At this point, Vampires are commonplace in pop culture...and the nice thing about being undead is being able to inhabit every possible style, time period and hot bod. However....our "vampire" today had questionable style, and we'd rather throw up than say he was hot. He also wasn't truly a vampire...but he did sincerely believe that unless he consumed human blood, he would surely die. Unfortunately, a lot of people died before he did. For Richard Allen Chase......"descent into madness" would be an understatement. This story is horrible, but the fantastic guests we have make it an episode you're not gonna want to miss!

Be sure to check out Wondery's Mostly Horror on Insta @mostlyhorrorpod & TikTok @mostlyhorror & listen to them wherever you get your pods!

Sources:

"The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal" (True Crime Explicit) by Genoveva Ortiz

Article for The CrimeWire.com by Matthew Crawford: "Richard Trenton Chase, The Vampire of Sacramento"

Article for Murderpedia.org: Richard Trenton Chase, AKA The Vampire of Sacramento

"Daniela Mendoza", "Bella", & "Angel Dulce"....these are some of the nicknames that men saw attached to the face of a beautiful woman with dark eyes on the dating app "Badoo"...but it was all a lie.

SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/18fuhwp/bella_daniela_and_dulce_the_badoo_triple_crime/

In Egypt on June 17th, 2020, a 21 year old college student and mother would be found strangled to death in her home. When police checked CCTV cameras in the area they found a woman dressed in a niqab fleeing the scene. This "woman" would turn out to be a man, and the events that transpired would horrify the entire country.

SOURCE:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/qplu64/a_21_year_old_college_student_and_mother_would_be/

THE CONCLUSION IS HERE.

According to the subject of our horrible story today: he was two completely separate people. One was a loving father, a reputable business-owner and respected community member, a skilled woodworker and outdoorsman & an adored older brother. The other was a terrifying ambush predator with an overwhelming sadistic urge to abduct, torture, degrade, & murder—& then vanish into thin air, leaving behind nothing but a wake of chaos and confusion. But we aren’t talking about two separate people—just one. Israel Keyes; arguably America’s most profilic killer of the 21st century.

main source:

“American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century” by Maureen Callahan

additional sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/israel-keyes

That Chapter: The Chilling Case of Israel Keyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iST5h-ZxJs

Top Notch Documentaries 5-8-12 Keyes FBI Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_chudIfFVc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes

https://www.grunge.com/444374/the-truth-about-serial-killer-israel-keyes-childhood/

https://medium.com/@writermsmith/israel-keyes-an-american-serial-killer-1bfa388cb333

According to the subject of our horrible story today: he was two completely separate people. One was a loving father, a reputable business-owner and respected community member, a skilled woodworker and outdoorsman & an adored older brother. The other was a terrifying ambush predator with an overwhelming sadistic urge to abduct, torture, degrade, & murder—& then vanish into thin air, leaving behind nothing but a wake of chaos and confusion. But we aren’t talking about two separate people—just one. Israel Keyes; arguably America’s most profilic killer of the 21st century.

main source:

“American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century” by Maureen Callahan

additional sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/israel-keyes

That Chapter: The Chilling Case of Israel Keyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iST5h-ZxJs

Top Notch Documentaries 5-8-12 Keyes FBI Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_chudIfFVc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes

https://www.grunge.com/444374/the-truth-about-serial-killer-israel-keyes-childhood/

https://medium.com/@writermsmith/israel-keyes-an-american-serial-killer-1bfa388cb333

In 2012, GQ opened their 2012 culture article titled “The Truck Stop Killer” with the following:

“He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who’d run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. Now, years later, she returns to the scenes of her fugitive youth looking for clues to that terror—and the girls who lost their lives to it.”

On Episode 33 of Camping Is Canceled, we blind read our way through & react in real time to an absolutely GRIPPING article written by author Vanessa Veselka about her years spent surviving the terrifying darker side of the world of long haul trucker-hitchhiking in the 1980s, and the harrowing story of one of the Midwest’s most terrifying serial predators. & yes Vanessa is a bad@ass💪…but camping is still forever canceled.

🏕️Lights Out Campers🏕️

Episode Source: https://www.gq.com/story/truck-stop-killer-gq-november-2012

In 1978, the quiet Southern town of Walterboro South Carolina was changed forever when a beloved young woman in the community was found brutally murdered inside her own home after an evening spent babysitting for some friends. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence at the crime scene….in 2015, Elaine Fogle’s murder was still the oldest cold case listed on SLED’s website….until a retired special agent and a Colleton County law enforcement officer said enough was enough.

Source:

“The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved”, written by Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler

You’ve arrived at the conclusion & PART 2 of the Jennifer Levin case... we’ve got the trial, the media horrors, and even more Catholic Church shenanigans to get into.

Sources:

AMC Documentary The Preppy Murder: Death In Central Parkhttps://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/preppy-murder-doc-jennifer-levin-robert-chambershttps://apnews.com/article/ad848f2d9c0873b074613bec6a50834ahttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/11/A-pathologist-who-performed-an-autopsy-on-a-teenage/3122571554000/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/03/25/Personality-Spotlight-Jennifer-Dawn-Levin-Preppie-Victim/3493575269200/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/in-resisting-the-allure-of-a-killers-good-looks-preppy-murder-series-restores-some-dignity-to-his-victim/2019/11/11/41687f3a-ff48-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/27/nyregion/slain-woman-found-in-park-suspect-seized.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFyHUm2F-4https://www.ranker.com/list/robert-chambers-facts/cat-mcauliffehttps://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/the-preppy-murder-how-robert-chambers-defense-victim-blamed-jennifer-levinhttps://www.ranker.com/list/robert-chambers-facts/cat-mcauliffehttps://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/10/archives/knickerbocker-greys-are-marching-into-a-far-less-exclusive-present.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/11/nyregion/intruder-stabs-student-in-columbia-dormitory.htmlhttps://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/11/8771659/where-is-robert-chambers-preppy-murderer-now

The 1980’s in New York City was a decade of glamor & glitter, and the privileged world of the Upper East Side prep school scene was having a glorious time…until one of their own was brutally murdered one summer night in Central Park. What happens in a high-profile murder trial when the media has the hots for the killer, the victim gets blamed for her own death, & the Catholic Church gets involved? We’re about to tell you. Instagram @Campingiscanceled [email protected]AMC Documentary The Preppy Murder: Death In Central Parkhttps://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/preppy-murder-doc-jennifer-levin-robert-chambershttps://apnews.com/article/ad848f2d9c0873b074613bec6a50834ahttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/11/A-pathologist-who-performed-an-autopsy-on-a-teenage/3122571554000/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/03/25/Personality-Spotlight-Jennifer-Dawn-Levin-Preppie-Victim/3493575269200/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/in-resisting-the-allure-of-a-killers-good-looks-preppy-murder-series-restores-some-dignity-to-his-victim/2019/11/11/41687f3a-ff48-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/27/nyregion/slain-woman-found-in-park-suspect-seized.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFyHUm2F-4https://www.ranker.com/list/robert-chambers-facts/cat-mcauliffehttps://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/the-preppy-murder-how-robert-chambers-defense-victim-blamed-jennifer-levinhttps://www.ranker.com/list/robert-chambers-facts/cat-mcauliffehttps://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/10/archives/knickerbocker-greys-are-marching-into-a-far-less-exclusive-present.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/11/nyregion/intruder-stabs-student-in-columbia-dormitory.htmlhttps://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/11/8771659/where-is-robert-chambers-preppy-murderer-now

On Christmas Eve 1945, George and Jennie Sodder & 9 of their 10 their children were sleeping peacefully in their home in Fayetteville West Virginia, when a sudden & devastating house fire tore through their two-story farmhouse and burned it to the ground in less than an hour.

6 members of the family escaped the flames unharmed….but 5 of the young Sodder siblings seemed to simply vanish into thin air. The mafia, snipped power lines, ,mysterious letters, a fire chief who doesn’t know how to operate a fire truck—this one is a real mind-bender y’all.

Sources for this episode:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sodder-children-disappearance-unsolved-mystery_n_6574961ae4b09724b4345a46

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/mystery/5-curious-details-about-the-missing-sodder-children

https://thejohntravolta.medium.com/the-disappearance-of-the-sodder-children-dedda85e97a4

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/510

wikepedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_dissapearance

On March 22nd 2018, 24 year old Alex Woodworth was found viciously stabbed to death in the back of a white car that was stuck in the mud on the outskirts of a remote Wisconsin diary farm.

When the girl he was last seen with appeared at the front door of that same dairy farm--barefoot, disheveled & shaking, & pleading for help with the word "boy" carved into her arm...law enforcement believed her to be the victim of a violent attack & wasted no time trying to find the perpetrator.

Until they found the car.

Crisis Help Links:

https://www.crisistextline.org/help-for-self-harm/

https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/self-harm/#what-is-self-harm-1

Sources:

https://www.killerqueenspodcast.com/ezra-mccandless/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ezra-mccandless-alex-woodworth-murder-sentencing-why-was-the-word-boy-carved-into-the-arm-of-accused-killer/

https://www.weau.com/2023/11/10/woman-convicted-dunn-county-homicide-denied-new-trial/

https://people.com/crime/wisconsin-woman-stabbed-ex-lover-death-carved-boy-arm/

https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/ezra-mccandless-sentencing/

https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-ezra-mccandless-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDB1ZfoF2Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7tAKQDV9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBQ1epY0Ce4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GIwO7SEpFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnusAtC8BLY&pp=ygUYZXpyYSBtY2NhbmRsZXNzIDkxMSBjYWxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbV1EwP-TZ4&t=765s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfTh-l4BH0M