Episode 57: The Murder of Helene Pruszynki
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In January of 1980, twenty-one-year-old Helene Pruszynski was interning at a radio station in Denver, Colorado. At the end of her shift she left to take the bus home to her aunt and uncles' home in Englewood, Colorado. She never arrived. The next day her brutalized body was found in a barren field. Her murder would go unsvolved for forty years. Find Episode This episode is sponsored by my latest fiction release, Coem Home, Katie.
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Episode 56: Interview with Psychic Medium Tammy Schuster
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Tammy Schuster is a psychic medium, life coach and paranormal investigator in northern Michigan. In this episode we talk about her experience as a medium, her beliefs about good and evil and her experiences doing paranormal investigations. You can find Tammy on her website here: Show Sponsor:
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Episode 55: Bitter Endings is Now Called Between Light and Dark
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This is a short update with information about some changes happening on the podcast. Primarily those include the name change from Bitter Endings to Between Light and Dark as well as new episodes featuring interviews with mediums and paranormal investigators in addition to true crime cases.
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Episode 54: The Murders of Tammy, Leslie and Kristen
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The horrors began in Scarborough, Ontario in Canada in 1987 with the rape of a young woman who was attacked in front of her parents’ home. Eventually the rapist would gain a partner and escalate his crimes from rape to murder. The couple behind the terrible crimes would eventually be dubbed the Ken and Barbie killers. : The Biter Endings Podcast The Scream Sisters by J.R. Erickson
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Episode 53: The Murder of Diane Drake
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It was March 21st of 1980, and residents of Newport, Rhode Island were on the cusp of spring and 19-year-old Diane Drake was in the spring of her life. A time when most young people have given little thought to their own mortality. Unfortunately for Diane, that March would be her last. After departing for work on that stormy Friday, she was abducted. Her strangled body would be found a stretch of Newport’s Easton Beach the following morning. Her case remains unsolved. Show sponsor: Show notes:
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Episode 52: The Disappearance of Angela Hammond
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It was after eleven pm on April 4th, 1991 in Clinton, Missouri when twenty-year-old Angela Hammond’s friends dropped off at her car which was parked in a grocery store parking lot. She walked to the payphone and called her fiancé. As they spoke a man in a green pickup truck pulled up to the phones and violently abducted Angela. Horrified, her fiancé jumped in his truck and raced to the grocery store. He caught sight of the pickup truck and gave chase, but his truck broke down and he watched Angela disappear into the night. She was never seen again.
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Episode 51: The Murder of Joleen Cummings
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It was May 12th, 2018, an ordinary day in the life of Joleen Cummings, but one tinged with excitement because the next day was her birthday and Mother’s Day. The mother of three worked her shift at Tangles Hair Salon in Yulee, Florida. What came after would be a mystery that baffled her family, friends, and investigators. It appeared that Joleen had left the salon and vanished into thin air. The truth would be far more sinister.
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Episode 50: The Murder of Mina Dekker
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Mina Dekker was just nineteen years old when she walked into work in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 4th, 1938. She would never walk back out. Sometime in a span of mere minutes while she was alone, someone walked into the building and brutally beat Mina Dekker to death. Show Sponsor:
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Episode 49: The Murders of Eve Wilkowitz and Christina Harris
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Today's episode covers two unrelated murders that I originally released on my Patreon as mini episodes. Eve Wilkowitz was murdered in New York IN 1980 and the idenity of heR killer would remain unknown for more than forty years. Christina Harris was murdered in Michigan in 2014. Her family would spend years demanding justice when police ruled her death an accidental overdose. Full show notes: Show Sponsor: by JR Erickson
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Episode 48: The Vanishing of Evelyn Hartley
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Saturday, October 24th, 1953, was an otherwise ordinary day for fifteen-year-old Evelyn Hartley. She left her home to babysit the young daughter of her father’s colleague. That evening as many of the community in La Crosse, Wisconsin were attending a homecoming game, someone would enter the house where Evelyn was babysitting and violently abduct her. Show notes: Show Sponsor: Paperback Giveaways: http://jrericksonauthor.com/2022/10/black-hollow-hideaway-plus-launch-contest.html/
info_outlineShe looked like an ordinary housewife, a mother, a grandmother. Full bodied, always smiling as she prepared dinners and baked pies. But the innocent appearance of Nannie Doss belied a much darker, much uglier persona. Nannie was a murderess, a woman who killed not only callously, but casually, eliminating husbands and members of her own family with total disregard for human life.