: Episode 28 – Evidence Taken Before a Crime Was Confirmed Thumbnail Text: Something’s Off Here In Episode 28 of the Avery Trial, we dig into Sergeant Andrew Colburn’s testimony—and the moment the investigation shifted from a missing person to something much darker. Why were handcuffs...

In Episode 28 of the Avery Trial, we dig into Sergeant Andrew Colburn’s testimony—and the moment the investigation shifted from a missing person to something much darker. Why were handcuffs and leg irons taken from Avery’s home before there was any confirmed crime? Why were the guns left behind? This episode questions the early decisions made by law enforcement—what they took, what they ignored, a...

📺 Subscribe here: https://youtube.com/beachhouse34 In this episode, we wrap up the testimony of Sgt. William Tyson, the officer from Calumet county whose job it was to watch the Manitowoc officers while they searched Steven Avery's home. The prosecution made a big deal about this bleach bottle in the bathroom but conveniently failed to mention that this is also where Steven's washer and dryer wer...

Today, we hear more from the Calumet County officer who was the babysitter for Maniwooc Cunty officers as they searched Steven Avery's trailer. For three hours. The jury learns about notebooks, phone numbers, a for-sale sign, and even a bleach bottle — framing them as incriminating evidence against Steven Avery. But are these items really proof of anything, or just everyday household objects twist...

Today, we hear from Deputy David Siders, who talks about the burn barrel and the contents that were found inside. Things like you'd imagine, ashes, etc., but also, according to him, melted plastic and what he says were cell phone parts. Then we hear the beginning of testimony from Sergeant William Tyson, who was "the guy" assigned to Manitowoc County officers as they did searches of items on the A...

🌟💰 Tip Jar: https://ko-fi.com/beachhouse34 In this episode, we continue with John Ertl's testimony as the defense continues to question him. We learn about the handling of the contents of the burn pit outside of Avery's residence, the garaage, and whether or not the evidence was collected and documented properly. Ertl talks about how the contents of the burn pit was collected and sifted. Not onl...

🔔 YouTube: @BeachHouse34 The DNA guy's testimony continues. In this episode, it's the defense who gets to question him. we'll hear about issues with evidence collection, timelines that don't quite add up, and why wasn't the state crime lab team given full control over key searches? They didn't even process Avery's home or garage from start to finish. Something that is done on nearly every other c...

🔔 YouTube: @BeachHouse34 The DNA guy's testimony continues. In this episode, it's the defense who gets to question him. we'll hear about issues with evidence collection, timelines that don't quite add up, and why wasn't the state crime lab team given full control over key searches? They didn't even process Avery's home or garage from start to finish. Something that is done on nearly every other c...

DNA doesn’t lie—at least, that’s what we’re told. But in Steven Avery’s trial, the way evidence was collected, handled, and explained leaves you scratching your head. Today, we hear from the state’s DNA expert, John Ertl. He walks the jury through his role in collecting and documenting key evidence: from Teresa Halbach’s RAV4, to suspicious stains in Steven’s garage, to burn barrels, a golf cart (...

In this episode of Beach House 34 , we hear the testimony of William Brandes, a volunteer firefighter who discovered Teresa Halbach’s missing license plates, and Trooper Cindy Paine, who confirmed that they were in fact, Teresa's plates. Brandes admits to picking up the plates, which were folded. Then he unfolded them and read the number — before law enforcement secured the scene. He was wearing h...

In this episode we wrap up Agent Fassbender's testimony. Specifically, the defense wraps up its questioning but not without Kratz having to chime in. Defense attorney Buting presses on Fassbender about the lack of physical evidence in this case that ties Teresa to Steven Avery's home or garage. So why then, four months into the investigation are bullet fragments just now being "found"? Why is the...