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Episode 29: Listener Requests
Dark Deeds
10/19/20 • 42 min
06/08/20 • 25 min
08/17/20 • 22 min
This case had relatively widespread social media coverage by those believing it was a sad suicide story, but the truth has come out. On September 23, 2019 at 4:30 PM, dispatchers were called to a home at 2442 Route 143 Kempton, Albany Township, Berks county, Pennsylvania by Lisa Snyder. A mother who says her son, Conner Seth Snyder, age 8, committed suicide by hanging himself with a dog lead from the rafter of their basement after telling her he wanted to build a fort with the new dog lead she had purchased. She claimed he was severely bullied in school and kept saying he wanted to die, but did not want to go alone, so, there hanging with him was his little 4-year-old sister, Brinley Louise Snyder, on the same dog lead.
First responders responded to the 9-1-1 call about 11 minutes later, to find that Lisa claimed she had only briefly tried to get Brinley down from the lead but became sweaty due to her anxiety. The children passed away 3 days later on September 26, 2019. A large police investigation ensued, as this case was shady from the beginning, and on December 2, 2019, Lisa Snyder was finally arrested. She remains in prison while awaiting sentencing to see if she will receive the death penalty. There was no evidence suggesting Conner had ever been bullied.
Sources:
Egan, Leigh. (2019, December 3). Full affidavit of mother accused of hanging her children in basement, having sex with family dog. https://www.crimeonline.com/2019/12/03/read-full-affidavit-of-mother-accused-of-hanging-her-children-in-basement-having-sex-with-family-dog/ Chiu, Allyson. (2019, December 3). A mother said her children, 8 and 4, hanged themselves. She’s now been charged with their murders. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/03/lisa-rachelle-snyder-murder-conner-brinley-hanging/ Schroeder, Laurie & Lehman, Pamela. (2019, December 2) Conner and Brinley Snyder: Happy children who were not bullied, DA says after mom charged in their deaths. https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-berks-hanging-who-were-conner-brinley-20191202-ztyyw7pm6zhltmv7yitlkn2upi-story.html Harris, Chris. (2019, December 2). Pa. Mom Accused of Hanging Kids, Staging Murder-Suicide Allegedly Fabricated That Son Was Bullied. https://people.com/crime/pennsylvania-mom-accused-hanging-kids-fabricated-son-bullied/ Schroeder, Laurie, & Lehman, Pamela, & Gamiz, Manuel. (2019, December 2). 'It hits us in the heart’: Pennsylvania mom charged with murder, accused of hanging her children. https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-berks-child-deaths-arrest-20191202-n3awtpbfgjaqtoh3lk4pyqlcjy-story.html The Associated Press. Penn Live (2020, June 30) Mom accused of killing kids found hanging in Pa. home says she can’t afford lawyer. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/06/mom-accused-of-killing-kids-found-hanging-in-pa-home-says-she-cant-afford-lawyer.html
Audio:
CrimeOnline-9-1-1 Dispatch: https://soundcloud.com/user-815495581/berks-county-children-911-call
Press Conference 6ABC Philadelphia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btWRIY4hKfg
08/03/20 • 22 min
On August 10, 2019, Scott Whitman returned to his Crawford County, Pennsylvania home sometime after 10 P.M. from his shift as a CNA at a local retirement home to see his wife and son. When he arrived, he noticed the home was dark and his wife's silver Lincoln MKS was missing from the driveway. Where would his wife and their 10-year-old son go at such a late hour, he thought. Upon entering the home, expecting to find a note from Shannon telling him where they had gone, as Darrin was borrowing his phone to view YouTube videos, he instead found the bodies of his wife and son on the sun room floor, both had been shot in the head. The murderer had been the one to steal the Lincoln, as well. Scott's son, Jack Elijah Turner became the main suspect, especially since he was on the run and had been seen with his deceased step-mother's stolen Lincoln on video surveillance as he robbed a Kwik Fill gas station in Mill Creek. A four day manhunt ensued until Jack missed a Greyhound bus in Charleston, West Virginia that was to take him back to Erie, Pennsylvania. Sources: Nikki. (2019, October 23). "I didn't kill my family," Jack Elijah Turner wrote on Facebook after probably killing his family. Retrieved from: https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/10/23/i-didnt-kill-my-family-jack-elijah-turner-wrote-on-facebook-after-probably-killing-his-family/ Scanlan, Dan. (2019, August 14). Double Homicide suspect seen in St. Johns county is Caught in West Virginia. Retrieved from: https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190814/double-homicide-suspect-seen-in-st-johns-county-is-caught-in-west-virginia Gushard, Keith. (2019, October 8). FULL STORY: Turner charged with killing stepmother, half-brother. Retrieved from: https://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/full-story-turner-charged-with-killing-stepmother-half-brother/article_9b7d5d18-e960-11e9-aa8d-bf695b692ddf.html Your Erie. (2020, February 17). Commonwealth seeks death penalty in Crawford county double homicide. Retrieved from: https://www.yourerie.com/news/breaking-news/notice-of-aggravating-circumstances-filed-against-jack-turner-in-double-homicide-case-notice-tells-turner-commonwealth-seeks-death-penalty-if-found-guilty/ Heavy. (2020) Jack Elijah Turner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Retrieved from: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/jack-elijah-turner/ Crowley, Mike. (2019, November 2). FULL STORY: Turner headed to trial on double homicide, other charges. https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/10/23/i-didnt-kill-my-family-jack-elijah-turner-wrote-on-facebook-after-probably-killing-his-family/ Hahn, Tim. (2019, October 7). Crawford Man Charged in Double Homicide. https://www.goerie.com/news/20191007/crawford-man-charged-in-double-homicide
Episode 24: The Murder of Tia Rigg
Dark Deeds
06/15/20 • 20 min
07/01/20 • 19 min
On April 27, 2003, 27 members of a 50 member church congregation at the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine gathered for a meeting to discuss the purchase of a new furnace for the church. While at the meeting, 16 members drank coffee from one of two urns holding coffee for the congregation. These 16 members ended up being treated for severe vomiting at two hospitals, one member, named Walter Reid Morrill passed away at the age of 78 due to this illness. Upon investigation, police determined one of the urns holding coffee had been poisoned with extreme levels of arsenic.
To this day, the case is closed due to police believing they knew who had done it, but the town is divided in whether the case should reopen and find the accomplices or remain closed and let bygones be bygones.
sources:
Imhoff, Frank. (2006, April 21). Case Closed on Lutheran Church arsenic poisoning in Maine. Retrieved from: https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/7127
WGME. (2018, April 27). Special Report: New Sweden Arsenic poisonings. Retrieved from: https://wgme.com/news/local/special-report-new-sweden-arsenic-poisonings
Murderpedia. Daniel Bondeson. Retrieved from: https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bondeson-daniel.htm
Sharp, David. (2008, June 15). In Maine, pains linger for arsenic poisoning survivors. Retrieved from: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-adna-arsenic15-story.html
Zernike, Kate. (2003, May 1). Arsenic Poisoning at Church Mystifies a Maine Town. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/us/arsenic-poisoning-at-church-mystifies-a-maine-town.html
Robinson, Bryan. (2006, January 7). Church Poisoning May Never Be Solved. Retrieved from: https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96750&page=1
05/25/20 • 38 min
This episode features two cases that occurred 78 years apart, yet are eerily similar and both remain unsolved. First, the tale of the Hinterkaifeck murders which occurred on March 31, 1922. Five members of the Gruber family along with their maid, Maria Baumgartner, were brutally slain with a Mattock. Before this, strange happenings began occurring on the Hinterkaifeck farm even as far back as six months before the murders. Investigators believe the murderer may have been living in the family's home up until the murders and then shortly after. These murders remain unsolved 98 years later.
On December 31, 2000, all four members of the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home. The youngest at just six years old was strangled and the remaining members brutally stabbed. There were strange events leading up to the murders, a plethora of obvious DNA and evidence, and the murderer even remained in the home for hours after the murders. yet these murders still remain unsolved 20 years later.
Sources:
The Scare Chamber. The Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Murders. Retrieved from: https://www.thescarechamber.com/the-unsolved-hinterkaifeck-murders/
Vatomsky, Sonya. (2017, August 31). The Chilling Story of the Hinterkaifeck Killings, Germany’s Most Famous Unsolved Crime. Retrieved from: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crime
Serena, Katie. (2017, November 13). The Gruesome Tale of the Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Murders. Retrieved from: https://allthatsinteresting.com/hinterkaifeck-murders
De Sturler, Alice. (2014, May 1). Case of the Month: Hinterkaifeck. Retrieved from: https://defrostingcoldcases.com/case-month-hinterkaifeck/
Unresolved. The Setagaya Murders. Retrieved from: https://unresolved.me/the-setagaya-murders
05/09/20 • 20 min
On the night of January 6, 2007, couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were saying goodbye to one another as they left a friend's apartment when they were approached by a few individuals planning to steal Channon's vehicle. The carjacking then turned fatal when Christopher was tortured, raped, and shot, his body then left to burn near the railroad tracks. Channon was kept in the home of the ringleader, LeMaricus, where she was brutally raped and tortured, bleach poured down her throat and on her body to dispose of evidence, and then ultimately wrapped in trash bags and stuffed into a trash can with a broken neck, left to slowly suffocate.
Sources:
AUDIO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS6OFuUXe8
http://www.wbir.com/video/news/local/gary-christian-remembers-his-lost-little-girl/51-2471894?jwsource=cl
Satterfield, Jamie. (2017, January 6). Time no cure for pain in torture slayings of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Retrieved from: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/06/time-no-cure-pain-torture-slayings-channon-christian-and-christopher-newsom/96196018/
Donila, Mike. (2017, January 5). 10 years later: Remembering Christian-Newsom. Retrieved from: https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/10-years-later-remembering-christian-newsom/381967577
Gregg, Maggie. (2019, August 13). Timeline of the Channon Christian-Christian Newsom Murders. Retrieved from: https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Timeline-of-the-Channon-Christian-Christopher-Newsom-murders--513420461.html
Episode 18: The Icebox Murders
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04/11/20 • 16 min
On June 23, 1965, police were called to do a welfare check on elderly couple Fred and Edwina Rogers in their Texas home, and when police arrived to view the home, they found a chilling discovery. Edwina and Fred had been dismembered and placed onto the shelves in the icebox after being beaten. Edwina had been beaten and shot execution style while Fred was beaten with a claw hammer, his eyes gouged out and genitals mutilated. Evidence has pointed to their reclusive son who was 43 years old and living with them, as the murderer but he had fled and was never found.
Sources:
Leigh, Cat. (2019, May 6). The Icebox Murders. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/the-icebox-murders-907f8c565e5e
True Crime and Coffee Reddit User. (2019). The Icebox Murders: The Unsolved Murder and Dismemberment of Fred and Edwina Rogers. Retrieved from: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMurders/comments/cgxmiz/the_icebox_murders_the_unsolved_murder_and/
Rossen, Jake. (2019, November 4). Cold Case: Revisiting Houston’s Infamous Ice Box Murders. Retrieved from: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602369/ice-box-murders-houston
Video: KHOU 11: Missing Pieces: The Icebox Murders. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2xlhcBjDE8
02/29/20 • 25 min
On February 4, 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay, as well as their two toddler sons, Joseph, Jr. and Gianni vanished from their home. Nine days after they went missing, it was reported to police, as people realized that they had not simply went on vacation. Joseph's vehicle was found left at the United States Mexico border, and the scene in their home looked as if they were taken in the middle of a normal day as popcorn had been spilled on the couch, and a carton of raw eggs had been left on the counter. The family's remains were finally found in a shallow grave in the desert on November 13, 2013 by a passing motorcyclist. It was determined that the family had died from blunt force trauma. Joseph's friend and business partner, Charles "Chase" Ray Merritt was arrested in November of 2014 when his DNA had been found in the family's vehicle. He had bludgeoned the family to death with a sledgehammer and buried them in the desert, all for financial gain as he had a gambling addiction. Chase Merritt was sentenced to death finally 10 years after the crime in January 2020.
Note: I'm not sure what was wrong with my microphone, but throughout the episode it would get crackly and I tried my best to re-record and edit the segments. :( Sorry!!
Sources :
Crime Museum. (2017). McStay Family. Retrieved from: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/mcstay-family/
Figueroa, Teri. (2019, May 28). The missing McStay family: A timeline of the disappearance, investigation, discovery, and trial. Retrieved from: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2019-05-28/the-missingmcstay-family-a-timeline-of-the-disappearance-investigation-discovery-and-trial
AP & Reuters. (2015, January 25). McStay home revealed what led police to believe they had been murdered. Retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2926153/Half-eaten-bowls-popcorn-couch-packed-suitcases-bedroom-Court-docs-reveal-scene-McStay-family-home-led-police-believe-d-kidnapped-murdered.html
Payne, Will. (2014, January 4). EXCLUSIVE: McStay family husband feared his wife was POISONING him before they disappeared and were found dead in desert, claims explosive new book. Retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533474/EXCLUSIVE-McStay-family-husband-feared-wife-POISONING-disappeared-dead-desert-claims-explosive-new-book.html
Videos: Law & Crime: McStay Family Murder-Sentencing-Charles Merritt Gives His Statement and Sentencing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81HVaKYhz8
Law & Crime: McStay Family Murder-Sentencing-Victim Impact Statements Continue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GC4UjU-Co&t=1785s
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The first episode of Dark Deeds was released on Nov 15, 2019.
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