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Send us Fan Mail A normal morning jog should not come with a survival plan, but that’s exactly where our minds go when we talk through the murder of Laken Riley. We start with the heartbreaking basics: Laken is a 22-year-old nursing student who texts her mom before a run on the University of Georgia campus. Within minutes, a 911 SOS call is triggered from her phone, the call drops, and she never answers again. A trail camera, phone records, and a Garmin watch timeline turn this case into a ch...
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Send us Fan Mail The scariest Halloween story might not be razor blades in apples, it might be how easily we learned to fear each other. I’m Holly, and tonight on Sweet Tea After Dark I’m digging into the history behind Halloween candy panic: when parents started inspecting every wrapper, why homemade treats became suspicious, and how a holiday built on neighborly trust got rewritten as a stranger-danger warning. We go back centuries to the roots of trick-or-treating, from medieval souling a...
Send us Fan Mail A night out near Shreveport, Louisiana shouldn’t end in a missing person report, but that’s exactly what happens when 21-year-old Wendi Long disappears after a party in April 2001. We take you step by step through the timeline out of Red River Parish and the uneasy reality that the last person seen with her is not a stranger, but someone presenting himself as a friend. What makes this true crime case so disturbing is how the story mutates. Rocky offers law enforcement ...
Send us Fan Mail Hello Kitty on a true crime podcast sounds like a bit until it isn’t. This Spooktober story takes us to Hong Kong in 1999, where a large Hello Kitty mermaid doll becomes linked to the death of 23-year-old Fan Man Yee and turns into one of the most infamous pieces of evidence in modern true crime history. We walk through what led up to Fan’s abduction, including the alleged debt tied to Chan Man Lok and the power dynamics around his circle. From there, we lay out the timeline...
Send us Fan Mail A glowing jack o’lantern looks cheerful until you learn what it used to be: a hard-carved turnip carrying a coal from hell. This solo Sweet Tea After Dark story digs into the chilling Halloween folklore of Stingy Jack, a man so slippery and selfish that he talks his way around everyone, including the devil himself. If you’ve ever wondered about the real origin of the jack o’lantern, this legend is where the shadowy trail begins. We walk through Jack’s two infamous bargains: ...
Send us Fan Mail A planned update turns into something much darker when we’re forced to add breaking news midstream. Krista Pike, the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row, is set for lethal injection and says she isn’t afraid to die, only nervous about the process. Then the process reportedly fails. What follows is a botched execution story that’s messy, confusing, and horrifying, with journalists describing pain, closed curtains, and a sudden scramble that ends with an ambulance ride and a st...