Christa Pike is still alive after Tennessee's failed lethal injection on September 30, 2026. Brian Scott and Jill Egan break down what went wrong inside the death chamber and America's long history of botched executions.
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Officials spent more than an hour trying to establish IV access, then administered two doses of pentobarbital. She was transported to a hospital where she remained unconscious for days.
Her attorneys say she has now been discharged and returned to prison, with ongoing trauma and issues with concentration and memory. Governor Bill Lee has paused executions pending an independent review. Can Tennessee try again?
In this Daily Scaries True Crime Podcast episode, we cover the Christa Pike execution timeline hour by hour, why Tennessee uses single-drug pentobarbital instead of the three-drug cocktail, why that older protocol collapsed, and what happens legally after a failed execution - competency, double jeopardy, and cruel and unusual punishment.
We also cover historic failed executions including Willie Francis, Clayton Lockett, Romell Broom, Kenneth Smith, and the halted IV attempt for Tony Carruthers earlier this year.
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What the grand jury saw in the case of Nolan Wells that led to no trial — and what the family's investigators uncovered.

On July 4th on Horn Island, 18-year-old Nolan Wells went missing after a group boat trip. Two days later he was found on the island. A grand jury reviewed 132 subpoenas and 43 witnesses and found his death consistent with drowning, with no charges filed.

Brian Scott and Jill Egan walk through both tracks side by side: what the state's findings concluded about the Nolan Wells autopsy and the Nolan Wells grand jury decision, and what independent investigators documented about the timeline, head injuries, phone data and Snapchat messages.

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This week, we are unpacking a wild lineup of true crime stories and bizarre events that you simply won't believe actually happened.

We dive deep into the dark and disturbing allegations surrounding The Cornell 7, and break down a completely bizarre high-speed police chase where the suspect decided to make it rain cash. Plus, we explore a shocking family betrayal that led to a murder in broad daylight, a terrifying discovery made by a toddler... and much more!

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Inside Philadelphia's house of horrors, police found a home lab, a 55-gallon drum plumbed into the water lines, and more than one million files showing 58 people, five of them women who appear deceased. Seven missing women are now linked to the West Chew Avenue home in Olney, owned by Eugene Horsch and shared with his late father, Raymond "R.C." Horsch. It all started with an illegally parked BMW carrying fake DEA credentials and a missing woman's ID.

Brian Scott and Jill Egan break down the 2017 videos, what investigators can prove, and why there are still no bodies and no homicide charges.

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At 18, Christa Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in America. 30 years later, she’s still Tennessee’s only woman on death row — and the state has set her execution for September 30, 2026.

In this episode of the Daily Scaries True Crime Podcast, Brian Scott and Jill Egan pull back the veil on a classic case that still shocks Knoxville to this day: the 1995 Job Corps murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

What really happened on that wooded hilltop off Moody Avenue? Why did a dispute over a boyfriend turn into a planned, brutal attack involving Christa, her 17-year-old boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Peterson? And what did investigators find in Christa’s pocket that became one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in Tennessee history?

Brian and Jill walk through the timeline, the trial that led to a death sentence in 1996, the failed appeals, and the theories around motive, manipulation, and mental health that defense teams have argued for decades.

If the execution proceeds, Pike would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

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On New Year's Day 2023, Ana Walshe — a mother of three from Cohasset, Massachusetts — was last seen at home. She never returned. What investigators recovered from her husband's digital trail turned a missing-person case into a murder investigation that gripped Massachusetts for two years.

This week on the Daily Scaries True Crime Podcast, Brian Scott and Jill Egan walk through the Ana Walshe case in full: the timeline of that New Year's weekend, the search history that became the backbone of the prosecution, and the evidence a Norfolk County jury weighed before convicting Brian Walshe of first-degree murder.

He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. This is how the case was built — and what it took to close it.

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She was found dead at Lumber River State Park on April 27, 2024. Officials ruled it a suicide. Those close to her say that ruling doesn't explain what happened.

On this episode of Daily Scaries True Crime Podcast, Brian Scott and Jill Egan pull back the veil on the Mica Miller case and present the theories around it.

We break down her marriage to pastor John-Paul Miller, the control allegations raised by family members, why they continue to question the suicide ruling, and the separate federal case where prosecutors allege cyberstalking and false statements.

This is a procedural deep dive into entrapment, power, and the questions still unanswered in Lumber River.

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