Episodes

Israel Keyes — Part 4: What He Took With Him In Part 4 of our deep-dive into Israel Keyes, the violence stops moving — but the damage doesn’t. After his arrest, Keyes enters federal custody not as a confessed murderer, but as a fraud suspect tied to a missing woman. What follows is not a breakdown, but a negotiation. Over months of FBI interviews, investigators attempt to determine the true scope of his crimes while Keyes carefully controls what he will — and will not — reveal. In this episode, ...

The Davenport Hotel: History, Hauntings, and the Shadows of Spokane In the heart of downtown Spokane stands the Davenport Hotel — a landmark synonymous with elegance, ambition, and a century of Pacific Northwest history. But beneath the polished marble floors and grand ballrooms lies a quieter legacy, shaped by loss, transition, and stories that refuse to fade. In this episode, we explore the full history of the Davenport Hotel — from its early days as a symbol of modern luxury, through financia...

Episode 3 — The Unraveling In Episode 3 of Shadows in the Pines, the investigation finally gains traction — not through a witness or a confession, but through a debit card. As ransom-linked ATM withdrawals begin appearing outside Alaska, investigators shift from reacting to a disappearance to tracking a moving trail. Each transaction produces a timestamp, a location, and eventually a pattern — one that leads across state lines and narrows onto a single vehicle. This episode follows that trail st...

Israel Keyes – Part Two: The Curriers & Samantha Koenig In Part Two, the distance becomes the weapon. After leaving Alaska, Israel Keyes travels thousands of miles to rural Vermont, where a quiet farmhouse becomes the site of the abduction and murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier—a crime with no bodies, no traditional crime scene, and only the details he would later choose to reveal. From Vermont, the story returns to Alaska, where a deliberate cooling-off period follows. Ordinary life resumes. W...

Roy Olmstead was one of the most successful bootleggers in American history — and one of the least suspected. Known as The Gentleman Bootlegger, Olmstead built a sprawling Prohibition-era liquor empire across the Pacific Northwest while presenting himself as a polite, soft-spoken family man. He bribed officials, coordinated fleets of boats and trucks, and moved massive quantities of alcohol through Washington state — all while avoiding violence and cultivating an image of respectability. In this...

In Part One of our three-part series on Israel Keyes, we examine how preparation became a way of life. Long before any known murder, Israel Keyes was laying groundwork — not impulsively, not emotionally, but deliberately. Raised in extreme isolation and shaped by rigid authority, he learned early how to exist without drawing attention, how to test boundaries quietly, and how to move through the world without leaving impressions. This episode focuses on environment and conditioning: his upbringin...

Flypaper Lyda — Idaho’s First Serial Killer At the turn of the twentieth century, sickness was a part of everyday life. People got ill at home, doctors offered few answers, and deaths—especially slow ones—were rarely questioned. That silence created the perfect conditions for something far more dangerous to hide in plain sight. This episode tells the story of Lyda Southard, often cited as Idaho’s first documented serial killer. Over the course of years, husbands and family members grew sick and ...

🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunge...

🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunge...

Between late 2022 and mid-2023, the bodies of multiple women were discovered across Oregon and southern Washington—found weeks apart, across jurisdictions, and under circumstances that initially appeared unrelated. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we examine the case of Jesse Lee Calhoun, an Oregon man charged with the murders of four women, with a fifth death remaining legally uncharged. This episode unfolds deliberately and chronologically. We begin with the fragmented early discoverie...

Donna Perry — Part Two: The Investigation Closes In In Part Two of the Donna Perry case, investigators begin to connect what first appeared to be isolated tragedies along the Spokane River. As tips surface and witness statements sharpen, law enforcement zeroes in on a suspect whose movements, behaviors, and history raise disturbing red flags. This episode follows the methodical unraveling of the case — from the early investigative missteps and public fear, to the breakthrough moments that finall...

Stepping inside St. Ignatius Hospital isn’t like walking into a building… it’s like walking into everything it refused to forget. 🕯️ Shadows in the Pines returns to Colfax with our full paranormal case file. If you love abandoned places, this one stays with you. #stignatius #stignatiushospital #colfaxwa #hauntedhospital #pnwhaunted #paranormalpodcast #shadowsinthepines #minipines #truecrimepodcast #ghoststories #hauntedplaces

Donna Perry: The Spokane River Murders In the early 1990s, a series of women vanished along the margins of Spokane’s sex-work corridor. Their bodies surfaced near the riverbanks—discarded, unidentified, and quickly forgotten by a system that never protected them. For decades, the files sat unsolved. No witnesses. No fingerprints. No suspect who made sense. But time has a way of exposing what people try to bury. This episode follows the case from the discovery of the first victim, through the slo...

Step beneath the canopy and into the shadows of the Pacific Northwest, where the forest breathes, the silence listens, and the land remembers every story ever buried beneath its trees. In this extended 45-minute feature hosted by Bekah, Mini Pines goes deeper than ever into the region’s oldest folklore — from the silent zones where sound disappears, to the watchers who stand between the trees, to the mimic voices and whistlers that lure travelers off the path. We explore the Still Ones of the ol...

Forest Park carries darkness in a way that feels deliberate. On the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1960, nineteen-year-olds Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan left for an ordinary night at Portland’s brand-new Lloyd Center…and never made it home. By the next day, Larry’s Ford was found abandoned off a remote turnout in Forest Park, his body inside, the driver’s door ajar. Beverly was gone. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we trace the case from that silent turnout above the city to a ravine alo...

Due to unforeseen circumstances outside of our control we are unable to upload this weeks episode on Saturday as planned, we are working hard to release it asap

In this episode we rap up the case of Jerry Brudos, The Oregon Lust Killer.

In Part Two of The Jerry Brudos Case, Dan Morgan and Bekah Haler take you deeper into the cold heart of Oregon’s most disturbing serial killer. This episode traces the escalation — from Jan Susan Whitney’s disappearance to the abduction and murder of Karen Sprinker, and finally, Linda Salee. We break down the patterns, the staging, the trophies, and the chilling rituals carried out inside Brudos’s garage while his family lived just feet away. You’ll follow the victims’ stories, the growing panic...

He called himself a photographer. But what Jerry Brudos was really capturing… was control. In The Oregon Lust Killer – Part One, we trace the disturbing evolution of a man whose quiet suburban life hid a violent obsession. From a childhood twisted by resentment and shame, to his escalating fixation on women’s shoes, underwear, and power — this episode dives deep into the making of a predator. Then, in 1968, nineteen-year-old Linda Kay Slawson knocked on his door selling encyclopedias. She never ...

🎙️ Episode 4 – The Tube Sock Killings Description: In the winter forests of Washington, couples vanished without a sound. Their bodies surfaced miles apart, staged, and bound by a single detail — a white tube sock. Between 1985 and 1986, two double murders shocked the Pacific Northwest and left investigators chasing a phantom through miles of logging roads, rivers, and rain-soaked timberland. No suspect. No motive. No closure. This episode of Shadows in the Pines unravels the complete story of t...

In the early 1980s, Spokane’s quiet South Hill neighborhood became the hunting ground of one of the most notorious sexual predators in Pacific Northwest history. Women were attacked in broad daylight, ambushed on familiar streets, and left terrified of walking alone in their own city. This episode of Shadows in the Pines unravels the chilling story of Kevin Coe—the so-called “South Hill Rapist.” Through court records, victim testimony, and investigative reporting, we trace his double life as a p...

🎙️ Shadows in the Pines: The King Road Murders – Part Two Title: The Investigation Begins After four lives are brutally taken inside an off-campus home on King Road, the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho, is left in shock — and searching for answers. In Part Two, Shadows in the Pines pulls back the curtain on the early days of the investigation: the frantic search for clues, the white Elantra that would ignite national attention, and the digital breadcrumbs that began to narrow the scope o...