Season 2 Episode 33: The Disappearance of Nicholas Barclay

The Disappearance of Nicholas Barclay

June 13, 1994

For the Barclay family, June 13, 1994 became a day they would never forget. 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay was out playing basketball with his friends when he never returned. Over the course of the next three years the Barclay family searched and prayed for answers as to the whereabouts of their son. It wasn’t until a cool October day in 1997 that their prayers would be answered and Nicholas would return home after being found in Spain…

or, at least, they thought it was Nicholas…

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Season 2 Episode 32: The Man Who Wouldn't Die!

The Murder of Mike Malloy

1920’s

In the 20’s and 30’s New York City was the epicenter of Organized Crime, Speakeasy’s, and Bootlegging. In the Bronx, there was a bar owned by Tony Marino that was known by the locals as a place where you could drink away your sorrows. This is precisely what avid bar patron Mike Malloy did every night.

Unbeknownst to Malloy, Tony Marino was a murderer who had devised a scheme of writing false life insurance claims on downtrodden New Yorkers and then murdering them to collect the payout. Malloy, being a drunkard with no family, was the perfect target for Malloy and his “Murder Trust” (a group of men who assisted in the murders for a cut of the profits). Unfortunately for Marino, Mike Malloy…

Could not die

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Season 2 Episode 30: The Lady of The Dunes

The Lady of The Dunes

July 26, 1974

A 9-year-old girl was walking her dog in the Race Point Dunes in Provincetown Massachusetts when the animal suddenly started to bark uncontrollably. Following the now incensed animal the girl was lead to the site of a decomposing body.

While this alone is horrific, the brutality of the murder has made thousands fascinated with the case which to this day is still cold.

Who committed this monstrous act? Who was this mysterious woman?…

And how does the film JAWS fit into all this?

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Season 2 Episode 29: Roch Thériault and The Ant Hill Kids

Roch Thériault and The Ant Hill Kids

1970’s

Roch Thériault was a Canadian cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet who used Seventh-Day Adventist beliefs to persuade impressionable Church members to join his group, “The Ant Hill Kids”.

This group of like-minded individuals are a perfect example of how one person’s charisma and religious fervor can lead people to doing horrific things, from emotional and physical abuse, to sexual assault, and even…

MURDER

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Season 2 Episode 28: Vince Li

Vince Li

2008

On a normal Greyhound bus ride near Manitoba, Canada, 35 passengers were waiting for their stops when the bus unknowingly picked up a very sick man.

The man, Vince Li, quietly sat near the front of the bus for a few hours before committing a horrifying act…

Murder and Cannabalism

ATI Article: : LINK

CBC Artice: LINK

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Season 2 Episode 27: Harold Shipman

Harold Shipman

1998

The arch-typical small town portrays a community where everybody knows each other, and with this familiarity, trust is formed. But what happens when this trust is broken?

In 1998 a local doctor, Harold Shipman, was running a practice and having some rather unfortunate outcomes. An alarmingly high rate of his patients were dying under his care. The trusted local doctor was investigated and to the horror of the local community, Shipman was arrested for the suspected injection and murder…

of up to two hundred fifty people

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Season 2 Episode 26: Matthew Gibson's Walmart Confession

Matthew Gibson's Walmart Confession

2014

The police in Bullhead City, Arizona were greeted by a man named Matthew Gibson in June of 2014 who confessed to the murder of a women 17 years prior, in 1997. Gibson claimed that he and the woman went back to his residence one night in 97’ and when the woman refused to leave Gibson beat her to death with a flashlight.
While this story is sad and macabre, what makes it noteworthy is the reason why Gibson drove across the country to turn himself in…

Automated messages from walmart

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Charlotte Observer: LINK

CNN: LINK