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Part Two of our investigation into the disappearance of Ingrid Lane. On October 15th, 2023, Ingrid Lane, a violinist, scholar, and quantum computing researcher affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories, left her home outside Albuquerque and was never seen again. In this episode, Kristin walks through the last documented day, hour by hour, built entirely from original body-cam and witness recordings obtained through a public records request that have never been played publicly before. It includes an eyewitness account of two unidentified people with Ingrid on a remote mountain road that's never been reported anywhere, and a contradiction in the official record about where her car actually was that no one has ever explained. We also cover why Ingrid Lane's identical twin's DNA still isn't in the national missing persons database, three years later, and what you can do if you have any information at all.

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Season 4 Episode 3 of Black Mirror: Crocodile. We're back with another Black Mirror deep dive; this time it's Season 4's “Crocodile.” One reckless night in the Icelandic mountains, one hit-and-run, and one very bad decision to cover it up together set

off a spiral that follows two people for years. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through Mia and Rob's unraveling. From panicked twenty-somethings to a successful architect and a recovering alcoholic who can't let the past go — plus the memory-recall technology that turns a routine insurance investigation into something much worse. We also get into the Black Mirror episode's title backstory and go down a rabbit hole about whether automated pizza delivery trucks are real yet.

Wine Pairing: The Squad Sauvignon Blanc by Tooth & Nail Winery

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Havana Syndrome and the Physics of Silence: How Microwave Weapons Damage the Brain. The Physics, The Biology, and The Cover-Up

This is a Fear & Wine Uncorked Coven Patreon episode we felt was important for more people to know.

Fear & Wine dives deep into Havana Syndrome, the mysterious illness that has affected hundreds of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers since 2016. What the government once dismissed as stress, overwork, or even crickets has now been confirmed by independent scientists and government officials in 2025–2026 to be the result of a real, portable, directed-energy weapon that uses pulsed microwave radiation. Kristen walks through the confirmed physics of Havana Syndrome, the documented biology, the weapon’s escalation ladder, its chain of historical development, and the disturbing pattern of who is being targeted and why.

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The Witch Recap Part 2. This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steals the entire movie. Plus, our usual sidebar: could any of us actually survive alone in the woods? This one came recommended by Kristin's daughter as a certified Gen Z cult classic, and it more than earns the label. It's streaming on Netflix

Wine Pairing: Stories & Spells Red Blend by Witching Hour

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This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steals the entire movie. Plus, our usual sidebar: could any of us actually survive alone in the woods? This one came recommended by Kristin's daughter as a certified Gen Z cult classic, and it more than earns the label. It's streaming on Netflix

Wine Pairing: Stories & Spells Red Blend by Witching Hour

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Kristin covers one of Florida's coldest cases and the story of serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr.

In late June 2026, federal agents and cadaver dogs turned up on a ranch road in Hernando County, Florida —and a case most people have never heard of resurfaced. This episode traces the full story of Billy Mansfield Jr., convicted of murdering six women and girls across Florida and California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a 15-year-old on a family camping trip and a young Tampa woman last seen leaving a bar. We walk the timeline from the first excavation on the Mansfield family property in 1981 — where investigators say Billy's father and brother were more involved than most coverage lets on — through a still-unresolved 2020 discovery, to the 2026 dig that turned up nothing new. We also cover the ongoing effort to identify Billy Mansfield's one remaining unnamed victim through DNA and genealogy, and how listeners can help if they have a missing family member from this era.

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The Tate & LaBianca Murders. Part Two of our Strangers companion series turns from fiction to fact. Over two nights in August 1969, eight people were murdered in Los Angeles — a case that decades later helped inspire the horror film The Strangers. This solo episode spends most of its time with the people who died: Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca — who they were before that August, and what we actually know about their final hours. Then we cover Charles Manson, the “Family” he built through manipulation and isolation, the contested “Helter Skelter” theory prosecutors used at trial, and where each of the people who carried it out ended up.

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The Strangers (2008) the home-invasion horror that turned a simple knock at the door into pure dread. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan break down Bryan Bertino's slow-burn nightmare: The Strangers. Masked strangers, a couple's night gone terribly wrong, and the question we can't stop asking each other — what would you actually do if someone knocked after midnight?

Part 1 is a recap of the movie The Strangers, and in Part 2 we trace the film's real-crime roots. Part Two unpacks the Tate-LaBianca murders that helped inspire the film.

We argue over IMDb's stingy 6.1 rating, have a Glenn Howerton appreciation moment, and we somehow end up talking about Blue Bell ice cream for five straight minutes.

Wine Pairing: Orin Swift Crooked Smile Cabernet Blend

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Three stories. One museum. A twist ending we did not see coming.

This is a remastered audio version of the first Black Mirror episode that we ever covered.

Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”. (Season 4, ep. 6) The one with the pain-addicted doctor, the wife uploaded into her husband’s brain, the man whose digital self becomes a museum exhibit, and the young woman who shows up with a plan and a surprise of her own. We get into the neuroscience horror, the racial layers, the Black Mirror Easter eggs hidden throughout, and what we’d actually do if consciousness uploading were real.

Paired with Black Cloud by Cloudbreak.

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Black Mirror: "Be Right Back." What if you could keep talking to someone after they were gone? Not through memory or ritual, but through an AI trained on everything they ever posted, texted, and said online? This week we cover an emotional and complex Black Mirror episode, and the conversation it sparks is one of

the most personal the show has had. Martha and Ash are a young couple who have just moved into his late parents' farmhouse in the English countryside when Ash is killed in a car accident. At the repass, a well-meaning friend named Sarah quietly signs Martha up for a service that uses a person's entire digital footprint (social media, emails, videos, voice messages) to simulate how they would respond. Would You Recreate a Loved One with AI?

Wine Pairing: Hunny Bunny Blaufränkisch

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