80: Eclipse Murders: An Astrology Influencer's Dark Spiral

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On April 8th, astrologer Danielle Johnson took her own life, and killer her fiance and youngest child. It wasn't until someone found her twitter feed that it became apparent she was fearing the coming eclipse.

TW: Suicide, brief mention of sexual assault

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0:00.0	Hey true crime fans, tired of ads interrupting your gripping investigations.
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0:28.2	episodes without the ads. This episode is going to deal with some sensitive
0:32.1	themes so listener discretion is advised.
0:35.0	Let's go back to April 8th, 2024, 730 a.m.
0:41.0	A squad car pulls up to an apartment on the 6200 block of Varyal Avenue in Woodland Hills, California.
0:48.6	The suburban community sits just north of LA in the valley and though it's technically part of the city a
0:55.7	short stretch of hills separate the communities making them feel like totally
1:00.2	different places an LAPD homicide detective steps out of the car and though this
1:06.4	is just another day on the job for him and the other detectives from another
1:10.7	precinct who arrived shortly after him, his heart immediately drops.
1:15.8	A trail of bloody footprints is leading out of one of the apartments.
1:20.3	He was responding to a call that came in from a neighbor.
1:24.0	Not even an hour earlier, they had observed everything the officer was seeing right now,
1:29.5	bloody footprints leading up to a door that was left open. The detective followed the
1:34.4	prince through the door frame knowing what was coming next. The caller had already
1:40.1	made the grim discovery. There on the floor was the body of 29 year old
1:46.7	Jaylin Cheney. A bloody knife was laying right next to him. I'm sure that homicide detectives in LA have truly seen it all
1:55.8	but there was something about this scene that was kind of perplexing.
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