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*Formerly the Bitter Endings Podcast.
Welcome to Between Light and Dark, a podcast that explores the more mysterious side of reality from interviews with mediums and paranormal investigators to unraveling the twisted threads of disturbing true crimes.
Welcome to Between Light and Dark, a podcast that explores the more mysterious side of reality from interviews with mediums and paranormal investigators to unraveling the twisted threads of disturbing true crimes.
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In January of 1980, twenty-one-year-old Helene Pruszynski was interning at a radio station in Denver, Colorado. At the end of her shift she left to take the bus home to her aunt and uncles' home in Englewood, Colorado. She never arrived. The next day her brutalized body was found in a barren field. Her murder would go unsvolved for forty years. Find Episode Show Notes Here This episode is sponsored by my latest fiction release, Coem Home, Katie. You can find that here.
Tammy Schuster is a psychic medium, life coach and paranormal investigator in northern Michigan. In this episode we talk about her experience as a medium, her beliefs about good and evil and her experiences doing paranormal investigations. You can find Tammy on her website here: https://www.tammyschuster.com/ Show Sponsor: The Troubled Spirits Series
This is a short update with information about some changes happening on the podcast. Primarily those include the name change from Bitter Endings to Between Light and Dark as well as new episodes featuring interviews with mediums and paranormal investigators in addition to true crime cases.
The horrors began in Scarborough, Ontario in Canada in 1987 with the rape of a young woman who was attacked in front of her parents' home. Eventually the rapist would gain a partner and escalate his crimes from rape to murder. The couple behind the terrible crimes would eventually be dubbed the Ken and Barbie killers. Show notes: The Biter Endings Podcast Show Sponsor: The Scream Sisters by J.R. Erickson Contact Me
1It was March 21st of 1980, and residents of Newport, Rhode Island were on the cusp of spring and 19-year-old Diane Drake was in the spring of her life. A time when most young people have given little thought to their own mortality. Unfortunately for Diane, that March would be her last. After departing for work on that stormy Friday, she was abducted. Her strangled body would be found a stretch of Newport's Easton Beach the following morning. Her case remains unsolved. Show sponsor: Grave Devotion Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/dianedrake
It was after eleven pm on April 4th, 1991 in Clinton, Missouri when twenty-year-old Angela Hammond's friends dropped off at her car which was parked in a grocery store parking lot. She walked to the payphone and called her fiancé. As they spoke a man in a green pickup truck pulled up to the phones and violently abducted Angela. Horrified, her fiancé jumped in his truck and raced to the grocery store. He caught sight of the pickup truck and gave chase, but his truck broke down and he watched Angela disappear into the night. She was never seen again. Full Show Notes Show Sponsor: Ashes Beneath Her
It was May 12th, 2018, an ordinary day in the life of Joleen Cummings, but one tinged with excitement because the next day was her birthday and Mother's Day. The mother of three worked her shift at Tangles Hair Salon in Yulee, Florida. What came after would be a mystery that baffled her family, friends, and investigators. It appeared that Joleen had left the salon and vanished into thin air. The truth would be far more sinister. Full Show Notes Show Sponsor: Grave Devotion
Mina Dekker was just nineteen years old when she walked into work in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 4th, 1938. She would never walk back out. Sometime in a span of mere minutes while she was alone, someone walked into the building and brutally beat Mina Dekker to death. Show Notes at Bitter Endings Show Sponsor: Ashes Beneath Her (a Northern Michigan Asylum Novel)
Today's episode covers two unrelated murders that I originally released on my Patreon as mini episodes. Eve Wilkowitz was murdered in New York IN 1980 and the idenity of heR killer would remain unknown for more than forty years. Christina Harris was murdered in Michigan in 2014. Her family would spend years demanding justice when police ruled her death an accidental overdose. Full show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/eveandchristine Show Sponsor: Flowers in Her Bones by JR Erickson
Saturday, October 24th, 1953, was an otherwise ordinary day for fifteen-year-old Evelyn Hartley. She left her home to babysit the young daughter of her father's colleague. That evening as many of the community in La Crosse, Wisconsin were attending a homecoming game, someone would enter the house where Evelyn was babysitting and violently abduct her. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/evelynhartley Show Sponsor: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hollow-Hideaway-Troubled-Spirits-ebook/dp/B0B4HCQNPH/ Paperback Giveaways: http://jrericksonauthor.com/2022/10/black-hollow-hideaway-plus-launch-contest.html/
This episode of the Bitter Endings Podcast was originally a mini episode for Patreon members. It features two unrelated cases of girls who vanished and were later found murdered. Caroll Ann Cole and Stacey Chahorski were both young women from Michigan who went missing and met with foul play in other states. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/carolcoleandstaceychahorski Show sponsor: The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1
It was September 7th, 1979, a time of freedom for young people including twelve year old Lesia Michelle Jackson who lived in Conroe, Texas. That Friday the shy, blonde Lesia swam in the lake after school. When she emerged from the water, she had no idea that the day would be her last. That evening Lesia disappeared, her brutalized body would be found five days later and the hunt for her killer would last decades. Show Notes Audiobook Giveaway Troubled Spirits Series Patreon By Me a Coffeee
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
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thank you so much for taking the time to do this! I cried my eyes out all the way through it. Her life mattered so very much. God Bless you! ❤️ 🙏
Nope. Nothing redeeming, or redeemable, about this guy. Susan was exploited by men her whole life and this guy exploited her too. No reason to believe his version of events over her version. Why would she have lied about being involved in an affair with him for a much longer time than he alleged? A woman's life ought to be valued more than ten years, and law enforcement guys should actually serve longer sentences than everyone else when they commit these kinds of crimes. Another commenter suggested this on a different case and I credit that person here. This mediocre FBI agent, whom the Bureau was mistaken to have hired in the first place obviously, actually destroyed two women to death, not just one.