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  • Hansel and Gretel: Matthew Hoffman and the House of Leaves

    Hansel and Gretel: Matthew Hoffman and the House of Leaves
    2026/10/26
    In November 2010, a mother, her two children and a family friend seemingly vanished from a home in Apple Valley, Ohio. The investigation would lead police from an abandoned pickup truck to a stranger in a parking lot, a trail of unusual purchases, and eventually a small house in Mount Vernon, unlike anything they expected to find. Inside, the floors were covered in leaves - and somewhere in the house, police made a discovery that completely changed the case. For this episode of Serial Nightmare, we're returning to the dark forests of Hansel and Gretel through the disturbing crimes of Matthew Hoffman, a case involving a house in the woods, a trail investigators had to follow, and two siblings whose story would end very differently from the fairy tale. Sources: https://abcnews.com/US/bodies-missing-people-found-ohio-police/story?id=12184250 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-girl-found-alive-bound-no-word-on-others/ https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbus-oh/tina-herrmann-10670725 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/tina-herrmann-maynard-obituary?id=9269815 https://vindyarchives.com/news/2010/nov/13/authorities-seeking-4-missing-from-home/ https://abcnews.com/US/missing-ohio-family-prompts-college-lockdown-search/story?id=12139637 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-family-mourned-murdered-mother-son-friend-remembered-ahead-of-funerals/ https://www.aetv.com/articles/killer-matthew-hoffman-victims-in-tree https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ng/date/2010-11-18/segment/01 https://tfpl.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/Newspapers/Times-News_2010-11/PDF/2010_11_21.pdf https://www.wosu.org/news/2010-11-19/bodies-of-three-missing-knox-county-residents-found https://www.thehour.com/norwalk/article/Bodies-of-missing-Ohio-family-found-8297265.php https://legalclarity.org/the-tina-herrmann-murders-rescue-trial-and-aftermath/ https://websleuths.com/threads/oh-two-women-child-killed-13yo-abducted-apple-valley-10-nov-2010-9.120603/page-16 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
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    59 分
  • Rumpelstiltskin: The Radium Girls | The Deadly Price of the Glow

    Rumpelstiltskin: The Radium Girls | The Deadly Price of the Glow
    2026/10/24
    What if the miracle everyone wanted came with a price no one bothered to tell you about? At the beginning of the twentieth century, radium seemed almost magical. It was rare, extraordinarily valuable and celebrated as a scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine, consumer products and even something as ordinary as a watch. During World War I, young women were hired to paint luminous numbers onto watches and military instruments using radium-based paint. The jobs were coveted. The pay was good, the work was considered glamorous, and the women were taught a simple technique to keep their tiny brushes sharp: Lip. Dip. Paint. They were told it was safe. Then the women began getting sick. Teeth loosened. Jaws deteriorated. Bones fractured. Mysterious illnesses appeared years after some of them had left the factories. When the women began questioning whether their work was responsible, they found themselves fighting not only for their lives, but to be believed. Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tuesday-ferry-boat-survivor-radium-girls-author-no-possum-drop-and-more-1.2941016/remembering-mae-keane-the-last-of-the-radium-girls-1.2941019 https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRkeghENceY https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/#:~:text=Marie%20extracted%20pure%20radium%20salts,purified%20and%20converted%20into%20chlorides. https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/04/the-radium-girls-at-the-national-archives/ https://www.dolphin-geoscience.ca/resources/death-by-numbers-the-mysterious-illness-of-the-dial-painters https://home.nps.gov/articles/000/b-reactor-health-physics-exhibit-an-order-for-safety.htm 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
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  • Red Riding Hood: The Lin Family | The Wolf Was Already Inside

    Red Riding Hood: The Lin Family | The Wolf Was Already Inside
    2026/10/21
    In July 2009, fifteen-year-old Brenda Lin left her home in Sydney, Australia, for a school trip to New Caledonia. When she returned, her entire immediate family was gone. Her parents, Min and Lily Lin, her twelve-year-old brother Henry, her nine-year-old brother Terry, and her aunt Irene had all been murdered inside the family's quiet North Epping home. There was no obvious forced entry. The electricity had been cut. Nothing significant appeared to have been stolen. And whoever moved through the darkened house seemed to know exactly where they were going. At first, police looked everywhere for an explanation. An armed robbery connected to the family's business. Financial dealings in China. Organized crime. Even the possibility of professional killers. But as the investigation stretched from months into years, detectives began looking much closer to home. What followed was an extraordinary investigation involving secret surveillance, bloody shoeprints, a tiny and fiercely contested DNA stain, an alleged improvised murder weapon, undercover officers, a jailhouse informant, and a family relationship that was far more complicated than investigators first understood. Sources: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-20/sydney-murders-dead-dad-witnessed-armed-robbery/1360030 https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archive/articles/2009/12/17/s2775222.htm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-11/xie-trial-told-blood-stain-linked-to-lin-family-murder/6461520 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-29/murdered-sydney-boys-involved-in-struggle-robert-xie-trial-hears/7552572 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
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    54 分
  • Cinderella: Sophie Lionnet | The Nanny Trapped Inside a Deadly Delusion

    Cinderella: Sophie Lionnet | The Nanny Trapped Inside a Deadly Delusion
    2026/10/19
    When 20-year-old Sophie Lionnet left France for London, she hoped working as an au pair would give her a little independence, help her improve her English, and allow her to build a future working with children. Instead, she found herself inside a home increasingly consumed by suspicion. Sophie's employer, Sabrina Kouider, had spent years making extraordinary accusations against a former boyfriend, Mark Walton, a former member of the original Boyzone lineup. She believed he was stalking her, hacking her accounts and somehow interfering with her life, even after he had moved thousands of miles away. Eventually, Sabrina's suspicions turned toward Sophie. There was just one rather enormous problem. Sophie had never met Mark Walton. But inside the house on Wimbledon Park Road, the truth became increasingly irrelevant. Sources: https://expressdigest.com/chilling-audio-tapes-reveal-murdered-nannys-interrogation-ordeal/ https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/francaise-au-pair-tuee-a-londres-sophie-lionnet-temoignages-amis-elle-etait-la-gentillesse-personnifiee-2065271.html https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2018/0524/965702-sabrina-kouider-ouissem-medouni/ https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2018/04/17/proces-lionnet-a-londres-j-aurais-du-lui-acheter-un-billet-et-la-renvoyer-chez-elle_5286481_1653578.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/19/french-nannys-body-was-thrown-on-a-bonfire-jurors-told https://www.itv.com/news/london/2018-05-24/nanny-verdict-sophie-lionnet-ripe-for-exploitation-by-abusive-employers-court-told https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/sophie-lionnet-murder-couple-jailed-for-life-over-murder-of-french-nanny-lose-appeal-bids-a4150016.html https://decider.com/2026/09/18/the-seemingly-perfect-family-movie-true-story-sophie-lionnet-netflix-lifetime/ https://news.sky.com/story/couple-guilty-of-murdering-french-nanny-sophie-lionnet-11383710 https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/obseques-de-sophie-lionnet-on-va-commencer-a-faire-notre-deuil_AN-201806070035.html https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-dernier-adieu-a-sophie-lionnet-06-06-2018-7757349.php 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
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    59 分
  • Snow White: Alexandra Pesic | And Her Wicked Mother-in-Law

    Snow White: Alexandra Pesic | And Her Wicked Mother-in-Law
    2026/10/15
    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
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    1 時間 7 分
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Girl in the Box | Colleen Stan

    Beauty and the Beast: The Girl in the Box | Colleen Stan
    2026/10/12
    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
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Goldilocks: The Boy Behind the Wall | Daniel LaPlante

    Goldilocks: The Boy Behind the Wall | Daniel LaPlante
    2026/10/02
    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
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    54 分
  • Inside the Disturbing World of the “Vampire King of Fresno”

    Inside the Disturbing World of the “Vampire King of Fresno”
    2026/09/29
    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
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    59 分