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Sarah wraps up season 1 with the classic Christmas cold case of JonBenet Ramsey.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey#Parents https://www.biography.com/news/jonbenet-ramsey-murder-investigation-timeline https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jonbenet-ramsey https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/who-killed-jonbenet-ramsey-8-possible-suspects-129125/the-housekeeper-129416/\ swz

Marisa gets into the Christmas Spirit this episode with Santa's weird dark companions and a local Philly ghost story.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://christmaspast.media/episode-2-santa-claus-part-2/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/world/saint-nicholas-day-santa-trnd/index.html https://www.1sttheworld.com/blogs/news/what-is-the-krampuslauf https://www.facebook.com/paradeofspiritsll/ https://whyy.org/articles/krampus-brings-dark-winter-magic-to-northern-liberties/ https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20151026/OPINION/310269850 https://mikeslickster.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/haunting-at-pen-ryn-the-ghosts-from-christmas-eve-past-the-conclusion/ https://bucks.happeningmag.com/prestige-disrepair-story-pen-ryn/ https://www.penrynestate.com/history/ https://www.pennlive.com/life/2018/12/what_is_the_belsnickel_why_is.html https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-christmas-chronicles-2-what-is-the-belsnickel/

Sarah covers one of her favorite subjects: The Salem Witch Trials, otherwise known as "Puritan Wrongful Convictions".Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials/The-trials https://study.com/academy/lesson/puritans-in-america-beliefs-religion-history.html#:~:text=The%20Puritans%20believed%20that%20they,was%20dissent%20within%20the%20colonies. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2007/10/puritan-laws-and-customs.html https://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp https://law.jrank.org/pages/11881/Colonial-Period-Criminal-law.html https://history.hanover.edu/texts/masslib.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/salem-witch-trials-causes

Inspired by a visit to West Virginia, Marisa looks into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the fire that may or may not have claimed the lives of members of the Sodder Family.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/ https://thetruecrimefiles.com/sodder-children-disappearance/ https://medium.com/the-true-crime-times/the-sodder-family-a-christmas-inferno-f39f60843412 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance

Sarah's passion for the wrongfully convicted continues with this week's episode detailing what happens when physical evidence is overlooked and a witch hunt rules over common sense.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/memphis3/WestMemphis3Account.html https://www.eonline.com/news/1135012/inside-the-unknown-story-of-the-forgotten-west-memphis-three https://meaww.com/west-memphis-three-brutal-murders-three-8-year-old-boys-roots-to-satanism https://www.britannica.com/event/West-Memphis-Three https://allthatsinteresting.com/west-memphis-three https://famous-trials.com/westmemphis/2247-whokilled

Marisa scrutinizes the Watcher of Westfield and how a creepy anonymous letter writer could scare a family away from their dream home.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.nj.com/data/2019/06/the-wealthiest-towns-in-nj-ranked.html https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/13-best-skillshare-classes-for-designers-artists/ https://www.thefoundrycast.com/single-post/2020/01/24/The-Watcher-of-Westfield-NJ https://patch.com/new-jersey/westfield/infamous-westfield-watcher-house-has-new-owners https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/upscale-suburb-westfield-nj-scariest-place-to-live/

Sarah's love for American Horror Story continues as she dives into the history of Madame Delphine LaLaurie, the New Orleans Socialite and serial killer with a penchant for murdering and torturing her own slaves.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/https://allthatsinteresting.com/madame-lalauriehttps://historycollection.com/12-secrets-revealed-about-historys-brutal-mistress-madame-lalaurie/9/

If Halloween looks different now than it did when you were a kid, Marisa is here to explain how and why that happened; with the fall of Trick or Treating and the rise of the dreaded Trunk or Treat.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:http://www.fourpoundsflour.com/the-razor-blade-in-the-apple-a-modern-history-of-trick-or-treating/ https://www.history.com/news/how-americans-became-convinced-their-halloween-candy-was-poisoned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/is-trick-or-treating-on-the-decline/574459/ https://www.womansworld.com/posts/entertainment/history-of-trick-or-treating-145611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murdersTrick or Treat: A History of Halloween - By Lisa Morton Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life - edited by Jack Santino

Inspired by American Horror Story Season 5, Sarah dives into the curious and disturbing history surrounding the notorious Cecil HotelFollow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://allthatsinteresting.com/cecil-hotel-los-angeles https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/richard-ramirez https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-unterweger http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1867198_1867170_1867291,00.html https://filmdaily.co/news/elisa-lam/ https://filmdaily.co/news/haunted-hotel-cecil/

A (sort of) lighthearted episode on Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and that time Orson Welles tricked people into thinking aliens had come to annihilate us.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/09/sleepy-hollow-halloween-events-food/3920210002/ https://www.history.com/news/legend-sleepy-hollow-headless-horseman https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/10/ready-martian-invasion/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g&t=144s https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/shootout-with-martians-in-the-wake-of-the-1938-broadcast-panic/ https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749

Sarah takes it back to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair where predator HH Holmes preys on his victims by luring them to his infamous Murder Castle.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/h-h-holmes-29982.php https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72642/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-americas-first-serial-killer-hh-holmes https://allthatsinteresting.com/hh-holmes-hotel https://web.archive.org/web/20080611011945/http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/history_articles/holmes.htm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tests-confirm-gravesite-of-1800s-serial-killer-h-h-holmes/

Marisa's recent trip to Martha's Vineyard inspires her to delve into the infamous Curse of the Kennedy Family.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/books/review/rosemary-the-hidden-kennedy-daughter-by-kate-clifford-larson.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/02/kennedy-curse-history-of-tragedy-saoirse-jfk-bobby/1898409001/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/12/kennedy-200412 https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-kennedys-answer-to-the-jewish-question-ship-them-to-africa?ref=scroll https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/02/kennedy-curse-history-of-tragedy-saoirse-jfk-bobby/1898409001/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/kennedy-family-curse/index.html

This week Sarah's obsession with witchcraft and lore led her to discuss the legendary murder of Hex Hollow.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/hexhouse https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-metro-justice-story-rehmeyer-20181121-story.html

Learn all about the monsters of Pennsylvania from sightings of Bigfoot to the mysterious Raystown Ray! Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.pennlive.com/life/2019/06/where-are-pennsylvanias-bigfoot-hotspots.html https://www.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2015/06/monsters_of_pennsylvania.html https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Raystown_Ray https://www.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2015/06/raystown_ray_seen_as_pennsylva.html https://www.timberwolfinformation.org/pa-wolves-in-pennsylvania-or-new-jersey/#:~:text=Gray%20wolves%20once%20thrived%20in,Sanctuary%20of%20Pennsylvania%20in%20Lititz. https://www.outdoornews.com/2009/03/17/huge-pa-coyotes-have-us-pondering-wolves/ https://unchartedlancaster.com/2019/11/10/haunted-lancaster-the-white-werewolf-and-the-full-moon-curse-of-shock-graveyard/ http://schwabencreek.blogspot.com/2006/01/schwaben-creek-werewolf.html https://www.reddit.com/r/dogman/comments/d9i8u0/northeast_pa_dogman_encounter/ https://pawilds.com/legend-of-the-thunderbird/ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/thunderbird-native-american/ https://medium.com/@indrachapa/the-teary-squonk-474d350c84a1

The women chained in the basement were already there when Gary Heidnik bought the house! What, you don't have women chained in your basement? Bonus Blabbering Segment: Sarah and Marisa talk about good television.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizoid-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20354414 https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h1/heidnik-gary.htm https://allthatsinteresting.com/gary-heidnik https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20120329_After_25_years__Haidnik_captive_recalls_the_horror.html https://historydaily.org/gary-m.-heidnik-real-life-buffalo-bill

In July of 2017, four young men lost their lives to the mental breakdown of Cosmo DiNardo and his accomplice Sean Kratz. Marisa tells it all.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:The Lost Boys of Bucks County - Investigation Discovery Confession Recordings: Cosmo DiNardo, Sean Kratz Detail Bucks County Farm Murders - NBC10 Philadelphia https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/02/25/cosmo-dinardo/ https://loeschtwins.com/murder-up-the-street-two-years-after-bucks-county-pa-killings-community-looks-back/ https://heavy.com/news/2017/07/cosmo-dinardo-bensalem-bucks-county-missing/ https://www.trentonian.com/news/cosmo-dinardo-charged-with-stealing-car-of-missing-bucks-man-bail-set-at-5m/article_fe2eb320-b30d-51a3-a9c7-1907b636386a.html https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20200117/quadruple-murderer-cosmo-dinardo-moved-out-of-medium-security-prison https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/16/us/missing-men-pennsylvania-timeline/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZ8hJTMrcA https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/cosmo-dinardo-admitted-killer-in-bucks-county-slayings-was-banned-from-his-high-school-holy-ghost-prep/22882/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/bucks-county-pennsylvania-murders-cosmo-dinardo-.html https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20180305/new-round-of-lawsuits-blames-three-dinardo-businesses-in-killings

Sarah gets passionate about the (first of many) wrongfully convicted case of Ryan Ferguson and Charles Erickson.*Note: Kevin Crane is no longer a Judge in Missouri. His term expired in 2018.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grisham-wrongful-convictions-20180311-story.html#:~:text=The%20rate%20of%20wrongful%20convictions,230%2C000%20innocent%20people%20locked%20away%3F https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6l1ytv/murder_of_kent_heitholt_wrongful_conviction_of/ http://www.freecharleserickson.org/casesummary.html Dream/Killer Netfilx Documentary Wrongful Conviction S4 E4

Marisa dives deep into the rabbit hole in a whirlwind mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dutch tourists Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in the Panamanian jungle.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-lost-girls-of-panama-the-full-story https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-a-serial-killer-stalk-the-lost-girls-of-panama https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-lost-girls-the-bones-and-the-man-in-the-panama-morgue-1 https://www.thedailybeast.com/murderous-vacations-serial-killers-stalking-the-panama-highlands https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourist-trap-how-did-the-lost-girls-perish-in-paradise https://admin.bigglobaltravel.com/adventure/panama-hikers-diappear-tw/ https://truecrimediva.com/kris-kremers-lisanne-froon/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/kris-kremers-lisanne-froon https://imperfectplan.com/2016/11/11/true-story-kris-kremers-and-lisanne-froon-missing-in-panama/ https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/10/25/kris-kremers-lisanne-froon-strange-disappearances-and-deaths-in-forests

It's time for one of those episodes every true-crime podcast needs to check off their list: Ted Bundy Part 2: Ted is a creepy mofo, but at least Zac Efron is hot.Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://medium.com/@kympasqualini/ted-bundys-victims-lynda-ann-healy-e88af659dff5 https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-bundy-victims https://www.thoughtco.com/ted-bundy-gets-caught-973179 https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/ted-bundy

It's time for one of those episodes every true-crime podcast needs to check off their list: Ted Bundy Part 1: Baby Ted grows up to be weird. Follow us @BoredBrokeandBatshit on InstagramSources:https://www.biography.com/news/ted-bundy-childhood https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1989/5/the-roots-of-evil https://www.phillyvoice.com/ted-bundy-netflix-conversations-with-killer-temple-university-philadelphia-docuseries-serial-killer/ https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20090726_Novel_revisits__69_Shore_killings.html https://thetab.com/us/temple/2016/03/06/ted-bundy-3380 https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/crime/ted-bundy-possible-suspect-in-69-parkway-murders-author-claims/article_7fb03d9b-1595-517c-a4bb-35103b8a8114.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/ted-bundys-first-love-says-14995860#:~:text=Bundy%20and%20Diane%20became%20romantically,we%20developed%20an%20intense%20relationship. https://hiimted.blog/2019/11/18/the-unconfirmed-cases-susan-davis-elizabeth-perry/