Let’s Talk About The Facts

In 1996, Kristin Smart was a 19-year-old Stockton, CA native and freshman at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She would last be seen walking home from a party then vanish entire. The decades-long case captivated the nation, and has received renewed interest with the 2021 arrest of a suspect, Paul Flores and his father, Ruben. Paul Flores was a person of interest from practically day one, but perhaps worst of all - the campus police did not believe the reports of Kristin missing for so long, valuable evidence was not only lost, but essentially scrubbed away.

On one edge of Madison Square in Savannah, GA sits one of its finest – and most infamous – Southern architectural achievements – The Sorrel Weed House. The amber-colored home is shaped in a Greek revival aesthetic has evoked strong feelings in locals and tourists alike for decades in Savannah’s Historic District. Those emotions are largely rooted in the rumored supernatural events, and confirmed historical ones, that have given Sorrel-Weed House it’s air of mystery.

It may seem like a dated cliché now, but the idea behind putting missing children on milk cartons was a huge advancement in how the United States finds missing and exploited children. This tactic was a stepping stone to laws like Amber Alerts and photos in newspaper ads. Etan Patz’s disappearance was ultimately solved, but still left many questions around the guilt of his convicted killer. Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store and later found murdered, but there are still questions around whether or not the killer has been caught.

What are do you think?

An Australian family of five mysteriously disappeared during a tech-free road-trip in the Australian outback in 2016. Even stranger is that the family members turned up one-by-one after a week-long journey of more than 1,600km (995 miles). The spellbinding mystery that captivated Australia culminated with a police investigation and two of them placed in psychiatric care.

Join Tilly & Susan Bridges as they journey with me into the world of the 1970s & 80s in Dallas, Texas... where a cult formed by a woman best known as Terri Hoffman would have unbelievable deaths circulating around around her before long.

Conscious Development of Body, Mind, and Soul was Terri's brain child, but when members were either too close or ready to leave... you'd better tune in to hear what happens.

In 1976, skeletal remains are found inside of a canoe of a photographer who resided in the Grand Canyon for over 50 years. The question is, did these remains have anything to do with the disappearance of a couple that stopped by the photographer's studio during their honeymoon in the late 1920s? Join us for a unique story-ception, a story within a story, as recommended by one of our faithful listeners!

Skylar Presents: An (alleged) Alien Abduction from 1961 to an unaware Elizabeth. What the collective conscious knows to be the shape and form of an "extraterrestrial" comes from the account of Barney and Betty Hill.

Take a listen, and let us know what you think! Skylar presents a great theory, but Elizabeth isn't willing to buy it. Where do you sit?

And next week, we'll find out if our resident alien expert/avoidant Von weighs in on this "butter crisis" Skylar mentions at the top of the episode.

This week, take a look at the 1867 story of the Mary Celeste and what happened to her missing crew. I can tell you where the Mary Celeste came from, how she came to be in the middle of the Atlantic, and who hauled her into shore once found abandoned... but only you can decide for yourself which of these many theories could be the most plausible, or if there is something else that could explain this over 150 year old mystery.

[NOTE: This is Part Two to The Robin Hood Hills Murders (Part One) Episode. For a complete story, make sure to listen to it first before this.]

Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelly are behind bars for a crime that has no physical evidence tying them to it. Rachael Hip-Flores joins me as we go through 1999-2011, then the case as it stands today.

Justice one day will be served.

A sample of what the Patreon will be offering, I interview Rachael Hip-Flores before we record Part Two of our two-part series on the West Memphis three. As Rachael had no knowledge of the case, we discussed her thoughts and feelings after having taken some time to digest her initial feelings, and how she feels about the upcoming information she'd soon learn.

Episodes like this and more will become available on the Patreon! Smaller cases, oddities, and interesting but short stories will be posted, but also interviews with our guests about how they feel after learning about stories they hadn't heard of.

Find us at http://patreon.com/talkabtfacts