On June 5, 2003, state police arrived at a house on six wooded acres in Kingston Township, Pennsylvania, with a sealed search warrant. The man who lived there, Hugo Selenski, read it and told them, “You’re looking for bodies? Go ahead. Dig up the yard.” He even offered them his shovels. Within hours, investigators had
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Spoiler note: This post covers both parts of our episode, including how the case was solved. If you want to experience it the way Laura did, listen to both episodes first. In September 2010, a 55-year-old Louisiana landman was found dead on the floor of his Beaumont, Texas hotel room. There was no sign of
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Companion post to our two-part Crime Clueless episode series On the morning of December 16, 2000, Denise Williams watched her husband leave their home on Centennial Oaks Circle in Tallahassee, Florida. It was 3am. He was headed to Lake Seminole — a sprawling reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida line — to duck hunt before dawn,
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On April 15, 2005, Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray Gricar took a half-day off work, called his girlfriend to say he was going for a drive, and was never seen again. Twenty years later, despite an FBI investigation, a laptop pulled from a river, a connection to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, and a theory
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For decades, the domestic violence movement has run on a familiar script: the abuser is bad, the survivor should leave, and the system’s job is to punish after the fact. It’s a script that’s shaped everything from police response to funding priorities to the questions we, as a culture, instinctively ask when we hear about
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Two weeks before Stacy Hunsucker died, a South Carolina nurse named Lana Clayton was arrested for poisoning her husband with eye drops. The case dominated regional headlines across the Charlotte area for weeks. Thirty miles away, in Mount Holly, North Carolina, a flight paramedic named Josh Hunsucker was reportedly watching. On September 23, 2018, Stacy
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They were married over 60 years. Then, over one quiet weekend in May 2014, Russell and Shirley Dermond were killed inside the gated Georgia lake community they’d called home for over a decade. His body was found decapitated in his own garage. Hers was found ten days later, weighted down at the bottom of the
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Room 260: The Unsolved 1980 Double Murder at the Amana Holiday Inn On September 12, 1980, two people checked into Room 260 at the Amana Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa. They had driven 265 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, for a secret weekend together. By the next afternoon, both were dead — killed in one
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Two Women, One Name, and a Mystery That Still Doesn’t Make Sense A normal morning… that never ended normally On October 12, 2000, Mary Lou Morris left her home just before sunrise. It was routine. Predictable. Safe. A quiet goodbye to her husband, Jay. A drive to work. A day that should have unfolded like
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“I’ve Got Her”: The Haunting Case of Dorothy Jane Scott On a quiet Wednesday night in May 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott walked out of a hospital in Orange County, California — and disappeared into the darkness. Her car would be found hours later, burned in an alley. Her body would not be found for four
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