The Devil’s Ledger — January 12, 2026

The Dead Time of WinterWelcome back to The Devil’s Ledger — and to the cold dead heart of winter. For the next six

weeks, the world slows down, the nights stretch longer, and the quiet gets louder. Stay alert, stay

calm… and stay inside.

This week, on The Devil Within, we launch a two-part series on one of the most haunting

disappearances in American true crime: The Yuba County Five. Five young men leave a

basketball game in 1978 and take the wrong road into the mountains. Their car is found

abandoned — functional, not wrecked, and capable of sheltering them — but they left it behind

and walked uphill into the snow. No killer. No chase. Just winter, fear, and the terrible power of

confusion.

On The Ides of April, we conclude The Quiet Death of an Empire with Part Two of the

assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, and examine the enduring controversy that Anastasia may

have survived the bloodbath.

This week on Criminal Mischief, Carolyn delivers an update on the so-called Torso Killer case

from New York and New Jersey in the 1970s — including a new jailhouse confession and an

exclusive interview with Dr. Peter Vronsky, the author and expert who literally wrote the book

on the Golden Age of serial killers.

The boys from Taboo Treasures are still on winter break, but they’ll be back soon.

In This Week in Horror, we recommend We Bury the Dead — a chilling zombie film where a

military mistake sparks catastrophe… and the cover-up doesn’t go as planned.

And don’t miss our new daily show on the network: Finding Me with Josh Wolf — honest,

hilarious, and quickly becoming a must-listen.

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