On November 28th 1981 Natalie Wood, her husband Robert Wagner, Friend Christopher Walkin, and yacht captain Dennis Davern would head out to dinner on the island of Catalina off the coast of California. After the dinner they would return to their yacht and only a short period later Natalie Wood would go missing. She would later be found dead the next morning. Join us this week to listen to our theories and the facts on what happend to Natalie Wood.

Sources:

Times Staff, “ 40 years later, the mystery over Natalie Wood’s death endures”, Los Angeles Times, Published November 30th 2021, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-30/40-years-later-the-mystery-over-natalie-woods-death-endures, Accessed 11-12-24 

Crimesider staff/ CBC News, “Natalie Wood Death Investigation: Sheriff’s Officials Discuss New Details, ET, Published February 5th 2018, https://www.etonline.com/natalie-wood-death-investigation-sheriffs-officials-discuss-new-details-95813, Accessed 11-12-24 

Kayleigh Roberts, “ A Complete Timeline of Natalie Wood’s Mysterious Death”, BAZAR, Published May 9th 2020, https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a32420871/natalie-wood-death-true-story-timeline/, Accessed 11-12-24  

Biography, “Natalie Wood” Biography, Updated March 29th 2021, https://www.biography.com/actors/natalie-wood, Accessed 11-12-24  

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Terry Spencer, “Killer Clown Released from Prison After Murder of her Husband’s ex-wife", The Independent, Nov 4, 2024, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/killer-clown-dheila-keen-warren-florida-b2640869.html,  accessed Nov 4, 2024. 

Taigi Smith, Jonathan Balthaser, Kristin Pisarcik, Oriana Bravo, and Ivan Pereira, “'Killer clown' victim's son reflects on 33-year fight for justice”, ABC News, May 24, 2024, https://abcnews.go.com/US/killer-clown-victims-son-reflects-33-year-fight/story?id=98941520#:~:text=For%20over%2030%20years%2C%20the%20%22killer%20clown%22%20has,her%20door%20and%20gave%20her%20balloons%20and%20flowers., accessed Nov 4, 2024. 

Peter Van Sant, “After three decades, Florida "killer clown" case ends with unexpected twist”, CBC News, Nov 4, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-killer-clown-case-sheila-keen-warren-marlene-warren-murder-48-hours/, accessed Nov 4, 2024. 

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“Body in the Basement”, Unsolved Mysteries, Gabe Torres, Season 4, Episode 2, Netflix, 2024. 

“Castleridge, Calgary, AB Crime Rates”, AreaVibes.com, https://www.areavibes.com/calgary-ab/castleridge/crime/, accessed Oct 28, 2025. 

Aayush Sharma, “Unsolved Mysteries: Who Is Amanda Antoni’s Husband Lee Antoni & Where Is He Now?”, ComingSoon.net, Aug 5, 2024, https://www.comingsoon.net/true-crime/news/1822849-unsolved-mysteries-who-is-amanda-antoni-husband-lee-antoni-where-is-he-now, accessed Oct 29, 2024. 

Melissa Gilligan, “New 'Unsolved Mysteries' episode examines death of Calgary woman”, CTV News, July 31, 2024, https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/new-unsolved-mysteries-episode-examines-death-of-calgary-woman-1.6984557, accessed Nov 4, 2024. 

“Suspicious death of Calgary woman, 31, now deemed an accident”, CBC News, Dec 13, 2016, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-amanda-antoni-death-ruled-accidental-1.3895003, accessed Nov 4, 2024. 

On the evening of February 9th 2004 21 year old college student Maura Murray would be involved in a car accident when her car came off the road and crashed into a tree in Haverhill New Hampshire. Police were called and arrived within 10 minutes but Maura was no where to be found. Tune in this week to learn more about what may have happened to Maura Murray.

Sources  

The Charlie Project, “Maura Murray”, The Charlie Project, Published October 12 2004, https://charleyproject.org/case/maura-murray, Accessed  11-02-2024 

Jessica Trufant, “What happened to Maura Murray? Family still seeks answers 20 years after her disappearance”, Patriot Ledger, Published February 3 2024, https://www.yahoo.com/news/happened-maura-murray-family-still-094608529.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC4o0p5JlsTjBF65uhnakfi-0tD_Yu90fsPWkeiKWF6xxP-sNQpJJbsTgW3QHe2UjasgqNd9SvMmgRjhYyEk_kl8Vp5wJkm4bQvPDa8me7JEAVZ2FSVx7JJda2qmkQE0zS06IXKeYfixWUyiLfdAIXOViSfa3mU1aNmcbQ6oiq7Z, Accessed 11-02-2024 

Katie Serena, “The Mysterious Disappearance Of Maura Murray, The Nursing Student Who Vanished Without A Trace”, All things interesting, Published November 24th 2021, https://allthatsinteresting.com/maura-murray, Accessed 11-02-2024 

Corin Cesaric, “It’s Been 20 Years Since Maura Murray Vanished. Will Her Sister's New Podcast Help Find Her?” People.com, Published February 9th 2024, https://people.com/maura-murray-vanished-twenty-years-ago-sister-podcast-media-pressure-8567768, Accessed 11-02-2024  

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Elizabeth Yuko, “Why Black Cats Are Associated With Halloween and Bad Luck” History.com, Published October 13th 2021, https://www.history.com/news/black-cats-superstitions , Accessed 10-26-2024 

Christopher Cann, “Are the Menendez brothers getting released? What to know about the resentencing decision” USA Today, Published October 25th 2024, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/25/menendez-brothers-resentencing-release-details/75836700007/ , Accessed 10-26-2024  

Tim Stelloh, “Delphi murders trial: What we know about Richard Allen and the teens he's accused of killing”, NBC News, Oct 18, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delphi-murders-trial-richard-allen-what-know-rcna175789, accessed Oct 27, 2024. 

On Friday, September 22, 2006, 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart was housesitting for her aunt and uncle when she was brutally attacked and murdered in the home. Police quickly narrowed in on 2 of Cassie’s classmates, Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, as the prime suspects in the crime. It was later discovered that Brian and Torey had extensively planned Cassie’s murder and the two were planning on continuing their killing spree if they had not been caught. The crime was reportedly inspired in part by the slasher film, Scream and therefore became known as “The Scream Murder”. 

Sources: 

“Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik: The Complete Tape [2006]”, YouTube, Feb 16, 2023 https://youtu.be/yOWWQ1NzyKk, accessed Oct 17, 2024 

Joshua Rofe, “Lost for Life”, 2014. 

“Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Cassie_Jo_Stoddart, accessed Oct 17, 2024. 

Danielle Tinning, “Inside The Grisly Case Of Cassie Jo Stoddart, The Teenage Girl Killed By Her Classmates — For Fun”, All That’s Interesting, Feb 11, 2023, https://allthatsinteresting.com/cassie-jo-stoddart, accessed Oct 17, 2024. 

Samadrita Roy, “Dateline NBC: Who was Cassie Jo Stoddart?”, Sportskeeda, Feb 19, 2024, https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/dateline-nbc-who-cassie-jo-stoddart, accessed Oct 10, 2024. 

Viswa Vanapalli, “Cassie Stoddart Murder: Where Are Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik Now?”, The Cinemaholic, June 10, 2022, https://thecinemaholic.com/cassie-jo-stoddart-murder-where-are-brian-draper-and-torey-adamcik-now/, accessed Oct 17, 2024. 

Shelbie Harris, “Remembering Cassie Jo — Brother opens up as 10th anniversary of grisly murder nears”, AP News, Sept 24, 2016, https://apnews.com/article/5941d6d84531438e8825976560d6c276, accessed Oct 18, 2024. 

Sources: 

William DeLong, “The True Story Of Danny Rolling, The Gainesville Ripper Who Inspired ‘Scream’”, All That’s Interesting, Jan 16, 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/danny-rolling-gainesville-ripper, accessed Oct 10, 2024. 

Glenn Ruppel, Sean Dooley, and Anthony Rivas, “How a woman in Louisiana helped break the case of 5 student murders in Florida”, ABC News, April 8, 2021, https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-louisiana-helped-break-case-student-murders-florida/story?id=76900692#:~:text=Eighteen-year-old%20Sonja%20Larson%20was%20among%20the%20victims%20of%20the%20so-called#:~:text=Eighteen-year-old%20Sonja%20Larson%20was%20among%20the%20victims%20of%20the%20so-called, accessed Oct 8, 2024. 

Tim Ott, “Danny Rolling: The True Story Behind the Killer Who Inspired 'Scream'”, Biography, Oct 14, 2020, https://www.biography.com/crime/danny-rolling-scream-killer-gainesville, accessed Oct 8, 2024.  

Michelle Dean, “The True Story Behind the Horrific Murder Spree That Inspired 'Scream'”, Complex, Dec 20, 2016, https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/michelle-dean/scream-20th-anniversary-true-story-serial-killer, accessed Oct 8, 2024. 

Staff Writer, “Former suspect in Gainsville killings graduates from UCF” The Ledger, June 5, 2009, https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2000/08/07/former-suspect-in-gainsville-killings/8026682007/, accessed Oct 8, 2024. 

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Join us for episode 31 where we head back to the 1970s to the Defoe family murders that happened in Amityville Long Island in New York. These murders are what sparked the famous Amityville horror hauntings. We go through the events that happened on November 13th 1974 where Ronald Defeo jr would go on to murder his parents and 4 siblings.

Sources:

History.com Editors, “The Amityville murders”, A&E Television Networks, Published February 19th 2024, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/amityville-horror-true-story-defeo-family-murders, Accessed 10-11-2024  

MD Bastek, “The DeFeo Murders: The Story Behind The Amityville Horror” , Horror Obsessive, Published July 28 2021, https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/04/02/the-defeo-murders-the-story-behind-the-amityville-horror/, Accessed 10-11-2024 

Biography. Com Editors, “The Real 'Amityville Horror': Chilling Facts About the Crime and Haunted House”, Biography, Updated October 14th 2020, https://www.biography.com/crime/the-real-amityville-horror-facts, Accessed 10-11-2024 

Erin Kelly. “The Horrific True Story Of Ronald DeFeo Jr. And The Amityville Murders”, All thats interesting, Published August 7th 2022,  https://allthatsinteresting.com/amityville-murders, Accessed 10-11-2024, 

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This week, in honor of the Candian Thanksgiving holiday, we are covering a series of Thanksgiving related cases. We start by discussing the murder of Brioni Rutland, who was killed by Jeremy Williams over an apparent gambling bet. Then we discuss the murder of Janet Yearly, which went unsolved for 17 years, until 2022. Then we discuss 2 family murders that took place during the Thanksgiving holiday, the Privacky family murders and the Merhige family murders. 

Sources: 

Catherine Boeckmann,  “4 Ways Canadian Thanksgiving Differs From U.S.A.'s Thanksgiving”, Almanac.com, Sept 23, 2024, https://www.almanac.com/content/ways-canadian-thanksgiving-differs-american-thanksgiving, accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

Jeff Somers, “THE MOST FRIGHTENING CRIMES THAT HAPPENED ON THANKSGIVING”, Grunge.com, Feb 7, 2022, https://www.grunge.com/261400/the-most-frightening-crimes-that-happened-on-thanksgiving/, accessed Aug 30, 2024.   

Crystal Bonvillian, Convicted killer of Deshler High coach gets life in prison, AL.com, Jan 28 2016, https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2016/01/convicted_killer_of_deshler_hi.html#:~:text=Jeremy%20Lashun%20Williams,%2031,%20of%20Florence%20was%20convicted%20in%20November, accessed Sept 30, 2024 

Shraman Mitra, “Bree Rutland Murder: Where Is Jeremy Williams Now?”, TheCinemaholic, Jan 4, 2023, https://thecinemaholic.com/bree-rutland-murder-where-is-jeremy-williams-now/, accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

Matt Christy, “The murder of Janet Yeary: Kokomo cold case closed after 17 years”, Fox59, Jan 14, 2022, https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/kokomo-thanksgiving-murder-cold-case-of-janet-yeary-officially-closed/#:~:text=For%2017%20years%20the%20death%20of%20Janet%20Yeary%20has%20been, accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

“Seth Privacky”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Privacky#:~:text=Seth%20Stephen%20Privacky%20(June%202,%201980%20%E2%80%93%20July%2015,%202010), accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

“Paul Michael Merhige”, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/merhige-paul.htm#:~:text=WEST%20PALM%20BEACH--%20Prosecutors%20have%20decided%20to%20seek%20the%20death, accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

CNN Wire Staff, “Man admits murdering 4 relatives on Thanksgiving, gets life in prison”, CNN, Oct 28, 2011, https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/justice/florida-thanksgiving-killings/index.html#:~:text=After%20hearing%20from%20relatives%20of%20the%20victims,%20Palm%20Beach%20County, accessed Sept 30, 2024. 

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Steve Hodel, “LA and Chicago Autopsy Reports Confirm a Skilled Surgeon Performed “Hemicorpectomy” on Both LA Victim Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short and Chicago “Lipstick Murder” Victim Six-Year-Old, Suzanne Degnan”, SteveHodel.com, Feb 27, 2019, https://stevehodel.com/2019/02/27/la-and-chicago-autopsy-reports-confirm-a-skilled-surgeon-performed-hemicorpectomy-on-both-la-victim-elizabeth-black-dahlia-short-and-chicago-lipstick-murder-victim-six-year-old-suzanne-de/, accessed Sept 15, 2024. 

Richard Milner, “THE TRULY HORRIFIC CRIME SCENE OF THE BLACK DAHLIA”, Grunge, April 9, 2021, https://www.grunge.com/378684/the-truly-horrific-crime-scene-of-the-black-dahlia/, accessed Sept 15, 2024. 

Katie Serena, “The Gruesome Story Of The Black Dahlia Murder — And Why The Case Remains Unsolved To This Day”, All That’s Interesting, April 3, 2024, https://allthatsinteresting.com/black-dahlia-elizabeth-short, accessed Sept 15, 2024.  

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