There's this tall old oak tree that stands in a small unknown town located on the outskirts of Gainesville, TX. This particular tree can still be found in the middle of my backyard back in my hometown. I loved spending time at that tree as a child and I see have fond memories of my father hanging a tire swing off of that tree and pushing me from it, with of course the distant sounds of my siblings playing and laughing in the background.

However, I recently found out that this old tree that once brought me so much joy as a kid, also brought death and misery to hundreds of people who once lived in my hometown.

Welcome to Killed Off, the podcast where I present stories from our favorite horror fiction media (tv/movies) but with a true crime twist. Follow along with the story to see if you can recognize it before I reveal the original story at the end.

Written: David Caleb

Hosted: Darek Weber

Additional Voices: Danie Dreadful

Music: Soundridemusic and Repulsive1908

Henry Bemis survived the end of the world. Alone at last, surrounded by books, and it was everything he ever wanted. But one small accident turned his happy ending into something far more brutal. A quiet, devastating true crime style retelling of one of the most haunting and tragic stories ever told.

Hosted By Darek Weber

Music by Soundridemusic and Repulsive1908

In the summer of 2003, a 13-year-old girl called 911 from a cordless phone in her bedroom. She told the dispatcher something was wrong with her father. She said he wasn’t acting like himself. That he looked like her dad. Sounded like her dad. But that he wasn’t… right. When police arrived, they found no signs of forced entry. No crime scene. No intruder. But what they did find downstairs in the basement caused one officer to vomit on the spot. Because what this family had been living above for weeks was something that nobody saw coming.

Welcome to Killed Off, where I, Darek Weber, retell stories from our favorite horror films and tv series as if they happened in real life and present them in a true crime case file fashion. Follow along and see if you can recognize the source of the case files before I reveal it at the end.

Music in part by Soundridemusic

Host: Darek Weber

In the summer of 1959, a power outage hit a quiet suburban block in the town of Glenridge, New York. At first, it just seemed like a typical blackout. Within hours, neighbors were accusing each other of sabotage, people were chased, some were even attacked. And by the end of the night, one man was lying dead in the street. And the worst part? There was no storm. No downed power lines. No reason for the outage at all. Except for one terrifying possibility...that someone on that street wasn't who they said they were.

Welcome to Killed Off, where I, Darek Weber, retell stories from our favorite horror films and tv series as if they happened in real life and present them in a true crime case file fashion. Follow along and see if you can recognize the source of the case files before I reveal it at the end.

Music in part by Soundridemusic

Host: Darek Weber

In 1978, construction workers abandoned a luxury skyscraper project in downtown Cranston after a series of unexplained events—including a missing person, strange footprints, and a figure spotted on multiple floors that couldn’t have been human.

Tonight on Killed Off, we investigate the chilling high-rise haunting that shut down a multi-million dollar development and the group of investigators who walked into it thinking it was just another ghost story.

The twist?None of this ever really happened… at least not the way you're used to hearing it.

Each week on Killed Off, we retell your favorite horror and mystery TV episodes and films as if they were real-life true crime cases. Names and places are changed, but the events stay true. Think you can figure out what this story is based on before we reveal it at the end?

Play along. Pay attention.The truth is in there, if you can recognize it before it’s... killed off.

Music in part by Soundridemusic

Host: Darek Weber

In 1996, the quiet town of Woodsboro, California, was rocked by a string of brutal murders beginning with a teenage girl and her boyfriend, both found savagely killed outside her home after a mysterious phone call.

Over the next 48 hours, more bodies would surface.
All teenagers.
All reportedly stalked by someone wearing a white ghost mask.

But what began as a suspected serial killer case took a disturbing turn when authorities uncovered something no one saw coming: There wasn’t just one killer.
And they were hiding in plain sight.

In this episode, we break down the timeline, the clues, and the survivor accounts that make up what’s now infamously known as The Woodsboro Murders.

In 1983, a mother is reportedly found burning on the ceiling of her baby’s nursery. No cause. No suspects. No answers. Just smoke, ash, and a husband whispering that something unnatural had taken her.

Twenty-two years later, her son is dragged back into the mystery when his girlfriend dies the exact same way.

In this episode of Killed Off, we investigate the so-called Winchester Case - a disturbing series of events that span decades, involving unexplained fires, a missing father, rural disappearances, and a chilling roadside legend known only as “The Woman in White.”

Was this a family cursed by tragedy? Or were they hunting something they could never fully explain?