Spokane has plenty of ghost stories. But how much of what gets repeated is actually documented? In this episode of Mini Pines, Bekah explores five of Spokane’s reportedly haunted locations, including the Bing Crosby Theater and the Davenport Hotel. We’re talking historic theaters, grand mansions, and hotel rooms with stories of tragedy and unexplained encounters attached to them. Join us as we look at the history, the folklore, and the real people behind these local legends.
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5 Oct 2026
Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg - Part 2 - The Outcome
For more than thirty years, the DNA profile investigators called “Individual A” had no name.
In the second half of our investigation into the murders of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, the case finally begins to move.
After decades of dead ends, investigators turn to new DNA technology and forensic genetic genealogy. A GEDmatch upload produces distant family connections, genealogist CeCe Moore begins building family trees, and those branches eventually converge on a man investigators had never previously identified as a suspect: William Earl Talbott II.
But genealogy could only give investigators a lead. They still had to prove the DNA belonged to him.
That proof would come from a discarded paper cup.
From there, we examine who Talbott was, the evidence prosecutors brought into the courtroom, the arguments his defense made, and evidence developed during the trial that the jury never heard. We follow the case through Talbott’s conviction and sentencing—and then through a stunning legal reversal involving one of the jurors who convicted him.
That reversal wouldn’t be the end.
The Washington Supreme Court would eventually reinstate Talbott’s convictions, and years of additional appellate litigation would follow before his convictions for the murders of Jay and Tanya ultimately remained intact.
But even after an arrest, a trial, two murder convictions and decades of forensic work, there are pieces of November 1987 that remain unknown.
Because solving who murdered Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg is not the same thing as knowing everything that happened to them.
And a conviction can provide an answer.
It can never give a family back the person they lost.
Shadows in the Pines — Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg, Part Two
3 Oct 2026
When The Northwest Goes Dark
As October approaches, the Pacific Northwest seems to take on a different feeling. The days grow shorter, the shadows stretch longer, and old stories seem to come alive.
Join me for a fireside journey through Northwest folklore, mysterious waters, legendary creatures, haunted places, and the stories woven into the landscape around Spokane.
Because maybe the Northwest isn’t haunted…
Maybe it simply has a very long memory.
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