Episode 107 - Unsexy Secret: The Disappearance of Gary McCullough & Lena Chapin

Episode 108 - Loud & Annoying: Haunted Road Trip

This week, we’re taking a haunted road trip through California’s eerie eastern edge. From the brutal silence and strange legends of Death Valley, to the cursed ghost town of Bodie, through the Sierra Nevada home of Penelope the cryptid, and finally to Lake Tahoe, where folklore gives way to a much darker real history. Buckle up for strange caves, curses, cryptids, ghost towns, and the stories still lingering beside the road.

Episode 107 - Unsexy Secret: The Disappearance of Gary McCullough & Lena Chapin

When Gary McCullough disappeared in 1999, the truth about what happened to him seemed to vanish with him. Years later, Lena Chapin came forward with a shocking story about his death, only to disappear herself before she could testify. This week, we’re covering the tangled and haunting disappearances of Gary McCullough and Lena Chapin, a case filled with family secrets, buried truth, and unanswered questions that still linger today.

Episode 106 - Spider Diva: Betty Broderick Part 2

In part two of the Betty Broderick case, we see events and the consequences of the divorce war as it reaches its breaking point. After years of bitter court battles, custody fights, restraining orders, obscene voicemails, and escalating rage, Betty Broderick walks into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. By morning, both Dan and Linda are dead. But the question that consumed the courtroom, the media, and the public was never whether Betty pulled the trigger, she admitted that she did. The question was, what was Betty's state of mind to bring her to that point, and were Dan's actions what pushed her over the edge? This question still leaves people debating today, where does heartbreak, grief and rage negate personal responsibility.

Episode 105 - Working Class Hot: Betty Broderick Part 1

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behind the country club image, their marriage was slowly cracking under resentment, ambition, betrayal, and control. In part one of the Betty Broderick story, we’re looking at the life Betty and Dan built together, the start of the affair with Linda Kolkena, and the marriage that turned into a battlefield, and the beginning years of anger and humiliation that pushed this family toward disaster.

Episode 104 - A Car Named Deborah: Barbara Bolick Disappearance

On a quiet summer morning in July 2007, Barbara Bolick set out on a familiar trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana with a friend. It was a place she knew well, a short, easy hike with nothing unusual about it. But in the span of just a few moments, Barbara disappeared no sound, no struggle, no trace left behind. Despite extensive searches, helicopters, and tracking dogs, there has never been a single piece of evidence explaining what happened that day at Bear Creek Overlook. How does someone vanish so completely, in broad daylight, on a trail they’ve walked before? Listen as we recount the day in question, talk about the main characters in this story and theories of what happened.  Be sure to rate and review and as always, stay Grimly Curious.