True Okee

Elizabeth Hatfield laid down next to her 8-month-old baby on the night of March 15, 1995, unaware that in a few hours her life would be cruelly taken from her by an intruder. The horrific events of that night would leave a scar on Okeechobee for decades.

True Okee features true crime and weird stories from the forgotten heartland of South Florida.

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Utopia was a town that sat on the northeast shore of Lake Okeechobee in the 1920's. But it disappeared shortly after a major catastrophe and is now a mostly forgotten ghost town. What happened to the people of Utopia?

In the early 90's, a man on the rim canal of Lake Okeechobee sees a strange light approaching him at night. The close encounter changes his life forever.

In June of 1999, a man in Okeechobee is found crushed underneath the rear wheel of his car. The keys are in the ignition and the car is still running. What at first appears to be an accident is revealed to be a perverse fetish with ties to an underground network of cruelty and torture.

In 1959, Okeechobee is hoping the new Florida School for Boys will help rebuild the shrinking local economy. Fifty years later, sheriff deputies gather to search the property for dead bodies.

In this Halloween True Okee special… A close encounter with an unknown creature, a haunted building is destroyed, and two teenagers come face to face with a serial killer.

After investigators quickly ruled that Okeechobee County Sheriff John Collier committed suicide due to sinus problems, many in the community didn’t buy it. Questionable decisions made at the crime scene and in the months afterwards helped a cloud of uncertainty linger around the case.

It's the 1980's and the War on Drugs is in full swing. With the DEA zeroed in on Miami as a key port for the massive amount of cocaine coming into the country, smugglers begin looking for areas in South Florida with less heat. And the rural pastures around Lake Okeechobee become an enticing landing spot.

A young school teacher in Okeechobee disappears from a laundromat. At the same time, reports come in of a car seen driving through town erratically, with a struggle going on between the driver and passenger. Police don't know it yet, but they're in a race against time to get a serial predator off the streets before he attacks again.

Paramedics receive a call about a man having chest pains in a house on Elm Street in Buckhead Ridge, a small community in south Florida. But upon arrival they are shocked to find something straight out of a nightmare.