Killer Babes

The Seaside Sanatorium was originally built as America’s first medical facility designed to offer treatment for children who suffered from TB. Unfortunately, it closed down and the building was repurposed numerous times with paranormal reports...

This week we cover The Bear Brook Murders. Back in 1985, a hunter found a barrel in the woods of the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Inside were the bodies of 2 women -1 adult and 1 young girl, wrapped in plastic. 15 years later in 2000, a second barrel was found near the first discovery site, this one with 2 young girls inside. The discovery of the barrels led to a decades-long search for not only the killer of the women, but for their identities.

John Joubert, born John Joseph Joubert IV, is an American serial killer known as “The Nebraska Boy Snatcher” and “The Woodford Slasher.” Joubert was convicted of the murders of three boys in Maine and Nebraska.

You've all seen the movie - but what is actually true, and what’s just Hollywood? This week we talk the 2009 horror film The Haunting in Connecticut. We bring you inside interviews from the real Snedecker family and more!  You decide...

Karina Holmer was a 19-20 year old au pair from Sweden who disappeared from Boston in 1996. Only the upper half of her body was found in a dumpster outside Fenway park. This case remains one of 1,000 unsolved cold cases in Boston to this day.

This week we have an interesting episode about some good ole fashioned New England folklore. This is the story about a cursed town in the 1700’s that has all but disappeared. Was it a ghostly experience of death and destruction, or just another misunderstood instance of famine and disease? This is the story of Dudleytown, Connecticut.

Sheila LaBarre, a convicted murderer, aka “Sheila the Skin Peeler” or “Firecracker,” was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences with no prospect of parole after being convicted of killing, Kenneth Countie and Michael DeLoge, in Epping, New Hampshire. She enticed younger men to her farm in Rockingham County where she would then torture them. At her trial, she claimed she was an angel sent by God to punish pedophiles.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Coincidentally, Katie has the same birthday! So in the spirit of the man, the myth, and the legend... we bring you the life (and tea) of Edgar Allan Poe.

To this day, this 19th century story is part truth and part legend, contributing to New England’s dark past. Henry Maine, also known as Harry, was a successful fisherman who came to the Massachusetts seaport town of Ipswich in 1671 with another man named Andrew Diamond. Diamond prospered in New England’s trade with Great Britain and became quite wealthy. On the opposite end, Maine wasn’t doing too well and soon turned to a life of crime...

This week we’re talking about the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington. Christa was found in her home stabbed to death, with her two and a half year old daughter, Ava, unharmed by her side. This case rocked the small, seaside town of Truro located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The case also received national attention, becoming the subject of a “20/20” investigative series and it's a six part podcast called "A Killing on the Cape," also available on all major podcast players.