HeyJaredShadows In The Pines
An investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah HalerIn the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep — and the shadows remember everything.Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and…
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Aidan Spear - Found, But No Answers (opens the original)
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Aidan Victoria Spear — Found, But Without Answers In January 2022, 21-year-old Aidan Victoria Spear was supposed to meet her mother, Jessica Brown. After years of struggling with addiction and homelessness on the streets of Tacoma, Aidan had told her mom she was ready for treatment. Jessica began making the arrangements. Aidan never arrived. For more than four years, Jessica searched for her daughter, following leads, digging through messages and trying to understand what happened during Aidan’s
Mini Pines - Mel Waters (opens the original)
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In 1997, a man called a late-night radio show to report a bottomless pit outside Ellensburg, Washington. Nineteen feet across, fifteen miles of fishing line, no bottom. Over five years the story grew a resurrected dog, a government payout, and a wombat sanctuary — then the man vanished for good. No hole was ever found. No Mel Waters ever existed.
Big Show News (opens the original)
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A quick update on what we’ve been working on this last week
Mini Pines - The Man Who Carried His Own Key (opens the original)
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The Man Who Carried His Own Key You hike eleven miles on snowshoes to a locked Forest Service cabin. You have the only key. And the stove is warm. For thirteen years in the 1930s and ’40s, someone lived off the locked backcountry cabins of north-central Idaho, letting himself in and out without ever breaking a thing. The men who worked that country had a nickname for him before they ever had a face. They called him the Ridgerunner. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, Dan and Bekah head into
Bryan Kohberger Update (opens the original)
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Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. But that plea ended the case before a jury ever heard the evidence, before experts were cross-examined, and before some of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding 1122 King Road were tested in open court. Now, with Kohberger attempting to withdraw his guilty plea, those questions matter again. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, Dan takes another look at the evidence and th
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