Three members of the Colegrove family were brutally murdered in their home during a thunderstorm in a Pennsylvania town of roughly 379 people. Is the killer walking among them or is it the residents of the town that can help detectives find out who the killer is with their inside knowledge of the family. 

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Sources:

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2020/1220-mda-2019.html

Newspaper articles arcdieved through Newspapers.com from:

The Star-Gazette

Times Tribune

Citizen's Voice

Press and un Bulletin

2007-2009

Join us as we read creepy stories from our listeners. Thank you for all that submitted! If your story did not appear in this episode it will be next week's Patreon episode.

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On Monday October 19, 1970 in the midst of the Manson family murder trials and with two serial killers on the loose, both the Zodiac and the Co-ed Killer, firefighters in Soquel, CA discover the bodies of five people in the swimming pool of a wealthy home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Through a note left at the scene a murderous cult took responsibility for the Ohta family murders. Join me as I tell John just what happened and who was responsible. 

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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/5/287.html
https://projects.scpr.org/timelines/capital-punishment-in-california/
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Cruz-mass-murderer-kills-self-in-prison-3221281.php
https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/571aa1b2b278eb1f40c3970e109bbcb4.PDF
https://lookout.co/i-wanted-to-see-the-co-ed-killer-in-a-wheelchair-old-and-broken-down-revisiting-edmund-kemper/
https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-the-santa-cruz-serial-killer-epidemic/article_9b3d46d5-6be8-5fc0-9779-93e77924685a.html

Murder in California: Rage and Revenge 
By Marques Vickers, 2021 Accessed through Everand

Newspaper articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 20, 1970-November 23, 1973 accessed through Newspapers.com

On June 8, 2017 a call came into Montgomery County, MO dispatch. The two people on the line stated that someone had been found dead inside a large snake breeding facility and one of the large snakes was not accounted for. When deputies got on the scene they were terrified and had no idea what they were in for. Had someone been killed by a snake or had this been a cold blooded murder?

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Sources:
https://www.courttv.com/trials/mo-v-renick-2021/
https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=198075
https://abc17news.com/news/top-stories/2022/08/16/attorney-wants-murdered-mans-wife-barred-from-inheritance-payouts/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_WPo3g_VY
Archived newspapers articles from: Columbia Daily Tribune, Springfield News-Leader, Missouri States Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch between June 2017 and May 2023

As all news does in a high school, rumors of what happened to bright, beautiful, athletic Emma Walker spread like wildfire. Some said that she had died by suicide, but most couldn’t believe that. Her life was perfect. She had a great boyfriend, she was a cheerleader, and had a close circle of friends. It just didn’t seem like it could be true. But if Emma Walker did not harm herself, it meant that something far more sinister happened…that someone had wanted to hurt her. Now that didn’t sound too far from the truth because in the days prior to her death odd things had been happening to the 16 year old girl. 

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Sources:
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/teen-dating-violence-red-flags-from-someone-who-lived-through-it/51-f28f6a14-dbd7-4f0c-bca4-47cd37f7c435
(talking about relationship - mom)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/777866500/?match=1&terms=emma%20walker
https://www.newspapers.com/image/777847139/?match=1&terms=emma%20walker
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/02/william-riley-gaul-trial-witnesses-detail-staged-kidnapping-before-central-high-cheerleader-slain/570824002/
Google view of the home:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0364202,-83.9765422,3a,75y,159.82h,86.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saCY5BTqOUoBf2DIMyKFr_g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DaCY5BTqOUoBf2DIMyKFr_g%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D159.82049548311872%26pitch%3D3.868277855724372%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

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On August 30, 2011 the body of Jennifer Webb was found beside her SUV near a drainage ditch in Buena Vista, MI. What police think initially is a suicide turns out to be a case that will shake them to their very core.

Trigger Warnings: Discussions of suicide and violence against a pregnant woman

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Sources:
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/us/mi/buena-vista-township/crime-rate-statistics#:~:text=The%20Buena%20Vista%20Township%20MI,a%200.22%25%20decline%20from%202016.
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend
https://www.911.gov/assets/2021-911-Profile-Database-Report_FINAL.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411039/
Buena Vista Township MI Crime Rate 1999-2018 | MacroTrends
https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/saginaw/name/jennifer-webb-obituary?id=21780242
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2012/09/jennifer_webbs_mother_sister_t.html
Source 8
Source 9
Source 10

Introducing a NEW investigation from the BBC’s World of Secrets podcast: The Apartheid Killer.

All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. They were killed during a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, in the South African city of East London – by one person. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secrets exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.

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Jake Millison was last seen leaving the ranch he called home on May 16, 2015 by his mother. He would often leave for long term jobs in other states, but after he was not heard from for two months he was finally reported missing. Investigators would have to make up for a lot of missed time in order to solve the mystery of the 7-11 Ranch. (Solved case)

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Sources:
https://www.ranchflip.com/ranch/12923
https://www.gunnisontimes.com/articles/idyllic-ranch-rocked-by-murder/
https://quartzcreekrides.wixsite.com/711-ranch/about2#:~:text=About%20the%207%2D11,Open%20from%20May%20to%20November.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/10/colorado-gunnison-ranch-murder/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194409383/marion-adam-rudibaugh
Source 6
https://www.co7da.org/stephanie-jackson-plea/
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/10/colorado-gunnison-ranch-murder/
Archived newspaper articles from the Gunnison County Times, The Crested Butte, the Denver Post, and the Denver Gazette through Newspapers.com

In the early morning hours of June 2, 2009 a thunderstorm broke the constant quiet that existed in the Amish community of Apple Creek, OH. Inside the well kept two story white house the occupants slept fretfully because of the storm. What they did not know was that the loud noises outside were nothing compared to the danger that had sneaked its way inside. A figure walked its way through the unlocked house and down the hall to the main bedroom. They readied themselves to shoot the rifle they had brought with them. Temporarily they were illuminated by a bright flash of lighting and as a thunderclap roared its way through the house they fired the gun. The children slept on none the wiser that their lives had just been shattered by the murder of their mother. 

Sources:
Olsen, Gregg, and Rebecca Morris. A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 
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Articles found in the Akron Beacon Journal, accessed through Newspapers.com 
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-supreme-court/1294613.html
https://appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch/Search/Details/A573154
https://amishamerica.com/amish-technology-friendliness/
https://amishamerica.com/who-are-the-andy-weaver-amish/
https://www.amishbaskets.com/blogs/blog/amish-ordnung

In the early morning hours following the 4th of July celebrations in Moorpark, CA a security guard spots what he assumed was a drunk driving incident. But when he approached the accident he realized something more sinister had occurred at the intersection between Highway 23 and Los Angeles Avenue. The investigation that would follow would reveal the depth to which humanity could reach. 

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Sources:
Google Maps of area (crash)
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1465032.html
https://international-spr.com/2021/06/10/haunted-lands-in-southern-california-the-santa-susana-mountains/
https://www.oxygen.com/homicide-for-the-holidays/megan-barroso-killed-by-vincent-sanchez-4th-of-july
Angels Are Watching by J.D. Berger publisher: AuthorHouse 2005 (accessed through Everand in July of 2024)
Amazon Link for Angels Are Watching
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-07-me-rbriefs7.1-story.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/190352861/?match=1&terms=Joshua%20Reno
https://www.newspapers.com/image/776771692/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/929034645/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/928934219/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/160495259/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/160393340/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/935440033/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/161659644/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
https://www.newspapers.com/image/159650673/?match=1&terms=simi%20valley%20rapist
Black Canyon Road View - Google Earth

Two days after she had run away and returned home 14 year old Kristy Ohnstad went missing from her home in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Bellingham, WA. The investigation that followed would reveal an evil so diabolical no one saw it coming. 

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Sources:
https://cob.org/services/planning/neighborhoods
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/wa-supreme-court/1480415.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160207745/kristy-lynn-ohnstad
Distance from home to middle school
https://www.newspapers.com/image/770914597/?match=1&terms=Kristy%20ohnstad
https://www.newspapers.com/image/770923992/?match=1&terms=Kristy%20ohnstad
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article122770324.html
Evil Lives Here | Investigation Discovery (Mark’s interview)
https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1764-1771_Online.pdf
​​https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article124043069.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/court-upholds-death-penalty-for-rapist-clark-elmore/
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/oct/17/us-supreme-court-rejects-clark-elmores-death-penal/
https://casetext.com/case/elmore-v-sinclair-7