It always starts small, a missed call, a text that doesn't sound quite right, a noise in the hallway

when no one's home, and you ignore it until you can't. And the stories you're about to hear,

reality unravels slowly. And then, all at once. A woman vanishes, but her messages keep on coming.

A quiet college student is led into the woods in broad daylight but never comes back.

And a family home seems haunted and the truth is eerier than you can imagine.

And each story begins simply enough.

But things aren't what they seem.

This is murders with a twist.

And by the end of these stories, you'll question just how well you really know the people

around you.

Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder.

All things that I love to consume.

And I know you do, too, you sick, twisted, intellectual, beautiful-minded freak.

And today we are talking about just that murders with a twist, three different stories with absolutely crazy endings that you are not gonna expect.

So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into these murder with the twist cases together. I'm David Cropa was a 36-year-old auto repair shop manager starting a new chapter in Omaha, Nebraska.

And he had recently separated from his long-term partner, Amy, the mother of his two children.

And he was kind of nervous about getting back into the dating scene again as you are,

especially when you're a little bit further along in life.

It can be daunting.

And not long after, he would actually meet someone,

and that someone was Shanna Liz Goliore,

who was also a single parent of two children.

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