Over My Dead Pod

On Halloween night in 1984, a masked man approached a home in San Jose, California. Inside was Doreen Erbert, a mother who was eight months pregnant, and her four-year-old daughter.

What happened next was more horrifying than any Halloween movie.

The man behind the wolf mask was William Michael Dennis, Doreen's ex-husband, and his attack would leave a mother and her unborn baby dead.

This week on Over My Dead Pod, we're covering the disturbing true story of a Halloween murder fueled by grief, revenge, and obsession.

In 1999, three young lives were taken in central Arkansas. Carson Prince, the daughter of a former Little Rock mayor, was killed along an interstate. Christopher Barnes was found murdered, and 16-year-old Barbara Leggitt had vanished without a trace.

For five years, the cases remained unsolved—until a shocking confession connected all three.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we uncover the disturbing crimes, the investigation, and the confession that finally brought answers.

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When 23-year-old Hannah Upp vanished from New York City in 2008, everyone feared the worst. But nearly three weeks later, she was found alive, floating in the water, with no memory of where she'd been or what had happened to her.

Five years later, she disappeared again. And then, in 2017, it happened a third time. Only this time, Hannah never came home.

But Hannah's story isn't the typical missing-person case. There was no confirmed kidnapping, no evidence of murder, and no clear indication she wanted to disappear. Instead, investigators uncovered a rare psychological condition that could...

On December 30, 1999, a rural Oklahoma home went up in flames. Inside, investigators found the body of Kathy Freeman but her husband, Danny, and two teenage girls, Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, were nowhere to be found.

Then, the next day, the Bible family returned to the burned-out home and made a horrifying discovery investigators had missed: Danny Freeman’s body.

Both parents had been murdered. Ashley and Lauria had vanished.

What followed was a case filled with missed evidence, disturbing rumors, alleged confessions, and questions that would haunt two families for de...

In 1993, four-year-old Derrick Robie left home for a summer recreation program just blocks away. He never made it.

What followed was a devastating investigation that led police to 13-year-old Eric Smith — and a case that would raise difficult questions about juvenile crime, punishment, and accountability.

This week on Over My Dead Pod, we’re covering the murder of Derrick Robie and the shocking case that followed.

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On January 17, 2008, 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee was home in North Port, Florida, with her two young sons when a stranger entered her home and abducted her.

What followed was a desperate race against time. Denise managed to secretly call 911 from her captor’s phone, giving dispatchers whatever information she could while trying not to be discovered. Other witnesses called 911 too — including one who reported seeing a woman struggling inside a car on the highway.

But despite multiple calls, critical information never reached officers in time.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we w...

You asked. You begged. And Kate finally gave in.

This week on Over My Dead Pod, we’re covering the Lindsey Clancy case — and more specifically, the trial that has had everyone talking.

In January 2023, three young children were killed inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. Their mother, Lindsey Clancy, was charged with their deaths. What followed became one of the most complicated and fiercely debated criminal cases in recent memory, raising difficult questions about mental illness, postpartum psychiatric disorders, criminal responsibility, and what Lindsey understood at the time her children died.

We break down...

For more than 30 years, no one knew her name.

On October 24, 1994, skeletal remains were discovered beside railroad tracks near U.S. Highway 64 in Conway County, Arkansas. Investigators determined the woman had been murdered, but with few clues to her identity, the case eventually became known simply as Conway County Jane Doe.

Over the decades, investigators refused to completely give up on her. Advances in DNA technology offered new possibilities, including a reconstructed image of what she may have looked like in life. Then, in February 2026, the mystery that had lasted more than three decades was...

Andrei Chikatilo became one of the most infamous serial killers in history — but for years, authorities in the Soviet Union struggled to stop him.

Known as the Rostov Ripper and the Red Ripper, Chikatilo terrorized the Soviet Union throughout the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s, targeting women and children and ultimately confessing to more than 50 murders.

But this case isn't only disturbing because of the sheer number of victims. It's also the story of an investigation plagued by missed opportunities, false confessions, secrecy, and a Soviet system reluctant to acknowledge that a...

On August 25, 2000, 25-year-old Kristin Laurite pulled off I-40 in Morrilton, Arkansas for a break on her cross-country move to start a new life.

She never got back on the road. What followed was a 5-year mystery, a desperate billboard campaign that read “Do You Know Who Killed Me?”, and a DNA breakthrough connecting her murder to a trail of victims across the country.

Who was really waiting at that rest stop and how many others did he leave behind?

A hidden bunker deep in the Washington wilderness. A husband and father who vanished without a trace. And a horrifying discovery that proved his escape plan came at an unimaginable cost.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we unravel the disturbing case of Peter Keller—the survivalist whose obsession with disappearing into the woods concealed a far darker reality. For years, Keller meticulously constructed a secret underground bunker in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, telling those around him little about the project. To outsiders, it seemed like the eccentric hobby of a ma...

A hidden bunker deep in the Washington wilderness. A husband and father who vanished without a trace. And a horrifying discovery that proved his escape plan came at an unimaginable cost.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we unravel the disturbing case of Peter Keller—the survivalist whose obsession with disappearing into the woods concealed a far darker reality. For years, Keller meticulously constructed a secret underground bunker in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, telling those around him little about the project. To outsiders, it seemed like the eccentric hobby of a man preparing fo...

On the morning of September 12, 2001, as the nation reeled from the events of 9/11, one family's nightmare unfolded quietly in a small town in upstate New York.

Michele Anne Harris, a devoted mother of four, vanished from her home without a trace. Her purse, keys, and personal belongings were left behind. There were no signs of forced entry, no confirmed sightings, and despite years of searching, Michele has never been found.

As investigators dug deeper, the spotlight quickly turned to her estranged husband, Cal Harris. What followed was one of the most extraordinary legal sagas in...

On the morning of January 24, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse left for work—or so everyone believed. When she never arrived at her office, her family knew something was terribly wrong. What followed would become one of Florida's most baffling missing person cases.

Jennifer's car was discovered abandoned just over a mile from her condominium, but the only known surveillance footage of the person who parked it would become one of the most frustrating pieces of evidence in true crime history. In an almost unbelievable twist of fate, the individual was obscured by the camera's fence posts in every si...

In the late 1800s, one woman left a trail of death and deception that shocked America and earned her a place among history's most notorious female killers.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we dive into the disturbing story of Lizzie Halliday, an Irish immigrant whose life was marked by fraud, arson, suspicious deaths, and multiple marriages that often ended in tragedy. Long before serial killers became a staple of true crime headlines, Halliday was accused of murdering several husbands and, in 1894, brutally killing two women on a rural New York farm.

As...

When a series of brutal sexual assaults terrorized the Toronto area in the late 1980s and early 1990s, investigators struggled to identify the man responsible. That man was Paul Bernardo—a serial rapist who would later become one half of one of Canada's most infamous criminal couples.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we examine the crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, whose partnership shocked the world and sparked decades of controversy. We follow the investigation from the unsolved "Scarborough Rapist" attacks through the murders of teenage girls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, and th...

In May 1996, 19-year-old college freshman Kristin Smart vanished after attending an off-campus party near California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. What initially appeared to be a missing person case would evolve into one of the most notorious unsolved mysteries in California history.

For more than 25 years, Kristin's family searched for answers as investigators pursued countless leads, rumors, and theories. Suspicion repeatedly centered on fellow student Paul Flores, the last known person seen with Kristin the night she disappeared. Yet despite years of public scrutiny, searches, and investigations, no arrests were made for decades.

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In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we dive into one of the most disturbing and controversial cases in Massachusetts history: the story of Daniel LaPlante and the brutal murders of the Gustafson family.

Before he became a convicted killer, LaPlante's behavior had already shocked his community. As a troubled teenager, he gained notoriety for a bizarre and terrifying series of incidents that fueled rumors of severe mental illness, trauma, and psychological instability. But were these warning signs ignored, or were they misunderstood?

We examine the facts of the case, the evidence presented at...

In April 2016, the quiet farming community of Pike County, Ohio was shattered when eight members of the Rhoden family were found brutally murdered across four different crime scenes in what investigators described as a calculated execution-style massacre. The shocking killings sparked one of the largest homicide investigations in Ohio history, uncovering a tangled web of custody disputes, family feuds, and deadly obsession.

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we break down the timeline of the Pike County shootings, the years-long investigation that kept an entire community on edge, and the shocking arrests that finally brought...

On the night of December 6th, 2014, nineteen-year-old Jessica Chambers was found walking down a rural road in Courtland, Mississippi, engulfed in flames. Nearly every inch of her body had been burned. And yet somehow, impossibly, she was still alive.

Before she died, investigators believed Jessica tried to identify the person who set her on fire. But what she said—or what people thought she said—would become one of the most disputed and controversial pieces of evidence in modern true crime history.

For years, the case gripped the nation. Two murder trials. Hung juries. A thir...

This Mother’s Day, we’re covering two heartbreaking cases that reveal the darkest side of family tragedy and the devastating consequences of violence within the home. In 2022, California mother Angela Flores shocked the nation after her three young children were found murdered inside their family apartment in what investigators described as an unimaginable act of filicide. As details emerged, the case raised disturbing questions about mental health, warning signs, and whether the tragedy could have been prevented.

We also examine the 2017 murder of Molly Gladney, a beloved mother who was brutally killed by her own son, Anto...

On a bitter December night in 1956, two sisters left a Chicago movie theater and vanished into the cold—never to return home.

Barbara and Patricia Grimes were inseparable. Music lovers, devoted daughters, and like so many teenagers of the era, caught up in the excitement of rock and roll. But after seeing an Elvis Presley film, the girls disappeared without a trace, launching one of the most haunting missing persons cases in Chicago history.

What followed was a frantic search, national headlines, and a flood of sightings that only deepened the mystery. Days turned into we...

When a marriage turns bitter, most people file for divorce—others take a far darker path. In this episode, we dive into the chilling case of Ira Bernstein and Kelly Gribeluk, whose relationship spiraled into a shocking murder-for-hire plot targeting Bernstein’s estranged wife.

What started as a failing marriage quickly escalated into a calculated plan involving money, manipulation, and a supposed hitman. But as investigators began to unravel the details, the scheme took an unexpected turn—one that would ultimately expose everything.

This is a story of obsession, desperation, and the da...

In the quiet coastal town of Jupiter, Florida, a brutal crime shattered the sense of safety in a close-knit community—and decades later, the truth still hasn’t been uncovered.

In this episode, we examine the mysterious and heartbreaking murder of Rachel Hurley, a 14-year-old whose life was taken. Rachel was found in a crowded park on St. Patrick's Day, with family and friends close by. Despite extensive investigations, multiple theories, and years of public speculation, no one has ever been charged.

We walk through the timeline of Rachel’s final hours...

In May 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal—triggering one of the most widely reported missing person cases in modern history. What began as a family vacation quickly became an international mystery filled with shifting theories, global media coverage, controversial investigations, and unanswered questions that still haunt investigators nearly two decades later.

In this episode, we trace the timeline from the night Madeleine disappeared to the massive search efforts that followed. We explore the early police response, the intense scrutiny placed on her parents, the emergence of suspects, and...

In May 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal—triggering one of the most widely reported missing person cases in modern history. What began as a family vacation quickly became an international mystery filled with shifting theories, global media coverage, controversial investigations, and unanswered questions that still haunt investigators nearly two decades later.

In this episode, we trace the timeline from the night Madeleine disappeared to the massive search efforts that followed. We explore the early police response, the intense scrutiny placed on her parents, the emergence of suspects, and...

The community of Scottsdale, Arizona was awoken by a large explosion at the Fisher house. Inside, authorities located the bodies of Mary and her two kids, Brittney and Robert Jr. But dad and husband Robert Fisher was missing. It has now been almost 25 years since Robert went on the run and we still have no clue where he is or what happened to him.

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Robert Fisher please call the FBI Phoenix field office at 623-466-1999 or online at tips.fbi.gov.

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We sat down with Jeremy Hutchinson for a discussion on a wide range of topics. Jeremy grew up in Arkansas’ most recognizable political families, served as a state senator, representative, state prosecutor, and attorney. He also spent time in prison, before a pardon by President Trump.

His perspective and work in criminal justice reform is refreshing and definitely worth a listen.

Be sure to check out unifyus.us, for more information on what we can do to help fix our current criminal justice system.

For more information, ch...

Jessica Easterly opened up to friends and family about being in an abusive relationship. But, just as she was trying to leave…Jessica went missing. The case into the death of Jessica Easterly has NOT been investigated.

Be sure to check out Justice4Jessica.org for more information and links to sign the necessary petitions.

You can also contact District Attorney Jason Williams at 504-822-2414 to demand an investigation or call in an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers online or by calling 504-822-1111.

For more in...

On Mother’s Day in 2020, Suzanne Morphew went missing after what appeared to be a bicycle accident near her home in Colorado. The search for Suzanne was vast but eventually ended up back to the home - specifically her husband Barry. Holly goes through all of the details we have so far, so catch up in time for the trial that is set to begin later this year.

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In 2018, the country was rocked by the story of a missing pregnant wife and her two young daughters. Immediately everyone thought the husband’s story wasn’t adding up. Kate gives a breakdown of the murders of Shanann, Bella, Celeste, and Nico.

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Throughout the 80s and 90s, the Los Angeles Police Department hid the fact that there was a serial killer targeting black women. The problem seemed to have resolved itself when the killer all of a sudden stopped…until 12 years later when he started killing again. Here’s the story of the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer you may have never heard of.

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The congregation of the Olive Branch Church were shocked to discover the murders of their pastor and three other family members on church grounds. The investigation into the murders of the Pelley family was lacking, but an arrest did come. Was the right man convicted?

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Couple John and Joyce Sheridan were found stabbed to death and on fire in their New Jersey home in 2014. Almost twelve years later, the family is still fighting for answers after a botched investigation. Was this a cover up? Is this something bigger?

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On August 27th, 1992, 13-year-old Leigh Occhi was kidnapped from her home in Tupelo. Rumors were rampant and there’s that odd guy with a criminal history, yet, the case remains unsolved and Leigh Occhi is still missing.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Leigh Occhi, please call the Tupelo Police Department at 662-841-6491 or the FBI Mississippi Branch at 800-225-5324.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!! To celebrate all the festivities, Kate is bringing us five heartbreaking stories, all which happened on Christmas day. Don’t let these stories ruin the magic…and see you in the new year!

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From 1978 to 1992, bodies of redheaded women were consistently being found dumped along major southern highway routes. The cases have gone cold and identifications are still being made. But, is all this the work of one serial killer, or multiple?

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The Bender Family or the “Bloody Benders” are the first documented group of serial killers in American history. They had a calculated plan, an unknown amount of victims, but where did they come from? Where did they go? Holly dives into the twists and horrors.

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How far can someone stand their ground? Byron Smith tested the limits when he ambushed two unsuspecting teens who broke into his home on Thanksgiving. His callousness led to the untimely deaths of Nick Brady and Haile Kifer.

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Prosecutors in Ohio were faced with a new situation - a victim who had been burned upon recognition, with zero chances of survival, but with all the willpower and strength to fight for justice. In this sad, but inspiring, story, Kylee goes through exactly what Judy Malinowski had to do in order to have her abusive ex-boyfriend sentenced for her murder.

You can check out Judy's Foundation at judysfoundation.org. You can also view the entirety of Judy's testimony on our blog post or here.

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