True Crime Sleep Stories

Welcome back to “31 Nights of Frights” on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we go to Chicago in the 1890s, when the World's Columbian Exposition was filling the city with light and crowds, and a block of brick and glass on Sixty-Third Street in Englewood was being run by a man who called himself H.H. Holmes.

You have probably heard the tourist version. Trapdoors. Soundproof rooms. Acid vats. Hundreds of fair visitors who checked in and never checked out. Some of that story is so familiar it feels like fact. A lot of it is not.

What the record supports is quieter and, in its way, worse.

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Lincoln, Massachusetts. October 24, 1961. Joan Risch, 31, spends an ordinary Tuesday morning with her two small children while her husband is on an overnight business trip to New York. A dentist visit. Lunch, a nap, a little pruning in the yard.
Around 2:15 a neighbor sees her moving quickly up the driveway in a trench coat, carrying something red. It is the last confirmed sighting. By late afternoon the children are home alone. The kitchen is overturned. A trail of blood leads to the car and stops. Nothing is stolen. The mail is still in the box.
Joan had lost both parents in a house fire at 8 years old. She had been an editorial assistant in New York before marriage. In the months before she vanished, her library card showed a run of books about murders and missing people. Sightings were reported along Route 2A and Route 128. None were confirmed. Middlesex case 61-2623 has never been closed.
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🌑 Goodnight.
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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. :-) 
Tonight Kelli reads 2 stories from a listener & friend of the show, Shari.
A little girl in a doorway, a handprint on the inside of a car window, and a road her brother never took. Then a rental house, a growling cat, and a voice on the basement stairs that said "run".
Thank you for being here. Sleep well.

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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls and young women were killed in and around Washington, D.C. Their bodies were found along freeways in the District and Prince George’s County. The killer was never caught. The case is still open.
Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, Brenda Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates, Brenda Woodard, and Diane Williams. The youngest was ten. The oldest was eighteen.
Content note: child victims, kidnapping, sexual assault, and strangulation. Details are not described.
Thank you for being here. Sleep well.

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Good evening, dear listeners.
A listener wrote to me and asked for his story to be featured on our October "31 Nights of Frights" series on True Crime Sleep Stories. He asked to be called John. That's not his real name. What he sent was a family story they've been telling for 30 years. They still call the place their old haunted house.
One night after a party, he woke to footsteps in the hall. Water running. A toilet flush. Someone walking back to the other bedroom. Nobody was there.
If you have a story like this... a house, a hallway, a night you still cannot explain... you can write to me. You can stay anonymous if you'd like. ;-) We would love to read it in October on 31 Nights of Frights.
Thank you for being here. Sleep well.

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🌑 Goodnight.
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Welcome to Night 1 of "31 Nights of Frights" on True Crime Sleep Stories, in honor of Spooky Season.
My friend The Captain from True Crime Garage told me a weird & creepy story the other day, and I knew it belonged here. This is that story.
You can also find it as a bonus episode on True Crime Garage’s Off The Record. Go follow them if you aren’t already!

Sleep well, dear listener.
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Tonight we travel to northern Indiana in the spring of 1908. La Porte. A farm on McClung Road. A Norwegian widow named Belle Gunness lives there with three children. She keeps hogs. She writes letters. Neighbors see men come and go, trunks left behind, a life that looks busy and respectable enough... from the road.
Then, a fire changed everything. Bodies, a trail of money, and a mystery that has never been totally put to rest.
Sleep well, dear listener.
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Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, 3 quiet disappearances for the soft start of spooky season.
Tara Leigh Calico, 19, left home near Belen, New Mexico, on the morning of September 20, 1988, on her mother’s neon-pink Huffy. She told her mother, Patty Doel, to come get her if she was not back by noon. She never came home. 
Frieda Langer, 53, slipped into a stream near Somerset Reservoir in Vermont on October 28, 1950. She said she would take a shortcut back to the cabin to change. She did not arrive. Her remains were found the next May.
Brandon Victor Swanson, 19, drove into a ditch after midnight on May 14, 2008, near rural Minnesota. He called his parents and walked toward lights he thought were a nearby town. After about 47 minutes, the line went quiet. He has never been found.
Ordinary plans that did not finish...
Thank you for listening.
Goodnight.
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Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, we follow a tool (the axe) instead of a single town or a single crime.
In the late 1800s & early 1900s, an axe hung in nearly every woodshed. It split kindling to keep the stove roaring. Because it already belonged to the house, it sometimes became the last object a household ever used.
This episode visits Fall River in 1892, Colorado Springs in 1911, a Bavarian farm in 1922, and a few other haunting cases... 
Settle in and sleep well, if you can.

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🌑 Goodnight.
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