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Today Alaina decided to take it to a vampiric place. During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries New England was struggling with severe outbreaks of Consumption.  To better explain this plague that caused severe pain, bloody hacking coughs and the victim to seemingly waste away without explanation, they turned to the supernatural. When entire families began falling victim to its brutal clutches, it simply had to be vampires who had taken host in their loved ones ailing bodies to suck the life from the remaining members. Come on in for a dive into a world where eating the ashes of an exhumed family member's decomposing heart was considered medicine.


Great resources used:

Mercy: The Last New England Vampire by Sarah L. Thomson 

Food For the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael E. Bell 

A History of Vampires in New England by Thomas D A'gostino 



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Mackenzie Cowell was a beautiful 17 year old girl with her entire life ahead of her. She was going to high school, on the dance team, modelling and taking classes at the Wenatchee Academy of Hair design. Mackenzie’s life was cut short and in such a brutal manner that it left Wenatchee stunned. Mackenzie's body was found stabbed, strangled, and mutilated. The case takes so many twists and turns with drug informants, potential cases of mistaken identity and eventually a conviction that left some wondering if the right person was behind bars.





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Part two of The Sunset Strip Killers is here! We find out  what happened with Jack Murray’s murder and who exactly carried that out…wink wink nudge nudge. Eventually someone loses it and turns on the other, and Carol and Doug land themselves in prison. Guest appearance by Veronica Compton.





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Alaina brings us another 2 part series this week, this time we’re talking about the Sunset Strip Killers, Doug Clark and Carol Bundy. It’s always wild to us how two shockingly depraved people can find each other like this, and this case brings wild to a new level. Together Doug and Carol would kill sex workers. Carol is only suspected in two murders; many are convinced she helped with more.



Great sources!

Murder on the Sunset Strip by Kim Cresswell 

Doug Clark and Carol Bundy by Nancy Veysey & Ryan Decker

The Big Book of Serial Killers by Jack Rosewood



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Listener tales 31 brought to you by you, for you, from you and all about you!! This set of listener tales includes your grandparents purchasing a straight up murder house that then becomes yours, a murderer who gets out of prison and curates his own Taco stand, a trip to the hotsprings that takes a terrible turn and SO MUCH MORE. You guys never cease to amaze us with your tales. If you’d like to send in your own tale please send it to [email protected] and include “Listener Tale” somewhere in your subject line!



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Ash promised you something haunted this week after Alaina’s three part deep dive into the Hillside Stranglers and boy did she pick a doozy. The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is supposedly one of America’s most haunted buildings. It has a fascinating, yet macabre history and it housed some of the world's most notorious criminals. We’ll get into all that history, talk about some of the most known prisoners and then dive into the most haunted cell blocks that remain standing today!



Book used for research:

The Eastern State Penitentiary by Francis X. Dolan (https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-State-Penitentiary-Francis-Dolan-ebook/dp/B009A6IMM8)



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You’ve made it!! It’s the third and final episode on Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Stranglers. In this part we’ll go over the murders of Kimberly Martin, Cindy Hudspeth, Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder. Luckily in this final part the jig is up and Kenny takes Angelo down with him. We also get a lot of guest appearances from characters such as Veronica Compton and some dude named Steve.



The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien



Killing Cousins by OJ Modjeska



The Big Book of Serial Killers by Jack Rosewood



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We’ve made it to part two of three of Alaina’s deep dive into the depraved minds of Angelo Buono and Kenny Biaanchi. If you’ve made it to this part, you know that this cousin duo is out on the sunset strip terrorizing the lives of young women. You can only terrorize one area for so long though and in this part they decide to switch up not only their way of getting victims, but also the process in which they torture and kill. This will be a tough one, and we hope to see you back for part three.



Great Sources:

Great blog post about Lissa Kastin's life and who she was before she was a Hillside Strangler victim



The Hillside Strangler by Darcy O'Brien



Killing Cousins by OK Modjeska





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Ash brings us the story of Barbara Daly Baekeland, a New York socialite who ended up being murdered by her son Anthony “Tony” Baekeland. Barbara had a long history of mental illness and eventually her son did as well, some argue Tony’s mental illness began when his mother tried to “cure him of his homosexuality” by taking him to bed herself. This was definitely a hard one to get through, but is a fascinating case for sure.



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Alaina has decided to really throw us for a loop this week with a multi-parter on the Hillside stranglers, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi. We had to break this into two parts simply because even before they became murderous monsters, they were terrible. In part one we’ll go over some background on each of them, how they linked up and their first 2 murders.



Great source: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien



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