Welcome back to Shadow Chat Sessions, the off-beat, darkly funny side of the Dark Dialogue Podcast Network, where true crime collides with conspiracy, historical absurdity, and the kind of stories that make you question humanity’s decision-making skills.

In Episode 28, John McColl dives headfirst into a perfectly unhinged lineup:

• A group of volunteers determined to search Iowa for Civil War–era airplanes

This episode blends verified reporting, investigative context, and John’s trademark sardonic commentary into a show that’s funny, unsettling, and impossible to forget.

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On July 31, 1995, Dana Chyleen Fowler Satterfield, a 27-year-old salon owner and mother of two, was working late at her beauty shop in Roebuck, South Carolina — a small community in Spartanburg County where violent crime was rare and trust ran deep.

She never made it home.

In Part 1 of this three-episode true crime documentary, Dark Dialogue examines the murder of Dana Satterfield through the lens of investigative journalism, criminal psychology, and victim advocacy. This episode focuses on Dana’s life, her final day, and the narrow 30-minute window in which a brutal homicide occurred inside the Roebuck Hair & Tanning Center on Highway 221.

What began as a reported breaking-and-entering quickly became one of the most disturbing crime scenes in local history.

This episode covers:

This episode does not reveal the killer or later forensic breakthroughs. Instead, it reconstructs the earliest hours of a 1995 cold case murder, showing how a crime with witnesses, physical evidence, and urgency still went unsolved for a decade.

Dark Dialogue is a victim-centered true crime podcast focused on homicide investigations, cold cases, and the systemic gaps that allow predators to hide in plain sight.

Part 2 continues with the DNA evidence, the suspect investigators couldn’t legally touch, and the moment the case came back to life.

In April 2011, Holly Bobo was abducted from her family’s home in rural Tennessee. Years later, Zach Adams was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But even after a jury verdict, appellate review, and years of public certainty, the evidence has never settled cleanly.

In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled, John McColl steps away from courtroom narrative and emotional momentum to examine what still doesn’t add up.

This is not a retelling of the case. It’s a focused discussion of what’s happening now—as Zach Adams’ post-conviction challenge remains under judicial review—and why the physical evidence, eyewitness description, cell-phone data, timelines, and witness testimony continue to conflict with the official story.

Topics covered include:

This episode does not claim to solve the case. It asks a simpler, harder question: does the explanation we were given actually hold up?

A companion video series is currently in production, where the evidence discussed here will be shown visually—route by route, timeline by timeline—for listeners who want to see why these discrepancies matter.

Listener discretion advised.

Once it’s been distilled… the truth is what remains.

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Seventeen-year-old Sara Wisnosky was found in the Lafayette River two weeks after she disappeared from the Old Dominion University area.

This episode follows what unfolded after Sara’s body was discovered: the rapid unraveling of Derek Barnabei’s carefully maintained image, his flight from Virginia under an alias, and the mounting forensic evidence that transformed suspicion into a capital murder prosecution.

We trace the case as it moved through arrest, trial, and appeals—examining how early-1990s forensic science, witness testimony, and physical evidence were interpreted, challenged, and ultimately upheld through multiple courts. We also explore the extraordinary international response that followed, as Italy, the Vatican, and the European Union urged Virginia to halt the execution, turning this case into one of the most globally contested death-penalty cases of its era.

But this episode is not an argument for or against capital punishment.

It is an examination of certainty—how the system weighed evidence, how last-minute DNA testing reaffirmed the verdict, and how the final hours of Derek Barnabei’s life unfolded amid protests, prayers, and public scrutiny.

We close by returning where this story belongs: with Sara.

Before verdicts, before punishment, before global debate—there was a young woman whose life was still unfolding. This episode ends by bringing the focus back to her, setting the stage for a dedicated victim tribute that follows.

Original music featured in the victim tribute includes “Whispers of the Night” by The JJ Hawk Band, produced by Hawk Studios, and used with permission.

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In early 1990, Patricia “Candy” Candace Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski were a young married couple traveling across the United States with a shared sense of purpose. As devoted members of an evangelical church in Seattle, they believed their journey itself was a form of ministry — hitchhiking from state to state to share their faith with those they met along the way.

After a final phone call from El Paso, Texas, the couple vanished.

Months later, their bodies were discovered in two different states: Douglas in rural Sutton County, Texas, and Patricia in Millard County, Utah. At the time, investigators had no reason to believe the cases were connected. Different jurisdictions. Different landscapes. One victim unidentified. No shared investigative framework.

This episode of Rocky Mountain Reckoning returns listeners to a different era — 1990, before cell phones, GPS, NamUs, or integrated national databases. It is a time when the world felt larger, movement was freer, and the distance between answers could stretch for years.

Episode One focuses on:

This episode does not center on a suspect or arrest. Instead, it establishes the world these victims lived in — and the limitations investigators faced at the time.

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Original music featured in the victim tribute includes “Paper Wings” by JJ Hawk, produced by Hawk Studios, and used with permission.

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(Song title may be updated once finalized.)

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Making a Murderer built one of the most powerful innocence narratives in modern true-crime storytelling.

In Unraveled Truths – Episode 3, Dark Dialogue turns its focus to Episode 4 of Making a Murderer, examining the claim that Brendan Dassey was “clearly innocent” and coerced into a false confession—while placing that claim against what Brendan actually said, how his statements aligned with other evidence, and how multiple courts evaluated those statements under the law.

John and Angela acknowledge the real and troubling issues surrounding Brendan’s interrogations. But acknowledgment is not the same as acceptance—and this episode digs into the counterpoints the series largely avoids:

• Why Wisconsin appellate courts ruled Brendan’s confession voluntary and admissible

This episode is not about defending interrogation tactics.

Making a Murderer presents a powerful story.

This is not a verdict.

If you’ve ever felt certain after watching a true-crime series, this episode is your reminder:

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From all of us here—thank you for listening, thank you for supporting independent analysis, and keep the dialogue alive.

Billy the Kid — Part 8: Day Three of the Lincoln Siege

Day Three of the Battle of Lincoln does not begin with a charge.

Before dawn on July 17, 1878, a single rifle shot travels farther than any authority present is prepared to follow. A man is struck down on a hillside and left alive—paralyzed, exposed, and abandoned. By noon, U.S. Army officers ride into a town already under siege—not to stop the violence, but to interpret it. By nightfall, a civilian bleeds in his own yard while doctors are driven back at gunpoint.

This episode of Gallows and Gunfights examines the day the Lincoln siege stops being contained and becomes irreversible.

In Part 8, we reconstruct Day Three of the Lincoln County War as a procedural failure—where distance becomes a weapon, investigation replaces justice, and neutrality collapses under fear and delay.

This episode examines:

This is not folklore.

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If you find value in this proceeding, the court asks one final civic act:

These actions do not serve vanity.

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History does not demand belief.

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What happens when a woman wakes up in her coffin minutes before cremation… and it somehow isn’t the strangest thing in the episode?

Welcome back to Shadow Chat Sessions, where weird news, internet madness, paranormal history, and absolute criminal incompetence collide.

In this episode, we cover:

📰 Strange Headline

🧠 Conspiracy Corner

🕳️ Reddit Rabbit Hole

🚔 Dipshit Diaries

👻 Weird Shit

No politics. No yelling. Just strange history, internet nonsense, paranormal cases, and criminals making it very easy to be caught.

If you like your true crime funny, your mysteries unsettling, and your headlines unhinged—this one’s for you.

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Seventeen-year-old Sara Wisnosky had been at Old Dominion University for only a few weeks when her life was violently taken.

In Part One of Last Seen With Him, Dark Dialogue focuses not on speculation or verdicts—but on context. Who Sara was before she became evidence. What her early college life looked like. And how a carefully constructed social persona allowed one man to move undetected through a university community.

This episode traces the days leading up to Sara’s death without jumping ahead to conclusions. We examine the environment of early-1990s campus life, the blurred lines of off-campus fraternity culture, and the subtle power dynamics that shaped Sara’s world as a 17-year-old freshman navigating independence for the first time.

We end this episode just before the forensic investigation begins—at the moment when two realities can no longer coexist.

Part Two will examine what was left behind: the evidence, the interpretations, and how forensic science in the early 1990s became the foundation of a capital murder case that still sparks debate today.

Original music featured in the victim tribute includes “Whispers Of The Night” by The JJ Hawk Band, produced by Hawk Studios, and used with permission.

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What do a deer trapped in a basement, a bank robber who trusted lemon juice science, phantom apartment units that don’t exist, and a soda company that once owned submarines all have in common?

They all belong in Shadow Chat Sessions.

In this episode, John dives headfirst into a perfectly unhinged mix of weird headlines, conspiracy theories, Reddit rabbit holes, dumb criminals, and high-strangeness history—the kind of stories that start funny, get unsettling, and end with you questioning how civilization is still functioning.

A Wisconsin homeowner returns from vacation to find a full-grown deer squatting in their basement for two days

A scientific theory suggesting a solar flare may have interfered with Titanic navigation and rescue efforts

A Reddit mystery involving maintenance logs for apartment units that officially do not exist

The infamous lemon-juice “invisibility” bank robbery that inspired the Dunning–Kruger effect

A burglar who wore a bag on his head… then removed it to stare into a security camera

Two drunk tourists who stole a penguin from Sea World and tried to care for it in an apartment

Operation Cat Drop, when the British Royal Air Force parachuted cats into the jungle

The Sandown Clown—one of Britain’s strangest humanoid encounters

The Black Hope Curse, where a Texas subdivision was built over an unmarked cemetery

The time Pepsi technically became a naval power during the Cold War

The enduring mystery of the Sodder Children, who vanished in a house fire with no remains

As always, John brings the sarcasm, dark humor, and grounded analysis—treating absurdity with respect, stupidity with honesty, and high strangeness with just enough skepticism to make it unsettling.

If you like your podcasts funny, creepy, smart, and slightly existential, you’re in the right place.

Shadow Chat Sessions is part of the Dark Dialogue Podcast Network.