Stranger Danger: A True Crime Podcast

72. The One with the Sick Suitcase Murder

Australia… what in the hell is going on down under, my friends!? 

If your boyfriend is one of the worst guys in the world and you still go back to him because you’re a match made in hell, you must be Hazel Passmore. When Hazel becomes suspicious that Daniel Holdom is cheating on her, he reassures her it simply isn’t possible… because the woman in question is dead. 

Rather than report the murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce, Hazel’s next actions are just truly unbelievable. Listen to find out more!

71. The One Where Susan Feeds Them to the Pigs

Robert Haney and Stephen Delicino were unsuspecting handymen who went to work for Oregon pig farmer Susan Monica… but they ended up being fed to the farm animals. Keep Oregon weird or nah?

 

70. The One with the Mysterious Cruise Disappearance

Amy Lynn Bradley was only 23 years old when she boarded a Caribbean cruise ship with her family and disappeared forever. Theories have floated (no pun intended) about trafficking, drowning, suicide, etc., but the question remains - what happened to Amy? 

69. The One Where We Go Back to Spreckels Mansion

Spreckels mansion part 2! McKenzie had to do a follow up episode after realizing how much content and research she left out of part 1. Please accept this follow-up episode with our sincerest apologies. 

68. The One with the Circleville Letters Mystery

In 1976, citizens of Circleville, OH began receiving mysterious letters from an unknown author with various threats, blackmail, rants, and details of the recipients’ lives. Ignoring the letters didn’t seem to pay off though, and eventually a man ends up dead and another is falsely imprisoned while the writer remains unidentified. Who was the Circleville Letter Writer? 

67. The One with the Spreckels Mansion Mystery

Two people dead within 48 hours, in the same house, seemingly unrelated, with no charges? That’s exactly what happened at Spreckels mansion when 6-year-old Max Shacknai seemed to accidentally fall off a second-story landing. Two days later, his dad’s girlfriend Rebecca Zahou was found hanging from an outside balcony. All signs point to foul play, but investigators weren’t convinced. Tell us what you think happened! 

66. The One with Richard "Dracula" Chase

Guest co-hosts Kara and Cici sit in to listen the uncomfortable and unbelievable case of Richard Chase known by several aliases but most notably "Dracula of Sacramento" and "The Vampire Killer of Sacramento.”

TW: kids, animals, cannibalism

65. The One with Becky Watts

We have a special guest this episode, Fatina's wife Kara. She gets filled in on the bizarre case of Becky Watts. 

64. The One Where Matricide is NOT Murder by Mattress

Jennifer Pan had mastered the art of lying to her parents, but when her tales began to unravel she decided that coming clean or moving out on her own just weren’t as reasonable of options as murder. When backed into a corner the next natural step is to kill your parents, right?  

 

63. The One Where Susan Walters is a Survivor

Susan Walters was an unsuspecting ER nurse when she was attacked in her home one evening. She fought tooth (literally, she bit him!) and nail to survive the attack, but the real plot twist is what happened to her attacker and why he attacked her in the first place.