WILDCIDE

Special Agent Everett Emerson Hatcher was one badass dude and accomplished a lot in his 46 years. Tragically, Special Agent Hatcher’s dedication to law enforcement ended on February 28, 1989, when he was murdered during an undercover operation on Staten Island. Special Agent Hatcher had been trying to infiltrate a cocaine trafficking ring run by associates of the Bonanno crime family. One such associate, mob figure, Costabile “Gus”...

Clifford Palmer is buried next to his wife of over twenty years. He was known to his family as “Poppy Cliff”. Known to his second family that is. His first family knew him as Clifford Cecil Bartholomew; a man whose brutal past would evade family and friends for decades.  Several decades before his death, in the early hours of the morning, September 7, 1971, Clifford would claim that “love” was the driving force behind Australia’s m...

If you haven't listened to the previous episode 'A Fatal Love Triangle: The Case of Pamela Bulik', you may need to listen to that before this interview so you don't get any spoilers! Chelsea and Bailey interview Lynda Drews, author of Run at Destruction: A True Fatal Love Triangle about her book which centers around the suspicious death of her best friend Pamela Bulik. Tune in to listen to why Lynda decided to write the book, how w...

In 1984, Pamela Bulik lived in Green Bay, WI with her husband Bob and their two children. Pam was an avid runner, a popular schoolteacher, and by April, Pam had been training months with her best friend Lynda Drews for the upcoming local marathon. Pam was excited for the race: she had lost weight, gained speed, and made new personal records on her times. Tragically, however, on the morning of April 7th, Pam had missed the marathon ...

On a warm August evening in 1995, the lives of two promising young women, Marsha and Tamara “Tami” Ottey, were tragically cut short in their Scarborough, Ontario home. The brutal murders of the 19-year-old Marsha and 16-year-old Tamara sent shockwaves through the community, shattering their family, and leaving a legacy of grief. Just two months later, another high-profile murder took place in Toronto that thrust the community into ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: This interview contains discussions around child sexual abuse from a survivor. Listener discretion advised.

There are some things in this world that must be brought to light. Clergy abuse, specifically sexual clergy abuse, is one of these horrible ugly things that must be brought to light. Interestingly, clergy abuse, although typically seen within religious establishments, can be found in any setting where...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic content around sexual abuse of minors, substance abuse, suicide and homicide. Listener discretion advised.

In June of 2000, Ryan Gene Erickson was ordained as a priest at St. Anne’s Church in Somerset, Wisconsin. Shortly thereafter, Father Ryan, a new priest with a long history of questionable behaviors to include cruelty to animals, alcoholism, and sexual abuse, was stationed ...

In part 1, we covered the disappearance of Elisa Claps, the brutal murder of Heather Barnett and the cat-and-mouse chase of a weird dude named Danilo Restivo that had a gnarly hair fetish. In part 2, we finally get to put all the puzzle pieces together. Elisa Claps disappeared from The Most Holy Trinity church in the city center; she was seen going in but never coming out. After 17 long years, the Claps family and the entire commun...

From 1992-1993, nine women and girls made complaints that someone in their town of Potenza, Italy was cutting off locks of their hair. The community only grew more tense as on September 12, 1993, 16 yo Elisa Claps went missing from The Most Holy Trinity church in Potenza's city center; she was seen going in but was never seen coming out. Danilo Restivo, who was known to have a fetish for women's hair, was the prime suspect but ther...

Is it possible for someone to confess to a crime that they didn't commit? Or is claiming 'false confessions' a little too much like the 'boy who cried wolf'? Well, stick around as Dr. Alceste and Lauren walk us through new research and the approaches to identifying and addressing false confessions within the legal system. This will BLOW YOUR MIND!

More about our Honored Guests:

Dr. Fabiana Alceste received a B.A. from the Univers...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic content on child abduction and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

On Sunday June 6, 2004, Kevin Fox was awoken by his 6-year-old son Tyler saying 'Riley is gone.' Kevin immediately began searching the house, the neighborhood and checking with neighbors, but 3-year-old Riley Fox was nowhere to be found. Within hours, the small community of Wilmington, Illinois kicke...

Dr. Jeff Kukucka is a professor of psychology whose work aims to understand and prevent forensic science errors. He regularly testifies as an expert witness, trains various legal audiences, and works with forensic scientists to strengthen crime lab procedures. Make sure to tune in and listen to this episode of ‘How Dr. K Ruined Science For Us’. Just kidding, we LOVE Dr. K. However, he did kind of bust the bubble of the long-held be...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic content around child abuse and neglect. Listener discretion advised.

The date is January 3, 2022. It had been almost 15 years since anyone had seen 36-year-old Lacey Ellen Fletcher outside of her house in her Slaughter, LA. Around 2am on the morning of January 3, Lacey’s mother Sheila Fletcher made a call to 911 stating that Lacey had stopped breathing. Paramedics and East Feli...

Buckle up, folks! We're diving headfirst into the whirlwind tragedy of the Choy Family, a real-life saga that's part mystery, part drama, and all jaw-dropping. The Choy family was a conservative, close-knit family living in a nice suburban neighborhood in Brockton, Massachusetts.  Anne Trinh-Choy and her husband Ching “Jimmy” Choy did their best to raise their daughter Frances and grandson Kenneth in a happy, hardworking household....

In 2004, three generations of women lived together in a home in Altamonte Springs, Florida:  68-year-old Carol Bareis, her daughter 47-year-old Cheryl Williams and Cheryl’s daughter Samantha Williams. On the morning of June 17, 2004, the once quiet street of Vagabond Way was crawling with law enforcement and crime scene techs processing the double homicide of Carol and Cheryl. The mother-daughter duo had been viciously attacked, st...

In a two day span, from February 28th to March 1st 2021, officers from Mesa County Sheriff’s office in Grand Junction, CO would respond to four different calls in various parts of the city that were all linked in a horrific, gruesome tale of murder. They would soon identify that a recently-reported missing 69 year-old man by the name of Warren Barnes, would be identified as the victim of a vicious crime. Warren was affectionately k...

Today’s interview explores everything Cannibalism. Yep, you heard that right. Tune in while Chelsea and Bailey interview author and zoologist Dr. Bill Schutt to discuss his surprising specialty of cannibalism. Although we don’t dive into the gory aspect of cannibalism, we do take a very cool dive into cannibalism from a zoological and human cultural perspective; although it does shine some light on why criminal cannibalism is so se...

February 1999 the country of Venezuela would have to decide how to navigate through their first serial killer case. This case would include a dozen male victims but also evidence of cannibalism. The media, judicial system, law enforcement staff, and thousands of citizens would be shaken to find that Jose Dorancel Vargas Gomez hunted, killed, prepared, and ate his unsuspecting victims. How would the legal system handle the country’s...

Effingham County sits on Georgia’s eastern border and is a located about 30 miles northwest of Savannah. Nestled within a small town in Effingham County lived the Heidt family who were very well-liked and a highly respected local family. The Heidt family’s patriarch was Philip Heidt who was a successful real estate developer. Philip and his wife Linda Heidt had been happily married for 41 years and together they had three sons: Phi...