Housewife of Horrors

This episode is another listener request. Thank you Buzz M. for suggesting this case from the scary stories you grew up listening to about your reclusive neighbor. The time was 1958. The place, South Bend, Indiana. The neighborhood of Rum Village was just your everyday middle American town. Until a string of grizzly murders all happened in the winter of 1958. Police scramble for clues and suspects, while the town is scared and angry. Sights get set on one man whole live at the center of all the murders, Maxwell Marley. Described as the neighborhood nice guy, police focus their investigation strictly on him. Everyone is questioning his guilt because of his survival throughout all the attacks, while others believe in his innocence due to the lack of evidence. Listen along, as I piece together this case of numerous murders from archived newspapers, police files, and neighborhood folklore into a comprehensive timeline. 

The time was 1983. The place, Bloomington, Illinois. Life was normal for the Hendricks family. Three beautiful children, a happy home, and financial stability; what more could a family ask for. But it would all come to a tragic end when David was away on business and returns home to find his family was brutally murdered. Police focus is where it should be when the investigation initially began, but tunnel vision and numerous discrepancies would take this case astray. Listen along as we discuss the beginnings of this ideal family life, details to the murders, and the multiple trials of laying out David's guilt or innocence.

Located in upstate New York, Dryden is a picturesque small town. However, under the veil of small town beauty, a dark cloud hovers over. For nearly a decade, tragedy and murder has struck its residents over and over. Listen along as we discuss years of murders, suicides, and accidental deaths that has plagued this town and left its residents shaken to their cores.

The time was 2010. The place, Melbourne Australia. Phoebe Hansjuk was a bright and beautiful 24 year old, living with her boyfriend in a luxurious high rise apartment. From the outside, life seemed to be going good for Phoebe, until the day that she was found dead in the garbage compactor room of that luxurious high rise apartment building. Every thing about this case is foul from the start; the odd manner of her death, the police investigation, and the coroner's inquest and conclusions. It is clear to Phoebe's family, many experts, and the special counsel to the coroner that the evidence doesn't support the conclusion made by the police and coroner. All her family wants is justice for Phoebe and having the guilty party be held accountable, however that is becoming more distance due to the police's apathetic attitude during the investigation. We discuss what is known about the day Phoebe died, the gross negligence throughout the case, and the lengths that her loved ones have gone through to shine more light on getting the truth.

Heaven's Gate was the cult that mystified everyone with the uniform looks, unorthodox beliefs, and their mass suicide to reach the next level of their journey. Even twenty-five years after their exit from this world, there are still documentaries and news stories coming out with information and details as to who they were, what they believed, and their details to their dramatic exodus. But how did it all begin? We look into and discuss Marshall Applewhite's life before his days of being a religious leader, his chance meeting with the woman that would feed the flames of their theology, and the road they would take their followers down.

The time was 1972. The place, New York. Life seemed to be as ordinary as it gets for the neighborhood of Harlem. Children played in the streets and people just living their every day lives until a string of brutal murders against local children started happening. With a neighborhood gripped in fear, police are desperate to find who is responsible before any more children are murdered. Known by children and then by the media as Charlie Chop-Off, his grotesque style of murder has anger, fear, and tension building throughout the area. Fingers do get pointed at a few different suspects, but without solid evidence, much of what is known of the attacker is either vague or speculation and that leaves police no closer to closing the case on Charlie Chop-Off.