Thank you for listening to our podcast! This is, unfortunately, the last episode we will be releasing. We hope you enjoy it. In 1985, the mysterious deaths of three women disrupted the Salt Lake City community. A task force focuses first on a possible serial killer but is soon publicly decried by one of the […]

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Episode 26: Unsolved Shootings of 1985

No one ever anticipates that a house of God will turn into a house of horrors, but that is exactly what happened while Pastor Francis Hermans presided over the First Scandinavian Methodist Church in the mid-1890s. How many secrets is he hiding, and just how many people connected to him have disappeared? Subscribe to this […]

Episode 25: The Bluebeard Pastor, Francis Hermans

Update: Actually Destiny Norton this time! This week on This is the Place, a Utah true crime podcast: Young Destiny Norton left her house on a warm summer night and vanished within minutes. A massive search commenced, but Destiny would be found much closer to home than anyone expected.    Subscribe to this podcast on Apple […]

Episode 24: Destiny Norton

This week on This is the Place, a Utah true crime podcast, friend of the podcast Katrina writes in to tell us the story of Richard Worthington, and how one man’s spite and anger was unleashed against a maternity ward full of recovering mothers, newborn babies and pregnant women. We listen with chills as she […]

Episode 23: The Siege of Alta View (Richard Worthington)

Kristi Strack was only 6 years old when two religious fanatics went on a killing spree, but she was obsessed with the case anyway. That obsession would soon grow into an unhealthy friendship, and eventually lead to the death of a family. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you […]

Episode 22: Kristi Strack

Two brothers who start their own brand of fundamentalist LDS beliefs begin receiving violent ‘revelations’ about the people who oppose them. In July 1984, they decide it is time for these visions to be realized. The remorseless brutality that follows is shocking. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you […]

Episode 21: The Lafferty Brothers

Ethan Stacy was a small boy when he flew from his father’s home in Virginia to his mother’s new home in Layton, Utah in the spring of 2010. No one could have ever guessed the horror the next two weeks of Ethan’s short life would hold. (Content warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence against […]

Episode 20: Ethan Stacy

Sorry this one had a hard time making it to you this week, folks. Here’s the fixed link. Enjoy! Brynn and Charity talk about the true crime they’ve been consuming in this slightly-brighter-than-normal holiday mini episode. Paragraph Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And like […]

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The week before Christmas in 1966, two convicts went on a drug and alcohol-fueled crime spree through Salt Lake City. Walter Kelbach and Myron Lance would leave the city in shock by the end of their tirade. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And […]

Episode 19: Myron Lance & Walter Kelbach

 In the chilly spring of 2009, the bodies of three men were found in burned cars in remote locations. The tragic, mysterious deaths happen with eerie timing and similarities. Is it an epidemic of suicide by self-immolation, or is something more sinister going on? Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and […]

Episode 18: Mysterious Car Fires

William “Lang” Hagan was arrested for illegal possession of alcohol in 1927. Already long sick with tuberculosis and fearing his death was near, he made a startling confession… the gruesome murder of his wife two years before. Family secrets come out around the holidays, and this year is no different. Was Lang Hagan hiding other […]

Episode 17: William Lancaster Hagan

The high-profile, 1978 murder of Franklin Bradshaw, a Salt Lake City oil and auto parts magnate, is a sordid tale of greed, manipulation, and betrayal. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And like our Facebook page at Hello Sweetie Podcast Network for more amazing […]

Episode 16: Franklin Bradshaw

A reign of terror comes to an end, but mysteries remain. Strange similarities potentially link a horrifying cold case to a serial killer, and there may be even more blood on his hands. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And like our Facebook page […]

Episode 15: Scott Kimball and the Maidenwater Victim Pt. 2

In April 1998, the body of a woman was discarded near Maidenwater Spring. To this day, she has never been identified and no one has been held responsible for her death. However, investigators have their eye on someone… a convicted serial killer from Colorado. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and […]

Episode 14: Scott Kimball and the Maidenwater Victim Pt. 1

For 23 years, the brutal slaying of Lucille Johnson was a cold case. New DNA technology and some surprising fingerprints found on Legos collected at the scene would finally bring to light the terrible events that transpired that day. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your favorite […]

Episode 13: Lucille Johnson

Its True Crime Story Time with Charity and Brynn! Hear stories of murder, mystery and mayhem from the Beehive State.

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