In March of 1928, William Ward and his young wife, Catherine Ward, occupied the second floor of a Pittsburgh duplex with their two children, three-year-old Billy and eight-month-old Dorothy Mae. Once, the Wards had a been a happy family with all-American dreams of white picket fences and a garage to park their car. But everything changed one cold, dreary Thursday morning in March.

On February 14, 1928, seven-year-old Lawrence McCall went to school at the No. 5  Mine schoolhouse in Springfield Township, near the

During the early 20th century, James Black Spahr was a popular member of the Chambersburg borough council. Unlike many politicians, Spahr genuinely cared about his community and those who called it home, and his many years of public service were unblemished by scandal. A devout Christian and family man, he didn't seem to have an enemy in the world. But on December 3, 1909, the beloved public figure made a horrifying discovery... someone had stolen the remains of his infant son. Who did it and why? Therein lies the mystery.

Guest hosted by Ashley Bemis. In 1936, a perplexing triple murder occurred on South Braddock Avenue in Pittsburgh. Described as the "ideal family", five-year-old Bobby, three-year-old Janice, and their mother Eleanor were found brutally slain inside their luxurious apartment on June 18 while the husband was away from home. But who would want to slaughter Eleanor Feely and her two young children? To this day, no one is quite sure who carried out this gruesome act.

Connellsville dates back to the early 19th century, but it did not become a city until 1909, when the borough of Connellsville and its neighbor across the Youghiogeny River, the borough of New Haven, were joined together. While Connellsville is famous for being the center of the coke industry in western Pennsylvania during the late 1800s, New Haven was at the center of a spectacular quadruple murder in 1893.

Near Falls Creek in Jefferson County is a region known as Beechwoods, a locality which includes some of the finest farmland in Washington  Township. The area was settled in 1824 by Henry Keys, Alexander Osborn,  John McIntosh, John McGhee and Thomas Moore. These early settlers,  mostly of Scotch and Irish origin, named the community after the large  number of beech trees they found there. It is one of these founders, Thomas Moore, who played a role in one of  the most colorful chapters in the history of Jefferson County. It is a story that seems ripped right out of the pages of a novel, and features murder, suicide, a haunted farm and a buried treasure of silver and  gold.

The mysterious 1914 kidnapping of seven-year-old Warren McCarrick created a media sensation and culminated in the finding of a boy's body in the Delaware River. While the boy's abductor has never been caught, it's possible that Warren might have been one of numerous child victims tortured and killed by a monstrous degenerate.

A baseball executive, a sex-crazed playboy, and a wealthy doctor all suffer strange fates courtesy of the "evil eye".

Ask any resident of Exeter Township, and they'll tell you the most famous haunted house in the area is the Lizzie Lincoln house-- an abandoned 19th century structure that beckons spook-seekers from behind a rusting fence festooned with "No Trespassing" signs. The legend of Lizzie Lincoln is so famous around Berks County that it has found a home in numerous books about Pennsylvania ghost stories. However, it turns out that the entire legend may be nothing more than a hoax perpetrated by a lawless landfill owner... with a penchant for toxic waste.

When a small child was found hungry and crying inside an abandoned automobile parked along a rural stretch of Lycoming County in the summer of 1922, the first chapter of a perplexing mystery was written. When the bodies of a man and woman, their throats slashed as if by a razor, were found a few feet away in the waters of Lycoming Creek, the mystery deepened, and to this day no one knows if Henry Shearer and his wife were victims of a double murder or a murder suicide.