Shadows In The Pines

The Lewis-Clark Valley murders remain one of the Pacific Northwest’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Between 1979 and 1982, five people either disappeared or were murdered across southeastern Washington and north-central Idaho, leaving investigators to wonder whether they were hunting a single offender who operated undetected for years.

In the conclusion of our series, we follow the investigation as detectives begin laying ...

Deep in the cedar and spruce forests of the Oregon coast, where the fog comes in sideways

and you can lose fifty feet of visibility in the time it takes to blink, the men who logged those

slopes in the 1880s and 1890s had a story.

It was called the Gumberoo. Coal-black, barrel-bodied, and completely indestructible —

bullets bounced off its glossy hide, axes glanced away, even a charging elk got knocked

backward by its own mom...

The Lewis-Clark Valley was already living with unanswered questions after the disappearance of Christina White and the murder of Kristin David. Then, in the span of just a few months, the investigation took a devastating turn.

In Part Two of our deep dive into the Lewis-Clark Valley murders, we examine the disappearance of two-year-old Ricky Barnett, the vanishing of Kristina “Brandy” Miller and Kristina Nelson after a ...

In April 1979, twelve-year-old Christina White left a friend’s house in Asotin, Washington, and never made it home.

Two years later, University of Idaho student Kristin David disappeared while riding her bicycle between Moscow and Lewiston. Her murder would send shockwaves through the Lewis-Clark Valley and leave investigators asking whether these two cases were connected—or simply heartbreaking coincidences.

In Part On...

The Selkirk Mountains are among the oldest and most remote wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest—and for generations, they’ve been home to stories of something that walks upright through the trees.

In this episode of Mini Pines, we explore documented Bigfoot encounters, Indigenous traditions, eyewitness accounts, mysterious tracks, and why the Selkirks have quietly become one of North America’s most active Sas...

The Witches of Rathdrum | Mini Pines

For decades, people across North Idaho whispered about a lonely stretch of Highway 41 where hooded figures formed human chains across the road, bonfires flickered deep in the trees, and anyone brave enough to drive through after dark risked encountering something they couldn’t explain.

But where did those stories come from?

In this episode of Mini Pines, we separate folklore from fact as w...

The investigation into the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch had already spanned decades. Detectives had followed leads, families had endured years of unanswered questions, and an entire community had learned to live with the possibility that the truth might never be known.

Then everything changed.

In Part Two of Bound by Assumption, Dan and Bekah follow the investigation through the breakthroughs that finally transfor...

The Maury Island Incident

It’s the summer solstice, 1947. A man named Harold Dahl is out on a salvage boat in Puget

Sound when six enormous, doughnut-shaped objects appear in the sky above him. One of them

falters. Debris rains down — burning the hull, injuring his teenage son, killing the family dog.

And the morning after Dahl tells his story, a stranger in a dark suit shows up at his door, knows

exactly what happened,...

For decades, the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch haunted Tacoma, Washington. Two young girls. Two bicycle rides. Two families left searching for answers. And for more than thirty years, investigators believed they were looking at a single mystery.

In Part One of Bound by Assumption, Dan and Bekah examine the disappearances that terrified an entire community, the massive search efforts that followed, the heartbreakin...

CrimeCon 2026 was an experience we’ll never forget.

This week, Dan and Rebekah take a break from the case files and pull back the curtain on their trip to Las Vegas for CrimeCon 2026. From Nancy Grace’s opening remarks and discussions about the Gabby Petito investigation, to meeting victims’ families still searching for answers, this episode explores the people, stories, and moments that left a lasting impact.

W...

The Loneliest Road to the Stars — Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway

What if the most famous alien highway in America has been hiding its biggest secret in plain sight?

This week on Mini Pines, we travel Nevada’s mysterious Extraterrestrial Highway—a lonely stretch of desert road forever linked to Area 51, Bob Lazar, UFO sightings, and the legendary Black Mailbox that became a pilgrimage site for believers ...

🔎 Part 2 of our Diane Downs series is available now.

As detectives continue pulling apart the story from Old Mohawk Road, the investigation begins shifting in a dramatic direction. What started as the search for a mysterious roadside gunman slowly becomes something much darker as timeline problems, forensic evidence, and survivor statements begin pointing investigators toward an unthinkable possibility.

In Part 2, Dan and Bekah ...