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Hold My Sweet Tea

Where True Crime collides with chilling ghost stories and Southern folklore. Join us, sip sweet tea, and uncover shocking tales of murder, mystery, and the supernatural, all with a healthy dose of Southern charm and a touch of sass!

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Ep. 79-The Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse

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2025/11/06

Send us a text A warm, funny cold-weather check-in pivots into a gripping true-crime journey that spans courtrooms, forensics labs, and one family’s two-decade fight for answers. We start with October case turns, where evidentiary battles in the Morgan Bauer case show how motive, media, and fairness collide. Then a sharp DNA update in the Chandra May investigation illustrates how modern testing can turn doubt into direction—and why process still matters as much as proof. From there, we go de...

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Ep. 78-The Nanny, the Husband, and the Cold Case: The...

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2025/11/03

Send us a text A quiet weekday morning at a family fun center shouldn’t end in gunfire. Yet in 2006, 39-year-old mother and co-owner Doris Worrell was found shot inside John’s Sports Park in Douglas, Georgia—no forced entry, no theft, no witnesses. The scene looked staged, the timeline felt too neat, and the community was left with grief and rumors but few answers. Nearly two decades later, everything changes. We revisit the strained marriage, the live-in nanny working in Tube Town, and the “...

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Ep. 77-From Fires To Festivals: Detroit’s Devil’s...

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2025/10/30

Send us a text Flames once defined October 30 in Detroit, but the city refused to be a cautionary tale. We trace Devil’s Night from its Mischief Night roots to the 1980s arson crisis, then into the grassroots movement that rebranded chaos as Angel’s Night and, eventually, “Halloween in the D.” It’s a story of how neighbors, volunteers, and a determined fire department pulled together to turn fear into civic pride—proof that traditions can bend without breaking. We also explore how Halloween ...

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Ep. 76-Pendle Hill: England’s Biggest Witch Trial

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2025/10/27

Send us a text A feud between village healers. A peddler who collapses after a muttered curse. A courtroom that believes a child above all. We travel to 1612 Lancashire to unravel how the Pendle witch trials turned folk remedies into felonies and neighbors into enemies. With King James I stoking fear through demonology and law, simple acts like asking for pins or sharing a Good Friday meal at Malkin Tower became “proof” of a pact with the devil. Our conversation follows Old Demdike and Old Ch...

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Ep. 75-Haunted Mississippi: The Three-Legged Lady Of...

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2025/10/23

Send us a text A lonely Mississippi road. A vanished church. A mother’s grief that won’t stay buried. We dive into the legend of the Three-Legged Lady of Nash Road in Columbus, where folklore, fear, and late-night dares collide. You’ll hear how one core story splinters into wild variations—hit-and-run near a church, a serial killer’s calling card, a post–Civil War vendetta—and why every version ends with a chase no one forgets. The details morph from tale to tale, but the ritual stays the sam...

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Ep. 74-Gainesville Ripper: The Real-Life Horror That...

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2025/10/20

Send us a text A quiet college town, boxes on the curb, roommates laughing over dishes—then the woods rustle. We dive into the true story of Danny Rolling, the drifter who turned Gainesville’s 1990 move-in week into a real-life slasher, and we unpack how an abusive childhood, a craving for control, and a meticulous ritual escalated into five murders that froze an entire city. This isn’t horror trivia. It’s how attention, opportunity, and planning can weaponize the most ordinary parts of daily...

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EP. 73-The Devil's Chair

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2025/10/16

Send us a text A quiet Florida cemetery holds a red brick chair and a thousand borrowed stories. We follow the path from a mourning seat to a midnight dare, tracing how Casadaga’s spiritualist roots, teen pranks, and a very specific beer myth fused into a legend strong enough to draw fences, guards, and a steady stream of curious visitors. Along the way, we zoom out to an unsettling thread from Houston: repeated drownings in still bayous that spark debate about patterns, signatures, and what ...

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Ep. 72-Hellfire in Birmingham: The Ghosts of Sloss...

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2025/10/13

Send us a text Smoke, steel, and a voice that won’t let go—this one starts in the heat of Birmingham’s iron age and refuses to cool. We walk the catwalks of Sloss Furnaces, where the Magic City was forged out of ore and ambition, and where long shifts, toxic air, and thin pay wrote a ledger of human cost. Then comes the legend: James “Slag” Wormwood, a foreman as feared in life as he is in the stories that say he never left. Was his fall into molten iron a tragic misstep—or a reckoning in the...

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Ep. 71-Christa Pike, Justice, Youth, and the Murder...

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2025/10/09

Send us a text A woman on Tennessee’s death row just received an execution date—and we can’t ignore the hard questions it raises. We walk through the murder of Colleen Slemmer with clear eyes: the planning, the prolonged violence, the chilling boasts afterward, and the evidence that convinced a jury to call it heinous, atrocious, and cruel. Then we challenge ourselves to grapple with context: an 18-year-old offender, a 17-year-old accomplice, adolescent dabbling in satanic imagery, and expert...

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Ep. 70-Human Experiments: The Children of Iowa's...

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2025/10/06

Send us a text What happens when authority tells a child their voice is broken? We dive into the chilling story of the “Monster Study,” a 1939 experiment in Davenport, Iowa, where researchers labeled and shamed orphans to test a theory about learned stuttering. No jump scares—just real harm: scripted corrections, public interruptions, and the slow erosion of confidence that led some kids to stop speaking. Decades later, the buried thesis surfaced, survivors spoke up, and a settlement acknowle...

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Ep. 69-Folklore, Hysteria, and the Devil Man of Algiers

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2025/10/02

Send us a text A horn that appears mid-dance, bullets that bounce, phones ringing off the hook, and a mayor who ends a panic with a suit and three bucks—this is the wild, very human story of the Devil Man of Algiers. We kick off spooky season by following a trail of clippings, chatter, and cautionary whispers from 1938 New Orleans, where rumor sprinted faster than reason and a loitering charge somehow birthed a bulletproof legend. We unpack the conflicting descriptions—glowing eyes, pointy e...

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Ep. 68-Blood Moons and Bad Omens: The South's...

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2025/09/29

Send us a text The celestial dance of stars and planets has captivated humanity for millennia, but nowhere is this cosmic connection more deeply woven into cultural fabric than in the American South. Here, astrology transcends mere entertainment to become a framework for understanding life's most profound mysteries—including its darkest crimes. From the moment you hear that unmistakable Southern drawl asking what happens when stars and planets get tied to something violent, you're pulled into...

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Ep. 67-Ten Inches from Truth: The Tiffiney Crawford Case

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2025/09/25

Send us a text A pink revolver in a left hand, two gunshot wounds, and a mysteriously clean crime scene – the elements that would unravel Jason Crawford's carefully constructed story about his wife's "suicide." When 38-year-old Jason called 911 on May 3, 2017, claiming his wife had been shot, Cullman County deputies found 32-year-old Tiffiney Crawford slumped over in her minivan. The case initially appeared to be a suicide, but forensic evidence would tell a different story. The investigatio...

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Ep. 66-The Windshield Murder Case

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2025/09/22

Send us a text A split-second collision on a dark Texas highway. A man's body crashed through the windshield. And a decision that transformed tragedy into horror. The case of Shantae Mallard forces us to confront one of the most disturbing questions in criminal justice: when does an accident become murder? After a night of partying in Fort Worth in 2001, Mallard struck homeless man Gregory Biggs with her car. But rather than stopping to help, she drove home with his body still lodged in her ...

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Ep. 65-The Savage Murder of Liese Dodd

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2025/09/18

Send us a text The brutal murder of Liese Dodd—a vibrant 22-year-old who was eight months pregnant—serves as a haunting reminder of how quickly domestic violence can escalate to unimaginable tragedy. Pearl and Holly navigate this heartbreaking case with compassion and purpose, revealing the warning signs that were visible yet ultimately unheeded. Through their thoughtful discussion, we learn about Liese's life—her love for animals, her career aspirations in the medical field, and her excitem...

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Ep. 64-Richmond’s Reign of Terror: The Briley Brothers

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2025/09/15

Send us a text In March 1979, the quiet neighborhood of Highland Park in Richmond, Virginia became ground zero for one of the most disturbing crime sprees in American history. Three brothers—Linwood, James, and Anthony Briley—transformed from helpful neighbors who mowed lawns and fixed cars into ruthless predators who hunted human beings for sport. What makes the Briley brothers' story particularly chilling is the stark contrast between their public personas and private depravity. These youn...

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Ep. 63-What Really Happened to Leila Cavett?

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2025/09/11

Send us a text The disappearance of 21-year-old Leila Cavett grips us from the moment her 2-year-old son Kamdyn is found wandering alone in a Florida apartment complex, wearing only a shirt and diaper. What begins as a missing person case quickly spirals into something far more sinister when investigators focus on Shannon Ryan, a self-proclaimed witch with a suspicious story. As we unpack this baffling case, the evidence mounts in disturbing ways. Ryan claims Leila came to Florida to sell hi...

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Ep. 62-Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

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2025/09/08

Send us a text The quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin seemed like any other sleepy American hamlet until November 1957, when authorities made a discovery so horrific it would permanently alter our cultural perception of evil. Behind the doors of an unassuming farmhouse lived Ed Gein, a man whose twisted obsession with his deceased mother led to grave robbery, murder, and the creation of household items made from human remains. Born to a domineering, fanatically religious mother and an alcoh...

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Ep. 61-Walking Tall Tale: The Death of Pauline Pusser...

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2025/09/04

Send us a text The legend of Sheriff Buford Pusser has captivated Americans for generations. The tough-as-nails Tennessee lawman who "walked tall" against crime and corruption became the stuff of Hollywood legend. But what if everything we thought we knew about this American hero was built on lies? After nearly six decades, forensic science has finally caught up with the truth behind one of the most shocking cold cases in Southern history. When Sheriff Pusser's wife Pauline was killed in wha...

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Ep. 60-The Witch of Hinds Road: Alabama's Bloodiest...

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2025/09/01

Send us a text The Witch of Hinds Road haunts a lonely four-mile stretch of gravel cutting through the dense forests near Gadsden, Alabama. As legends go, this one drips with blood and bone—the tale of a woman named Torbit whose pursuit of eternal beauty led her down the darkest path imaginable. Beautiful beyond measure but desperate to preserve her youth, Torbett allegedly struck a deal with the devil. The price? Human sacrifice. Children would disappear from nearby communities, lured to he...

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