The Unlovely Truth

It’s definitely an unlovely truth that any one of us can become a victim of a stalker, and the crime is much more widespread than you might think. An estimated 6 to 7.5 MILLION people are stalked each year in the U.S....

Being stalked was turning Dave Kroupa’s life upside down. The one person who was always there for him was Liz. He could never have dreamed that she was also the person who was tearing his life apart. Our book this...

Dave Kroupa liked women, but didn’t want to be tied down to just one. In 2012, he met a woman online named Shanna Elizabeth Golyar who went by "Liz". Against his better judgment, they formed a close bond when a woman...

We all love to play armchair detective while watching our favorite true crime show. But how would you feel if you had to do REAL detective work so you could catch your own stalker? Skylar Galloway feels sure that if...

Where are Bryan Dos Santos-Gomes, Jocelyn Turcios, and Branson Perry? That’s exactly what their desperate families want to know.  If you are listening from Florida, Tennessee, or Missouri I hope you’ll pay special...

Since we’re friends, I wanted to give you a Christmas gift! Some of us in the Spark Podcast Network got together to share our thoughts about Christmas with you. I hope you enjoy this opportunity to get a sampling of...

It’s almost Christmas and I hope you are all as excited as I am! As we wrap up the last of the gifts for our loved ones, let’s give three families the gift of hope - the hope that by highlighting three more cold cases...

According to the FBI, at the end of 2020, the National Crime Information Center had almost 90,000 active missing persons cases entered into its data bank. That number absolutely blows my mind, and I hope it does yours...

We all have some stress at the holidays, but nobody more than families with murdered or missing loved ones. This December, I’m going to share with you what I’m calling the 12 Cases of Christmas - unsolved homicides...

Like me, Ellen McGarrahan never set out to be a private investigator. She had a great career as a reporter until the day she witnessed an execution. Then people started talking about the possibility that out of the...

There are SO MANY true crime podcasts that you could be listening to so I really want to say thank you for making time in your busy schedule to listen to me. I hope that you’ve learned some things you didn’t know,...

Danny Hohenstein would probably have benefitted from some time in a more structured environment than his alcoholic mom was giving him. She once lost track of him for three days, forgetting that she’d left him at a...