Hey American Hauntings listeners, it's Troy. I wanted to introduce you to something a little different

that's dropping into our feed this week, a brand new show called American Dread, which was created by

my friend Adam White. Adam has been a part of American Hauntings for many years and has been a guide

for our haunted tours in Decatur, Illinois, for at least

a decade and a half. American dread reveals the true stories of tragedy and terror from the

dark side of the American heartland. It's a podcast for the history and true crime obsessed, the

outside-the-box thinkers who know that the most

disturbing history is the history that gets buried, covered up, and forgotten, which is where

American dread comes in. To uncover the truth, confront the lies, and tell the stories that some people don't want told.

We'll be revealing a few more episodes of American Dread in the next few weeks,

so I hope you enjoy them and that you'll let us know what you think.

Thanks for listening.

Winter in Illinois can be bitter.

The cold seeps into your bones.

The wind cuts through even the heaviest coat, and the streets grow quiet under a blink of snow.

But sometimes, the stillness hides something darker.

Indicator, the winters of 1942 and 1960 would be remembered not for the ice or the wind,

but for the sound of a shotgun shattering the night.

Two different homes, two different victims, 18 years apart, yet each killer left the same deep scar, on families, on neighbors, and on a community that would never forget.

Tonight, we're going to walk those frozen streets.

We'll step inside the homes where the warmth of the season was replaced with fear, and we'll hear the stories of two lives that ended in cold blood.

This is American Dread.

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