It was labor day, usually a time for celebrating but for Valerie Pride and her two daughters it would be the last day of their lives. Valerie was just 24 years old on September 6th, 1982. She’d just moved into a beautiful new home with her beloved little girls, Shonita who was eight and Duana who was four. She could not have imagined when the she purchased the Spanish style home at 1545 E. Ardmore in Phoenix, Arizona that it would be the setting for their brutal murders. Show Notes Patreon Darkness Stirring Audiobook Buy Me a Coffee
The weekend of October 3rd, 1997 began as a fun weekend of camping for fourteen year old Lauren Barry and sixteen year old Nichole Collins in Kalaru area near Bega, Australia. Hanging with friends, horseback riding and siting around the bonfire were the extent of their plans. However, on Sunday October 5th, the girls made a fateful choice to leave their camp and walk a dark isolated road to visit a friend in town. That night they would vanish and when the gruesome story of their murders was finally revealed, the devastation would leave lasting scars on their families, friends and community. Show Notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/laurenbarryandnicholecollins Flowers in Her Bones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VFZ3KRG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings
Almost five decades ago on January 23rd, 1974, 56-year-old Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was brutally attacked and murdered on the front steps of her home in St. Augustine, Florida. A month later, a man was arrested and charged with her murder—and yet, to this day, the case remains officially unsolved. Shiw notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/athalialindsley Ashwood's Girls: https://www.amazon.com/Ashwoods-Girls-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09B654CMN/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings
This is episode 2 of the MacDonald Murders. You’ll want to listen to episode 41 before listening to today’s episode. Part 2 begins with the convening of a grand jury hearing to examine the evidence that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his wife, Colette and daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/macdonaldmurderspart2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Spirits-6-book-series/dp/B08KSC9SV1
This is a two part case on the murders of Colette, Kimberly, and Kristen MacDonald. They should have had it all and for a time it seemed they did. Jeffrey MacDonald was a surgeon and a green beret. Colette MacDonald was his beautiful, doting wife, pregnant with their son. They had had two lovely daughters, Kimberly and Kristin. The life before them was luminous. It was all shattered on a cool rainy night on February 17th, 1970 when the lives of a young mother and her two daughters were brutally taken. Show Sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/macdonaldmurders The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1 Bitter Endings Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings
It was a cold Michigan night on March 12th, 2004 when 39-year-old Mary Denise Lands vanished without a trace in Marshall, Michigan. Allegedly she got into an argument with her boyfriend Chris Pratt that evening and leaving her cell phone and keys to her Dodge Durango behind, she walked into the frigid night. She was never seen again. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/marylands Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings Still Falling: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/
If life had unfolded for Susan Smith the way it did for most residents of Pikeville, Kentucky, she never would have met FBI agent Mark Putnam. But life is unpredictable and in Susan’s case, a relationship which should have been among the safest in her life turned out to be the deadliest. Susan vanished on June 8th, 1989. It would be a year before her whereabouts were known. A year of wondering if she left, or perhaps was silenced by her ex-husband, a year of grief for the children and family she left behind. When the truth of what occurred on that fateful summer night was revealed, those who loved both Susan Smith and Mark Putnam were devastated. Show sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/susansmith Show Sponsor: Still Falling-A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings
It was a windy October night in 1995 when the family of Debora Green and Michael Farrar was forever ripped apart. A fire had started at an upscale house in Prairie Village, Kansas, and by the time it had run its course, the once immaculate home would be little more than charred ruins. Amongst those ruins lay the bodies of 12 year old Tim Farrar and six year old Kelly Farrar. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/deboragreen Show Sponsor: Still Falling: A Troubled Spirits Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Falling-Troubled-Spirits-Novel-ebook/dp/B09M8TB4SF/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings
It was an ordinary morning in Helena, Montana for nineteen-year-old Pamela Dorrington on February 17th, 1968. Pamela slept in her second story apartment, her black lab nearby, as her cousin and roommate left for her shift at the hospital. Pam’s roommate would return that afternoon to find Pam gone. The vanishing of Pamela Dorrington would spur a massive search for the nineteen-year-old, but four months would pass without any clue as to what had happened to the young woman. The worst possible answer would arrive when a man found Pamela’s mutilated torso floating in the Missouri River north of Helena. Fifty-three years would pass without an arrest in Pamela’s case. Resolution finally appeared in December of 2021 when Courtney Atlas, Pam’s former landlord, confessed to murdering and dismembering her in 1968. Show Sources Some Can See: A Northern Michigan Asylum Series Novel Patreon Buy Me a Coffee
It was a chilly spring day on May 8th, 2002 when a farmer drove onto his wooded property in Ottowa County, Michigan. It was an area where he grew and harvested blueberries. As he drove through the property he made a chilling discovery. A burned body lay in a trunk in an area of scorched forest. The murder victim would remain unidentified for more than a decade. When his name was at long last known a horrendous murder plot would be revealed. Roberto Caraballo died at the hands of his wife Beverly McCallum, his step-daughter Dineane Ducharme, and Dineane’s friend Chris McMillan. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/robertcaraballo Show Sponsor: Ashwood's Girls Support Me on Patreon Buy Me a Coffee