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If you were a teenage girl in the 90s and early 2000s, chances are Lou Pearlman had a significant impact on your life. He was the mastermind behind the boy band craze of that time period, including the person who put together both NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys. But what you may not know was that Lou Pearlman spent his entire life conning every person he ever came into contact with, including the bands. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers60 and use code creepers60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Ritual  Visit ritual.com/Creepers to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of the Rafay Family Murders. Part 1 ended with Sebastian and Atif unknowingly under surveillance in Canada. The Canadian Royal Mounted Police realized they had one choice if they were going to get Sebastian and Atif for the murders of Sultana, Tariq, and Basma Rafay: a police tactic so controversial it's outlawed in both the UK and the US: the Mr. Big Technique. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers60 and use code creepers60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Ritual  Visit ritual.com/Creepers to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today! Sources: Articles Rafay-Burns Appeal The Rafay-Burns Appeal | Statement By Innocence International The Seattle Times | Murder Of Bellevue Family Still A Mystery (Susan Byrnes) CBS News | Perfectly Executed  The Herald Net | Bellevue Murder Trial begins After Long Delay (Peggy Andersen)  The Seattle Times | Son And Friend Held In Triple Slaying -- They Had Been Prime Suspects In Bellevue Bludgeonings Last Year (Susan Byrnes, Richard Seven)  Wikipedia | Rope (Play)  The Seattle Times | A Liking For Nietzsche, A Dislike Of Convention -- Murder Suspects Wrote Of Feelings Of Superiority (Susan Byrnes)  The Seattle Times | Family Says Convicted Killers Innocent  Altervista | Rafay & Burns  OLR Research Project | Interrogation Techniques (James Orlando)   Shows Netflix | The Confession Tapes, season 1, episodes 1 and 2: True East parts 1 and 2  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was July 13, 1993. Just after 2 AM, a call came into 911 from a residence in the Somerset area of Bellevue, Washington asking for an ambulance. The caller said there'd been some type of break in, and that he thought his friend's parents were dead. The caller was 19 year old Sebastian Burns, and the friend he mentioned was 18 year old Atif Rafay. They’d been best friends since high school, and he and Sebastian were visiting his parents in Bellevue during the summer break. They’d been there for 5 days when this happened. They came home that night to find Atif's entire family murdered. A triple murder is not something often seen in Bellevue, and tips started pouring in from law enforcement agencies suggesting the murder might have been committed by religious extremists. But investigators only had eyes for Sebastian and Atif. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers60 and use code creepers60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Ritual  Visit ritual.com/Creepers to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today! Sources: Articles Rafay-Burns Appeal The Rafay-Burns Appeal | Statement By Innocence International The Seattle Times | Murder Of Bellevue Family Still A Mystery (Susan Byrnes) CBS News | Perfectly Executed  The Herald Net | Bellevue Murder Trial begins After Long Delay (Peggy Andersen)  The Seattle Times | Son And Friend Held In Triple Slaying -- They Had Been Prime Suspects In Bellevue Bludgeonings Last Year (Susan Byrnes, Richard Seven)  Wikipedia | Rope (Play)  The Seattle Times | A Liking For Nietzsche, A Dislike Of Convention -- Murder Suspects Wrote Of Feelings Of Superiority (Susan Byrnes)  The Seattle Times | Family Says Convicted Killers Innocent  Altervista | Rafay & Burns  OLR Research Project | Interrogation Techniques (James Orlando)   Shows Netflix | The Confession Tapes, season 1, episodes 1 and 2: True East parts 1 and 2  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was two days before Christmas, 2015, when tragedy struck the Dabate house. Police were called to the scene to find 39 year old Rick Dabate lying on the floor in the kitchen, zip tied to a folding chair, surrounded by blood smears but alive. His wife Connie wasn't so lucky. Her body was found in the basement, killed by two gunshot wounds. Rick was able to tell police that this had all been the work of a masked intruder. He hadn't been able to get a good look at the intruder's face, and the only description police had to go on was that the intruder had a voice like Vin Diesel.  This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers60 and use code creepers60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Sources: Articles Journal Inquirer | Jury Sees Video and Photographs of Scene at Dabate's Home (Matthew P. Knox) The New York Post | Connecticut Husband Sentenced to 65 Years in Fitbit Murder Case Justice for Victims | Basic Guidelines on Approaching Victims of Crime Yahoo Sports | DNA from Unknown Person Found on Gun That Killed Connie Dabate, Witness Testifies (Matthew Knox) Courant Hearld | A Marriage Marked By Secrets, A Murder Case Months In The Making (Dave Altimari) Shows Dateline | Season 31 Episode 13: The Secrets of Birch View Drive  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 30, 1884 was the beginning of a nightmare in Austin, Texas when 25 year old Mollie Smith was murdered in the middle of the night, in her bed by an unknown intruder. Over the next 12 months, there would be 7 more murders almost exactly like it. All in the middle of the night, all shockingly violent. This was completely unprecedented, and quite possibly the first serial killer in the United States. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers65 and use code creepers65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Sources: Articles Texas Monthly | Capital Murder www.servantgirlmurders.com AustinTX.Gov | Brief History of Austin  Culture Map | The Horrifying History of Austin's Infamous Servant Girl Annihilator (Shelley Bueche)  Legal History Miscellany | Death’s Gatekeepers: The Victorian Coroner’s Officer  KVUE News | The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin's Oldest Unsolved Murder Case   Books The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885 (J. R. Galloway) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandra Boss was figuratively and literally a Boss. She had an undergraduate degree from Stanford, an MBA from Harvard, and now worked as an executive in New York City making $2 million dollars a year. She was respected. She was brilliant. And she was in love. Lucky for her, that love just so happened to be with a Clark Rockefeller, yes of those Rockefellers: one of the most iconic names in American history. So what if he didn't have a penny to his name? So what if he didn't have any form of identification? One friend even jokingly asked Sandra "How do you know he's really Clark Rockefeller and not some ax murderer on the lam?" Sandra insisted she knew him best, but it would turn out that her friend wasn't so far off from the truth. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers65 and use code creepers65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Sources: Articles All That's Interesting | The Twisted Life Of Clark Rockefeller, The Elite Con Man Who Got Away With Murder For Nearly 30 Years (Wyatt Reed) Vanity Fair | The Man in the Rockefeller Suit (Mark Seal) Wikipedia | Clark Rockefeller Daily Mail | Respected and Brilliant, Sandy Boss Regulates the UK's Banks. Here We Reveal How The Same Woman Fell for a Murdering Conman Who Posedas a Rockefeller The San Diego Tribune | Rockefeller’s Ex-wife Says She Made Poor Choices (Denise Lavoie) Washington Post | U.S. Says ‘All’ Deposits at Failed Silicon Valley Bank will be Available Monday (eff Stein, David J. Lynch, Tony Romm and TylerPager). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halee Rathgeber was a 20 year old student studying to be a nurse at the University of Southern Indiana when she was found murdered in the parking lot of a soccer field. She'd been shot in the back of the head, seemingly by someone she knew. Two suspects emerged: one a convicted rapist who might have known that Halee had information that could put him in prison for a long time. The other suspect was one of her best friends who just didn't seem like the type of person capable of something like this. This episode is sponsored by: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers65 and use code creepers65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Sources: Articles Courier Press | Newburgh Man Gets Maximum Sentence in Fatal Child Neglect Case (Mark Wilson) Courier Press | Fatal child Neglect Charge for Newburgh Man (Tori Fater) Courier Press | Remember Halee Rathgeber As a Person, Not a Victim (Jon Webb) Courier Press | Hagan Murder Trial Restarts After Mistrial in Warrick County Earlier This Month (Tori Fater) Courier Press | Isaiah Hagan Found Guilty of Murder, Felony Murder in Warrick County Murder (Tori Fater) 14 News | Evidence Being Presented in Hagan Trial 14 News | Day 12 of Hagan Murder Trial Wraps Up Justia Law | Albert Hagan v. State of Indiana Shows Dateline Season 27 Episode 1 On the Outskirts of Town Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, Craig and Laura Rideout were in the midst of a nasty divorce. Their marriage had spanned 21 years and 7 children, 5 of which were either out of the house or had chosen to live with Laura. The problems escalated when Laura decided to move out of state with her boyfriend, and wanted to take the two youngest with them. Craig would not allow her to take the kids. And then, just days before this move was to take place, Craig Rideout was murdered. Sponsors: Better Help If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/creepers65 and use code creepers65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Sources: Articles Democrat and Chronicle | What NBC's Dateline Didn't Tell You About the Craig Rideout Murder Case (Sean Lahman) Medium | The Untidy Murder of Craig Rideout (Deborah Helbar) Town of Pittsford Democrat and Chronicle | The Rideout Trial: What the Jury Didn't See (Sean Lahman) Rochester First | Testimony Continues in Rideout Murder Trial Democrat and Chronicle | Rideout trial: Estranged Wife, Son Guilty of Murder (Sean Lahman, Victoria E. Freile) Democrat and Chronicle | Paul Tucci on Anniversary of Rideout Murder: 'We Still Don't Know Who Killed the Guy' (Sean Lahman) Democrat and Chronicle | Who Killed Craig Rideout: A Family's Mystery (Gary Craig) Democrat and Chronicle | Defendants in Craig Rideout Murder Point to Family Members as Likely Killers (Gary Craig) Democrat and Chronicle | Rideout Trial - What You Need to Know Shows Dateline | Season 25 episode 48 - Devil’s Bathtub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The morning of September 1, 2015, Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead in wooded area in Fox Lake, Illinois. Just minutes before his body was found, he'd called dispatch to let them know he was pursuing a small group of suspicious people into the woods. Police searched relentlessly for his suspected killers, but no one was prepared for what they would find.  Sources: Articles  WTVR News | Mystery Deepens in Death of ‘G.I. Joe’ Police Officer in Fox Lake  WTTW News | Fox Lake Police Officer Staged Suicide to Cover Crimes, Officials Say (Paris Schutz)  Wikipedia | Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz  CNN | The secret life of ‘G.I. Joe’ (Michael Martinez) ABC 7 Chicago | Widow of Disgraced Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Faces 24 months Probation in Embezzlement Case (Jessica D'Onofrio and Michelle Gallardo) NBC Chicago | Fox Lake Authorities Investigating Stockpile of Military Items in Gliniewicz Explorer Post (Phil Rogers) CBS News | How Investigators Unraveled Illinois Cop's Suicide Plot (Dean Reynolds) ABC 7 Chicago | Grand Jury Indicts Fox Lake officer Widow Melodie Gliniewicz (Chuck Goudie and Leah Hope) NPR | Dragnet Expanded For 3 Suspects In Killing Of Illinois Police Officer (Laura Wagner) NPR | Investigation Finds Illinois Cop At Center Of Manhunt Shot Himself (Eyder Perlalta) Chicago Sun Times | Lt. Gliniewicz Laid to Rest: ‘Now the Nation Knows He’s a Hero’ Officer Gliniewicz Personal File WCBU | Illinois Village Shocked, Dismayed Over News About Officer  The Seattle Times | Not Enough Evidence to Charge Son of Illinois Police Officer YouTube | CNN Special Report: The Secret Life of G.I. Joe (2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2017, David Josiah Lawson was a student at Humbolt State University with big plans for his future. He was the first in his family to go to college, and was majoring in Criminal Justice with plans to become a lawyer and later enter politics. But before the end of his sophomore year at Humbolt, Josiah Lawson was murdered. He'd been at a party with his girlfriend and some friends, when a fight broke out. At the end of it, Josiah had been fatally stabbed. Everyone knew who he'd been fighting, and it seemed it was very clear who had done this. But the justice system disagreed. Sources: Articles Mad River Union | A Closer Look at the Party Where David Josiah Lawson Died (Paul Mann)  Times Standard | Brothers Detail Initial Confrontation in Arcata Fatal Stabbing (Manny Araujo) Redheaded Blackbelt | Five Years After Unsolved Homicide of David Josiah Lawson, A Family's Continued Fight For Justice Faces Election Of A New Humboldt County District Attorney (Ryan Huston) Times Standard | Jurors Agree Kyle Zoellner Was Maliciously Prosecuted, Awarded at least $700K (Sonia Waraich) NBC News | Mother of Slain Humboldt State University Student Josiah Lawson Continues Fight for Justice Four Years After He Was Stabbed to Death At A College Party (Freddy Brewster) Justice for Josiah Lawson Times Standard | ‘I’m Still Here’: David Josiah Lawson’s Mother Searches for Justice in Son’s Fatal Stabbing 5 Years Later  North Coast Journal | 'Blood Money' Charmaine Lawson: Settlement Means Nothing, Focus is on Justice (Thadeus Greenson) Yahoo News | A Mother's Fight for Justice: Mother of Slain Humboldt State University Student Calls on Public to Come Forward (Freddy Brewster) Case Text | Lawson v. City of Arcata North Coast Journal | Protests Follow Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Suspect in Lawson Case (Iridian Casarez) ABC News | Juror in Lawson Case Speaks Out, Calls Grand Jury Process 'Gross Failure' (Nazy Javid) The North Coast Journal | Please, Come Forward (Charmaine Lawson) Behind the Redwood Curtain / Humboldt a Separate World of Misty Groves, Offbeat Towns and Protected Wildlife -- and One Wild Race (John Flinn) The Mercury News | Humboldt County Has State's 2nd Highest Homicide Rate. Why? (Robert Peach) ABC News | Judge Overturns $750k award in Kyle Zoellner Civil Case (Austin Castro) Videos  YouTube | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 2 - Who Killed Josiah Lawson? Transcripts and Documents From Josiah Lawson Murder Case Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was November 2, 2016 when 34 year old married mother of two, Sherri Papini, disappeared. Her husband Keith arrived home to find her missing, and the only trace of her was her cell phone lying in the ground about a mile away from their house with her headphones and several of her blond hairs lying on top. It appeared from the start that foul play must be involved with Sherri's disappearance, but it would soon come to light that nothing was as it seemed in this case. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Sources: Articles: KIRO News | Sherri Papini: Feds Detail How Missing Mom Branded, Starved Self 2016 Kidnapping Hoax (Crystal Bonvillian) Scribd | Sherri Papini Criminal Complaint & Affidavit Justice.Gov | Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Lying to Federal Agents About Being Kidnapped and Defrauding the CaliforniaVictim Compensation Board Daily Mail | Sherri Papini's Husband Demands Sole Custody Two Young Children New York Post | Sherri Papini SobbedWhen Confronted with Evidence of Her Kidnapping Hoax (Patrick Reilly) Shows: 20/20| Season 45 episode 2: The Vanishing Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the night of Halloween, 2001, Kent Heitholt, was murdered. A witness was able to create a composite sketch with police and in late 2003, the Columbia Tribune ran an article on the murder and included the composite sketch. A young man named Charles Erickson saw that sketch and thought he recognized the person. He thought it looked a lot like himself. The problem was, Charles could not remember the night of Halloween 2001. He'd blacked out, and all he knew was that he'd been at a bar near the crime scene. Charles became obsessed with this case, convinced that he was involved in the murder. And if he was involved, then so was the guy that had given him a ride home that night: his friend, Ryan Ferguson. Sources: Articles: Columbia Tribune | 20 years ago, Kent Heitholt was Beaten and Strangled. Here's What We Know (Charles Dunlap) Columbia Tribune | 20 years After Kent Heitholt's Death, Closure Remains Elusive (Charles Dunlap) Crime Museum | Ryan Ferguson Columbia Missourian | Charles Erickson's Attorney Files Innocence Petition with Missouri Supreme Court (Kelsy Armstrong) CBS News | Confessed Murderer Charles Erickson to be Released on Parole (Dan Claxton) CNN | Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Gets Free Trip to Super Bowl Documentary: Dream/Killer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sun Gym Gang had just taken Marc Schiller for nearly every penny he had, and it had been so easy. They’d made millions in just a month, and they’d completely gotten away with it. But by May of 1995, they’d already burned through all the money, and they were ready for their next score. And this time, they were going to make sure their next mark was really dead by the time they were finished with them.  BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! Ritual! Start a vitamin Ritual you can trust. To get started, visit ritual.com/CREEPERS today and get 10% off your first 3 orders. That’s ritual.com/CREEPERS to start your new Ritual today. Cheese Lover Shop! Go to cheeselovershop.com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese at checkout. That’s cheese-lover-shop dot com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese with your order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marc Schiller thought he had normal people problems. The pump on his swimming pool was broken. His Schlotzky’s franchise was failing and he was trying to sell it. He was worried he wouldn’t get through his work as a CPA in time to take his wife and kids to Columbia to celebrate Hanukkah. A tropical storm had been threatening to come into Miami, where he lived. What Marc did not know, was that he had been the victim of at least 8 kidnapping attempts. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! Ritual! Start a vitamin Ritual you can trust. To get started, visit ritual.com/CREEPERS today and get 10% off your first 3 orders. That’s ritual.com/CREEPERS to start your new Ritual today. Cheese Lover Shop! Go to cheeselovershop.com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese at checkout. That’s cheese-lover-shop dot com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese with your order! Sources: Pain & Gain: The Untold True Story by Marc Schiller The New York Post | Real-life Victim Sues Over Wahlberg’s ‘Pain & Gain’ (Jamie Trueblood) CBS News | Pain and Gain (Troy Roberts) My Florida Legal | Lugo Vs. State Find A Grave | Frank Griga History Vs. Hollywood | Pain and Gain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our 100th episode!!!! For this very special episode, we are re-doing episode 1 - the Questionable Case of Richard Glossip. Kristin tells Mogab the story of Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for hiring Justin Sneed to kill his boss, Barry Van Treese. His conviction Is based almost solely on Sneed's word, with no good evidence connecting him to this crime. How did the word of an accomplice carry enough weight to secure a death penalty conviction? So much has happened with this case, so much new information has been uncovered, so we are so excited to be re-doing this episode (Mogab double checked that she was not recording through her air pods this time!) Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! Ritual! Start a vitamin Ritual you can trust. To get started, visit ritual.com/CREEPERS today and get 10% off your first 3 orders. That’s ritual.com/CREEPERS to start your new Ritual today. Cheese Lover Shop! Go to cheeselovershop.com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese at checkout. That’s cheese-lover-shop dot com and use code CREEPERS to get a FREE mystery cheese with your order! Sources: The documentary "Killing Richard Glossip" by Investigation Discovery  Richard Glossip entry on Wikipedia  "Two truths and a lie: What records, interviews reveal about Richard Glossip’s murder conviction" by Cary Aspinwall  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was April 26, 2006. 16 year old Ashley Reeves had plans to go to a job interview that afternoon and then to play basketball at a park afterwards. Before she left, she promised her mom she'd be home before her 10 PM curfew, but her curfew came and went, and Ashley never returned home. Panicked, her mother started searching for her. She called the police, she called Ashley's friends, she drove around the town. But Ashley was nowhere to be found. Police started hearing from friends that Ashley was in a secret, romantic relationship with an older man, and that's when their investigation lead them to a high school teacher named Sam Shelton. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! FACELESS Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  Nobody Should Believe Me Your new true crime binge! Listen to Nobody Should Believe Me and explore the fascinating phenomenon of Munchausen by Proxy. New episodes drop every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts! Sources: Crime Watch Daily | Ashley Reeves Case: Illinois Teen Survives Attack, Returns to Where She Was Left For Dead On the Case with Paula Zahn | “Deadly Lessons” Vizaca | A Miraculously Story of Ashley Reeves Who Survived After 30 Horrific Hours in Between of Life and Death True Crime Daily | Exclusive: Illinois Teen Survives Older Lover's Murderous Attack, Returns to Scene Where She Was Left for Dead Bella Online | Sam Shelton Confession Tape Released By Judge CBS News | Did Teacher Strangle Teen, Go Dancing? CBS News | Former Teacher Gets 20 Years Bustle | Left For Dead Revisits The True Story Of A Teacher-Student Relationship Turned Violent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's SPOOOOKY season, y'all! I've been saving this one up for our Halloween episode, and Mogab was thoroughly creeped out so job well done! It was June of 2014, and Derek and Maria Broaddus were living the American dream: they had just closed on their dream home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey for $1.4 million. They loved everything about this house, and couldn’t wait to move in with their 3 young kids. But their dream became their nightmare when anonymous, threatening letters started showing up at the house, signed by someone calling themselves "The Watcher." The Watcher said it was their job - nay, their OBSESSION - to watch 657 Boulevard, just as their father did before them, and their grandfather before that. The Watcher referred to their kids as "young blood" and asked if they'd discovered what was hidden in the walls. And there was nothing the Broadduses could do to stop the letters from coming. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! FACELESS Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  Nobody Should Believe Me Your new true crime binge! Listen to Nobody Should Believe Me and explore the fascinating phenomenon of Munchausen by Proxy. New episodes drop every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts! Sources: Articles The Cut | The Watcher: A Family Bought Their Dream House. But According to the Creepy Letters They Started to Get, They Weren't the Only Ones Interested in it. (Reeves Wiedeman) The Cut | Taking Another Look at The Watcher: What We Know About The Case Four Years Later Living Places | Boulevard Historic District New York Post | The Watcher Home Finally Sells After Five Years of Creepy Letters (Jackie Salo) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June of 2011, 27 year old Lauren Giddings was senselessly murdered. She had just graduated form law school, and was a month away from taking the BAR and becoming a full fledged attorney. When her friends and family discovered she'd been murdered, everyone was shocked. They couldn't figure out who would do something like this. Police had several suspects in mind, but they narrowed it down quickly when her neighbor, Stephen McDaniel, gave an odd interview to a local reporter. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! FACELESS Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  Nobody Should Believe Me Your new true crime binge! Listen to Nobody Should Believe Me and explore the fascinating phenomenon of Munchausen by Proxy. New episodes drop every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts! Sources: Articles Talk Murder With Me | The Murder of Lauren Giddings. WGXA News | The Girl Next Door: Lauren Giddings' Family Remembers Her 10 Years After Brutal Murder Above The Law | The Plot Thickens: Say Hello to "Hacksaw McDaniel" (David Lat) Above The Law | A Creepy New Claim About Stephen McDaniel in the Lauren Giddings Murder Case (David Lat) Above The Law | Stephen McDaniel's Ex- Roommate Speaks: Say Hello to Thad Money (David Lat) 13WMAZ | UPDATE: Stephen McDaniel’s Former Attorney Believed He Was Innocent Until His Confession Shows Dateline | Season 26, episode 37 “The Watcher”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're living in frustration city for this one! This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the disappearance of Jason Landry - a fellow Texas State University student who was driving home to the Houston area for Christmas break of 2020 and disappeared in the small town of Luling, Texas. His car was found crashed and abandoned on a gravel road miles from the interstate. The clothes he was wearing were found strewn about the road. And Jason was nowhere to be found. Support the Show by Supporting Our Sponsors: Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh! Visit www.Hellofresh.com/CREEPERS65 and use code CREEPERS65 for 65% off AND free shipping! Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! FACELESS Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  Sources: Articles Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute | Wild Pig and Human Interactions Austin American-Statesman |Timeline: What We Know About Missing Texas State Student Jason Landry (Luz Moreno-Lozano) Facebook| Find Jason Landry Shows Disappeared | Season 10 Episode 4 The Long Drive Home  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rita Crundwell was living the high life. In 2011, she was a big deal on the quarter horse circuit; she had 52 world championships under her belt, and ran one of the best known quarter horse breeding operations in the country. She was incredibly successful, and it showed. She owned multiple homes, multiple cars. She had a $2 million dollar motor coach she used to take her to her horse competitions, and a $250,000 horse trailer to tow the horses. She was living a life of luxury, with her furs and her jewels. She also just so happened to be the treasurer for the small city of Dixon, Illinois. And the city's finances were in much worse shape than hers. Sponsored by: BetterHelp Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh Visit www.Hellofresh.com/CREEPERS65 and use code CREEPERS65 for 65% off AND free shipping! Framebridge Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! Faceless Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  Sources: Chicago Magazine | Remember Rita? Documentary Digs Into Illinois' Most Interesting Embezzlement (Bryan Smith)   Fraud Magazine | Dixon's Quiet Hero (Dick Carozza)   Wikipedia | Rita Crundwell   Documentaries All The Queen’s Horses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices