Chicago is the 3rd most populated city in the United States. It’s an easy place to get lost...or hide, if you’re a criminal. In 2017, Northwestern Professor & microbiologist Wyndham Lathem was secretly planning a crime from behind his computer screen. Dr. Lathem was the last person anyone would have ever suspected of committing murder...until an anonymous phone call was made to the front desk of his luxury apartment building. The mysterious voice on the other end told the receptionist, “There may have been a crime committed in ...
2021-12-12 19:15:18 +0000 UTC
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In 2013, David Tronnes, a recent divorcee from Minnesota took a chance at love online and finally met his match. He began messaging back and forth with Shanti Cooper, a single mother of one from Florida, and a recent divorcee herself. David explained to Shanti that he was a multimillionaire after inheriting a large sum of money from his recently deceased father. After traveling to meet Shanti, David knew she was the one. He flew back to Minnesota, sold his home and packed his belongings and made the move south to Orlando, Florida. By 2015, D...
2021-12-10 04:14:55 +0000 UTC
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During the early evening hours of August 23rd, 2017, 60-year-old Michele Shimmel arrived home after a long day at work. Earlier that day while she was gone, her brother swung by to fix some floorboards after her fish tank leaked and caused water damage. After checking on the repairs, she let her dogs and cats out and greeted her son, 22-year-old Nathaniel Shimmel. But just hours after she arrived home from work, Nathaniel heard his mother screaming while he was on his laptop in the sun patio room. As Nathaniel sprung up to check on his mothe...
2021-12-03 21:50:43 +0000 UTC
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During the early morning hours on March 29th, 2019, 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, a student at the University of South Carolina, was out with friends in the Five Points district of Columbia. Although her friends were looking to spend a night out on the town, Samantha wanted to call it a night early and ordered an Uber home shortly after 2 a.m. When the car arrived, she notified her boyfriend Greg that she was heading home. She then got into a black Chevy Impala and departed from Five Points district. But Greg, who was able to track Samanth...
2021-11-28 01:37:46 +0000 UTC
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In July of 2019, 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky and his best friend, 19-year-old Kam McLeod, left their home in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island - British Columbia on a whim to travel to Whitehorse, Yukon in search of a new job and a new life. At around the same time, 24-year-old Chynna Deese from North Carolina and her boyfriend, Australian native 23-year-old Lucas Fowler were heading out on a three week trip around Canada meant to end in Alaska. 64-year-old Leonard Dyck, a lecturer at the University of British Columbia, hit the open road on a...
2021-11-27 05:46:34 +0000 UTC
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(Special Follow-up to “Stay Strong”) Ronald Lee Haskell, a 34-year-old man raised in a devout Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints family, was conditioned and committed to follow his predestined role as “man of the house” upon his eventual marriage. When he took sentiments of the Mormon Church’s ideology too far however, things quickly turned violent. Melannie Kaye Lyon, Ron’s wife - knew she had to get out - yet found herself stuck between the familial roles established by the church and the destructive c...
2021-11-19 15:17:00 +0000 UTC
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Ronald Lee Haskell, a 34-year-old man raised in a devout Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints family, was conditioned and committed to follow his predestined role as “man of the house” upon his eventual marriage. When he took sentiments of the Mormon Church’s ideology too far however, things quickly turned violent. Melannie Kaye Lyon, Ron’s wife - knew she had to get out - yet found herself stuck between the familial roles established by the church and the destructive clutches of her abuser. Most knew her husband Ron ...
2021-11-14 23:33:10 +0000 UTC
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Just an FYI for our valued patrons! We have partnered with Kast Media for the free/regular version of Invisible Choir. As part of the change, we have also updated our branding - including our Podcast Cover Art for both the free and premium/Patreon versions (see attached).
The next free/regular episode drops this Sunday, November 14th and will be entitled, "The Storm." This episode is actually the Buckey Wolfe episode that you all already received on October 15th entitled, "Sword and Scales." It was brought to my...
2021-11-12 19:36:34 +0000 UTC
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Just after midnight on May 28th, 2015, deputies with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrived at a home on Bowden Circle East intending to serve and arrest 54-year-old Russell Tillis on an outstanding warrant and for violating a protection order from one of his neighbors. Over the three years that Russell had taken ownership of the home and property left to him by his mother, the mobile home slowly turned into a makeshift fortress - complete with high junk piles, intrusive surveillance cameras, and booby-traps throughout to stave off intr...
2021-11-12 04:54:49 +0000 UTC
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In September of 1982, 25-year-old Kathy Hicks, an Atlanta, Georgia native, was looking forward to the Delta Airlines softball tournament in Oahu, Hawaii. Being a longtime employee of the airlines and a hard worker, she looked forward to a getaway on a beautiful island surrounded by friends and coworkers. When Kathy arrived in Oahu on September 14th, she was greeted by her cousin Robert, who was stationed on the island as a First Lieutenant in the US Army at the Schofield Barracks. But just five days after arriving, Kathy’s severely beaten ...
2021-11-09 01:22:03 +0000 UTC
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We have everyone back at home happy and healthy! Thank you to all of our supporters for your kind words of support over what has been a very emotional and overwhelming week. I’m back to the grind on production late this evening! Stay tuned…
2021-11-06 22:46:44 +0000 UTC
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All, we may experience delays by a few days this week as I am back in the NICU with one of my daughters after a very scary series of breathing complications that began yesterday afternoon and into early evening.
I am in the midst of completing the uncensored episode, in addition to other regular content for everyone and this has taken me away from some very tight deadlines that I had set for myself. Thank you for your continued support and patience.
2021-11-01 17:47:38 +0000 UTC
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In 2011 the Capital Gazette daily newspaper out of Annapolis, Maryland published a revealing exposé on the dangers of social media entitled, “Jarrod Wants to Be Your Friend.” The piece recounted one man’s relentless cyber harassment of a former high school acquaintance through Facebook. Though the article was originally intended to warn readers of the false sense of intimacy social media provides people we may not actually know - it quickly snowballed into something much worse. After 7 years of detailed thre...
2021-10-31 18:41:09 +0000 UTC
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On April 12th, 2016, 71-year-old Father Rene Robert failed to show up to officiate a funeral he was asked to proceed over. For those who knew and were closest to the St. Augustine, Florida priest, it was highly unusual for him to miss any such event. As the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Father Rene’s disappearance, they found that he had been in the company of 28-year-old Steven Murray, a troubled young man who often came to the priest when he was in need of money, food and shelter. The search for Father Rene w...
2021-10-29 02:53:12 +0000 UTC
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On November 2nd, 2018, 28-year-old Gabrielle Garcia took her 5-year-old son to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington to spend some time with the child’s father - her ex-boyfriend 29-year-old David Lee Morris. The previous year had been hectic for the two as they shared an “on again off again” relationship. David was interested in getting back together with Gabrielle and reforming that family unit they once shared, but when Gabrielle wouldn’t indulge his efforts of reconciliation - David snapped. What was supposed to be a ...
2021-10-23 01:43:33 +0000 UTC
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We rarely see the critical warning signs of someone suffering from a debilitating mental illness until the symptoms have entirely consumed the individual to the point of noticeable change or decline. 26 year-old Buckey Wolfe of Seattle, WA was one of these people. His escalating reclusion & his growing obsession with the dark corners of the internet compounded his sickness. There were surely warning signs that Buckey Wolfe was becoming unhinged, but when he began falling down the endless rabbit hole of internet conspiracy theories,
2021-10-15 21:19:14 +0000 UTC
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On February 23rd, 2017, 59-year-old James Appleton was sitting on the side of Gann Ridge Road just outside of Garfield, Arkansas when he was violently gunned down by a passing White Chevy Malibu. One witness who saw the crime unfolding would unknowingly connect the dots between two horrific crimes that occurred nearly two decades apart after reporting what they had seen to police.
Written by Ryan Williams, Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway.
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2021-10-07 21:02:35 +0000 UTC
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During the early morning hours of April 1st, 2019, 52-year-old Robert Fackler arrived at his business, RJR Maintenance & Management in Mandan, North Dakota. His plan that morning was to meet with his employees and close friends: 42-year-old Adam Fuehrer, 50-year-old William Cobb, and 45-year-old Lois Cobb for their morning “Coffee Club,” where they would catch up on life and talk about what was planned for their work day ahead. It was a brief escape from professionalism that allowed the friends to momentarily put business aside. But ...
2021-10-01 04:18:55 +0000 UTC
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Our October surprises arrived early and were born this weekend after my wife’s condition deteriorated quite rapidly beginning early Friday afternoon. Both baby girls are strong and doing well in the NICU, and came into the world weighing only 3lbs, 7oz! We are at one of the Nation’s top children’s hospital in the Twin Cities so mom and babies are resting and building strength. There will be no Felony Friday this week as I will be posted up with mom and the babies, but I plan to be right back to our regular premium schedule next week. ...
2021-09-19 18:52:19 +0000 UTC
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In the fall of 2006, 22-year-old Bryan Pata was excelling at the University of Miami, not only in his studies, but also on the football field. But as he neared the end of his college football career, the anticipated 2nd round NFL draft pick began experiencing a lingering feeling that someone was going to stop him dead in his tracks…
Written by Ryan Williams, Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway.
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The school bus is usually a mode of transportation we associate with the word “safe.” Most of our memories riding the school bus as youth are attributed to laughs, field-trips, & fun- but for some kids, the school bus doesn’t represent any of those things. For a select unlucky few, the school bus represents something much worse. A darkness that most of us will never be able to fully comprehend. Yet, the children aboard school bus 0-42 in Midland City, AL back in 2013 are among those who certainly do know ...
2021-09-15 18:44:55 +0000 UTC
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In 1996, then 27-year-old Tushar Atre had a whirlwind idea that could help change marketing, branding and web design for large tech corporations. It was that same year that he landed Mercury Interactive as his first client, which would later be acquired by HP in a $4.5 Billion megadeal. With his new found success at his tech company AtreNet, the sky was the limit for what Tushar wanted to do and create in the tech space. After 20+ years working in technology, Tushar set out to try his hand in the new and exciting recreational cannabis indust...
2021-09-09 20:07:16 +0000 UTC
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On June 9th, 2018, 22-year-old Cassandritz Blanc arrived at the home of his in-laws in Hollywood, Florida to retrieve some clothes for his pregnant wife, 20-year-old Martine Bernard. Shortly after arriving, Martine’s father, 68-year-old Roosevelt Bernard showed his son-in-law to his daughter’s old bedroom when there was a knock at the front door of the home. Cassandritz found the door to his wife’s old bedroom to be locked and when walked past the front door, he saw that his father-in-law was speaking to a Hispanic male. Roosevelt seem...
2021-09-03 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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On November 18th, 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine traveled to Durango, Colorado for a court ordered visit with his father. After getting off of the plane, Dylan’s father Mark told the young teenager he had to run errands early the next morning. This prompted Dylan to make plans to meet with a friend early in the morning before his dad left the house. When Mark awoke the next morning, Dylan was still asleep on the couch, but when he returned home, his son was nowhere to be found. All calls and texts to his son went unanswered, and his frien...
2021-09-01 17:49:45 +0000 UTC
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On November 9th, 2020, 52-year-old Suzette Penton arrived home after working the day at the Polk City Community Library, and planned to spend the day with her two teenage sons. After arriving home, one of her sons asked if she could drive him down the road to a store to pick up a few items. Upon returning from the store, Suzette saw three teenagers running from her house across the street to a parked van. As she got out of her car, her 15-year-old son stumbled out of the home, bruised and battered. Suzette pulled out her cell phone to take p...
2021-08-27 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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On Christmas Eve of 2013, Patricia Burns of Lake Luzerne, NY would face the wrath of her crazed ex-husband - a violent offender she had been trying to evade for years. When Clifford Burns, a man with failed aspirations of once becoming a U.S. Marine, decided to go hunting dressed in full camouflage, his targets would not be sitting ducks or deer in the Adirondack Mountains. Instead, his prey would be his own daughters & estranged wife when he came barging through their front door armed with a long serrated blade and a thir...
2021-08-21 23:00:43 +0000 UTC
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On the evening of October 30th, 2019, 25-year-old makeup artist Stephanie Parze was out and about with her family in Freehold Township, NJ. It wasn’t uncommon for the family to hit the town together, as they were very close. But Stephanie had a nanny job the next morning and wanted to call the night early. She dropped her parents and sisters off at their home and traveled down the street to her house less than five miles away. The following morning, Stephanie didn’t show up for work. And perhaps even more perplexing to her family - she w...
2021-08-19 20:20:50 +0000 UTC
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On a chilly Spring morning in Illinois on April 18th, 2019, former attorney, 59-year-old Andrew Freund Sr, awoke early to go to a doctor appointment. When he arrived home, he was preparing to make snacks for his children, but hadn’t seen his 5-year-old son AJ around the house. After making his way to the boy’s room, and not finding him, he questioned his ex-girlfriend Joann Cunningham. Joann stated she hadn’t seen AJ and believed him to be in his room, but after finding out that the boy wasn't there, panic began to set in for his mothe...
2021-08-14 19:00:59 +0000 UTC
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This week’s Felony Friday episode is substantially longer than usual, and will hit the feed tomorrow! Thank you for your patience.
-Michael
2021-08-13 13:13:35 +0000 UTC
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On October 25th, 2013, investigators with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office were contacted by Cal Fire regarding a structure fire they had been called to in Ingot, California. When investigators arrived on scene, firefighters directed them to two bodies in separate structures on the property. It appeared the two bodies had been victims of an apparent burglary which ultimately ended in tragedy, as one of the men had their hands zip tied behind their back. A resident of the property who was not home when the crime occurred, told investigato...
2021-08-06 13:44:09 +0000 UTC
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