Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

The Raincoat Killer, Yoo Young-chul is a South Korean psychopath. He grew up in poverty and became filled with rage towards the wealthy. He began killing elderly and wealthy couples. Then he moved to sex workers, later telling police that he hated women more than the wealthy. When he was caught, his remorseless words and cold demeanor shocked the country.

Abby Choi was a beautiful young wife and mother. She worked very hard to become an influencer. Her parents were wealthy and she had a beautiful life. After divorcing her first husband, she remarried but continued supporting...

Carl Drew and Robin Murphy ran a violent prostitution ring in Fall River, Massachusetts. Carl claimed he was a disciple of Satan and he began holding rituals in the Freetown Forest. The girls and women under his control were terrified of Carl and soon, they were also terrified of Robin Murphy. Then women began to disappear. First, Doreen Levesque was murdered. Then Barbara Raposa disappeared and her body was later found decapitated. Then Karen Marsden vanished and she too was found dead. Rumors of candles in the snow around the bodies began to circulate. People spoke of satanic rituals...

Blaine Norris and Brian Trimble were coworkers. Both of the men were in unhappy marriages and looking for something else in life. Blaine Norris decided to make a horror film he intended to call Through Hike. The problem was, Blaine had no money, no skill and no talent. He forged ahead anyway. Brian Trimble's wife, Randi Trimble didn't want her husband involved in this amateur film production and she wouldn't allow Brian to act as cameraman. Randi Trimble was standing in their way and so Blaine Norris and Brian Trimble formed an evil plan to get rid or Randi...

The episode of Wife Swap that caught national attention is called Stockdale/Tonkovich and features two families with very different lifestyles. The Stockdale family is religious, to the extreme and the Tonkovich family is atheist and lives a very laid back lifestyle. Some people found the extreme nature of the Stockdale lifestyle disturbing but no one could predict what would happen years later when Jacob Stockdale, then 25 years old, took a gun and murdered his family members

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Arthur Duperrault had been saving for years to take his family on a dream sailing vacation. He hired captain Julian Harvey to assist the family on their trip to the Bahamas aboard the Bluebelle, a large rented sailboat. The vacation started off like a dream but it ended in a nightmare. Julian Harvey was found floating on the ship's dingy and with him was the dead body of the Duperrault's youngest child, Renee. Julian was lauded as a hero but as the Duperrault family was grieved, everything changed. Word came from a Greek oil freighter that sailors onboard had...

I have two breaking crime stories for you today. In the first, Candace Joseph and Angyl, two women who met online had fallen in love and Candace was preparing to leave her husband Jason Holton. Jason posted online about the tension and about his anger. Angyl got on a plane to go and pick Candace up to start their new life together and then Candace, Angyl and Jason all ended up dead. In our second story, Caleb Flynn, who was once a contestant on American Idol, is accused of murdering his wife Ashley Flynn. It has now been reported...

Tim Bosma was a beloved husband and father trying to sell his pickup truck online. He met two men and went for a test drive. Tim never came home. As the police began to investigate, they got a tip about a man named Dellen Millard. They set up surveillance and discovered that Dellen Millard and Mark Smich had been involved in several murders over the years. Laura Babcock had vanished with little done. Wayne Millard was murdered in his own home and it was ruled a suicide. Why did it take so long for these murders to be uncovered<...

Stephen Griffiths is a very strange man. He had an online persona he called "The Pariah." He terrorized the women he dated but in secret, he was doing something worse; killing them. Several women went missing and as the police investigated, they got a call from an apartment building manager who had caught something very disturbing on security footage. Stephen Griffiths was seen shooting a woman in the back with a crossbow and then dragging her into his apartment. He was arrested and when he stood in court for his first appearance, he told the judge to call him...

The Granite Mountains Record Vault, commonly called the Mormon Mountain Vault, is one of the most secure locations in the world. In 1958, the Mormon church began drilling into a solid stone mountain to build vaults for precious items. What are those items? Billions and billions of family history records, photographs and death records. There is a good reason for this. But what if there is something more? Many people believe that sacred and highly sought religious artifacts are hiding deep in the mountain. Are the Golden Plates there? What about the Ark of the Covenant? Aaron's Rod? The Liahona...

When Clayton Echard left the stage of The Bachelor, he was set to live a quieter life. He had no idea that a woman named Laura Owens, who he had a one time sexual encounter with, had set her sights on destroying him. Laura Owens filed a paternity suit in Arizona claiming that Clayton Echard was the father of her unborn twins. Her case and her claim quickly fell apart but the Arizona prosecutor has decided that this will be a test case. In the world of digital manipulation and AI, Arizona is going to show the nation that...

James Dailey, Jack Pearcy and Oza Shaw were young men living together in Florida. They had a bad reputation and routinely hit on young girls in the area. When Shelly Boggio came into their group, she had no way of knowing that her night of partying would be her last night on earth. After her body was found, Jack Pearcy pointed the finger at James Dailey and despite there being very little evidence that James Dailey was involved, he was convicted and sentenced to death row for Shelly's murder. Defense attorneys have been working for years to get James...

Colonia Dignidad was supposed to be a christian compound, a model of German efficiency and example of communal living. Instead, it became a living nightmare for German citizens who immigrated to Chile with hopes of a better future. People were locked inside the compound, abused and tortured. Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi and child abuser had a chokehold on his followers and before long, he befriended Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Together, they devised an evil plan. Colonia Dignidad would become a secret detention center for anyone who opposed the Chilean government. Some say hundreds were murdered. Others say t...

When girls and young women began disappearing in France and Belgium, it took the police far too long to realize the cases were connected. Serial Killer Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier had formed a deadly pact and many would die to satiate the sick desires. Many people close to this case feel the police are partly at fault because the killer couple was right under their noses for years and both were known criminals. On this episode we tell the story of The Ogre of Ardennes and we remember those who lost their lives at the hands...

A social worker named Daniella Pina and a psychologist named Valeria Donati became convinced that there was a network of satanic pedophiles operating in the small village of Mirandola. They began bringing the area children in for interviews. The children were coerced to make up stories and soon, families were being torn apart. A priest was implicated and died from a massive heart attack when he was accused. Some parents committed suicide. The Children of Veleno, as they came to be known, were taken into foster care and their parents were left devastated. Years later, researchers and courts agree...

Ronald DeFeo Sr and his wife Louise purchased a home in Amityville, New York and named it High Hopes. It was anything but. Ronald DeFeo Jr, who went by Butch was the oldest son of five kids and he had a drug problem. He was also violent and had been raised in an abusive household. On November 13, 1974, Butch took a shotgun and murdered the entire family as they slept. After he was imprisoned, George and Kathy Lutz bought the house. Friends were afraid it might be haunted so the Lutz family called a priest to bless the house. The...

Jonathan Gerlach is fascinated with death. His Instagram handle, "Dead Sh*t Daddy" shows it. For months he has been digging up graves at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Pennsylvania. It appears as though he has been collecting and selling body parts like skulls, long bones and even torsos. He has also taken the bodies of children. Why would a man do such a thing? Why didn't anyone notice. This is a breaking story and one that still has a lot of unanswered questions. This is what we know so far

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Devyn Michaels is a woman of many faces and names. She had a long career in the adult film industry. She was married to Johnathan Willette and together they have two children. The couple divorced and Devyn Michaels then married her ex-husband's son, Devierre Willette. Yes, you read that right. She married her stepson. The unusual and disturbing situation caused tension in the family. Devyn continued to see her ex-husband while she was married to his son. Things got worse and then Johnathan Willette ended up dead...and without his head

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Dryden, New York is a beautiful farming village. People live happy lives there. But in 1989, a litany of tragedy struck the small community. First, the Harris Family was murdered before their home was set on fire. A mother suffocated her own baby. A coach was shot and killed by an obsessed teenager. Two cheerleaders were abducted and horribly murdered before being dismembered. People died in car accidents, by suicide, and the town gained a new moniker: Village of the Damned

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If you ask 100 True Crime creators their Top 5 most disturbing stories, 90 of them will say the story of Israel Keyes is in their Top 5. Raised as a white supremacist, Keyes hated most everyone. He began killing as a teenager. He is terrifying because he does not follow any of the patterns we know about serial killers. He has no victim profile, no preference, and no pattern. He began traveling the country burying "kill kits" in isolated places like campgrounds, parks and cemeteries. Whenever he was ready, he would travel to one of those locations, dig up his "kill kit"...

John List had a serious problem. He'd been hiding the fact that he'd been fired from his prestigious job at a New Jersey bank and he was broke. He devised a diabolical plan. He shot and killed his wife Helen then his mother Alma. He then waited for the teenagers to come home from school and one by one, he shot them dead. He placed all but his mother's body in the mansion's ballroom, wrote some letters, and then disappeared. For years authorities searched for him but could not find him until an episode of a new TV show...

Michael Gargiulo was known as a weird guy. He made women uncomfortable. He said strange things. When his childhood best friend's sister, Tricia Pacaccio was murdered in Chicago, her case went cold. Years later, women in California were being stabbed to death in their own homes. It took almost two decades, but finally, the police were able to link The Hollywood Ripper, Michael Gargiulo, to the murders of Tricia Pacaccio, Ashley Ellerin, Maria Bruno, and an attack on Michelle Murphy

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Marc Dutroux, The Beast of Belgium was a troubled kid who became a dangerous adult. He took multiple victims, children most, and tortured them before murdering them. His wife, Michelle Martin was complicit and did nothing to help the girls locked in the hidden room of the house. When the public was told an arrest had been made, and that the killer was a previous criminal who did only three years in prison, that the police had been to his house and heard children screaming yet did nothing? The country erupted into chaos. The White March, a protest attended...

The Tromp family was a close, well respected family living in Silvan, Australia when the father, Mark began acting strangely. He became paranoid and started telling his wife, Jacoba and their three adult children that the family was being tracked. He said their money wasn't safe in the bank and that the family was in danger. Then, Mark and Jacoba insisted that the entire family get into the car without credit cards, cell phones or luggage to take a long road trip. The adult children were hesitant but went along and the further Mark drove, the more bizarre the...

American pastors and preachers are no longer respected or admired like they once were. Now, there is a good chance that the man preaching your Sunday sermon has skeletons in his closet and illegal images on his hard drive. How has American Christianity fallen so far from what it started out to be and what can be done to ensure that children are protected in the churches? Why isn't more being done about this and what does our lack of concern say about us as a society

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This is the kind of story that keeps me up at night. We know people murder for money, for sex, for revenge, but somehow it is more horrifying when a random murder is committed against people who are totally and completely innocent. Clinton and Cristen Brink planned a fun day hiking in Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas. While enjoying their afternoon, a man jumped out and began stabbing Clinton. Cristen saved the girls by shielding them with her body and telling them to run. She then turned back to help her husband. She too was stabbed to death...

Allentown, Pennsylvania was a depressed but safe place to live until, in the early 1990s, women began being murdered in their homes. Then a 15 year old girl was murdered on her paper route. The police chased the killer but had no luck because they were looking for an adult. They came up with a plan to stake out a previous victim and survivor's home to see if the killer would return to finish the job. He did and when the cops finally had him in custody, they were shocked to find out the killer was just a boy

Daniel Perez is a conman. After being convicted of sexually assaulting two girls in Texas, he faked his own death and took on the name Lou Castro. He started a small cult that he called Angel's Landing, telling his followers that he spoke to God and had magical abilities. But he needed something to sustain his powers: young girls. A dogged Kansas cop named Ron Goodwyn started to get suspicious and for years, he watched "Lou Castro" and his cult. He knew something was going on but couldn't seem to get the evidence he needed to take the cult...

When Crystal Rogers vanished in Bardstown, Kentucky in July of 2015, her family immediately knew she had been murdered. The local cops investigated and called her boyfriend Brooks Houck in for an interview. During that interview, Brooks brother, Nick Houck, a local cop himself, called his brother and told him to stop talking to the police. What were the brothers trying to hide? For years, Crystal's family searched for her and then there was a second tragedy when her father, Tommy Ballard, was shot with a hunting rifle and killed in front of his grandson, Crystal's son. Tommy's murder remains...

Corinna Mullen was working at the Bardstown, Kentucky police department, saving up to go to nursing school. When she discovered that an acquaintance was selling drugs and moving stolen property, she told one of the police officers she worked with. Then, she ended up murdered. Her boyfriend, Jimmie Springer was put on trial and acquitted and the case went cold for twenty years. After a determined cop was assigned the cold case, he began to work it diligently and what he found was shocking. All of the evidence collected had vanished. Finally, the Kentucky State Police got involved and...

This is a current story and the outcome is still uncertain. No arrests have been made. What is clear is that singer D4VD is in a lot of trouble. The body of his rumored girlfriend, fifteen year old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead and dismembered in the front trunk of David Burke's Tesla. This was two months ago and still, no arrest has been made. Even if it turns out that D4VD had nothing to do with the murder, his career may still be over because David Burke is 20 years old and it appears he was...

Howard Rubin is a celebrated financial wizard. He made billions for firms like Bear Stearns and Soros Fund Management. For years, he has been dogged with civil lawsuits filed by adult sex workers and performers alleging he hired them for BDSM sessions that turned incredibly violent. Howard Rubin has been able to pay his way out of those lawsuits. But in late September of 2025, the Feds came knocking. He was arrested at his Connecticut home and his assistant, Jennifer Powers was arrested at her South Lake, Texas home. Both are now facing decades in prison

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Burt Templet was a controlling and angry man. He monitored his wife and son's activity as though he was a prison guard. Susan Templet left, taking her son Peyton with her which meant Anthony Templet was now alone with the father he hated. Then, in 2019, there was an argument and Anthony shot Burt Templet. As Anthony's coworkers hear about the murder, they decide to look into this unusual young man and what they find is shocking. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

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Murder doesn't take a night off and killings happen even on Halloween. Karl Jackson, a computer programmer with a bright future lost his life in a violent altercation with seventeen year old Curtis Sterling, all over loud music. Karl's story became a cautionary tale about the violent 1990s in New York. In our second story, nine year old Lisa Ann French goes trick or treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and she never comes home. It is later determined that her neighbor, a man Lisa knew well, Gerald Turner, assaulted and murdered the little girl before dumping her body...

Bob Singer was a happily married man until he met charming Judith Singer at temple. The two began an affair and both ended up divorcing their spouses so they could be together. Judy took her kids and the couple moved back to her home state of Michigan but Judy's ex-husband, Howard Witkin wasn't happy and wanted his kids back in California. Then, Howard ended up dead, murdered in his doorway. An informant comes forward and the cops track down the hired killers. They're sent to prison and the story appears to be over. But ten years later, a legal...

Stephen Morin spent his life as a criminal. What started as a career in theft quickly turned to serial murder. He abducted, assaulted and killed women as he traveled throughout the country. Investigators estimate his victim count to be around forty people, but many of those murders are not well documented. When the police learned just how dangerous Stephen Morin was, they located him in a Texas motel room and the SWAT team surrounded the building but Stephen Morin escaped. He then abducted a housewife named Margy Palm from a nearby shopping center and over the course of the...

Bruce McArthur is an unusual serial killer. Most serial killers stop killing later in life but the Toronto Village Serial Killer did not. Gay men began to disappear from the Toronto Village area and by the time there were eight missing men, the cops had formed two task forces to investigate the disappearances. Their investigation led them to a plump, elderly landscaper who had been digging more than weeds in his customer's yards.

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Michael Woods was an angry man with a bad temper. He wanted to become a rock star and he dragged his long suffering wife, Susan from town to town chasing his dream. She finally put her foot down and when she stayed in Stephenville, Texas, Michael left her and returned to Indianapolis where he was from. Then Susan Woods was murdered, found in her bathtub in July of 1987. Everyone involved was convinced the killer was Michael Woods and for decades, he was hunted and chased by police. When the science finally caught up, and DNA was compared, the townspeople...

We'll call this Part One. Kouri Richins has not yet gone to trial. She is accused of massive financial fraud, shoddy builder practices, forgery, drug possession and murder. When her husband Eric Richins died suddenly, Kouri wrote a book called "Are You With Me," about children dealing with the death of a parent. She even went on a media tour to promote the book. Then, Kouri was arrested charged with killing Eric by poisoning his cocktail. This is a wild story about a devious woman who would do anything to maintain her image, to become rich, and to get...

Laurie Shaver claims she was terribly abused at the hands of her husband Michael. Laurie's daughter, Isabelle backs those claims. The couple fought constantly and then one day, Michael Shaver vanished. Laurie told people he'd run off with another woman. For two years, her story held until Michael's old friend went to the police stating he couldn't get in touch with Michael. The cops served a search warrant and found some bits of clothing in the back yard near a fire pit so they decided to dig it up. They discovered something horrible and shocking but the claims Laurie...

Are killers born or are they made? That is the question we ask all the time here on Dark Hearts. In today's story, there is a strong argument for those who believe some people are just born bad. Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham were obsessed with each other. When Kim's mother, Elizabeth Edwards tried to keep them apart, Kim and Lucas decided she had to go and with her, Kim's younger sister, Katie. The facts of this case are chilling, the killers remorseless.

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