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Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee

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Your search for good true crime podcasts ends here. Prepare to get chills as you journey into the eerie world of unsolved mysteries on the Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee podcast. Explore true crime stories that have baffled investigators. Crack murder mysteries. Explore the eerie world of cults, dark stories, and mysteries.Hosted by Stacy Lee, a skilled storyteller with a talent for crime analysis and solving criminal investigations, this podcast is ideal for anyone who loves the thrill of the unknown

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00:26:05

The Incest Murders: Steven Pladl commits a horrific...

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2025/08/04

Steven and Alyssa Pladl were in an abusive relationship. Alyssa decided to give their eight month old up for adoption and Denise then became Katie Fusco. Katie was raised in Dover, New York but decided to try and find her biological family. When she did, she began a twisted and illegal sexual relationship with her own biological father, Steven Pladl and became pregnant with his child. The courts finally get involved but it is much too late and Steven Pladl decides he will seek revenge on everyone

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00:30:41

Mormon Doomsday Mom and Dad: The Strack Family dies...

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2025/07/30

Ben and Kristi Strack were a Mormon family living in Springville, Utah. Kristi began to believe that Dan Lafferty, the convicted murderer featured in the story Under the Banner of Heaven, was the reincarnated prophet Elijah and that he was here to usher in the second coming of Christ. As the Strack's beliefs become more and more extreme, they isolate their little family and cut off all communication. Their oldest son then comes home to find that his entire family is dead. This is a story about what

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00:30:37

Who Killed Mary Catherine Edwards? Forensic science...

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2025/07/28

When Mary Catherine Edwards parents couldn't get a hold of her on the phone, the drove to her house to check on her. What they found was a horrific murder scene. Catherine had been sexually assaulted, brutally murdered, and left in the bathtub with her hands handcuffed behind her back using a set of police issue handcuffs. The Beaumont Texas police worked the case but couldn't find her killer and the case went cold. Decades later, the Texas Rangers allocated funds for cold cases and two detectives,

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00:35:15

Baby Faced Monster: Gavon Ramsay commits an...

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2025/07/23

Wadsworth Ohio was experiencing a rash of crimes and then there was a horrific murder. Margaret Douglas, 98 years old, was brutally murdered and defiled in her own home. As police begin to go through surveillance footage from the area, they find two teenaged boys sneaking around the neighborhood. Gavon Ramsay is brought in for questioning and soon, the police become convinced they've found their killer. As the investigation continues, cops become convinced that Gavon Ramsay is not just a killer, he

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00:34:10

Ghost Hunters Double Murder: Is Zak Bagans of Ghost...

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2025/07/21

Mark and Debby Constantino wanted to be famous ghost hunters. When Zak Bagans put them on his show, Ghost Adventures, the couple thought they'd hit the big time. Unfortunately, their constant violent fighting and drinking hurt their reputation and soon, Mark and Debby were on the outside of the community they'd fought so hard to get into. Their marriage began to fall apart. Debby's jealousy and drunken rages inhibited their ability to get more work and they began to have money troubles. It all ended

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00:32:06

Psychotic, Shocking Deception: Taylor Parker commits...

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2025/07/16

Reagan Simmons Hancock was a beautiful young wife and mother who was expecting her second baby girl. She got a call from her friend, Taylor Parker, saying she was going to come and visit her. When Taylor Parker left Reagan's house, Reagan was dead and her baby was gone. Taylor Parker had been lying to everyone in her life. She lied about being rich, she lied about her family, and she lied about being pregnant. The lengths Taylor went to in order to cover her lies left the entire state of Texas, and

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00:32:40

The Beauty Queen Killer: Who killed Nona Dirksmeyer?

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/07/14

Nona Dirksmeyer was a college student and beauty pageant participant living in Arkansas. When her boyfriend Kevin Jones couldn't get a hold of her, he went to her house where he found her murdered in her living room. Kevin was taken in for questioning and soon realized, he was a suspect. The police and the public got tunnel vision. The crime scene investigation was botched so poorly that it looked as if Kevin would be in prison for the rest of his life simply because the Russellville police

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00:29:52

The Modern Mystery School: A wacky new age alien,...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/07/09

Gudni Gudnason always knew he was destined for stardom. When he failed as a movie star and then as a karate master and bodyguard, he found the world of new age spiritualism. From Iceland to Sweden to Utah and Japan, he's built a small following of people who believe they can hack their "24 strands of DNA" (we have 23/46), activate a "24th" strand of DNA spiritually, and use ancient technology from King Solomon and Thor to make their dreams come true. Miley Cyrus, Fletcher and

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00:31:07

The Detective's Wife: Was Amy Fanion murdered by her...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/07/07

Brian and Amy Fanion were not getting along. Brian was about to retire from the Westfield, Massachusetts police department and the couple had different ideas about how they would spend the next chapter of their lives. Amy Fanion was completely unaware that her husband of thirty years had been cheating on her with a church friend, Cori Knowles. Brian claims Amy pulled his service revolver from his holster and held it to her head and the gun went off but the investigation that followed revealed

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00:30:30

The Pitch Pine Murders: Three family members die...

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2025/07/02

How can one house be the site of so much death? When Bill Harrison is found dead in his bathroom, it is ruled a heart attack. When Bridget Harrison is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, it is ruled an accident. But when Caleb Harrison, the father of the children at the heart of a bitter custody battle is found murdered in that same home, the police re-open Bill and Bridget's deaths. What they find is a decade of crimes, fighting, court battles, and murder❤️ Subscribe:

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00:25:52

The Last Call Killer: A little known serial killer...

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2025/06/30

When Thomas Mulcahy's carefully dismembered body parts are found on the side of a road by city workers, the police hope this is an isolated incident but then, a second body is found in the same manner. Then a third. The police cannot catch this maniac and the case goes cold for some time, but early 1990's forensic technology is improving and with the help of a Canadian laboratory, police identify their serial killer. When they do, they find a decades long history of perversion, violence and

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00:25:44

Dr. Death: The worst serial killer in modern history

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2025/06/25

Fred Shipman was an odd young man. When his mother got cancer Fred was only sixteen. He watched as her nurses injected her with morphine to ease her pain and when she died a year later, Fred decided he was going to go into medicine and become a doctor. Soon, a nurse noticed that Dr. Shipman's patients were dying at an alarming rate but when she sounded the alarm, nothing was done. It wasn't until later on that Angela Woodcock, an attorney, began asking questions after her own healthy mother died

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00:26:03

The Dark Web Murder: Horrifying photos of Cassidy...

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2025/06/23

Cassidy Rainwater was down on her luck and staying with family friends on a rural property in Dallas County, Missouri. She thought the man, James Phelps, was trustworthy and had no idea that he and his friend, Timothy Norton, were planning to murder her. First Cassidy was locked in a cage and then the two men killed her and dismembered her body. During this gruesome process, the men took photos and then posted those photos to the Dark Web❤️ Subscribe:

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00:26:29

The Hillside Stranglers: An infamous and historic...

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2025/06/18

Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi were vicious and violent men, two cousins living together in Los Angeles. Kenneth Bianchi also had a police fetish and a lust for power. The two men acquired fake police badges and began using them to imitate cops in order to get women to stop on the streets. Soon, those women began turning up dead in the hills around Los Angeles. Body after body is discovered and the police grow frustrated as the murders continued. As the investigation wore on, a call came to the LA

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00:30:20

The Murder of Fat Herbie: A Las Vegas mobster is...

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2025/06/16

1990s Las Vegas was a wild place to be. The mafia was still running the show but the FBI was onto them. The mob task force opened a fake bar and restaurant meant to draw Las Vegas gangsters to the club. It was called Sea Breeze. The FBI had the entire place bugged and listened as the mobsters got more and more comfortable speaking openly in the club about their criminal activity. Fat Herbie was running several rackets in Vegas and things were going well but when the Caruso family from LA moved into

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00:27:05

The Snake Man Murder: A world famous herpetologist is...

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2025/06/11

Ben and Lynlee Renick had it all; a booming business making a lot of money, beautiful children, fame in the world of snake breeding and a YouTube channel that brought them more clients. Then, Ben ended up dead on the floor of his large snake breeding facility. At first, people thought Ben had been killed by one of his snakes but a further investigation revealed he had been murdered, shot eight times. As authorities look into the life of this man with an unusual job, they find a trail of lies,

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00:34:57

The Hangman: A Necrophiliac Serial Killer Cop

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2025/06/09

Gerard John Schaefer was known as a weirdo and a pervert. The girls he went to high school with wanted nothing to do with him. He married and divorced after college and then became a teacher. He was promptly fired for going on wild political rants during class. After that, he decided to become a police officer and because no background check was done, he slipped through the cracks. He was promptly fired from his first job as a cop for stealing women's information and contacting them at home. He went

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00:30:26

The Machete Killer: A serial killer stalks Northern...

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2025/06/04

Juan Corona was a violent man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He was always trying to prove he was the most macho man in the room, but Juan was secretly gay. Migrant workers and drifters began disappearing in the farmlands and orchards of Northern California and then one day, a Japanese farmer noticed a strange mound of dirt in his orchards. He called the sheriff who decided to dig it up. Cops found a body and then two. Search helicopters were brought in to search from the air and what the

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00:31:36

The Killer Clown: A horrific murder committed by a...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/06/02

Marlene Warren was at home on a Saturday afternoon when her doorbell rang. She opened the door to see a clown standing on her porch holding flowers and balloons. As she took the gifts from the clown, the clown pulled out a gun and shot Marlene in the face right in front of her son, Joe Warren. Joe chases the clown who gets into a car and drives away. As the police investigate, they discover a trail of fraud, shady business dealings and an affair. Despite the evidence, an arrest is not made for years

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00:27:27

Stalking Cindy James: A campaign of harassment or...

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2025/05/28

This is an infamous story but one that remains fascinating. Cindy James called the police to her house over 100 times. She was receiving harassing phone calls and creepy letters in the mail. Her tires were slashed. Her porch light was smashed. Someone hung dead cats from her trees. Then Cindy's friend found her tied up in her own yard. The police came. The harassment continued. Cindy was found tied up again, this time in her kitchen with a knife through her hand. She took a polygraph test. Her

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