It was September 7th, 1979, a time of freedom for young people including twelve year old Lesia Michelle Jackson who lived in Conroe, Texas. That Friday the shy, blonde Lesia swam in the lake after school. When she emerged from the water, she had no idea that the day would be her last. That evening Lesia disappeared, her brutalized body would be found five days later and the hunt for her killer would last decades.
The horrors began in Scarborough, Ontario in Canada in 1987 with the rape of a young woman who was attacked in front of her parents’ home. Eventually the rapist would gain a partner and escalate his crimes from rape to murder. The couple behind the terrible crimes would eventually be dubbed the Ken and Barbie killers.
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It was March 21st of 1980, and residents of Newport, Rhode Island were on the cusp of spring and 19-year-old Diane Drake was in the spring of her life. A time when most young people have given little thought to their own mortality.
Unfortunately for Diane, that March would be her last.
After departing for work on that stormy Friday, she was abducted. Her strangled body would be found a stretch of Newport’s Easton Beach the following morning. Her case remains unsolved.
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Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/dianedrake
It was after eleven pm on April 4th, 1991 in Clinton, Missouri when twenty-year-old Angela Hammond’s friends dropped off at her car which was parked in a grocery store parking lot. She walked to the payphone and called her fiancé. As they spoke a man in a green pickup truck pulled up to the phones and violently abducted Angela. Horrified, her fiancé jumped in his truck and raced to the grocery store. He caught sight of the pickup truck and gave chase, but his truck broke down and he watched Angela disappear into the night. She was never seen again.
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It was May 12th, 2018, an ordinary day in the life of Joleen Cummings, but one tinged with excitement because the next day was her birthday and Mother’s Day. The mother of three worked her shift at Tangles Hair Salon in Yulee, Florida. What came after would be a mystery that baffled her family, friends, and investigators. It appeared that Joleen had left the salon and vanished into thin air. The truth would be far more sinister.
Mina Dekker was just nineteen years old when she walked into work in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 4th, 1938. She would never walk back out. Sometime in a span of mere minutes while she was alone, someone walked into the building and brutally beat Mina Dekker to death.
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Today's episode covers two unrelated murders that I originally released on my Patreon as mini episodes.
Eve Wilkowitz was murdered in New York IN 1980 and the idenity of heR killer would remain unknown for more than forty years.
Christina Harris was murdered in Michigan in 2014. Her family would spend years demanding justice when police ruled her death an accidental overdose.
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Saturday, October 24th, 1953, was an otherwise ordinary day for fifteen-year-old Evelyn Hartley. She left her home to babysit the young daughter of her father’s colleague. That evening as many of the community in La Crosse, Wisconsin were attending a homecoming game, someone would enter the house where Evelyn was babysitting and violently abduct her.
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This episode of the Bitter Endings Podcast was originally a mini episode for Patreon members. It features two unrelated cases of girls who vanished and were later found murdered.
Caroll Ann Cole and Stacey Chahorski were both young women from Michigan who went missing and met with foul play in other states.
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It was September 7th, 1979, a time of freedom for young people including twelve year old Lesia Michelle Jackson who lived in Conroe, Texas. That Friday the shy, blonde Lesia swam in the lake after school. When she emerged from the water, she had no idea that the day would be her last. That evening Lesia disappeared, her brutalized body would be found five days later and the hunt for her killer would last decades.
It was labor day, usually a time for celebrating but for Valerie Pride and her two daughters it would be the last day of their lives. Valerie was just 24 years old on September 6th, 1982. She’d just moved into a beautiful new home with her beloved little girls, Shonita who was eight and Duana who was four. She could not have imagined when the she purchased the Spanish style home at 1545 E. Ardmore in Phoenix, Arizona that it would be the setting for their brutal murders.
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