Sword and Scale Nightmares

Sword and Scale Nightmares episodes:

• 12.07.2023

  What a Boar

  In 2016, a notorious Polish librarian took flight to the island of Malta after brutally mutilating a beautiful language teacher named Katarzyna Jaroszyńska. Police were thrust onto a dark journey into the twisted mind of a brilliant and sadistic murderer....

  
• 11.23.2023

  Such Drama

  When a promising young actress is raped and murdered in her childhood bedroom, her family and the police department are stunned as to who could have done this. Two linking crimes eventually lead to the same unassuming suspect.

  
• 11.09.2023

  Sucker

  During some of Romania’s toughest times under Communist control, a vampire stalked the streets after midnight seeking out prey to satisfy his urges for blood and death. While the crimes were initially ignored to spare the country’s reputation, Ion Rimaru...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Sugar

  18-year-old Aprina Paul was a nursing student following her dreams when she mysteriously went missing. Her mother Alice Larrue never gave up hope, even when Aprina’s killer continued to harass her.

  
• 10.12.2023

  No Good Deed

  Mormons and entrepreneurs Tony and Katherine Butterfield were the kind of people who gave a leg up to anyone who needed it. They invited jobless citizens to work for their landscaping company and homeless ones into their home. So on...

  
• 09.28.2023

  Nice Shot

  In Tennessee in 2005 a jury was faced with a difficult question. What would you do if you were in Kim Cunningham’s place? It was a difficult question to answer. After the law failed her once Kim gunned down a...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Porcelain

  In the spring of 2006, a bubbly young woman with close ties to friends and family suddenly goes missing, leaving behind all of her personal belongings and a ransacked apartment. When Christina Eubanks turns up dead, everyone wants the truth....

  
• 08.31.2023

  Paper Thin

  Neighbors in a Santa Cruz beachside bungalow are alarmed when a strange smell starts emitting from one apartment building. No one could have imagined what happened inside.

  
• 08.17.2023

  Doctor Death

  In 2008, something strange started happening in Omaha, Nebraska. Multiple members of Creighton University Medical Center’s pathology department were targeted in violent crimes. Five years later, it happened again. Police and people in the community were scratching their heads. How...

  
• 08.03.2023

  Spoiled

  Not hearing from her sister in a while Pamela Powel called the police. Upon a welfare check the police would discover her home was empty. It wasn’t just Alison Sapikowski that was missing, it was her husband James, and her...

  
• 07.20.2023

  Going for a Spin

  In June of 1977, Yale students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman are on a cross-country biking trip when a terrifying attack changes their lives forever.

  
• 07.06.2023

  Peeping David

  When Kent law enforcement arrived at 67-year-old David Fuller’s home on December 3rd, 2020, they expected to put an end to a 33-year-old murder investigation. They never expected that closing this case would shatter the lives of over 100 additional...

  
• 06.22.2023

  Exorcism

  While police search a small Pentecostal church for kidnapped Baby Brandon, another disturbing case emerges… one involving the horrifying exorcism of Arely Proctor.

  
• 06.08.2023

  Protective Services

  It was May of 1998 in the small town of Romeo, Michigan and a crew of detectives found themselves knee-deep in a hoarder’s nest. The once quaint home of the Verellen Sisters now resembled the inside of a dumpster. The...

  
• 06.01.2023

  Kid Van

  After a little boy’s body is found floating off the Oregon coastline in December of 2001, detectives are alarmed that no one in the area reports a missing child. Soon, more bodies are pulled from the water, and a narcissistic...

  
• 05.24.2023

  Immaculate

  Happily married Joseph Parker and his wife fell on hard times after he lost his job. Their beautiful home in Tennessee was foreclosing soon, and they were equally distressed. The pressure was mounting, and they couldn’t imagine things getting any...

  
• 05.16.2023

  Culture War

  Amarillo, Texas is known to many as “Bomb City” because it’s home to the Pantex nuclear weapons facility. In the 90’s, Amarillo was filled with lots of country-folk and bible-belt families, but there also existed a subculture that the town...

  
• 05.04.2023

  Check Out

  In 1997, Ricki Ellsworth, a wife, mom and daughter went missing from her night job at a Memphis hotel. Her only remains were the red stains left behind on the walls and floor where she worked. While her murder would...

  
• 04.27.2023

  Three Strikes

  A shocking news headline sends minor league baseball player Blake Bivens home in a hurry. Something was happening in his hometown in Virginia and he feared the worst. A tragedy struck that affected the whole community and would change his...

  
• 04.20.2023

  The Final House

  In fall of 1974, a father and son bond over multiple armed robberies, sexual assaults, and brutal murders.

  
• 04.13.2023

  Not Recovering

  Amityville, New York was the scene for a 70’s movie called Amityville Horror, but 2020 reminded residents that horror can strike at any time. Vietnam vet Dwight Powers would be the focus of this true story, and he wouldn’t...

  
• 04.06.2023

  The Hole

  A brilliant psychopath traps multiple women in his secret basement and begins plans to create the perfect family.

  
• 03.30.2023

  Women's Rights

  “Artist, women’s rights activist, Japanese immigrant, renowned arts professor”. These are the words that describe Rie Hachiyanagi, a paper artist living and working in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. When she discovered her friend in serious danger one night in...

  
• 03.23.2023

  Graphic Novel

  “If you were gorgeous and running out of money, what would you do? If you loved hurting things, what would you do?” 30-year-old Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian woman who was about to marry into a very wealthy Canadian family....

  
• 03.16.2023

  Dorm Life

  The entire second floor of the Graham-Greenlee dormitory on the University of Arizona’s campus was suddenly awoken in the early morning hours of September 5th, 2007. It sounded like someone was moving furniture until they heard screams. A fight had...

  
• 03.09.2023

  Second Grave

  Detectives fear the worst after a 9-year-old girl goes missing, and an empty grave is discovered in the nearby woods.

  
• 03.06.2023

  All in the Family

  From the moment Katie Fusco learned that she was an adopted child, she longed to understand where she came from and why she was put up for adoption in the first place. At age 18, just as she was about...

  
• 03.02.2023

  All Aboard

  In 1986, a young Navy Seaman went missing from Gibraltar, a British naval base, after the ship The Illustrious docked for a few days. Simon Parkes’s grief-stricken parents would search for him for more than fifteen years, until 2001...

  
• 03.02.2023

  Roadkill

  Two men on vacation in Florida happen upon a battered and desperate woman who stumbled out of the brush on the side of a remote highway in South Florida. As the men try to help Shandelle Maycock they realize her...

  
• 03.02.2023

  One Thousand

  The report of what appeared to be a body on the front porch of a home in small-town St. Johns, Arizona triggered an investigation that would be quick, but not without a myriad of twists and turns.In this gripping episode...

  
• 02.23.2023

  Trailer

  Welcome to Sword and Scale Nightmares! True Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now...The first three episodes will drop on 3.2.23 at 3:23pm EDT. In the meantime, please take a moment to subscribe on your preferred podcast listening platform...SUBSCRIBE NOW:...