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The weekend of October 3rd, 1997 began as a fun weekend of camping for fourteen year old Lauren Barry and sixteen year old Nichole Collins in Kalaru area near Bega, Australia. Hanging with friends, horseback riding and siting around the bonfire were the extent of their plans. However, on Sunday October 5th, the girls made a fateful choice to leave their camp and walk a dark isolated road to visit a friend in town. That night they would vanish and when the gruesome story of their murders was finally revealed, the devastation would leave lasting scars on their families, friends and community. Show Notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/laurenbarryandnicholecollins Flowers in Her Bones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VFZ3KRG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

Almost five decades ago on January 23rd, 1974, 56-year-old Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was brutally attacked and murdered on the front steps of her home in St. Augustine, Florida. A month later, a man was arrested and charged with her murder—and yet, to this day, the case remains officially unsolved. Shiw notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/athalialindsley   Ashwood's Girls: https://www.amazon.com/Ashwoods-Girls-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09B654CMN/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

This is episode 2 of the MacDonald Murders. You’ll want to listen to episode 41 before listening to today’s episode. Part 2 begins with the convening of a grand jury hearing to examine the evidence that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his wife, Colette and daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/macdonaldmurderspart2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Spirits-6-book-series/dp/B08KSC9SV1

This is a two part case on the murders of Colette, Kimberly, and Kristen MacDonald.  They should have had it all and for a time it seemed they did. Jeffrey MacDonald was a surgeon and a green beret. Colette MacDonald was his beautiful, doting wife, pregnant with their son. They had had two lovely daughters, Kimberly and Kristin. The life before them was luminous. It was all shattered on a cool rainy night on February 17th, 1970 when the lives of a young mother and her two daughters were brutally taken. Show Sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/macdonaldmurders The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1 Bitter Endings Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me  a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

It was a cold Michigan night on March 12th, 2004 when 39-year-old Mary Denise Lands vanished without a trace in Marshall, Michigan. Allegedly she got into an argument with her boyfriend Chris Pratt that evening and leaving her cell phone and keys to her Dodge Durango behind, she walked into the frigid night. She was never seen again. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/marylands Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings Still Falling: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/

If life had unfolded for Susan Smith the way it did for most residents of Pikeville, Kentucky, she never would have met FBI agent Mark Putnam. But life is unpredictable and in Susan’s case, a relationship which should have been among the safest in her life turned out to be the deadliest. Susan vanished on June 8th, 1989. It would be a year before her whereabouts were known. A year of wondering if she left, or perhaps was silenced by her ex-husband, a year of grief for the children and family she left behind. When the truth of what occurred on that fateful summer night was revealed, those who loved both Susan Smith and Mark Putnam were devastated. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/susansmith Show Sponsor: Still Falling-A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

It was a windy October night in 1995 when the family of Debora Green and Michael Farrar was forever ripped apart. A fire had started at an upscale house in Prairie Village, Kansas, and by the time it had run its course, the once immaculate home would be little more than charred ruins. Amongst those ruins lay the bodies of 12 year old Tim Farrar and six year old Kelly Farrar.   Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/deboragreen Show Sponsor: Still Falling: A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings  

It was an ordinary morning in Helena, Montana for nineteen-year-old Pamela Dorrington on February 17th, 1968. Pamela slept in her second story apartment, her black lab nearby, as her cousin and roommate left for her shift at the hospital. Pam’s roommate would return that afternoon to find Pam gone. The vanishing of Pamela Dorrington would spur a massive search for the nineteen-year-old, but four months would pass without any clue as to what had happened to the young woman. The worst possible answer would arrive when a man found Pamela’s mutilated torso floating in the Missouri River north of Helena. Fifty-three years would pass without an arrest in Pamela’s case. Resolution finally appeared in December of 2021 when Courtney Atlas, Pam’s former landlord, confessed to murdering and dismembering her in 1968. Show Sources Some Can See: A Northern Michigan Asylum Series Novel Patreon Buy Me a Coffee

It was a chilly spring day on May 8th, 2002 when a farmer drove onto his wooded property in Ottowa County, Michigan. It was an area where he grew and harvested blueberries. As he drove through the property he made a chilling discovery. A burned body lay in a trunk in an area of scorched forest. The murder victim would remain unidentified for more than a decade. When his name was at long last known a horrendous murder plot would be revealed. Roberto Caraballo died at the hands of his wife Beverly McCallum, his step-daughter Dineane Ducharme, and Dineane’s friend Chris McMillan. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/robertcaraballo Show Sponsor: Ashwood's Girls Support Me on Patreon Buy Me a Coffee

She looked like an ordinary housewife, a mother, a grandmother. Full bodied, always smiling as she prepared dinners and baked pies. But the innocent appearance of Nannie Doss belied a much darker, much uglier persona. Nannie was a murderess, a woman who killed not only callously, but casually, eliminating husbands and members of her own family with total disregard for human life. Show notes Ashwood's Girls Patreon for Bitter Endings Buy Me a Coffee

It was Sunday, April 12th, 1992 when nineteen-year-old Amanda Davies left her home in Dansville, Michigan to meet a friend. She would never return home. Eleven days later her brutally murdered body would be found in an isolated location in Mason, Michigan. Complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/amandadavies Show sponsor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KSC9SV1 Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

It’s been fifty two years, more than five decades, since a terrible mystery that continues to haunt a small northern Michigan town occurred. It was Halloween day, October 31st 1969, when 16 year old Patricia Spencer and 15 year old Pamela Hobley walked away from Oscoda High school in Oscoda, Michigan. They had fun plans for the evening, which included the Oscoda Owls homecoming football game and a Halloween party. The girls would not attend either event and after getting a ride into downtown Oscoda, they would never be seen again. For show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/pamhobleyandpatriciaspencer Show Sponsor: Ashwood's Girls: https://www.amazon.com/Ashwoods-Girls-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09B654CMN

It was an unseasonably warm day on March 13th, 1996 when 25-year-old Danielle Shinaver finished work and prepared for an evening hanging out with friends at her new apartment. Danielle’s life had not been easy, but the tide was turning and things were looking up. However, sometime in the early morning hours of March 14th, 1996 a person entered Danielle’s apartment and savagely beat her to death. Her murder remains unsolved. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/danielleshinaver Show Sponsor: Darkness Stirring Novel Halloween Contest

It was the kind of crime that lingered, that ripped apart families, that left detectives sleepless and wondering. It was October 28th, 1994, just three days before Halloween when the bodies of twenty-three-year-old Stacy Ann Falcon-Dewey and her three-year-old son Jacob were found shot and discarded in the middle of an isolated street in Renton, Washington. Though their murderer would eventually be discovered through the use of DNA, little justice would come for Stacy and Jacob. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/staceyfalcondewey Halloween Contest: http://jrericksonauthor.com/2021/09/halloween-yet-giveaway.html/ Troubled Spirits Novels: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1  

It was December 7th, 1993, weeks away from Christmas when eighteen-year-old Rosie Larner climbed into a car in the cold, early morning hours in Lansing Michigan. She had no reason to be afraid. She was with friends, people she loved and trusted. She did not know she was hours away from breathing her blast breath, and that her brutal murder would send shock waves through the community of Lansing, Michigan and change her families lives forever. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/roselarner Show Sponsor: The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1

It was a spring Sunday on April 18th, 1943 when four boys wandered into Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England. They had no idea they were about to stumble upon a crime scene that would mystify the world for decades to come. Hidden inside a strange looking tree known as a wych elm was the body of a woman. This woman's identity still remains a mystery.  For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/wychelm Darkness Stirring: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Stirring-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B092KCSJHQ 

On June 30th, 1987 22-year-old Anita Carlson had a lot to be excited about. Two months before she’d graduated with honors from Bemidji State University with a degree in communications and she’d already been offered a job at a television station. The upcoming weekend was an exciting time for residents in Bemidji. It was the fourth of July and many people celebrated by visiting the Water Carnival. Anita had no reason to suspect her future was anything but bright. Sadly, her promising life would come to a bitter end when she abducted from Pete’s Place West, a convenience store where she was working the night shift. A week later her body would be discovered in a heavily wooded area. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/anitacarlson Made in Michigan Giveaway:  http://jrericksonauthor.com/2021/07/made-michigan-giveaway.html/ Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1

It was an odd weekend for camping on October 8th, 2000 in Wallowa County, Oregon. The weather was cool and would soon be turning cold, especially in places like the Wollowa-Whitman National Forest, but that didn’t deter 44-year-old Chris Northon and 38-year-old Liysa Northon from taking their three-year-old son into the mountains for a weekend in the outdoors. Tragically, though three people drove into the mountains, only two would come back out alive. In the early dark of Saturday, October 9th, Chris Northon would be shot in the head by the woman he’d married just four years before. For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/chrisnorthon The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-River-Inn-Troubled-Spirits-ebook/dp/B08HX1XJ52  

It was warm spring day on Friday April 25th, 2008 in Aiken, South Carolina when 47-year-old Ann Fox Smith didn’t show up for work. Ann was a beloved special education teacher at Kennedy Middle School and this was definitely out of the ordinary. As the day went on with no word from Ann, her friend and fellow teacher, Sally Ferriter drove to Ann’s house on Whitney Drive to check on her. As she stepped from the sunny spring day into Ann’s home, she did not realize she was moments away from a life altering discovery. Ann Fox Smith lay dead on the floor in a blood spattered bedroom. Complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/annfoxsmith Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1

Nothing about Cherryl’s day on Friday January 4th, 2002 foretold the trouble awaiting her. The 37-year-old pediatrician lived in Bartlett, Tennessee; a city located northeast of Memphis with a population of more than 50,000 people. That evening, she attended a Memphis Grizzlies game at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis. Cherryl had season tickets and as a former basketball player herself, it was a sport she enjoyed. She went to the game alone, which was not unusual. After the game, around 10:30 .pm., Cherryl returned to her brick home located across the street from a golf course on Daybreak Drive in Bartlett Tennessee. Her close friend Andrea Fox and another girlfriend came over to hang out for a while, leaving around 1 a.m. These friends would be the last known people to ever see Cherryl Pearson. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/cherrylpearson Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1