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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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00:28:15

Last Will and Testament: Serial Killer Larry Gene Bell

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/03/17

Shari Smith was just getting ready to graduate from high school. She stops at the mailbox in front of her house to check the mail but she never comes inside. Her father gets worried and drives to the mailbox down the long drive. Shari's car is running. The passenger door is open. Shari is nowhere to be found. The FBI is brought in. Two days after the abduction, the kidnapper begins calling the Smith family using a creepy voice distortion unit. He taunts Shari's mother and her sister, Dawn. The FBI

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00:33:57

The Tylenol Murders: Poisoned Pills in Chicago

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2025/03/12

Early one morning in 1982, a young girl named Mary Kellerman isn't feeling well. She takes some Tylenol and dies instantly. Several hours later, a postal worker named Adam Janus is home from work, sick. He takes some Tylenol and is dead within seconds. His family is stricken with grief and returns home to comfort each other. His brother and sister in law then take some Tylenol and they too collapse. A phone operator, a flight attendant, and others all suddenly drop dead and Chicago doctors and

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00:32:46

The Vampire of Sacramento: Serial Killer Richard Chase

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2025/03/10

Richard Chase, The Vampire of Sacramento, was in and out of mental health facilities throughout his youth. Even though he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother decided he no longer needed his medication. Living alone, abusing drugs, Richard spiraled into madness. He began killing the neighborhood pets and then he moved on to human victims. Some of the details of this story are very disturbing but I've tried to present them in a respectful manner. This is a story about the failures of the

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00:30:39

Under the Banner of Heaven: Mormonism and Murder

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/03/05

The Lafferty brothers were raised in a very bizarre home and as they grew, their Mormon beliefs became more and more extreme. When Ron and Dan Lafferty declare themselves to be prophets of God, they are excommunicated from the Mormon church and their wives divorce them. The two men decide that their sister in law, Brenda Wright Lafferty, was to blame for their divorces and they target her and the people responsible for their shunning by the Mormon church. What follows is a brutal double murder after

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00:29:50

At the Bottom of the Lake

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/03/03

This is the story of Jerry Ambrozuk and Dianne Babcock, two Canadian teenagers who decided to elope. Jerry was training to be a pilot and believed he could safely land the small plane they rented on the water so the couple could vanish together. He was wrong. The plane crashed and Jerry disappeared. What followed was a man hunt that landed Jerry on America's Most Wanted for decades. Then, a woman meets a man on an online dating app and she begins to dig into his past. What she finds sends her to the

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00:27:11

The Woodchipper Murder

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/26

Helle Crafts and Richard Crafts were in an unhappy marriage. Helle told her friends that she wanted to divorce her pilot and part time cop husband, but she was afraid of him. Richard cheated on Helle and she hired a private investigator named Keith Mayo. Then Helle disappeared. Her friends and family had to beg the police to investigate. Richard was one of their own but those who loved Helle were not giving up. Finally, some evidence is uncovered but when it is, the prosecution is concerned. With no

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00:21:07

The True Texas Chainsaw Murders Story

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/24

Robert Kleason was a man with a troubled past. He converted to Mormonism while living in Austin, Texas but that didn't stop his criminal behavior. He landed in jail for a weapons charge and when the Mormon church did nothing to get him out of jail, Kleason became angry. Two young men, Mormon missionaries named Mark Fisher and Gary Darley were told by their bishop not to meet with Kleason anymore because area leaders in the church believed he was dangerous. Sadly, the missionaries thought they owed

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00:29:52

A Gruesome Ax Murder: Candy Montgomery

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/19

Candy Montgomery was a woman who always got what she wanted. She had the big house, the two beautiful kids, and a husband who made a great living. Still, it was not enough. Candy decides to have an affair to spice up her life and she chooses her friend Betty Gore's husband as her lover. Then, Betty is found murdered, chopped up with an ax. Candy Montgomery plays the loving and concerned neighbor, bringing dinners and flowers to the grieving family but police have discovered a bloody fingerprint and

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00:25:30

Beasts of Satan: A gang of heavy metal gang members...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/17

By the late 1990s, the Satanic Panic phenomenon had died down in the United States but it was just reaching Europe. Teenagers all over Italy were obsessed with Satan and heavy metal music and using those things as an excuse to do terrible things. They called themselves The Beasts of Satan, or Bestie di Satana. Andrea Volpe, Elisabetta Ballerin, Nicola Sapone, Paolo Leoni, Mario Maccione, Pietro Guerrieri, Marco Zampollo and Eros Monterosso decided to trick two new group members, Fabio Tollis and

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00:32:25

The Mauerova Cult Family: A horrific story of abuse...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/12

When a man in the Czech Republic plugs in a new baby monitor, what he sees on the screen is truly terrifying. He is picking up the feed from a nearby camera. The police locate the home and what they discover inside has become known as the Cottage of Hell. Klara and Katerina Mauerova are sisters who were member of the cult, The Holy Grail Movement and their beliefs were bizarre. Klara's thirteen year old daughter Ana escapes after being taken into foster care and she goes on the run for a year. When

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00:27:23

The Ecclesiastes Mystery: Death, intrigue and the...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/10

Chuck Morgan was an escrow agent in Tucson, Arizona. First, he vanishes and reappears at his home with his wrists and ankles bound. Chuck claims a hallucinogenic substance has been painted in his throat and he cannot speak. When he can, he tells his wife that if he tells her what is going on, their entire family will be killed. Then Chuck disappears again only this time, he is gone for good. He turns up dead in the desert and his death is ruled a suicide even though he is wearing a bullet proof vest

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00:36:26

The Militia and the Mole: A gay man from Utah...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/05

I want to give all the credit for today's episode to John Williams (not his real name) and Joshua Kaplan, who published this article in ProPublica. You can read the story on that website. When John Williams realized he had used his wilderness expert training to assist a dangerous militia, he was angry. Then, after witnessing the violence during the insurrection, John decided he had to do something about it. He created a fake personal and went undercover without telling a single person. He quickly

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00:27:04

The Murder of Arden Heap: A story straight from my...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/02/03

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy, living in my hometown of Cedar City, Utah who was working at a gas station. One night, someone went into the station, hit Arden over the head, robbed the store and then abducted Arden. What followed was a months long search and a horrific discovery. A manhunt ensued looking for the killer. All that is left of this story is the file kept by my father and we both want to ensure that Arden Heap is not forgotten❤️ Subscribe:

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00:30:56

The Gilbert Goons: A gang of privileged teenagers is...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/29

Today we are talking about the murder of 16 year old Preston Lord in Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. In the wake of Preston's murder, it becomes apparent that a gang of violent teenagers who call themselves The Gilbert Goons, is running amok in Phoenix. Their wealthy parents seem to have a hold on the police department and it takes months of community outrage in order to get anything done. A reporter then discovers that violent attacks have been taking place for months and even years, and

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00:27:19

The Utah Cabin Murders: A family Christmas party in...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/27

In 1900, Rolfe Tiede, his daughters Trisha and Linae, his wife Kaye and his mother in law Beth Potts arrive on snowmobiles at their family cabin to celebrate the Christmas holidays. They enter the cabin and are confronted by two escaped convicts, Von Lester Taylor and Edward Steven Deli, who have walked away from a Utah halfway house. The men pull guns and begin shooting. The girls, Trisha and Linae are then abducted and forced to drive the killers away on snowmobiles but the killers are not aware,

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00:26:28

The Hi-Fi Shop Murders: A brutal act of violence in Utah

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/20

This is the story of the Hi-Fi Shop Murders which took place in Ogden, Utah on April 22, 1974. United States Air Force soldiers William Andrews and Dale Selby Pierre went into the store with the intention of robbing it. They were not expecting people to enter the shop during the robbery or that the parents of the employees would come looking for their children. Soon, they had five hostages in the basement of the store. The hostages were forced to drink Drano, a caustic substance for unclogging

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00:35:52

The Butcher Baker Serial Killer: Hunting humans as...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/15

Today we are talking about The Butcher Baker Serial Killer, Robert Hansen. When women started disappearing in the Anchorage, Alaska area, not much was done about it. Even when Cindy Paulson came forward, telling police she had been abducted and raped, and the police knew who she was accusing, they did nothing. Not until so many women are missing and murdered bodies start turning up, do the police take action. John Douglas, the father of profiling, is brought in and the FBI begins to aid in the

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00:28:31

Son of Sam: A serial killer terrorizes 1970s New York...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/13

The Son of Sam case refers to a series of shootings that took place in New York City during the summer of 1976 and into 1977. The killer, who became known as the "Son of Sam," was David Berkowitz. He murdered six people and wounded seven others, primarily targeting young couples parked in cars.Donna Laurie, Jody Valenti, Carl Denaro, Rosemary Keenan, Donna DeMasi, Joanne Lomino, Christine Freund, John Diel, Virginia Voskerichian, Alexander Esau, Valentina Suriani, Salvatore Lupo, Judy

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00:33:59

Breath Of Fire Cult: The rise and downfall of Katie...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/08

The myth about Kundalini Yoga is that it is an ancient practice. The religion was, in fact, made up by Yogi Bhajan, Harbhajan Singh Khalsa who was once respected and even honored at the White House. Then, women began coming forward with horrific stories of psychological, physical and sexual abuse. Katie Griggs, Kundalini Katie, Guru Jagat then becomes the face of the Millennial Girl Boss yoga movement. She has tried to become famous through many means and finally, she is. She becomes radicalized by

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00:33:46

The Toolbox Killers: The horrific torture murders of...

Dark Hearts with Stacy Lee ·

2025/01/06

Lucinda Lynn Schaefer, Andrea Joy Hall, Jackie Doris Gilliam, Jacqueline Leah Lamp and Shirley Lynette Ledford all lost their lives in horrific and shocking murders at the hands of Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris who met in prison. If it weren't for a good citizen, a former inmate named Joseph Jackson, the killers would have taken many more victims. Paul Bynam was assigned to the case and when the killers are finally caught, Paul takes his own life stating in a ten page suicide note that he cannot

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