On Halloween night in 2004, the quiet town of Napa, California was shaken by something far darker than tricks or treats. Inside a small home on Dorset Street, two young women were brutally murdered. Their roommate, escaped into the night. What began as an ordinary evening turned into one of the most haunting crimes the town had ever seen.

At first, police were baffled. There were no signs of forced entry, no clear motive, and no sense of who could have committed such a personal and violent act. But as days passed and evidence surfaced, it became clear the killer wasn’t a stranger in the dark—he was someone much closer to home.

In this episode, we revisit the Napa Valley Halloween Murders, exploring the fear, betrayal, and chilling discovery that turned a night of celebration into a nightmare.

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Sources:

Young, Nikki Oct 17, 2025 The Napa Halloween Murders

https://medium.com/@nikyoung/the-napa-halloween-murders-90f0d6521f0c

Unseen It only took 4 minutes: The Napa Valley Halloween Massacre | The Cases of Leslie, Adriane & Lauren

https://youtu.be/QAEosSmAmYI?si=_jlX-Dq6l81xt1gH

National Crime Scene Cleanup Sept. 19, 2023 The Napa, CA Halloween Killing Remembered 20 Years Later

https://www.crimescenecleanup.com/napa-ca-halloween-massacre/

LaRosa, Paul 2007 "Nightmare in NAPA : the wine country murders"

https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007296752-s.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743450/adriane_michelle-insogna

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129901915/leslie_ann-mazzara

In April 2014, two Dutch students, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, arrived in the mountain town of Boquete, Panama, full of excitement and curiosity. They were adventurous, optimistic, and eager to explore the beauty of Central America. On April 1st, they set out for what was supposed to be a short afternoon hike on the Pianista Trail. Hours later, their host family’s dog returned home alone. Kris and Lisanne never did.

What followed was one of the most chilling mysteries in modern true crime, a trail of eerie photographs, desperate emergency calls that never connected, and personal belongings discovered deep in the jungle weeks later.

How did two experienced young women vanish so completely on a well-traveled path? And what really happened in those final hours high in the Panamanian rainforest?

Join me as we trace their steps, examine the evidence, and explore the countless theories—ranging from tragic accident to something far more sinister—surrounding the disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon.

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Crow, Stephen, March 6, 2025 A Decade of Unanswered Questions Surrounding Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers

https://medium.com/@downwego89/a-decade-of-unanswered-questions-surrounding-lisanne-froon-and-kris-kremers-5a0a3e8b3710

Serena, Katie June 17, 2023 Inside The Final Days Of Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon And The Eerie Photos They Left Behind

https://allthatsinteresting.com/kris-kremers-lisanne-froon

Macabre Mondays Podcast

https://macabremondays.com/episodes/death-of-kris-kremers-lisanne-froon/

April 6, 2024 The disturbing deaths of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon on their La Pianista Hike in Panama

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/kris-kremers-lisanne-froon

Happy Halloween listeners!

After recently taking a little trip upstate to Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow I thought no better time to discuss the infamous legend of the Headless Horseman and how it came to be. Strap in because you are in for some history, a spooky tale and the origins of the frightening spirit the Irish call the Dullahan.

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Dullahan Tactics, January 2023

https://www.themonstersknow.com/dullahan-tactics/

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/washington-irving

Lambardi, Esther January 30, 2020 Biography of Washington Irving, Father of the American Short Story

https://www.thoughtco.com/washington-irving-biography-735849

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving: FreeSchool Abridged Classic - COMPLETE Audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUtviuiDMg&t=697s

The Original Headless Horseman | Monstrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91lr1mnF3o

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"Spacial Harvest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Awkward Meeting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Zombie Chase" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In today’s episode, we are going to be doing something a little different. We will cover two bone chilling short stories that are so beyond creepy that it’ll be almost hard to believe and will leave you never looking at mannequins the same way again.

The first story is called The Hanging Outlaw about a hanging fun house wax figure that has a gnarly history and the second story is called The Living Doll of Key West about a radiologist that finds his obsession in a one-sided love affair and takes it a little too far.

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Kashcheeva, Anna, April 2020 In Bed with Death: A Story of a Man Who Lived with the Body of His Loved One for Seven Years

https://birdinflight.com/en/world/20200416-carl-tanzler.html

Haptis, Emmanuel October, 2028 Meet Carl von Cosel, the Man Who Slept Next to His Crush's Corpse for 7 Years

https://www.kqed.org/pop/106807/meet-carl-von-cosel-the-man-who-slept-next-to-his-crushs-corpse-for-7-years

Johnson, Cara August, 2023 The Disturbing True Story Of Carl Tanzler And The Corpse He Dug Up And Lived With For Seven Years

https://allthatsinteresting.com/carl-tanzler

Harrison, B. (1996). Undying Love: The True Story of a Passion That Defied Death. St. Martin’s True Crime Classics.

Dowd, Katie December, 2022 The unbelievable true story of the real body found in a California funhouse

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/unbelievable-true-story-of-elmer-mccurdy-16507858.php

Elmer McCurdy: The Wild West Outlaw Who Became a Mummy

https://youtu.be/LscVH6HSmZI?si=ZC7Kkihzq2HdCZTd

The Dead Gunslinger Corpse used as a Movie Prop

https://youtu.be/Hq1HOcOogmU?si=zUIazfB49baynUxX

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dead-man-gawking/

Music:

"Awkward Meeting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Zombie Chase" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In the early hours of Feb. 14, 2000 in Shelby, NC a 9 y.o. girl named Asha wakes up wakes up, gets dressed, straps on her book bag leaves the home while her parents and older brother had been asleep. To this day, family and investigators are still unsure of Asha's whereabouts.

If you have any information of the whereabouts and disappearance of Asha Degree, you can reach out to the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office, 704-484-4822, the FBI at 1-800-CALL FBI or tips.fbi.gov.

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Moorhouse,Drusilla, March 2024 The Strange Disappearance Of 9-Year-Old Asha Degree

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-asha-degree-disappearance_n_66031499e4b006c3905722ca

The Uncovered Podcast https://uncovered.com/cases/asha-degree

https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/fbi-charlotte-search-for-asha-021324.mp4/view

VANISHING ACT: THE STORY OF ASHA DEGREE'S DISAPPEARANCE

https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/blog/vanishing-act-the-story-of-asha-degrees-disappearance

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"Despair and Triumph" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Clean Soul" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Zombie Chase" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In part two of "The Family",

It is the 1970s now and Anne Hamilton-Byrne has gone from creating her own cult to getting her followers and worshipers to steal children to have for her own. Anne and her husband Bill would have the help of doctors and nurses working at Anne's psychiatric ward to steal 14 children. 14 more would later join this group of children from the followers giving birth hand handing them over. Horrendously enough, these 24 kids would undergo the worst treatment at a designated property Anne called Uptop. Listen and learn about the terrible story that made this cult be deemed one of the worst that Australia has ever seen.

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Haworth, Abigail , November 2016 Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult

Stice, Joel , March 2023 Inside The Family Cult, The Australian Doomsday Group Started By A Yoga Teacher

https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-family-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne

Glassman, Thea , December 2018 , 6 of the most infamous cults in history

https://www.insider.com/most-infamous-cults-in-history-2018-8

Doku, The Cult Of Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxQU7acAVk&t=91s

Dr. Ishwar V. Basavaraddi, Yoga: Its Origin, History and Development

https://yoga.ayush.gov.in/Yoga-History/

Johnston, Chris, The Morning Herald , Family Ties https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/family-ties/

Toward a new world order

https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War/Toward-a-new-world-order

The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis#:~:text=The%20Cuban%20Missile%20Crisis%20of,came%20closest%20to%20nuclear%20conflict.

In the mid-1960s, an Australian yoga teacher by the name of Anne Hamilton-Byrne had wanted a fresh new start. In doing this she found peace in yoga, nothing bad about that. Although, fast-forward to years later and this woman would have started what would be Australia's most notorious cults through simply becoming a yoga teacher.

In part one find out what horrors that Anne had to commit in order to convince her followers she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

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Haworth, Abigail , November 2016 Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult

Stice, Joel , March 2023 Inside The Family Cult, The Australian Doomsday Group Started By A Yoga Teacher

https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-family-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne

Glassman, Thea , December 2018 , 6 of the most infamous cults in history

https://www.insider.com/most-infamous-cults-in-history-2018-8

Doku, The Cult Of Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxQU7acAVk&t=91s

Dr. Ishwar V. Basavaraddi, Yoga: Its Origin, History and Development

https://yoga.ayush.gov.in/Yoga-History/

Johnston, Chris, The Morning Herald , Family Ties https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/family-ties/

Army Specialist, Vanessa Guillén was a 20 year-old bright young woman that loved serving her country and being the best version of herself that she could be. One day on April 22, 2020 to her base at Fort Hood in Texas had requested that she come in on her day off to assist her squadron. Unfortunately, this would be the last time Vanessa would be seen alive. A wonderful light to world failed by her U.S. Military base at the hands of her murder Aaron Robinson and his accomplice, Cecily Aguilar.

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Documentary: I am Vanessa Guillen

By Christina Carrega and Luis Martinez ,July 14, 2020 Timeline: What to know about missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillenhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-missing-fort-hood-soldier-vanessa-guillen/story

id=71597714https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/86bc0d9f5865bb76d4e63cc111b785b6/Vanessa%20Guillen%20filing.pdf

By Johnny Diaz, Maria Cramer and Christina Morales ,Nov. 30, 2022 What to Know About the Death of Vanessa Guillenhttps://www.nytimes.com/article/vanessa-guillen-fort-hood.html

By Noah Minnie , August 14, 2023Cecily Aguilar sentenced to 30 years in Vanessa Guillen casehttps://abcnews.go.com/US/cecily-aguilar-sentenced-30-years-vanessa-guillen-case/story?id=102253300

By Daniel Johnson , May 10, 2023, The Messed Up History At Fort Hoodhttps://www.grunge.com/300377/the-messed-up-history-of-fort-hood/

By David Bryant , July 28, 2021 , Former Army captain who worked with Vanessa Guillen criticizes Army investigations https://kdhnews.com/military/former-army-captain-who-worked-with-vanessa-guillen-criticizes-army-investigations/article_38fb04b0-efda-11eb-b8f6-23c93ae93fa1.html