The Woodchipper and the New Year

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Devil Within The Woodchipper and the New Year: The Murder of Helle Crafts In the final days of 1986, while the world was preparing resolutions and fresh starts, one woman quietly vanished from her Connecticut home — and her disappearance would force American justice to confront an impossible question: Can you prove a murder when there is no body? This episode follows the chilling, meticulously documented case of Helle Crafts — a Danish flight attendant, mother of three, and woman who clearly saw danger coming… and tried to warn the people around her. What investigators would eventually uncover — a missing freezer, strange purchases, the shoreline of a frozen lake, and fragments almost too small to comprehend — changed forensic history, legal precedent, and the way investigators think about “no-body” homicides forever. HELLE CRAFTS This isn’t a story about spectacle. It’s a story about erasure — and the relentless people who refused to let that erasure hold. ⭐ RATE & REVIEW Ratings and reviews genuinely help independent shows grow. If you have a moment, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps more than you think, and yes, we read them. 📺 WATCH & SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE You can now watch full video episodes, clips, and exclusives from all Evio Creative shows on our YouTube channel. 👉 Subscribe to Evio Creative on YouTube and turn on notifications so you don’t miss new drops across the network. 📲 FOLLOW ON SOCIAL Follow us on Instagram for updates, visuals, and behind-the-scenes content: • @thedevilwithinpod • @idesofaprilpod • @eviocreative 🌐 VISIT THE NETWORK Explore all of our shows, projects, and upcoming releases at eviocreative.com ✉️ GET IN TOUCH Have a story, tip, correction, or something you think we should cover? Email us at [email protected] 🔁 SHARE THE SHOW If you know someone who loves true crime, history, horror, or stories that refuse to let go—share the episode. Word of mouth keeps this network alive. 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: www.QUINCE.com/MISCHIEF (http://www.quince.com/MISCHIEF) 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: http://www.mintmobil.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data anywhere. Get up to 4 months free: www.ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN (http://www.expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN) 🌿 MOOD CBD and THC gummies shipped nationwide. 20% off: http://www.mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 60% off your first box: http://www.ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH The only finance app you’ll ever need. For 50% off your first year: http://www.monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:02.0	On the last days of December,
0:12.0	the world was rehearsing its optimism.
0:17.0	Television anchors were already talking about fresh starts, about renewal, about the fiction that when a calendar page flips, consequences magically reset.
0:26.6	But in a quiet Connecticut town where the nights froze solid and the river ran black beneath its skin of ice, a woman was already gone.
0:36.6	There was no siren, no shattered glass, no scream
0:41.1	that carried, only the absence of a voice that had been speaking, making plans, and waiting
0:48.3	for Christmas to pass before she changed her life. And by the time anyone realized she was missing, the year was already
0:56.1	ending. This is the story of Helly Crafts and the murder that forced American justice to ask
1:02.7	whether silence itself could be considered proof. Welcome back to the devil Within and Happy New Year.
1:12.0	Tonight's episode isn't about a mystery that was never solved.
1:16.0	It's about one that was solved just enough,
1:19.6	while still leaving behind questions so profound that even justice couldn't answer them.
1:25.9	This is the mysterious case of Helicrafts.
1:31.5	Chapter 1. The Woman Who Would Not Disappear. In 1986, Newtown, Connecticut felt like the
1:39.3	kind of place where bad things simply didn't happen. Now, this wasn't literally true, of course, but people believed
1:46.0	it in the same way people believed that seatbelts make them immortal. Not because logic demands it,
1:51.4	but because life feels easier when danger belongs, you know, over there, somewhere else. It was a suburban
1:59.2	refuge, good schools, quiet roads, houses that sat back from
2:04.1	the street, intentionally polite. It was a place built around the illusion that if you played by the
2:10.7	rules, if you worked hard, raised your kids right, kept your lawn tidy, well, then maybe the universe
2:17.2	owed you safety in return.
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