Ep.142 - The Conjuring: Last Rites - The REAL Story of the Smurl Family Haunting

Ep.142 - The Conjuring: Last Rites - The REAL...

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Jonathan Gerlach, The Grave Robber

Jonathan Gerlach had an obsession with the deceased, and he also saw it as a viable way to make some money. When Mount Moriah Cemetery started noticing broken into mausolutams, police staked it out, and were soon met with this man and his disturbing obsession. And his even more d ...  Show more

The Dardeen Family Murders

It was 1987, and a family were paranoid. They needed to get away, and decided to sell up, despite just moving to the area less than a year before. Then, when a horrifying scene was discovered, a family butchered and a man missing, the mystery would only just begin. Send your scar ...  Show more

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