Tales From the Glovebox

About Tales From the Glovebox

Tales From The Glovebox is your ride into real-life mysteries, true crime, and scary stories that follow you home. For Video Episodes, check out our YouTube Channel at youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox Buckle up for true crime, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, and unexplained events that take a dark turn. Each episode will make you check your rearview mirror. If you like MrBallen, Lore, Nexpo, NightMind, Disturbed Podcast, or CreepsMcPasta, you're in the right car.

Publisher

Tales From the Glovebox

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2026

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

57 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   The Death Row Inmate Who Lived Next Door

   A 1992 triple disappearance case from Springfield, Missouri, retold for true crime fans and unsolved mystery listeners who like a case that is still open.In June of 1992, two best friends named Stacy and Suzie graduated high school together. That night, Stacy went back to Suzie's house to sleep over, planning to meet up with friends at a water park the next morning. Suzie lived with her mom, Sherrill, a hairstylist in her forties. The next afternoon, a friend came looking for them and found the front door unlocked. All three women, Stacy, Suzie, and Sherrill, were gone. But everything else was still there. Their cars were parked out front with the keys inside. Their purses were sitting out with cash and IDs untouched. The family dog was in the yard, the TV was on, the beds looked slept in, and a cigarette was still sitting in the ashtray. Nobody packed a bag. The only thing in the whole house that looked wrong was a broken light by the front door.When police arrived, they found almost nothing to go on. There was no blood, no broken windows, no sign of a struggle, and nothing valuable had been taken. Whoever was involved got three women out of that house, including a grown woman with a job and a home, without a single neighbor hearing a scream or a car speeding off. Investigators eventually focused their attention on the porch light. The glass cover over the bulb had been smashed, with a few pieces still stuck in the fixture, but there was no broken glass anywhere on the ground.Not long after the women vanished, a name kept coming up around town, a former Army Ranger named Robert Cox who had recently moved back to Springfield. Years earlier in Florida, Cox had been convicted of killing a young woman and sentenced to death, but a court later threw out the conviction over thin evidence and he walked free. Now he was living in the same town where three women had just disappeared overnight. Police took a hard look at him. He had an alibi, his girlfriend at the time, and at first she backed his story. Then she changed it. But Cox had a second alibi ready, this time his parents, and investigators could never place him at the house. Years later, sitting in prison on an unrelated charge, Cox told a reporter that the three women were dead and their bodies would never be found. He was never charged in this case and remains only a person of interest. Over the years, the case has sent investigators digging up yards, fields, and even a parking garage at a local university, all without result.The most painful part of this case may be what happened in the very first hours. As word spread that afternoon, as many as twenty worried friends and neighbors moved through the house trying to help. Someone swept up the broken glass from the porch so nobody would step on it. Ashtrays were emptied and cups were washed. A strange message on the answering machine was played for whoever called, then erased before anyone realized it might matter. Whatever clues that house held on day one may have been swept into the trash by people who only wanted to help, hours before anyone understood they were standing in a crime scene. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠ (http://youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox%E2%81%A0)

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   The Men Who Disappeared From Bars

   1990s Indianapolis case about a missing persons pattern and a quiet family property, retold for true crime fans who like a slow reveal.In the early 1990s, just outside Indianapolis, a man named Herb seemed to have it all. He ran a couple of successful thrift stores, he had a wife named Julie and several kids, and the family lived on eighteen acres with a big house and a swimming pool. One afternoon, Herb's thirteen year old son was playing in the woods behind the house and came running back inside. He had found a human skeleton, half buried in the dirt. Herb stayed calm and told the boy it was an old medical skeleton that had belonged to his late father, a doctor, and that he had finally gotten rid of it. The family believed him, and for two more years, nobody thought about those woods again.While that was happening, a different and much quieter story was unfolding across Indianapolis. For years, men had been going missing from the city, the kind of disappearances that never made headlines. A man would go out for the night and simply never come home. Many of these men were gay, and at the time that often meant they were estranged from their families, so some were not reported missing for a long time. Police noticed a pattern building, but with no bodies and no crime scenes, there was almost nothing to work with. Every now and then a man would come forward after barely escaping a violent encounter, but he could rarely say where he had been or who he had been with. Whoever was behind it blended in completely and did not look like a monster at all.The two stories finally crossed when one of the survivors gave investigators new details, including a memory of a house with a large swimming pool. That detail helped narrow the search to the area north of the city, toward eighteen acres with a big house and a pool out back. In June of 1996, while Herb was out of town, his wife Julie gave investigators permission to search the property. They went straight to the woods behind the house, the same woods where Herb's son had found a skeleton two years earlier. This time, they found thousands of bone fragments scattered through the trees, burned, broken, some buried and some lying in the open. Along with the bones were pieces of handcuffs and spent shotgun shells. Investigators eventually recovered close to ten thousand fragments and accounted for at least eleven men, with the real number believed to be twenty five or more. Every one of them had gone missing from Indianapolis, and every one had been on this property the whole time.When police came looking for Herb, he had already driven north into Canada. He took his own life in a provincial park, leaving behind a three page note that talked about his failing marriage and his struggling businesses, and even apologized for spoiling the scenery of the park where he died. He never once mentioned the men whose remains were found on his land. Julie, married to him for twenty five years, has said she never knew. Investigators are still working through the recovered remains today, matching fragments to names and calling families decades later to tell them their son or brother has finally been found. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠ (http://youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox%E2%81%A0)

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   The Phantom Terrorized Texarkana in 1946

   A 1946 unsolved serial attack case from the Texas-Arkansas border, retold for true crime fans and cold case listeners who like a strange ending instead of a clean one.In the spring of 1946, a masked man started attacking couples parked on lonely back roads outside Texarkana, Texas. He wore a white flour sack over his head with two holes torn out for the eyes, and over about ten weeks he attacked eight people, killing five of them and leaving three survivors who barely escaped. The newspapers called him the Phantom, and for almost eighty years, most people have heard that the Phantom was never caught. Two detectives who worked the case would tell you a very different story.The first attack left a young couple alive but badly beaten, and for a while the town believed it was a one time thing. Then the Phantom came back, and this time both victims of a parked couple were killed. A few weeks later, a teenage girl and her boyfriend never made it home. The whole town of Texarkana locked its doors, parents kept their kids inside on weekends, and gun stores sold out fast. Two lawmen, a detective named Tackett and a deputy named Johnson, worked every lead they had and chased down every man in the area with a violent record, but each one came back to nothing.Then in early May, the Phantom did something that broke his own pattern. He shot a man named Stark through the window of his own house while the man sat inside. The man's wife barely escaped. After that, the attacks stopped completely, and the two detectives had less and less to go on. But they kept working the case, and they noticed something nobody else had. Every attack lined up with a stolen car reported nearby around the same time, later found abandoned. That pointed them toward car thieves moving through east Texas, and one name kept coming up, a man named Youell Swinney.The break in the case came from Swinney's wife, Peggy, who talked to investigators in detail about things only someone close to the Phantom could have known. Among the items she handed over was a shirt with the name STARK sewn into the collar, the same Stark who had been shot through his window. It was the direct link the detectives needed. But before it ever reached a courtroom, Peggy changed her mind and refused to testify, and without her, the murder case fell apart. So investigators charged Swinney with the one thing they could prove without her, car theft. As a repeat offender, he was sentenced to life in prison for stealing cars.Then, in 1973, a court reviewed his old convictions, found problems with how they were handled, and threw the sentence out entirely. Youell Swinney walked out of prison a free man. He lived quietly for another twenty years and died in a nursing home in 1994. The Phantom case remains officially unsolved to this day. Not one of the five murders was ever formally closed, and the two detectives who believed they knew the truth went to their graves without an official answer. To this day, true crime researchers and amateur sleuths still argue over whether Swinney acted alone, whether he had help, and whether the case against him would have held up if Peggy had ever taken the stand. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠ (http://youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox%E2%81%A0)

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