Saints & Sinners: True Crime and the History of the West

Early in the morning on Sunday November 13, 2022, four college students were murdered in their beds at the University of Idaho.  In this episode, the case is examined, as well as my travels to that college town and to the house where it all happened.

On the morning of Thursday August 3, 1978, the Immanuel and Rachel David family was changed forever at the International Dunes Hotel in Salt Lake City.  The story leading up to the murder-suicide that happened that day is just as tragic as the event itself. 

Charles Bruce Longo's conversion and baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is discussed, as well as his courtship of Margit Brigitta Ericsson, and the events leading up to the 1970s, and the 1978 tragedy known round the world. 

Joseph's Smith's gathering at the Mansion House in Nauvoo, Illinois on the last Christmas of his life is discussed.  I discuss my travels to that place, as well as to the jail at Carthage where Joseph, and his brother Hyrum were killed. Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell and their final resting places are talked about in this special Christmas episode as well.

Charles Manson's last days of freedom following the murders of Helter Skelter are examined.  I visited the Barker Ranch in Death Valley, the place he was captured in October of 1969.  I also paid a visit to Zac Bagan's The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, seeing some of the key relics of the Manson Murders first hand. 

The conclusion in a two part series on the disappearance of two teens in the Tintic Mining District near Eureka, Utah in late 2017.

Utah's Tintic Mining District is Explored and the Disappearance of Two Teens in late 2017 is Discussed. 

The life of Jacob E. Moritz, as well as his final resting place in the Salt Lake City Cemetery are discussed. 

One of the worst train crossing accidents in US history occurred on December 1, 1938 in South Jordan, UT.  We examine it in this episode.