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Dark Dialogue Podcast Network
by John McColl
Dive into the chilling world of Dark Dialogue, a true crime podcast unraveling unsolved mysteries and cold cases across the American West. Hosted by John and Angela, we explore haunting stories, blending meticulous research with gripping storytelling. Our unique Rocky Mountain Reckoning program empowers listeners to adopt a victim, fund forensic testing, and join real investigations using skills like drone searches or data analysis. With exclusive bonus episodes and investigation updates for Patreon and Ko-fi supporters, Dark Dialogue builds a community dedicated to justice. Subscribe to our Substack for free case updates, join our Discord to suggest cases, or support us at darkdialogue.com to fund DNA analysis and field searches. Listen now and help solve the unsolvable. #TrueCrime
Episodes
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Earl Durand Part 2 | Your Beloved Enemy: Wyoming's Greatest Manhunt Begins
The largest manhunt in Wyoming history has begun. After escaping the Park County Jail in March 1939, Earl Durand leaves two peace officers dead and disappears into the rugged mountains of northwestern Wyoming. What follows is unlike anything the American West had ever witnessed. Sheriffs.…
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Jayna Troxel Murray | The Lululemon Murder: How Forensic Evidence Exposed a Killer
When people remember the "Lululemon Murder," they often remember the headlines. They remember the yoga pants. They remember the shocking crime scene. What they often don't remember is Jayna Troxel Murray. On March 11, 2011, Jayna was finishing a routine closing shift at a Lululemon store in...
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Season One Memorial | Giving Voices to the Voiceless | Honoring Every Victim We Remembered
Every investigation begins with a victim. Before the headlines... Before the investigations... Before the courtroom... There was a life. There was a family. There was someone deeply loved. As we close Season One of Dark Dialogue, we step away from evidence, suspects, and investigations to honor…
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Earl Durand Part 1 | The Last Mountain Man?
Season Two of Rocky Mountain Reckoning: Hunted & Cornered begins with one of the most remarkable stories ever to come out of the American West. Long before he became known as the "Tarzan of the Tetons," Walter Earl Durand was simply Earl—a farm boy, an extraordinary outdoorsman, and a man many...
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Shadow Chat Sessions Ep. 38 | Turtle Smugglers, Tartaria, Haunted Mansions & The Weirdest Stories on the Internet
The internet somehow keeps getting stranger. This week on Shadow Chat Sessions, John and Angela dive headfirst into another collection of unbelievable true stories, bizarre crimes, internet rabbit holes, conspiracy theories, haunted locations, cryptids, and historical oddities that sound…
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Mia Zapata Part 4 | Justice, Legacy & The Final Verdict
How do prosecutors prove a murder case without eyewitnesses, a confession, or even a known primary crime scene? In the concluding episode of our four-part investigation into the murder of Mia Zapata, we step inside the courtroom to examine how prosecutors built their case, how the defense...
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The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders | Voices: The Story & Tribute
Three little girls. Three letters home. Three futures that deserved to be lived. In this episode of Voices, we remember Lori Lee Farmer, Michele Heather Guse, and Doris Denise Milner—the three Girl Scouts whose lives were stolen at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma, in June 1977. You'll hear…
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Susan Jean King & Kyle Breeden Part 1 | A Case Gone Cold
In October 1998, 39-year-old Kyle "Deanie" Breeden disappeared from Shelbyville, Kentucky. Ten days later, his body was recovered from the Kentucky River. He had been shot twice in the head, his legs bound with a guitar amplifier cord, and a homicide investigation was underway. This episode isn't...
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Lori Bray Victim Tribute | Remembering the Kindness That Defined Her
Not every victim received the tribute they deserved when Dark Dialogue first told their story. Lori Sue Bray was fifty-seven years old, a mother, a friend, and a woman known throughout her Montana community for her kindness. On the night of October 1, 2019, after finishing her shift as closing...
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Amy Wroe Bechtel Part 3|The Investigation Chooses a Direction
When Amy Wroe Bechtel disappeared outside Lander, Wyoming on July 24, 1997, investigators faced a difficult reality. There was no body. No crime scene. No eyewitness to a crime. No physical evidence explaining what had happened. Yet within weeks, the investigation began focusing intensely on one...
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The Last Hours of Mia Zapata | EP02
On July 7, 1993, Seattle detectives began piecing together the final hours of Mia Zapata's life. Friends remembered seeing her at the Comet Tavern. Witnesses recalled her search for an ex-boyfriend. Investigators reconstructed her movements through Capitol Hill and back to the Winston Apartments,...
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Mia Zapata Part 1: The Voice Seattle Lost
Before she became the center of one of Seattle's most haunting unsolved homicide investigations, Mia Zapata was an artist, a friend, and one of the most powerful voices in the Pacific Northwest music scene. In Part One of our Mia Zapata series, we explore the life behind the headlines. From her...
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Janet Chandler Part 4: The Lie Collapses
For more than twenty-five years, the murder of Janet Chandler remained hidden behind a carefully constructed robbery story. In Episode 4, we reconstruct the final hours of Janet's life, examine how a group of people chose silence over intervention, and follow the investigation that eventually...
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Janet Chandler Part 3: The Story Begins to Collapse
For more than twenty-five years, Janet Chandler’s murder survived as a familiar cold case story: a motel clerk abducted during a robbery in western Michigan during the winter of 1979. But in Episode 3 of Dark Dialogue’s Janet Chandler series, that narrative finally begins to crack. A Hope College...
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Lauren Agee: She Was Trying to Leave | The Cliff Timeline Collapses
In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled, John McColl examines the increasingly unstable timeline surrounding the death of Lauren Agee during WakeFest 2015 on Center Hill Lake in Tennessee. As the investigation moves beyond the simplified narrative of a drunken accidental fall, disturbing...
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Amy Wroe Bechtel Part 2: The Final Day
Amy Wroe Bechtel disappeared after going for a training run near Lander, Wyoming on July 24th, 1997. Nearly thirty years later, the case remains one of the most haunting disappearances in the American West. In Part 2 of this Rocky Mountain Reckoning investigation, we reconstruct Amy’s final known...
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Janet Chandler Part 2: The Story That Didn’t Fit
The robbery story made sense at first glance. A missing motel clerk. An interrupted phone call. Missing cash from the register. A frightened voice saying: “Don’t take it all, sir.” But the deeper investigators looked into the murder of Janet Chandler, the harder it became to reconcile the…
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Three Forgotten Victims Along the Great Basin Corridor
Three women. Three locations. One system that allowed them to vanish without resolution. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we examine the cases of Tina Cheri Snell, Tonya Teske, and the Fox Park Jane Doe—each found in remote locations across Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming....
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Lizard People, Radio Confessions & Napoleon vs. Rabbits
Welcome back to Shadow Chat Sessions—the show where logic breaks down, bad decisions take center stage, and the internet proves—again—that we might not be the dominant species… just the loudest. In this episode, we’re diving headfirst into chaos: A headline so dumb it somehow became “data” The...
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Lauren Agee | Ep. 1: The Fall That Doesn’t Fit
What if the official explanation doesn’t fully explain what happened? In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled, we begin a ground-up re-examination of the death of Lauren Agee—a case ruled as an accidental fall followed by possible drowning. But when you break that explanation down step by…
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Shafter Jane Doe: The Case That Breaks the Great Basin Theory
In November 1993, a motorist pulled off Interstate 80 near Shafter, Nevada—and discovered the body of a young woman in the sagebrush. She was nude. She had been shot and beaten. And she had been deliberately positioned. For decades, Shafter Jane Doe has been grouped into the so-called “Great…
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Weaponized Fart Charges & Airborne Beavers
This week on Shadow Chat Sessions, we officially abandon logic. A man in Scotland turns a police strip search into a criminal charge using nothing but eye contact and poor decision-making. Meanwhile, the internet is deep in a fully committed roleplay war between Birdmen and “Mudmen,” and somehow…...
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Dorothy Jane Scott (Part 2): The Pattern He Left Behind
Dorothy Jane Scott vanished from a hospital parking lot in 1980 after months of escalating, anonymous calls. Four years later, her remains were found in the hills of Anaheim. In Part 2, this case shifts—from disappearance to confirmed murder—and from questions… to constraints. This episode is not...
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Billy the Kid Part 12: The Broken Deal of 1879
After the Lincoln County War, there was supposed to be peace. Instead, there was Huston Chapman. In this episode of Gallows & Gunfights, we break down the murder that changed everything—and the deal that followed. Billy the Kid witnesses Chapman’s killing in the streets of Lincoln, then makes a...
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Clark Perry Baldwin 3: What Died With Him
In 2025, a jury convicted Clark Perry Baldwin of murdering Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall and her unborn child—more than three decades after her body was found along a Tennessee highway. But that conviction didn’t close the case. It changed the questions. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky...
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Pattern or Coincidence? When Investigations Start to Break Down
What happens when an investigation starts to go wrong? In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled, we step back from individual cases to examine a deeper pattern—one that may connect multiple investigations across different regions and circumstances. From the Holly Bobo case to Brandon Embry,...
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Dorothy Jane Scott Part 1: He Knew Where She Was
The night Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared should have been routine. A coworker needed help. A quick trip to the hospital. A short walk to the parking lot. And then—she was gone. In Part 1 of this investigation, we reconstruct the final known hours of Dorothy’s life, following her from a staff...
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Billy the Kid After Lincoln: 11 - The Fugitive Months
After the Battle of Lincoln ended in fire and blood, the war didn’t end—it changed. In this episode of Gallows & Gunfights, we follow Billy the Kid through the months that transformed him from a wartime participant into a hunted outlaw. With the Regulators scattered and the Murphy–Dolan faction...
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Holly Bobo – What Had to Happen
On April 13, 2011, Holly Bobo vanished from her family’s home in Darden, Tennessee. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled, we step away from testimony and theory—and reconstruct the morning itself. What actually had to happen? Using timeline analysis, property layout, and movement...
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Clark Perry Baldwin 2: The Pattern on the Highway
This is the episode where the investigation changes. What began as two unidentified women found along Wyoming highways becomes something far more complex—when DNA proves they were killed by the same unknown man. Years later, that same profile connects to a third case… more than a thousand miles...
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The Goat Did It | Dumb Criminals, Goblins & Absolute Chaos
This episode of Shadow Chat Sessions proves one thing—reality is barely holding it together. We’re diving into a lineup of stories that range from wildly stupid to genuinely bizarre, including a goat arrested for armed robbery, a suspect hiding in a nudist resort (while fully clothed), and a bank...
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Jessica O’Grady 2: The Blood Told a Story
In 2007, Christopher Edwards was convicted of murdering Jessica O’Grady. There was no body. No recovery. No direct proof of how she died. The case was built on what investigators said happened inside one bedroom. In Episode 1, we followed the investigation—from Jessica’s disappearance to the...
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Vicky Lynn Perkins: The Distance Between
Somewhere between Portland, Oregon… and a remote stretch of desert off Interstate 70 in eastern Utah… a 19-year-old disappears into a gap no one has ever been able to explain. No confirmed route. No confirmed ride. No clear timeline. Just distance. In this solo episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky...
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Music With A Meaning | JJ Hawk Band Interview
This episode of Dark Dialogue is something different—and something that matters. Originally recorded during a New Year’s live show that didn’t quite go as planned, one part stood out: a conversation worth keeping. What you’re hearing today is that conversation, presented on its own. In this...
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Billy the Kid Part 10: The Fire Was the Verdict
The fire didn’t end the siege. It was the verdict. In Part 10 of Gallows and Gunfights, we take you into the final day of the Lincoln County War’s most infamous battle—the burning of the McSween house. What begins as a standoff ends in fire, collapse, and a desperate breakout into darkness....
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Holly Bobo 4: The Story Doesn’t Hold
This episode of Dark Dialogue: Distilled asks a simple question: Does the story that secured these convictions actually hold up? In Holly Bobo 4: The Story Doesn’t Hold, we take a focused, analytical look at the testimony of Jason Autry—the witness whose account became central to the…
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The Missing Night
In May of 2006, nineteen-year-old Jessica Jo O’Grady left her Omaha apartment late at night after telling roommates she was going to see someone she had recently started spending time with. Within hours, her phone went silent. Jessica never returned home, never showed up for work, and never...
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Without A Name In Wyoming
In the spring of 1992, two young women were discovered along the highways of Wyoming—one near Bitter Creek along Interstate 80, the other in a drainage ditch beside Interstate 90 near the Montana border. Both had been murdered. Both had been left in remote roadside locations along major trucking...
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The Frog Cop Report
This week on Shadow Chat Sessions, things get weird fast. We start with a headline that sounds like satire but isn’t: an AI police report in Utah that somehow concluded an officer shape-shifted into a frog thanks to background audio from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. It’s funny… until you...
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Breininger Case — Part 3: When It Fell Apart
Robert Breininger is dead. Judith Hawkey is no longer serving life without parole. And Corey Breininger is now a father trying to live beyond the night that changed everything. In this final installment of the Robert Breininger case, Dark Dialogue examines what happened after the dramatic...
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A Name, A Number, and a Silence
In 1990 and 1991, three women were found along the highways and desert corridors of the American West. One was discovered in sagebrush near West Wendover, Nevada — known only as Unidentified Person #7519. One was found nude off the I-15 Mills exit in Juab County, Utah — a Jane Doe for eight years...
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Headless Chickens, Haunted Inns & Earth’s Missing Billion Years
This week on Shadow Chat Sessions, we spiral beautifully out of control. We start with Earth’s so-called “heartbeat” — Schumann resonance spikes during solar activity — and whether it’s scrambling brains or just giving Facebook something new to blame for migraines. Then we investigate the...
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Robert Breininger – Part 2: Abuse, Suicide, and the Reopened Investigation
In Episode 2 of our Robert Lee Breininger series, we examine the allegations that reshaped a 2003 “accidental shooting” into a homicide prosecution nearly a decade later. After Corey Breininger changed his story, investigators reopened the case from the ground up. This episode covers the detailed...
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Holly Bobo — Distilled: The Interrogation That Built a Story
In this Dark Dialogue: Distilled episode, John takes listeners inside one of the most controversial moments in the Holly Bobo investigation — the interrogation and confession of Dylan Adams. Rather than simply repeating headlines or courtroom summaries, this episode walks through the…
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Flat Earth, Flying Dildos & Frozen Statues: The Weirdest Stories You’ll Hear This Week
This week on Shadow Chat Sessions, we spiral beautifully out of control. We start with a real Australian headline involving a flying projectile at a stag party (yes, that one), then dive headfirst into the foundational conspiracy theory that refuses to die: Flat Earth — NASA cover-ups, ice walls,...
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Robert Breininger | Episode : The Child Who Pulled the Trigger
The Accident Everyone Accepted. On November 3, 2003, in rural Mark Center, Ohio, 34-year-old Robert Lee Breininger was shot inside his own bedroom. His ten-year-old son called 911. He said it was an accident. Law enforcement believed him. The coroner ruled the death accidental. The case closed…
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The Murder of Patricia and Douglas Zyskowski Part 3 - Faith on the Open Road: The Reckoning
In March 2012, more than two decades after Patricia “Candy” Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski vanished while hitchhiking near El Paso, Texas, Robert Ben Rhoades stood in a small West Texas courtroom and admitted to killing them. No trial. No death penalty phase. No appeals. Two capital murder...
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The Murder of Dana Satterfield – Part 3: The Weight of Silence ________________________________________
For more than a decade, the truth in the murder of Dana Satterfield existed in fragments. A preserved rape kit. A teenage witness. A threat made in a Bowling Alley. A name investigators suspected but could not legally compel. In this final installment of our three-part investigation, we examine:...
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Billy the Kid — Part 9: The Last Day Without a Verdict
By the fourth day of the Five-Day Battle of Lincoln, the shooting has become routine, the civilians are gone, and the town itself has stopped functioning as a place meant for ordinary life. In Part 9 of Gallows & Gunfights, The Last Day Without a Verdict, we follow Day Four — Thursday, July 18,...
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Chimney Pooper, Psychic Horse & Everest Resurrection: Florida Man, Facebook Felonies & Bayou Beasts
What do you get when you mix a chimney mystery, a psychic horse, a Cajun werewolf, Everest’s most impossible survival, and criminals who use Facebook as evidence storage? Shadow Chat Sessions – Episode 29. This week’s descent into chaos includes: 📰 Strange Headline A British tabloid screams…
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Dive into the chilling world of Dark Dialogue, a true crime podcast unraveling unsolved mysteries and cold cases across the American West. Hosted by John and Angela, we explore haunting stories, blending meticulous research with gripping storytelling. Our unique Rocky Mountain Reckoning program empowers listeners to adopt a victim, fund forensic testing, and join real investigations using skills like drone searches or data analysis. With exclusive bonus episodes and investigation updates for Patreon and Ko-fi supporters, Dark Dialogue builds a community dedicated to justice. Subscribe to our Substack for free case updates, join our Discord to suggest cases, or support us at darkdialogue.com to fund DNA analysis and field searches. Listen now and help solve the unsolvable. #TrueCrime
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