Wicked Within

On June 23, 2021, 24-year-old Daniel Robinson suddenly departed from a remote job site under puzzling circumstances, leaving behind a trail of questions and a family desperate for answers. In this episode we look at the lead up to Daniel’s disappearance and the strange evidence in this case.

If you have any tips that could assist in the search for Daniel Robinson, please check out the information below:

• Anyone with information on the disappearance of Daniel Robinson is urged to call the Buckeye Police tip line at 623-349-6411 or submit a tip online where you may choose to remain anonymous.
• Or contact the family directly by going to Please Help Find Daniel

Sources:
Private investigator releases new findings in unsolved missing geologist case from AZ Central
The Daniel Robinson Investigation Overview from Buckeye, Arizona's Government Webpage
Police Report from the Buckeye PD
Paradoxical undressing associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage in a non-hypothermia case? by Emilienne Descloux, Kewin Ducrot, Maria Pia Scarpelli, Alexander Lobrinus, Cristian Palmiere
Police release new information in search for Daniel Robinson from News Nation
Disappeared | Season 10 | Episode 2: Disappearance in the Desert from Disappeared

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

In the early morning hours of December 5th, 1998, 14-year-old Michael Politte, and his friend, 15-year-old Josh awoke to the smell of smoke. When they opened the door to Michael’s bedroom, they choked on the smoke billowing from 40-year-old Rita Politte’s room. While Josh ran to the neighbors house to get help, Michael ran outside to grab a hose. He tried to pull the hose inside, but it wasn’t long enough so he crawled to his mom’s room to check on her. When he opened the door, he found Rita laying face up on the ground with her body on fire from her waist to her head.
Rita’s murder was the first in a long line of injustices, but to fully understand those injustices we need to take a look at the whole picture.

PS - Sorry for the delayed release! We've both had two very busy weeks! 

Sources:
Politte v. Falkenrath from MacArthur Justice Center
Missouri Supreme Court hears AG’s opposition to prosecutor’s jurisdiction in Michael Politte appeal attempt from Fox2Now
The Case Against Michael Politte from 48 Hours
The Dubious Science of Arson Investigations from Stuff You Should Know

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

In this episode we discuss the life and death of Tina Fontaine, a young indigenous girl whose life was marked by trauma, and systemic failures. Tina’s story is reflective of the shortcomings of the child welfare system and the pervasive issues facing indigenous women and girls in Canada. We honor her memory by calling attention to the urgent need for change and justice.

Sources:
Taken Season 1 | Episode 1: Tina Fontaine
Tina Fontaine: Murdered schoolgirl 'was repeatedly failed' from The BBC
Man acquitted in Tina Fontaine murder found dead, says her aunt from Global News
Tina Fontaine's family mourns loss as 9-year anniversary of her body's discovery looms from CBC
Timeline: Tina Fontaine's final hours from CBC
Pair sentenced to 9 years in beating death of Tina Fontaine's dad from CBC
The Death of Tina Fontaine from Stories of the Unsolved
The Story of Tina Fontaine from the Manitoba Advocate
Police investigation in Tina Fontaine’s murder: Rethinking the Mr. Big method from The Conversation
Police, hospital, child welfare workers all saw Tina Fontaine in 12 hours before disappearance from CBC
Tina Fontaine, slain teen, remembered at Manitoba funeral from CBC

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

In this episode we explore the disappearance of one of the most famous authors in the world. In December 1926, world renowned mystery author Agatha Christie disappeared from her home outside of London, England before reappearing over almost two weeks later. Even though Agatha was eventually found, the question remains - why did she disappear in the first place?

Sources:
About Agatha Christie from AgathaChristie.com
The Curious Disappearance of Agatha Christie from Historic UK
Agatha Christie’s greatest mystery? Her own puzzling disappearance from Deseret News
The Puzzling Disappearance of Agatha Christie from BuzzFeed Unsolved
‘I just wanted my life to end’: the mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance from The Guardian
Dissociative Fugue: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Coping from VeryWell Mind

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

In Part I, we discussed the lead up to the arrests of Jodi Hildebrant and Ruby Franke. In this episode, we’re going to backtrack even further to see how we got there. We’re going to do some deep dives into Jodi’s methodology with couples and how she seemed to make this connection with the Franke family. Then, we’ll discuss the events leading to R’s escape from Jodi’s home and explore Jodi’s history of “child therapy”.

Sources:
A Timeline of Ruby Franke's Rise and Fall: From Family Vlogger to Convicted Child Abuser from People Magazine
Ruby Franke’s Jailhouse Calls Revealed: ‘Children Can Be Full of Evil’ from Law&Crime Network
Concerns about Ruby Franke’s children reported to police, DCFS more than a year ago from KSL TV
8 PASSENGERS WORST MOMENTS - PART 1 from Cece Spills
Ruby Franke Jodi Hilderbrandt Connexions Compilation from ConspiraTea
Ruby Franke case: A timeline of events from The Salt Lake Tribune
READ: Ruby Franke kept handwritten timeline journal over months her children were abused from ABC 15 News
BODY CAM: American Fork police find two of Ruby Franke's daughters during her arrest from KSL News
Ruby Franke: 15 Most Horrifying Pieces of Evidence in YouTube Mom's Case from Law&Crime Network
Jessi Hildebrandt speaks out about aunt Jodi's arrest on felony counts of child abuse from KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City
‘Dark Chapter’: Victim of Ruby Franke’s Business Partner Tells All, Details Disturbing ‘Therapy’ from Law&Crime Network
Kevin Franke 2nd Interview Audio Recording Released March 22, 2024 from Crime Spies

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

On Wednesday, August 20th, 2023, a young boy can be seen ringing the doorbell at a home outside Ivins, Utah. At first, it seems as though no one will answer the door, so the boy turns to go to the next house, but then a man steps out to greet him. The boy asks if the man can take him to the nearest police station, and the man encourages him to sit down in the shade outside the front door so he could tell him what had happened. Before long, the boy began detailing a story of horrific abuse and the man was dialing 911.

Sources:
A Timeline of Ruby Franke's Rise and Fall: From Family Vlogger to Convicted Child Abuser from People Magazine
Ruby Franke’s Jailhouse Calls Revealed: ‘Children Can Be Full of Evil’ from Law&Crime Network
Concerns about Ruby Franke’s children reported to police, DCFS more than a year ago from KSL TV
8 PASSENGERS WORST MOMENTS - PART 1 from Cece Spills
Ruby Franke Jodi Hilderbrandt Connexions Compilation from ConspiraTea
Ruby Franke case: A timeline of events from The Salt Lake Tribune
READ: Ruby Franke kept handwritten timeline journal over months her children were abused from ABC 15 News
BODY CAM: American Fork police find two of Ruby Franke's daughters during her arrest from KSL News
Ruby Franke: 15 Most Horrifying Pieces of Evidence in YouTube Mom's Case from Law&Crime Network
Jessi Hildebrandt speaks out about aunt Jodi's arrest on felony counts of child abuse from KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City
‘Dark Chapter’: Victim of Ruby Franke’s Business Partner Tells All, Details Disturbing ‘Therapy’ from Law&Crime Network
Kevin Franke 2nd Interview Audio Recording Released March 22, 2024 from Crime Spies

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

On Thursday, September 28th, 2000, Joseph Mesa Jr, a freshman at Gallaudet University, started to get worried about his friend, Eric Plunkett. Eric had missed an 8pm tutoring session that evening, and when Joseph started asking around, he realized that no one had seen Eric for at least a couple of days. Eric didn’t have a roommate, so Joseph went to the Resident Advisor, Thomas Koch, and asked if he could just check on Eric to make sure he was okay. Thomas headed down to Eric’s room, but he didn’t answer the door, so Thomas used his master key to unlock the door, but when he pushed it open, he was horrified to find Eric lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood.

Sources:
On the Case with Paula Zahn | Season 3 | Episode 2: Gallaudet Murder from On the Case with Paula Zahn
People Magazine Investigates | Season 3 | Episode 13: The Sound of Silence from People Magazine Investigates
The Gallaudet Murders by Katherine Ramsland from Crime Library 

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

On July 24, 1997, Amy Wroe Bechtel went for a run in the mountains about 45 minutes outside of her home in Lander, Wyoming The terrain was familiar to Amy. She was a regular runner and she enjoyed the challenge of chasing her own personal record through the trees and rocks of the Wyoming mountains. But Amy didn’t know that this last run would turn into a mystery that has lasted over two and a half decades.

Sources:
When Amy Bechtel Didn't Come Home from Outside Magazine
The Missing List from Locations Unknown
Daniel Oldman from Newspapers.com
Convicted murderer Dale Wayne Eaton re-sentenced 30 years after disappearance of Lisa Marie Kimmel from Oil City News
Disappeared Season 6 | Episode 7: Missing in the Mountains from Disappeared

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

United Airlines Flight 629 departed the Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado at 6:52 pm on Tuesday, November 1st, 1955. Just 11 minutes later at 7:03 pm, just as the plane reached 10,000 feet, it suddenly disappeared from Air Traffic Radar. Meanwhile, residents of Longmont, Colorado heard an explosion in the skies overhead. Their windows rattled and they saw a bright ball of fire in the sky. They heard plane engines, even as they saw they saw those engines crashing to the ground below. Farmers and their families rushed to the site of the crash, but there was no way that they could know that this wasn’t a tragic accident. In fact, they had just witnessed the largest mass murder ever seen in the state of Colorado.

Sources:
Jack Gilbert Graham from FBI.gov
The United Flight 629 bombing and how Denver7 forever changed courtroom coverage in Colorado from Denver7
AGC History: Tragic 1955 Plane Crash Claimed Industry Leaders' Lives from Associated General Contractors of America
Mass murder in the sky: John Gilbert Graham and United Flight 629 from The Denver Post
Victims en route to varied locations from The Denver Post
Season 1 | Episode 4: Time Bomb from A Crime to Remember

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com

On January 7th, 2021, supermom and corporate badass, Maya Millete, seemingly vanished into thin air, just a few days before her daughter’s birthday. But as family and friends started looking into her disappearance, her husband’s odd demeanor and controlling behavior leading up to her disappearance started to paint a much more sinister picture.

Sources:
Searching for Maya Millete from 48 Hours
Maya Millete Case Analysis | Murder-for-Hire from Dr. Todd Grande
What happened to Maya Millete? Larry's jailhouse interview from NBC 7 San Diego
About Maya from helpfindmaya.com
Timeline: The disappearance of Maya Millete from CBS News
Trial date set in case for guardianship of Millete children from Fox 5

We will be taking a brief break for June and July of 2024. We hope to resume with our regular program in August of 2024. Thank you for your patience and check out our previous episodes!

Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music Unlimited
Instagram: @wickedwithinpodcast
Website: wickedwithinpodcast.com