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Shadows In The PinesRobert Picton - Part 4 - The OutcomeRobert Pickton — Part Four: The Outcome
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The search of the farm expands.
What began as a firearms warrant becomes one of the largest and most expensive crime scene investigations in Canadian history.
In Part Four of our Robert Pickton series, we walk through the excavation of seventeen acres in Port Coquitlam — the slaughterhouse, the freezer, the buckets beneath it, the pig pens, the industrial grinder, and the rendering plant connection that triggered nationwide fear.
Investigators recovered fragments.
Human tissue on hooks.
A severed head identified as Mona Wilson.
Dismembered remains stored beneath a freezer.
A jawbone in a pig...
2026-02-221h 21
Shadows In The PinesMini Pines - The Red Light Of The Silver ValleyEpisode Title: The Red Light of the Silver Valley
For nearly a century, the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho operated one of the most openly tolerated red-light districts in the American West — not in secret, not underground, but woven directly into the fabric of the community.
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step back into the boomtown chaos of the 1890s, when silver ruled the Silver Valley and Avenue A became home to a line of brothels that would define Wallace’s identity for generations.
We explore:
• The rise of the district during the mining boom
• The powe...
2026-02-2136 min
Shadows In The PinesRobert Pickton - Part 3- The WomenShadows in the Pines — Willie Pickton Part Three: The Women
By 1999, this was no longer rumor.
The names were stacking.
Women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were disappearing within a compressed window of time. Families were reporting them missing. Friends were organizing their own searches. Bad date lists were circulating. And inside police departments, files were beginning to feel less isolated.
In this episode, we move from suspicion to escalation.
We cover:
• The anonymous tip naming Willie Pickton
• The prior attempted murder charge that never went to trial
• Witnesses who describe women’s belongings inside his trailer
• Accounts of what allegedly happ...
2026-02-151h 19
Shadows In The PinesRobert Pickton - Part 2 - The Horrors ContinueEPISODE DESCRIPTION — PART TWO
In Part Two of our three-part series on Robert William Pickton, we move beyond the missing women and into the place where everything converged: the farm.
This episode examines daily life on the Pickton property—how it functioned, who passed through it, and why so many warning signs went unchallenged for years. We look closely at the family dynamics between Robert, his siblings, and their parents, and how neglect, isolation, and dysfunction shaped the environment long before police ever took notice.
We also unpack...
2026-02-081h 42
Shadows In The PinesMini Pines - The Centennial TrailThe Centennial Trail: A Walk from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene
This is not a travel guide.
It’s not a history lecture.
And it’s not about distance.
This episode is a slow, full-length walk along the Centennial Trail — a gentle, continuous journey following the Spokane River from the heart of Spokane, Washington, to the still waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Moving mile by mile, the episode traces how water shaped a city, how industry rose and fell along its banks, and how quiet returns when the noise fades. From the roar of Spokane Falls to the long middl...
2026-02-0638 minShadows In The PinesRobert “Willie” Pickton - Horrors On The FarmEpisode Description — Robert Pickton: The Horrors on the Farm (Part One)
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we begin our deep-dive into one of the most disturbing and devastating cases in Canadian history — the crimes of Robert Pickton.
Before the headlines.
Before the farm.
Before the missing women became numbers.
Part One focuses on the origins of the Pickton family and the environment that shaped what would later unfold. We examine Robert Pickton’s early life, his upbringing alongside siblings Linda and David...
2026-02-011h 47
Shadows In The PinesIsrael Keyes - Part 4 - What He Took With HimIsrael Keyes — Part 4: What He Took With Him
In Part 4 of our deep-dive into Israel Keyes, the violence stops moving — but the damage doesn’t.
After his arrest, Keyes enters federal custody not as a confessed murderer, but as a fraud suspect tied to a missing woman. What follows is not a breakdown, but a negotiation. Over months of FBI interviews, investigators attempt to determine the true scope of his crimes while Keyes carefully controls what he will — and will not — reveal.
In this episode, we walk step by step through:
•The early interviews conducted while Samantha Koenig was still officially m...
2026-01-241h 09
Shadows In The PinesThe History Of The Davenport HotelThe Davenport Hotel: History, Hauntings, and the Shadows of Spokane
In the heart of downtown Spokane stands the Davenport Hotel — a landmark synonymous with elegance, ambition, and a century of Pacific Northwest history. But beneath the polished marble floors and grand ballrooms lies a quieter legacy, shaped by loss, transition, and stories that refuse to fade.
In this episode, we explore the full history of the Davenport Hotel — from its early days as a symbol of modern luxury, through financial collapse, abandonment, restoration, and rebirth. Along the way, we examine the people who lived, worked, and died within its walls, and...
2026-01-2132 min
Shadows In The PinesIsrael Keyes - Part 3 -The UnravelingEpisode 3 — The Unraveling
In Episode 3 of Shadows in the Pines, the investigation finally gains traction — not through a witness or a confession, but through a debit card.
As ransom-linked ATM withdrawals begin appearing outside Alaska, investigators shift from reacting to a disappearance to tracking a moving trail. Each transaction produces a timestamp, a location, and eventually a pattern — one that leads across state lines and narrows onto a single vehicle.
This episode follows that trail step by step:
the financial data, the surveillance footage, the emergence of a BOLO, and the Texas traffic stop that ends the movement investigators had been f...
2026-01-181h 26
Shadows In The PinesIsrael Keyes - Part 2 The Curriers & Samantha KoenigIsrael Keyes – Part Two: The Curriers & Samantha Koenig
In Part Two, the distance becomes the weapon.
After leaving Alaska, Israel Keyes travels thousands of miles to rural Vermont, where a quiet farmhouse becomes the site of the abduction and murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier—a crime with no bodies, no traditional crime scene, and only the details he would later choose to reveal.
From Vermont, the story returns to Alaska, where a deliberate cooling-off period follows. Ordinary life resumes. Work continues. And beneath that surface, something far more calculated is taking shape.
This episode also examines the crimes that ran...
2026-01-101h 29
Shadows In The PinesMini Pines - Roy Olmstead, The Gentlemen bootleggerRoy Olmstead was one of the most successful bootleggers in American history — and one of the least suspected.
Known as The Gentleman Bootlegger, Olmstead built a sprawling Prohibition-era liquor empire across the Pacific Northwest while presenting himself as a polite, soft-spoken family man. He bribed officials, coordinated fleets of boats and trucks, and moved massive quantities of alcohol through Washington state — all while avoiding violence and cultivating an image of respectability.
In this episode, we trace Olmstead’s rise from Seattle police officer to criminal mastermind, examine how his operation functioned with near-military precision, and explore the federal investigation that ultima...
2026-01-0830 min
Shadows In The PinesIsrael Keyes - Part 1 Preparation With PurposeIn Part One of our three-part series on Israel Keyes, we examine how preparation became a way of life.
Long before any known murder, Israel Keyes was laying groundwork — not impulsively, not emotionally, but deliberately. Raised in extreme isolation and shaped by rigid authority, he learned early how to exist without drawing attention, how to test boundaries quietly, and how to move through the world without leaving impressions.
This episode focuses on environment and conditioning: his upbringing in rural Washington, the influence of an insular and authoritarian church, years of unnoticed boundary-testing behavior, military service, and the carefully maintained normalcy of...
2026-01-031h 25
Shadows In The PinesThe Bizarre Case of Flypaper LydaFlypaper Lyda — Idaho’s First Serial Killer
At the turn of the twentieth century, sickness was a part of everyday life. People got ill at home, doctors offered few answers, and deaths—especially slow ones—were rarely questioned. That silence created the perfect conditions for something far more dangerous to hide in plain sight.
This episode tells the story of Lyda Southard, often cited as Idaho’s first documented serial killer. Over the course of years, husbands and family members grew sick and died under eerily similar circumstances. Each death, on its own, seemed ordinary. Together, they revealed a pattern no one was...
2025-12-271h 24
Shadows In The PinesThe Dark Lore of Yule🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore
Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated.
In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunger, and darkness were unforgiving.
We begin with Krampus, the horned enforcer of the Alpine regions — not as a novelty figure, but as a sy...
2025-12-251h 27Shadows In The PinesThe Dark Lore of Yule🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore
Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated.
In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunger, and darkness were unforgiving.
We begin with Krampus, the horned enforcer of the Alpine regions — not as a novelty figure, but as a sy...
2025-12-251h 27
Shadows In The PinesJesse Lee CalhounBetween late 2022 and mid-2023, the bodies of multiple women were discovered across Oregon and southern Washington—found weeks apart, across jurisdictions, and under circumstances that initially appeared unrelated.
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we examine the case of Jesse Lee Calhoun, an Oregon man charged with the murders of four women, with a fifth death remaining legally uncharged.
This episode unfolds deliberately and chronologically. We begin with the fragmented early discoveries and the slow convergence of investigations across county and state lines. We then take a deep dive into who Jesse Lee Calhoun is—what is publicly know...
2025-12-201h 06
Shadows In The PinesDonna Perry - The Spokane River Murders Part 2Donna Perry — Part Two: The Investigation Closes In
In Part Two of the Donna Perry case, investigators begin to connect what first appeared to be isolated tragedies along the Spokane River. As tips surface and witness statements sharpen, law enforcement zeroes in on a suspect whose movements, behaviors, and history raise disturbing red flags.
This episode follows the methodical unraveling of the case — from the early investigative missteps and public fear, to the breakthrough moments that finally give detectives a direction forward. We examine how forensic evidence, survivor testimony, and behavioral analysis converge, leading to an arrest that shocks the comm...
2025-12-131h 06
Shadows In The PinesMini Pines - St. Ignacious HospitalStepping inside St. Ignatius Hospital isn’t like walking into a building… it’s like walking into everything it refused to forget. 🕯️
Shadows in the Pines returns to Colfax with our full paranormal case file.
If you love abandoned places, this one stays with you.
#stignatius #stignatiushospital #colfaxwa #hauntedhospital #pnwhaunted #paranormalpodcast #shadowsinthepines #minipines #truecrimepodcast #ghoststories #hauntedplaces
2025-12-1037 min
Shadows In The PinesDonna Perry - The Spokane River Murders Part 1Donna Perry: The Spokane River Murders
In the early 1990s, a series of women vanished along the margins of Spokane’s sex-work corridor. Their bodies surfaced near the riverbanks—discarded, unidentified, and quickly forgotten by a system that never protected them. For decades, the files sat unsolved. No witnesses. No fingerprints. No suspect who made sense.
But time has a way of exposing what people try to bury.
This episode follows the case from the discovery of the first victim, through the slow, meticulous investigative steps that finally revealed a name detectives didn’t expect—and a past that had been del...
2025-12-061h 10
Shadows In The PinesMini Pines - The PNW VibeStep beneath the canopy and into the shadows of the Pacific Northwest, where the forest breathes, the silence listens, and the land remembers every story ever buried beneath its trees. In this extended 45-minute feature hosted by Bekah, Mini Pines goes deeper than ever into the region’s oldest folklore — from the silent zones where sound disappears, to the watchers who stand between the trees, to the mimic voices and whistlers that lure travelers off the path.
We explore the Still Ones of the old logging camps, the strange lights that drift through the forest at night, the spirits believed to g...
2025-12-0330 min
Shadows In The PinesForest Park - The Murders of Larry Peyton & Beverly AllanForest Park carries darkness in a way that feels deliberate. On the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1960, nineteen-year-olds Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan left for an ordinary night at Portland’s brand-new Lloyd Center…and never made it home. By the next day, Larry’s Ford was found abandoned off a remote turnout in Forest Park, his body inside, the driver’s door ajar. Beverly was gone.
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we trace the case from that silent turnout above the city to a ravine along US-26 where Beverly’s body was found weeks later. We walk through the crime...
2025-12-021h 16
Shadows In The PinesSorry ListenersDue to unforeseen circumstances outside of our control we are unable to upload this weeks episode on Saturday as planned, we are working hard to release it asap
2025-11-2903 min
Shadows In The PinesJerry Brudos The Oregon Lust Killer Pt. 3In this episode we rap up the case of Jerry Brudos, The Oregon Lust Killer.
2025-11-2256 min
Shadows In The PinesJerry Brudos The Oregon Lust Killer Pt. 2In Part Two of The Jerry Brudos Case, Dan Morgan and Bekah Haler take you deeper into the cold heart of Oregon’s most disturbing serial killer.
This episode traces the escalation — from Jan Susan Whitney’s disappearance to the abduction and murder of Karen Sprinker, and finally, Linda Salee. We break down the patterns, the staging, the trophies, and the chilling rituals carried out inside Brudos’s garage while his family lived just feet away.
You’ll follow the victims’ stories, the growing panic in Salem, the early investigative missteps, and the moment detectives realized they were facing something far darker t...
2025-11-1554 min
Shadows In The PinesJerry Brudos The Oregon Lust Killer Pt.1He called himself a photographer.
But what Jerry Brudos was really capturing… was control.
In The Oregon Lust Killer – Part One, we trace the disturbing evolution of a man whose quiet suburban life hid a violent obsession. From a childhood twisted by resentment and shame, to his escalating fixation on women’s shoes, underwear, and power — this episode dives deep into the making of a predator.
Then, in 1968, nineteen-year-old Linda Kay Slawson knocked on his door selling encyclopedias.
She never walked back out.
This is where the murders began.
This is where the Pacific Northwest’s most disturbing story takes shape.
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2025-11-081h 15
Shadows In The PinesTube Sock Killer🎙️ Episode 4 – The Tube Sock Killings
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In the winter forests of Washington, couples vanished without a sound. Their bodies surfaced miles apart, staged, and bound by a single detail — a white tube sock.
Between 1985 and 1986, two double murders shocked the Pacific Northwest and left investigators chasing a phantom through miles of logging roads, rivers, and rain-soaked timberland.
No suspect. No motive. No closure.
This episode of Shadows in the Pines unravels the complete story of the Tube Sock Killings — from the last known moments of Steven Harkins and Ruth Cooper to the discovery of Michael Reichert and Diana Robertson — and follows the d...
2025-11-011h 00
Shadows In The PinesThe South Hill RapistIn the early 1980s, Spokane’s quiet South Hill neighborhood became the hunting ground of one of the most notorious sexual predators in Pacific Northwest history. Women were attacked in broad daylight, ambushed on familiar streets, and left terrified of walking alone in their own city. This episode of Shadows in the Pines unravels the chilling story of Kevin Coe—the so-called “South Hill Rapist.” Through court records, victim testimony, and investigative reporting, we trace his double life as a polished, privileged local who hid a monstrous secret. From the first assaults to the community-wide panic, from his sensational trial to his d...
2025-10-251h 21
Shadows In The PinesKing Road Murders Part 2
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Shadows in the Pines: The King Road Murders – Part Two
Title: The Investigation Begins
After four lives are brutally taken inside an off-campus home on King Road, the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho, is left in shock — and searching for answers.
In Part Two, Shadows in the Pines pulls back the curtain on the early days of the investigation: the frantic search for clues, the white Elantra that would ignite national attention, and the digital breadcrumbs that began to narrow the scope of th...
2025-10-181h 10Shadows In The PinesKing Road Murders Prt 2
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Shadows in the Pines: The King Road Murders – Part Two
Title: The Investigation Begins
After four lives are brutally taken inside an off-campus home on King Road, the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho, is left in shock — and searching for answers.
In Part Two, Shadows in the Pines pulls back the curtain on the early days of the investigation: the frantic search for clues, the white Elantra that would ignite national attention, and the digital breadcrumbs that began to narrow the sc...
2025-10-181h 102025-10-1858 min