Between Light and Dark

*Formerly the Bitter Endings Podcast. Welcome to Between Light and Dark, a podcast that explores the more mysterious side of reality from interviews with mediums and paranormal investigators to unraveling the twisted threads of disturbing true crimes.

Episode 57: The Murder of Helene Pruszynki 05/02/2024

Episode 57: The Murder of Helene Pruszynki 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. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/31084908

Episode 56: Interview with Psychic Medium Tammy Schuster 03/11/2024

Episode 56: Interview with Psychic Medium Tammy Schuster 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: /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/30328078

Episode 55: Bitter Endings is Now Called Between Light and Dark 03/11/2024

Episode 55: Bitter Endings is Now Called Between Light and Dark 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. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/30327168

Episode 54: The Murders of Tammy, Leslie and Kristen 12/08/2023

Episode 54: The Murders of Tammy, Leslie and Kristen 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 /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/28987968

Episode 53: The Murder of Diane Drake 06/12/2023

Episode 53: The Murder of Diane Drake 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: /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/27120411

Episode 52: The Disappearance of Angela Hammond 03/20/2023

Episode 52: The Disappearance of Angela Hammond 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. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/26281395

Episode 51: The Murder of Joleen Cummings 02/28/2023

Episode 51: The Murder of Joleen Cummings 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. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/26079372

Episode 50: The Murder of Mina Dekker 12/13/2022

Episode 50: The Murder of Mina Dekker 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: /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/25310793

Episode 49: The Murders of Eve Wilkowitz and Christina Harris 11/25/2022

Episode 49: The Murders of Eve Wilkowitz and Christina Harris 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 /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/25129752

Episode 48: The Vanishing of Evelyn Hartley 10/18/2022

Episode 48: The Vanishing of Evelyn Hartley 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/ /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/24725577

Episode 47: The Murders of Carol Ann Cole and Stacey Chahorski 10/12/2022

Episode 47: The Murders of Carol Ann Cole and Stacey Chahorski This episode of the Bitter Endings Podcast was originally a mini episode for Patreon members. It features two unrelated cases of girls who vanished and were later found murdered. Caroll Ann Cole and Stacey Chahorski were both young women from Michigan who went missing and met with foul play in other states. Show notes: Show sponsor: The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1 /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/24662661

Episode 46: The Murder of Lesia Jackson 07/29/2022

Episode 46: The Murder of Lesia Jackson It was September 7th, 1979, a time of freedom for young people including twelve year old Lesia Michelle Jackson who lived in Conroe, Texas. That Friday the shy, blonde Lesia swam in the lake after school. When she emerged from the water, she had no idea that the day would be her last. That evening Lesia disappeared, her brutalized body would be found five days later and the hunt for her killer would last decades. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/23898666

Episode 45: The Murders of Valerie Pride and Her Daughters 07/18/2022

Episode 45: The Murders of Valerie Pride and Her Daughters It was labor day, usually a time for celebrating but for Valerie Pride and her two daughters it would be the last day of their lives. Valerie was just 24 years old on September 6th, 1982. She’d just moved into a beautiful new home with her beloved little girls, Shonita who was eight and Duana who was four. She could not have imagined when the she purchased the Spanish style home at 1545 E. Ardmore in Phoenix, Arizona that it would be the setting for their brutal murders. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/23774762

Episode 44: The Murders of Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins 06/24/2022

Episode 44: The Murders of Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins The weekend of October 3rd, 1997 began as a fun weekend of camping for fourteen year old Lauren Barry and sixteen year old Nichole Collins in Kalaru area near Bega, Australia. Hanging with friends, horseback riding and siting around the bonfire were the extent of their plans. However, on Sunday October 5th, the girls made a fateful choice to leave their camp and walk a dark isolated road to visit a friend in town. That night they would vanish and when the gruesome story of their murders was finally revealed, the devastation would leave lasting scars on their families, friends and community. Show Notes: Flowers in Her Bones: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/23527277

Episode 43: The Brutal Murder of Athalia Lindsley 06/07/2022

Episode 43: The Brutal Murder of Athalia Lindsley Almost five decades ago on January 23rd, 1974, 56-year-old Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was brutally attacked and murdered on the front steps of her home in St. Augustine, Florida. A month later, a man was arrested and charged with her murder—and yet, to this day, the case remains officially unsolved. Shiw notes: Ashwood's Girls: Patreon: BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/23356157

Episode 42: The MacDonald Murders (Part 2) 04/28/2022

Episode 42: The MacDonald Murders (Part 2) This is episode 2 of the MacDonald Murders. You’ll want to listen to episode 41 before listening to today’s episode. Part 2 begins with the convening of a grand jury hearing to examine the evidence that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his wife, Colette and daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/macdonaldmurderspart2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Spirits-6-book-series/dp/B08KSC9SV1 /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/22942304

Episode 41: The MacDonald Murders (Part 1) 04/27/2022

Episode 41: The MacDonald Murders (Part 1) This is a two part case on the murders of Colette, Kimberly, and Kristen MacDonald. They should have had it all and for a time it seemed they did. Jeffrey MacDonald was a surgeon and a green beret. Colette MacDonald was his beautiful, doting wife, pregnant with their son. They had had two lovely daughters, Kimberly and Kristin. The life before them was luminous. It was all shattered on a cool rainy night on February 17th, 1970 when the lives of a young mother and her two daughters were brutally taken. Show Sources: The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1 Bitter Endings Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/22926788

Episode 40: The Disappearance of Mary Lands 04/19/2022

Episode 40: The Disappearance of Mary Lands It was a cold Michigan night on March 12th, 2004 when 39-year-old Mary Denise Lands vanished without a trace in Marshall, Michigan. Allegedly she got into an argument with her boyfriend Chris Pratt that evening and leaving her cell phone and keys to her Dodge Durango behind, she walked into the frigid night. She was never seen again. Show notes: Patreon: BuyMeACoffe: Still Falling: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/ /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/22843970

Episode 39: The Murder of Susan Smith 03/17/2022

Episode 39: The Murder of Susan Smith If life had unfolded for Susan Smith the way it did for most residents of Pikeville, Kentucky, she never would have met FBI agent Mark Putnam. But life is unpredictable and in Susan’s case, a relationship which should have been among the safest in her life turned out to be the deadliest. Susan vanished on June 8th, 1989. It would be a year before her whereabouts were known. A year of wondering if she left, or perhaps was silenced by her ex-husband, a year of grief for the children and family she left behind. When the truth of what occurred on that fateful summer night was revealed, those who loved both Susan Smith and Mark Putnam were devastated. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/susansmith Show Sponsor: Still Falling-A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/22478207

Episode 38: Debora Green: The Mother Who Murdered 03/02/2022

Episode 38: Debora Green: The Mother Who Murdered It was a windy October night in 1995 when the family of Debora Green and Michael Farrar was forever ripped apart. A fire had started at an upscale house in Prairie Village, Kansas, and by the time it had run its course, the once immaculate home would be little more than charred ruins. Amongst those ruins lay the bodies of 12 year old Tim Farrar and six year old Kelly Farrar. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/deboragreen Show Sponsor: Still Falling: A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/22308593

Episode 37: The Murder of Pamela Dorrington 01/17/2022

Episode 37: The Murder of Pamela Dorrington On February 17th, 1968 nineteen-year-old Pamela Dorrington vanished from her Helena, Montana apartment. Her mutilated torso would be found four months later. Her case would go cold and stay that way for fifty-three years until a confession in 2021 finally revealed what happened to Pamela Dorrington. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/21796730

Episode 36: The Body in the Blueberry Field 12/29/2021

Episode 36: The Body in the Blueberry Field It was a chilly spring day on May 8th, 2002 when a farmer drove onto his wooded property in Ottowa County, Michigan. As he drove through the property he made a chilling discovery. A burned body lay in a trunk in an area of scorched forest. The murder victim would remain unidentified for more than a decade. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/21623144

Episode 35: Nannie Doss, Murderess 12/09/2021

Episode 35: Nannie Doss, Murderess She 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. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/21430238

Episode 34: The Murder of Amanda Davies 11/17/2021

Episode 34: The Murder of Amanda Davies It was Sunday, April 12th, 1992 when nineteen-year-old Amanda Davies left her home in Dansville, Michigan to meet a friend. She would never return home. Eleven days later her brutally murdered body would be found in an isolated location in Mason, Michigan. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/21198098

33: The Halloween Vanishings of Pamela Hobley and Patricia Spencer 10/29/2021

33: The Halloween Vanishings of Pamela Hobley and Patricia Spencer It was Halloween, October 31st, 1969, when Pamela Hobley and Patricia Spencer walked away from their high school in Oscoda Michigan and were never seen again. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/20981027

Episode 32: The Murder of Danielle Shinaver 10/08/2021

Episode 32: The Murder of Danielle Shinaver It was an unseasonably warm day on March 13th, 1996 when 25-year-old Danielle Shinaver finished work and prepared for an evening hanging out with friends at her new apartment. Danielle’s life had not been easy, but the tide was turning and things were looking up. However, sometime in the early morning hours of March 14th, 1996 a person entered Danielle’s apartment and savagely beat her to death. Her murder remains unsolved. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/20758259

Episode 31: The Murders of Stacey and Jacob Falcon-Dewey 09/16/2021

Episode 31: The Murders of Stacey and Jacob Falcon-Dewey It was October 28th, 1994, just three days before Halloween when the bodies of twenty-three-year-old Stacy Ann Falcon-Dewey and her three-year-old son Jacob were found shot and discarded in the middle of an isolated street in Renton, Washington. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/20495336

Episode 30: The Murder of Rose Larner 08/17/2021

Episode 30: The Murder of Rose Larner It was December 7th, 1993, when eighteen-year-old Rosie Larner climbed into a car in the cold, early morning hours in Lansing Michigan. She had no reason to be afraid. She was with friends, people she loved and trusted. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/20171816

Episode 29: The Body in the Wych Elm 08/06/2021

Episode 29: The Body in the Wych Elm It was a spring Sunday on April 18th, 1943 when four boys wandered into Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England. They had no idea they were about to stumble upon a crime scene that would mystify the world for decades to come. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/20054930

Episode 28: The Murder of Anita Carlson 07/16/2021

Episode 28: The Murder of Anita Carlson On June 30th, 1987 22-year-old Anita Carlson had no reason to suspect her future was anything but bright. Sadly, her promising life would come to a bitter end when she abducted from Pete’s Place West, a convenience store where she was working the night shift. /episode/index/show/bitterendingspod/id/19830941

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