Episodes

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 word in the vehicle make field. Camaro. In Part Three of the Robert Lee Yates Jr. arc, Dan and Becka follow the investigation from the inside — the task force, the databases, the September 1999 interview where he sweats through his shirt and walks out a free man, the Corv...

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 of over a hundred and forty entries. The man in the white Corvette is never on it. In Part Two of the Robert Lee Yates Jr. arc, Dan and Becka spend time with the thirteen women he killed between 1996 and 1998 — who they were, where they came from, and what investigators fo...

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 the same thing—something moving beneath the surface. Long. Deliberate. Not a wave. Not a fish. They call it Sharlie. Tonight, we head to Payette Lake in McCall—a place where folklore never really faded. From early railroad workers in the 1920s to modern-day sightings, the desc...

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 doesn’t look the way you expect it to. In the late 1990s, women began disappearing—many from the edges of society, their lives overlooked, their absences barely making headlines. Some were last seen along East Sprague. Others simply vanished into the night. At first, the...

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 Hometown killer Robert Lee Yates

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 folklore of the Pacific Northwest for a fireside journey through five of the region’s most haunting legends. From the ancient presence of Sasquatch to the impossible mystery of Mel’s Hole, from the spirit-laden slopes of Mount St. Helens to the ghostly wreck of the SS Valencia, and...

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 runs in the background of every major serial crime investigation in the country. Today we tell the story of where it came from. In 1972, the FBI opened a new academy in Quantico, Virginia, and quietly tucked a small, skeptical unit into the basement. Eleven agents. No windo...

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 the moment he was taken into custody, Duncan confessed. All of it. Freely, consistently, and in meticulous detail across twenty-four hours of recorded FBI interviews. He didn’t need to be broken down. He wanted to talk. In this final episode of the series, we go into the int...

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 just off the road… or worse—stepping into it. They call him the Bandage Man. In this Mini Pines episode, we’re heading into the fog-soaked coastline of the Pacific Northwest to explore one of Oregon’s most unsettling roadside legends. Witness accounts span decades—stories of ...

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 walked out of a Denny’s restaurant in Coeur d’Alene two days earlier. What they found at the end of that road confirmed what Shasta Groene had already told them. Dylan was gone. In this episode, we go into the forty-eight days between the night Joseph Duncan drove away from ...

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 day. One of them stopped. In this episode, we step inside the Groene family home at Wolf Lodge — not as a crime scene, but as a place that was once full of life. A mother. A fiancé. Three children. A routine Sunday that felt like any other. And then… a man watching from the...

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 let him go. In this opening chapter of our multi-part series, we step away from the crime itself and focus on the man at the center of it all: Joseph Edward Duncan III. This isn’t just a backstory. It’s a documented pattern. From his early violent offenses in Washington… to p...

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—specifically with audio quality in Part 1. After reviewing everything closely, we made the call that it just doesn’t meet the standard we hold ourselves to for Shadows in the Pines. And rather than push something out that doesn’t sound right or pulls you out of the story, we’ve d...

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 locations in the state—places where the past still lingers, where footsteps echo in empty halls, and where something unseen may be standing just behind you. From the shadowy depths of Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels to the watchful cliffs of Heceta Head Lighthouse… from the qui...

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 story didn’t begin in Idaho. Long before the Groene family murders made headlines, Duncan had already been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for violent crimes against children. His criminal history stretched back decades, marked by repeated warnings, prison sentences, psyc...

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 a reality they were not prepared for. What began as the brutal murder of two brothers in a neighborhood park would unfold into one of the most disturbing cases in Washington State history — a case defined not only by unimaginable violence against children, but by years o...

🎙 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 Oregon and Washington. Posses, bloodhounds, and terrified communities watching the forests and wheat fields for a man who seemed impossible to catch. His name was Harry Tracy. Some newspapers called him a ruthless killer. Others described him as a strangely polite outlaw wh...

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 Wah Mee massacre — from the neighborhood it happened in, to the robbery that turned into one of the largest mass killings in Washington state history, to the investigation that followed. We walk through what happened inside that basement room, how one man survived, how dete...

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 Part Four of our Robert Pickton series, we walk through the excavation of seventeen acres in Port Coquitlam — the slaughterhouse, the freezer, the buckets beneath it, the pig pens, the industrial grinder, and the rendering plant connection that triggered nationwide fear. Inves...

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 underground, but woven directly into the fabric of the community. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step back into the boomtown chaos of the 1890s, when silver ruled the Silver Valley and Avenue A became home to a line of brothels that would define Wallace’s identity for ge...

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 were reporting them missing. Friends were organizing their own searches. Bad date lists were circulating. And inside police departments, files were beginning to feel less isolated. In this episode, we move from suspicion to escalation. We cover: • The anonymous tip naming Wil...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION — PART TWO In Part Two of our three-part series on Robert William Pickton, we move beyond the missing women and into the place where everything converged: the farm. This episode examines daily life on the Pickton property—how it functioned, who passed through it, and why so many warning signs went unchallenged for years. We look closely at the family dynamics between Robert, his siblings, and their parents, and how neglect, isolation, and dysfunction shaped the environment ...

The Centennial Trail: A Walk from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene This is not a travel guide. It’s not a history lecture. And it’s not about distance. This episode is a slow, full-length walk along the Centennial Trail — a gentle, continuous journey following the Spokane River from the heart of Spokane, Washington, to the still waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Moving mile by mile, the episode traces how water shaped a city, how industry rose and fell along its banks, and how quiet returns when the ...

Episode Description — Robert Pickton: The Horrors on the Farm (Part One) In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we begin our deep-dive into one of the most disturbing and devastating cases in Canadian history — the crimes of Robert Pickton. Before the headlines. Before the farm. Before the missing women became numbers. Part One focuses on the origins of the Pickton family and the environment that shaped what would later unfold. We examine Robert Pickton’s early life, his upbringing alongs...