jennifer daugherty just wanted a weekend with friends. instead, she entered a house that would become a chamber of cruelty. in this episode, we trace her final days, the manipulation that pulled her in, and the horror that unfolded behind closed doors. this is the story of trust, betrayal, and the monsters hiding in plain sight.
• music: @demure_piano
•editor/voice/writer: @urlittlemisfit
- i have a terrible stutter, i’m working on that. i appreciate you being patient and kind. thank you for listening.
1 Dec 2025
the boy in the mat
a silent gym. an upright mat. a boy wedged inside with evidence scattered like whispers around the room. kendrick johnson’s death was labeled an accident, but the scene read like a secret someone tried too hard to hide.
•music: @demure_piano
•writer/editor/voice: @urlittlemisfit
24 Nov 2025
flowers, balloons and a bullet
a quiet florida morning. flowers. balloons. and a smiling clown on marlene warren’s doorstep carrying a gun instead of a joke.
this episode unravels the affair, the motive, and the decades-long cover-up behind one of florida’s most surreal murders. jealousy in a wig. betrayal behind greasepaint. and a killer who hid in plain sight for nearly thirty years.
music: @demure_piano
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
20 Nov 2025
garden of graves
she ran a quiet home for the elderly and disabled but the rent checks kept cashing long after the tenants disappeared. dorothea puente didn’t just kill for money. she buried her secrets in the garden. literally.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
16 Nov 2025
cradle and coffin
eight months pregnant. excited to meet her baby. and then a knock at the door from the man who promised her love. this is the murder of liese dodd: a brutal act of rage, control, and decapitation that turned a nursery into a crime scene.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
14 Nov 2025
girl in the box
for seven years, colleen stan lived inside a coffin-sized box under a couple’s bed. this is the story of survival that feels like a nightmare you can’t wake from abduction, control, torture, and the terrifying psychology of a man who called himself “master.”
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
10 Nov 2025
the candy man
halloween night, 1974, eight-year-old timothy o’bryan unwrapped a pixy stix that would end his life poisoned by his own father. ronald clark o’bryan wasn’t a monster in a mask; he was the one who tucked his kids in at night, plotting their murder behind a smile.
this is the story of greed disguised as grief.
of a man who turned halloween into a nightmare and became the legend every parent still fears.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
7 Nov 2025
a wolf in sheep’s clothing
charlie brandt looked like anyone’s quiet neighbor. polite, soft-spoken, always willing to help. but beneath the khakis and cardigans lived something feral. a man who’d been killing for decades, hiding in plain sight while dissecting his victims with surgical precision.
this is a story about the masks people wear and the monster waiting underneath. the husband, the friend, the fisherman… and the wolf that finally slipped through the stitches.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
3 Nov 2025
down the chute
december 2010. melbourne, australia.
24-year-old phoebe handsjuk falls twenty-three floors down a garbage chute — her foot nearly severed, her phone left upstairs, her blood smeared through the hallway.
police called it an accident.
her family called it impossible.
i call bullshit.
⸻
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
31 Oct 2025
the night never let go
bryce laspisa was driving home to his parents
but somewhere between the mountains and the morning, he vanished. his car was found wrecked, his belongings neatly stacked, and his blood still wet on the seat. no signs of a struggle. no signs of bryce.
this is a story about a boy on the edge, unraveling in real time. and a disappearance that feels less like he ran away, and more like the night swallowed him whole.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
27 Oct 2025
home sweet homicide
in a quiet illinois neighborhood, the kind of place where everyone waves and lawns stay trimmed, 22-year-old karla brown was supposed to be safe. instead, her murder turned her basement into a crime scene straight out of a nightmare, a puzzle of rage, obsession, and twisted desire. decades later, the brutality still feels personal. this isn’t just about who killed her… it’s about why.
dark & darling unpacks the horror behind suburbia’s perfect smile. one scream, one secret, one killer at a time.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
23 Oct 2025
the devils toolkit
he wasn’t chaos…he was precision. a serial killer with a toolkit, a map, and zero empathy. israel keyes buried kill kits across america like breadcrumbs for the apocalypse, then picked victims at random, just to prove he could. no pattern. no mercy. no motive, just a man who turned murder into a lifestyle and made the fbi realize they were chasing a ghost who’d already planned his own end.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
21 Oct 2025
the road trip to nowhere
five people. one farm. then a sudden road trip across australia that made no sense. the tromp family fled their home without phones, wallets, or reason. within days, they split up, hiding in fields, stealing cars, and vanishing one by one. was it paranoia, poisoning, or something far darker under that family name? this is the story of australia’s most haunting disappearance… that didn’t stay missing for long.
•music: @demure_piano
•editor: @thechrisslone
•writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
16 Oct 2025
stabbed for fun
a 16-year-old girl. a quiet night of babysitting. and two boys who thought murder would make them famous. cassie jo stoddart never stood a chance, but their twisted “horror movie” made sure we’d never forget her.
•music: @demure_piano
•editor: @thechrisslone
•writer/voice: @urlittlemisfit
13 Oct 2025
righteousness with a trigger finger
a devout man. a perfect family. a house of hymns and gunfire. john list believed god wanted him to kill — and for 18 years, the devil let him get away with it.
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
voice: @urlittlemisfit
5 Oct 2025
the last word was 'oh sh**'
one spring night in 2008, college student brandon swanson drove off a gravel road in rural minnesota - he vanished while still on the phone with his parents. they heard footsteps and sounds in the distant. then, a single word. "oh sh**".
no crash. no struggle. no trace. just a voice swallowed by the dark.
listener discretion, is always advised <3
music: @demure_piano
editor: @thechrisslone
voice: @urlittlemisfit
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