#017 Ade Family Axe Murders l Music City Murder

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03/07/21 • 24 min

67-year-old Jacob Ade and his wife, Pauline, had lived along Clarksville Road for 20 years. Well-liked and prosperous, they had over 400 acres of farmland and a five room house, valued at just over $10,000—which would be easily over a quarter-million dollars in today’s money.

On the night of Tuesday, March 24, 1897, at about 9:30, one of the Ade’s neighbors woke up to see that the Ade house was on fire.

They hurried over to help and discovered a gruesome crime scene.

On the night of Tuesday, March 24, 1897, at about 9:30, one of the Ade’s neighbors woke up to see that the Ade house was on fire.

They hurried over to help and discovered a gruesome crime scene.

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#016 The Tanning Bed Murders l Music City Murder

It's a story made for true crime obsession.

On February 22, 1996, two eighteen-year-old girls were found murdered in a seedy establishment named "Exotic Tan for Men," just off Church Street in Nashville.

The case quickly went cold, and that's how it remains today.

How could such a brutal murder go unsolved for so long?

It even has an ominous-sounding name: The Tanning Bed Murders.

Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville

It really is amazing that so little is known about the deaths of Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell.

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#018 The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, Part I l Patreon Preview

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Richard Ramirez (AKA The Night Stalker) is one of the most infamous serial killers in American history.

Fueled by cocaine and haunted by Satan, Ramirez cut a swath of destruction as wide as the I-10 in the early 1980s.

He's so famous, he's been immortalized in the series American Horror Story and plastered all over the covers of cheap true crime books.

The Netflix documentary, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer has reignited my interest in the case. It's a horrific case, for sure, but one I think needs to be told.