No one had seen Percy Smith since he had gone to buy cattle from a man near Council Bluffs, Iowa. When police were called, their search led to Corliss Bruntlett, a man with a hidden past. They soon discovered that he was concealing an even darker secret that would shock their community. Sources Haws, …
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Eulalia Smith had been worried about her husband since that Lundgreen man had called her. There was just something not right about that phone call. Looking out the window of their home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, an anxious look crossed Eulalia’s face. Lundgreen – whoever he was – had told her that Percy wanted …
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Christine Leidel thought the fortune teller seemed nice enough, but you couldn’t be too careful in 1808 Bavaria. When he offered to look into her future, she decided to trust him. Christine Leidel had just made an appointment with one of the most infamous murderers in European history. Sources Germany from c. 1760 to …
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Catherine had been a bit stand-offish when the fortune teller had first approached her. There was nothing wrong with the man. He was clean and polite and spoke well. But she was a young woman travelling alone through Bavaria, Germany. There was never such a thing as being too careful. There were bandits and …
In 2007, a woman contacted the press with a startling revelation: her father, Donald Studey, was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of as many as 70 young women at his home in Green Hollow, Iowa. As the story began to make headlines across the nation, the case began to make many twists and …
Episode 102: Donald Studey: The Monster of Green Hollow? Read More »
Some say that there was a monster in Green Hollow. Located in the rural hills of Southwestern Iowa, Green Hollow is a thickly wooded area full of deep ravines. For several years, the only road that accessed the area was so narrow that it could barely accommodate two cars at the same time. The …
Swede and Fay Lewis had always been a stormy one, and Fay was finally tired of it. When she finally decided to end it and filed for divorce, Swede was enraged. To what depths would he descend when he didn’t get his way? Sources Former Brazil Man Kills Wife; Ends Own Life. The Brazil …
Fayette, or Fay for short, was 17 years old and living in Brazil, Indiana, when she met Swede, a young coal miner. Several years before, large deposits of coal that was ideal for iron construction and manufacture were found in the region. After the pork production industry had largely been moved to larger meat …
The fire had started at around 2 a.m. in the early morning hours of January 7, 1950. Half an hour later, St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital would be engulfed in flames. Firemen and other rescuers hacked at the iron bars covering the windows to the patient’s rooms. Many of the patients screamed desperately into the …
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In this, the second part of the tragic story of the St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital Fire of 1950, people across America were shocked by the disaster that had claimed the lives of 41 people. Fire and police investigators were eager to find out what had caused the blaze. When they did, the truth was almost …
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