Dark Dialogue

Friday the 13th: Superstition, Serial Killers & the Dark Psychology of Fear

Is Friday the 13th really cursed — or are we?

In this special edition of Dark Dialogue, Angela steps into the captain’s chair and takes us deep into the myths, psychology, and real-life crimes connected to one of the most feared dates on the calendar.

From medieval religious lore and the Knights Templar to horror films and confirmation bias, we explore ...

On July 31, 1995, Dana Chyleen Fowler Satterfield, a 27-year-old salon owner and mother of two, was working late at her beauty shop in Roebuck, South Carolina — a small community in Spartanburg County where violent crime was rare and trust ran deep.

She never made it home.

In Part 1 of this three-episode true crime documentary, Dark Dialogue examines the murder of Dana Satterfield through the lens of investigative journalism, crimi...

Seventeen-year-old Sara Wisnosky was found in the Lafayette River two weeks after she disappeared from the Old Dominion University area. Part Two of The Murder of Sara Wisnosky picks up where the story became irreversible.

This episode follows what unfolded after Sara’s body was discovered: the rapid unraveling of Derek Barnabei’s carefully maintained image, his flight from Virginia under an alias, and the mounting forensic evidenc...

Seventeen-year-old Sara Wisnosky had been at Old Dominion University for only a few weeks when her life was violently taken.

In Part One of Last Seen With Him, Dark Dialogue focuses not on speculation or verdicts—but on context. Who Sara was before she became evidence. What her early college life looked like. And how a carefully constructed social persona allowed one man to move undetected through a university community.

This episo...

The word “ROC” written in blood shocked investigators and the public alike. But in Part Two of The Murder of Karen Pannell, the truth emerges not from what was written on the wall — but from what the evidence refused to ignore.

In this episode, Dark Dialogue follows the case into the courtroom, where forensic science, timelines, and witness testimony dismantled the idea of a dying declaration and exposed a carefully staged crime sc...

In October 2003, 39-year-old airline professional Karen Pannell was found stabbed to death inside her Oldsmar, Florida villa. Near her body, written in blood on the kitchen wall, was a single word: “ROC.”

At first, investigators believed they were looking at a dying message — a final act of identification left by a woman who knew she was dying. Karen’s ex-boyfriend, whose nickname was Roc, became the immediate focus.

But the eviden...

By the time the Chicago Ripper Crew finally stood before a judge, the worst of their crimes were already over — but justice was only beginning its long, uneven struggle.

In this final episode of Dark Dialogue’s Chicago Ripper Crew series, we step inside the courtrooms, parole hearings, execution chambers, and political backrooms that determined how four men responsible for some of the most sadistic crimes in Illinois history would ...

Episode 3: “The Breaking Point — Arrests & Confessions”

When Chicago police arrested Robin Gecht on October 20, 1982, they didn’t yet realize they were dismantling one of the most sadistic cults in American history. From Beverly Washington’s miraculous survival to the chain of interrogations, confessions, and forensic discoveries that followed, this episode chronicles the pivotal week when the façade of normalcy collapsed — rev...

Chicago wasn’t just terrified— it was being hunted.

In Part 2 of our Chicago Ripper Crew series, Dark Dialogue descends into the darkest chapter of the investigation: the rituals, methods, mutilations, and psychology behind a murder cult that operated in broad daylight and believed every killing was an act of worship.

Through rare survivor accounts, forensic reconstruction, and psychological analysis, this episode exposes the cold,...

Chicago, 1981. A city drowning in crime, corruption, recession — and something darker lurking beneath the surface. In this episode of Dark Dialogue, John takes Angela (and listeners) into the heart of one of the most disturbing cases in American criminal history: the Chicago Ripper Crew, a cult-like group led by Robin Gecht that turned a red van into a mobile house of horror.

From the first victim, Linda Sutton, to the escalating r...

High in the Colorado mountains, the quiet town of Guffey hid a nightmare no one saw coming. In the winter of 2001, three members of the Dutcher family were brutally murdered — not by strangers, but by teenagers under the control of an unlikely ringleader: 19-year-old Simon Sue, a self-styled commander who built his own secret “organization” and convinced classmates to kill in his name.

The Pact of Shadows explores how Sue’s delusio...

In October 2008, the quiet streets of North Canton, Ohio—a place known for safety, family, and small-town calm—were shattered by an act of horror that still defies belief.

Thirty-four-year-old Brett W. Smith was found brutally murdered and decapitated inside his own home at Evergreen Mobile Home Park. His killer wasn’t a stranger or a drifter. It was the man who lived just across the fence — William D. Perry, a neighbor whose rage ...

When a quiet September night in 2006 turned into a real-life horror film, Bannock County, Idaho, would never be the same. Filming Death: The Scream Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart tells the chilling true story of a responsible, kind-hearted teenager betrayed by classmates who wanted to turn murder into a movie.

Cassie was just seventeen — house-sitting, caring for family pets, and planning for her future — when two of her peers, Brian...

Home is supposed to be safe — but what if the danger is already inside? In this chilling October episode of Dark Dialogue, John and Angela pull back the walls on one of the most disturbing cases in American true crime: the story of Danny LaPlante, a teenager who secretly lived inside a family’s home, watching them, tormenting them, and ultimately becoming one of Massachusetts’ most terrifying killers.

The case begins like a ghost s...

When fourteen-year-old April Millsap left home to walk her dog on a warm July evening in 2014, no one in the quiet town of Armada, Michigan could have imagined the horror that would follow. Hours later, her loyal dog Penny came home alone — and a small community was forever changed.

In this episode of Dark Dialogue, John and Angela take you inside the groundbreaking trial that proved a killer’s guilt without a single eyewitness or ...

When a 14-year-old’s evening walk ends in tragedy, the town of Armada, Michigan is shaken to its core. In this episode of Dark Dialogue, John and Angela dissect the early investigation that turned a nameless “man on the dirt bike” into a household name—and a prime suspect.

Follow the crucial leads that shaped the case:

• Eyewitness accounts of a helmeted rider who shouldn’t have been on the trail.

• Digital footprints from Apri...

On July 24, 2014, the quiet town of Armada, Michigan was forever changed when 14-year-old April Millsap set out for a walk with her dog and never came home. What began as a summer evening stroll on the Macomb Orchard Trail ended in a brutal attack that left investigators — and an entire community — reeling.

In this episode of Dark Dialogue, we take you inside the earliest hours of the investigation: the discovery of April’s body, t...

She was just 14. A daughter, a dreamer, a life that mattered.

On July 24, 2014, April Millsap leashed up her beloved dog Penny and set out on the Macomb Orchard Trail in Armada, Michigan. Minutes later, she sent her boyfriend a chilling text: “I think I almost got kidnapped.” By nightfall, Penny returned alone—and April’s body was discovered just off the trail.

In this first chapter of Dark Dialogue’s April Millsap series, John and...

Heather Dawn Church’s story shattered the silence—and exposed the chilling truth about one of America’s most calculating killers.

In this final installment of The Forest Kept Her Silence, we confront Robert Charles Browne—the drifter whose fingerprint ended Heather’s case and whose later confessions claimed up to 48 more murders across nine states. Was he telling the truth, or was it the ultimate manipulation?

Join John and Angela ...