#428 - Weak Motives & Wilderness Gangsters - ...

This week, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a young woman disappears on her way to a retreat, for a new job. Her van is found very close to where she was last seen, but with hundreds of extra miles on it, and some strange, and telling clues. She is eventually found, horribly murdered & ...  Show more

This week, in Nettie, West Virginia, a tragic scene is found, when a woman appears to have been killed in a most unusual way. She's found in a pond, on her farm, with a gigantic tree holding her under the water. He husband appears to make a valiant effort to save her, with no suc ...  Show more

It all started on August 23rd 1980, in the small town of Bellville, Texas. Sixteen year old Cheryl Dee Fergeson woke up that morning and was in a rush for the first tournament of the season. The volleyball team in which she was a part of had to ride the 60 mile bus ride to Conroe ...  Show more

Early in the morning hours of Sunday November 13th, Ethan Chapin, 20; and roommates Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 were brutally murdered in the Moscow Idaho home shared by the young women. Since that day, this case has been in the news nonstop ...

In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had happened. Over the next several years, more bodies were discovered. Eventually, a coroner assembled something he called the “Torso Clinic” to work on t ...  Show more

Jeff German was a reporter for over 40 years in Las Vegas. He spent his life covering the mafia, corruption, and murder. In 2022, he was found killed outside his home. His colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal tried to figure out why he had died—and if his death had anything ...  Show more