Dark Deeds

On the night of June 14, 2015 in Missouri, police entered the Blanchard residence after receiving a call to do a welfare check on a disabled girl named Gypsy Rose and her mother, Claudette "Dee Dee" Blanchard. They found the body of Dee Dee lying face down, stabbed to death. Gypsy was nowhere to be found. Everyone thought this girl would never be able to survive without her mother's care, as she suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia, sleep apnea, a chromosomal disorder, and was confined to a wheelchair.......or was she?  Police discovered Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend at the time, Nicholas GodeJohn at his home and begun to realize Gypsy wasn't a victim of Nick, but a victim of her mother. Gypsy had been a victim of Dee Dee's Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome her entire life and believed Nick was her way to escape the clutches of her mother. With his help, she exacted revenge.   OG Release Date: 06/08/2020 Sources: 
All That's Interesting (2018, April 9)   Biography (2019, April 4).  Grunge (2020, March 25)   People (2019, July 15).    Meaww (2020, April 7) Marie Claire (2019, March 21) Videos for information:  Dr. Phil:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJfCpqGRww       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQcOQ4Mk_I  Audio: ABC2020: Gypsy's Truth and Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDCbVy3Xp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUtZexaZTI




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This episode features two cases that occurred 78 years apart, yet are eerily similar and both remain unsolved.  First, the tale of the Hinterkaifeck murders which occurred on March 31, 1922. Five members of the Gruber family along with their maid, Maria Baumgartner, were brutally slain with a Mattock. Before this, strange happenings began occurring on the Hinterkaifeck farm even as far back as six months before the murders. Investigators believe the murderer may have been living in the family's home up until the murders and then shortly after.  These murders remain unsolved 98 years later.
On December 31, 2000, all four members of the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home. The youngest at just six years old was strangled and the remaining members brutally stabbed. There were strange events leading up to the murders, a plethora of obvious DNA and evidence, and the murderer even remained in the home for hours after the murders.  yet these murders still remain unsolved 20 years later.   OG Release Date: 05/25/2020
Sources:
The Scare Chamber 
Mental Floss (2017, August 31) 
All That's Interesting (2017, November 13) Defrosting Cold Cases (2014, May 1)
Unresolved (n.d.) 

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On November 3, 1998, Maddie Clifton went outside to play and encountered a 14 year old neighbor boy, Joshua Phillips. The two began hitting a baseball back and forth when he suddenly hit the ball and struck her in the eye. Claiming he was fearing he would be in trouble with his parents, especially his abusive father, as he was not to have friends over when they weren't home and he had hurt Maddie, he took her into his house, strangled her for 15 minutes with a phone cord, but when this did not quiet her crying, he struck her in the head with a baseball bat and stabbed her with a pocket knife, then stuffing her body under his waterbed. He re-entered his room later to find that Maddie had not died, so he stabbed her again, this time in the throat, returning her body back to it's hiding spot, where a week later, his mother made the gruesome discovery.  OG Release Date: 05/18/2020 Sources: 
Sutori (NA).  AP News  (2018, November 10).  Crime In My Pocket  (2018, November 30).  AUDIO:
Josh’s Apology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwj5R6_omoE
Josh’s Mom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68oZoYn8y9U
News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N3oAj758w




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On the night of January 6, 2007, couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were saying goodbye to one another as they left a friend's apartment when they were approached by a few individuals planning to steal Channon's vehicle. The carjacking then turned fatal when Christopher was tortured, raped, and shot, his body then left to burn near the railroad tracks. Channon was kept in the home of the ringleader, LeMaricus, where she was brutally raped and tortured, bleach poured down her throat and on her body to dispose of evidence, and then ultimately wrapped in trash bags and stuffed into a trash can with a broken neck, left to slowly suffocate.  OG Release Date: 05/09/2020 Sources: 


WBIR
Knox News (2017, January 6). WBIR (2017, January 5). 
WVLT  (2019, August 13).  AUDIO/VIDEO: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS6OFuUXe8

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On June 11, 2001 police entered the mobile home of Barbie and Ken Atkinson after Ken showed a neighbor that they had been keeping their 8 year old daughter, Lauren Kavanaugh, in a 4x9 closet for 5 years. When police saw Lauren, she was severely malnourished, only weighing 25.6 pounds, the size of a toddler, with matted, lice-filled hair and obvious signs of severe abuse. It was a shock that she even survived, but she lives with the constant trauma of the abuse, and her case is one of the most severe of child-abuse ever seen.

OG Release Date: 04/25/2020 The Dallas Morning News 
The Dallas Morning News 
The Sun U.K. (2017, January 26).  CBS News (2002, December 13).  Dallas News  (2019, February 28).  Audio/Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80u-8yI2GE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-C3ph1wWc#action=share
https://youtu.be/9x7we8rPxhI

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On June 23, 1965, police were called to do a welfare check on an elderly couple Fred and Edwina Rogers in their Texas home, and when police arrived to view the home, they found a chilling discovery. Edwina and Fred had been dismembered and placed onto the shelves in the icebox after being beaten. Edwina had been beaten and shot execution style while Fred was beaten with a claw hammer, his eyes gouged out and genitals mutilated. Evidence has pointed to their reclusive son who was 43 years old and living with them, as the murderer but he had fled and was never found.
OG Release Date: 04/11/2020
Sources:
Medium (2019, May 6). 
Reddit (2019).  Mental Floss (2019, November 4). 
Video: KHOU 11: Missing Pieces: The Icebox Murders. 




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Samuel Little is a serial killer who traveled the United States, beating and strangling an upwards of 93 women between the years 1970-2005. He is known for his 700 hour long confession that included colored chalk drawings of his victims and vivid descriptions that most would find difficult to remember. He has been matched to 50 cases, convicted of 8 of the murders, and an additional 40 remain pending. He went unnoticed for so long due to his choice of victims, often African American females who were involved in sex work and drugs. Their deaths were often ruled overdoses, accidental, or by natural causes, with some being ruled as homicides but no one could ever find the killer until he was picked up for a warrant on charges involving narcotics in a Kentucky homeless shelter. His DNA was collected and matched to three murders, and he finally made a confession to a Texas Ranger when linked to a fourth murder in Texas.  He is not often heard of when it comes to discussing famous serial killers, which is baffling, as his victim count far exceeds Dahmer's, Bundy's, and any of the widely talked about serial killers. 
You can find his other confessions as well as pictures on the FBI source included below.  OG Release Date: 03/28/2020 Sources: The-Line_Up (2020, January 27). FBI. gov  (2019, October 6). 
Biography.com (2019, December 5). 
Videos retrieved on FBI. Gov:  https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/samuel-little-most-prolific-serial-killer-in-us-history-100619



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OG Release Date: 03/16/ 2020 On May 30, 2014, three twelve year old girls, Morgan Geyser, Anissa Weier, and Payton Leutner, decided to have a sleepover for Morgan’s birthday. The next morning, Anissa and Morgan tricked Payton into going with them to David’s park to bird watch and play hide-and-seek where the two girls attacked their friend, Payton, stabbing her 19 times. They believed if they didn’t kill her, Slenderman would kill their families, and if they did kill her, they could live with Slenderman in his mansion where they would move up in rank. Mental illness coupled with the ages of the girls made for a vicious attack that they blamed on their belief in Slenderman.  OG Release Date: 03/16/ 2020 Sources:  Oprah Mag (2019, October 25).  Tech Crunch (2014, June 30).  USA Today (2017, January 24).  Fox 6 (2014, June 4).    Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier Police Interviews Video  Bicyclist's 911 call





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On February 4, 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay, as well as their two toddler sons, Joseph, Jr. and Gianni vanished from their home. Nine days after they went missing,  it was reported to police, as people realized that they had not simply went on vacation. Joseph's vehicle was found left at the United States Mexico border, and the scene in their home looked as if they were taken in the middle of a normal day as popcorn had been spilled on the couch, and a carton of raw eggs had been left on the counter. The family's remains were finally found in a shallow grave in the desert on November 13, 2013 by a passing motorcyclist.  It was determined that the family had died from blunt force trauma. Joseph's friend and business partner, Charles "Chase" Ray Merritt was arrested in November of 2014 when his DNA had been found in the family's vehicle. He had bludgeoned the family to death with a sledgehammer and buried them in the desert, all for financial gain as he had a gambling addiction. Chase Merritt was sentenced to death finally 10 years after the crime in January 2020. 
OG Release Date: 02/29/2020
Note: I'm not sure what was wrong with my microphone, but throughout the episode it would get crackly and I tried my best to re-record and edit the segments. :( Sorry!!


Sources :
Crime Museum (2017).  San Diego Union Tribune (2019, May 28).
AP & Reuters. (2015, January 25). 
Daily Mail UK (2014, January 4).  Videos: Law & Crime: Chase Merritt Sentencing 
Law & Crime: McStay Family Murder-Sentencing-Victim Impact Statements Continue,

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On October 1,1993, 12 year old Polly Klaas and two friends were excited to have a sleepover at Polly’s home where they would eat ice cream, try on Halloween Costumes, and play board games. The sleepover did not go as planned when at 10:30 PM, Polly went to get supplies for the party and came face to face with a bearded man standing in her doorway. He tied up the other two girls and took Polly away into the night. Her body was found 9 weeks after her kidnapping when the man who had been arrested in suspicion for her kidnapping confessed and told police where to find her. Her case was the first to ever be shared on the internet in 1993 and helped pave the way for Megan’s Law, Amber Alerts, and California’s Three Strikes Law.
OG Release Date: 02/29/2020
Sources:
CBS News Video
PollyKlaas.org (NA).

Press Democrat (2013, September 29) Deseret News (1994, May 15).  LA Times (1994, May 12). 

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