Scary Nigth Stories

She Shot Her Children - Then Tenderly Adjusted Their Faces The quiet of a Tampa house was shattered on January 28, 2011, when a patrol officer found two teenagers killed by their mother after a purchase at a gun shop and a three-day waiting period; investigators were haunted most by one small, intimate act performed after the shots. How did a woman described as calm in public, with decades of mental-health treatment and recent plans she labeled "the massacre," move from normal errands to familicide? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events leading up to and immediately after the killings, laying out the diagnoses, the purchases, the timeline, and the detail that lingered with investigators: why she adjusted her daughter's face after killing her. What does the notebook, the gun-shop visit, and the three-day wait reveal about motive and opportunity? Person: Julie Schnecker Date: January 27-28, 2011 Location: Tampa, Florida Victims: Calix Schnecker (born September 12, 1994) and Powers "Bo" Schnecker (born September 28, 1997) Weapon: Smith & Wesson .38 caliber revolver with hollow-point rounds - Julie Schnecker was 49 years old at the time of the killings. - Calix Schnecker was 16 and enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program at King High School. - Powers "Bo" Schnecker was 13 and played goalkeeper on his soccer team. - Julie bought the revolver and ammunition from a gun shop 40 miles from home and was subject to Florida's 3-day waiting period. - Julie had been hospitalized for nine months at the National Institutes of Health in 2001 and had diagnoses including bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.

He Killed His Twin Daughters - The Quiet Man Who Walked Outside Calm and measured, a father called 911 on a Friday and reported his five‑year‑old twin daughters were dead, then said he planned to kill himself next. The family had no police record, the house no history of violence, and the father was a 45‑year‑old senior vice president; what broke that ordinary life, and why did he tell investigators he heard voices commanding the killings? In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events from the morning the twins stayed home sick through the police arrival and confession, and learn about the medical, familial, and work pressures that framed the day. What combination of illness, medication changes, and inner voices led to the deaths of Tesara and Samantha? Person: David Crespi Date: January 20, 2006 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Age: 45 Victims: Tesara and Samantha, age 5 - David called 911 on a Friday afternoon and spoke in a calm, unshaken voice. - Both twin daughters were stabbed multiple times and declared dead at the scene. - David was a 45‑year‑old senior vice president, husband of twelve years, and father of five. - Twins Tesara and Samantha were born October 16, 2000, in Sacramento, California. - David had a testicular cancer diagnosis in October 2003 with treatment through the end of that year.

Locked in the Basement: The Boy 30 Feet Beneath Detroit A chill of controlled dread: a fourteen-year-old vanished from his own Detroit home on June 14, 2014, and was found eleven days later in the house’s basement after cadaver dogs had already searched the property. The family portrait taken while investigators were cataloguing evidence deliberately omitted him - so how could a boy be invisible to those who were supposed to protect him? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the day Charlie Boutel moved in with his father through the days he spent hidden beneath the building, and we lay out the medical and official records that existed before and after June 14. Was Charlie’s disappearance a failure of systems, a deliberate choice by people in the house, or something else entirely? Person: Charlie Boutel V Date: June 14, 2014 (disappearance) and June 25, 2014 (found) Location: Detroit, Michigan Age: 14 years old Case: Charlie was locked in the basement for 11 days - Charlie attempted suicide in May 2014 by cutting his wrist at age 14. - Within one month of moving in with his father at age 12, Charlie was withdrawn from school and enrolled in home education. - The training regimen included 100 push-ups, 200 sit-ups, 100 jumping jacks, 25 single-arm push-ups with a 25-pound weight, and thousands of elliptical revolutions twice daily. - Monique photographed an elliptical display showing 3,000 revolutions after ordering Charlie to complete 4,000 revolutions the night he was locked in the basement. - A semicircular scar consistent with repeated impact from a PVC pipe was documented by medical personnel; the pipe was recovered from the house.

Smell on Page Avenue: How Three Women Vanished Near Home The stench that drew a neighbor to a garage on Page Avenue turned out not to be garbage or an animal but something that would lead police to three wrapped bodies within 24 hours. All three women were found within 180 meters of the garage, each in layers of garbage bags and positioned in a fetal shape-how did warnings and paperwork fail to stop this? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the July 19, 2013 call about the smell to the discovery of three victims and the arrest that followed, tracing the connections between the victims, the rented garage, and the man who ran to his mother’s house when police arrived. What gaps in warnings and local visibility allowed these disappearances to go unanswered? Person: Michael Madison Date: July 19, 2013 Location: Page Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio Victims: Angela Deskins (38), Shetisha Sheeley (28), Shelda Helen Terry (18) Distance: less than 200 meters between first and last body - Neighbor called police after noticing a persistent heavy smell coming from a garage on Page Avenue on July 19, 2013. - Michael Madison was arrested the afternoon police found the first body and ran to his mother Diane "Dayan" Madison's house before surrendering after about one hour. - Angela Deskins was reported missing on June 7, 2013 and was found wrapped in multiple layers of garbage bags. - Shetisha Sheeley had been missing since September 2012 and was battling cancer when she disappeared. - Shelda Helen Terry was last seen leaving a local elementary school on July 10, 2013 and was found positioned in a fetal shape in multiple garbage bags.

He Drank the Bitter Coffee for Weeks - Wife Behind the Camera? The smell and sight of the coffee were normal, but the taste was like a swimming pool for three weeks while he kept drinking it in silence; surveillance later showed a woman approaching the coffee maker with a small container, and pool test strips turned violet when dipped into his mug. How did ordinary morning routines hide something that would lead to an attempted homicide indictment? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the first strange sip to the high-definition footage that became central evidence, looking at the moves Roby made to document the problem and the questions investigators still face about what had been happening inside the house before cameras were installed. Person: Roby Johnson Person: Melody Feliciano Johnson Date: July 2023 Event: Grand jury indictment in August 2023 on attempted murder and additional counts Location: United States (family relocated from Germany in 2023) - Roby reported the altered taste in his coffee for approximately three weeks without telling anyone. - Roby served more than 29 active years in the U.S. Air Force and led 220 personnel across five specialties. - Melody was born around 1984 and was the oldest of eight children. - Roby installed three high-definition cameras disguised as smoke detectors, placed in the laundry room, hallway, and above the coffee maker. - A pool test strip dipped into Roby’s morning coffee turned violet, indicating chlorine above baseline levels.

The Basement, the Minivan, and the Bucket: Wisconsin's Headless Night From a minivan ride at 9:30 p.m. to a towel-covered bucket in a family basement two days later, this case hinges on precise, recorded movements and an unthinkable discovery-so how did a man vanish from the home he knew best and his head end up in a bucket? What exactly happened in that basement between the night and the morning, and when did the choice to turn violent become irreversible? In this episode, we follow the timeline laid out by investigators, the electronic ankle monitor that tracked one woman's every move, and the conflicting interpretations offered by prosecution and defense as they try to explain why the basement was chosen. We present the facts that anchor the case and leave the central question open: when was the point of no return crossed? Person: Shad Rock Tyron Date: February 21, 2022 Location: family house basement, Wisconsin Person: Taylor Coronado Status: ankle monitor recorded her presence at the house and her departure - Shad Tyron, age 24, was last seen getting into a minivan on the night of February 21, 2022. - Two days later Shad’s mother found his head in a bucket in the basement, covered with a towel. - Taylor Coronado was wearing an electronic ankle monitor that placed her at Shad’s house, in the driveway, and later leaving alone. - Taylor was born November 23, 1997, and had been on psychiatric medication since seventh grade. - Investigators documented that earlier that evening the three who picked up Shad consumed illegal substances that included smoking and injecting.

He Called to Say He'd Killed Her - Then Led Cops Into Ruins The calmness of his confession cut deeper than the crime: at 9:30 p.m. a man in Alcalá la Real called emergency services and said, without panic, that he had just killed a girl and would lead police to her body. The girl was fourteen and the caller later refused to point exactly where she lay - what was he trying to do by offering to guide officers into the ruins of La Mota? In this episode, we tell the chronology of the night and the days before: who Jaula was, how she met the man that afternoon, the route they walked to La Mota, and the phone call that changed everything. How did a routine study visit become a lethal encounter that ended at the medieval fortress ruins? Person: Cula al-Bacero (called Jaula) Date: 14 July 2007 (birth) Date: 15 February 2022 (disappearance and death) Location: Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain Person: Nazarín Navarro Núñez - Jaula left home at approximately 5:30 p.m. on 15 February 2022 to help a friend study. - The caller contacted emergency services at 9:30 p.m. and calmly said he had just killed a girl and would show police where. - Jaula was fourteen years old at the time of her death. - Nazarín Navarro Núñez was twenty-three and born in the Dominican Republic. - Cameras near the ruins of La Mota captured Jaula and Nazarín walking toward the ruins together, with a third person turning away before they entered.

The Last Eight Minutes: SOS, Silence, and a Campus That Failed Her A routine Thursday morning turned irreversible in eight minutes: a security camera captured Laken Riley at 9:03 AM in a black jacket and white sneakers, and by 9:11 her phone's SOS was active for 60 seconds while operators heard indecipherable sounds-no help was sent. What happened between that one-minute SOS call and the moment her smartwatch stopped at 9:30, and could anyone have stopped it? In this episode, we trace the last hour of Laken Hope Riley’s life using security footage, phone and smartwatch data, and the timeline gathered by investigators to understand how ordinary moments accumulated into tragedy. How did a campus with four decades without a violent crime allow those eight minutes to become fatal? Person: Laken Hope Riley Date: February 22, 2024 Location: University of Georgia trails, Athens, Georgia Age: 22 Event: SOS call lasted 60 seconds at 9:11 AM; smartwatch stopped moving at 9:30 AM - At 9:03 AM a security camera recorded Laken wearing a black jacket, black pants, white sneakers, earbuds, and a smartwatch. - At 9:06 AM Laken’s mother called; the call went unanswered. - At 9:11 AM Laken activated the SOS function on her phone and the call lasted until 9:12 AM. - Between 9:11 AM and ~9:30 AM the smartwatch GPS logged movement about 20 meters off the established trail; movement stopped at 9:30 AM. - At 12:30 PM university police located Laken’s body in the woods, partially undressed; she was 22 years old.

The Apartment Smell That Exposed a Cop's Dark Secret The smell from down the hall - sharp, chemical, and impossible to ignore - led neighbors to an apartment where cameras last recorded a 26-year-old woman stepping inside and never coming back. Who was this woman, why did the building reek for days, and how did police inaction and a stalled investigation leave crucial hours unexamined? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Sheila Mayumi Condor Torres left home to the moment officers finally entered the unit on November 16, 2024, covering the missing person report, the apartment's prior 2023 police report, and the responses that kept the case from moving forward. What gaps in procedure and jurisdiction allowed the man named in those early messages to remain undisturbed? Person: Sheila Mayumi Condor Torres Date: November 13-16, 2024 Location: Condominio Torres de la Pradera, Comas, Lima Person: Darwin Marx Condor y Antesana Status: Missing person reported; investigation initially declined by multiple police stations - Sheila was 26 years old, born April 7, 1998, and left home on the morning of November 13, 2024. - Security cameras recorded Sheila arriving with a small white dog and walking into Darwin’s apartment on November 13, 2024; she was never seen on camera again. - Neighbors first noticed a persistent, throat-settling smell between November 13 and November 16, 2024; police detected it in the hallway before knocking on November 16. - A 2023 police report named Darwin and two additional officers in an alleged group assault and described victims being restrained and drugged; the investigation stalled. - Sheila’s family filed the first missing persons report within hours, but the Santa Anita station declined, citing jurisdiction; Santa Luzmila officers refused to file a complaint against a police officer, offering only a general disappearance report.

They Had the Suspect-Why Was Hannia Still Missing for 22 Days? A thirteen-year-old vanished before dawn, her body found submerged three feet underwater thirteen kilometers from home after twenty-two days of searches - and the man investigators later tied to her had already been sitting in a police cell for an unrelated incident. How could the suspect be in custody while the community kept looking and Hannia’s family waited in the dark? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Hannia left to start her aunt’s truck to the secret charges filed against the man investigators suspected. We follow the surveillance, the witnesses, the delayed emergency response, and the decisions that kept a name out of the public for weeks - but what exactly motivated the suspect to choose that park and that morning? Person: Hannia Noelia Aguilar Date of disappearance: November 5, 2018 Age: 13 Location found: swamp, submerged more than three feet underwater, 13 kilometers from mobile home park Suspect: Michael Ray McClellan - Hannia was born March 21, 2005 and was in seventh grade at the time of her disappearance. - The Amber Alert and a $30,000 reward were issued within hours of the abduction. - Surveillance captured a man in dark pants and a hooded sweatshirt walking near the park before dawn. - Hannia’s cousin witnessed a man with a yellow bandana force her into the truck and the vehicle left the park within seconds. - Investigators filed secret charges against McClellan (second-degree kidnapping, firearm possession, attempted robbery) while he was already in custody for a separate incident.