Episodes

  • S6 Ep112: Mommy Dearest

    S6 Ep112: Mommy Dearest
    Feb 15 2026

    A mother who didn't bother to look for her daughter after she was abducted by a violent stranger. A mother who spent years stalking and cyberbullying her own teenage daughter. A mother who stood by silently while her daughter was tormented by a monster. What do these three women have in common (besides being awful)? They're all featured in viral Netflix documentaries, and they're all from Michigan.

    Cases: Suzanne Sevakis (aka Sharon Marshall), Kendra Licari, Aundria Bowman (aka Alexis Badger)

    Audio production by Bill Bertschinger.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • S6 Ep111: The Widow Hunter

    S6 Ep111: The Widow Hunter
    Feb 1 2026

    His name isn't likely one you've heard before, but his story should feel eerily familiar. Matthew Emmanuel Macon is well-known as Lansing, Michigan's first (and only) serial killer, a young Black man who targeted elderly women living alone in the Capital City- quite a deviation from the standard serial killer trope. But two decades before Macon, there was Michael Darnell Harris- a young Black man who targeted elderly women living alone in the Capital City. They say history repeats itself, and when it comes to Lansing's serial killers, that's definitely, oddly, true.

    Case: Michael Darnell Harris

    Audio production by Bill Bertschinger.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • S6: We're baaaaaack!

    S6: We're baaaaaack!
    Jan 18 2026
    A new era begins 2/1/26. But things are going to look a bit different. How so? Listen in for more! Audio production by Bill Bertschinger.
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    4 mins
  • S5 Ep110: The Cabin

    S5 Ep110: The Cabin
    Nov 8 2023
    For nearly a month, a picturesque cabin on northern Lake Michigan hid a ghastly secret. The bodies of wealthy ad executive Dick Robison, his wife Shirley, and their four children lay waiting for someone to find them following a brutal attack on a summer afternoon. From the moment a caretaker stumbled upon the murder scene while investigating reports of a foul odor coming from the property, nothing would ever be the same in the small town of Good Hart.
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    43 mins
  • S5 Ep109: Ghosted 5.0

    S5 Ep109: Ghosted 5.0
    Oct 31 2023
    From haunted neighborhoods built atop cemeteries to sweet afterlife connections and more, our Halloween episode once again features listener stories.

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    41 mins
  • S5 Ep108: Black Widow

    S5 Ep108: Black Widow
    Oct 16 2023
    In 1903 Chicago, a peculiar murder unfolded on the city's south side. Despite her insistence that a burglar broke in and shot her husband in bed, authorities immediately suspected Jane Quinn, who was covered from head to toe in blood. And that was BEFORE they found out about the pile of dead bodies Jane left behind when she fled Michigan years earlier.

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    35 mins
  • S5 Ep107: Invisible Strings

    S5 Ep107: Invisible Strings
    Oct 1 2023
    In 1981, a 23-year-old woman was dragged kicking and screaming from her East Lansing apartment in front of an entire building full of onlookers. In 1982, a rebellious teen vanished while hitchhiking in a Detroit suburb. In 1983, almost exactly one year later, another pretty brunette teenager disappeared while hitchhiking in the same neighborhood. Three years, three murdered women, three cold cases. One would become the first case in Ingham County to use DNA as evidence. One would be solved through new advancements in DNA technology decades later. And one would be solved by a team of eagle-eyed students at Michigan State University's School of Criminal Justice. But for decades, their grieving families waited for invisible strings to connect and lead to justice.

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    53 mins
  • S5 Ep106: The Four

    S5 Ep106: The Four
    Sep 14 2023
    On a Monday afternoon in May of 1930, the world's first set of identical quadruplets were born in Lansing, Michigan- even though nobody knew they were coming. Instant celebrities, the Morlok quads were treated like a sideshow attraction by the community that insisted on naming them and claiming them as their own. While the girls were paraded around the country in matching dresses performing adorable song-and-dance routines as they racked up Guiness World Records, their sweet smiles hid ghastly secrets. Behind the picture of a wholesome American family was a house of horrors.

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    1 hr and 15 mins