Morbid Tourism

In 2019, a 19 year old woman called 911 with a disturbing story - her and her 12 siblings were being confined and tortured by their own parents inside their home in Perris, California. Listen to this week's episode to learn about the Turpin Family.

In the late 70s, two men named Charles Scudder and Joseph Odem moved to the Georgia wilderness and hand-built a brick mansion that they named Corpsewood Manor. Unfortunately for the men, the name would become prophetic when they were murdered inside the home in cold blood just a few years later.

On February 28, 1993, 75 federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms closed in on Mount Carmel, the headquarters of the Branch Dividian religious group. They had an arrest warrant for the group's leader, David Koresh, on suspicions that he was housing an illegal arsenal of weapons. The next 51 days would turn into one of the most famous attacks on Americans by their own government that has ever happened.

In February of 2010, a school shooting perpetrated by a female professor rocked the campus of the University of Alabama Huntsville. This week's episode looks back at all of the warning signs and times that Dr. Amy Bishop slipped through the cracks that allowed her to ultimately carry out a deadly shooting.

In part 2 of the Powell family case, we explore what happened when Josh Powell moved himself and his two young sons away from the home where his wife went missing and back to Washington. Listen now to hear the heartbreaking conclusion.

In December 2009, married mother of two Susan Cox went missing. Her husband returned from an impromptu camping trip with their two sons later that day, but could not account for his wife's whereabouts, and his actions would only get more suspicious from there. Learn about the Powell Family Home in this week's episode.

In the middle of the night on June 19, 1982, James and Virginia Campbell were shot dead in their beds while their 2 grandsons slept on the floor in their room. The culprit wouldn't be discovered until years later when an undercover private investigator got a confession on tape.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard opened up a treatment center called Wilderness Heights in Olalla, Washington. Over the years the locals renamed the center Starvation Heights due to the emaciated people that were seen at the treatment center. Learn about Dr. Linda Hazzard and how her cure-all treatment of fasting lead to the deaths of many of her patients.

On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German disappeared after walking along the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Their bodies were found the next day near the creek bed below the bridge. Police have released audio and video taken by Libby of a man who is believed to be their killer, but the case remains open and unsolved to this day.

The Lutz family moved into the house at 112 Ocean Avenue a year after the DeFeo family murders and immediately started experiencing paranormal activity. They lasted less than 30 days in the home before fleeing in terror. Find out more about the Lutz family's experience in the home and how it was linked directly to the DeFeo family murders in today's episode.

The Amityville Horror House on Long Island has become infamous through a book byJay Anson, but the actual murders that took place there are more than just a story or a movie. This week I cover the DeFeo family murders that laid the groundwork for the stories of the Amityville Horror House.

Ed Gein was an American grave robber and murderer who was caught in 1957. Inside his farmhouse in rural Wisconsin, investigators uncovered a trove of items made out of human skin, bones, and skulls. Learn about the man who inspired countless horror movie characters and the fate of his property on this week's episode.

On the night of September 22nd, 2006, two teenage boys were inspired by the horror movie Scream to carry out the brutal murder of their friend, sixteen year old Cassie Jo Stoddart, while she was housesitting for her aunt and uncle in Pocatello, Idaho.

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were found dead inside their home. Each of them had been been struck in the head with an axe more than 10 times. Lizzie Borden became a household name after the attack and her subsequent trial, and the home remains a tourist attraction more than 125 years after the infamous murders.

In October of 2018, Denise and James Closs were murdered inside their home in Barron, Wisconsin and their 13 year old daughter, Jayme, was missing. A nationwide search ensued for Jayme, but what no one expected was for her to rescue herself after months of being held inside a dirty cabin over 75 miles from her home. Listen to the incredible survival story of Jayme Closs on this week's episode.

In August of 2018, pregnant mother Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella and CeCe Watts, went missing from their suburban Colorado home. Shanann's husband, Chris Watts, went on TV that same night to plea for their safe return. But while the TV cameras were rolling, police were reviewing other footage that would prove damning to Chris Watts. Learn about the Watts family murders in this week's Morbid Tourism episode.

On November 11, 1987, investigators visited a boarding located at 1426 F St. in downtown Sacramento, California run by a matronly woman named Dorothea Puente. They were searching for a missing person who had been a tenant there, but in the garden investigators made a grisly discovery that no one expected.

At midnight onDecember 6, 1991, a police patrolman noticed smoke coming from the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in the Hillside Strip mall in a suburb north of Austin, Texas. When firemen entered the building, they discovered the bodies of 4 teenage girls who had all been shot execution style in the back of the head. Listen to this week's episode to learn more about the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders.

The mansion located at 2475 Glendower in Los Feliz, California sat frozen in time for decades. Mid-century furniture and a Christmas tree with wrapped presents underneath sat inside the home untouched for decades, but why? Legend goes that the furniture belonged to a family who's father went crazy and attacked them with a hammer before killing himself. Listen to this week's episode to learn how much of this legend is fact.

On March 17, 1991, the body of teenage girl Jessica Lyn Keen was found near the back fence of Foster Chapel Cemetary in Plain City, Ohio. Listen to this week's episode to learn about Jessica and the hunt for her killer.

On the night of April 4, 1963, a nineteen-year-old man snuck into the duplex of Olympic skier Sonja McCaskie to find her asleep and alone. What followed is one of the most disturbing crimes of opportunity to ever occur in the Biggest Little City of Reno, Nevada.

I'm June 2008, single bachelor Travis Alexander was found dead in his bathroom by friends; he had been brutally stabbed, his great slit, and shot several days earlier. Learn about the horrific murder of Travis Alexander on this weeks episode.

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On February 17, 1988, sixteen year old David Brom took an axe and attacked his family. Learn the story of the Rochester Axe Murders in this week's episode.

The Yates family were devoutly religous and determined to have as many children as possible, even after Andrea Yates spiraled deeper into a dangerous psychosis. Learn about the tragedy that occurred inside the Yates Family Home in this week's episode.

On the morning of March 25, 2006 Kyle Huff opened fire on a rave after party for seemingly no reason. Learn the story of the Capitol Hill Massacre.

In perhaps the most famous case of Munchausen by proxy syndrome, for decades single mother DeeDee Blanchard forced unnecessary medical treatment on her daughter, Gypsy Rose. Gypsy Rose got her revenge when she met Nick Godejohn online and they concocted a sinister plan.

12-year-old Courtney Sconce was abducted from the corner of Glenhaven Way and Cordova Lane in Rancho Cordova, CA on November 8, 2000. Her body was found later that day 50 miles from where she was abducted. Music from Setuniman & Pcruzn. Sources for this episode include the LA Times and Cinemaholic.