Here is a short episode to tide you over until we release episode 43 in a few short days!

The murder of Arlis Perry 

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On Christmas Eve of 2007 the ten members of the Anderson family were to gather in Carnation, Washington. Only four would survive. 

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Kim Proctor was an impressionable teen, like most. However, this is going to leave her vulnerable when exposed to two interdependent sexual sadist...that she sits next to in math class. 

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In the early 1970's a protective initiative was put in place to protect children from predators, it was called 'Stranger Danger'. This was constructed to make the public aware that there are people who only want to hurt your children and you need to be constantly aware of those around you. However, this did not work. At all. It actually caused mass panic, creating a climate of fear and suspicion. It also averted parents eyes away from those who are most likely to be hurting their children, those that they trust most.

Unfortunately, the family in this story is going to fall victim to one of the biggest manipulators we have ever seen. Once he is let into this loving family he is going to begin spinning his predatory web of deceit, blackmail, intimidation, and fear. This is a story of a loving family, who despite being infiltrated by a monster, survived to tell the tale as an unbroken unit.

In episode 38 we cover the horrific events that became known as the Hi-Fi Murders. We will discuss the torture five individuals had to endure at the hands of the sadistic captures as well as the strength some had to survive. This is a story of the other side of murder, the story of the victims, one, that in the 1970s and 80s was not often told. 

Thank you to the book Victim: The Other Side of Murder by Gary Kinder

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In this episode we discuss a tale involving ghosts, obsession, vengeance, loss, love, jealously, and as always...murder.

This case is too good to even give the smallest detail away. 

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Join us for your second annual listener and personal story episode!

In the town of Piehl, Wisconsin three siblings ages 9, 8 and 2 slowly finally opened their bedroom doors. They had been locked in by a plastic zip tie that was wrapped around the final staircase wrung and then their door knob. The oldest of the three girls told the others it was safe to leave. They slowly walked around their house, and saw again the reason why they had been locked in their room. The blood was everywhere and the house was so quiet. They saw the body of their mother lying on the floor stabbed to death. The girls quickly ran upstairs and it was there that the saw for the first time the body of their father, shot twice with a 12 gauge shotgun. At too young of an age the eldest girl was given the protection role over her two younger sisters and she was scared. She was nervous that the killer was still in the house. At the sight of her father she told all of her siblings to run back downstairs into the bedroom. All the girls ran. The went back into their bedroom and closed the door. She told them they would wait until the morning that it should be fine by then.

There are some tropes that commonly exist in horror movies, blown out tires, no coverage, the abandoned house, death by sex, vengeful spirits. But there is one old faithful that will reign true until the end of time. Sinning teenagers being killed off each meeting a fate more brutal than the last...all except for one. We call her the final girl. But what if we told you there is a true story behind this one. Not an urban legend that really actually happened to that one girl’s cousin’s best friend but really happened. Only in this case there wasn’t a final girl but a final boy. A boy who can’t remember what happened that night in the scary woods surrounding a peaceful lake, a boy who also can’t explain why his injuries don’t compare to the ruthless slaughter his friends endured. So what happened at Lake Bodom on June 4, 1960?