Episode 11: 2219 Seyburn Street
Detroit, Michigan.
A neighborhood once full of promise, now scarred by a single night of unimaginable horror. On an April evening in 2006, five teenagers gathered for a sleepover at a modest home in the Jefferson Chalmers district. By morning, four of them were dead — executed one by one. Only one girl survived, pretending to be lifeless beneath the body of her cousin.

The murders were not random. They were cold, calculated, and cruel.

This episode traces the lives of the boys who were killed — their dreams, their families, the laughter that filled the house before it was silenced. We follow the police investigation, the trail of evidence that led to the arrest of three young men, and the gripping courtroom testimony that revealed what really happened inside the home. We also examine the trauma carried by the survivor, the psychological profile of the attackers, and how a robbery turned massacre left a neighborhood shaken and a house forever changed.

The killers never took anything from the home — no money, no valuables, just lives.
And still, years later, the house stands.

A reminder.
A monument.
A place that remembers.

📍 Featured Address: 2219 Seyburn Street, Detroit, MI
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of home invasion, execution-style murder, the death of minors, and survivor trauma. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Episode 10: 7257 East South B Street

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
A desert town with a strange name and, for years, a secret buried behind the rusted walls of a trailer on East South B Street.
In the late 1990s, that trailer became known as the “Toy Box” — a fully equipped torture chamber designed by David Parker Ray, a self-styled sadist who abducted, drugged, and tortured dozens of women over the course of nearly two decades.

Ray didn’t just commit violence. He built a system around it. He created an audio tape — 45 minutes of calm, instructive commands — that he played for victims as they woke up in restraints, beneath a mirror, with no idea where they were or how they got there. His crimes were carried out with mechanical precision, psychological control, and the chilling participation of his girlfriend, Cindy Hendy.

This episode traces Ray’s early life and fantasies, the layout of the infamous trailer, the survival and daring escape of Cynthia Vigil, and the disturbing catalog of evidence that was uncovered when police raided the home. We also explore the psychological profile of Ray, the trauma of his victims, the unanswered questions about how many women may have died — and why none of their bodies were ever found.

No one knows exactly how many lives were destroyed inside the walls of that trailer.
Ray was sentenced to 224 years, but died just three years into his prison term.
He never confessed.
He never revealed where the bodies were.
And that leaves the question haunting the desert still:

Was the Toy Box ever truly closed?

📍 Featured Address: 7257 East South B Street, Truth or Consequences, NM
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of sexual violence, captivity, psychological abuse, and torture. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 9: 2314 North 10th Street

Philadelphia, 1986.
A small, worn rowhouse in the city’s north end became a personal hell for six women.
They were lured in with promises of warmth, safety, and food.
Instead, they were chained to pipes, held in a pit dug into the basement floor, and subjected to systematic starvation, torture, and dehumanization by a man who believed he was building a family.

His name was Gary Heidnik — a self-proclaimed pastor, stock market millionaire, and deeply disturbed manipulator who used religion and control as tools of domination. He didn’t act impulsively. He built a system. He tracked meals, punishments, compliance. And in his mind, it all served a higher purpose.

This episode follows the full arc of the case: from Heidnik’s troubled childhood and early military discharge, through his calculated abductions, the chilling design of the basement prison, and the psychological techniques he used to turn suffering into order. We also trace the role of survivor Josefina Rivera, whose long con from inside the basement became the key to exposing Heidnik’s crimes and rescuing the other women. Her voice didn’t just survive — it shattered the silence.

The house still stands. The basement has been sealed.
But the echoes remain.

📍 Featured Address: 2314 North 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of captivity, torture, sexual assault, and psychological abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 8: 924 North 25th Street

Indianapolis, 1965.
Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens was left in the care of a woman her parents barely knew. Over the next three months, she was isolated, beaten, burned, starved, humiliated, and ultimately killed inside a crumbling two-story house on North 25th Street. The perpetrators weren’t strangers or masked intruders. They were a mother, her children, and a group of neighborhood kids. And no one stopped it.

This episode explores not only the events that led to Sylvia’s death, but the psychology of group cruelty, moral collapse, and how fear, neglect, and silence turned ordinary people into willing participants. We examine the backgrounds of both Sylvia and Gertrude Baniszewski, the warped family dynamics at play, and the systemic failures that let the abuse continue unchecked. From the first red flags to the staged confession letter… to the moment Sylvia dragged herself to the front door in a last, failed attempt to escape — this is a story of every warning unheeded.

Even after arrests were made, and the trials began, the justice that followed never felt complete. Many of those involved were released. Some changed their names and tried to disappear. And yet the house, the story, and the failure echo far beyond that final basement night.

Sylvia Likens never left that house alive. But she should have. And remembering that truth may be the only justice we have left.

📍 Featured Address: 924 North 25th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
⚠️ Content Warning: Descriptions of prolonged child abuse, psychological trauma, and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 7: 3263 Kamisoshigaya

Setagaya, Tokyo — December 30, 2000.
In one of Japan’s quietest suburban neighborhoods, a family of four was brutally murdered inside their home.
But what truly haunts this case isn't just the violence—it’s what happened afterward.

The killer didn’t flee.
He stayed.

He ate their food.
Used their bathroom.
Bandaged his wounds.
And logged onto their computer.
All while their bodies remained in the rooms around him.

To this day, the murders of Mikio, Yasuko, Niina, and Rei Miyazawa remain unsolved. The home—located at 3263 Kamisoshigaya—still stands, untouched and uninhabited. Preserved not as a memorial, but as a mystery. A scar in the middle of a city that would rather forget.

We examine not just what happened, but what remains—inside the house, inside the community, and inside the unanswered questions.

📍 Address Featured: 3263 Kamisoshigaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of murder and trauma involving children. Listener discretion is advised.

Special Episode: The Silence Between the Trees

Lake Bodom, Finland — June 5th, 1960.
Four teenagers went camping beside a tranquil lake just outside Helsinki. By morning, three were dead. The fourth, badly wounded, would become the only witness — and eventually, decades later, a suspect.

This is the story of the Lake Bodom murders: one of Finland’s most infamous unsolved crimes. But unlike every other story told in These Walls Remember, this one takes place in the open. There’s no house. No door. No walls to hold the memory. Only a tent, torn open in the dark. Only forest. Water. And silence.

This special episode steps outside our usual format — because some places don’t need walls to remember. Some hold their stories in the shape of the ground, in the angle of the trees, and in the way the light changes near midnight.

Because what happened here… never truly left.

📍 Location Featured: Lake Bodom, Espoo, Finland
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of violence and murder involving minors. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 5: 2136 North Summit Street

Easter Sunday, 1993. Inside a modest home in Sylvania Township, four members of the Duvall family were murdered — not by a stranger, but by their oldest son. This episode revisits the house where it happened, the chilling calm that followed, and the silence that never left.

📍 Address Featured: 2136 North Summit Street, Toledo, OH
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of family murder and violence involving children. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 7: 1120 Morning Glory Drive

Houston, Texas — early 1970s.
In a neighborhood of tidy lawns and unlocked doors, a quiet man named Dean Corll hid a secret darker than anyone could imagine. Over the course of three years, Corll — aided by two teenage accomplices — abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys and young men. They called him “The Candyman” because of the sweets he handed out to children. They never suspected what he kept behind the walls of his small green bungalow on Morning Glory Drive.

This episode unravels one of the most horrific serial murder cases in American history — not just the crimes, but the way the crimes blended into the fabric of an unsuspecting city. We follow Corll’s early life, his slow transformation into a predator, the recruitment of his teenage accomplices, and the chilling way Houston Heights became a silent hunting ground. We walk inside the houses where innocence ended. We listen to the spaces that bore witness. And we sit in the unbearable silence left after the truth was finally dragged into the light.

The house at Morning Glory Drive is gone now. But the address remains. And the ground underneath still carries the weight of what happened there.

Some places aren’t haunted because of what we can see.
They’re haunted because of what we can never fully forget.

📍 Address Featured: 1120 Morning Glory Drive, Houston, TX (site of primary crimes)
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of sexual violence, torture, and murder involving minors. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 3: 12727 East Birchwood Drive

Wichita, Kansas – December 2000.
Five friends share a quiet home in the suburbs. They are young, educated, and building lives grounded in faith, love, and purpose. A teacher. A financial advisor. A seminarian. A preschool educator. A devoted couple.

One night, they answer a knock at the door.

By morning, four will be dead. One will survive.

This is the story of the Wichita Massacre, a brutal home invasion carried out by two brothers—Reginald and Jonathan Carr—that left a permanent scar on the city of Wichita. But this isn’t just a story about what happened. It’s about where it happened—and how places can hold on to the trauma long after the headlines fade.

This story is not just about loss. It’s about resilience. About the power of memory. And about the homes that outlive the people who once trusted their walls to keep them safe.

These Walls Remember does not glorify killers. We focus on the spaces left behind—and the people they refuse to let go.

📍 Address Featured: 12727 East Birchwood Drive, Wichita, KS
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode includes descriptions of sexual violence, assault, and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 2: 379 Mountain Road

Irvington, New York. June 3, 1928.
A gray-haired man in a suit arrives at a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, carrying strawberries, cream, and a soft smile. He calls himself “Frank Howard.” He says he’s here to offer work to the family’s teenage son — and to take their 10-year-old daughter to a birthday party in the countryside.
Her name is Grace Budd.
She would never return home.

That day, the man led her north — to a rented cottage in the quiet hills of Irvington. Locals called it Wisteria Cottage.
The address: 379 Mountain Road.
The man’s real name: Albert Fish.

In this episode, we return to one of the most horrifying crimes in American history — the abduction, murder, and cannibalization of Grace Budd by a man whose brutality would haunt generations. But more than that, we return to the place: a modest, unassuming home that still exists, still stands, and still holds the weight of what happened inside its walls.

This is not a story for the faint of heart. It’s a story about the fragility of trust, the danger that hides behind politeness, and the darkness that can live in ordinary places. The original Wisteria Cottage is gone, but the ground it stood on remains. And so does the memory.

At These Walls Remember, we don’t glorify killers. We revisit places changed by violence. We give voice to the stories these spaces still hold — the ones that never really left.

📍 Address Featured: 379 Mountain Road, Irvington, NY, USA
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child murder, cannibalism, sexual violence, and graphic content. Listener discretion is strongly advised.