Jesse James Hollywood wanted to be feared.

In the San Fernando Valley drug scene, fear came cheap — a little money, a little swagger, a few friends willing to do what they were told.

Then a debt got personal.

And fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz was pulled into a world where everyone wanted to act dangerous, but no one wanted to be responsible.

Source Material:

Los Angeles Times — “The Last Days of Nick Markowitz”⁠

Los Angeles Times — Family friend / attorney Stephen Hogg testimony⁠

Los Angeles Times — Jesse James Hollywood arrested in Brazil⁠

Santa Barbara Independent — Witness rundown in Hollywood trial⁠

Santa Barbara Independent — Prosecutor / Alpha Dog trial issue⁠

California Supreme Court — Hollywood v. Superior Court⁠

California Supreme Court — People v. Hoyt opinion PDF⁠

Noozhawk — Ryan Hoyt death penalty reprieve / life sentence update⁠

L.A. County Library — San Fernando local history⁠

L.A. Conservancy — Spotlight on the San Fernando Valley⁠

Wikipedia — Jesse James Hollywood⁠

Wikipedia — Murder of Nicholas Markowitz⁠

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3. DARK FOG

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4. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

5. DYSTOPIAN

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Portbou, Spain. 1990.

A young woman is found hanging from a pine tree above the sea.

No passport.

No money.

No name.

Just a pair of black sandals placed neatly nearby — and a death investigators were quick to call suicide.

For thirty-two years, she was known only as the girl in the tree.

Then, finally, she got her name back.

Source Material:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/15/mystery-girl-found-hanged-spanish-border-town-portbou

https://cadenaser.com/cataluna/2022/05/17/resuelto-el-misterio-de-una-chica-encontrada-colgada-de-un-pino-hace-32-anos-sercat/ 

https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-noia-de-portbou-part-1-no-name/video/6163737/ 

https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/evi-a-crims-la-resolucio-del-cas-de-la-noia-de-portbou/noticia/3170345/ 

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2022/05/risolto-il-cold-case-italiano-di-evi-reuter-la-giovane-altoatesina-scomparsa-32-anni-fa-28f8b4ba-bc67-4e8c-a3b9-9048214296a0.html 

https://cadenaser.com/cataluna/2024/12/11/comencen-els-treballs-per-recuperar-el-cadaver-de-la-noia-de-portbou-radio-girona/ 

https://cadenaser.com/cataluna/2024/12/13/sense-rastre-del-cos-de-la-noia-de-portbou-radio-girona/ 

https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/les-excavacions-per-trobar-la-noia-de-portbou-acaben-sense-exit-aqui-no-hi-es/noticia/3326727/ 

https://youtu.be/y0TV0QG-TSk?si=2eKFyX0XiOLS3Zml 

https://youtu.be/Yb60DhH7tCM?si=aQBL-JDta5clpwBV 

https://youtu.be/kSEdZ3i6Fbo?si=gdbhQMDRP9C-tlVa 

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1. CAN’T SLEEP

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2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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New Orleans, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina is moving toward the city, and two French Quarter bartenders decide to stay.

Zack Bowen and Addie Hall ride out the storm together, falling in love inside an emptied-out Quarter where the lights are off, the rules are loose, and survival starts to feel like freedom.

But when the power comes back on, reality returns. 

One year later, Zack jumps from the roof of the Omni Royal Orleans with a note sealed in plastic in his pocket.

And that note leads police back to an apartment on North Rampart Street…

where the story of the couple who stayed becomes something much darker.

Source Material:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250035226/shakethedeviloff/ 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2590814&page=1 

https://www.newsweek.com/horror-french-quarter-112039 

https://www.whereyat.com/the-tragedy-of-zach-addie 

https://www.myneworleans.com/the-french-quarters-dark-side/ 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5239571 

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/us/21suicide.html 

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122005_Katrina.pdf 

https://youtu.be/Ale1yZRyM7o?si=A6etOKNJkm7T1Olb

https://youtu.be/80KtxK3Opv8?si=CgtAohvdzj_u3iL-

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1. IMPERVIOUS

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2. CAN’T SLEEP

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3. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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4. DYSTOPIAN

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5. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

6. DARK FOG

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In March 2000, twenty-three-year-old Leah Roberts packed her white Jeep Cherokee and drove west.

No warning. No clear destination.

Nine days later, her Jeep was found wrecked in the woods near Mount Baker, Washington.

Her belongings were still inside.

Leah was gone.

And the crash scene left behind more questions than answers.

Source Material:

https://www.whatcomcounty.us/292/Missing-Leah-Roberts

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP150

https://unsolved.com/gallery/leah-roberts/

https://charleyproject.org/case/leah-toby-roberts

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/soul-searcher/umc.cmc.uftebyn0o05ihpa7npt0qcg2

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2023/09/14/leah-roberts/

https://www.trace-evidence.com/leah-roberts

https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/missing-leah-roberts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Leah_Roberts

https://youtu.be/byCI5p1vZBs?si=H9TQUFBL0umnMEXb

https://youtu.be/X8oGoa7Jt94?si=yrBjEt_PPq6WkRlH

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 2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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Virginia. 2015.

A routine morning live shot by the lake.

Reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were covering a local tourism segment when a former colleague unexpectedly stepped into frame.

And what happened next would turn an ordinary local news segment into one of the most horrifying moments ever captured on live television.

Source Material:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-notes/story?id=33336339

https://abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-shooting-suspect-vester-flanagan-leading-air-attack/story?id=33339894

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/fired-reporter-who-killed-former-coworkers-on-live-tv-admired-columbine-shooters/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chris-hurst-enters-politics-after-girlfriend-alison-parker-on-air-killing/

https://cpj.org/2015/08/two-us-journalists-killed-during-live-broadcast-in/

https://time.com/4011147/wdbj7-virginia-shooting/

https://time.com/4011534/vester-lee-flanagan-bryce-williams-shooting-suspect/

https://time.com/4012816/vester-flanagan-memos/

https://time.com/4015734/vicki-gardner-virginia-shooting-recovery/

https://time.com/4013049/wdbj-moment-of-silence-shooting/

https://www.courthousenews.com/slain-reporters-father-takes-on-facebook-over-violent-video/

https://wset.com/news/local/remembering-alison-parker-and-adam-ward-a-decade-later-their-legacy-continues-to-inspire-vicki-gardner-wdbj-smith-mountain-lake-august-2025

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1. IMPERVIOUS

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2. CAN’T SLEEP

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 3. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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4. DARK FOG

MysteriousSuspensefulMusic2018-11-03_-_Dark_Fog_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

5. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

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Baltimore. 2006.

Rey Rivera leaves home after a sudden phone call.

He never comes back.

What happened next would leave behind more questions than answers — and a case that still feels suspended between explanation and impossibility.

Source Material:

https://unsolved.com/gallery/mystery-on-the-rooftop/

https://vault.fbi.gov/rey-rivera

https://therealnews.com/his-mysterious-death-made-national-headlines-so-why-are-police-ignoring-the-case

https://therealnews.com/fowler-medical-examiner-botched-cases-that-still-haunt-us

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/netflixs-unsolved-mysteries-reboot-features-2006-death-of-rey-rivera-in-baltimore/

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/true-crime/unsolved-mysteries-porter-stansberry-rey-rivera-netflix-documentary/

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-18090

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/published/081037.p.pdf

https://prosecutorspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/fact-sheet-on-the-death-of-rey-rivera.pdf

https://mikitabrottman.com/an-unexplained-death/

Death of Rey Rivera - Wikipedia

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https://youtu.be/EnL7MHzfO_o?si=l12QO8WgsrjkVkjg

https://youtu.be/YAp9mwVbV7w?si=m1g5hhObxAbcWeYp

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1. CAN’T SLEEP

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2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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3. DARK FOG

MysteriousSuspensefulMusic2018-11-03_-_Dark_Fog_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

4. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

5. DYSTOPIAN

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6. BRAVE NEW WORLD

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He was the frontman of a band people loved.

Famous. Charismatic. Familiar.

But behind the image was something far more disturbing — a pattern of manipulation, abuse, and unchecked access that would eventually expose one of the most horrifying cases in modern music history.

This is the story of Ian Watkins.

A predator hidden in plain sight.

And the warning signs too many people failed to stop.

Source Material:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-v-watkins-and-others.pdf

https://crimeline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ianwatkins.pdf

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81ecc1ed915d74e3400cb1/November_2017_IPA_Consultation_-_Case_studies_on_the_vital_importance_of_communications_data.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/25/police-missed-chances-stop-paedophile-ian-watkins-ipcc

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/18/ipcc-police-ian-watkins-child-risk-abuse-south-yorkshire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/18/ian-watkins-ipcc-investigated-police-lostprophets

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/14/ian-watkins-ex-lover-not-guilty-child-abuse-images-joanne-mjadzelics-lostprophets

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/05/ian-watkins-lostprophets-girlfriend-child-abuse-fantasies

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/17/lawyer-ex-girlfriend-paedophile-ian-watkins-hits-out-police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25135629

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-30796813

https://www.reuters.com/world/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-killed-uk-prison-attack-media-reports-say-2025-10-11/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/06/ian-watkins-singer-jailed-for-child-sex-offences-stabbed-in-prison

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/24/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-died-from-stab-wound-to-the-neck-inquest-told

https://youtu.be/aCRO9x3rLqI?si=2GVuE7Tk-iFTOo4N

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Watkins

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1. IMPERVIOUS

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2. CAN’T SLEEP

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 3. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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4. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

5. DARK FOG

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Bergen, Norway. 1970.

The burned body of an unidentified woman is found in a remote valley known as Isdalen — “Ice Valley.”

She has no name.

No clear past.

And no shortage of questions.

Suitcases packed with wigs, coded notes, and false identities only deepen the mystery, as investigators begin to realize this was no ordinary death.

More than fifty years later, she is still known only as… the Isdal Woman.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h

http://www.bbcworldservice.com/deathinicevalley

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/death-in-ice-valley/id1357695290

https://www.thelocal.no/20170515/norway-makes-international-appeal-to-solve-46-year-old-mystery

https://www.aetv.com/articles/isdal-woman

https://youtu.be/lA-5OJ8Yj7g?si=2FIF-j13bpp_oxkR

https://youtu.be/4kkGalEdlgY?si=OTypdDbpk6CQr3Hr

https://youtu.be/H-Ar93KL2V0?si=DQnxbyWDxVcVhaEF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman

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1. DARK FOG

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2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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3. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

4. CAN’T SLEEP

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Western Massachusetts. 1994.

Twelve-year-old Becky Savarese gets away.

And in doing so, exposes a quiet predator with a kidnapping kit, a secret plan, and ties to horrors that had already begun.

Because once Lewis Lent started talking… the story only got worse.

Source Material:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-lewis-lent-timeline/ 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/becky-saverese-attempted-abduction-massachusetts-sara-anne-wood-murder-new-york-serial-killer-lewis-lent/ 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sara-anne-wood-new-york-murder-mystery-lewis-lent-serial-killer-48-hours/ 

https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/420/420mass764.html 

https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/court-of-appeals/volumes/46/46massappct705.html 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a7fhleSN2U 

https://youtu.be/57vDrLWbWjk?si=UNH87ET2EjgP2jCe 

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1. IMPERVIOUS

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2. CAN’T SLEEP

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3. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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4. DARK FOG

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5. SOLVING THE CRIME

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Auckland, New Zealand. 2006.

Seventeen-year-old Liam Ashley is placed in the back of a prison transport van for what should have been a routine ride.

He never makes it out alive.

What happened inside that moving cage would horrify a country — and expose a system that failed to protect the very person in its custody.

Source Material:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liam-revelled-in-the-pirates-life/O3CBAYLS7NKVU3KJY746LAQKFM/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/slain-teenager-needed-desperate-help/OPHT6TAHVOFDSQQZ5PW6EBWZQM/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/itranscripti-liam-ashley-court-hearing/7FBOAQO63D33UZS5EKZTAT4WHM/  

https://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0612/DIC_Ashley_Release_Copy_11_12_06.pdf 

https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/sites/default/files/2019-03/Own%20motion%20prisoner%20transport.pdf

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ideath-in-a-prison-vani-murderer-high-risk-criminal-who-could-go-off/UQTAV6SHK52H2BAJHDLG2D2AOA/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liam-ashleys-killer-gets-at-least-18-years/U6XBOE363JVEEU4L2ZLLT6QCAY/ 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ashley-killer-van-guards-ignored-me/NXHCZMBHUXIMXXSPTR3TKBLIQY/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/blunders-led-to-liams-van-death-say-officials/SFTQIE6ICIVLS3ZO5BJ265SWOE/ 

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/liam-ashleys-death-senseless-and-preventable-%E2%80%93-oconnor 

https://youtu.be/rnxgeOb5eS4?si=NHkJ_KdYj-R4jH0v

https://youtu.be/222BcWd7ZkY?si=aB5elazcKDAbwXBX

https://youtu.be/eTx2XuSo4dY?si=Ban7TSJ2ZkickZYc

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2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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3. SOLVING THE CRIME

2021-09-06_-_Solving_The_Crime_-_David_Fesliyan.mp3

4. DARK FOG

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