What Happens in the Woods

Thank you for joining us for our season six finale. While we are on a Holiday break, don’t forget that WTFs are releasing on Patreon 2 Wednesdays a month. Come join us for the fuckery! We announced this episode that next season the podcast is going worldwide. While the PNW is our home and that’s where our true crime roots will always be, we want to venture out to bring you new cases. If you have a...

Hello, campers! The days may be getting shorter and the nights a little colder, but the campfire is still going strong here in the woods. Thanks for stopping by for this week's episode! We have a special guest host and a brand-new case to share with you. Olivia is with us to share the heartbreaking case of the deaths of Ed and Minnie Maurin. The case went unsolved for several decades due to a lack...

Happy Halloween Campers! We hope you enjoy this special episode. It's our annual collab with podcast besties Beth and Cristy from Crimes and Closets. This year's theme is horror movies that are based on true stories. Cristy will tell you the story of Ron Defeo Jr. and the events that lead up to the Amityville horror movie! Jess will tell you the story of Ivan Milat best known as the Backpacker Mur...

Welcome back to the campfire, friends! We’re nearing the end of the season, but there are plenty of cases coming your way. Don’t forget! Patreon is live. Use this link to find our page and join us for WTF Wednesdays. https://www.patreon.com/WhatHappensintheWoodsPodcast568 Our 4th annual Halloween collaboration with the wonderful and talented ladies of Crimes & Closets with kick off on Friday,...

Happy Friday, campers! Welcome back for a new episode. The season is almost over, but we still have some great cases to bring you…including this one. Eric and Kouri Richins seemed to have it all. The beautiful couple started a family and led a life that would be the envy of anyone. It all came crashing down one early morning in March of 2020 when Eric passed away tragically and unexpectedly. The c...

We’re back with a mid-season episode with a twist many people never saw coming. This week, we have it all…a disappearance, a betrayal, online profiles, a mega church, and a sex club. Oh, my! There was much to discuss in this episode. We want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who joined us for the livestream WTF episode! It was amazing to do and we can’t wait to do it again with you all. If you d...

Hello, campers! Your favorite podcast is celebrating its 100th episode on September 1st. What better way to do this than to give the people what they want?!? We are assembling the gang and will broadcast a live WTF episode. Crazy, right? We know, we can hardly believe it either! Be on the lookout for more details to come on the socials. See you on September 1st, 6 pm PST! In this episode, we're co...

Welcome back for a new episode! This week, Jess and Brice dive into multiple unsolved cases from the Lewis Clark Valley that borders the state lines of Washington and Idaho. Over 40 years have gone by and there are still no answers to the disappearances of 12-year-old Christina White and 35-year-old Steven Pearsall. Nor have there been any breaks in solving the murders of Kristin David, a 22-year-...

Hello Campers and happy Friday! Before we get started on the episode, we have a couple of announcements! First, the podcast is celebrating its 100th episode on September 1st. What better way to do this than to give the people what they want?!? We are assembling the gang and will broadcast a live WTF episode. Crazy, right? We know, we can hardly believe it either! Be on the lookout for more details...

Your favorite podcast is back for a new season! We’ve had some time to recharge and regroup and we are ready to get back into true crime cases from the PNW. This episode takes us back to the early 1900s in Oregon, where a charismatic religious man was able to start a Holy Roller sect in the small community of Corvallis. Franz Edmund Creffield believed he was the new messiah and it was his job, his...

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Welcome back to WTF Wednesday! This week we bring you all of the Florida Fuckery! There is only one more episode before we sign off on this season. Make sure you don't miss out on any of our episodes. Let us know if you have any suggestions for next season. Thanks, everyone! Nothin better to do on a Saturday evening https://bit.ly/3p1ag0j Didn't know you could do this in the library https://bit.ly...

It's that time again! Buckle in for another WTF episode and enjoy the ride. Thank you for joining us and see you next week! The story making its way across everyone's social media over the past few weeks: https://bit.ly/41LomBu https://bit.ly/41R72e0 Please don't use Meth: https://bit.ly/41X6KC1 Florida Fuckery: https://bit.ly/3Au9cnX Cass's Fun Fact: https://bit.ly/3HeZc62 https://bit.ly/3HjaWnR...

It's that time again, campers! The 3rd installment of WTF Wednesday is out and coming in hot. Tune in and enjoy all the incredible stories we share this week. Millions of dollars worth of stolen items from in homes of retired Italian gentleman https://bit.ly/41EepFn Grandma didn’t mean to scare anyone, but she needed money https://bit.ly/3N2NRt8 Did Don Lewis resurface in Costa Rica? And no one no...

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Jess and Brice are back with new episodes! Thank you everyone for sticking in there with us while we were away! We had some much-needed time off but missed doing what we love and interacting with all of you. In this episode, we talk about an amazing survival story of a young woman and the man responsible for the torture and murder of her family. If child sexual abuse is a trigger, please know that...

The Canadian Greyhound Bus Cannibal Hello, friends! Join Jess, Brice, and our special guest Dean around the campfire while Mara takes the reins and tells us about the shocking case of the killing of young Tim McLean. Tim McLean was just 22 years old when he boarded Greyhound bus 1170 bound for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. On the fateful day of July 30th, 2008, he lost his life to Vince Li. Mara tel...

Welcome back Campers. We give an update on episodes and what is happening in the Woods. Our recent collaborations and future collaborations. In this episode, we have a guest, Carmita Thompson. Carmita is the host of Missing in the PNW Podcast. She will tell us the story of Esmerelda "Kit" Mora. Kit is an LGBTQ 17-year-old who is two-spirit, non-binary, asexual, and uses they/them pronouns. They ha...

It’s 1989 and Sgt. Bill Foulk purchased a home in one of Tacoma’s worst neighborhoods. The street was home to one of the most notorious street gangs Washington has ever known, the hilltop street gang. Sgt Foulk and his neighbors witnessed numerous drug deals and illegal activities and reported this to authorities several times. But when that failed to garner a police response Sgt. Foulk had no pro...

Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Children of all ages, here we present our annual tradition and collaboration with our podcast besties... the fabulous ladies, Cristy and Beth from Crimes & Closets!!! This year we are talking about spooky and scary stories for Halloween. This episode we have on the M I C the Killer B's ... Beth and Brice. Brice will regale us with stories and traditions from t...

This is our presentation from the Pacific Northwest True Crime fest from October 8th & 9th, 2022. This was a Live event where we got to meet so many fans and other podcasters. Not to mention all the vendors and even Crimedoor were at the event. The event was a great success and we hope to be back next year! We hope to see even more of you there next year too! Hope you enjoy Jess' presentation!

Hello campers! We’re frantically getting ready for the PNW True Crime Fest, which is one week away! But we still have time to bring you a fresh case for this episode. Kaylee Birdzell was a young, beautiful and much loved woman who was brutally murdered in August of 2022. A suspect was quickly found and was awaiting his arraignment when he decided to make an attempt to end his life in jail. Sadly,...

Welcome back to the campfire, friends! We have a very sordid tale of love, lies, murder and…time travel? This episode has a little bit of everything. The victim, in this case, Anna Repkina, was a bright and lovely young woman searching for a partner to share her life with. Little did she know that her search would take her across the globe to a small Oregon town, ultimately to her death. Informati...

Happy Friday, Campers! What better way to kick off your weekend than with a new episode from your favorite podcast. In this episode, Brice and Jess talk about a cold case that got a second chance at being solved with DNA evidence. It doesn’t go as investigators hope, but at least there is some closure for the victim's family. Don’t forget! We are excited to be part of the Pacific Northwest True Cr...