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Ellen Boehm’s husband left her for another woman, abandoning his three children without visitation or financial support.  With only her secretarial job to support them, Ellen had to move her children out of the family home and into an apartment building. Money was tight, but Ellen had some strange priorities. She was crazy about professional wrestling and she travelled to attend matches whenever she could, leaving her kids with her mother.

In many ways, Ellen lived in her own fantasy world.  She wrote love letters to her favorite wrestling personalities and bragged to her friends about her popularity with these men.  No one actually believed that Ellen had any romantic involvement with them, but it seemed harmless enough.  Until her children began to die.

Join us at the quiet end for Mommy’s Little Moneymakers. There were some crucial emotions missing in Ellen Boehm’s soul, including kindness, honesty, and maternal love.  She began to see killing her own children as a means to an end, solving her financial problems.  When suspicions turned to certainty, friends and co-workers were appalled, but Ellen showed no sadness or remorse for any of the atrocities she had committed.

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In the spring of 2005, brother and sister Shasta and Dylan Groene were just normal kids, out playing in their yard in their bathing suits. Neither they nor their parents had any way of knowing that a violent pedophile was watching them.  Joseph Duncan III, recently paroled, had been trolling the area, looking for fresh victims.  He likely knew that this would be his last chance to live out his horrific fantasies before he would be returned to prison.

Join us at the quiet end for Shasta’s Story.  Shasta was just 8-years-old when the deeply disturbed Duncan invaded her home and proceeded to beat and tie up her family members.  For the next several weeks, she experienced more trauma and fear than we can imagine.  Today, we’re going over the details of this crime, the criminal history of Duncan, and, most importantly, the strength and determination of Shasta, a child who once showed remarkable courage in the face of terror and a young woman now putting together the best life she can from her own broken and battered psyche.

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On November 26, 2001, the fire department of Cantonment, Florida, was called to the burning home of Terry King. Terry was dead in his reclining chair, but he had not been overcome by smoke.  He had been bludgeoned to death.  Once the fire was extinguished, concerns turned to Terry’s two sons, Derek, 13, and Alex, age 12. Fortunately, they had not been victims of the fire, but where were they?

It took days to locate Derek and Alex, who were brought to the police station by a 40-year-old man named Rick Chavis.  Chavis claimed to be a family friend, but a background check showed that he had a criminal history, including convictions for molesting teenage boys.

Join us at the quiet end for Killing Dad.  Terry King’s two sons would confess to their father’s murder, claiming self-defense against an abusive parent.  But there was no proof that Terry was abusive.  Interviews with the boys soon brought into question their relationship with Chavis and his role in the murder of Terry King.

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Graduate student Annie Le disappeared from her lab at Yale University just five days before her wedding.  When she was first reported missing, investigators theorized that she had cold feet and had likely run off for some time alone.  But Annie’s family and friends didn’t believe Annie would do that.  She was very much in love with her fiancé and she was excited about the upcoming nuptials.

Join us at the quiet end for The Vanishing Bride-to-Be, the story of Annie Le.  As the days passed by and her wedding day neared, Annie’s disappearance seemed more and more likely to be the result of foul play, but a thorough examination of CCTV footage at the laboratory showed that Annie had never left the building.

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In September, 2015, 25-year-old Jack Taylor was found dead in the graveyard of St. Margaret’s Church in East London.  Jack was not the first young man to be found dead under unexplained circumstances, all within a few hundred yards of each other. It was initially believed that these deaths resulted from drug overdoses, but Jack’s death led the police to find a more sinister cause. A killer had lured these men to their deaths using online dating apps.

Two days before Jack Taylor was found dead, he had arranged to meet with a man he’d been chatting with on the dating app Grindr.  When his family and friends didn’t hear from Jack, they reported him missing.  Then the police showed up at his parent’s home with the worst news imaginable.

Join us at the quiet end for The Grindr Killer. Four suspicious deaths under very similar circumstances in the same area of London pointed to one killer.  Today we’re going back in time to learn about the monster responsible and his methods to lure young, gay men into his deadly web of lies.

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How much are your loved ones worth to you?  Priceless, right?  You cannot put a dollar amount on a person’s life.  Not so for Karl Karlson. There were so many tragedies and coincidences in his life that his second wife suspected him of two murders and several instances of insurance fraud.  In fact, she became convinced enough to record her conversations with Karlsen.

Join us at the quiet end for Cashing In.  Karl Karlson valued people only for how they could benefit him.  Over a span of many years, his family members tried to believe in his innocence. But there were signs that things weren’t right.  As the pieces of his life and the facts of his crimes came to light, a puzzle of sorts began to come together.  But before looking at the whole picture, let’s look at how the individual pieces add up to two of the most unfathomable crimes imaginable.

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Kathy Stobaugh married the wrong man.  Once she realized her mistake, she did everything right in order to set off on a better course.  She worked full-time, went back to college, and accomplished her dream of becoming a kindergarten teacher.  Saving her money, she rented a new house and moved there with her two children.  But her husband, Charles, was not going to let her get away so easily.

On December 29, 2004, Kathy happily hummed a tune as she gathered her divorce settlement papers together and drove off in her car.  Charles had finally agreed to talk things over and reach a financial settlement with her.  She had newfound hope that their post-divorce lives could be civil.  She held no false hopes that they would be friends.

Join us at the quiet end for Gone & Never Forgotten: The Kathy Stobaugh Story.  Did Kathy’s soon to be ex-husband kill her and hide her body or are we meant to believe that she just walked off one day before her divorce hearing?

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