Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

CW: Homophobic Slurs, Rape, Hate CrimesWriter: Gemma HarrisPerhaps you already know this story - or think you do. But as you’ll hear, what happened just outside a town in the midwest state of Wyoming on a chilly fall night in the late 1990s, had haunting parallels with coyote hanging. What started as a grisly warning would become the catalyst for a watershed movement nationwide. One that would see the LGBTQ community finally make a breakthrough when it came to breaking down bigotry and prejudice.Listener, if anything in today’s story has raised any issues for you, or if someone you know needs help, you can contact the LGBT National Hotline in the United States and Canada on 1 888 843 4564 for confidential support. Canada - Trans Lifeline 877 330 6366UK - Switchboard Helpline 0300 330 0630Australia - Qlife 1800 184 527 If you’d like to support the valuable ongoing work of the Matthew Shepard Foundation by making a tax deductible donation: www.matthewshepard.org Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checko

At 3:40am on February 17, 1970, a phone call was received by the operator in Fayetteville, North Carolina . The person on the other end of the line was requesting assistance at the MacDonald home on Castle Drive. At 3:42am, another call was made from the same address, this time being patched through to military police in Fort Bragg. A stabbing had been reported. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcast(Sources can be found on our website)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today’s story takes us across the pond and back in time to 1970s Scotland. Christine Eadie and her friend Helen Scott had known each other since childhood. On October 15, 1977, after a night on the town, their last stop for the night was one of the many popular pubs in the area, The World’s End. Christine and Helen were seen by a police officer walking off with the two men down Saint Mary Street. It was the last time they were seen alive.Edit: Unfortunately, Angus has been pronounced as "Agnes". This was not caught during the recording phase and a deadline had to be met. I can only promise to do better in the future. - JustinVisit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listener, what happens when your home is destroyed in a natural disaster or accident and you lose the very people you need around you? You have no home to go to, and are cast adrift without the people you love who you rely on to make difficult times easier to bear. You feel abandoned and alone.And listener, what happens if that ‘accident’ that destroyed your home and killed your loved ones wasn’t actually determined to be an accident at all, but something far more sinister, caused by the last person on earth you’d suspect? This is what we contemplate in today’s story. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In 2015 the discovery of a child’s body on a secluded area of beach sparked a quest to find the child’s real identity and who was responsible for her death. The death of a young child is a tragic event. The death of a young child due to murder is an event that lights a fire under all involved, to seek the truth and achieve justice for that child and life they have lost. Justice is not a straight-forward concept in this case as you will hear. I will leave it up to you listener to decide for yourself, if justice, in this case, was truly achieved.Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Most of us are familiar with reality tv shows where people are isolated in remote locations around the world to test and demonstrate their skills, stamina and endurance required to overcome the obstacles presented by mother nature. Extreme temperatures, exposure, hunger, dehydration, and exhaustion - not to mention threats from native wildlife, all pose additional complications.Listener... what happens when you’re stranded and don’t have that experience and those survival skills? No idea how far away you are from the closest town? No way of knowing when - or if - you’ll be rescued? And listener - what if, stranded in the middle of nowhere, the movement of the person you could suddenly hear as they made their way through the trees towards you, belonged to someone who wasn’t coming to help you - but to hunt you. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.c

On March 26, 2018 in the late afternoon, the California Highway Patrol was called out to a crash site on US highway 101 in the affluent Mendocino County, town of Westport, California. A hundred feet down a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sat a 2003 GMC Yukon SUV registered to Jennifer Jean Hart, or Jen as she was called. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered the SUV held an entire family, but not just any family. This was a family affectionately known as “the Hart Tribe” by their friends and by their community. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On March 26, 2018 in the late afternoon, the California Highway Patrol was called out to a crash site on US highway 101 in the affluent Mendocino County, town of Westport, California. A hundred feet down a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sat a 2003 GMC Yukon SUV registered to Jennifer Jean Hart, or Jen as she was called. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered the SUV held an entire family, but not just any family. This was a family affectionately known as “the Hart Tribe” by their friends and by their community. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listener, as you’ll hear, the facts of today’s story and the events that unfolded just prior to Memorial Day Weekend in 1997, show what happens when the paths of strangers collide in such a way that not everyone necessarily emerges from a fateful chance encounter alive... Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com Checkout our other podcasts at itsArcLightMedia.com Support the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The conclusion of our two part series on the murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak. We hope you behaved and stayed off Wikipedia. Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.comSupport the Obscura podcast and access the exclusive Black Label episodes by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In December 1994, Andrew Katrinak arrives home to an empty house. At 10:40 p.m. he calls 911 to report his family missing. So begins a case that features a missing wife, a missing baby, and the husband who gave news interviews repeatedly asking for the return of his wife and son. Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here. Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today’s story is not that of a romance per se, but about another special kind of relationship. The type of relationship some of us are lucky enough to have in our lives at least once - it’s the story of best friends. It’s also a story about testing the bounds of friendship. How far would you go for a friend? At what price? What would you do when the world is conspiring against your unique and inexplicable bond? Pauline Parker, Juliet Hulme, and he murder of Honora Parker. Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here. Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the one year anniversary of Obscura we're returning to our first episode and doing the case justice this time. As an added bonus we're including Black Label 06 - Crush for free. For the sake of not getting kicked off iTunes, this is the censored version of Black Label 06... but it still has teeth. If you'd like to access the full version you can get access on Patreon. Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here.Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here.Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here. Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For today’s show we cover a lot of ground. I figure I can only tell the story of Zach and Addie once…so…I better do the story justice. To finish out the year on the main feed, I’ve chosen to go out with a bang. Get comfortable. Because you’re about to hear about one of what I consider to be one of the most interesting true crime stories. A long with the intertwining history surrounding the tragedy that created a tangled web of misery and devastation. Now, let’s get on with it. Black Label Episodes AND Ad-Free episodes are now available on our Black Label Podcasting channel on Apple Podcasts Premium. You can also support Obscura and access the additional Black Label Episodes that are released exclusively to Black Label Supporters on Patreon here. Obscura is a true crime podcast that explores your morbid curiosity. Listener discretion is advised. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy