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Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

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Introducing: The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When a group of women from all over the country realize they all dated the same prolific romance scammer they vow to bring him to justice.  In th...

Introducing: Rorschach: Murder at City Hall

28 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A shocking public shooting at New York City Hall leaves the ambitious, charismatic City Councilman James E. Davis dead, before his assailant is gunned...

Introducing: DOUBT: The case of Lucy Letby hosted by Amanda Knox

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was a case that shocked the United Kingdom and the wider world. Lucy Letby, a young nurse, was found guilty of murdering premature babies. She was ...

Introducing: Betrayal s5

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband s...

The Bodies Were Shaking

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of the season, Phelps tracks down someone who claims to know what happened to Shelly and Vincent: where and how they were murder...

Oh My God... What Kind of Mess is This?

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Phelps keeps digging, new sources come forward.  Has all of this been some sort of witch hunt to pin the murders on two innocent men, so the r...

Frosty the Ice Man

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Small-town rumor and speculation seem to dominate discourse in Weatherford. Phelps has to ask: is Wendy Robinson’s murder connected to Vincent a...

He Went to Sleep Forever

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Phelps seems to be getting somewhere with Shelly and Vincent’s case, another teenager is found murdered and sexually assaulted, changing the ...

Like Bodies Through a Meat Grinder

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Phelps dives deeper, trying to separate fact from rumor, while new suspects come into play—and a third teen murder rocks the town of Weatherford...

Bump Monkeys

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Phelps interviews sources connected to the Weatherford teen murders, including law enforcement working the case at the time, two new theories emerg...

Until My Last Dying Breath

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Phelps teams up with a local private investigator discovering that things are not what they seem in Weatherford, Texas… and learns peculiar new...

Piss Hill

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 As family members panic without word from teens Vincent and Shelly, Vincent’s father heads out to search for the kids. Meanwhile, a local ...

The Preacher's Daughter

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Texas: teens are dying. Two teens go missing on a March night in 1983—and that’s only the beginning. A body count of kids and teens, mi...

Introducing: Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders takes you back to 1983, when two teenagers were found murdered, execution-style, on a quiet Texas hill. What foll...

Episode 8: “The Boogeymen”

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of season 4, Phelps interviews a suspected serial killer, who he believes could be responsible for Dana Stidham’s murder—the...

Episode 7: “Killer Confrontation”

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With investigative pressure mounting on the Benton County Sheriff’s Office’s suspect in Dana Stidham’s murder, Phelps uncovers a disturbing phon...

Episode 6: “Spawn of Hell”

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The second female victim, known only as “Grace Doe” for nearly 30 years, is identified as Shauna Garber. Phelps’s investigation turns toward a n...

Episode 5: “Grace Doe: Shauna Garber”

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the discovery of a second young female murder victim just over the Missouri border, 20 minutes away from where Dana Stidham’s body was found, a...

Episode 4: “The Cave”

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The investigation by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office heats up in Dana Stidham’s gruesome murder, zeroing in on one particular suspect.  Phelps...

Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed”

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the 1989 holiday season looms, Dana Stidham’s body is discovered by a local hunter in a Bella Vista creek bed. Law enforcement shifts its focus f...

Episode 2: “The Evidence of Things Not Seen”

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the search for Dana Stidham continues, her sudden disappearance baffles family, friends, and police, as everyone grows increasingly alarmed that Da...

Episode 1: “Forever Pain”

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the heat of the Ozarks summer, 1989, an 18-year-old woman goes missing.  Dana Stidham vanishes in the middle of the day, from the parking lot of a...

Introducing - Paper Ghosts Season 4: The Ozarks

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Summer 1989: in the heart of the Ozarks. A young woman goes missing before a body is found, not far from the Missouri border. Soon, a second body is d...

Is Serial Killer Larry Hall Connected to Tammy’s Murder?

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Law enforcement investigating Tammy Zywicki’s murder spent decades looking into known and suspected serial killers operating in the Midwest. Among t...

Remembering Tammy Zywicki

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tammy Zywicki was more than just a headline. In this bonus episode, hear friends and loved ones share their favorite memories of the playful, strong-w...

One of Their Own

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A bombshell revelation upends long held speculation about Tammy’s killer, as the most promising suspect yet is revealed. Phelps discusses everything...

The Reckoning

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Investigators working Tammy’s case take a big risk in an effort to match her killer’s DNA. Phelps and former Master Sergeant Marty McCarthy have a...

A New Investigation

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tammy’s case gets a second look from a seasoned group of exclusive investigators, who cast doubt on several core theories and point the Illinois Sta...

The Missing Watch

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A bold claim about a missing musical watch pits law enforcement against one another, as the ISP doubles down on its search for a truck-driving serial ...

The Man With the Truck

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Details begin to emerge about Tammy’s cause of death, including how long she was on the roadside before her body was discovered. Then, Phelps travel...

Everyone's Daughter

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A gruesome discovery in Missouri shakes Tammy’s loved ones to their core, as Phelps uncovers a decades-old eyewitness statement that changes the cou...

The Last Goodbye

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It was late summer 1992, and Tammy Jo Zywicki was driving from suburban New Jersey to Grinnell College in Iowa. But what started as a routine trip too...

Introducing Paper Ghosts Season 3

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When a young college student’s car was abandoned on the side of a busy midwest highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days late...

Where is Victor Gerena?

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode, President Clinton’s decision to grant clemency to members of the Macheteros and the FALN ignites a firestorm on Capitol Hi...

Lawyers, Guns and Money

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A series of FBI raids send more than a dozen Macheteros back to Connecticut to stand trial in the Wells Fargo robbery case. Plus, an attorney for the ...

Aguila Blanca

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A top Macheteros soldier explains exactly what happened the night of the Wells Fargo heist, including where Victor took the cash in the days that foll...

Epiphany

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After Victor Gerena surfaces to take credit for the robbery, money starts showing up in the heart of Hartford’s Puerto Rican community. Then, a ...

Be On The Lookout

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A nationwide manhunt takes a turn after police recover the car used in the heist. Then, law enforcement learns what a key witness knows about Victor G...

The $7 Million Man

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The West Hartford Police Department springs into action after two Wells Fargo security guards reveal that a coworker, 25-year-old Victor Gerena, held ...

Introducing: White Eagle

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the team behind Paper Ghosts, WHITE EAGLE is a six-part true crime series about a 1983 heist where a 25-year-old armored truck driver from West H...

Season 1 Update: A Return to Crystal Lake

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been more than a year since season one aired, but the scores of tips regarding Janice Pockett, Lisa White, Debbie Spickler, Susan LaRosa, and I...

Cookie Crumb Day

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you spend your entire life cheating and stealing, karma is bound to show its dark face and destroy you. Thank you for listening to season 2 of P...

Ron Returns

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the months after the Stevenson murders, Dick Weston and Drucilla Merida were indicted by a federal grand jury–but not for murder. Ron Thomas, on ...

‘The Lincoln Has Been Sold’

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is Ron Thomas a cold-blooded killer, or misunderstood? To really understand Ron, one needs to look at his life before the Stevenson murders. A detecti...

Killing Carol

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As Dick Weston remains the prime suspect in the Stevenson murders, one question keeps coming up: Where is family friend Ron Thomas? Meanwhile, an unli...

Checkmate

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dick Weston is the key to the Stevenson murders. As the Sheriff’s Department and FBI begin to build a case against the former convict, their investi...

Dick and Dru

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In light of all the discoveries made during the investigation, authorities still don’t have tangible evidence leading to who is responsible for the ...

Brookville

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the focus starts to shift towards the mystery man who visited the Stevensons just hours before the murders, unique investigative techniques are imp...

The Rival

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Police quickly learn that what was initially considered a deadly accident inside the Stevenson home was actually the scene of a quadruple homicide. Wa...

Four Coffins

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone in Bethel, Ohio, has a theory about what happened to the Stevenson family on July 6, 1981. They were one of the town’s most popular, wealth...

Introducing Paper Ghosts Season 2

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

During the 1981 Fourth of July weekend, four people were found dead inside a massive farmhouse that belonged to a wealthy Ohio family. Desperate to fi...

The Last Remains

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As far as the investigation into the five cases has gone, a major piece of the puzzle always felt missing. The victims' families have long asked the S...

The Witness

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He was best friends with Bob LaRosa. His ex-wife has described him as violent. And he’s been talking about bodies being buried in local water wells....

'Are You Aware of the Ransom Calls?'

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For just a moment in 2013, there was a glint of hope that the remains of one of the missing girls had been discovered. For their families, it was a di...

The Runaway

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The faces of Janice Pockett, Lisa White, and Debbie Spickler appear side by side on one missing persons flier that continues to be posted around town ...

A Grave For Many

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A frantic call brings forward a new lead, with new clues and a new person of interest with connections to Bob LaRosa. As local authorities have been f...

A Dangerous Man

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

All of the missing cases have become like the five points of a star—no matter how you draw it, each point shoots a dotted line back to one person of...

'Mommy, Wake Up'

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING: This episode contains material that may be unsuitable and difficult for some to hear.The story has always been that Susan LaRosa left her apa...

A Hell House

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan LaRosa was 20 years old and already a mom to three young children when she disappeared in 1975. She had dark black hair, cut just above her shou...

‘I Wish It Was You That Was Dead'

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One year after Janice Pockett went missing in Tolland, CT, another young girl was abducted just a few miles from where Janice was last seen. Lisa Joy ...

The Dead Butterfly

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Janice Pockett was only 7 years old when she went missing during the summer of 1973. She had been given permission for the first time to ride her bike...

Introducing Paper Ghosts

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Four girls go missing, all within miles from one another in neighboring New England towns. And not one arrest is made. Fifty years later, the search f...