This week Stacey tells us about the Hart family murder-suicide, where Jennifer and Sarah Hart deliberately drove their SUV off a California cliff in March 2018, killing themselves and their six adopted children after drugging the kids and fleeing from child welfare investigations.

Sources:

https://people.com/hart-family-murders-inside-shocking-case-8610367?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hart-family-crash-clak-county-washington-investigators-home-search/

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/hart-family-jennifer-hart-sarah-hart-devonte-hart-suv-crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_family_murders

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/timeline-of-hart-familys-child-welfare-concerns-in-wa-or-mn/283-534257800

https://www.glamour.com/story/hart-family-tragedy-jen-and-sarah-hart-case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hart-family-crash-suv-plunge-california-cliff-coroner-jury-rules-murder-suicide-today-2019-04-04/

https://www.glamour.com/story/broken-harts-timeline

https://time.com/5219875/devonte-hart-family-california-suv-crash/

https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/04/08/hart-family-tragedy-a-thread-of-deceit-true-story-murder-crash-inquest/

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This week Erin tells us about how John David Terry, a Nashville pastor, murdered his church handyman and tried to fake his own death to escape prosecution.

Sources:

https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/terry-john-david.htm

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tn-supreme-court/1257486.html

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This week Stacey tells us about the mysterious 1980 death of Zigmund Adamski, found atop a coal pile with strange burns and unexplained clues that still baffle investigators.

Sources:

https://listverse.com/2020/01/23/10-lesser-known-murder-mysteries-that-remain-unsolved/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Godfrey#Connection_to_Adamski_case

https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/the-unsolved-death-of-zigmund-adamski-ufo-abduction-or-foul-play/

https://jasonrobertsonline.com/who-killed-zigmund-adamski/

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11548976.Former_policeman___s_story_of_a_close_encounter_with_a_UFO_pulls_in_crowds/

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/unsolved-baffling-case-missing-miner-14150127

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/uap/zigmund-adamski

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This week Erin tells us about Robert Alton Harris, who became the first person executed in California in 25 years after murdering two teenage boys, John Mayeski and Michael Baker, in 1978.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alton_Harris

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This week Stacey tells us about the shocking 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas, a brutal crime that inspired Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_family_murders
• https://www.amazon.com/Mindhunter-Inside-FBIs-Elite-Crime/dp/1501191969
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/05/06/issue.html
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/09/25/in-cold-blood-the-last-to-see-them-alive
• https://www.npr.org/2013/01/20/169889029/in-cold-blood-the-enduring-legacy-of-a-true-crime-masterpiece
• https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Blood-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745580

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This week Erin tells us about the mysterious disappearance and tragic murder of Cheryl Coker, whose remains were found 18 months after she vanished, leaving her family searching for answers.

Sources:

https://people.com/crime/cheryl-coker-case-everything-to-know/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQyepQkc5DI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgdj0fRh4YI

https://www.newcomerdayton.com/obituaries/cheryl-coker

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This week Stacey tells us about Craig Sorger, a 13-year-old boy from Ephrata, Washington, who was brutally beaten and stabbed to death in 2003 by his 12-year-old friends Evan Savoie and Jake Eakin after being lured to a park under the pretense of play.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqED09XsmmU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Craig_Sorger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHoajc7Daw

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This week Erin tells us about Chad MacDonald Jr., a 17-year-old from Yorba Linda who became a police informant after a meth arrest, but was murdered by drug dealers who suspected him of cooperating with police, leading to new laws restricting the use of juvenile informants.

Sources:

https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2001/dec/20/jury-convicts-two-men-and-a-woman-in-killing-of-17/

https://web.archive.org/web/20200803142523/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-05-mn-36322-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-05-mn-36403-story.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20240907140658/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-08-me-52029-story.html

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