Twisted Travel and True Crime

A short refreshing dip in the ocean, turns into a nightmare as a father and son are swept out to sea. As night falls with no hope of a quick rescue, a father realizes that if he and his son remain together, they will both drown. He makes a heart wrenching decision that will change his life forever. DONATE:  One time: Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Paypal: https://www.pay...

Two young girls go missing from the Oklahoma State Fair. They were lured away with the promise of a job and are never seen again. Years later, two more girls go missing but one escapes to tell a terrible tale. Her kidnapper Royal Russel Long will go to jail for kidnapping charges but is linked back to the first pair of missing girls. Royal, a long haul trucker and part time "carnie" is suspected o...

Imagine you and your best friend sailing to a deserted island and trying to live there, relying only on yourselves for a year. What would you be most concerned about? In 1974, two couples had the same idea, to enjoy themselves on an island of their very own. The first couple, the Grahams were married and experienced sailors. The second couple, an ex-con named Buck Walker and his hippie girlfriend...

In 1981, a 10 year old girl was biking come from her aunts house. It had been a fun filled and busy day. She had just started secondary school and her parents let her bike home alone through a two mile stretch of woods between her aunts house and her own. It wasn't the first time she'd taken this route but it was her last. She disappeared. It was 16 days before she was found dead, buried in a box...

After a series of murders spark terror and intrigue in Madrid authorities search for a suspect. A deck of playing cards are the center of his gloating. He left one at three different crime scenes. The killer brutally murdered his victims, shooting them from point blank range. As month went by, the police struggled to find a suspect that fit the crimes. The citizens of Spain were angry. Four months...

In 2007, the city of Kurim in the Czech Republic was left shaken by a monstrous case of child abuse, one that involved cannibalism and cults. A new father broke the case when his baby monitor picked up a video feed showing a little boy being held captive in the house next door. When one of the children rescued from the home, later went missing, the authorities went on a wide spread manhunt for mem...

Natalia Grace Barnett has been called many things, a loving child, an adult sociopath masquerading as a child, an Ukrainian orphan brought to the States, a knife wielding maniac, a dwarf, a con artist and a beloved unofficially adopted daughter.  Only some of them are true.  The trouble is figuring out which ones. In a recent saga that captivated public interest, Natalia Grace Barnett's story is p...

In the aftermath of what appeared to be a tragedy at sea, a mystery would grow. One that over 20 years later still puzzles investigators and most of France. Dr. Yve Godard, a man of intellect and charm, was once revered, but now his name is tarnished. A storm of suspicion swirls, suggesting that Dr. Godard, orchestrated a sinister plot, or someone else wanted him and his family dead. DONATE:  One...

We’ve all heard the phrase love is blind. We put on rose-colored glasses and think we have found the perfect person. Sometimes it takes a broken heart before we can see what was in front of us all the time. In this case, it took a slew of Texas Rednecks, a man so crooked you couldn’t tell if he was coming on going, the loss of an eye, and the near loss of a life before things became crystal clear...

She fought her executioner, bloodying his face before running for the nearest treeline, but she wasn't faster than his bullets. Bobby Jo Oberholtzer's body would be found on a snowbank the following day, 10 miles from Breckenridge, Colorado. Six months later the body of Annette Schnee was found just 10 miles south of Bobby Jo's. She was laying in a desolate area, face down in a stream. She too had...

When 11 year old Tere Jo Duperrault was found after nearly four days of being stranded at sea on a tiny cork raft, her rescuers couldn't believe their eyes. She and her family had been on what was supposed to be the beginning of a year long adventure at sea but what she told them next, was even more unbelievable. What was at first presented as a terrible accidental sinking at sea, was much, much w...

The girl raised herself from the mud. She was in pain having been beaten and bloodied. She staggered out from underneath the dark and dirty bridge. Her only desire was to get to her parents. She never made it home that night. 14-year-old Reena Virk, a shy and introverted girl of Indian descent, was mercilessly beaten and then drowned by a group of her own peers, most of whom were girls. The case m...

When three officers entered Chris Colemans home after a stressful call from Chris, they were appalled find Chris's wife Sheri Coleman, and their two sons in bed. They weren't sleeping. They weren't alive. Their bodies were stiff and cold. It seemed as though the threatening letters and emails the family had been receiving for months had been acted on. When Chris heard the news, he fell to the grou...

The couple woke up with a hangover after a long night of partying and an argument but that didn't stop them from taking a kayak trip they had been looking forward to on an early spring day in New York. Angelika Graswald and Vincent Viafore would enter the water together that afternoon but only one would return. Angelika would later make a chilling confession. She let him drown and was soon dubbed...

Marcus Schrenker, a financial adviser from Indiana, had it all. He enjoyed a high roller, work hard/play hard lifestyle, a beautiful wife and family and expensive toys galore. He even had his own plane, one that crashes suspiciously, with no body to be found. This is followed by a man hunt and then a media storm reporting on his victims who lost millions. Marcus would be described as a pathologica...

Tammy Grogan's 2006 dream cruise turned into a nightmare when the single mother never returned. She was given an all inclusive cruise along with her mother, aunt and son. The gift was from a man whom Tammy felt had an inappropriate relationship with her son. She'd even spoken with police about the relationship months earlier. Regardless, she took the cruise and once aboard, they unexpectedly ran i...

In 1974, Michelle Wallace lost her life in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The first predator, the human that took her life, was bad enough but there were many more that would follow, picking at her carcass and scattering her remains throughout the wilderness. Twenty years later, before her body returned to dust, a young, smart and tenacious investigator and members of a team called Necrosearch w...

The hikers clutched their throats, tore off their clothes, some began bleeding from their eyes, ears, noses and mouths. Their deaths were quick and mysterious. Even with one miraculous survivor and witness, their deaths can’t be explained in a way that satisfies. How could six young, strong, healthy people die in the middle of the summer on mountain at a relatively low elevation and were their dea...

The murder of British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand in 2018 was so heartless that her death would cause an outpouring of sympathy on 2 sides of the world.  She swiped right on a man who killed her on their first date.  She hadn't known that 8 month earlier, her date, Jesse Kempson raped another backpacker and had a history of violence.  The world would watch on as police p...

A man, named Arthur Knight walked into a Scottish hospital. he was sick, Really sick, with  Covid.  He fell into a coma and when he woke the police were there ready to arrest him.  They said he was a fugitive named Nicholas Rossi Alaverdian from the United States.  One that was wanted for fraud and sexual abuse.  He'd been identified by his tattoos.   "This isn't right", he wheezed through his oxy...

A romantic gesture, a scenic early morning boat ride, turned deadly when Larry Isenberg fell overboard bringing an end to his early retirement.  He and Lori, his wife of 17 years, shared a love that others aspired to and were leaders in their community.  So, it was shocking when allegations of embezzlement would cut her grieving short. Within days, people would wonder if Larry was in on the fraud...

The desert can be a brutal tormentor especially for people who aren't prepared.  The hot sun licking at exposed skin, the dry air sucking its victims dry. Park rangers  find dehydrated hikers rambling around,  incoherent, some barely able to stand. But  on August 4th 1999,  just a Stones throw from a trail head, Park rangers would come upon something they never could have anticipated….. the body o...

A dedicated brother wanted to fulfill his brothers dying wish which was to be buried.  The problem was that in China, especially in densely populated areas, burials have been forbidden.  Cremation is encouraged instead.  In some instances, a dead persons will is not allowed to be executed without proof of cremation.    In an attempt to get around the "no burial law" the Huang family had no idea th...

A once happy mail order bride, Michelle Rivera Nyce’s life would end, murdered and surrounded by drama; including  her millionaire husband Jonathan, a lustful gardening lover, an international romance and extortion. Sponsor Links: https://magicmind.co/twistedtravel Discount Code: twistedtravel DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: Patreon: https://patre...

Farah Fratta was just 33 years old when she was a shot twice in the head at close range in her own garage.  Her husband, Robert Fratta, a police officer and their three children were attending a church service at the time of the attack. When the investigators found out the couple were in the midst of an ugly divorce concerning Robert's strange sexual proclivities attention turned toward him....