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That Chapter Podcast

Ep.160 - The Dardeen Family Murders

That Chapter Podcast

Mike Oh

True Crime

4.97.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It was 1987, and a family were paranoid. They needed to get away, and decided to sell up, despite just moving to the area less than a year before. Then, when a horrifying scene was discovered, a family butchered and a man missing, the mystery would only just begin. Send your scary stories to: ⁠mikeohhello@gmail.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thatchapterpodcast⁠ Business enquires : ⁠thatchapter@night.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You know, it's sort of strange that by trying to escape or avoid something so much, you

0:35.0

actually run into it.

0:37.0

You know, it's like staying in to avoid the cold or working out and exercising and you get that

0:41.9

heart attack you've been trying so hard to avoid.

0:44.7

The family in this story, that's exactly what happened to them in the most horrifying way

0:49.7

possible.

0:51.0

The Dardines were fleeing violence.

0:52.9

They were fleeing the city, fleeing a life surrounded

0:55.2

by an increasing crime rate, and in fact ended up running directly into a horrifying murder scene.

1:02.6

Like, um, folks, this is a dark-ass one, so, uh, buckle up, Bukaroo. And it takes us to the

1:09.9

tiny village of Inna in Jefferson County, Illinois.

1:13.7

A small old place in southern Illinois, today it's home to less than like 2,000 folk,

1:19.5

and it had a hell of a lot less than it when our story takes place.

1:23.2

For much of Inna's existence, I mean, ironically, as a place founded from the fallout of one of the

1:28.7

biggest atrocities in history, which is the Trail of Tears, like if you asked residents about

1:33.0

the famous crimes in their community, which I don't know what kind of question that is, hey,

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