[SPEAKER_13]: dark cast network in the pods with a dark side.

[SPEAKER_11]: Hello, and welcome to Tales of the Dark Castle Networks Crypt Keeper.

[SPEAKER_11]: I'm your host, Jackie.

[SPEAKER_11]: Join me for this heart-stopping episode of Dark Tales From Dark Cast.

[SPEAKER_11]: Please, step forward into the crypt carefully.

[SPEAKER_11]: Keep your hands to yourself, or they could end up being someone else's.

[SPEAKER_10]: Don't touch anything and you might come out of this in one piece.

[SPEAKER_10]: I trust that everyone brought a change of clothes.

[SPEAKER_10]: You always may get soiled before this is over.

[SPEAKER_10]: Let's begin our first story, shall we?

[SPEAKER_06]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_06]: Normally I tell a true crime story to my best friend McKinsey.

[SPEAKER_06]: She's the one asking the questions you're probably asking at home, or the ones I never even thought of.

[SPEAKER_06]: But tonight, for this dark cast original Halloween special, I'm going solo.

[SPEAKER_06]: The story I have for you today isn't an urban legend.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's the true story of the night Halloween changed forever.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm your host, Hopper Daily, and this is the final trace of the Candy Man.

[SPEAKER_06]: Every Halloween parents whisper warnings, blades and apples, needles and snickers, a stranger with a sweet smile and poison candy.

[SPEAKER_06]: Most of those fears are just urban legends, but in 1974 on a cold October night in Texas, [SPEAKER_06]: This is the story of the Halloween that turned into a nightmare.

[SPEAKER_06]: A story that haunted October 31st, for over half a century, because sometimes the truth is darker than the myth.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's October 31st, 1974.

[SPEAKER_06]: Dear Park Texas, children dart from house to house, pillowcases and plastic pumpkins clutched in their hands, the sight of glowing jackelandards on every porch.

[SPEAKER_06]: Among them, Timothy O'Brien, eight years old, excited, dressed up, his little sister Elizabeth Pagging Along, their father takes them door to door joined by a neighbor in his two kids.

[SPEAKER_06]: at one darkened house, no one answers the door.

[SPEAKER_06]: The kids get bored and run ahead.

[SPEAKER_06]: Timothy and Lisbus dad, he waits.

[SPEAKER_06]: But soon, he catches up, holding five long pixie sticks given to him from the occupant of the house that was slow to answer the door.

[SPEAKER_06]: He ends one to each child, and the last one to a child passing by.

[SPEAKER_06]: They all add them to their candy haul and continue on with the night.

[SPEAKER_06]: Later, back at home, Timothy is allowed one last treat before bed.

[SPEAKER_06]: He chooses the pixie stick.

[SPEAKER_06]: He struggles to get the powder out that it clump together until his dad helps him out and loosens it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Moments after swallowing the powder, Timothy feels sick.

[SPEAKER_06]: He holds a stomach and begins to vomit.

[SPEAKER_06]: He cries out, daddy, my stomach hurts, before collapsing.

[SPEAKER_06]: By the time they reached the hospital, Timothy is gone.

[SPEAKER_06]: Test showed that the pixie sticks were laced with cyanide.

[SPEAKER_06]: Enough poison in just two inches to kill several adults.

[SPEAKER_06]: Panic erupts, police scramble, parents tore through trick or treat bags across Houston, terrified that their children had been given deadly candy.

[SPEAKER_06]: The pressed up the mystery culprit, the man who killed Halloween, because of one stranger [SPEAKER_06]: Investigators rushed to track the source.

[SPEAKER_06]: They questioned neighbors retraced trick or treat routes, candy bags all sourced.

[SPEAKER_06]: They finally recovered the other pixie sticks before any other child could eat them.

[SPEAKER_06]: But slowly, the story began to shift.

[SPEAKER_06]: The evidence didn't point to a stranger lurking in the shadows.

[SPEAKER_06]: It pointed to someone much closer.

[SPEAKER_06]: All of the poison candy traced back to a single hand.

[SPEAKER_06]: And that hand belonged to Timothy's father.

[SPEAKER_06]: Ronald Clark O'Brien, 30-years-old, an optician by trade, a deacon at the second Baptist Church, outwardly, a steady family man.

[SPEAKER_06]: But beneath that polished exterior, his life was crumbly.

[SPEAKER_06]: The bills were piling up, he was drowning in debt, so desperate that he began quietly, taking out life insurance policies on his children.

[SPEAKER_06]: Small amounts at first, but over time they grew, by the time Halloween rolled around in 1974, the combined payout reached tens of thousands of dollars, worth well over half a million in today's money.

[SPEAKER_06]: To rattle, those numbers gleamed like a lifeline, and on Halloween night, he convinced himself, he'd found the perfect way out.

[SPEAKER_06]: The chaos of trick or treating the flood of candy, the faceless crowds.

[SPEAKER_06]: If something went wrong, if a child got sick or died, who would ever trace it back to him.

[SPEAKER_06]: That night he slipped cyanide lace pixie sticks into the hands of children.

[SPEAKER_06]: One for his son Timothy, one for his daughter.

[SPEAKER_06]: Two for his neighbor kids, and one, to a ten-year-old he recognized from church, meant to statter suspicion, to make it look more like the work of a deranged stranger.

[SPEAKER_06]: The behind the mask of Halloween, the real monster wasn't in the shadows.

[SPEAKER_06]: He was standing in plain sight, a father who gambled his own child's life for money.

[SPEAKER_06]: The only reason that no one else died was chance.

[SPEAKER_06]: One boy fell asleep with a pixie stick on open beside him, another couldn't get past the staple that Ronald had used to reseal it.

[SPEAKER_06]: In the end, fate, not Ronald's mercy, kept the body count from rising.

[SPEAKER_06]: A twist of luck, a quirk of timing, and four children who never knew how close death had come crawling into their hollowing night.

[SPEAKER_06]: Ronald was arrested days later, at trial prosecutors laid it all out.

[SPEAKER_06]: The debts, the insurance, the plan.

[SPEAKER_06]: The jury took less than an hour to convict him of capital murder.

[SPEAKER_06]: In 1975, Ronald Clark O'Brien was sentenced to death.

[SPEAKER_06]: He was strapped to the gurney and needle in his arm, the sterile hum of the machines replacing the chaos he had once unleashed.

[SPEAKER_06]: Outside the prison that night, crowds of people gathered in the night air, their voices cutting through the darkness.

[SPEAKER_06]: They weren't there to mourn.

[SPEAKER_06]: They weren't there to pray.

[SPEAKER_06]: As the poison flowed into his veins, they shouted into the Texas night.

[SPEAKER_06]: Trick or treat.

[SPEAKER_06]: Ronald Clark O'Brien will always be remembered as the candy man, the father who poisoned Halloween.

[SPEAKER_06]: His crime became a legend, the fuel for whispered warnings passed from parent to child every October.

[SPEAKER_06]: Candy bags dumped onto kitchen tables wrappers inspected under the glow of a forgelight.

[SPEAKER_06]: Fear that the boogie man was out there, slipping poison into sweets.

[SPEAKER_06]: But the truth is far darker than the legend.

[SPEAKER_06]: Because there was no faceless stranger lurking in the [SPEAKER_06]: The real monster?

[SPEAKER_06]: He wasn't hiding in the shadows.

[SPEAKER_06]: He was standing in the doorway.

[SPEAKER_06]: Holding his son's hand.

[SPEAKER_06]: For more haunting true crime stories that linger in the shadows, follow us on Instagram and TikTok at the final trace podcast.

[SPEAKER_06]: Find us wherever you stream your podcast and remember, not all secrets they buried.

[SPEAKER_12]: Hello, and welcome to Day by Day True Crime Stories, the podcast or we explore a different crime or justice milestone from this day in history.

[SPEAKER_12]: I'm your host, Kona Gallagher, and today is October 31st.

[SPEAKER_12]: On this day in 1982, it was Halloween night in South Central Indiana, just north of Seymour, two men left a small house together.

[SPEAKER_12]: The next morning, one man went about his normal life.

[SPEAKER_12]: The other, 24-year-old Clifford Smith, was gone.

[SPEAKER_12]: Days later, his wife filed a missing person's report.

[SPEAKER_12]: A month later, two trappers found his body floating in a backwater pool off of the white river.

[SPEAKER_12]: For more than 40 years, the case set unsolved, while rumors floated around bars and living rooms across Jackson County.

[SPEAKER_12]: That is, until a new detective picked up the old file, [SPEAKER_12]: and finally gave the Smith family the answers they'd waited decades to hear.

[SPEAKER_12]: Today, we're talking about the disappearance and murder of Clifford Smith, and the answers that took over four decades to find.

[SPEAKER_12]: Let's get started.

[SPEAKER_12]: Late on October 30, 1982, it was Halloween weekend in Seymour, Indiana, a small industrial town where everyone seemed to know everyone else.

[SPEAKER_12]: That night, a few friends had gathered at a modest house on East 13th Street for a few drinks and a casual weekend get together.

[SPEAKER_12]: Among the people drifting in and out that night, were Cliff Smith, who was just 24 years old, and his brother-in-law, Ronald Jack Anderson.

[SPEAKER_12]: As the night wound down, Anderson reportedly went to go fetch something.

[SPEAKER_12]: Witnesses would later tell police that they saw him retrieve a shotgun, loaded right there in the house, and then walk outside with Cliff.

[SPEAKER_12]: It was close to midnight when the two men got into a car and drove off, and that was the last time anyone saw Cliff Smith alive.

[SPEAKER_12]: By morning, there was no sign of him.

[SPEAKER_12]: Sunday came and went, Halloween passed.

[SPEAKER_12]: Cliffers' wife waited, though, thinking maybe that he'd gone off with friends, or needed time to cool down after some argument that no one quite remembered.

[SPEAKER_12]: On November 4, 1982, she went to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and filed a missing person's report.

[SPEAKER_12]: Deputy started canvassing, checking the gravel roads north of town, knocking on doors and writing down the names of everyone who'd been at that east 13th street house that night.

[SPEAKER_12]: But no one was talking, not about the shotgun, or about cliff leaving with Ronald Anderson.

[SPEAKER_12]: Because witnesses were clamming up, there wasn't really anywhere for the case to go at that point.

[SPEAKER_12]: But then, at about 8 p.m.

on December 1, 1982, two animal trackers working a low swampy stretch off the white river, made a horrifying discovery.

[SPEAKER_12]: In a shallow, flood prone by you, they saw something pale floating in the water.

[SPEAKER_12]: When they realized what it was, they called state police.

[SPEAKER_12]: Troopers and a coroner waited in under flashlights.

[SPEAKER_12]: The body was dressed in blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and brown boots.

[SPEAKER_12]: In one pocket, they found a wallet and an ID card.

[SPEAKER_12]: It belonged to Clifford Smith.

[SPEAKER_12]: The body was partially decomposed and the top portion of his head was gone.

[SPEAKER_12]: An autopsy later found numerous pieces of buckshot and ruled the cause of death to be a shotgun wound to the head.

[SPEAKER_12]: Local newspapers reported what little they knew.

[SPEAKER_12]: Coverited last been seen on Halloween.

[SPEAKER_12]: His wife had reported him missing five days later.

[SPEAKER_12]: And now, a month after that, he'd been found dead in a backwater just north of Seymour.

[SPEAKER_12]: Detectives mapped out the narrow muddy lane, leading from the road to the water, marking tire tracks, footprints, anything that might still linger in the soft ground.

[SPEAKER_12]: They believe that the killer knew the area and the remote dump site wasn't random.

[SPEAKER_12]: That suspicion only depended as they traced the evidence back toward town, and to the small house on East 13th Street where Clifford had a last been seen alive.

[SPEAKER_12]: Over the next several months, investigators interviewed witnesses, gathered physical evidence, and followed every lead that they could, but like so many small-town murder cases in the early 80s, this one just hit a wall.

[SPEAKER_12]: There were rumors about a fight about money, about a gun, but no one gave them anything solid enough to take to a prosecutor, so the trail went cold.

[SPEAKER_12]: Boxes of reports and evidence moved from shelves to storage rooms.

[SPEAKER_12]: And for over 40 years, that was the end of the story.

[SPEAKER_12]: Then, in September 2015, a veteran detective named Sgt.

[SPEAKER_12]: Kip Main from the Indiana State Police pulled the case file off of the shelf.

[SPEAKER_12]: Inside were the original 1982 reports.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yellow pages typed on old forms, black and white photographs of the recovery sites, and a list of every interview that had been done that fall.

[SPEAKER_12]: He started reading, and then, he started over.

[SPEAKER_12]: Unlike the DNA-driven pulled cases that make headlines, this one wasn't solved by new science.

[SPEAKER_12]: It was solved by patients and persistence.

[SPEAKER_12]: Main re-interviewed witnesses.

[SPEAKER_12]: He tracked down surviving family members.

[SPEAKER_12]: He compared every statement from 1982 to what people remembered more than 30 years later.

[SPEAKER_12]: one-by-one inconsistencies fell away, and this time, the picture began to come into focus.

[SPEAKER_12]: A house on East 13th Street, a loaded shotgun, two men leaving together, and one gun quietly returned later that night.

[SPEAKER_12]: and at all pointed back to Ronald Jack Anderson.

[SPEAKER_12]: By 2023, investigators believed that they finally had enough evidence to prove who killed Cliff Smith.

[SPEAKER_12]: On October 31, 2023, 41 years to the day after Cliff Smith was killed, the Indiana State Police announced that they had made an arrest.

[SPEAKER_12]: Detectives took 61-year-old Ronald Jack Anderson into custody in his home in Seymour and charged him with murder.

[SPEAKER_12]: The details hit hard in the small town, not only had Cliff Smith been denied justice for over four decades, but the man accused of killing him was his own brother-in-law.

[SPEAKER_12]: Over the next year and a half, the case worked its way through the courts.

[SPEAKER_12]: In April 2025, after months of negotiation, Anderson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

[SPEAKER_12]: As part of the deal, the original murder charge was dismissed.

[SPEAKER_12]: A month later, in May 2025, a judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison.

[SPEAKER_12]: For the prosecution, it wasn't about revenge.

[SPEAKER_12]: It was about recognition.

[SPEAKER_12]: After four decades, they could finally say what happened to Clifford Smith, and who was responsible.

[SPEAKER_12]: The story that began on a riverbank in 1982 ended in a courtroom more than 40 years later.

[SPEAKER_12]: But at its heart, this is the story of a 24-year-old man who never made it home from a Halloween party and of all of the people who never stopped looking for justice.

[SPEAKER_12]: But sometimes, justice takes years.

[SPEAKER_12]: Sometimes it takes lifetimes.

[SPEAKER_12]: But on another Halloween, 41 years after the night Clifford Smith banished, someone was finally held accountable.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, I'm Courtney, and I am the host of the Book of the Dead.

[SPEAKER_07]: And this is the legend of the SSU Wrong Medan.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now some of you may be familiar at least in the abstract of what the SSU Wrong Medan is.

[SPEAKER_07]: There is a video game by supermassive games called Man of Medan, and it is based on this legend, the story of a ship transporting chemical weaponry.

[SPEAKER_07]: But the actual legend is without a doubt, stranger than fiction.

[SPEAKER_07]: It may be one of the most mysterious ships of all time.

[SPEAKER_07]: And there is a lot of conflicting information out there, and we're going to get into Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_07]: But supposedly, the legend goes as follows.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sometime in the late 1940s along the streets of Malaca, which is in between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and SOS broadcast was made.

[SPEAKER_07]: The message was received by nearby ships, and they were extremely alarmed by what they heard.

[SPEAKER_07]: The message said, all officers, including Captain Dead, lying in chartroom and on bridge, probably whole crew dead.

[SPEAKER_07]: This message was immediately followed by a series of Morse code that no one could make out because of how rapid the code was, and then one final message came through.

[SPEAKER_07]: And the officer said, I die.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, obviously, the ships that received this transmission were more than concerned for multiple reasons.

[SPEAKER_07]: And one of the main ones was that the crew members sending out this SOS gave no indication as to what caused the death of the crew.

[SPEAKER_07]: What their coordinates were, or what sort of danger these crew members were in.

[SPEAKER_07]: So the ship sailing out to rescue them were going in completely blind.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to what seems to be the original legend, an American ship called the Silver Star was the ship that answered the distress call and organized a rescue mission.

[SPEAKER_07]: They figure out the approximate coordinates of the ship's location and they immediately set sail into the unknown, not knowing what horrors could be awaiting them aboard the U-Ronged dam.

[SPEAKER_07]: Supposedly, they arrive and when they call out to the ship there is no answer.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, the captain of the Silver Star organizes a crew to board the U-Rung Medan and help them.

[SPEAKER_07]: When this rescue crew gets onto the ship, they are met with a terrifying sight.

[SPEAKER_07]: Not one single sailor is alive.

[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone is dead and they are all exactly where the man that made the distress call said they would be.

[SPEAKER_07]: The chartroom, the bridge, the officer that made the broadcast is dead in the radio room.

[SPEAKER_07]: And every single person on the ship is lying there with their eyes looking up.

[SPEAKER_07]: Their faces turn to the sun frozen in fear.

[SPEAKER_07]: Their teeth bared in horror.

[SPEAKER_07]: Even the ship's dog is dead, frozen mid-snow.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to the original legend, allegedly as the rescue crew was looking around, trying to figure out what happened.

[SPEAKER_07]: A fire was discovered in the bowels of the ship, smoke, billowing out of the cargo holds.

[SPEAKER_07]: The rescue crew abandons the ship and as they flee back to the silver star, an explosion erupts so forcefully that the U-Rung Medan was literally lifted out of the water before sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor.

[SPEAKER_07]: But what happened?

[SPEAKER_07]: How did the crew die?

[SPEAKER_07]: And how did the fire start?

[SPEAKER_07]: Is this even a real story?

[SPEAKER_07]: Or is it a ghost story crewman made up to pass the time that morphed into a horrifying mystery?

[SPEAKER_07]: According to multiple sources, there is allegedly no mention of a ship called the Uranbadan in any shipping registry.

[SPEAKER_07]: And there is no official record of this incident from the 1940s when this allegedly occurred.

[SPEAKER_07]: However, various versions of this story have been printed in newspapers from the 1950s onward.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now one of the theories as to why there's no mention of this ship in any registry is because it's a ship that was registered as belonging to the island of Sumatra, which is an island off western Indonesia.

[SPEAKER_07]: The reason people believe this could be a possibility is because, around the Dan translates to man from Medan, and Medan is the capital of North Sumatra.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, according to German researcher Professor Theodore Cyrus Dwarfer, he discovered a German publication from 1953 called Dost Tottenschiff in Dersuzzi, or the death ship in the south seas.

[SPEAKER_07]: This was written by a man named Otto Melke, and it is believed to contain evidence that the ship and what happened to it was a real event.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, allegedly, this claims that the ship's cargo hold contained potassium, cyanide, and nitroglycerin.

[SPEAKER_07]: If it did, this could explain the explosion if the containers were compromised were mishandled in some way.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it explained why the ship's legitimacy is so iffy.

[SPEAKER_07]: because the ship would never have legally been able to transport something like that.

[SPEAKER_07]: The reason being was because tensions during World War II, when this incident was supposed to have occurred, was a very high and sensitive materials being transported and used in appropriately or maliciously would cause a lot of problems internationally.

[SPEAKER_07]: which is a reason why the ship's records are so hard to find or have never been found.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to Michael East, a history and true crime writer, he said nobody came forward to say they knew the ship or had served on her.

[SPEAKER_07]: Equally, the inconsistent dates constantly stand out as does the changing location.

[SPEAKER_07]: Mentions of the fate of the Urong Medan have been found in publication scattered from 1930 to 1940s, and every one of them have details changed.

[SPEAKER_07]: Locations vary from the Solomon Islands to the Marshall Islands and even the ship that tried to rescue them berries.

[SPEAKER_07]: Researcher Estelle Hargraves found quotes from the 1940s in British National newspapers from British Marine officers, describing a distress call requesting a medic in warship.

[SPEAKER_07]: These newspaper articles also claimed that it was a British ship that attempted a rescue mission, not the Silver Star.

[SPEAKER_07]: Articles found by Estelle Hargraves in the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Daily Mirror, and the Hampshire telegraph claimed this accident occurred in November of 1940, and they placed it occurring in the Solomon Islands in the Melanesian region of the Pacific Ocean.

[SPEAKER_07]: In the Yorkshire evening post, their information is supposedly from an officer from an unnamed ship that tried to come to the U-Rung Medan's aid.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now, allegedly, according to author Alexander Blitzik, who wrote the book The U-Rung Medan, conjuring a ghost ship.

[SPEAKER_07]: He found an article from a French magazine from September 7, 1941 that claims this incident occurred in 1939, and it places the location as being around Fiji, and the ship was supposedly an Australian ship that had been sold to a smuggler and was smuggling illegal cargo.

[SPEAKER_07]: However, Michael East blames the changing details on a reporter named Sylvia O'Shralli.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sylvia O'Shralli is a name heavily attached to the U-Rung story.

[SPEAKER_07]: Sylvia wrote and published his own version of the U-Rung Bedan story after allegedly coming across a survivor that washed up on the shores of Tangi atoll in the Marshall Islands.

[SPEAKER_07]: In 1948, a Dutch Indonesian newspaper, to locomotive published the story where Silvio claimed he was told the ship was traveling to Costa Rica from a Chinese port because of the illegal cargo they were carrying, which was sulfuric acid.

[SPEAKER_07]: Supposedly, the survivor's name was Jerry Rabbit.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to Jerry, he washed up on the shore of the Marshall Islands 10 days after the Urang Midan sank in a lifeboat with six other crew members, but he was the only survivor.

[SPEAKER_07]: Rabbit made it to a missionary and reportedly told them that he joined the Urang Midan's crew in Shanghai and the crew was loading 15,000 crates of mysterious cargo into the bowels of the ship.

[SPEAKER_07]: He claimed that after they set sail to Costa Rica, he realized that this was a smuggling operation.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to this report, Jerry said that after men on the cruise started growing sick, he investigated what the ship was carrying.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he found out via a logbook that the crates they were transporting contains sulfuric acid, potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin.

[SPEAKER_07]: After men started dying, Chariah escaped on the lifeboat and he allegedly died himself soon after telling the story.

[SPEAKER_07]: The problem is, there is no mention of Chariah rapid existing at all outside of this article.

[SPEAKER_07]: This article claims the cargo business handled, or not stored properly, and the escaping films caused the cruise death and caused the explosion.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now toxic fumes killing the crew is the most common theory with minor differences.

[SPEAKER_07]: Some claim the fumes alone killed them, and some claim the fumes caused horrific hallucinations that literally scared these crew members to death.

[SPEAKER_07]: Another theory points to a pirate attack, which, given the time this would have occurred, could have been a possibility, except for the fact that the bodies on board reportedly showed no injuries.

[SPEAKER_07]: A different article by Les Hewitt claims that the incident occurred either June 1947 or February 1948, but none of these states are consistent.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to the article, two ships picked up the distress call from the U-Rung Midan, the Silver Star and the SS City of Baltimore.

[SPEAKER_07]: With the help of the Dutch ship and a British listening post, they were able to figure out the coordinates of the U-Rung Midan and the Silver Star set out on a rescue mission.

[SPEAKER_07]: The Uragma Dan was found around 150 miles from the broadcast coordinates.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now according to this article, the rescue crew noticed a few other things besides the deceased crew.

[SPEAKER_07]: One of the life both attached to the side of the ship was missing, which means or at least implies that some of the crew managed to get off the ship.

[SPEAKER_07]: The temperature of the ship itself was somewhere between 100 and 110 degrees.

[SPEAKER_07]: But the rescue crew felt in our natural chill, seemingly coming from nowhere.

[SPEAKER_07]: The bodies of the crew were unwounded, but they seemed to be decaying faster than they should be.

[SPEAKER_07]: Though, if the ship was that hot, it would accelerate decomposition.

[SPEAKER_07]: However, there are some glaring issues with these dates.

[SPEAKER_07]: For the article's claiming the silver star was the ship to come to the rescue, it's not possible, because the ship that was named the silver star was not called that until after this incident supposedly happened.

[SPEAKER_07]: The ship was registered under the name Sanzo Wana, and the name wasn't changed until the [SPEAKER_07]: In fact, the ship was only called the Silver Star for about one year before the name changed again.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now the U-Rung Bedan was completely on damage, to see they were going to tow the ship back to Port to salvage it when they noticed smoke coming from the cargo hold.

[SPEAKER_07]: Also according to this article, the first official mention of this incident is from the U.S.

Coast Guard in May of 1952.

[SPEAKER_07]: Another theory has to do with chemical warfare.

[SPEAKER_07]: According to this theory, the Japanese might have smuggled experimental biological weaponry they created onto the ship for transport.

[SPEAKER_07]: This was called Unit 731, and this theory goes on to say that the Japanese aim to create the most dangerous weapon in order to achieve Japanese supremacy.

[SPEAKER_07]: Allegedly, Unit 731 was developed in 1932 by a Japanese bacterialologist named Shiro Ishii who conducted her horrific experiments during World War II, which is an entire story in and of itself.

[SPEAKER_07]: The last mention of the SSU Rangbadan comes from a letter written by a man named C.H.

[SPEAKER_07]: Mark in December 1959.

[SPEAKER_07]: This letter was written to Alan Tools, the Assistant Director of the CIA, and in the letter CHmark claims that he has evidence that the U-Rung Medan existed and that its demise came from great balls of fire in the sky.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he wanted confirmation that he was correct, but Mr.

Tools only replied thank you for your inquiry.

[SPEAKER_07]: As for the final resting place of the U-Rung [SPEAKER_07]: There had been no rocks found along the streets of Malacca, and no identified ships matching its description were ever found.

[SPEAKER_07]: No one knows, or may ever know, if the Uragma dance really existed.

[SPEAKER_07]: But if it did, the ocean took its secrets to the very depths where no one may ever find it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Again, I'm Courtney from the Book of the Dead.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hi everyone, I'm Pat, and I'm Darcy, and we are the host of Pod of Terror, welcome everyone to the Darkest Network Halloween special, a lot of really, really good stories for you, the spooky Halloween and we here with one of those two.

[SPEAKER_05]: Halloween night in 2011 was not a fan one for first responders in Chicago.

[SPEAKER_05]: When the police arrives at an address in Winchester Avenue, the paramedics were already there, trying to help 49-year-old Maria Adams.

[SPEAKER_05]: There was a loss of blood everywhere, broken dishes, and three knives in the sink.

[SPEAKER_05]: Maria was found face down, having suffered multiple ulcerations and puncture wounds to her face and hands, and altogether she had over 20 stab wounds and ulcerations, some of which [SPEAKER_05]: knives, one in his hand.

[SPEAKER_05]: So think like fucking Windmill situation when you're literally going that's the right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: So that's quite dramatic.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And there were also injuries to her head.

[SPEAKER_05]: So she was either stomped on or had her head slammed on the floor.

[SPEAKER_05]: So really, really violent.

[SPEAKER_05]: Unfortunately, Maria died almost a week later on the fifth of November.

[SPEAKER_05]: All of this has happened because of a bag of Halloween candy.

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's about to get weird, everyone.

[SPEAKER_05]: The Dell people's met Maria Adams in 2007.

[SPEAKER_05]: According to him, he'd give her money and gifts in exchange for sex, and she would sometimes spend the night at his place.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I don't know the exact nature of this relationship, but it seems very transactional, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, this seems to seem to have had like some sort of arrangement.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's like adults, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, do what you want exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: So maybe she just, yeah, maybe she, oh, I don't know what the fuck is going on here.

[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, they knew each other.

[SPEAKER_05]: They would kind of bonken, she would just like, give her dinner.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: If standard, right.

[SPEAKER_05]: So that Halloween, Liddell, noticed that a bag of his candy was missing.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he was really mad because it wasn't the first time like things would kind of disappear when Maria was around.

[SPEAKER_05]: So she confronted her and she denied having seen it anyway.

[SPEAKER_05]: She was like, I don't know what you're talking about, but you're tripping.

[SPEAKER_04]: But to be fair, if my bag of candy was missing, I'd be absolutely upset.

[SPEAKER_05]: There would be words on this, for sure.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, hundred percent.

[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, she was like, I don't know, I've never seen it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, can't you just talk about it?

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, here apparently found it in her coat pocket.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, she did take it.

[SPEAKER_05]: She did take it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, allegedly she took it.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what he said.

[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, it's a clear, exactly like what happened here at how the fight started.

[SPEAKER_05]: But at some point, Maria, for a plate at LaDelle and hit him right above his right eye.

[SPEAKER_05]: And in the mantra, you're going to see he's got like a nasty little gash above his eyebrow.

[SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, is it, is it, it's possible?

[SPEAKER_05]: He lunched at her first in a kitchen and she just basically threw plates to defend herself.

[SPEAKER_05]: We don't really know, he claims some other things.

[SPEAKER_05]: We don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: But he claims that she threw it and provoked.

[SPEAKER_05]: like just randomly decided to throw a place at him apparently, I don't think so, okay, okay, let's roll for that, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and that made him mad apparently, so he started walking towards her, and that's when she grabbed two stake knives.

[SPEAKER_05]: He wrestled them away from her, and then he managed to wrestle her to the ground and began swinging the knives, aiming for the face, like you know, with both his hands just let's go and let it.

[SPEAKER_05]: He had no, obviously, fucking awful.

[SPEAKER_05]: He stopped when she turned over and stopped fighting back, but she just got quiet, he was like, all right.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's believed that he then grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head into the ground three times.

[SPEAKER_05]: She was mowning and he said, he didn't know if she was fake, you know what, do you know, then bitches can't be trusted, can they?

[SPEAKER_05]: Like, is she actually dying or not?

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, wait.

[SPEAKER_05]: I just slummed her head a few times.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did you know her name?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: If I'd write whatever man, yeah, so he was unsure if she was pretending.

[SPEAKER_05]: She was whatever the fuck he claimed was happening.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: He then stomped on her back, sorry, on the back of her head once more, grabs the biggest knife from the kitchen drawer and then poked her with it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Basically like you were alive, you were alive.

[SPEAKER_05]: You were alive just to see if she moves or if she talks or if anything happens.

[SPEAKER_05]: Of course she didn't move.

[SPEAKER_05]: Lidale considered dumping her somewhere outside because like, I can just kind of go rid of her, I can't, I just don't, whatever.

[SPEAKER_05]: Find a body.

[SPEAKER_05]: But because they'd had sex earlier that night, like, literally an hour earlier, he thought that the cops would find them anyway.

[SPEAKER_05]: They would connect it, like, connect her body to him.

[SPEAKER_05]: So he was like, nah, I don't want anyone to just think I raped her, you know, he didn't want that fucking charge on top of everything else.

[SPEAKER_05]: So he was like, I'd better just like, did I?

[SPEAKER_05]: not do that because I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: I imagine thinking about his DNA sample or details were already somewhere in the police system.

[SPEAKER_05]: That kind of line of thinking, but you know, also you're going to get that mind over a bag of candy.

[SPEAKER_05]: You must have a problem before.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I mean, something's going on here.

[SPEAKER_05]: I have no idea.

[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, he was like, no, I'm not going to just dump her because I don't want another right of rape charge for something.

[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't do because [SPEAKER_05]: So, instead, he got dressed and he called no-one.

[SPEAKER_05]: When the police officers got there, they kind of thought that he seemed all right, like he seemed together, there was no dramatic, there was no theatrics, he was just kind of, you know, just a disagui, just a guy sitting on the front porch, basically waiting for them.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he was absolutely fine, he told them he didn't want to hurt her, it was self-defense.

[SPEAKER_05]: basically.

[SPEAKER_05]: She was holding the knives and when she hit him with the plate, he would he like saw his own blood on his fingers and he really freaked out and that's when a kick-up kind of lost control and he kind of went for it.

[SPEAKER_05]: later during the trial he claims that she didn't remember saying anything about all of that or saying anything about slamming her head into the ground or considering hiding her body were just what she fucking told them but they first arrested him because like I don't remember saying that no I didn't say that if I don't remember it didn't happen my lawyer told me it was a bad idea so let's know I don't remember [SPEAKER_05]: And then he said, in court, that, in fact, at the time of that incident, he was actually falling in love with her.

[SPEAKER_05]: He didn't want her to go hurt.

[SPEAKER_05]: He loved her.

[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: So LaDelle was facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated domestic battery.

[SPEAKER_05]: He did not guilty because, you know, he was self-defense.

[SPEAKER_05]: He loved her.

[SPEAKER_05]: Um, he was, of course, found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

[SPEAKER_05]: And the sentence was then appealed.

[SPEAKER_05]: Basically, he has the fence claimed that at 29, he was fired 55 and some of the incident.

[SPEAKER_05]: And at 29, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

[SPEAKER_05]: And so, our psychiatrist statement should have been allowed.

[SPEAKER_05]: And they argued for a lesser sentence of second degree murder because of that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But he was a little, he was mentally ill.

That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, in the end, the kind of, there was a bit of, you know, pushing and pulling and all that, all of that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But the courts decided that if it's irrelevant, actually, because the state of Illinois doesn't recognise the managed responsibility defense, they just don't fucking buy that, they don't believe they don't do it.

[SPEAKER_05]: If anything, they would have to go for insanity defense, which they didn't, so, you know, they were like, we don't do that here, darling.

[SPEAKER_05]: And their psychiatrist, Dr.

Halin, said that LaDelle suffered from skits of effective disorder, paranoid skits of freeing a cognitive disorder and cocaine abuse.

[SPEAKER_05]: Um, and a very, very strong addiction to candy, apparently.

[SPEAKER_05]: So there you have it, a story about a man who killed his misses or whoever the fact she was to him over a bag of got done candy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, honestly, at your grown age, you shouldn't be that sad.

[SPEAKER_04]: It shouldn't have triggered this kind of fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_05]: It sounds to me like the, perhaps was violence in this kind of scenario.

[SPEAKER_05]: Because these sound like people who have some sort of, they are damaged, I think.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think so.

[SPEAKER_05]: The cocaine abuse, I'm sure that's not fucking helpful, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Any case anyway, but yeah, just a really horrendous how these can escalate over such a mind and mind a thing that you would never even, I mean, would you kill over a bug of candy?

[SPEAKER_05]: I probably wouldn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I'll be touching anyone's candy.

[SPEAKER_05]: That one.

[SPEAKER_05]: Keep your fucking fingers to yourselves.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's the lesson from today.

[SPEAKER_05]: Don't steal Halloween candy because look how you might end up.

[SPEAKER_05]: So that's our lesson for tonight.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Have you ever got had your Halloween candy stolen?

[SPEAKER_05]: No.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't really, I've never really done it.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's not a thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Really?

[SPEAKER_05]: No, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: These days, I tried to have a couple of bikers of candy and just like give it to the kids, but a lot of the time they just don't.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it depends on the area that you get.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: because there's some parts in London where they actually make an effort by definitely a very American fit.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is, it's not so big here.

[SPEAKER_04]: But one time when we were kids, right, we really wanted to do trick-a-treeting.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we were like, come, let's try it out.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then my little brother came with me as well and he was wearing like a really scary mask.

[SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, [SPEAKER_04]: with the area we grew up in there was zero Halloween anything on there there was nobody a decoration it wasn't a thing yeah so we went to our neighbors and one of our neighbors like some others didn't even answer some of them did and they were like oh no like they were giving us whatever they could find like this gift so that's for us to come over here's the [SPEAKER_04]: Literally like oh I had no idea.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think one family were having a wedding so they had They had sweets and they gave us some nice that's look most people were just like trying to like a felt bad and gave us things One time one of the houses we went to the lady had obviously had no idea it was a Halloween or anything She's on the third she answers the door my brother's standing right there the mask she fully like she got so panicked She fell to the ground [SPEAKER_04]: This is what happens when you do Halloween and places that are doing the way we're like super apologetic and she's like, okay, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now I have to find something to give you guys and she just went running into her kitchen.

[SPEAKER_05]: That just means the costume was great.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, this stuff kind of was well deserved.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you very much for that guys.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you for listening.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We've been Pat and Darcy, [SPEAKER_13]: Hey everyone, I'm Kermita and I host a podcast called Missing in the PNW.

[SPEAKER_13]: I focus on missing person cases right here in the Pacific Northwest where I grew up and all my missing persons are from marginalized communities.

[SPEAKER_13]: The PNW has some of the most haunted places.

[SPEAKER_13]: Today, I'm going to take you on a tour of three of the most haunted places in my [SPEAKER_13]: The first stop is Maltnoma Falls.

[SPEAKER_13]: One of the most popular tourist spots in Oregon is a half-hour drive east of where I grew up in Portland on I-84, going towards the Columbia River Gorge.

[SPEAKER_13]: You will run into science for Maltnoma Falls.

[SPEAKER_13]: A 620 foot high, two-tier, beautiful waterfall.

[SPEAKER_13]: It is the tallest waterfall in Oregon, the most height.

[SPEAKER_13]: and draws nearly 2 million visitors per year.

[SPEAKER_13]: But what many people may not know is actually has a haunted past.

[SPEAKER_13]: My grandma actually told me at my siblings' story growing up, as it is an old Native American tell.

[SPEAKER_13]: If you heard my podcast before, you'd know I'm half Mexican and half Native American.

[SPEAKER_13]: The story goes that long ago, a deadly illness ravaged a local native village.

[SPEAKER_13]: an elder spoke to the tribe and said that the only way that illness could be stopped was by the sacrifice of a maiden of noble honor.

[SPEAKER_13]: The village's chief had a daughter.

[SPEAKER_13]: She took it upon herself to sacrifice herself to spare her people.

[SPEAKER_13]: She climbed to the top where the waterfall now is and jumped off, giving herself for her village.

[SPEAKER_13]: with that sacrifice, her village was cleansed, and the waterfall was created by a spirit so that her people would always remember her courage and so that the midst of the waterfall would cleanse and heal those who visited the site.

[SPEAKER_13]: If you look closely, many people say that you can see the young women's face in the waterfall.

[SPEAKER_13]: Most commonly, you can see her in the water in the wintertime.

[SPEAKER_13]: I've actually seen her spirit, or the face of her spirit, and the waterfall myself.

[SPEAKER_13]: I am not taking you to the orange post, 13 miles north of a little town called Florence, where top 205 foot headland stands the 56 foot tall Hacita Head Lighthouse.

[SPEAKER_13]: Over the years, many men would keep the lighthouse running and just up the hill from the lighthouse was an actual house that their families could stay in.

[SPEAKER_13]: One particular member of one particular family is said to have never left.

[SPEAKER_13]: Many call her the Gray Lady.

[SPEAKER_13]: But for the last couple of decades, she has been known as Rue, Rue E.

At least, that is the name, a couple of Lane Community College kids gave her, after they decided to play with the Luigi board in the house.

[SPEAKER_13]: Good old Luigi boards, right?

[SPEAKER_13]: Legend has it that Rue's husband was a lighthouse keeper and had two daughters.

[SPEAKER_13]: one of her daughters unfortunately drowned.

[SPEAKER_13]: Although it's not mentioned if her daughter drowned in the house or if her daughter drowned in the ocean.

[SPEAKER_13]: While her husband and other daughter moved on, she however did not.

[SPEAKER_13]: and she's not a meme ghost by any means, but she wants to like to play pranks on people.

[SPEAKER_13]: She will rearrange furniture, move guests belongings, and she's even known to clean up the place.

[SPEAKER_13]: Hey, we don't have a lot of ghosts playing.

[SPEAKER_13]: She's not just in the house either though, with some settings of her inside the actual lighthouse.

[SPEAKER_13]: That actually makes me believe that she's looking out over to the Pacific Ocean with that.

[SPEAKER_13]: I believe if the story is true, her daughter unfortunately died and drowned in the Pacific Ocean.

[SPEAKER_13]: The last hundred place we are going is 300 miles from Portland and far Eastern Oregon to a place called Baker City, which is home to the Grand Geiser Hotel.

[SPEAKER_13]: One of the most prominent ghosts is the Lady of Inbaloo.

[SPEAKER_13]: She is believed to be a former owner, possibly named Grandma Annabelle, who was seen in mirrors, walking downstairs and sitting in room 302.

[SPEAKER_13]: not to be confused by that creepy little doll in a bill.

[SPEAKER_13]: Totally completely different.

[SPEAKER_13]: There are also a bunch of sightings of many unknown male entities, ladies and red, and even a headless clip.

[SPEAKER_13]: What would a haunted hotel be?

[SPEAKER_13]: With awesome spooky sounds, right?

[SPEAKER_13]: Guess how reported hearing disembodied voices, a woman screaming, laughter, and foot sweeps.

[SPEAKER_13]: Guess how also seen light flickering, doors opening, and closing by themselves, and objects moving on their own.

[SPEAKER_13]: Now, not all the paranormal going on in the hotel is creepy.

[SPEAKER_13]: Some of the workers at the hotel say that they could hear loud music coming from the upper floors in the attic.

[SPEAKER_13]: And they believe the ghosts are up there having a party, and they just don't disturb them.

[SPEAKER_13]: Guess you gotta have fun in the afterlife too, right?

[SPEAKER_13]: That is all I have for you today, and I just want to give a shout out to CJ and all of my other Darkest members.

[SPEAKER_13]: I'm still excited to be part of this year's Darkest Halloween episode, and I hope you catch missing in the PNW.

[SPEAKER_13]: I am on all the streaming platforms.

[SPEAKER_13]: You can [SPEAKER_13]: And I will talk to you next time guys, happy Halloween and remember, have fun, but be safe.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good evening listeners, my name is DJ, and I'm the host of the Mythical True Crime podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight we're going to hear about one of the most infamous killers that have spawned multiple copycats and has inspired pop culture films and television shows.

[SPEAKER_01]: Most recently, Netflix's Monsters, The Ed Geen Story.

[SPEAKER_01]: Edward Theodor Gene was born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, late August 27, 1906.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was the second of two sons from George Gene and Augusta Gene.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the Gene's only sibling he had was an older brother named Henry.

[SPEAKER_01]: Augusta, his mother, who was feverantly religious and nominally a Lutheran, frequently preached to her sons about the innate morality of the world, such as the evils of drinking and her belief that all women were naturally promiscuous and instruments of the devil.

[SPEAKER_01]: She reserved every afternoon to read from the Bible, usually selecting verses from Old Testament to the book of Revelation concerning death, murder, and divine retribution.

[SPEAKER_01]: Edward idolized and eventually became obsessed with his mother.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the class, Gene's father worked as a carpenter, Tanner, and a firefighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: He also owned a local grocery store, but soon sold his business and left the city with his family to live on a 155 acre farm in the town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which became their permanent residence.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gaines' father was known to be a violent alcoholic who regularly beat both of his sons.

[SPEAKER_01]: This caused Ed's ears to ring when his father beat him over the head.

[SPEAKER_01]: Augusta took advantage of the farm's isolation by turning away outsiders who could have influenced her sons.

[SPEAKER_01]: Edward left the farm only to attend school, and outside of school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was very shy, classmates, and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if it was laughing at his own personal jokes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Augusta punished Edward every time he tried to make friends, quoting to family acquaintances, [SPEAKER_01]: Now on April 1st, 1940, the Game Brothers father had a fatal heart attack at the age of 66.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ed and his brother were doing odd jobs around town to help cover living expenses.

[SPEAKER_01]: The brothers were generally considered reliable and honest to the rest of the community.

[SPEAKER_01]: While both worked as handymen, Ed frequently babysat for neighbors, seemingly to relate more easily to children than to adults.

[SPEAKER_01]: Henry began dating a woman who's a divorcee with two children of her own and planned to move in with her.

[SPEAKER_01]: He worried that his brother's attachment to their mother and often spoke ill of her around Edward, who always responded with shock and hurt.

[SPEAKER_01]: However, on May 16, 1944, Ed was burning away most of the March vegetation on the property and this caused a fire to go out of control drawing an attention of the local fire department.

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the end of that day, the fire had it been extinguished, and the firefighters left, however, Ed reported Henry missing.

[SPEAKER_01]: With lanterns and flashlights, a search party was searched for the 43-year-old Henry, whose dead body was found lying face-down.

[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, Henry had been dent for some time, didn't seem to be caused by the fire.

[SPEAKER_01]: However, it did appear that the cause of death was heart failure.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was later reported by a biographer that Henry had bruises on his head.

[SPEAKER_01]: Police dismissed the possibility of foul play in the county corner listed it as a s fixiation as the cause of death.

[SPEAKER_01]: The authorities accepted the accident theory, but there was no official investigation conducted in the autopsy it was never performed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Questioning at about the death of Bernie Swarden in 1957, state investigator Joe Willamonsky brought up questions about Henry's death to him.

[SPEAKER_01]: George Arnt, who studied the case wrote later in retrospect that it was possibly unlikely that Henry's death was sort of a can and able aspect of, and Ed was the one that carried out the murder.

[SPEAKER_01]: With Henry deceased, Ed and his mother were now alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Augusta suffered a paralyzing stroke shortly after Henry's death, and Ed devoted the rest of himself for her prayer.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sometime in 1945, he later recounted that he and his mother visited a man named Smith, who lived nearby to purchase straw.

[SPEAKER_01]: According to Edward, Augusta witnessed Smith beating a dog.

[SPEAKER_01]: And a woman inside the Smith residence came out in the Elden Stop, [SPEAKER_01]: Augusta was extremely upset by this scene, while bother her most didn't appear to be the brutality towards a dog, but rather the presence of the woman there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Augusta then later told Ed that the woman was not married to Smith, so had no business of even being there, angrily calling her Smith's harlot.

[SPEAKER_01]: She suffered a second stroke soon after, and her health deteriorated rapidly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Edward devastated by the death of this mother, in the words of his biographer, only had his friend and his only true love gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was absolutely alone in the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now Ed helled on to the farm and earned money, again doing odd jobs.

[SPEAKER_01]: He booted up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs and downstairs parlor and the living room leaving them seemingly untouched.

[SPEAKER_01]: While the rest of the house became increasingly squallled, these [SPEAKER_01]: Ed lived in the small room next to Kitchen, around this time, he began interested in reading Pope magazines and adventure stories, particularly those involving cannibals or Nazi atrocities, specifically concerning Ilsa Koch, who had been accused of selecting tattooed prisoners for death to a fashion lampshades and other items of their skins.

[SPEAKER_01]: In 1951, Edward started receiving a farm subsidy from the federal government.

[SPEAKER_01]: He still worked occasionally at the local municipal rail crew and crop thrashing crews up in plain filled area.

[SPEAKER_01]: However, some time between 1946 and 1956, he had then settled an additional 80 acres parcel of his land.

[SPEAKER_01]: On the morning of November 15th, 1957, 58-year-old Plainville Hardware Store owner, Denise Warden, was a reported disappear.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Hardware Store's truck had been seen driving out of the rear of the building in around 930 a.m.

that day.

[SPEAKER_01]: The store saw very few customers the entire day, and some area residents believe that this was because it was deer hunting season.

[SPEAKER_01]: Warden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Warden, entered the store around 5pm to find the cash register open with blood stains on the floor.

[SPEAKER_01]: Frank told investigators that the evening before his mother's disappearance, Gain had been seen at the store, it was expecting to return the next morning for Gallon of Antifreeze.

[SPEAKER_01]: A sales slip of the antifreeze was the last receipt written by Prince Warden on the morning that she disappeared.

[SPEAKER_01]: That evening, Gain was arrested at West Playfield grocery store, and the sheriff's department searched his farm.

[SPEAKER_01]: The sheriff deputy discovered not just warns to capitated Bonnie in the shed of Gain's property, who was also hung upside down by her legs, and a crossbar between her ankles and ropes at her wrists.

[SPEAKER_01]: Her torso had been, and his words dressed like a deer.

[SPEAKER_01]: One had been shot with a 22 caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death.

[SPEAKER_01]: Searching gains house authorities found multiple artifacts, such as a whole human bones and fragments of skeletons, a waste basket made of human skin, human skin covering several chairs, a human skull mounted on bedposts, female skulls on top of some top saw-and-off, bulls made from human skulls, a corset made from a human torso skin from shoulders to waste, [SPEAKER_01]: Mary Hogan's face mask on a paper bag.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mary Hogan's skull was inside of a box.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bernie's Holden's entire head was inside of a burlap sack, as well as her heart in a plastic bag in front of Gaines' pot belly stove.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nine vulvas inside of a shoe box.

[SPEAKER_01]: A young girl's dress and two vulvas from two females judged to be about 15 years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: A belt made from female human nipples, four noses, a pair of lips with a window shade drawstring, and a lamp shade made from skin of a human face.

[SPEAKER_01]: These artifacts were photographed at the state crime laboratory, and then decently disposed of.

[SPEAKER_01]: When questioned, Gain told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he had made, as many as 40 nocturnal visitors, and three local graveyards to exhum recently buried bodies, and what he says he was in a days-like state.

[SPEAKER_01]: On about 30 of those visits, he said that he came out of that day as while at the cemetery, left the graving good order and returned home empty handed.

[SPEAKER_01]: On other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women, and he thought resembled his mother and took their body's home where he tanned their skin to make his paraphernalia.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain admitted that stealing from nine graves led to Vesugators to him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Alan Winomowski, the state crime laboratory participated in opening three test graves identified by Gain.

[SPEAKER_01]: The caskets were inside wooden boxes.

[SPEAKER_01]: The top boards ran crossways, not lengthwise, and the tops of the boxes were about two feet or so below the surface in sandy soil.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain had robbed the graves soon after their funeral, while the graves were incomplete.

[SPEAKER_01]: The test graves were exhumed because authorities were uncertain as whether the slight gain was capable of single-handedly digging up a grave during the evening.

[SPEAKER_01]: They were found as gain described, one casket empty, the other casket was empty, but contained a few bones, and gains crowbar, and a final casket had most of the body missing, but gain had return rings in some other body parts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Desk gain's confession was largely corroborated.

[SPEAKER_01]: Soon after his mother's death, Gain began to create a woman's suit so that he could become his mother to literally crawl into her skin.

[SPEAKER_01]: He denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed explaining, quote, they smelled too bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: And during the state crime laboratory, but interrogation Gain admitted to shooting 51-year-old Mary Hogan, a tavern owner who had been missing since December 8th that year in 1954.

[SPEAKER_01]: Her head was later found in his house, though he denied any memory of the details surrounding [SPEAKER_01]: The 16-year-old youth whose parents were friends with Giend, who had attended baseball games in the movies with them reported that Giend kept shrunk in heads in his house, which he described as relics sent by a cousin who had served in the Philippines in World War II.

[SPEAKER_01]: Upon investigation, by police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from their corpses, and used by Giend as masks.

[SPEAKER_01]: During questioning, Sheriff Art Schnelly reported assaults again by banging his head and face into a perk wall, as a result, Gaines' initial confession was ruled in a miscible.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sheriff Art died of heart failure in 1968 at the age of 43 before Gaines' trial even took place.

[SPEAKER_01]: Many who were Chef Art, who knew him, said that he was traumatized by the horror that Gaines crimes inflicted on him, and this, along with the fear of having to testify in court, especially against assaulting Gaines, who which caused his death.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Gaines was considered a suspect in several other unsolved cases there in Wisconsin.

[SPEAKER_01]: In November and 57, authorities confronted him about missing persons cases that had occurred [SPEAKER_01]: Their suspicions further aroused the discovery of Hogan's remains.

[SPEAKER_01]: Lie detector tests exonerated gain for many of those murders.

[SPEAKER_01]: But his psychiatrist concluded that his violence can only be directed to women who physically resemble his mother.

[SPEAKER_01]: On November 21, 1957, Gain was a rain in the county courthouse for one count of first degree murder where he played it not guilty by reason of its sanity.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found minimally incompetent thus unfit for trial.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain was then sent to the Central State Hospital for the criminally insane, which is now known as Dodge Correctional Institution, Maxim's Security Facility.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was later transferred to the Madonna State Hospital in Madison.

[SPEAKER_01]: In 1968, doctors determined that Gain was mentally able to confer with Council and participate in his own defense.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, neutral began on November 7th, 1968, 11 years after, and it lasted less than one week.

[SPEAKER_01]: A psychiatrist testified that Gain had told him that he did not know whether the killing of Warden was intentional or accidental.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain told him that he had examined a gun at Warden's store and the weapon discharged and killed her.

[SPEAKER_01]: He claimed to not have aimed the rifle at her and didn't remember anything that happened that morning.

[SPEAKER_01]: At the request of the defense, Gain's trial was held without a jury.

[SPEAKER_01]: With Judge Robert H.

Gaulmar, presiding Gain was found guilty by the judge on November [SPEAKER_01]: a second trial dealt with the Gaines insanity, or sanity.

[SPEAKER_01]: After testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Garmer ruled Gaines quote not guilty by reason of insanity, and ordered him to be committed to central state hospital for the criminally insane.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gaines spent the rest of his life inside that mental hospital.

[SPEAKER_01]: Judge wrote, due to prohibitive costs, Gaines was tried only for one murder, [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Gaines House, the outbuildings, and is $195 acre property were appraised at about $4,700, which is equivalent to about $51,000 in today's money.

[SPEAKER_01]: His possessions were scheduled to be a auction March 30, 1958, amidst rumors that the house and the land stood on what might become a tourist attraction.

[SPEAKER_01]: Early in the morning of March 20th, the house was destroyed by a fire.

[SPEAKER_01]: Deputy fire marshal reported that a garbage fire had been set 75 feet away from the house by a cleaning crew who were also given the task of disposing the refuse.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hot coals were recovered from the spot of the bonfire, but that was not the fire that spread along the ground from the location.

[SPEAKER_01]: arson was suspected that the cause of fire was never officially determined.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is possible that the fire was not considered a matter of urgency by the fire chief Frank Warden the son of Gaines Victim.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gaines learned to the incident while in the detention center shrugged and said, just as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gaines, a vehicle, the Ford sedan, which he used to haul the bodies, it will have his victims was sold at public auction for $760, which is about $8300 today.

[SPEAKER_01]: A carnival side show operator, bunny Gibbons, purchased the vehicle.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gibbons was then later charged Carnival Goers 25 cents admission to see them.

[SPEAKER_01]: The current robots of the Ford sedan are unknown.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain later died at the Madonna Mental Hospital Institute due to respiratory failure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Secondary to lung cancer on July 26, 1984 at the age of 77.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gain is interred by his parents and his brother and playing field cemetery.

[SPEAKER_01]: Over the years, however, souvenir seekers chipped away at pieces of his gravestone until the stone itself was stolen in the year 2000.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was recovered less than a year and a half later in June, 2001, near Seattle, Washington, and was placed in a storage unit in the sheriff's department, and since then, his grave site has remained unmarked.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much for listening to tonight's story.

[SPEAKER_01]: Again, my name is DJ, and I'm the host of the Mythical True Crime podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good night.

[SPEAKER_11]: Who?

[SPEAKER_11]: It's Jackie!

[SPEAKER_11]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_02]: In December 1972, 101 people were killed, with several more floating in the shallow alligator infested water of the Everglades, when Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed.

[SPEAKER_02]: Second Officer Donald Rippo was one of those people who perished, along with pilot Captain Bob Loft.

[SPEAKER_02]: Though they died in the crash, they would continue to get on flights, again, and again.

[SPEAKER_02]: Leaving Eastern Airlines Flight 318, feeling quite haunted.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, I'm Kayla, host of Tragedy with a View, and this is the Ghost of Flight 401.

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[SPEAKER_02]: the flight itself when smoothly, and when they began to approach Miami International Airport, first officer stocks still lowered the landing gear.

[SPEAKER_02]: As co-pilot, this was his job.

[SPEAKER_02]: On the dash, there are three lights for each of the wheel wells that tell the pilot and co-pilot when the wheels are down and ready for landing.

[SPEAKER_02]: But this time, only the two rear wheel lights lit up green.

[SPEAKER_02]: The front wheel light stayed off.

[SPEAKER_02]: indicating that the land gear at the nose of the plane failed to come out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Generally, when this happens, there is something with the light itself that is faulty rather than the wheel.

[SPEAKER_02]: And even when the wheel fails to come out with the push of a button, it can be done so manually.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is nothing to panic about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Captain Loft simply tells air control that he is going to make a loop around while they address the issue and then come back in for landing.

[SPEAKER_02]: First officer stock still then turns the autopilot on to keep the plane at around 2,000 feeds of altitude and moving at about 200 miles per hour so that he and Captain Lovt are able to examine the control deck at the same time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Donald repo, who was the flight mechanic, would end up going down into the small compartment which sits below the cockpit to visually see [SPEAKER_02]: Captain Loft and First Officer Stocks still figure out that it was the light itself that was faulty as his common, and that the wheel wasn't fact-down.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was 1142 PM.

[SPEAKER_02]: First Officer Stocks still began to turn the plane to the left so they could swoop around toward the airport once again when he got an odd sensation of doom.

[SPEAKER_02]: He had noticed the ground coming up to meet them without realizing that this is what it was, and flight 401 crashed into the Everglades.

[SPEAKER_02]: It would be Bob Marquis who arrived on the scene first.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was outfrog hunting with his friend on a flat bottom boat when he saw the explosion from flight for a one hitting the water.

[SPEAKER_02]: It took him several moments to comprehend what happened, but when he made his way toward the accident, the sound that rose up was undeniable.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was the sound of people crying out for help.

[SPEAKER_02]: When Bob saw the first victim he noticed it was a man in only about a foot of water, but he was struggling to keep his head above the small waves.

[SPEAKER_02]: His head was bloody, and when he shined the light around the water surrounding them, Bob saw body after body floating in the water, some were still strapped into their seats.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it would be the things that happened away from the wreckage that leaves a chill no one can explain.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sadie Masina, the wife of Rosario, who was a passenger on the plane, was standing in the airport waiting for her husband to arrive when she heard his whistling of a song.

[SPEAKER_02]: He loved the song and whistleed it frequently.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when she turned to find him, he was not there.

[SPEAKER_02]: When the plane crashed, multiple people mentioned that they saw flight attendant Stephanie Stanish struggling out of the plane and then clumsily staggering her way through the swamp, which we will later learn was impossible because investigators found that she had died on impact.

[SPEAKER_02]: In March of 1973, nearly three months after the crash into the Everglades, Eastern Airlines Flight 318 was flying from New York to Fort Waterdale in Florida.

[SPEAKER_02]: While preparing meals for passengers, one of the flight attendants Denise went into the plane's galley to help heat up some meals.

[SPEAKER_02]: In this area, there is a refrigerator and ovens, and when she stepped into the space, she noticed that Ginny, another flight attendant, was no longer there.

[SPEAKER_02]: She didn't pay any mind to this, though, and got to warming up meals.

[SPEAKER_02]: Suddenly, she felt that she was no longer alone.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when she turned around, she saw no one was there.

[SPEAKER_02]: She thought that maybe Ginny or one of the other flight attendants was playing a trick on her, and so she began it to open all of the doors.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feeling of not being alone only intensified when she found no one was there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then there are other stories, like that of a different flight on flight 318, where Sis, a flight attendant was making her way down the row counting passengers as they settled in for their flight.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was doing this to quickly identify if everyone was on board, and when she was done, she realized that they were over by one.

[SPEAKER_02]: As she turned around at the front of the plane, she noticed a man in a pilot's uniform sitting in first class, and she realized that this must be why they were off by one.

[SPEAKER_02]: She assumed that he was deadheading, which is when a pilot needs to get to a different airport to fly a plane, and they will hop on one of the companies other flights to get there.

[SPEAKER_02]: They don't really have to have a ticket or anything, and this was a pretty common thing to have happened, at least in the 70s.

[SPEAKER_02]: But she still needed to be able to identify him and have him on the record for being on the plane.

[SPEAKER_02]: She approaches him and says, hi, I'm cis.

[SPEAKER_02]: Can I get your name and are you deadheading?

[SPEAKER_02]: And he just doesn't even acknowledge that she is there.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is just staring directly at the seat in front of him.

[SPEAKER_02]: She repeats herself and then another flight attendant Diane comes over and hears cis ask for a third time.

[SPEAKER_02]: But he still doesn't answer.

[SPEAKER_02]: By now, the passengers are noticing that this weird interaction is going on, so it's just decides that she is just going to have the pilot, George, come out and deal with this man who just won't respond to her.

[SPEAKER_02]: When George comes out, he kneels down so that he is at the man's eye level.

[SPEAKER_02]: And when he looks into the face of this extra pilot, [SPEAKER_02]: George doesn't know Bob because of photos.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was good friends with Bob.

[SPEAKER_02]: George is so surprised that he kind of falls backwards and exclaims, that's Bob Loft.

[SPEAKER_02]: And everyone kind of turns their attention to George.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of on the ground.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's falling backwards on his butt.

[SPEAKER_02]: And as they do so, the captain vanishes from his seat.

[SPEAKER_02]: We all know how cramped planes can be, so people are a little bit worried at this point and they're shaken up.

[SPEAKER_02]: They end up delaying the flight and tiling passengers to stay in their seats so that way they can search the plane for this man.

[SPEAKER_02]: Many had clearly seen him, and they find nothing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Eventually, they have a safe flight to their destination, but this is just one of numerous reports about sightings of both Bob Loft and Don Rippo that were reported over the years.

[SPEAKER_02]: Eastern Airlines would eventually remove and replace all of the repurposed parts from flight 401 and this ended their sightings, but it hasn't ended the stories of the ghost of flight 401.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for listening.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you want to hear more about the story or more of the ghost stories that have come from flight 401, hop on over to tragedy with a view on November 12, anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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[SPEAKER_09]: Hey there!

[SPEAKER_09]: I'm CJ, host of Rainbow Crimes, formerly beyond the Rainbow, two crimes of the LGBTQ Plus, and I'm the founder of DarkCast Network.

[SPEAKER_09]: I hope you were enjoying the stories or fabulous creators have been bringing you so far?

[SPEAKER_09]: I have a historical case of murder for you that happened on Halloween night in 1958.

[SPEAKER_09]: The place?

[SPEAKER_09]: Charleston, South Carolina.

[SPEAKER_09]: In 1958, Charleston had several bars and clubs that would cater to strictly the LGBT Q-Community, although the term LGBTQ didn't make its existence known until the mid-1980s, and then it was just LGBT, adding the T in the 90s.

[SPEAKER_09]: Charleston also had several bars and clubs that would be both for heterosexuals and homosexuals.

[SPEAKER_09]: These were called mix clubs.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oftentimes, the mix clubs, they saw much more of a clientele than the gay only clubs.

[SPEAKER_09]: The reason being, people were scared.

[SPEAKER_09]: If they were gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and their employer found out, it could result in losing their job.

[SPEAKER_09]: That is why the most positive and curious individuals stuck only to the mix club.

[SPEAKER_09]: 29-year-old Jack Dobbins was a supervisor for a chemical company.

[SPEAKER_09]: But in the evenings he would often volunteer his time bartending at club 49.

[SPEAKER_09]: Club 49 was a mixed club.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack was gay and as opened about his sexuality as he dared be in 1958.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack was kind of cute, albeit a little [SPEAKER_09]: Jack shared his home, a pink stucco house on Queen Street with another young man named Edward Ote.

[SPEAKER_09]: The men were more than just roommates.

[SPEAKER_09]: They were friends too, just not romantically involved with each other.

[SPEAKER_09]: On Halloween 1958, Jack and Edward went out to dinner, and then to a Halloween party.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack would leave the party somewhat earliest hit promised a bartended club 49 at night.

[SPEAKER_09]: As you can probably imagine, clubs on Halloween night were poppin' and jam full of people and costumes.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, some were their regular attire.

[SPEAKER_09]: Some may have even been scantily clad.

[SPEAKER_09]: Although it was the late 50s, nothing like the costumes and shock-type clothing we wear today.

[SPEAKER_09]: Club 49 also had a large crowd that night.

[SPEAKER_09]: 18-year-old John Mahon walked into the club at some point during the evening.

[SPEAKER_09]: John was an arman with the United States Air Force.

[SPEAKER_09]: He didn't have much money with him, but he had enough for a beer too.

[SPEAKER_09]: He cycled up to the bar and he ordered.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack was immediately taken with how attractive John was.

[SPEAKER_09]: The two engaged in some conversation.

[SPEAKER_09]: After a bit, Jack began serving John Bears on the house.

[SPEAKER_09]: A few hours later around 2am, Jack's shift was nearly over.

[SPEAKER_09]: And John was still at the bar.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack thought he and John were imfibing and he was into it.

[SPEAKER_09]: He invited John to go to another bar.

[SPEAKER_09]: John agreed to but said he didn't have much money on him.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack laughed and shoved some dollar bills into John's pocket, as the two headed off to another bar.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack wanted to take John somewhere upscale, so they went to the elbow cocktail lounge.

[SPEAKER_09]: However when they got to the door, the men were denied entrance, because John's blue jeans and leather jacket did not coincide with the loungestric dress code.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack shrugged and told John why don't you just come back to my place the bourbon there is much better than it would be here anyway.

[SPEAKER_09]: John said laid the way in the two men walked to the pink house on Queen Street.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack's roommate Edward was already upstairs and bed by the time Jack and John entered the residence.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack went into the kitchen to make some drinks.

[SPEAKER_09]: Early the following morning, Elizabeth, the housekeeper, the pink stucco house on Queen Street, she's her key to let herself in.

[SPEAKER_09]: To her horror, she'd downjack lying naked on the living room couch.

[SPEAKER_09]: He had tried bloodstuck to his head.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack was holding a candlestick against his chest.

[SPEAKER_09]: Elizabeth quickly called the police.

[SPEAKER_09]: After the police arrived and inspected the crime scene, they spoke to both the housekeeper and to Edward the roommate.

[SPEAKER_09]: Edward had slept throughout the night and he hadn't awoken to any sounds coming from the house.

[SPEAKER_09]: Now don't forget Edward was at a party before coming back home, so he might have also been intoxicated.

[SPEAKER_09]: Going back a little bit to that prior night, upon leaving Jack's house, John went back to his Air Force barracks.

[SPEAKER_09]: He pricked about how he had beaten and robbed a queer to some of his fellow airmen.

[SPEAKER_09]: He showed them his bounty.

[SPEAKER_09]: He got a lighter, a key, and $23.

[SPEAKER_09]: That was his big hall, but later that day, John saw the newspaper, the headline read, the candlestick murder, below was a picture of Jack Dobb and sitting in a chair reading a book.

[SPEAKER_09]: John saw it was the man who had been so nice to him on Halloween night, the man who had provided him with free beers, given him some cash, and invited him back to his home.

[SPEAKER_09]: John was sure when he left Jack's house, it only hit him enough to make him unconscious.

[SPEAKER_09]: Not to kill him.

[SPEAKER_09]: But John ended up turning himself into authorities.

[SPEAKER_09]: Aton's trial, his account of what happened that night from the time they got back to Jack's place went something like this.

[SPEAKER_09]: John sat on the couch in the living room while Jack went in the kitchen [SPEAKER_09]: Jack came back out of the kitchen with the drinks, and he sat on the couch next to John.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack then began to make some uncomfortable comments to John.

[SPEAKER_09]: John excused himself to use the bathroom.

[SPEAKER_09]: When he came out of the bathroom he found Jack standing naked in the living room.

[SPEAKER_09]: Jack said, come over here John.

[SPEAKER_09]: John said he panicked and ran up the stairs trying to look for an escape.

[SPEAKER_09]: and he grabbed one of two, two and a half foot-long candlesticks.

[SPEAKER_09]: Then he made his way back downstairs.

[SPEAKER_09]: He told Jack, I just want to leave.

[SPEAKER_09]: He stated Jack made another sexual advance towards him.

[SPEAKER_09]: So we started to swing the candlestick at Jack's head and he made contact three or four times until Jack fell backwards onto the couch into what John figured was just an unconscious state.

[SPEAKER_09]: And then he got the hell out of there or he went back to his base.

[SPEAKER_09]: Many have questioned if John was so freaked out by being hit on, or even a round-a-game man?

[SPEAKER_09]: Why in the first place would he even go to a bar with mixed clientele?

[SPEAKER_09]: There were an abundance of straight bars he could have went to.

[SPEAKER_09]: Why did he stick around so long at the bar after he bought the one or two bureau said he could afford?

[SPEAKER_09]: Why not just leave after his money ran out?

[SPEAKER_09]: Why agree to follow a man?

[SPEAKER_09]: A man he just met to the man's home.

[SPEAKER_09]: He must have known what Jack was after, and why would he run upstairs to escape when he just cut to the front door that he came in?

[SPEAKER_09]: And why not just threaten to hit Jack with the candlestick and safely see himself out the door?

[SPEAKER_09]: Something more must have been going on, [SPEAKER_09]: John would be arrested and charged with Jack's murder.

[SPEAKER_09]: At his trial he would have an all-male jury.

[SPEAKER_09]: The prosecution went after the death penalty, claiming John committed murder during a botched robbery.

[SPEAKER_09]: After three days of the court proceedings, the jury came back with a not guilty verdict, citing [SPEAKER_09]: I sure hope the Ghost of Jack honoured John in that jury for the rest of their days.

[SPEAKER_09]: This has been CJ Host of Rainbow Crimes on the Dark Castle Network.

[SPEAKER_09]: Happy Halloween, everyone!

[SPEAKER_03]: Greetings, my dear witches and spooky listeners.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is a bonus haunted episode.

[SPEAKER_03]: For Halloween, or souren, as those witches know it to be, from Swales, the friendly green witch, of the bell witch podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Today I'm going to tell you about a gruesome haunting.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a Britannia hotel I actually have had the pleasure in staying in twice while during a spot of ghost hunting.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is true I heard knocks and creeks and saw flashing lights on the gizmos and gadgets.

[SPEAKER_03]: In some rooms there is a feeling of being watched, and a forgotten sense when you go to touch the piano in the grand hall.

[SPEAKER_03]: It does make me think, well, perhaps I shouldn't do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Boss with Hall in Market Bossworth in Lestershire, UK.

[SPEAKER_03]: A beautiful, grand-manor house with huge staircases and detailed paintings of those that may haunt the halls.

[SPEAKER_03]: Today, if you imagine a stately home, you will envision this beautiful place with its mahogany, detailed, banisters and beautiful, decorred rooms, it is a very impressive place.

[SPEAKER_03]: A courtyard with a charming woods surrounding beautiful greets and strangely a prison door within one of the bars that is an actual door from a local prison.

[SPEAKER_03]: The neighbouring structure is a 700 year old church, complete with gargoyles and growth tests of different natures, a graveyard of old, a company's, the church, and is indeed in need of a little TLC.

[SPEAKER_03]: The quaint little town of Market, Boswell is a horse to thatched roof houses and even a building where children's fingerprints have been fired within the structure of the bricks, given it a forbidding haunted felon.

[SPEAKER_03]: From those kids, who perhaps died in the fire as they made the bricks in Victorian slave labor.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is not a surprise in setting, for perhaps a genuine haunting.

[SPEAKER_03]: Some say if you walk the grounds of bosswiff hall on a still-art of night, when the mist clings lower to the earth, and the wind does not whisper through the trees.

[SPEAKER_03]: You might hear her.

[SPEAKER_03]: The light almost mournful footsteps on the grand staircase, and if you're truly unlucky, you might see her.

[SPEAKER_03]: Take a breath.

[SPEAKER_03]: For this is the specter, or the ghost that is known locally, as the great lady of [SPEAKER_03]: She is said to wonder the corridors of Bosswiff Hall night.

[SPEAKER_03]: As if time had forgotten her, and perhaps it has.

[SPEAKER_03]: For years what, then for over 200 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: Trapped between this world and the next.

[SPEAKER_03]: Bosswiff Hall nestled in the Leicestershire countryside has stood here since the 17th century.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's ivy-covered facet, hiding centuries of secrets.

[SPEAKER_03]: And although it has had many, a do-up buildings added, transformed and altered, throughout the times, it still hasn't changed in its strange dark vibes.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was once the proud seat of the Dixie family, a line of baronettes with wealth, status and whispers of scandal.

[SPEAKER_03]: One such whispers was that of Lady Dixie, believed to be the spirit of the Grey Lady today.

[SPEAKER_03]: Her name was Anne.

[SPEAKER_03]: Some say she was the wife of one of the younger baronets.

[SPEAKER_03]: Others say she was the daughter of the Sir Walston Dixie of the Manor.

[SPEAKER_03]: will never know for sure.

[SPEAKER_03]: Young, sweet and sexy, who arrived at the hall full of hope only to find herself in snout in a lonely, loveless marriage.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sir Walston Dixie, a husband, or an unloving father, was a stern control in man, a magistrate known for his cruel justice and cold demeanor.

[SPEAKER_03]: The locals feared him, he servants her bed him without question.

[SPEAKER_03]: An An?

[SPEAKER_03]: She suffered in silence.

[SPEAKER_03]: Some say, she fell in love with another, perhaps a tutor, a stable hand or a gardener, a forbidden romance that, when discovered, ended in tragedy.

[SPEAKER_03]: When a husband struck father found out of this forbidden love, he was horrified and outraged and set a series of mantrapes throughout his stately home in secret, hoping to snare the unsuspecting snake in the grass that was taken this young woman away from him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Was it a bear trap, an automatic crossbow, a hole to fall in, perhaps a mechanism to impail the poor unsuspecting human?

[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody knows for sure because there are no records.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it went bad as these things often do when, unfortunately, the traps snapped close, [SPEAKER_03]: Bachelor on and herself.

[SPEAKER_03]: desperately and fighting for her life.

[SPEAKER_03]: Seek in help she crawled up the stairs of the manna house, calling out people's names, servants' names, nobody seemed to hear her.

[SPEAKER_03]: Poor her, didn't appear, she was completely alone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Desperately seeking assistance, it is said that she crawled [SPEAKER_03]: up the staircases on her hands, dragging her broken body behind her, leaving a long streak of blooded capit as she went.

[SPEAKER_03]: Desperate to cling on to her life, she found herself in a room, lay on her bed, and parade, somebody would rescue, find her, assist her, [SPEAKER_03]: Some say she died instantly, while others say she were left for some time suffering in absolute agony, desperately clinging on to her soul.

[SPEAKER_03]: It must have been hell.

[SPEAKER_03]: Could it have been hours?

[SPEAKER_03]: Could it have been days?

[SPEAKER_03]: others tell it differently, that she died of sorrow alone in her room, abandoned by a man who saw only has an affection.

[SPEAKER_03]: But all these tales end the same with her spirit.

[SPEAKER_03]: Clopped in a soft grey gown, gliding through the halls, searching for her lost love.

[SPEAKER_03]: The guests at Bosworth Hall, now a Britannia hotel, and a delightful wedding venue with a very nice spa.

[SPEAKER_03]: A reparted cold spots in otherwise warm rooms, the sudden scent of lavender where no flowers grew, and the feeling, [SPEAKER_03]: whether by the grey lady or the evil man that set the traps.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is bead reports that strange blotches appear on the ceiling and on capits, that resemble something like blood, dark, slime, that cannot be removed and can disappear just as it has appeared, that's there and then gone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Guests catch something at the corner of their eye on the ceiling, or on the floor, and when they turn to look, well there's nothing there.

[SPEAKER_03]: A housekeeper once told a venture in room 7 to prepare it for the next guest.

[SPEAKER_03]: Only to find the bed had already been disturbed, and an imprint on the pillow as though someone had just risen.

[SPEAKER_03]: The windows were locked, the door had been bolted from the inside.

[SPEAKER_03]: Although it hadn't been used the night before, but the room was occupied by some one [SPEAKER_03]: Another guest claimed to see a pale woman in the hallway in the middle of the night.

[SPEAKER_03]: She did not speak, she all is stared, eyes dark and sorrowful with longing, before she turned and vanished through the wall.

[SPEAKER_03]: This air she appears most often on October nights, when the moon is high in the veil [SPEAKER_03]: And if you ever stay, embossed with hall, as I have done on two occasions now, and wake in the dark to the sound of sobbing, don't rise, don't open your door.

[SPEAKER_03]: And above all, don't follow the footsteps.

[SPEAKER_03]: As they descend, up the grand staircase, because once she knows you can see her, she may never leave you alone.

[SPEAKER_03]: I see you.

[SPEAKER_03]: This grail lady of the stately home, boss with hall.

[SPEAKER_13]: The Pacific Northwest is a geographically diverse region of the U.S.

and Canada.

[SPEAKER_09]: Derise by its majestic mountains, dense forests, rugged coastlines, and deep river canyons.

[SPEAKER_13]: But it has also been the home of many who kill.

[SPEAKER_13]: Thank you for joining me, Carmita.

[SPEAKER_09]: And me, CJ, Burm Murder, in the PNW.

[SPEAKER_09]: Hey Carmita, this case is unresolved.

[SPEAKER_09]: Law enforcement thought that they had her killer and custody in nine years later.

[SPEAKER_09]: The guy gets acquitted, but we'll get more into that as our case evolves.

[SPEAKER_09]: 24-year-old immigrant from India and recent college graduate are Pana Janaga.

[SPEAKER_09]: She seemed to have her life together.

[SPEAKER_09]: She was a software engineer for Delph Computers in Bellevue, Washington, which is just across the lake from Seattle.

[SPEAKER_09]: She had a degree.

[SPEAKER_09]: a good job, her own apartment.

[SPEAKER_09]: She volunteered at a local animal shelter.

[SPEAKER_09]: She volunteered at a fire department and she had a load of friends from all the places and all the things that she was involved in.

[SPEAKER_09]: Our Pana also loved writing her motorcycle, which made her something of a free spirit.

[SPEAKER_09]: Dell computers the company that she was employed by, they said she was very talented, that she was very bright, and she was very outgoing in a rising star.

[SPEAKER_13]: Girl was making that money for sure.

[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, she was.

[SPEAKER_13]: Young beautiful and making that money, go queen.

[SPEAKER_13]: Well, on Halloween night, 2008, which happened to be a Friday that year, our partner and several other residents of the complex that she lived in were hosting a Halloween party.

[SPEAKER_13]: Attendees were mostly other people who lived in the building.

[SPEAKER_13]: They would filter in and out of the host apartments, sharing their costumes, eating, drinking, intermingling, and such at different intervals during the night.

[SPEAKER_13]: There were, however, at least a dozen or so people who did not live in the complex that came to enjoy the festivities as, you know, most places with parties that have been.

[SPEAKER_13]: The guests in our pono department would leave a little after 9 p.m.

to go to another apartment host party.

[SPEAKER_13]: This went on until the early hours of the war.

[SPEAKER_09]: Sometime around 3am, our Pana decided that it was time for her to go home and go to sleep.

[SPEAKER_09]: She bidder friends with the apartment on the first floor goodbye, and she headed back upstairs to her third floor apartment.

[SPEAKER_09]: Sometime between 3 a.m.

and 8 a.m.

are punished nearby neighbors were awoken to moaning sounds coming from our upon his apartment.

[SPEAKER_09]: They went back to sleep assuming that she and a partner were having consensual sex.

[SPEAKER_09]: But around 8 a.m.

her neighbor right next door heard an eerie growl that lasted nearly 20 seconds and then they heard a thud.

[SPEAKER_09]: They then heard footsteps in water running for almost an hour.

[SPEAKER_09]: The neighborhood didn't think too much about it and went about their day.

[SPEAKER_13]: On Monday, November 3rd, our Pana didn't show up for work, and her parents and India were worried when they couldn't reach their daughter by phone all weekend.

[SPEAKER_13]: They asked a family friend named Jay if he would go buy and check on our Pana.

[SPEAKER_13]: Jay went to her apartment complex where he bumped into one of our Connors neighbors, a man named Cameron Johnson.

[SPEAKER_13]: Jay asked Cameron if he knew our Connors and if he direct him to her apartment.

[SPEAKER_13]: Cameron willingly obliged the stranger and the two men walked to our Connors Union.

[SPEAKER_13]: At very first sight, the two men noticed our pause door appeared to have been forcibly kicked it in.

[SPEAKER_13]: They proceeded to enter.

[SPEAKER_13]: Once inside, they walked around and then into our upon his bedroom.

[SPEAKER_13]: Her naked body lay face down on the carpet of her room.

[SPEAKER_13]: She had been partially covered with the cloth.

[SPEAKER_13]: Arpana had been gagged with her own underwear shoved into her mouth and duct taped over it.

[SPEAKER_13]: She appeared to have been beaten about her head.

[SPEAKER_13]: There was a thin ligature mark around her neck and there was strong evidence she had been raped.

[SPEAKER_09]: Arpana's hands were covered in blue toilet bowl cleaner.

[SPEAKER_09]: Motor oil had been poured over her body.

[SPEAKER_09]: Her fingers and fingernails had been cleaned, removing any defensive DNA that could have been under her nails.

[SPEAKER_09]: She had burn marks here and there on her body, suggesting that someone had tried to light her on fire, but they were unsuccessful.

[SPEAKER_09]: Upon his bed had been stripped, her comforer was soaking in bleach in the bathtub, and a fleece blanket had been partially burned.

[SPEAKER_09]: The apartment wreaked a bleach and there were bleach spots all around in various areas of a rooms.

[SPEAKER_09]: Police searched not just our uponous residents, but the complex's trash dumpster also.

[SPEAKER_09]: There they found a bag containing our uponous Halloween costume, a bloody robe, an empty quart bottle of motor oil, and a shoelace from a boot.

[SPEAKER_09]: This was assumed to have been the murder weapon.

[SPEAKER_13]: detectives quickly got busy interviewing residents at the complex.

[SPEAKER_13]: They asked for pictures taken that night.

[SPEAKER_13]: From the pictures, they were able to find a scattering of the people who didn't live at the complex.

[SPEAKER_13]: They discovered names of the non-residents, and one became a person of interest.

[SPEAKER_13]: A man named Emmanuel Fair had been [SPEAKER_13]: Emmanuel was a convicted felon and had served time for weapon and drug offenses and a rape conviction in 2004.

[SPEAKER_13]: Another person of interest also caught their eye, neighbor, Cameron Johnson, the guy who led our uponous family friend Jay to her apartment.

[SPEAKER_13]: apparently Cameron had a big crush on our planet, and he had done some odd things after our Pano was murdered.

[SPEAKER_13]: There was a record, he had called our Pano around 3am, then he tried to scrub that evidence from his phone.

[SPEAKER_13]: But, he told detectives he didn't remember making that call.

[SPEAKER_13]: He also told detectives, on November 1, he drove Canada, but was denied entry.

[SPEAKER_09]: Cameron's computer showed a search of pawn shops near the U.S.

Canadian border.

[SPEAKER_09]: When he went to the police station for questioning, the cops took notice of Cameron limping in favoring one elbow.

[SPEAKER_09]: but probably one of the weirdest things from Cameron was that he asked family members and close friends, what if I did the murder, and I just don't remember.

[SPEAKER_09]: A manual in Cameron did talk the night of the Halloween party.

[SPEAKER_09]: They even went and sat in Cameron's car for a bit to listen to music.

[SPEAKER_09]: The manual stated that he went back to his friend's apartment around 1.30 a.m.

but his phone record showed that he was making phone calls between 2 and 5 a.m.

including some to the woman whose apartment he was staying at.

[SPEAKER_13]: DNA from three males were found at the scene of the crime.

[SPEAKER_13]: But our ponder did have guessed there for the party.

[SPEAKER_13]: Two sets of DNA belong to immanuel and camera.

[SPEAKER_13]: Emanuel's DNA was found on our upon his neck and on the piece of duct tape that covered her mouth.

[SPEAKER_13]: It was found mixed with her blood on the bathrobe that was tossed into a bag in the dumpster.

[SPEAKER_13]: Cameron's DNA was found on the discarded bottle of motor oil that was also found in the bag in the dumpster.

[SPEAKER_13]: It was reported in the Seattle Times, an unknown male DNA was found on the shoelace from the boot.

[SPEAKER_09]: Manual Fair was the only man charged with Arpanis murder in 2010.

[SPEAKER_09]: His case didn't go to trial until 2017, and then the jury deadlocked, and the affair was called a mistrial.

[SPEAKER_09]: This time the jury came back with a, not guilty, after hearing all the supporting evidence that Cameron was Arpana's killer.

[SPEAKER_09]: Emmanuel was released in 2019 after serving nine years with no conviction, he's suing the county for wrongful detainment.

[SPEAKER_09]: Cameron has never been charged for involvement in Arpana's murder.

[SPEAKER_13]: It's been 17 years now since our Pana Genaga was brutally murdered in her own apartment.

[SPEAKER_13]: There has been no justice for the 24-year-old who had such a bright future ahead of her.

[SPEAKER_09]: You know, Carmina, I kind of feel that Emmanuel was guilty along with Cameron and maybe another man.

[SPEAKER_09]: What do you think?

[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, definitely.

[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, DNA for one doesn't lie and there's so much evidence.

[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, I don't know about this, the manual guy, but there was so much evidence against Cameron that he definitely was involved.

[SPEAKER_09]: Well, the DNA, like you said, doesn't lie in a manual's DNA was on the duct tape that covered her mouth.

[SPEAKER_09]: It was also around her neck.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, like that.

[SPEAKER_09]: I also got Cameron had a hand in it too.

[SPEAKER_09]: Why is he calling her 3am?

[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we thank you for joining us, and we hope you will add murder in the PNW to your favorite podcast list.

[SPEAKER_13]: Thanks to our cast, we are happy to have murder in the PNW as part of your incredible lineup of shows.

[SPEAKER_13]: Stay alert, stay vigilant, and always keep your head on a swivel.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hey everyone, my name is Raven, and I'm the host of Rogue Darkness.

[SPEAKER_08]: In this Halloween special episode, courtesy of the amazing Darkcast Network, I wanted to discuss the unsettling case of a small cult from Sonora Mexico, known for their dedication to Santa Muerte, also known as Saint-Deph, a deity in Mexican folklore, and how the cult committed horrific murders as ritualistic sacrifice to their deity.

[SPEAKER_08]: So now, let's start off from the very beginning.

[SPEAKER_08]: A woman by the name of Sylvia Moraz, who would eventually become the leader of an immensely small, but nonetheless severely brutal cult, was born in Amosiosonora in 1968.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's been reported that Sylvia's family lived in poverty with an accord neighborhood of Naccazari de García municipality in Sonora.

[SPEAKER_08]: At just the age of 16, Sylvia gave birth to her first son, Ramon Omar Palacios Moraffes.

[SPEAKER_08]: She would then go on to have three more children with her first husband, Martín Barone Lopez.

[SPEAKER_08]: The children were Ivan Martín, Francesca Magdalena, and Georgina Wadalupe Barone Moraffes.

[SPEAKER_08]: When Sylvia was 29 years old, she had her last child, her daughter, who she named, Sylvia Yajara.

[SPEAKER_08]: Facing struggles throughout her entire life, Sylvia ultimately became convinced that she could and would receive financial help from Daddies if she offered the ultimate sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_08]: Life.

[SPEAKER_08]: It was at that time that Sylvia decided she needed to perform human sacrifices in order to gain the favor and help of her personal revered deity, Santamuerte, also known as Saint-Dath.

[SPEAKER_08]: motivated by her delusional ideas of presumed power and the potential of gaining financial help from the other side.

[SPEAKER_08]: Sylvia orchestrated the sacrifices with the other individuals who ultimately joined her cult, which ended up including four of her five children.

[SPEAKER_08]: Ramonomaar, Francisco Magdalena, Georgina Wadalupe, and Sylvia Yajara.

[SPEAKER_08]: Along with her children, there was also Sylvia's father, Capriano Marazz, her partner at the time at Wardo Sanchez, and also another woman named Zoila Hada Santa Cruz Eriki.

[SPEAKER_08]: Together, they systematically planned out their murders to use ritualistic sacrifice, as a means to gain approval and favors from Santa Muarte.

[SPEAKER_08]: Beginning in 2009, Sylvie had picked her first sacrificial victim, her 55-year-old friend Cleottild Romero Pacheco, who was ultimately found dead in December of that same year.

[SPEAKER_08]: Cleottild Romero was known by the locals as a lady who sold popsicles.

[SPEAKER_08]: She reportedly had no close relatives, living or otherwise known, which made her an unfortunately easy target for Sylvia and the others of the cult.

[SPEAKER_08]: On the day of the murder, Sylvia had told CleaTil to pick up a 20-peso note that she saw off the ground as they were walking together.

[SPEAKER_08]: But unfortunately, when CleaTil had bent down to pick up the money, she was then swiftly struck in the neck with an axe, being instantly decapitated.

[SPEAKER_08]: Sylvia had just made her first human sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now with clear-tilt dead, the group made an offering of her blood to Sato-Werte in an attempt to obtain protection, and then they went on to burn and bury clear-tilt's body near Sylvia's family home.

[SPEAKER_08]: The next murder wouldn't take place for a few months going into the next year in June of 2010.

[SPEAKER_08]: 10-year-old Martín Rios Chiparoa Sanchez Rietta, who was the biological son of Eduardo Sanchez, [SPEAKER_08]: Martin was the cult's next chosen victim, and he was ultimately murdered in June of 2010.

[SPEAKER_08]: Sylvia reportedly had gotten the young boy Drunk, and then had her youngest daughter Sylvia Yajara, who was just 13 years old at the time.

[SPEAKER_08]: Stab Martin repeatedly for a total of at least 30 times.

[SPEAKER_08]: While young Martín was still alive even after the brutal stabbing, the group then held a small ritual around him where they proceeded to cut his veins and then spread his blood around an altar while he blood out.

[SPEAKER_08]: The third and final victim of the cult was another ten-year-old boy, namedezus Octavio Martinez-Yanés.

[SPEAKER_08]: He was the adopte son of Iván Martín Baron-Maraz, [SPEAKER_08]: Jesus was murdered just a month after Martin and July of 2010.

[SPEAKER_08]: This time around, Silvia reportedly held Jesus in front of the altar while one of her daughters brutally slaughtered him, decapitating him like the victims before him, and then draining him of his blood to spread across the altar for Sontamuarte.

[SPEAKER_08]: Investigations into the crimes began after Jesus Martinez was reported missing by his mother and his mother's boyfriend.

[SPEAKER_08]: Investigators looking into the missing person's case initially thought that young Haysu's might have been kidnapped by a human trafficking network, due to some alleged eyewitness sightings of Haysu's near the Arizona border begging in the street.

[SPEAKER_08]: This theory, however, was quickly ruled out due to a lack of evidence and the reliability of the eyewitness accounts not being very viable.

[SPEAKER_08]: After two years of ongoing investigation into the missing person's case of Haizu's Martinez, in March of 2012, Sylvia, along with the rest of her family living in her home, were implicated and arrested for the murder of Haizu's.

[SPEAKER_08]: As his body was eventually found under the floor of Sylvia's youngest daughter's bedroom.

[SPEAKER_08]: The other two victims' bodies were discovered shortly thereafter, in an unpopulated area not far from Sylvia's home.

[SPEAKER_08]: The state police actually discovered the bodies during an unrelated investigation and were then able to tie Sylvia to the crimes.

[SPEAKER_08]: Silvia Miraz and the other seven members involved in the heinous sacrifices were arrested and brought to trial.

[SPEAKER_08]: Silvia was sentenced to 180 years in prison while the rest of the adult cult members were sentenced to 60 years in prison.

[SPEAKER_08]: Silvia's youngest daughter, Silvia Yajara, was spared prison as she was just a minor at the time of the murders and was instead sent to a youth detention center.

[SPEAKER_08]: Records show that after psychological evaluations were done on Sylvia Yajara, since she had been involved in the cult's censor childhood and was surrounded by it on a regular basis, she didn't view the atrocious actions performed as anything other than normal.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's truly heartbreaking how the adult members caused such delusions and distortions into the mind of such a young child to enable them to actually believe murdering another human [SPEAKER_08]: According to one of Zoila's son that cruises daughters, Sylvie Moraz had reportedly threatened to kill the other members if they did not partake in the brutal ritualistic crimes, which is why none of them ejected to the murdering of their own family members.

[SPEAKER_08]: Fear mixed with brainwashing had unfortunately persuaded them to oblige.

[SPEAKER_08]: Unfortunately see this happen in many cultures, many belief systems, and no matter which deities the sacrifices are being meant for, it's still a horrific crime to have to hear about.

[SPEAKER_08]: May the innocent lives lost, be never forgotten.

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[SPEAKER_11]: The chains may try to keep you here.

[SPEAKER_11]: We hope you enjoyed this Halloween special, tales of the dark cast network crypt keeper.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Happy Halloween from all of us at the Dark cast network.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Stay spooky.