Morbid Tourism

In 2019, a 19 year old woman called 911 with a disturbing story - her and her 12 siblings were being confined and tortured by their own parents inside their home in Perris, California. Listen to this week's episode to learn about the Turpin Family.

In the late 70s, two men named Charles Scudder and Joseph Odem moved to the Georgia wilderness and hand-built a brick mansion that they named Corpsewood Manor. Unfortunately for the men, the name would become prophetic when they were murdered inside the home in cold blood just a few years later.

On February 28, 1993, 75 federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms closed in on Mount Carmel, the headquarters of the Branch Dividian religious group. They had an arrest warrant for the group's leader, David Koresh, on suspicions that he was housing an illegal arsenal of weapons. The next 51 days would turn into one of the most famous attacks on Americans by their own government that has ever happened.

In February of 2010, a school shooting perpetrated by a female professor rocked the campus of the University of Alabama Huntsville. This week's episode looks back at all of the warning signs and times that Dr. Amy Bishop slipped through the cracks that allowed her to ultimately carry out a deadly shooting.

In part 2 of the Powell family case, we explore what happened when Josh Powell moved himself and his two young sons away from the home where his wife went missing and back to Washington. Listen now to hear the heartbreaking conclusion.

In December 2009, married mother of two Susan Cox went missing. Her husband returned from an impromptu camping trip with their two sons later that day, but could not account for his wife's whereabouts, and his actions would only get more suspicious from there. Learn about the Powell Family Home in this week's episode.

In the middle of the night on June 19, 1982, James and Virginia Campbell were shot dead in their beds while their 2 grandsons slept on the floor in their room. The culprit wouldn't be discovered until years later when an undercover private investigator got a confession on tape.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard opened up a treatment center called Wilderness Heights in Olalla, Washington. Over the years the locals renamed the center Starvation Heights due to the emaciated people that were seen at the treatment center. Learn about Dr. Linda Hazzard and how her cure-all treatment of fasting lead to the deaths of many of her patients.

On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German disappeared after walking along the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Their bodies were found the next day near the creek bed below the bridge. Police have released audio and video taken by Libby of a man who is believed to be their killer, but the case remains open and unsolved to this day.

The Lutz family moved into the house at 112 Ocean Avenue a year after the DeFeo family murders and immediately started experiencing paranormal activity. They lasted less than 30 days in the home before fleeing in terror. Find out more about the Lutz family's experience in the home and how it was linked directly to the DeFeo family murders in today's episode.