Camping is Canceled.

Lies.....lies.....and more lies.

This is PART II of our coverage of The Submarine Case: The Murder of Swedish Journalist Kim Wall. Make sure you go back and listen to Part 1 first, Episode 73—if you’re joining us for the first time. If you’ve already listened to it, you should have a pretty strong picture by now of Peter Madsen—the eccentric inventor who managed to break the sound barrier with a homemade rocket, and enjoyed loaning his submarines out to the porn film industry for reasons only the dark lord must know. Gen: praise Satan When we left you in Part I, things had gone south hard with Peter’s business partner at Copenhagen Suborbitals, so he’d taken up shop nextdoor—literally—and had taken a small group of young interns under his wing who were eager to be a part of Rocket Madsen’s dreams of submarines and space travel. He also had a secret obsession with actual snuff films of women being beheaded and tortured—but as of this point in our story, no one knew that yet.

Lights Out Campers.

SOURCES:

Netflix DOC "Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case", directed by Emma Sullivan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40911387

https://archive.ph/20141119103447/http://adastra.systems/#selection-141.0-141.76

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/peter-madsen-guilty-verdict-leaves-lingering-questions-and-pain

https://theweek.com/92441/peter-madsen-trial-kim-wall-submarine-murder

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jan/07/copenhagen-killing-peter-madsen-kim-wall-murder-submarine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen

https://www.avisen.dk/forfatter-peter-madsen-fandt-sin-far-doed-og-vendte_467524.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/europe/peter-madsen-kim-wall-convicted.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/column-journalist-kim-walls-wit-shone-through-her-work-and-life

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/07/556345889/swedish-journalist-kim-wall-s-severed-head-found-in-copenhagen-bay

Back in 2016, the world was stunned when an award-winning 30 year old journalist named Kim Wall boarded a submarine built by celebrity-status Danish inventor Peter Madsen, for an evening dive in the waters Copenhagen and an in-depth interview. Kim Wall would never be seen alive again, and the eventual breaking news of her death would send shock waves all over the world. How could a true sadistic psychopath have been hiding in plain sight for years? Who was the real Peter Madsen beneath the disarming boyish-charm of a groundbreaking rocket science inventor? And most importantly.... who was Kim Wall--because she was so much more than a victim. Over the next couple weeks, we're going to do our best to break down this story in a way that scratches our true crime itch to dive into deep into the pathology of a perpetrator but, most importantly, keeps Kim Wall and her ongoing legacy as a fearless journalist and beloved daughter and friend in the center. YAY FOR TWO- PARTAS ;)

SOURCES:

Netflix DOC "Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case", directed by Emma Sullivan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40911387

https://archive.ph/20141119103447/http://adastra.systems/#selection-141.0-141.76

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/peter-madsen-guilty-verdict-leaves-lingering-questions-and-pain

https://theweek.com/92441/peter-madsen-trial-kim-wall-submarine-murder

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jan/07/copenhagen-killing-peter-madsen-kim-wall-murder-submarine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen

https://www.avisen.dk/forfatter-peter-madsen-fandt-sin-far-doed-og-vendte_467524.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/europe/peter-madsen-kim-wall-convicted.html

In today’s episode, we’re exploring some chilling true crime cases that unfolded during the holiday season,with some true stories from our friends on good ol’ Reddit. Full of mysterious disappearances and grim realities, these stories remind us that not everything is merry and bright during the holidays.

So grab your spiked cocoa, sit back, and get ready for a series of eerie tales that prove the holiday season can sometimes be the most dangerous time of year. Lights out campers.

Sources:

Nikole Betterson

reddit

Joyce Marilyn Meyer Summers

reddit link

washington post article link

r/UnresolvedMysteries

TaraCalicosBike

Podcast Host - Across State Lines

On Christmas Day, 2007, Aaron Taylor was set on fire and burned alive outside of a Subway restaurant, in Phoenix, Arizona. Three local teens were known to torture and harass him, and seen flicking matches on his beard that night. Who are the three men that murdered Aaron Taylor?

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IS HERE.

SOURCES:

"Buried Alive:18 Years in the Missouri Penitentiary" by James B.Johnson & Chas E. Hoffman

https://www.missouripentours.com/history/timeline/

https://www.visitjeffersoncity.com/blog/post/the-tough-guys-stories-from-within-the-missouri-state-penitentiary/

https://hauntedus.com/missouri/missouri-state-penitentiary-haunted/

If you don't like to think about having to eat a rat raw.....or not seeing the sky for 18 years.... might not be the story for you.

Just to jog your memory, we spent EPISODE 68 doing a deep-dive into the very morbid history of one of the US’s oldest and most infamous prisons—the Missouri State Penitentiary—and we ended with a promise to give you the full scoop on one of the most gripping survival stories from one of its inmates that we’ve ever encountered. Definitely go listen to Part 1 if you haven’t but just as a quick refresher; this story begins in the year 1882 when unlucky thief JB Johnson decided that he couldn’t bear to spend one more day sharing one tiny cell and a poop bucket with 12 other men. So, he and a few like-minded buddies swung for the fences and made a dramatic escape attempt that dramatically failed. Since the Mo Pen had a reputation for being a place where a prisoner could be whipped within a millimeter of his life for simply speaking during meal time….it will come as no shock that JB now found himself—for lack of a better phrase—utterly fucked. In the prison’s (insert number of years) lifespan, JB would be the only man who would spend more years in solitary confinement than any other inmate in recorded prison history and live to tell his story. So. Take a deep breath of fresh air and one last glance at the sky before we must follow JB Johnson down, down, down into the dungeon of the Missouri State Penitentiary. Lights Out Campers.

SOURCES:

"Buried Alive:18 Years in the Missouri Penitentiary" by James B.Johnson & Chas E. Hoffman

https://www.missouripentours.com/history/timeline/

https://www.visitjeffersoncity.com/blog/post/the-tough-guys-stories-from-within-the-missouri-state-penitentiary/

This is Part 1 of the 2 parter the tales of horror, the bright spots of human spirit, and eventually, the hauntings that linger within the limestone walls of the Missouri State Penitentiary. Tales that, as 1800's inmate JB Johnson later wrote, will make your blood creep and chill. At the start of spooky season, we got to spend a few hours wandering its cell blocks and dungeon ourselves—and we can say with absolute certainty that this is not the place you want to find yourself alone after dark. Lights Out Campers.

SOURCES:

"Buried Alive:18 Years in the Missouri Penitentiary" by James B.Johnson & Chas E. Hoffman

https://www.missouripentours.com/history/timeline/

https://www.visitjeffersoncity.com/blog/post/the-tough-guys-stories-from-within-the-missouri-state-penitentiary/

This week, we hear from the brave souls of Reddit who have worked in prisons all over the world....and had unexplained experiences on night shift that made even the toughest COs sing heeeell to the nooooo.

SOURCES:

Today we’re taking a bit of a turn from our typical trail of true crime and once again scraping the barrel of the internet for stories that leave us going what in the actual hell is this world we live in? Don’t get us wrong–we love the rules of forensic science and a justice system doing its job well— we need that certainty to pick up the pieces of the constant chaos caused by shitty human behavior and we’ll never stop obsessing over it. But sometimes things do happen to people with no rhyme or reason that seem to defy the laws we learn about in grade school: like the laws of time or space or someone appearing in one place while also standing in another. The most relatable example we can think of from pop culture was the 1999 movie The Matrix—where (sorry, spoiler alert) Humanity is living in a software simulation of reality called “the matrix”. This software glitches sometimes and creates visuals that seem odd or unexplainable. And there’s more people out there than you might think who believe this concept in the movie is not just made up for a fun film experience. At some point or another, we’ve all made a comment about experiencing “a glitch in the Matrix”--but for the folks who took the time to share their tales on Reddit today, that glitch was more than a joke. You’ll have to tell us what you think in the end–but for now, let’s get glitchy. Lights Out Campers.

SOURCE:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/search/?q=parallel+dimension++&cId=52db346b-8a4b-4fb2-8ee3-662b89e535f9&iId=df2a7b5a-cc15-4432-8a52-d84b1ee77310

We're diving into a mystery that has stumped law enforcement and internet sleuths alike for almost 20 years. In 2008, loving parents Annette and Brian Swanson were talking on the phone with their 19 year old son Brandon after a minor car accident–and they’d been on the phone for the better part of an hour, when Brain suddenly stopped responding even though the call was still running. So they hung up & called him back, but the phone just rang and rang until it went to voicemail. Every other call they made—voicemail. And in that moment, Brandon’s parents Annette and Brian had no idea that they were at the start of every parent’s worst nightmare—and that those would be the last words that they ever spoke to their son. Today we’re going to tell you campers everything we know about the facts and the theories for one of the most bizarre missing persons we've ever come across. This is the vanishing of 19 year old Minnesota West college student Brandon Swanson.

Lights Out Campers.

SOURCES:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/the-vault/rural-roads-of-minnesota-remain-last-known-location-of-19-year-old-brandon-swanson-1

https://www.grunge.com/640372/the-biggest-brandon-swanson-theories-what-really-happened/

"What Happened to Brandon Swanson?" by Rebecca Klein: http://immelman.net/brandon-swanson

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Missing-Since-2008-Brandon-Swanson

CONSIDER THIS YOUR NO-EATING WARNING

It's as American as apple pie for every small town to have a house that local children whisper is haunted and full of unspeakable horrors–a house that they dare each other to run up and touch without getting snatched and boiled in a cauldron. But everyone knows these houses aren’t really real…..they’re just stories that kids tell to spook each other and adults might chuckle over. But when it comes to the house we have to tell you about today— the one in Plainfield Wisconsin that slowly sunk into a state of disrepair after all but one of its family members had died—and the person who lived there: odd but friendly bachelor Eddie Gein—the truth about the horrors behind its walls turned out to be far more terrifying than any ghost story ever whispered about it. This is the true account of the man, the dark myth, the madman legend, who walked alone through the halls of his mother’s beloved home so that the likes of horror film icons Norman Bates and Leatherface could run. This is the story of Ed Gein: the Butcher of Plainfield. Lights Out Campers.

SOURCES:

Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" by Harold Schechter

https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gein-edward.htm

https://www.houseofgein.com/timeline/#google_vignette

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ed-gein