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Alexandra Pesic knew something was wrong. The former beauty queen and young mother had begun noticing a white car appearing around her. Then a disturbing package arrived in the mail: a true-crime book about a woman who had reported years of stalking and terror before her mysterious death. Certain passages had been deliberately marked. Days later, something described in those pages seemed to happen outside Alexandra’s own home. But Alexandra didn’t ignore the warning signs. She wrote down a licence plate. She told people she was afraid. And when she still couldn’t get answers, she hired a private investigator to find out who was watching her. Then, on August 5, 1992, 25-year-old Alexandra was shot outside the Vancouver-area dental office where she worked. What investigators uncovered afterward would involve a stolen red Camaro, a mysterious white car, $30,000 in cash, multiple suspects and evidence Alexandra herself had gathered before her death. For this chapter of Serial Nightmare, we’re telling Alexandra’s story through the dark fairy-tale lens of Snow White. Because sometimes danger doesn’t arrive looking dangerous...Sometimes it comes disguised as someone you once trusted. Sources: https://tricitiesdispatch.com/payoff-cash-in-1992-murder-for-hire-scheme-finally-forfeited/  https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/jelka-pesic-spurs-more-outrage-over-her-daughter-in-laws-murder https://www.oxygen.com/killer-relationship-with-faith-jenkins/crime-news/jelka-pesic-organized-murder-of-former-daughter https://nationalpost.com/news/grandmother-who-hired-hit-man-to-kill-daughter-in-law-seeking-early-parole  https://www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossiers/search-recherche/26020/ Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In May of 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking through California when a young couple stopped to offer her a ride. With a woman and a baby inside the vehicle, Colleen believed she had found a safe way to finish her journey. She was wrong. For the next seven years, Colleen would live under the control of Cameron Hooker, hidden from the world even as life carried on around her. But perhaps the most difficult part of her story to understand came when the physical barriers began to disappear. Colleen was eventually allowed outside. She worked. She interacted with other people. She even returned home to visit her family. And still, she went back. For this episode of Serial Nightmare, we're exploring the dark side of Beauty and the Beast through the story of Colleen Stan, and how fear, coercion and years of psychological control can create a prison without walls. Because unlike the fairy tale, Colleen didn't return to the Beast because she'd fallen in love with him. She returned because she'd been taught to believe that leaving could be even more dangerous than staying. Content warning: This episode discusses kidnapping, captivity, sexual assault, physical and psychological abuse, coercive control and torture. Sources: https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-the-girl-n-the-box/cat-mcauliffe https://allthatsinteresting.com/colleen-stan-the-girl-in-the-box https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/girl-in-the-box-where-is-colleen-stan-now  https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1771222.html https://abc7news.com/post/trial-considers-fate-girl-box-kidnapper-cameron-hooker-jurors-weigh-sexually-violent-predator-status/19183056/ https://www.aol.com/articles/jury-blocks-release-infamous-girl-160009000.html https://www.dsh.ca.gov/Treatment/Sex_Offender_Commitments.htm https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1771222.html Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This October, Serial Napper is opening the storybook for another season of Serial Nightmare. This year, we're taking familiar fairy tales and looking at the very real cases that echo their darkest themes. We begin with Goldilocks. In 1986, the Bowen family began noticing strange things inside their Massachusetts home. Food disappeared. Objects moved. Tina and Karen heard unexplained noises and became convinced that something was inside the house. Their father wasn't so sure. Then one evening, Frank Bowen opened a closet and found a teenage boy standing inside. His name was Daniel LaPlante. What followed would turn an already terrifying home invasion into one of the strangest true crime cases I've ever covered. Because when police searched the house, Daniel seemed to disappear, nd the truth about where he had been hiding was only the beginning. In this episode of Serial Nightmare, we'll follow the Daniel LaPlante case from the Bowen family's disturbing discovery through the events that followed: the investigation, trial, appeals, and the legal decisions that would eventually change the sentence he received. Because Goldilocks is a very different story when someone enters your home without permission...and doesn't leave. Sources: https://www.grunge.com/369653/the-truth-about-murderer-daniel-laplantes-childhood/  https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2021/2/3/daniel-laplante https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/daniel-laplante-priscilla-gustafson-murder-1987-townsend/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/12/03/A-teenager-accused-of-holding-a-man-and-his/7669565506000/ https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/daniel-laplante-murder-priscilla-gustafson-family https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/22/killer-three-townsend-seeks-sentence-reduction/g05AdJcWXPBZiAS9rvHYDI/story.html https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/482/482mass399.html https://www.joeturnerbooks.com/post/daniel-laplante Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 12, 2004, two women arrived at a converted commercial building in Fresno, California, with one goal: they wanted their children back. Inside was their extended family, led by 57-year-old Marcus Wesson. What began as a tense family dispute soon turned into something much darker. Because Ruby Ortiz and Sofina Solorio knew things about Marcus that the police standing outside did not. They knew about the strange world he had created around his family. They knew what happened when someone challenged his authority. And they knew about a plan that was never supposed to be put into action. By the end of the day, Marcus Wesson would become the centre of one of the most disturbing cases in Fresno history, eventually earning the bizarre nickname “The Vampire King of Fresno.” But the vampires aren't the most frightening part of this story. Sources: https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LUH/LUH20050401-V97-04.pdf https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-me-wesson4-story.html https://supreme.courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/supremecourt/default/documents/8-2580-s136171-app-supp-brief-081426.pdf https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article237506244.html https://supreme.courts.ca.gov/case-information/briefs-argued-cases/september-9-2026-oral-argument-cases https://supreme.courts.ca.gov/case-information/oral-arguments/webcast-library https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-pact-in-fresno-deaths/ https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=1867849&doc_no=S136171&request_token=NiIwLSEnPkw3WyApSCI9TENJUFA0UDxfICM%2BQz1TICAgCg%3D%3D& Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fourteen-year-old Michael Politte woke to smoke filling his bedroom. His friend Josh was asleep on the floor nearby, and an orange glow was coming from underneath his mother's bedroom door. When Michael opened that door, he found his mother, 40-year-old Rita Politte, lying on the floor with her upper body on fire. Rita hadn't died in an accidental house fire. She had been brutally attacked. Within days, investigators turned their attention to Michael. What followed was a case built around fire, gasoline, a teenage witness whose story seemed to change, and a boy who insisted from the beginning that he did not kill his mother. Michael would spend more than two decades behind bars. But years later, some of the evidence that helped put him there would come under serious scrutiny, raising new questions about the investigation, the conviction, and what really happened inside Rita Politte's home on December 5, 1998. Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-politte-rita-politte-missouri-sleepover-murder-investigation/  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-politte-rita-politte-murder-missouri-48-hours/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/8554794/michael-polittee-found-mom-rita-murder/ https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-09-29/michael-politte-has-served-22-years-for-murdering-his-mother-experts-say-hes-innocent https://www.kwch.com/2022/04/14/team-lawyers-work-prove-innocence-14-year-old-convicted-mothers-murder/ https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=180456 https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=184233 https://themip.org/clients/ https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2023/sc99813.html https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-moed-4_22-cv-01169/pdf/USCOURTS-moed-4_22-cv-01169-0.pdf https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca8/26-1476 Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak had only recently started his first semester at the University of Southampton. He was studying accounting and finance, playing football, making new friends and building a life away from home for the first time. On the night of December 3rd, 2025, Henry went out with friends before beginning the walk back to his student accommodation. Along the way, he crossed paths with a stranger. Less than an hour later, police arrived on Belmont Road following reports of an assault. They had been told who the victim was and who they believed had carried out the attack. But as officers tried to make sense of the scene, Henry was on the ground telling them something was seriously wrong. He said he'd been stabbed. He said he couldn't breathe. And then he was placed in handcuffs. What followed would become a murder investigation involving phone recordings, bodycam footage, a missing weapon and a secretly recorded conversation inside a police van. But after the criminal case was over and the public saw footage of Henry's final conscious minutes, his death became the centre of a much larger and increasingly political debate about policing, race and religion in Britain. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvpv2xylgeo https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/01/henry-nowak-two-officers-under-gross-misconduct-investigation https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-statement-on-henry-nowak https://www.cps.gov.uk/wessex/news/henry-nowak-killers-mother-jailed-after-removing-murder-weapon https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/britain-murder-henry-nowak-debate-race-9.7222123 https://www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshire/news/news/2026/may/man-convicted-of-murdering-student-in-southampton/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/world/europe/henry-nowak-murder-uk-stabbing.html  https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Digwa-Final-Sentencing-Remarks.pdf https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/henry-nowak-police-transcript-video-b3002166.html https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-05-20/sikh-man-tells-court-he-stabbed-student-in-self-defence-after-he-was-abused https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-05-22/sikh-man-on-trial-for-killing-student-pleads-not-guilty-to-manslaughter https://www.gov.uk/government/news/solicitor-general-refers-vickrum-digwa-to-court-of-appeal https://www.aol.com/articles/digwa-dad-brother-plead-not-162315000.html https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/iopc-investigating-conduct-two-officers-henry-nowak-case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2rcv_zGw0 Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 17th, 1992, 16-year-old Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was getting ready for his first real American Halloween party. Yoshi had recently arrived in Louisiana from Japan as an exchange student. He was outgoing, adventurous and determined to experience everything his year abroad had to offer. That night, dressed in a white tuxedo inspired by John Travolta, Yoshi headed to a party with his 17-year-old host brother and friend, Webb Haymaker. But they got lost. When the boys approached a house they believed might be hosting the party, they rang the doorbell. Nobody answered, so they started walking back toward their car. Then a door opened. What happened next would devastate two families, spark outrage across Japan and force uncomfortable conversations about fear, self-defence, gun culture and the assumptions people make in a matter of seconds. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50063364 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/22/gun-control-japanese-mother-march-for-our-lives-campaign-parkland-students https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260312/p2a/00m/0na/024000chttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/yoshihiro-hattori-mistaken-address-shooting-japan/ https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/95-0144-app-1-888785175 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-16-mn-39293-story.html https://yoshi-c.com/Alyssa-and-Yoshi-message_jp.html https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/05/20/Lawyer-claims-exchange-student-shot-in-defense-of-home/5929737870400/ Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Christmas night in 2006, Ryan Waller’s parents became worried when their 18-year-old son didn’t show up for dinner and stopped answering his phone. They drove to the Phoenix home he shared with his girlfriend, 21-year-old Heather Quan, but no one came to the door. When police entered the house, they found Heather dead from a gunshot wound and Ryan alive, badly injured and deeply confused. Ryan was taken to the police station, where detectives tried to figure out what had happened. He struggled to answer even the simplest questions. He couldn’t remember basic details about Heather. His story wandered into strange territory involving two men, “bow and arrows,” and a former roommate named Richie. To investigators, very little of it seemed to make sense. Until suddenly, it did. What followed was an investigation that would lead to two murder trials, a controversial interrogation, a years-long fight over Ryan’s medical treatment, and a change to Arizona law carrying Heather Quan’s name. Sources: https://unquestionablycriminal.medium.com/police-interrogate-a-dying-man-with-two-bullets-in-his-brain-accusing-him-of-murder-28644de1a899 https://law.justia.com/cases/arizona/court-of-appeals-division-one-unpublished/2013/1-ca-cr-08-0781.html https://www.maricopacountyattorney.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=185 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-azd-2_19-cv-03755/pdf/USCOURTS-azd-2_19-cv-03755-0.pdf  https://celebsuburb.com/what-happened-to-ryan-waller-the-untold-truth-about-his-death/#A_Few_Details_On_Ryan_Waller_Early_Life https://www.okaybliss.com/ryan-waller-story/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8G0KOOtqk Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October of 1996, 35-year-old Sharon Lopatka told her husband she was leaving their Maryland home for a short trip to visit friends in Georgia. But Sharon wasn't going to Georgia. She left her car near a Baltimore train station, boarded a train heading south, and left behind a disturbing goodbye letter for her husband. In it, Sharon seemed to acknowledge the possibility that she might never come home. When police began searching for her, the trail led somewhere that was still relatively unfamiliar territory for investigators in 1996: Sharon's computer. Behind the quiet life she shared with her husband was an extensive online world filled with different identities, private fantasies and increasingly disturbing conversations with strangers. One of those strangers called himself “Slowhand.” His real name was Robert Glass. For weeks, Sharon and Robert had exchanged messages about violence, torture and death. Then Sharon decided to leave the safety of the computer screen behind and meet him in person. What happened after she arrived in North Carolina would become the subject of a deeply unusual homicide case, one that raised questions about fantasy, consent, intent and whether someone can ever legally give another person permission to kill them. Sources: https://alchetron.com/Sharon-Lopatka-homicide  https://www.dailydot.com/society/internet-assisted-suicide-sharon-lopatka/  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/10/30/slain-womans-e-mail-reveals-violent-intentions/d941faa0-4d6a-4aa5-9add-bfd1813e2f9b/  https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-sharon-lopatka/cat-mcauliffe  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/03/12/hearing-in-sex-death/623b87a2-8d9c-4280-9fb4-1d301f2a6be2/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/01/28/murder-charge-dropped-in-96-internet-sex-case/0829f8da-802a-42be-a0e0-40c9c9b1b7c5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/11/03/to-pinpoint-a-suspect-md-police-put-together-pieces-of-an-electronic-puzzle/250e90b7-3610-42de-bb43-f1b2e62903bb/ Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 7th, 2011, a maintenance worker was repairing a broken window inside a 25th-floor apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he heard a couple arguing in the next room. Then came another crash. Within moments, 23-year-old Josh Hilberling was lying on the roof of a parking garage seventeen stories below. His heavily pregnant wife, 19-year-old Amber Hilberling, admitted almost immediately that she had pushed him. But she insisted she never meant for him to go through the window. What followed was a case involving allegations of domestic violence on both sides, a marriage that appeared to be coming to an end, Amber's changing account of the moments before Josh fell, and a startling discovery about the glass separating their apartment from a 25-story drop. Was Josh's death the result of an intentional act of violence? Self-defence with an unimaginable consequence? Or could more than one thing be true at the same time? Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGW6Yw-ylMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7VpYZLtlE https://ninde.com/tribute/details/2111/Amber-Hilberling/obituary.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/how-pregnant-killer-who-pushed-22157523 https://www.killerqueenspodcast.com/amber-hilberling/ https://okcfox.com/medical-examiner-releases-autopsy-report-for-amber-hilberling#:~:text=TULSA%2C%20Okla.,according%20to%20her%20autopsy%20report.  https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2013-03-09/tulsa-woman-rejects-plea-deal-in-husbands-high-rise-death https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/southcentral/2012/09/21/214026.htm https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/amber-hilberlings-estate-drops-lawsuit-against-oklahoma-department-of-corrections https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amber-hilberling-okla-woman-who-pushed-husband-out-of-high-rise-window-in-2011-found-guilty-of-second-degree-murder/ https://ninde.com/tribute/details/2111/Amber-Hilberling/obituary.html Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the evening of October 20th, 2015, 42-year-old father and lorry driver Darren Kelly travelled to Pitsea, Essex, believing he was meeting a woman he'd been talking to online. But when Darren arrived, he wasn't met by one person. A group was already waiting nearby, some of them hiding out of sight. They believed Darren was guilty of something terrible, and they had decided to confront him themselves. Within minutes, Darren was running for his life. He was chased through the streets, beaten and stabbed six times before managing to reach a nearby block of flats and desperately buzz strangers for help. Darren died later that night. But when police began investigating the accusation that had made Darren a target, they discovered something deeply disturbing: the evidence didn't support it. What followed was a murder investigation involving an online vigilante campaign, a teenage girl determined to catch suspected predators, four defendants and a trial that left Darren's family questioning how only one person could ultimately be convicted. Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/12/teenage-vigilantes-killed-darren-kelly-mistaken-paedophile-court https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3595928/Family-man-stabbed-death-vigilantes-wrongly-thought-paedophile-blast-cruel-needless-murder.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teenage-vigilantes-murdered-man-they-wrongly-thought-was-a-paedophile-a3223726.html  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-36321082 https://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/south_essex_news/14500196.murderer-chris-carroll-20-is-handed-life-prison-sentence-and-will-serve-a-minimum-of-21-years-for-killing-darren-kelly-in-pitsea/ https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14435379.eye-witness-describes-moment-darren-kelly-was-chased-down-and-stabbed-to-death-in-pitsea-street/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daughter-innocent-dad-killed-paedophile-8281536  Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Stacey Castor called the police to her New York home in August 2005, she told them she was worried about her husband, David. He had locked himself inside their bedroom after an argument and hadn't shown up for work. When officers forced their way inside, they found David dead beside a glass containing a bright green liquid and an open container of antifreeze. At first, everything pointed toward suicide, but one detective wasn't convinced. As investigators began looking more closely at David's death, they discovered that Stacey had already lost one husband under unusual circumstances. Michael Wallace had died suddenly five years earlier at just 38 years old, after suffering from a mysterious illness that had never been fully explained. So investigators decided to take another look. What followed was an extraordinary investigation involving an exhumation, toxicology, a discarded turkey baster, a suspicious will, computer forensics and a typed letter that threatened to change everything police thought they knew about this family completely. And eventually, investigators began to wonder whether Stacey Castor was an extraordinarily unlucky woman who had experienced more tragedy than most...or whether tragedy wasn't following Stacey at all. It was being created around her. Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/stacey-castor https://forensicfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Stacey_Castor https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-black-widow-stacey-castors-shocking-crimes/story?id=60860538 https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2020/01/stacey-castor-on-lifetime-5-chilling-details-from-syracuses-2009-antifreeze-murder-trial.html https://cnycentral.com/news/local/did-stacey-castor-murder-her-own-father https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2016/05/stacey_castors_shrine_of_evil_murdered_husbands_son_wants_remains_moved.html https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-fourth-department/2012/860-ka-09-00469.html https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2014/2014_03386.htm SUICIDE NOTE: http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/2020/Suicide_Letter_scan0001_090422.pdf Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In January 2003, two teenage sisters returned home from an evening out with friends and made a frantic call to 911. Their 43-year-old mother, Linda Andersen, was lying face-down in the bathtub. Linda struggled with alcoholism. She had been drinking heavily that night, and toxicology would reveal alcohol and medication in her system. To investigators, everything seemed to point toward a tragic accidental drowning. And for nearly a year, that's exactly what everyone believed. But Sandra and Beth, just 16 and 15 years old, hadn't discovered their mother dead that night. Linda was already dead when they left for dinner. Because her daughters had killed her. In this episode of Serial Napper, we examine the case that became known as the Bathtub Sisters: the deeply dysfunctional home Sandra and Beth described growing up in, Linda's struggle with addiction and domestic violence, the disturbing digital trail that ultimately exposed the murder, the controversial youth sentences that followed, and the complicated question of rehabilitation. Sources: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2014/04/09/from-murder-to-law-school-story-of-ontario-sisters-who-drowned-mom-now-a-movie/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7458803/bathtub-girl-exclusive-interview/  https://www.ranker.com/list/linda-andersen-facts/trilby-beresford https://web.archive.org/web/20150120034422/http://nicholasguindon.com/f/C_K_Ruling.PDF https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3123956-man-who-aided-bathtub-girls-asks-for-more-time/  https://www.inquisitr.com/3407112/perfect-sisters-lifetime-to-air-true-story-of-deadly-sisters-who-drowned-drunk-mother-linda-andersen-in-bathtub/  https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mandel-bathtub-girl-killer-now-215249646.html https://www.citynews1130.com/2014/04/09/from-murder-to-law-school-story-of-ontario-sisters-who-drowned-mom-now-a-movie https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/portrait-of-a-drowning-in-real-time-on-msn/article740149/ https://www.scc-csc.ca/pdf/case-documents/34284/FM020_Respondent_Her-Majesty-the-Queen_Redacted.pdf Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I first covered the case of Laken Snelling, it was a Patreon-exclusive, and one of the biggest questions surrounding the case remained unanswered: what really happened to her newborn baby in the hours after she secretly gave birth? Now, we finally have an answer. In August 2025, 21-year-old University of Kentucky student and STUNT athlete Laken Snelling gave birth alone inside her off-campus bedroom while her roommates were just feet away. They later told investigators they had heard loud crashing and thudding noises coming from her room in the early morning hours. By the next morning, Laken had left the house. Her suspicious roommates entered her bedroom and discovered evidence of childbirth. Inside her closet, they found her newborn son wrapped in a towel and concealed inside a trash bag. Laken initially gave investigators an explanation for what happened after the birth. But an autopsy would later determine that the baby had been born alive and died from asphyxia by undetermined means. Laken was eventually indicted for first-degree manslaughter, along with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. For months, the question remained: was her baby's death the result of a catastrophic accident, or had something else happened inside that bedroom? Then, on August 21, 2026, Laken walked into court and changed her plea. Sources: https://www.wkyt.com/2026/03/13/laken-snelling-case-file-reveals-snapchat-warrant-roommate-accounts/ https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article312308957.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/laken-snelling-5-things-know-210515476.html  https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/court-records-reveal-laken-snellings-roommates-were-suspicious-about-her-pregnancy https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article315012906.html  https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article315014043.html  https://www.the-messenger.com/news/article_483939ec-f175-5fc9-8f16-8f7af6862ed3.html  https://www.wwnytv.com/2026/08/24/former-university-kentucky-student-admits-ending-her-newborns-life-pleads-guilty/\ Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In January 2006, 18-year-old Joe Pichler seemingly vanished from Bremerton, Washington. Joe had grown up in front of the camera, appearing in movies and television shows including The Fan, Varsity Blues, Beethoven’s 3rd and Beethoven’s 4th. After stepping away from Hollywood as a teenager, he returned home, graduated high school and began building an ordinary life while planning his eventual return to acting. Then, during the early morning hours of January 5th, Joe made his final known phone call. Days later, his silver Toyota Corolla was found abandoned near the Port Washington Narrows. Inside were two pages of emotional writing that police initially interpreted as pointing toward suicide. But the writings never explicitly said Joe intended to end his life. His family disputed the suicide theory from the beginning, raising concerns about how Joe’s car and apartment were initially handled and questioning whether potentially important evidence had been missed. Police themselves would soon become less convinced that suicide explained his disappearance and continued investigating other possibilities. More than twenty years later, there has been no confirmed sighting of Joe, no financial or government activity known to establish that he started a new life, and his remains have never been found. So what happened after Joe’s final phone call? Anyone with information regarding Joe’s disappearance is asked to contact the Bremerton Police Department at 360-473-5228 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678). Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/joe-pichler https://www.ladbible.com/news/child-actor-from-beethoven-missing-since-2006-20220601 http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?s=5bb93ec13cd41535139045de83024223&t=61494 https://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/nation-watching-pichler-search-ep-424313295-359562221.html https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20060717/missing17m/former-child-actor-missing-for-6-months  https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/former-child-actor-missing-1192897.php https://charleyproject.org/case/joseph-david-wolfgang-pichler Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik  *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices