Narco-satanists and the Murder of Mark Kilroy | Podcast & Video

In March, 1989, Mark Kilroy, a pre-med student disappeared from the streets of a Mexican town just across from Brownsville, Texas. What was left of him was discovered in a ranch on the outskirts of Matamoros and the horror that was unearthed there spawned books, and questions; many that have never been answered. | Host - M.P. Pellicer

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What's in the Crawl Space | Unsolved Mysteries

Three true crime stories of unexpected and gruesome discoveries. | Host/Narrator – M.P. Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com

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The Barrel in the Crawl Space | True Crime Mystery

It started during the summer of 1999, when a last minute walk thru from a home buyer uncovers a large, 55- gallon drum hidden in the crawl space of his new home, and what's uncovered inside brings to light a crime that occurred over 30 years before. | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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The Headless Horror | The Murder of Pearl Bryan

A young and pretty farm girl named Pearl Bryan was murdered in 1896. Her headless corpse was found in an orchard, and the trial of her accused killers made headlines across the country however, Pearl's name is so well known in modern times, because it is her spirit that is said to haunt Bobby Mackey's Music World. | Host – M.P. Pellicer

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Haunted Hobie Beach | Miami True Crime Stories

Marlene heads out to Hobie Beach which sits right on the edge of Key Biscayne and is one of the first beaches when driving over the Rickenbacker Causeway from Miami, to conduct a midnight ovilus session. Claims of shadow people and strange noises might coincide with a horrible murder that took place there in the 1980s.

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Manchester Moon Murders | The Moor's Slender Man

It all started on August 18th, 1944 when Sheila Fox a 6-year-old disappeared as she walked home from school. Within the next 4 years 7 other children were attacked or killed, and only one of these incidents was actually solved. The common description of the perpetrator in all the cases was a thin, pale-faced man. | Host – Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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Machete Murder | Miami True Crime Story | Podcast & Video

In June 2015 a young man attending the Job Corp program in South Florida was brutally hacked to death with a machete after being lured into nearby woods where a shallow grave was waiting for him. Learn the circumstances of how this terrible deed came to pass, and how it possibly could have been avoided.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER, 2022
All five of the accused were indicted by a grand jury on 1st degree murder charges in 2015.

Desiray Strickland is the third person to take a plea deal, admitting to playing a role in the brutal killing of Jose Amaya Guardado a Job Corps student in 2015. She was 19 years old when the crime was committed, and she pled guilty to conspiracy to murder in order to avoid a murder charge and two others for battery on officers, which came during her time in custody. She’ll get 15 years in prison, including seven years of credit for time already served. She may be out as early as 2028.

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Lady in the Trunk: Mystery Solved

It was Halloween, 1969, and St. Petersburg police was called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a woman dressed only in a filmy, green nightgown was discovered neatly wrapped in plastic bags, and concealed in a black, steamer trunk near the parking lot of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at 4200 34th Street South.

This case was recently solved in 2023 via DNA. Known as Trunk Lady she was finally given her name. This is her story.

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Legend Tripping Gone Wrong | M.P. Pellicer

A young legend tripper and ghost hunter was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy's Asota Valley. The condition of her body points to a sinister motive for her untimely death.

On April 5, 2024, the 22-year-old told her family she was going ghost hunting when she left her village near Lyon. Police believe it might be connected to a TikTok stunt involving urbex of haunted locations.

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Harvey the Serial Killer | M.P. Pellicer

Perhaps older, but just as lethal, an 83-year-old convicted serial killer was indicted in 2022, for the murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a shopping cart at a Brooklyn street corner.

On March 7, 2022 at Jamaica Avenue near Vermont Street, a passerby saw a very unusual thing inside a discarded tire; it was a severed human leg.

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The Cemetery of Fools | M.P. Pellicer

Bohnice is a district in northern Prague. It is home to a psychiatric hospital built at the beginning of the 20th century. The asylum was one of the largest in Europe. Small houses surround a large park with an Art Noveau church. However what attracts tourists and legend trippers is the cemetery that received the dead for fifty years.

The six acre parcel of land is known as the Cemetery of Fools. Like many asylums built during these years, it had its own graveyard. Patients from the hospital were buried there from 1909 to 1951. Originally it was used for the patients' children, but eventually the inmates were buried there as well.

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The Nurse and The Hand of Death | M.P. Pellicer

In the fall of 1923, a woman's savagely beaten body was found under the portico of the deserted Hussey Mansion at Center Avenue and Cypress Street, adjacent to the Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburgh. Underneath her body was found an envelope with the "hand of death", consisting of the playing cards an ace, a deuce, a tray of diamonds and the five of spades.

The woman's body was discovered by Alexander McGonigle when he was walking across the property.

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Wyoming's Wraiths and Outlaws | M.P. Pellicer

Wyoming Frontier Prison is known as The Old Pen, with a reputation of being the most haunted prison in the state. Of all the inmates that were held there, one of the most grisly and psychopathic was Andrew Pixley who was executed in the gas chamber in 1965. It's claimed he's not moved on from where he met his demise and justice was served. However the area is rich in a history of bloodthirsty outlaws.

In 1872, desperadoes caught breaking the law in Wyoming were sent to serve their sentence at the Wyoming Territorial Prison, which opened in 1872 as a U.S. Penitentiary on 190 acres. Later it became Wyoming's first State Penitentiary. For the next 30 years it was known as the "Big House Across the River".

 

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The Millionaire and the Telephone Girl | M.P. Pellicer

Two officers of the bicycle police brigade of Fresnes-sur-Marne were patrolling the road to Claye, when they came in the night upon a smoldering hayrick in a field belonging to Farmer Ernet. Under the rick about 100 feet off the main road and up a cart track, they smelled the odor of burning flesh. It was the body of a slender girl, and it was obvious by the charring of her body someone had set her on fire.

On August 13, 1926, a Friday, the police in the French city of Freses-sur-Marne were trying to solve what was dubbed by the press as the "Friday the 13th" murder. The body of a young girl was found in a burning haystack near a lonely road. The girl was strangled and the fire was assumed to have been started to conceal the crime.

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The Wicked Stepmother | M.P. Pellicer

Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson.

Jacob Hoge, 48, a baggage manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad told police that his son Joseph, 21, sat on a steamer struck while waiting for an express man to remove it. He thought it was odd, but not as odd as the fact that he couldn't find his wife. He'd only been married 10 months, and he hurried home from work like the newlywed he was. His first wife Sarah, mother of his children, had died in 1929.

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Folk Ritual Magic Gone Wrong | M.P. Pellicer

It was the dark of night on Thanksgiving Day 1928, when three farmers stole into the house of another man located in York County's Rehmeyer's Hollow. They tortured and murdered Nelson Rehmeyer, spurred by the belief that he was a witch doctor steeped in the old Dutch mysticism known as Pow-Wows.

In 1820, John George Hohman, a German author penned a book titled The Long Lost Friend, which was composed of a "collection of mysterious arts and remedies for man as well as animals." There were spells, recipes and talismans to be used as cures including domestic troubles. It served as the blueprint for folk magic practiced by the Pennsylvania Dutch known as pow-wowing.

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A Rose on the Grave | M.P. Pellicer

Arlis Perry, 19, was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church two weeks before Halloween, 1974. Her body was posed and mutilated in what appeared to be some type of ritual murder. Decades would pass before the identity of her killer would become known, however questions still lingered.

California, 1974
Arlis grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota and married her high school sweetheart Bruce D. Perry. Both of them attended the same high school and were popular students. Arlis was a cheerleader and Bruce, the son of Dr. Duncan Perry a dentist, had played sports. They both belonged to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. During his year as a freshman in Stanford, Bruce corresponded with his fiancée, and he came back home to tie the knot and return with his bride to continue his studies. They had an apartment at Quinnel Hall, a residence on the campus for married students.

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Louise's Last Resting Place | M.P. Pellicer

​In 1966, Louise Pietrewicz disappeared without a trace. The mystery of her whereabouts appeared to be solved with the discovery of a woman’s remains found in a burlap sack on Long Island.

October, 1966

Louise was in a troubled marriage, and after 16 years she had separated from her husband, and moved to her parents' home in Sagaponack. She took her 11-year-old daughter Sandy with her, with plans to leave to Florida. And then the 38-year-old disappeared after withdrawing close to $2,000 from her bank account. When her purse was recovered a week later on the shoulder of Route 25, with a WWII bond and her Social Security card inside, it should have raised concern on the part of the authorities. Instead they treated the case as a missing person and not a murder, and the local newspaper took no notice of it.

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Descent into Madness | M.P. Pellicer

It was the day after Christmas, 1929 when newspapers in North Carolina carried the disturbing news of a father who had annihilated his entire family. Sixty years would pass before the motive of this heartless act would be learned.

His name was Charles Davis Lawson, and within a day of this horrific crime authorities were trying to understand what caused him to do away with his wife and six children.

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Skeleton in the Chimney | M.P. Pellicer

It was Labor Day weekend and Steve Liethen owner of the Good 'N Loud Music in Dane County, Wisconsin was fixing a water leak after a boiler was removed. When he shone a light into the chimney the last thing he expected to see was a human skull.

Dane County, Wisconsin, September 3, 1989

A construction crew made a hole at the base of the chimney to remove the remains. They also found a shoe, pieces of clothing and a 6-inch clump of intact reddish-brown hair.

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