PODCAST · true crime
Dark Histories
by Rachel Lammey
Maya and Jess dig into the most chilling true crimes and unsolved mysteries of the past. Dramatic, victim-first storytelling — real historical cases researched from Wikipedia, news archives, and police records, wrapped in an eerie original score.
Episodes
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The Giarre Murder: Two Hearts Found Hand in Hand in Sicily
Forty-six years ago today, Giorgio Agatino Giammona and Antonio Toni Galatola were killed in Giarre, Sicily, and found hand in hand under a pine tree. Maya and Jess revisit the unsolved double murder that lit the fuse for Italy's gay rights movement.
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Nicole Dragisic: The Knock at Three Forty in the Morning
Nine years ago today, thirty-seven-year-old mother of five Nicole Dragisic answered a knock at her Hamilton apartment door in the middle of the night — and never came back. Maya and Jess revisit the doorway shooting, the two fleeing figures, and the targeted killing that has never been solved.
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Florence Broadhurst: The Wallpaper Queen's Last Night in Paddington
Forty-nine years ago today, seventy-eight-year-old wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was beaten to death in her Paddington studio after making her visitor a cup of tea. Maya and Jess revisit the vaudeville star turned design icon, the two cups of tea, and a murder that has never been solved.
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Mary Shotwell Little: The Missing Bride of Lenox Square
Sixty-one years ago today, twenty-five-year-old newlywed Mary Shotwell Little walked to her car in Atlanta's Lenox Square parking lot and vanished. Maya and Jess revisit the blood-specked Comet, the midnight gas stations in North Carolina, and the secret admirer she never got to name.
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Helen Claire Frost: The Walk She Never Came Back From
Fifty-six years ago today, seventeen-year-old Helen Claire Frost left her Prince George apartment for a quick evening walk and was never seen again. Maya and Jess revisit the young mother who fought to keep her baby, the unconfirmed hitchhiking tip, and a cold case that opened the Highway of…
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Dyatlov Pass: Nine Hikers, One Night, and the Mountain of the Dead
Nine experienced ski hikers cut their way out of their own tent on a Soviet mountainside in February 1959 and walked out into minus thirty degree cold in their socks. Maya and Jess revisit the bodies, the injuries that looked like a car crash, and the compelling unknown force that closed the case...
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The Lead Masks: Two Men, a Hilltop, and a Signal That Never Came
Sixty years ago this August, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana were found dead on a hilltop outside Niteroi, Brazil, wearing homemade lead masks over their eyes with a notebook of cryptic instructions beside them. Maya and Jess revisit the capsules, the blinding light they feared, and…
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Rico Harris: The Man Who Vanished on the Road to Seattle
Twelve years ago today, former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris left a voicemail saying he was going into the mountains to rest and was never seen again. Maya and Jess trace his last drive to Cache Creek Canyon, the search that found his car, phone and footprints, but never Rico.
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The Babes in the Wood: Forty Years On, and a Verdict That Took Thirty-Two Years
Forty years ago today, Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, two nine-year-old best friends, were killed in Brighton's Wild Park. Maya and Jess revisit the trial that set their killer free in 1987, the billion-to-one DNA evidence that brought him back to court in 2018, and the families who fought for...
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The Jamison Family: Vanished on a Land Hunt in Oklahoma
Seventeen years ago today, Bobby, Sherilynn and six-year-old Madyson Jamison drove out to look at land near Red Oak, Oklahoma, and vanished. Maya and Jess revisit the abandoned truck, the four-year search, and a case with no determined cause of death.
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The Villisca Axe Murders: Eight Lives Lost in One Night
Maya and Jess revisit the 1912 Villisca axe murders in Iowa: eight people killed in one night, every mirror covered, a minister who confessed and walked free — and a case still unsolved after more than a century.
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The Sodder Children: Five Kids Who Vanished From a Burning House
Maya and Jess investigate the 1945 Sodder children disappearance: five kids vanished from a Christmas Eve house fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia, with no bodies ever found, a cut phone line, and a family who spent 44 years searching for answers.
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Tamam Shud: The Mystery of the Somerton Man
Maya and Jess unpack the 1948 Taman Shud case: a well-dressed man found dead on Somerton Beach with no ID, a secret pocket hiding a scrap of Persian poetry, an unbreakable code, and a 2022 DNA breakthrough that may have finally named him.
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The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Germany's Most Haunting Unsolved Crime
Maya and Jess dig into the 1922 Hinterkaifeck farm murders in Bavaria: six victims, a killer who stayed for days, and a century of unanswered questions.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Maya and Jess dig into the most chilling true crimes and unsolved mysteries of the past. Dramatic, victim-first storytelling — real historical cases researched from Wikipedia, news archives, and police records, wrapped in an eerie original score.
HOSTED BY
Rachel Lammey
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Maya and Jess dig into the most chilling true crimes and unsolved mysteries of the past. Dramatic, victim-first storytelling — real historical cases researched from Wikipedia, news archives, and police records, wrapped in an eerie original score.
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