Shadows In The Pines

Shadows In The Pines

True crime podcast focusing on crime in the Pacific Northwest.

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May 25, 2026 86 mins

🚨 This week on Shadows in the Pines, we head to Springfield, Oregon for one of the most disturbing and psychologically unsettling cases in true crime history: the case of Diane Downs.

 

On a dark stretch of Old Mohawk Road in May of 1983, three children were shot inside a family car. Seven-year-old Cheryl Lynn Downs was killed. Eight-year-old Christie and three-year-old Danny barely survived. Their mother claimed a bushy-haired st...

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May 15, 2026 32 mins

🏔️🪣 This week on Mini Pines, we head deep into the high desert of eastern Oregon for one of the strangest lost-treasure legends in American history — The Blue Bucket Mine. 🌵✨

 

In 1845, a wagon train following the infamous Meek Cutoff became hopelessly lost in the Oregon wilderness. Families starved. People died. And somewhere during the nightmare journey, children playing in a dry creek bed may have unknowingly filled a blue bu...

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September 24th, 1997. A Spokane patrol officer pulls over a white Corvette near East Sprague. The driver is Robert Lee Yates Jr. He’s ticketed and allowed to go. The officer fills out the field interview report and writes one word in the vehicle make field. Camaro. In Part Three of the Robert Lee Yates Jr. arc, Dan and Becka follow the investigation from the inside — the task force, the databases, the September 1999 interview where...

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Shadows in the Pines — The Killing Years (Robert Lee Yates Jr., Part Two) East Sprague Avenue, Spokane. The late 1990s. A social worker named Lynn Everson parks a Winnebago on the strip once a week and keeps a bad-trick list of over a hundred and forty entries. The man in the white Corvette is never on it. In Part Two of the Robert Lee Yates Jr. arc, Dan and Becka spend time with the thirteen women he killed between 1996 and 1998 —...

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May 2, 2026 29 mins
The Thing in the Lake: Idaho’s Sharlie In the mountains of central Idaho, there’s a lake that drops nearly 400 feet into darkness. Cold. Still. Old. And for over a century, people standing along its shoreline have reported the same thing—something moving beneath the surface. Long. Deliberate. Not a wave. Not a fish. They call it Sharlie. Tonight, we head to Payette Lake in McCall—a place where folklore never really faded. From ...
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April 27, 2026 61 mins

The Predator Next Door — Robert Lee Yates (Part 1) Shadows in the Pines

 

Spokane, Washington. A quiet city tucked beneath pine-covered hills and long stretches of highway. The kind of place where routines feel safe… and danger doesn’t look the way you expect it to.

 

In the late 1990s, women began disappearing—many from the edges of society, their lives overlooked, their absences barely making headlines. Some were last seen along ...

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April 21, 2026 101 mins
Hey Listeners, both Bekah and I are a bit under the weather this week. Please enjoy a Patreon exclusive episode this week while we take time to recover and heal. We will return next week when we begin a four part series on Hometown killer Robert Lee Yates
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What walks through the forests of the Pacific Northwest after dark? What waits in the water, watches from the mountain, or drifts just beyond the fog? In this episode of Many Pines, Becca takes you deep into the eerie folklore of the Pacific Northwest for a fireside journey through five of the region’s most haunting legends. From the ancient presence of Sasquatch to the impossible mystery of Mel’s Hole, from the spirit-laden slope...
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Inside the Mind: The Birth of FBI Criminal Profiling If you’ve been listening to this show, you’ve heard the language everywhere. Behavioral profiles. Organized offenders. Victim typology. Signature behavior. The science that runs in the background of every major serial crime investigation in the country. Today we tell the story of where it came from. In 1972, the FBI opened a new academy in Quantico, Virginia, and quietly tucked a...
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Episode 4 — Confession of a Predator Joseph Edward Duncan the Third was calm when they arrested him. He didn’t resist. He didn’t run. He sat in that Denny’s booth while officers escorted him outside, and then he waited. From the moment he was taken into custody, Duncan confessed. All of it. Freely, consistently, and in meticulous detail across twenty-four hours of recorded FBI interviews. He didn’t need to be broken down. He wanted...
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Mini Pines — The Oregon Bandage Man Along a quiet stretch of highway outside Cannon Beach, drivers have reported something they can’t quite explain. A figure. Wrapped head to toe in what looks like bloody bandages. Standing just off the road… or worse—stepping into it. They call him the Bandage Man. In this Mini Pines episode, we’re heading into the fog-soaked coastline of the Pacific Northwest to explore one of Oregon’s most u...
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Episode 3 — The Hunt for Shasta On July 4th, 2005, FBI agents worked their way up a primitive forest service road in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana. They had been directed there by an eight-year-old girl who had walked out of a Denny’s restaurant in Coeur d’Alene two days earlier. What they found at the end of that road confirmed what Shasta Groene had already told them. Dylan was gone. In this episode, we go into the ...
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The Wolf Lodge Murders Shadows in the Pines — Episode 2 In May of 2005, along a quiet stretch of land just east of Coeur d’Alene, a home sat within sight of Interstate 90 — visible to thousands of passing drivers every single day. One of them stopped. In this episode, we step inside the Groene family home at Wolf Lodge — not as a crime scene, but as a place that was once full of life. A mother. A fiancé. Three children. A routin...
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PART 1 — THE PREDATOR THE SYSTEM RELEASED Before the headlines… before the manhunt… before the name became synonymous with one of the most horrifying crimes in Idaho history… there was a system that saw him coming—and still let him go. In this opening chapter of our multi-part series, we step away from the crime itself and focus on the man at the center of it all: Joseph Edward Duncan III. This isn’t just a backstory. It’s a doc...
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March 23, 2026 3 mins
Hey everyone, We wanted to take a moment to give you a real update on what’s been going on behind the scenes with the show this week. Unfortunately, we ran into some pretty significant technical issues during production—specifically with audio quality in Part 1. After reviewing everything closely, we made the call that it just doesn’t meet the standard we hold ourselves to for Shadows in the Pines. And rather than push something ...
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Top 5 Most Haunted Places in Oregon Fog. Forest. Silence. Oregon isn’t just beautiful—it’s layered with history that never quite settled. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we take you deep into five of the most haunted locations in the state—places where the past still lingers, where footsteps echo in empty halls, and where something unseen may be standing just behind you. From the shadowy depths of Portland’s Shanghai T...
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The Predator the System Released — Part 1 In 2005, the name Joseph Edward Duncan III shocked the nation after a brutal crime in northern Idaho led to one of the most disturbing manhunts in modern true-crime history. But the story didn’t begin in Idaho. Long before the Groene family murders made headlines, Duncan had already been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for violent crimes against children. His criminal history stretch...
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Listeners. As a special treat This week we release a Patreon Exclusive Episode to the masses!  The Case of Westley Alan Dodd.  In the fall of 1989, communities in southwest Washington and northern Oregon were forced to confront a reality they were not prepared for. What began as the brutal murder of two brothers in a neighborhood park would unfold into one of the most disturbing cases in Washington State history — a case defined n...

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🎙 Harry Tracy — The Last of the Wild West Outlaws In the summer of 1902, the Pacific Northwest became the stage for one of the most dramatic manhunts in American history. A prison escape. A trail of violence stretching across Oregon and Washington. Posses, bloodhounds, and terrified communities watching the forests and wheat fields for a man who seemed impossible to catch. His name was Harry Tracy. Some newspapers called him a...
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