The Callous Killing of Sylvia Fleming

On Boxing Day 1996, David Spencer (11) and Patrick Warren (13) were out in Chelmsley Wood. They stayed out all night. They were last seen alive in the early hours of 27 December. They never came home. No confirmed crime scene.No bodies.No explanation that holds. This episode of S ...  Show more

Dead Famous explores the darker side of celebrity deaths — the mysteries, scandals, unanswered questions, and stories that didn’t end when the headlines stopped. From suspicious circumstances to cases that still don’t quite add up, Dead Famous looks at what really happened when f ...  Show more

Our card this week is Sylvia Baker, the 3 of Spades from Connecticut. 

Sylvia Baker, 28, went downstairs on July 17th, 1982 to take out the trash. Sylvia never returned to her apartment, where her two young kids were watching TV. When she was found the next day, nude and ...

On September 2nd, 1994, a horrific crime sent shockwaves through the hardworking community of Williamsport, PA. 23-year-old Gail Matthews was found holding her 5-year-old daughter, Tamara Berkheiser, the pair bloodied, strangled, and stabbed. Gail was well-liked by everyone in he ...  Show more

Sylvia was a happy, beautiful 16-year-old when her parents left her and her sister in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while they went on the road for work. But, within a few short months, Sylvia was beaten, humiliated, and ultimately left to die from neglect and severe abuse, ...

In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roommate, Angela Samota. Detectives asked her to help gather information, and even sent her out to dinner with the main suspect, a man named Russell Buchanan. But the case remained unso ...  Show more