Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

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Cascadia Crime & Cryptids episodes

July 02, 2023Episode 72: The Unsolved Murder of Misty Copsey
On Sept. 17, 1992, after attending the Puyallup Fair with a friend, 14 year old Misty Copsey missed the last departing bus home and was never seen again. Her case remains unsolved today. What happened to Misty?

If you have any information about Misty's disappearance, please contact the Puyallup Police Department tip line at 253-770-3343.

Sources

https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Misty_Copsey

https://www.koin.com/news/missing-persons/true-crime-tuesday-what-happened-to-misty-copsey/

https://charleyproject.org/case/misty-donna-copsey

https://www.facebook.com/BringingMistyCopseyHome/

https://www.ranker.com/list/misty-copsey-disappearance/stephen-morin

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920045103/https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/special-reports/article25857745.html

https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/missing-misty-copsey-377210c256ea

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/its-been-27-years-since-misty-copsey-disappeared
58 min
June 26, 2023Episode 71: The Hauntings of Preston Castle
Preston School of Industry opened its doors in 1894 for the male wards of the state of California - hundreds of boys and young men passed through the halls of this correctional facility until its closure and relocation in 1960. The history of the building and grounds (now named Preston Castle) will come in a later episode; today, Caro takes us through the paranormal activity that Preston Castle is now home to, and who these spirits might be.

Sources

Ghost Adventures, S2 Ep1

Lowe Files, S1 Ep1

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/photos/20-of-the-creepiest-places-in-california

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494962/

https://prestoncastle.org/about-us/

https://www.happinessishomemade.net/preston-castle-ione-haunting-history/

https://paranormallegacy.com/the-history-of-preston-castle/

https://sacramentovalley.org/stories/preston-castle-in-ione-a-hidden-historic-gem/

https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/preston-castle/0a9b8ca2-d607-4d45-b818-4628c62756bf

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/hospital/preston-castle-and-the-unsolved-murder-of-anna-corbin.html?D30c=1&A10c=1&D_4_6_10cALL=1&D_10_20cALL=1

https://jaimerubiowriter.blogspot.com/2018/03/who-was-anna-corbin-one-of-stories.html

https://prestoncastlehistory.blogspot.com/2022/01/anna-corbins-lost-history-preston-castle.html

https://herald-review.com/preston-castles-harsh-haunted-past/article_63758325-6d64-5904-ba56-bdafd4a238c2.html

https://fox40.com/news/local-news/northern-californias-haunted-sandstone-castle/

https://walkiesthroughhistory.com/2021/10/24/preston-castle/

https://sanjoaquinmagazine.com/2020/09/historic-haunt/

https://www.mtdemocrat.com/prospecting/producer-tells-spooky-tails-of-preston-castle/

https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-lowe-files/exclusives/lowe-cation-preston-castle

https://www.newspapers.com/image/623311316/?terms=preston%20school%20of%20industry&match=1

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

https://prestoncastlehistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/
57 min
June 14, 2023Episode 70: Colossal Claude
YAY, it's Sara's first cryptid episode! Today we learn the brief but curious and sometimes hilarious history of the Cascadia cryptid known affectionately as Colossal Claude.

Sources

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Colossal_Claude

https://www.thenewsguard.com/community_paid/offbeat-oregon-colossal-claude-the-great-columbia-bar-sea-serpent/article_7df40f0a-4773-11ea-acf4-678991ac3ee4.html

https://www.werewoofs.com/monster-stories/columbia-rivers-colossal-claude/

https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2019/03/oregons-most-famous-mythical-creature-it-might-not-be-the-beast-you-think-it-is.html

https://www.iflscience.com/colossal-claude-from-oregon-folklore-accused-of-causing-underwater-eruption-68065
32 min
June 05, 2023Episode 69: The Murder of Wei Amanda Zhao
Wei Amanda Zhao never returned from an evening walk to the grocery store in October of 2002 - 11 days later, her body was found in a suitcase near a lake 40 miles from her home. This case takes us from Cascadia to China for the first time, and every time you think it's over - think again.

Sources

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

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/chinese-authorities-make-arrest-in-b-c-homicide-1.442993

https://www.straight.com/article-165079/family-murdered-student-amanda-zhao-arrive-vancouver

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093702/http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a6665963-535b-440b-88bd-5fc0823cae39

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815235600/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/visiting-parents-demand-justice-in-zhao-s-slaying-6-years-ago-1.706069

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/chinese-court-finds-boyfriend-guilty-of-murdering-amanda-zhao-in-bc/article4571154/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/canada-suitcase-murder-convicted-killer-leo-li-enters-nz-with-fake-name-fighting-to-stay-on-as-refugee/G4NCDGYIEFBFXBMEB4FHUPP47E/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/497266017/?terms=amanda%20zhao

https://www.newspapers.com/image/504868676/?terms=amanda%20zhao&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/496453859/?terms=amanda%20zhao

https://www.newspapers.com/image/497265777/?terms=amanda%20zhao

https://www.newspapers.com/image/496453594/?terms=amanda%20zhao&match=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCG7JXDOtw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE_Lhp0mhBM

https://theprovince.com/news/why-is-amanda-zhaos-murderer-still-free

https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/amanda-zhao-murder-case-finally-goes-to-trial-in-china

https://www.newspapers.com/image/504871319/?terms=%22Amanda%20Zhao%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/496453594/?terms=%22Amanda%20Zhao%22&match=2

https://www.newspapers.com/image/486452343/?terms=%22Amanda%20Zhao%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/497265746/?terms=%22Amanda%20Zhao%22&match=1

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/03/16/worse-than-an-animal-mother-enraged-as-killer-claims-amanda-zhao-might-be-alive.html

https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1550066/i-strangled-her-accident-blindfolded-pillow-fight-killers-explanation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/boyfriend-cousin-charged-in-student-s-death-1.788161

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cousin-helped-man-dump-body-of-slain-girlfriend-court-hears/article18283070/

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/li-ang-sentenced-to-life-in-chinese-prison-for-murder-of-girlfriend-amanda-zhao-in-bc
51 min
May 22, 2023Episode 68: The Lava Lake Murders
Sara takes us in the way-back machine to tell the story of the Lava Lake murders of Ed Nichols, Roy Wilson, and Dewey Morris in the winter of 1923/24.

Sources

https://deschutespioneers.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/grisly-1924-lava-lake-murders-still-unsolved/

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19240426.1.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

https://www.newspapers.com/image/100115403/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/lava-lake-murders/

https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/community_paid/offbeat-oregon-lava-lake-murders-are-still-officially-unsolved-but/article_0802b80c-6b5d-11e9-b828-9f89bd102737.html

https://thatoregonlife.com/2017/01/the-lava-lake-murders-oregon/
32 min
May 11, 2023Episode 67: The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Welcome to Cascadia, where we don't just stick to one kind of octopus cryptid - we have a menagerie. Please enjoy the tale of the mysterious and endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!

Sources

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200910296120.pitch-chewing_tree_octopuses_of_british_columbia

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200809266800.olive_loving_tree_octopuses_of_antiquity

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200903256550.more_on_old_world_tree_octopuses

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200903062770.the_ara-eaters_tree_octopuses_of_polynesia

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010826#:~:text=The%20Pacific%20Northwest%20tree%20octopus%20is%20an%20Internet%20hoax%20created,where%20its%20eggs%20are%20laid.

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

https://www.bu.edu/lernet/artemis/years/2020/projects/StudentWebsites/NadiaWebsite/TreeOctupus.html

https://westmifflinpolice.com/save-the-pacific-northwest-tree-octopus/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tree-octopus/

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_Tree_Octopus

https://reefs.com/save-the-pacific-northwest-tree-octopus/

https://quillbot.com/courses/introduction-to-writing/chapter/why-is-research-important/

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/2021/06/01/wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-north-american-tree-octopuses-by-samuel-rafael-barber/
28 min
May 04, 2023Episode 66: The Unsolved Murder of Philip Innes Fraser
Philip Fraser's promising life was cut short in the summer of 1988 while he was making the long drive from Alaska to Washington state to start school at Evergreen State College - his body was recovered, but his murderer has never been found. Who killed Philip Fraser?

Sources

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151661139/philip-innes-fraser

https://unsolved.com/gallery/philip-innes-fraser/

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Unsettling-Murder-of-Philip-Fraser-Killed-by-a-Hitchhiker

https://www.newspapers.com/image/11815253/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/11627638/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/502495316/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/329117703/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/329087979/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/329079819/?terms=%22Phillip%20Fraser%22&match=1

https://unresolved.me/philip-fraser
38 min
April 27, 2023Episode 65: The Crimes of Jerome Henry Brudos, Part 2
After a practically undetected first murder, Jerry Brudos escalated quickly in the fall of 1968, taking the lives of three more women before he was identified and apprehended in 1969.

Sources

"Lust Killer" by Ann Rule

"Jerry Brudos: The True Story of the Shoe Fetish Slayer: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers (True Crime by Evil Killers Book 19)" by Jack Rosewood

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

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-murderers-of-mindhunter-whats-true-whats-not

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210031851/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210031901/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/9.html

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sicko-shoe-fetishist-killing-spree-article-1.1829333

https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061226/http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/PUBAFF/2006news/inmate_brudos_passes_away.shtml

https://serialkillercalendar.com/WIVES-WHO-DIDN%E2%80%99T-KNOW-HUSBANDS-WERE-KILLERS.php

https://www.grunge.com/428467/what-serial-killer-jerry-brudos-childhood-was-really-like/

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Brudos,%20Jerome.htm

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/116291

https://thatoregonlife.com/2022/10/jerry-brudos/

https://charleyproject.org/case/linda-kay-slawson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32025592/linda-katherine-slawson

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/brudos-jerome.htm

https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jerry-brudos

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6466998/karen-elena-sprinker/photo

https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1236633267/the-brohio-podcast/the-high-heel-slayer-jerome-brudos

https://www.weremember.com/karen-sprinker/1t7b/memories

https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/4.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128114742/linda-dawn-salee

World's Most Evil Killers, S5 Ep10, Jerry Brudos
56 min
April 17, 2023Episode 64: The Crimes of Jerome Henry Brudos, Part 1
When Oregon police finally took Jerome "Jerry" Henry Brudos into custody and searched his property, they found over 40 pairs of women's high heels, dozens of items of women's lingerie, hundreds of horrifying photos of unwilling victims, and Brudos's very own home torture chamber. This is part one of the crimes of Jerome Henry Brudos, the Shoe Fetish Slayer.

CW: This episode contains extremely graphic details of violence against women, please use caution when listening.

Sources

"Lust Killer" by Ann Rule

"Jerry Brudos: The True Story of the Shoe Fetish Slayer: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers (True Crime by Evil Killers Book 19)" by Jack Rosewood

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

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-murderers-of-mindhunter-whats-true-whats-not

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210031851/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210031901/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/9.html

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sicko-shoe-fetishist-killing-spree-article-1.1829333

https://web.archive.org/web/20110721061226/http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/PUBAFF/2006news/inmate_brudos_passes_away.shtml

https://serialkillercalendar.com/WIVES-WHO-DIDN%E2%80%99T-KNOW-HUSBANDS-WERE-KILLERS.php

https://www.grunge.com/428467/what-serial-killer-jerry-brudos-childhood-was-really-like/

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Brudos,%20Jerome.htm

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/116291

https://thatoregonlife.com/2022/10/jerry-brudos/

https://charleyproject.org/case/linda-kay-slawson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32025592/linda-katherine-slawson

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/brudos-jerome.htm

https://www.biography.com/crime/jerome-brudos

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jerry-brudos

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6466998/karen-elena-sprinker/photo

https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1236633267/the-brohio-podcast/the-high-heel-slayer-jerome-brudos

https://www.weremember.com/karen-sprinker/1t7b/memories

https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/jerry_brudos/4.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128114742/linda-dawn-salee

World's Most Evil Killers, S5 Ep10, Jerry Brudos
1 hr 10 min
April 10, 2023Episode 63: The Murder of Mandy Stavik
On November 24, 1989, 18 year old Mandy Stavik went for a run, but only her family dog Kyra returned from that Friday route. Three days later, Mandy's body was found in the Nooksack River, but leads went cold from the very beginning of this tragic case. Over 20 years later, a conversation between two local moms brought a suspect name to light and finally helped bring Mandy's killer to justice.

Sources

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mandy-stavik-case-how-two-moms-chatting-at-a-water-park-helped-crack-thanksgiving-cold-case-murder/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mandy-stavik-killing-how-a-community-came-together-to-help-solve-acme-washington-teens-1989-murder/

https://mtbakerscholarship.org/scholarships.html#Stavik

https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/mandy-stavik

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article235302962.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35457264/amanda-teresa-stavik
49 min