Episode 413: The Dale City Triple

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Dale City triple homicide occurred on June 24, 1978, in Dale City, Virginia. Three women, Karen Scarbrough, Sharon Lake , and Deborah Frank, were found deceased inside a Ryland Homes sales trailer at approximately 6:45 p.m.. An autopsy revealed that all three women died from gunshot wounds to the back of the head. Their case remains unsolved and is a chilling mystery that has haunted the Dale City community for decades. Authorities continue to seek information, if you have any, please contact the Prince William Police at 703-792-7000 or you can submit a tip at pwcva.gov/policetip. You can also reach out to the Crime Solvers Hotline at 703-670-3700 or call 1-866-411-TIPS. Click here to join our Patreon. Click here to get your own Inhuman merch. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back everybody. Happy day.
0:29.4	Hope everybody is having a good week and a good start to your summer if you're on this part of the hemisphere.
0:39.2	Today's case is an interesting case.
0:42.4	It was kind of sort of suggested by my mother-in-law.
0:46.8	Oh.
0:47.8	Who is from this area, or not from, she lives in this area, Prince William County, Virginia.
0:56.0	Um, she actually told me about another case. And then as we were looking into that case,
1:01.0	because she's a, a true crime, uh, person.
1:05.2	Feigned. Yeah, she's like very into the true crime stuff just like me so that's one of the things we like
1:12.0	you know bond over um but we were talking about another case and while we were looking into that
1:18.3	case we came across this case and this happened before she actually moved to the area but she had
1:25.3	like vaguely heard about it because of its somewhat association
1:29.9	with the other case.
1:31.7	Okay.
1:33.2	And I read about it and was like, oh, I want to cover that.
1:37.4	And I'm actually going to cover the other case and cases, which we'll touch on that later
1:43.2	in this episode.
1:45.1	But I'm going to cover those cases too.
1:46.9	But this is the case of the Dell City triple.
1:54.7	Okay.
1:55.7	I saw this on our, it's kind of weird.
1:59.4	Yeah, I saw this on our case list that you had put it there that you were going to
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