Coffee and Cases Podcast

As Halloween approaches we often wonder if those haunted houses we walk through and scary movies we watch could turn into a reality. On October 30, 1975, a  fun night spent with friends turned into the plot of a scary movie as one teen is left bludgeoned to death in her backyard. 

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Kurt Sova was the 17-year-old who could always make people smile, either by being his responsible, caring self or by cracking a joke. But on October 23rd, 1981, Kurt was doing something out of character; he was skipping school and drinking the day away. That night, the drinking continued at a local party in Newburgh Heights, Ohio-- a party from which Kurt never made it home. Then, five days later, his body was discovered in a ravine only 500 yards awar from where he was last seen. With odd occurrences and recollections added to a faulty investigation, Kurt’s family was left wondering what really happened? And who can they trust is telling the truth?

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In this week’s episode, Maggie and Allison explore the mysterious deaths of 44-year-old Bobby, 40-year-old Sherilyn, and 6-year-old Madyson. From angry letters to missing weapons, hidden money, and a witch’s bible, the details of this case are both creepy and confounding.

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On April 20, 1989, 37-year-old Patricia Meehan walked away from a head-on collision on a remote Montana highway and vanished into the darkness.

What followed was one of the strangest missing persons cases we’ve covered: more than 5,000 reported sightings, possible memory loss, cross-country leads, and a family desperate to bring Patricia home.

More than 37 years later, the question remains: what happened after Patricia climbed over that fence?

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Cathy Moulton had just experienced a long summer of travel across the country with her family and had returned only days before the start of her junior year at Deering High School in Portland, Maine. On September 24th, 1971, hours before a dance she was excited about attending, she disappeared. In what is now one of Maine’s oldest cold cases, Cathy Moulton’s case is one in which the discovery of clues (and there are many) has spanned decades and countries.

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Was this the outcome of a sordid love triangle, a serial killer, or a calculated mob hit that resulted in the murder of a young family of three? Whatever it was, it rocked the small community of Green Township, Ohio-- whose neighborhoods changed from open windows and open conversation to barred d⁠⁠⁠oors and distrust.

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Before the Kunz name became tied to one of Wisconsin’s most unsettling murder cases, another family tragedy had already left its mark.

In this episode, we trace the Kunz family from a shocking 1905 murder to their isolated life on a rural Marathon County farm. Then came July 4, 1987 — a small-town holiday that ended with four family members dead and one missing.

Rumors, shifting stories, legal twists, and lingering doubts would follow for decades.

This is the case of the Kunz Family Murders.

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Henry McCabe’s case is filled with theories ranging from the supernatural, to ritual sacrifice, to suicide, or to the Smiley Face Killers. But no theory seems to fully explain all of the details of his bizarre death nor do they come close to revealing the cause behind the horrific phone call recording.

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The case of Virginia Douglas is an odd one. Not only do we not know where she is nor what happened to her, we don't even know from which town she disappeared. Her husband, Frank, it seems, was the only one who could provide the truth. Unfortunately, he could also have been the very one trying to hide it from the world.

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In Part 1, we told the stories of Willard Douglas Watts and Eliyahu Moskowitz, two men killed just 36 hours apart while walking through Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

Police had surveillance footage. They had witnesses. They had ballistics tying both murders to the same gun. They had a distinctive clue in the way the suspect moved.

But what they still didn’t have was a name.

In Part 2, the investigation widens. Hundreds of tips pour in. The reward climbs. A police camera near one of the crime scenes raises frustrating questions. Then, months later, the same gun unexpectedly surfaces again — and years after that, investigators begin looking at a possible connection hundreds of miles away.

Was the Rogers Park killer hiding in plain sight? Did the weapon change hands? Was the motive personal, random, or something even more disturbing?

And with so many pieces of the puzzle already in front of police, how is it possible that the man in the footage still has not been identified?

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