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Stuttering in Silence
by Gavin Sowden and Matt Lepore
Gavin and Matt dive into the world of podcasting with various topics including sports, conspiracy theories, movies, tv shows, comic books, and much more! We hope to bring you a mixture of detailed accounts and comedic opinions on a variety of topics. New uploads EVERY Thursday!
Episodes
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The Dexter Killer: The Mark Twitchell Case
In 2008, Edmonton, Alberta became the center of a bizarre and disturbing murder investigation involving filmmaker Mark Twitchell. What initially appeared to be the disappearance of 38-year-old John “Johnny” Altinger would eventually expose a shocking story involving fake online dating profiles,...
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The Invitation That Ended in Murder: The Kirsten Costas Case
In June 1984, the quiet community of Orinda, California, was shaken by the shocking murder of 15-year-old Kirsten Costas, a popular high school student whose death exposed the darker side of teenage friendships, jealousy, and social pressure. Kirsten was invited to what she believed was a...
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Curtain Call for Murder: The Daniel Wozniak Case
In May 2010, what should have been a weekend of celebration turned into one of Southern California's most shocking murder investigations. Just days before his wedding, aspiring actor Daniel Wozniak carried out a calculated plan that left two innocent people dead: Army veteran Samuel Herr and...
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The Texas Killing Fields: America's Highway of Lost Souls
For decades, a quiet stretch of land along the Interstate 45 corridor between Houston and Galveston has been linked to one of the most chilling mysteries in American true crime. Known as the Texas Killing Fields, this remote area became infamous after the bodies of numerous young women and girls...
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Obsession Turned Deadly: The Amato Family Murders
In January 2019, the quiet town of Chuluota became the center of a heartbreaking family tragedy. The Amato family was found dead inside their home after months of financial turmoil, deception, and an escalating obsession that had pushed the family to its breaking point. Investigators soon…
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For the Love of the Game: Remembering Bill McKenna Through Notre Dame Football
Not every story is about tragedy, mystery, or the unknown. Some stories are about the people who leave a lasting impact on our lives and the passions that bring families together. In this special episode of Stuttering in Silence, Gavin and Matt step away from their usual true crime topics to…
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The Officer Behind the Mask: The Russell Williams Murder Case
In 2010, Canada was shocked by the arrest of one of its most respected military officers. Russell Williams, a decorated commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force, went from a celebrated career in the military to becoming the center of one of the most disturbing criminal cases in Canadian history....
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Fire on the Water: The Investor Murders of Craig, Alaska
In September 1982, the quiet fishing town of Craig became the scene of one of the most horrifying and enduring unsolved mass murders in Alaskan history. When smoke was spotted rising from the commercial fishing vessel Investor, rescuers rushed toward the burning boat hoping to save those onboard....
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The Jamison Family Mystery: Vanished Without a Trace
In October 2009, the mysterious disappearance of the Jamison family captivated the nation and left investigators searching for answers. Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson seemingly vanished while looking at property in the remote hills of Oklahoma. Their...
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168 Seconds of Terror: The Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995, a massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more in what was, at the time, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history. The attack shocked the nation, forever changed...
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The Doomsday Mother: Inside the Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell Murder
In July 2019, a husband walked into a police station and begged officers to believe him. He said his wife had changed. She spoke of dark spirits, zombies, and divine missions. He feared for his life. Within days, he would be dead. What followed would become one of the most disturbing true crime...
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Ambushed on George Street: The Unsolved Murder of Cesar Flores-Diaz
On February 13, 2025, 27-year-old Cesar Flores-Diaz returned home from work to what should have been an ordinary evening in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Instead, surveillance footage captured a chilling ambush as a gunman, who appeared to have been lying in wait, approached his vehicle and opened...
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Terror in Vancouver: The Cindy James Mystery
For nearly seven years, Cindy James lived in fear. The pediatric nurse from British Columbia reported relentless harassment: anonymous phone calls, threatening letters, dead animals, fires, break-ins, and violent attacks that left even seasoned investigators disturbed. Friends believed she was...
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The Queen of Cuba: The Spy Who Betrayed America | The Ana Montes Story
By day, Ana Montes was one of America’s most trusted intelligence experts — a senior analyst deep inside the Defense Intelligence Agency. She advised military leaders, handled classified information, and helped shape U.S. national security decisions. But behind closed doors, investigators say she...
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The Mushroom Murders: The Lunch Table That Became a Crime Scene
In July 2023, a quiet family lunch in rural Australia turned into one of the most horrifying murder cases in modern history. What began as a homemade Beef Wellington meal inside a small home in Leongatha, Victoria, ended with three people dead, one fighting for his life, and an entire nation...
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Tracks of Truth: The Mysterious Death of Don Henry and Kevin Ives
In this episode, we dive into the chilling case of two Arkansas teenagers, Don Henry and Kevin Ives, whose deaths on railroad tracks in 1987 were initially ruled accidental but later suspected to be homicide. Uncover the details behind the controversial investigations, the second autopsy...
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A Life Rewritten: The Murder of Cari Farver
In November 2012, Cari Farver vanished without a trace. But she didn’t disappear. Not at first. Messages kept coming. Texts. Emails. Threats. For years, the people in her life believed she was still out there—watching, waiting, refusing to let go. But there was one problem. No one had actually…
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The Wolf of Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Jordan Belfort
This week, Gavin dives into the wild, chaotic, and deeply controversial story of Jordan Belfort—better known as the real-life Wolf of Wall Street. From building a high-pressure brokerage firm to orchestrating massive stock manipulation schemes, Belfort created an empire fueled by money, excess…
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A Crime Behind Closed Doors: The Savopoulos Family Murders
In May 2015, a quiet neighborhood in Washington, D.C. became the setting for one of the most disturbing crimes in recent memory. Savvas Savopoulos, Amy Savopoulos, their young son, and their housekeeper were held inside their own home for hours—possibly longer. What began as a demand for money...
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Burned Alive: The Unsolved Murder of Jessica Chambers
She was found on the side of the road — burned, barely alive, and fighting to speak. In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin cover the heartbreaking and haunting case of Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old whose final moments became the center of a mystery that still hasn’t been...
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A Perfect Image: The Watts Family Murders
In August 2018, a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, Colorado, became the center of a case that would shock the country. Shanann Watts and her two daughters vanished without a trace. Their home showed no signs of struggle. Their belongings were left behind. And the person asking for their safe…
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Aisle of Horror: The Be-Lo Supermarket Slaying
The doors were locked. The lights were dimmed. The workday was over. But for the employees inside a Be-Lo supermarket, the night was just beginning — and it would end in unimaginable tragedy. In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin examine the horrifying case where store…
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The Night the Ax Fell: The Villisca Axe Murders
In 1912, the quiet railroad town of Villisca, Iowa, was the kind of place where doors were left unlocked, and neighbors knew each other by name. That changed in a single night. After attending a church program, the Moore family returned home with two young guests. By morning, eight people — six...
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Theranos: The $9 Billion Lie
In Silicon Valley, disruption is celebrated. Break the rules. Move fast. Change the world. In the early 2000s, one startup promised to revolutionize medicine itself.
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A House of Faith: The Coleman Family Murders
In May 2009, a quiet neighborhood in Columbia, Illinois, woke to a nightmare. Sheri Coleman and her two young sons, Garett and Gavin, were found murdered inside their own home. There were no signs of forced entry. No robbery. Only threatening messages were spray-painted on the walls — pointing to...
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The Henryetta Killings: A Court Date That Never Came
On May 1st, 2023, a search for two missing teenage girls led authorities to a rural property near Henryetta, Oklahoma. What they found would shock the nation. Seven bodies. Six victims. One gunman. The suspect, Jesse McFadden, was a convicted sex offender scheduled to appear in court that very…
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The Dardeen Murders
In 1987, in the quiet town of Ina, Illinois, the Dardeen family was preparing for the future. Keith was working. Elaine was eight months pregnant. Their infant son was learning the world one small moment at a time. Then, without warning, their home became the site of one of the most brutal and...
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Shadows in Pike County
They weren’t strangers. They were parents… siblings… teenagers. Eight members of the same family murdered overnight — in one of the most disturbing crimes in Ohio history. This isn’t just a crime story. It’s a story about lives lost — and a community forever changed.
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A Dangerous Doubt: Frank Olson and America’s Darkest Experiment
In 1953, a U.S. government scientist plunged ten stories from a New York City hotel window. The CIA called it suicide. The case was closed almost immediately. Decades later, the truth cracked open. Frank Olson was secretly drugged with LSD as part of a classified CIA program known as MKUltra. He...
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A Boy Named Cairo: The Suitcase Story
A five-year-old boy vanished from his life without anyone noticing — until it was far too late. In the spring of 2022, a suitcase was found in the woods of southern Indiana. Inside was a child who would remain unnamed for months. His name was Cairo Jordan. This is the story of who Cairo was, the...
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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Stay Quiet: Karen Silkwood
In 1974, lab technician Karen Silkwood left work carrying something more dangerous than plutonium — evidence. She had uncovered missing nuclear material, falsified safety records, and contamination inside an Oklahoma plant that powered the Atomic Age. She told friends she was being followed. She...
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Blood on Broad Street: Why the Murders in Philadelphia Aren’t Slowing Down
Philadelphia is a historic city — but right now, its story is being written in blood. In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin take a hard look at the ongoing murder crisis in Philadelphia and ask the uncomfortable question: why isn’t it getting better? Despite promises, policy...
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The Oslo Plaza Woman: A Life Carefully Erased
In May of 1995, a woman checked into the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in Oslo under the name Jennifer Fairgate. She paid in cash, carried almost nothing with her, and erased every trace of her identity before stepping inside. Three days later, a single gunshot was heard from a locked hotel room...
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Christmas in Dayton: The Christmas Killings of 1992
It was Christmas Eve, 1992. A city wrapped in lights. Families gathering. Doors unlocked. And then… the killings began. Over three days, a group of young people calling themselves the Downtown Posse went on a violent rampage through Dayton, Ohio — leaving six people dead and an entire community...
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DNA’s Ghost: The Phantom of Heilbronn
For sixteen years, police across Europe believed they were hunting a female serial killer — a phantom whose DNA appeared at dozens of crime scenes spanning multiple countries. She had no face. No eyewitnesses. No motive. Only certainty. In this cinematic, third-person documentary episode, Matt…
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The Fall of Dixon: Betrayal From Within.
Imagine living in a small Midwestern town where every pothole, every broken police car, every delayed road project… all had one thing in common: the money for it was stolen. For twenty-two years, Dixon, Illinois trusted one woman — their longtime comptroller, Rita Crundwell. What they didn’t know...
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Ink, Fear, and a Death in Circleville
In the quiet farm town of Circleville, Ohio, secrets once lived safely behind closed doors — until anonymous letters began arriving in the 1970s, each one exposing affairs, crimes, and private lives with terrifying precision. No return address. No mercy. Then one of the targets, Ron Gillispie…
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The Bronx Butcher: The Murder of Tanya Byrd & the McLean–Harris Mystery
A mother disappears in the Bronx… and within hours, trash bags start turning up across multiple blocks. Inside them? Human remains. What follows is one of the most chilling and confusing cases New York has seen — a crime where the suspects blame each other, where the evidence is scattered like...
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Lisa’s Lookout: The Manderach Murders and the Playground That Heals a Community
A mother and her 19-month-old daughter walk into a children’s clothing store on a quiet Sunday afternoon… and vanish. What unfolds next will shake a Pennsylvania community to its core — and inspire one of the most powerful acts of healing the region has ever seen. In this cinematic, act-based...
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Cabin 28: The Keddie Murders
In 1981, the small mountain town of Keddie, California — population under 100 — became the scene of one of America’s most chilling unsolved murders. Inside Cabin 28, a mother, her son, and his friend were brutally slain, and a young girl vanished. Decades later, questions still linger: who did…
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The Gardner Heist: Thirteen Vanished Masterpieces
In the early hours of March 18th, 1990, two men disguised as police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — and vanished with thirteen irreplaceable works of art worth over half a billion dollars. No alarms. No suspects. No trace. In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt...
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Terror at the Finish Line: The Boston Marathon Bombing
In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, hosts Matt and Gavin revisit one of the darkest days in American history — the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. They break down the events leading up to the tragedy, the chaos that followed, and the heroic actions of first responders and everyday citizens....
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The Shadow of Kensington
In the winter of 2010, fear gripped the streets of Kensington — a neighborhood already bruised by addiction, poverty, and neglect. When three women were found strangled within weeks of each other, residents whispered of a phantom stalking the night. But the truth was far worse — because the…
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Chaos in the Park: The Centennial Olympic Bombing
In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin revisit one of the most shocking moments in Olympic history—the Centennial Park bombing during the 1996 Atlanta Games. We break down the timeline of the attack, the lives it impacted, and the ripple effect it left on the world of sports and...
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Resentment on Gravel Pike: The DeShong Family Murders
In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, hosts Matt and Gavin unravel the tragic story of the DeShong family — a case that shook Perkiomen Township, Pennsylvania. When 49-year-old Aaron DeShong called the FBI in September 2023, what investigators uncovered inside his home was almost…
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The Codebreaker: Inside the Astros’ Sign-Stealing Scandal
What happens when analytics, ambition, and deception collide? We unravel the Houston Astros’ elaborate sign-stealing operation from 2017–2018 — from the live camera feed and “Codebreaker” system to the trash-can bangs fans uncovered on tape. Hear the full story of how it was exposed, who paid the...
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Into Thin Air: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a man in a dark suit and tie walked onto a Northwest Orient flight with a briefcase—and stepped into history as D.B. Cooper, the only person to pull off an unsolved hijacking in U.S. history. Matt and Gavin delve into the night Cooper vanished, examining every detail of the...
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The Webcon Fraud Scandal: Greed Behind the Screens
In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, hosts Matt and Gavin dive into the infamous Webcon fraud scandal — a web of lies, greed, and digital deception that rocked the business world. We uncover how the scheme was built, who was involved, and the devastating fallout that followed. From the rise…
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The Capsule Killer: The Tylenol Murders of 1982
In this chilling episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin take us back to Chicago in 1982 — when ordinary bottles of Tylenol turned into weapons of mass fear. Seven people died in just days, and America’s most trusted pain reliever suddenly became the face of terror. Together, the hosts...
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Gone Girl in Real Life: The Abduction of Denise Huskins
In 2015, Denise Huskins was kidnapped from her boyfriend’s California home in the middle of the night. Within days, she was safely released—but instead of being treated as a survivor, she was accused of staging the crime herself. Labeled the “real-life Gone Girl” by police and the media, Denise...
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Gavin and Matt dive into the world of podcasting with various topics including sports, conspiracy theories, movies, tv shows, comic books, and much more! We hope to bring you a mixture of detailed accounts and comedic opinions on a variety of topics. New uploads EVERY Thursday!
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Gavin Sowden and Matt Lepore
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