Nineteen year old Rachel Wade and eighteen year old Sarah Ludemann are locked in a vicious battle over bad boy, Josh Camacho, who is playing both girls against each other and telling them if they love him, they’ll fight each other for him. Rachel and Sarah are all too happy to oblige, leaving each other nasty text messages and voicemails and increasing threats to stay away from Josh. And then, on one April night, the threats of violence, turn into a horrible reality.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
In a perfect world, nineteen year old Rachel Wade and eighteen year old Sarah Ludemann should have been friends. They went to the same high school, were both blonde, loved the beach and were daddy’s girls. The reality was, Rachel and Sarah were locked in a vicious battle over a boy they were both in love with. Everyone thinks the battle will blow over. Until one night when all of their hatred boils over in a heated confrontation that leaves one girl dead. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
On a cold December night in 2018, Good Samaritan Jacquelyn Smith reached out of the window of her car to give a young woman in need and her baby, ten dollars for food. It was the last good deed Jacquelyn ever performed, because in the next instant, she was stabbed to death and robbed. But there’s something about the story that doesn’t add up and it’s not long before the disturbing and gruesome truth comes out, leaving Baltimore reeling. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Michelle Le and Giselle Esteban were the best of friends all through high school, even attending college in the same city so they could maintain their sisterly bond. However, their friendship starts to take a drastic turn when Gisele falls hopelessly in love and has a baby, while Michelle devotes herself to pursuing her career. And it’s because of this drastic turn that this once close friendship is headed for murder. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Previously, on the Dark Side of Love, Laura Ackerson falls hard and fast for popular Raleigh, North Carolina singer/songwriter, Grant Hayes, not knowing about his drug and alcohol use or penchant for bizarre and dangerous conspiracy theories. After a tumultuous two-year union that produces two little boys, Grant decides Laura is old news when he becomes smitten with beautiful wealthy widow, Amanda Smith. And then suddenly, Laura disappears. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Laura Ackerson thinks she’s met her soulmate in the form of singer/songwriter, Grant Hayes. The two fall in love fast, marrying and welcoming two little boys in the space of two years. However, Grant is far from Prince Charming and it’s not long before his true colors come out, as he verbally, mentally, and physically abuses Laura. And when Grant meets and falls in love with wealthy widow, Amanda Smith, he hatches a diabolical plan to get Laura out of the way – forever. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
When young Marine sniper, Tommy, strikes up a flirtation in an Internet chatroom with an eighteen-year-old girl calling herself TalHotBlond, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot. Before long, Tommy and his TalHotBlond are exchanging gifts, love letters, phone calls and eventually, cybersex. However, when a third-party enters the chat, this online romance goes from fun and games to murder. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Karlyn Ramirez joined the Army so she could see the world and make a difference. And her world changed drastically when she was deployed overseas and met and fell in love with fellow soldier, Maliek Kearney. After a whirlwind romance that included a baby and a wedding, the bloom soon wore off the rose, as the couple battled infidelity, jealousy and eventually, murder. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Angela Bledsoe was a smart, ambitious and accomplished financial advisor who was hired by James R. Ray the Third to work at his insurance brokerage firm. Before long, the two were doing more than crunching numbers and became involved in a full-blown love affair that resulted in the birth of their daughter. However, the relationship between the two quickly goes south, leaving one of them dead and the other on the run, wanted for murder. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Rising rapper Rahim Grant was hard at work on taking his music career to the next level when he crossed paths with one of his biggest fans, Ciera Harp. It wasn’t long before Ciera and Rahim are an item and expecting a baby together. However, the relationship quickly swirls down the drain, leaving Rahim and Ciera struggling to establish a harmonious co-parenting relationship. Except, one of them won’t live to see their daughter grow up. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
When wife, mother, and school teacher, Betty Gore, is found hacked to death with an ax in a pool of blood in the utility room of her house, investigators first turn their attention to her husband, Allan. However, when Allan confesses to an affair with their friend, Candy Montgomery, suspicion immediately turns to the popular, churchgoing, housewife. And just when investigators think they’ve got this case all sewn up, Candy throws them a curveball they never see coming. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
It’s Friday the 13th, 1980. The original Friday the 13th movie has just been released to theaters, and so has the classic Jack Nicholson horror movie, The Shining. And when young school teacher, wife and mother, Betty Gore is found savagely murdered in her home, the residents of tiny Wylie, Texas have no idea they are about to live their own version of a Hollywood horror movie, courtesy of a killer none of them saw coming. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Crystal and Danielle Parker have built a life together that seems to be a happy one. The truth is, Crystal has grown tired of supporting her less than ambitious wife and determines that it’s time to move on. Except, Danielle won’t be easily dismissed. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Previously, on The Dark Side of Love, following a bitter divorce and acrimonious custody battle over their two sons, Dan Markel and Wendi Adelson seem to call a truce. Until Dan is gunned down in his garage one July morning in 2014 and later dies. Suspicion immediately turns to ex-wife, Wendi. However, the brutal truth about Dan’s murder, hits closer to home than anyone suspects. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Dan Markel and Wendi Adelson were a happily married couple with two adorable little boys until, they weren’t. What followed was a nasty divorce and an epic custody battle that would eventually pull Wendi’s overprotective family into the fray. And when Dan is gunned down in his garage, the truth about his brutal murder is crazier than ten blockbuster movies. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
It’s April of 2010, and in St. Paul, Minnesota, a desperate 911 call comes in from Heidi Firkus, who tells the dispatcher that someone is breaking into her home. Within seconds, a shot rings out and Heidi is later pronounced dead, leaving behind her devastated husband, Nick. Except Nick knows much more about Heidi’s murder than he’s saying. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
It’s 1996 and ambitious Black professionals are flocking to the city of Atlanta, helping to transform the ATL into a prosperous and glamourous destination. And one of those driven and successful professionals who’ve made Atlanta his own is IT entrepreneur, Lance Herndon. Lance has a luxurious mansion, an expensive car, and a taste for the ladies. Lots and lots of ladies. And when Lance meets Dionne Baugh, she seems like just another in a long line of conquests who Lance will love and leave. But Dionne’s not going away so quietly. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Previously on The Dark Side of Love, devout Baptist, Colin Howell, is having a steamy affair with the Sunday school teacher at his church, Hazel Buchanan. Colin and Hazel’s spouses, Trevor and Lesley, are devastated by the affair, which seems to have no end in sight. Until one dark night in May, when the lives of these four spouses change forever. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
It’s May of 1991 and in the Northern Ireland seaside village of Castlerock, the bodies of Lesley Clarke, wife of prominent local dentist, Colin Howell, and police officer Trevor Buchanan, were found in the car of the garage of a house, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. All the evidence pointed to a suicide pact, so, case closed. However, it would take nearly twenty years, a guilty conscience and a stunning confession for the sinister truth about what really happened to Lesley and Trevor to be revealed. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
British native Neil Entwistle thought he hit the jackpot when he met bright, bubbly American exchange student Rachel Souza during his junior year of college. The couple falls deeply in love and marry, completing their circle of happiness less than two years later when they welcome baby girl Lilian Rose. Except Rachel has no idea that her loving husband is actually living a sordid secret life. And she’ll find out too late just how deadly those secrets are. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Cm Kirk
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Cm Kirk
i love your podcast, your insights and most of all how real you are and speak. Like. "unless you're under the bed no one really knows what goes on in a marriage"