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Shadows In The Pines
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An investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah HalerIn the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep — and the shadows remember everything.Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and mysterious cases — from unsolved homicides and disappearances to long-forgotten cold cases lost to time and silence.Hosted by Dan Morgan and Rebekah Haler, each episode combines journalistic depth, forensic reconstruction, and immersive storytelling to bring clarity to the darkness. Focused on accuracy, empathy, and respect for the victims, the series delivers a cold, investigative narrative style that stays true to the facts while capturing the atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.Every sound, every silence, every shadow has meaning.“In the pines, shadows linger — and the truth waits beneath the silence.”
Episodes
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Mini Pines - Terrible Tilly
Off Oregon’s northern coast, Tillamook Rock Lighthouse became known as “Terrible Tilly.” Before its first light shone in 1881, its construction had already claimed a life. For the keepers who lived and worked there, isolation and powerful Pacific storms were part of the job. In this episode of…
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Mini Pines - Haunted Spokane
Spokane has plenty of ghost stories. But how much of what gets repeated is actually documented? In this episode of Mini Pines, Bekah explores five of Spokane’s reportedly haunted locations, including the Bing Crosby Theater and the Davenport Hotel. We’re talking historic theaters, grand mansions,...
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Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg - Part 2 - The Outcome
For more than thirty years, the DNA profile investigators called “Individual A” had no name. In the second half of our investigation into the murders of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, the case finally begins to move. After decades of dead ends, investigators turn to new DNA technology and...
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When The Northwest Goes Dark
As October approaches, the Pacific Northwest seems to take on a different feeling. The days grow shorter, the shadows stretch longer, and old stories seem to come alive. Join me for a fireside journey through Northwest folklore, mysterious waters, legendary creatures, haunted places, and the...
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Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg - Part 1
In November 1987, 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Vancouver Island for what was supposed to be a simple overnight trip into Washington. Jay’s father needed materials picked up for the family business, Tanya came along, and they expected to be home the following day....
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Dayton Leroy Rogers - Part 2 - The trials
We continue with the story of Dayton Leroy Rogers
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Dayton Leroy Rogers - Part 1 - The Crimes
Dayton Leroy Rogers: The Molalla Forest Killer — Part 1: The Crimes Before Dayton Leroy Rogers became known as the Molalla Forest Killer, women in Oregon had already survived him. In Part One, we follow Rogers from his earliest documented violence through the crimes that eventually exposed what…
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Mini Pines - The Big Burn
The Big Burn In August of 1910, three million acres burned in two days. At least eighty-five people died, and nobody can say exactly how many, because most had been hired off barstools without anyone writing down their names. Outside Wallace, Idaho, a forest ranger named Ed Pulaski put forty-some...
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Aidan Spear - Found, But No Answers
Aidan Victoria Spear — Found, But Without Answers In January 2022, 21-year-old Aidan Victoria Spear was supposed to meet her mother, Jessica Brown. After years of struggling with addiction and homelessness on the streets of Tacoma, Aidan had told her mom she was ready for treatment. Jessica began...
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Mini Pines - Mel Waters
In 1997, a man called a late-night radio show to report a bottomless pit outside Ellensburg, Washington. Nineteen feet across, fifteen miles of fishing line, no bottom. Over five years the story grew a resurrected dog, a government payout, and a wombat sanctuary — then the man vanished for good.…
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Big Show News
A quick update on what we’ve been working on this last week
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Mini Pines - The Man Who Carried His Own Key
The Man Who Carried His Own Key You hike eleven miles on snowshoes to a locked Forest Service cabin. You have the only key. And the stove is warm. For thirteen years in the 1930s and ’40s, someone lived off the locked backcountry cabins of north-central Idaho, letting himself in and out without...
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Bryan Kohberger Update
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. But that plea ended the case before a jury ever heard the evidence, before experts were cross-examined, and before some of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding 1122 King Road...
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Mini Pines - The Hahn House
The House Made of the Hill: The Wilbur-Hahn House At the end of a dead-end road on Spokane’s South Hill sits a century-old house built directly into the basalt beneath it. It’s beautiful, historically significant, privately owned—and by local reputation, one of the most haunted houses in Spokane....
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Kit Mora - Missing In Omak
Finding Kit: Missing in Omak In the summer of 2021, sixteen-year-old Kit Mora left Yakima for what was supposed to be a temporary stay with their biological mother in Omak, Washington. By November, their closest friends and family had stopped hearing from them. Kit stopped posting online. They...
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Mini Pines - Bridge Of the Gods
The Bridge of the Gods There was a bridge across the Columbia River. Not the steel one at Cascade Locks with the toll booth and the hikers walking single file — the first one. Stone and dirt and the broken bones of a mountain, wide enough to walk across, with the river running underneath it in…
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The Murder Of Mandy Stavik
The day after Thanksgiving in 1989, 18-year-old Mandy Stavik left her family’s home in the small community of Acme, Washington, for an afternoon run along the roads she’d known her entire life. She never came home. What followed was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most haunting unsolved murders....
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Mini Pines - Stick Indians
Don't Whistle Back: The Stick Indians of the Pacific Northwest There's a rule some people in this part of the country still follow: don't whistle at night. No explanation offered. Just — don't. Because something will hear you. This episode is about what's on the other end of that whistle. The...
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The Lewis Clark Valley Murders - Part 3 - Lance Voss
The Lewis-Clark Valley murders remain one of the Pacific Northwest’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Between 1979 and 1982, five people either disappeared or were murdered across southeastern Washington and north-central Idaho, leaving investigators to wonder whether they were hunting a single...
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Mini Pines - Gumberoo of the Cedars
Deep in the cedar and spruce forests of the Oregon coast, where the fog comes in sideways and you can lose fifty feet of visibility in the time it takes to blink, the men who logged those slopes in the 1880s and 1890s had a story. It was called the Gumberoo. Coal-black, barrel-bodied, and...
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The Lewis- Clark Valley Murders Part 2
The Lewis-Clark Valley was already living with unanswered questions after the disappearance of Christina White and the murder of Kristin David. Then, in the span of just a few months, the investigation took a devastating turn. In Part Two of our deep dive into the Lewis-Clark Valley murders, we...
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The Lewis-Clark Valley Murders Part 1
In April 1979, twelve-year-old Christina White left a friend’s house in Asotin, Washington, and never made it home. Two years later, University of Idaho student Kristin David disappeared while riding her bicycle between Moscow and Lewiston. Her murder would send shockwaves through the Lewis-Clark...
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Mini Pines - Bigfoot Of The Selkirks
The Selkirk Mountains are among the oldest and most remote wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest—and for generations, they’ve been home to stories of something that walks upright through the trees. In this episode of Mini Pines, we explore documented Bigfoot encounters, Indigenous traditions,...
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Mini Pines - The Witches Of Rathdrum
The Witches of Rathdrum | Mini Pines For decades, people across North Idaho whispered about a lonely stretch of Highway 41 where hooded figures formed human chains across the road, bonfires flickered deep in the trees, and anyone brave enough to drive through after dark risked encountering...
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Bound By Assumption - Part 2
The investigation into the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch had already spanned decades. Detectives had followed leads, families had endured years of unanswered questions, and an entire community had learned to live with the possibility that the truth might never be known. Then...
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Mini Pines - The Maury Island Incident
The Maury Island Incident It’s the summer solstice, 1947. A man named Harold Dahl is out on a salvage boat in Puget Sound when six enormous, doughnut-shaped objects appear in the sky above him. One of them falters. Debris rains down — burning the hull, injuring his teenage son, killing the family...
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Bound By Assumption - Part 1 - The Story Of Michella Welch & Jennifer Bastian
For decades, the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch haunted Tacoma, Washington. Two young girls. Two bicycle rides. Two families left searching for answers. And for more than thirty years, investigators believed they were looking at a single mystery. In Part One of Bound by…
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Crimecon 2026 Experience
CrimeCon 2026 was an experience we’ll never forget. This week, Dan and Rebekah take a break from the case files and pull back the curtain on their trip to Las Vegas for CrimeCon 2026. From Nancy Grace’s opening remarks and discussions about the Gabby Petito investigation, to meeting victims’...
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Mini Pines - The Loneliest Road to the Stars — Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway
The Loneliest Road to the Stars — Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway What if the most famous alien highway in America has been hiding its biggest secret in plain sight? This week on Mini Pines, we travel Nevada’s mysterious Extraterrestrial Highway—a lonely stretch of desert road forever linked to...
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Diane Downs and Old Mohawk Rod - Part 2
🔎 Part 2 of our Diane Downs series is available now. As detectives continue pulling apart the story from Old Mohawk Road, the investigation begins shifting in a dramatic direction. What started as the search for a mysterious roadside gunman slowly becomes something much darker as timeline...
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Diane Downs and Old Mohawk Road Part 1
🚨 This week on Shadows in the Pines, we head to Springfield, Oregon for one of the most disturbing and psychologically unsettling cases in true crime history: the case of Diane Downs. On a dark stretch of Old Mohawk Road in May of 1983, three children were shot inside a family car.…
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Robert Lee Yates Jr - Final
Just a soft recap of what we’ve learned and final thoughts along with show announcements
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Mini Pines - Blue Bucket Mine
🏔️🪣 This week on Mini Pines, we head deep into the high desert of eastern Oregon for one of the strangest lost-treasure legends in American history — The Blue Bucket Mine. 🌵✨ In 1845, a wagon train following the infamous Meek Cutoff became hopelessly lost in the Oregon wilderness. Families...
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Robert Lee Yates Jr. - Part 3 - The Net Closes
September 24th, 1997. A Spokane patrol officer pulls over a white Corvette near East Sprague. The driver is Robert Lee Yates Jr. He’s ticketed and allowed to go. The officer fills out the field interview report and writes one word in the vehicle make field. Camaro. In Part Three of the Robert Lee...
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Robert Lee Yates Jr. - Part 2 - The killing years
Shadows in the Pines — The Killing Years (Robert Lee Yates Jr., Part Two) East Sprague Avenue, Spokane. The late 1990s. A social worker named Lynn Everson parks a Winnebago on the strip once a week and keeps a bad-trick list of over a hundred and forty entries. The man in the white Corvette is...
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Mini Pines - The Thing In The Lake
The Thing in the Lake: Idaho’s Sharlie In the mountains of central Idaho, there’s a lake that drops nearly 400 feet into darkness. Cold. Still. Old. And for over a century, people standing along its shoreline have reported the same thing—something moving beneath the surface. Long. Deliberate. Not…
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Robert Lee Yates Jr Part 1
The Predator Next Door — Robert Lee Yates (Part 1) Shadows in the Pines Spokane, Washington. A quiet city tucked beneath pine-covered hills and long stretches of highway. The kind of place where routines feel safe… and danger doesn’t look the way you expect it to. In the late 1990s, women began...
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The Insane Tale of Jan Broberg
Hey Listeners, both Bekah and I are a bit under the weather this week. Please enjoy a Patreon exclusive episode this week while we take time to recover and heal. We will return next week when we begin a four part series on Hometown killer Robert Lee Yates
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Mini Pines - Creature Legends Of The PNW
What walks through the forests of the Pacific Northwest after dark? What waits in the water, watches from the mountain, or drifts just beyond the fog? In this episode of Many Pines, Becca takes you deep into the eerie folklore of the Pacific Northwest for a fireside journey through five of the...
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Inside The Mind: The Birth Of FBI Profiling
Inside the Mind: The Birth of FBI Criminal Profiling If you’ve been listening to this show, you’ve heard the language everywhere. Behavioral profiles. Organized offenders. Victim typology. Signature behavior. The science that runs in the background of every major serial crime investigation in the...
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The Amazing Survival Tale Of Shasta Groene - Part 4 - Confessions & Closure
Episode 4 — Confession of a Predator Joseph Edward Duncan the Third was calm when they arrested him. He didn’t resist. He didn’t run. He sat in that Denny’s booth while officers escorted him outside, and then he waited. From the moment he was taken into custody, Duncan confessed. All of it.…
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Mini Pines - The Bandage Man Of Oregon
Mini Pines — The Oregon Bandage Man Along a quiet stretch of highway outside Cannon Beach, drivers have reported something they can’t quite explain. A figure. Wrapped head to toe in what looks like bloody bandages. Standing just off the road… or worse—stepping into it. They call him the Bandage...
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The Amazing Survival Tale Of Shasta Groene - Part 3 - The Hunt For Shasta
Episode 3 — The Hunt for Shasta On July 4th, 2005, FBI agents worked their way up a primitive forest service road in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana. They had been directed there by an eight-year-old girl who had walked out of a Denny’s restaurant in Coeur d’Alene two days earlier.…
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The Amazing Survival Tale of Shasta Groene - Part 2 - The Groene Family
The Wolf Lodge Murders Shadows in the Pines — Episode 2 In May of 2005, along a quiet stretch of land just east of Coeur d’Alene, a home sat within sight of Interstate 90 — visible to thousands of passing drivers every single day. One of them stopped. In this episode, we step inside the Groene...
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The Amazing Survival Tale of Shasta Groene - Part One - Joseph Edward Duncan III (Redo)
PART 1 — THE PREDATOR THE SYSTEM RELEASED Before the headlines… before the manhunt… before the name became synonymous with one of the most horrifying crimes in Idaho history… there was a system that saw him coming—and still let him go. In this opening chapter of our multi-part series, we step…
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Show Update
Hey everyone, We wanted to take a moment to give you a real update on what’s been going on behind the scenes with the show this week. Unfortunately, we ran into some pretty significant technical issues during production—specifically with audio quality in Part 1. After reviewing everything…
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Mini Pines - The Top 5 Most Haunted Places In Oregon
Top 5 Most Haunted Places in Oregon Fog. Forest. Silence. Oregon isn’t just beautiful—it’s layered with history that never quite settled. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we take you deep into five of the most haunted locations in the state—places where the past still lingers, where...
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The Incredible Survival Tale of Shasta Groene - Part 1 - Jospeh Duncan III
The Predator the System Released — Part 1 In 2005, the name Joseph Edward Duncan III shocked the nation after a brutal crime in northern Idaho led to one of the most disturbing manhunts in modern true-crime history. But the story didn’t begin in Idaho. Long before the Groene family murders made...
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Westley Alan Dodd - The Vancouver Child Murders
Listeners. As a special treat This week we release a Patreon Exclusive Episode to the masses! The Case of Westley Alan Dodd. In the fall of 1989, communities in southwest Washington and northern Oregon were forced to confront a reality they were not prepared for. What began as the brutal murder…
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An investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah HalerIn the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep — and the shadows remember everything.Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and mysterious cases — from unsolved homicides and disappearances to long-forgotten cold cases lost to time and silence.Hosted by Dan Morgan and Rebekah Haler, each episode combines journalistic depth, forensic reconstruction, and immersive storytelling to bring clarity to the darkness. Focused on accuracy, empathy, and respect for the victims, the series delivers a cold, investigative narrative style that stays true to the facts while capturing the atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.Every sound, every silence, every shadow has meaning.“In the pines, shadows linger — and the truth waits beneath the silence.”
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