10 GRIPPING Thanksgiving Crimes and UNSOLVED Mysteries! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: While the rest of Americans are at home with their families, eating turkey and enjoying annual celebrations-- Thanksgiving has a darker side. We may often overlook this truth because it is rarely discussed at the Thanksgiving table. Every Thanksgiving Day there are some tragic and mysterious incidents. Many of these unfathomably awful things are never explained. Whether it is murders, gory accidents or strange vanishings during the night–these true-life unexplained mysteries and horrendous crimes might make excellent dinner-table conversation… assuming you’re dining with other Weirdos like yourself.
SOURCES, CITATIONS, AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…D.B. Cooper: https://citizensleuths.com/db-cooper-what-you-need-to-know.html
Kelsey Berreth: https://people.com/crime/colo-man-found-guilty-of-murdering-fiancee-kelsey-berreth
Paul Knockel sources: https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-joseph-knockel, https://who13.com/news/eastern-iowa-mans-car-found-over-30-years-after-disappearance, https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/paul-knockel
Nancy Bergeson: https://www.koin.com/news/man-arrested-in-2009-killing-of-nancy-bergeson,https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/10augsep/evidence.html, https://patch.com/oregon/portland/nancy-bergeson-murder-arrest-made-nine-years-after-she-was-killed, https://www.koin.com/news/crime/nancy-bergesons-family-supportive-of-killers-sentence, https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/arrest-made-in-2009-killing-of-prominent-portland-public-defender/283-f3cecc16-0f80-4774-b7a4-000c99d156d0
Maria Elizalde: https://charleyproject.org/case/maria-isabel-elizalde, https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-police-looking-into-cold-case-of-missing-teen-from-2015, https://people.com/crime/dallas-teenage-girl-missing-thanksgiving-mom-searches, https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/1258708/1
Shane Montgomery: https://thought.is/the-grisly-smiley-face-killer-theory-that-connects-40-college-students-deaths/,https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/12/08/shane-montgomery-victim-smiley-face-killers/
Murders In Miramar: https://wsvn.com/news/angelita-gauntlett-courtney-lindsay/
Beth Barr Case: https://patch.com/pennsylvania/foresthills-regentsquare/kidnap-murder-case-still-not-a-lost-cause-34-years-later
Blount Family: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3692
Cynthia Alonzo: https://abc7news.com/cynthia-linda-alonzo-murder-2014-oakland-body-of-woman-killed-in-bay-area-found-eric-mora/11865891, https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/cynthia-linda-alonzo-oakland-woman-murdered-body-found-eric-mora, https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Man-Gets-11-Years-For-Killing-Woman-Whose-Body-11259713.php
Tacoma’s Thanksgiving Shooting: https://truecrimediva.com/kimberly-riley-jeremy-britt-bayinthavong,https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/unsolved/thanksgiving-day-shooting-tacoma-2002/281-756c467c-11c0-4b61-9cca-7e701b66c13e
Rapper Soulja Slim: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/rapper-soulja-slim-murdered-67970/
Neshaminy Creek John Doe: https://listverse.com/2016/10/21/10-unsolved-thanksgiving-mysteries,https://patch.com/pennsylvania/bensalem/man-identified-after-vehicle-submerged-neshaminy-creek-coroner,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshaminy_Creek
Karen Marie Mitchel: https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-thanksgiving-incidents/robert-f-mason
The Game Warden Murder: https://www.odmp.org/officer/14473-game-protector-john-h-woodruff,https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-02-compressed.pdf,https://dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/public-safety/environmental-conservation-police/history
The Skelton Brothers: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/11/26/mother-of-missing-skelton-brothers-asks-court-to-declare-them-legally-dead, https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/shot-australian-brothers-killed-in-robbery-according-to-authorities/news-story/7f2ff57d256878afe8ddf3fd236c9272
Owens and Hawley: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clarence-owens-everette-hawley-chevy-impala-1976-cold-case-recovered-river-illinois, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-car-illinois-river-clarence-owens-everett-hawley-missing-1976, https://www.the-sun.com/news/12453314/major-breakthrough-case-missing-men-vanished-auction,https://people.com/remains-found-in-ill-river-belong-to-two-men-who-vanished-in-1976-8710859
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Originally aired: November 28, 2024
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