Darkest Mysteries Online — The Strange and Unusual Podcast 2025
50 Straight Minutes Of Bing-worthy And Disturbing Crime Stories
21 Dec 2025
50 Straight Minutes Of Bing-worthy And Disturbing Crime StoriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/darkest-mysteries-online-the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-2025--5684156/support.Darkest Mysteries Online
Chapter 1: What disturbing true crime story begins the episode?
What is the most disturbing true crime story you know? Well, this happened around 20,142,015. If I remember correctly here in Switzerland. I find it especially disturbing since it was right about two villages away from where I live and many people knew the victim personally. Also, you never hear a story like this in Switzerland.
It started with a news article about a house burning down and I remember a friend in my class telling me it's the house of his friend. And both their families were really close for years. A day later, when they managed to put the fire down, they discovered five corpses inside. Turns out a guy held them hostage in their own house and would compel the mother to withdraw a lot of money.
Later, the security footage is very released in which you could see how nervous and traumatized she looked. He ended up stealing around 10-0 as a far. Worst part is it was a whole family. The mother of three sons aged 9, 13 and 17 and the girlfriend of the oldest brother. Autopsies later have shown that the three sons have been raped multiple times, probably in front of the other's eyes.
The offender was caught until two years later in the middle of the city with weapons and staff to torture people. Really horrible story. I remember my friend's mom mourning and sobbing for days. I did. I searched the case up and it didn't went down exactly as I remembered. Apparently, it is one of the most notable crimes in Swiss history. Anyway, here is the article if you're interested.
Reports for murder case link just got done reading about as in barrels the Snowtown murders. Long story short, John Bunting, in with the help of a few friends, tortured, killed and dismembered 11 people, putting their bodies in large plastic barrels and keeping them for years. By the end, he had run out of room for them, so he rented an old bank and stored the barrels in a vault.
John Bunting had no sense of smell, so he got caught. When the stench eventually got so bad it permeated through a vault and neighbours complained. Apparently, he enjoyed stirring up the decomposing human soup. I left out a lot of details, but you should totally read the book. It's pretty good and pretty fucked up. Magdalena Salas, the High Priestess of Blood in 1963.
The brothers Santos and Cayetano Hernandez, a pair of petty criminals, devised a scam to swindle the population of the small farming town of Yerba Buena. They proclaimed themselves high priests of the old Inca gods and that they would bring bountiful harvest and treasure to the town in exchange for donations, food and sometimes sex.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the Swiss true crime case involving a family?
When the harvest and treasures failed to turn up, the villagers began to grow angry and suspicious. So the brothers went to Monterey in search of a prostitute they could pay to act as part of a goddess in the forest and made contact with Magdalena. What no one counted on was that Magdalena was insane and would quickly come to believe that she was indeed the priestess of the blood god.
only days after her arrival. Magdano took over the cult and sacrificed two of the townsfolk. More human sacrifices followed, and Magdano began to drink the blood of the victims. She forced the Hernandez brothers to drink too, and soon they came to believe that she really was awakened in a godlike way.
For six weeks straight, they butchered and consumed victims, with the surrounding townsfolk sharing in a feast on blood or just that followed. Only Magdano was allowed to read the hearts of the victims.
In the middle of May, a 14-year-old kid named Sebastian Guerrero from a neighboring town investigated the weird fires and shouting coming from the Cavern Temple and saw dozens of people near naked, covered in blood, cutting themselves and eating the flesh of corpses impaled on bikes and scattered around the altar saw on foot.
He ran over 25 account to the nearest police station and reported what he'd seen. The police did not take him seriously, but sent Officer Lois Martinez to take him back to the scene to make sure nothing was going on and then drive him home. Neither of them were ever seen alive again.
When Officer Martinez didn't come back, the rest of the police force called in backup from several local towns and went in force to the caves. Upon arrival, they were attacked by the cultists, who had somehow obtained obsidian knives and blades. Despite their ferocity, the officers managed to gun down most of them and were able to arrest what remained.
They found the boy, Sebastian, dead on an altar. His heart had been eaten. The officer had been dismembered, and one of the Hernandez brothers had also been mutilated and partially eaten. Solis Her main priest and 12 of the Dansefolk were brought to trial on 13 June 1963. Each of them received a prison sentence of 30 years, except Solis, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Solis still lives to this day. She has never recounted her belief that she is the avatar of the Blood God. Peter Scully Link He is an Australian who fled to the Philippines and operated a secret attack with child pornography website known as No Limits. Fun. We met Aleph, where he and others raped and murdered children and babies.
They produced videos such as Daisy's Destruction, which is so extreme that it was for some time regarded as an urban legend. It features the torture and brutal rape of a number of girls by Scully and some Filipino accomplices. The three main victims were Eliza, age 12, Cynthia, 11, and Daisy, 18 months.
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Chapter 3: How did John Bunting become infamous in Australian crime history?
They then cut his stomach open, disemboweled him, poured gas all over his body and set him on fire. According to my professor, there was evidence that he hadn't died until after the flames had gone out. As he dragged himself away from the spot where he'd been set on fire and the snow around the spot where he was found was melted as the crime had happened across state lines.
He worked in conjunction with both the New Mexico local police and the FBI. The investigators involved had drawn straws to see who had to be the liaison with the family, and my professor drew the short one.
He said that the hardest part of the investigation was to repeatedly fly to New Mexico and personally update the family, only to tell the boy's mother that she couldn't even bury her son yet, because they didn't want to risk losing any evidence on or in the body. They'd found DNA saliva from a crack pipe that was found under a tree a few dozen yards from the body.
Fingerprints also from the pipe and tire trucks in the mud. And a few months later, they finally got results for the DNA. They found one of the guys in his house with a meth lab in the garage and another one sleeping in a trailer out back. They were both drugged out of their minds.
They found the hacksaw that they used to dismember the kid still covered in his blood in the trunk of the car which matched the tire tracks along with four guns and about 15 pounds of meth and crack. When they were interviewed, they said that they didn't even remember what they did with the kid after they kidnapped him.
They asked where the third man was and all they would say is that the police wouldn't find him. All they said is that they were selling meth in New Mexico, saw him and grabbed him. They couldn't explain their reasoning. That night, one hung himself in his cell with his shirt, and the other chewed at the veins in his wrist a week later. They never found the third guy.
There was DNA in the car that didn't match the other two, but there wasn't a match in the federal database, which was still in relatively early stages at that point. As soon as that case was done with my professor transferred out of homicide, Charles Kennedy, a front who's been living outside Elizabeth Town and M, with his wife and child after the conclusion of the Civil War.
They set up a rest stop for travellers. Charles would register guests into the rest stop, maybe feed them some stew. Then he would kill them and either burn or bury their bodies. In 1870, during a meal, a traveller asked if many Indians were in the area and Charles' son replied, can you smell the one pop put under the floor?
Well, Charles went on a rampage and went on to kill both the traveller and his own son and he buried both of them under the floorboards. He lobbed his hysterical wife in the house and left. She eventually escaped through the chimney and ran 14 miles to town to get help. Gunfighter Clay Allison and a posse found Kennedy and threw him in jail.
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Chapter 4: What led to the gruesome acts of Magdalena Salas in 1963?
He then murdered her where he then proceeded to have sex with her corpse. He then dumped her body in the hills near his home. He took her clothes with him. He let her body decompose. After that he came back to remove her hands and feet which he kept in his closet. He burned her remaining bones, made it into powder and sent it to her family.
He also sent the family several of her teeth and pictures of her clothes and a postcard. It is a horrible case and it nearly made me cry. If you want another terrible case, look up Bush and Rico. Viola Yasu, she was a Michigan housewife who believed strongly in the civil rights movement. She left her family to march on Selma and shuttle African Americans to protest in the polls.
She was murdered by a collude of KKK members for betraying the race, one of which turned out to be an FBI informant, in order to shield the informant from guilt. The FBI spent the next 20 years putting out misinformation about her case and her death, going as far as to call her a prostitute, drug addict, and even a communist in the middle of the Ritzka.
In reality, she was a devout Catholic, a mother of five who had the audacity to think that equality was something worth fighting for. J. Edgar Hoover, the director at the time, personally relayed these false allegations to the goddamn president. He also blocked the convictions of KKK members who were guilty of bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Evidence was so strong that a white jury in Alabama would have been forced to convict, but he didn't share any of the evidence sent at the file sealed. He was a real piece of shit. If by true crime, you mean like a crime that happened a few years ago.
I worked at a call center and one guy on my team, who was probably 45, started talking to me and the other guys who were all early traders about Call of Duty. Well, turns out he and I are both into guns too. I'm like, hell yeah, I just made a friend. So he invites me to his house to shoot one day and like, we kicked it. Lan, just had a friendly day, so a few weeks of working together.
He asks where I live and when I tell him, he tells me his parents used to live down the street. I asked if they moved and he then tells me the story, his perspective. My parents lived about a mile or two down from you. They didn't move. What happened was my sister and her boyfriend wanted money. So they killed my mother in her sleep and waited for my father to come home and shot and killed him.
They tried to bury one and burn the other but were unsuccessful and got caught. My sister is actually up for parole next year but her BF is doing life. They had an episode of some crime show on a few years ago when it happened. Holy shit yo. I was weirded the fuck out at that. I was male clerk in a military criminal investigations headquarters. We got case files from air bases from all over.
It was a boring job and we would read the cases to pass the time. One came in from the Philippines. An Air Force woman was in town sightseeing and an Air Force man from her organization met her on the street. He put a gun in her ribs and make her go with him to a hotel.
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Chapter 5: How did the cult led by the Hernandez brothers unravel?
He spent the next couple of days raping her in all possible ways. He used unopened bottles on her and twice went down on the street and brought back groups of men to have sex with her. There were other things but they have slipped my mind. He finally took her out and on the street she managed to get away and ran to a court very close by.
He got 20 years in prison and the rumour was he did 3 years that world and was supposed to have raped and killed. It's hard to choose because honestly I listened to watch so much true crime. Some of the most heartbreaking are when parents torture, abuse, neglect their children to death. Then they dispose of the bodies and trash cans with fire, etc.
One of the worst was the case of Adrian Jones, who was tortured to death and then had his body fed to pigs by his parents. The sheer number of these cases in Southern California alone is disheartening, but a few non-family murders stand at the murder of cherished Periwinkle.
She was the little girl whose mother was conned into thinking an older, helpful gentleman wanted to give her a Walmart gift card to buy clothes for her daughter. So they shopped together for hours. There is so much surveillance video of them walking around the store. It's just so sad. Eventually, he took the little girl for hamburgers at McDonald's. He passed by.
The one in the store took her to his van, which had most of its seats removed, and then raped and murdered her. I have a very strong stomach for grisly crime, but the testimony of the medical examiner in this case stained my spirit. It was so awful. Austin Sieg murdering and dismembering Jessica Ridgway.
This one is famous online for the record Indian, which Austin's mother calls 911 because her son has confessed to killing the girl and still having some of her remains in various places around the house. Retorso had already been found. Austin ends up gets on the phone and talks to the 911 operator. He and his mother get frustrated by how many questions she asks.
Trial on this one also has stomach churning elements. Austin was well on his way to becoming a serial killer. The sexual torture murders committed and videotaped by Charles and Leonard Lake. Just google the story. It's horrifying. Similarly, the toolbox murders committed by Lawrence B. Ticker and Roy Norris in their murder.
They made audio recordings of themselves torturing, raping, and killing their female victims in brutal ways. That audio was played during the trial, and it was devastating and brutal for everyone except the killers to hear. Finally, I would say the witch Tomaska committed by the Carr brothers is desperately sad.
They broke into an apartment where some friends were hanging out and subjected them to a horrifying night of torture and rape before killing them. I'm pasting some of the details from the Wikipedia page about this case, because if I paraphrase, no one will believe the ending. On December 14th, the brothers broke into a house at 12,727 Eastport Road Drive in Wichita.
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Chapter 6: What shocking details surround the case of Peter Scully?
It happened on a reservation that I grew up on. Nice, quiet native kid who was a bit standoffish but never a jerk was called to the office one day. Murders on reservations are handled by the FBI. At least that was the case when I was growing up. Anyways, he apparently was told by these FBI agents that his grandmother was found murdered.
I guess they asked him if he had any information and he confessed everything. It came out that his grandmother was an alcoholic drunk that would beat this kid all the time. Grandparents tended to raise the children on the res. He got sick of it and snapped. He waited till I learned she passed out. One night tied her up and dragged her outside.
He buried her in some strange position, but up to her neck with just her head sticking out next to her mantle. When the sun came up, he cut off her eyelids and the red ants went at her. I never heard what the actual cause of death was, so this freaked the whole ducking town out. Very small town. By lunchtime, the story had gotten around our high school and the businesses in town.
Our teachers announced at the end of lunchtime that school was going to be closed the next day, Friday, but we had to be back on Monday. The news was just disrupting everything. I remember going to the local trading post and the look of shock on the faces of the elders sitting on the benches in front of the store in the store. People were talking in whispers. Everyone was in shock.
It was like this happened to your own grandmother or something. Shit like this hadn't happened in a long time. Just writing this down. I am chilled all over by it. We obviously never saw the kid again. He was a sophomore, but that story haunted daily conversations until I left the res a few years later. Shodi area's very disturbing case.
She was meant to go on a business trip with her boyfriend, maybe ex at the time, to Cancun. However, he asked to change his travel companion to a female friend instead. Therefore, she murdered him by stabbing him 28 times, slicing his throat from ear to ear, then shooting him in the left cheek, then proceeded to travel across state right after to her ex-boyfriend for a hookup.
Her defense on the trail was labeling him as a control freak abuser and child pedophile and that she had to shoot him in self-defense when he lunged at her pathological liar. And she still lies about the incident now while she is serving life in prison. The Alexander family which occurred in the 70s. Yet you don't hear about it as often as you think.
Harold and Dagmar Alexander were a married couple living in Dresden, Germany and part of the Lord Bush Society, which was a small religious cult. The leader of the group claimed to be a prophet in the voice of God on earth and after the leader's death, Harold claimed he inherited the prophethood in 1954. The couple had their second child, Frank.
Harold then stated that Frank was the prophet and everything Frank said was to be taken as the word of God in law and must be obeyed by all within the cult and family. This included his older sister Marina and his younger sisters Sabine and Petra who were twins. When Frank became a teenager is when things took a turn towards the disturbed.
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Chapter 7: What tragic story unfolds about a missing teenager in Arizona?
She walked through the home, calling the woman's name to no response until finally she made it to the master bedroom. There in the master closet, she found her clearly raped and strangled to death. I still remember coming home from soccer practice that day and seeing tons of police out in front of the house.
The guy was actually caught pretty quickly because kid is the realtor helping with the open house drop to the sky during the event and was so creeped out by him. She actually kept a brochure he had held and they were able to get his fingerprints. Turns out, he had recently gotten out of prison for assaulting several other women.
I still think about how terrifying it must have been for that woman as he sky-washedly attacked her alone, her home during a terrible thunderstorm. So there you go. Now, you can be afraid of selling your house on top of whatever other illogical fears you may already have. Former emergency room right now. Here. Long time ago. LXE far away thing.
Not a famous case, but my very first baby called Resuscitation was a murder victim. I had to give her deposition and everything. It happens really fast. And I won't give you the blow by blow. But they put the 10 month old on the gurney and I am in charge of her access. So I stripped the ones off of him, getting called pasty grey baby poop up my arm.
This is the part of my testimony that was important. You're not dead today. I learned you're warm and dead. That baby was ice cold and dead. Dad had strangled the baby three or four hours before bringing him in after a fight with mom and had changed his mind. I had no clue.
The doctor said rigor mortis a couple times and that didn't register as we busted our asses trying to bring the baby back for like a half hour. I was sweating balls trying to get in for instance I couldn't. I put two in two osseous lines and one on each shin. Those are pretty brutal. Dad just sat there staring. He was like a zombie. No emotion, no reactions.
Not looking at anything or anyone, really. As we worked on his son, which wasn't suspicious at all, people react differently to death and tragedy. He seemed to be the normal level of so overwhelmed with what is going on that he's completely shut down. Of course, we suspected the baby had been dead for a little while. This didn't just happen.
His reaction didn't make anyone think this was a murder we were dealing with, however. But he was sitting right there the whole time we worked on him. After having killed that baby. This is the part that makes the story fit this thread and that I would define as disturbing. He murdered his child and he was sitting right there.
Mom, on the other hand, was hysterical, screaming, ripping her hair out. I don't hear her screams, but when you tell parents their child has died, they make unintelligible sounds that are more wails than screams that I still hear sometimes. This sound was more angry at the same time as anguished the guttural anguished one. Stay with me. But who's don't? But what I understand now is she knew.
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