Episodes

🚨 This week on Shadows in the Pines, we head to Springfield, Oregon for one of the most disturbing and psychologically unsettling cases in true crime history: the case of Diane Downs. On a dark stretch of Old Mohawk Road in M...

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🏔️🪣 This week on Mini Pines, we head deep into the high desert of eastern Oregon for one of the strangest lost-treasure legends in American history — The Blue Bucket Mine. 🌵✨ In 1845, a wagon train following the infamous Meek...

September 24th, 1997. A Spokane patrol officer pulls over a white Corvette near East Sprague. The driver is Robert Lee Yates Jr. He’s ticketed and allowed to go. The officer fills out the field interview report and writes one...

Shadows in the Pines — The Killing Years (Robert Lee Yates Jr., Part Two) East Sprague Avenue, Spokane. The late 1990s. A social worker named Lynn Everson parks a Winnebago on the strip once a week and keeps a bad-trick list ...

The Thing in the Lake: Idaho’s Sharlie In the mountains of central Idaho, there’s a lake that drops nearly 400 feet into darkness. Cold. Still. Old. And for over a century, people standing along its shoreline have reported th...

The Predator Next Door — Robert Lee Yates (Part 1) Shadows in the Pines Spokane, Washington. A quiet city tucked beneath pine-covered hills and long stretches of highway. The kind of place where routines feel safe… and danger...

Hey Listeners, both Bekah and I are a bit under the weather this week. Please enjoy a Patreon exclusive episode this week while we take time to recover and heal. We will return next week when we begin a four part series on Ho...

What walks through the forests of the Pacific Northwest after dark? What waits in the water, watches from the mountain, or drifts just beyond the fog? In this episode of Many Pines, Becca takes you deep into the eerie folklor...

Inside the Mind: The Birth of FBI Criminal Profiling If you’ve been listening to this show, you’ve heard the language everywhere. Behavioral profiles. Organized offenders. Victim typology. Signature behavior. The science that...

Episode 4 — Confession of a Predator Joseph Edward Duncan the Third was calm when they arrested him. He didn’t resist. He didn’t run. He sat in that Denny’s booth while officers escorted him outside, and then he waited. From ...

Mini Pines — The Oregon Bandage Man Along a quiet stretch of highway outside Cannon Beach, drivers have reported something they can’t quite explain. A figure. Wrapped head to toe in what looks like bloody bandages. Standing j...

Episode 3 — The Hunt for Shasta On July 4th, 2005, FBI agents worked their way up a primitive forest service road in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana. They had been directed there by an eight-year-old girl who had ...

The Wolf Lodge Murders Shadows in the Pines — Episode 2 In May of 2005, along a quiet stretch of land just east of Coeur d’Alene, a home sat within sight of Interstate 90 — visible to thousands of passing drivers every single...

PART 1 — THE PREDATOR THE SYSTEM RELEASED Before the headlines… before the manhunt… before the name became synonymous with one of the most horrifying crimes in Idaho history… there was a system that saw him coming—and still l...

Hey everyone, We wanted to take a moment to give you a real update on what’s been going on behind the scenes with the show this week. Unfortunately, we ran into some pretty significant technical issues during production—speci...

Top 5 Most Haunted Places in Oregon Fog. Forest. Silence. Oregon isn’t just beautiful—it’s layered with history that never quite settled. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we take you deep into five of the most haunted...

The Predator the System Released — Part 1 In 2005, the name Joseph Edward Duncan III shocked the nation after a brutal crime in northern Idaho led to one of the most disturbing manhunts in modern true-crime history. But the s...

Listeners. As a special treat This week we release a Patreon Exclusive Episode to the masses! The Case of Westley Alan Dodd. In the fall of 1989, communities in southwest Washington and northern Oregon were forced to confront...

🎙 Harry Tracy — The Last of the Wild West Outlaws In the summer of 1902, the Pacific Northwest became the stage for one of the most dramatic manhunts in American history. A prison escape. A trail of violence stretching across...

On February 18th, 1983, thirteen people gathered inside the Wah Mee Gambling Club in Seattle’s Chinatown–International District. By the end of the night, twelve of them would be dead. This episode covers the full story of the...

Robert Pickton — Part Four: The Outcome Podbean Description: The search of the farm expands. What began as a firearms warrant becomes one of the largest and most expensive crime scene investigations in Canadian history. In Pa...

Episode Title: The Red Light of the Silver Valley For nearly a century, the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho operated one of the most openly tolerated red-light districts in the American West — not in secret, not undergrou...

Shadows in the Pines — Willie Pickton Part Three: The Women By 1999, this was no longer rumor. The names were stacking. Women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were disappearing within a compressed window of time. Families w...