That's Disturbing - True Crime Podcast

Before modern dating apps, there were “lonely hearts” ads, and one man used them to lure women to their deaths. Harry Powers, often called the Bluebeard Killer, was one of America’s first known serial killers. In the early 1930s, he targeted widows and vulnerable women through personal ads, promising marriage, stability, and a new life. Instead, he brought them to his property in Quiet Dell, West Virginia,a place that would later become known as a murder house.
In this episode, we break down the full story of Harry Powers, the Bluebeard serial killer, from his early life and manipulation tactics to the discovery of his victims, his chilling confession, and the trial that captivated the nation.
https://news.lib.wvu.edu/2014/10/28/the-harry-powers-murders-crimes-that-inspired-west-virginia-authors/
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/1852
https://wchstv.com/news/local/letters-to-death-the-true-story-behind-west-virginias-first-serial-killer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139544207/luella_b-powers
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jayne-anne-phillips/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register-bluebeard-harry-p/13176298/
https://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Powers,%20Harry.pdf
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/1852
https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/powers-harry.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20120328083539/http://www.skcentral.com/news.php?readmore=2258
https://web.archive.org/web/20120324101310/http://www.wvgazette.com/mediafiles/document/2009/03/17/Bluebeard_I090317193022.pdf

This week’s episode? Oh, just a light little story about mass child trafficking in America 😃 Buckle up & definitely grab the kleenex. We’re diving into the case of Georgia Tann the woman who didn’t just run an adoption agency… she basically built a whole black market baby pipeline and got away with it for years. Like, years years. Corruption is an understatment. We break down how the Georgia Tann scheme worked, how it stayed hidden in plain sight, and how thousands of children were stolen, sold, and erased from their families’ lives. It’s dark. It’s infuriating. It’s one of those cases where you keep thinking, “there’s no way this gets worse”… and then it absolutely does. So yeah, expect a full deep dive, a lot of “are you kidding me??” moments, and our usual accidentally giggly coping mechanisms because otherwise we’d cry and you'd never be able to understand us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann
https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/GEORGIA_TANN_TN_CHILDRENS_HOME_TCHS_INVESTIGATION_SCRAPBOOKS_1950.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Kelley
https://iu.pressbooks.pub/perspectives4/chapter/the-black-market-behind-adoption-in-modern-america/
https://www.tba.org/?pg=Articles&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=64331
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW4fmdGNKvc

Mirjana Puhar was a 19-year-old model who had just appeared on America’s Next Top Model Cycle 21. After surviving war in Serbia and building a new life in the United States, she was just beginning her career when everything took a devastating turn.
In February 2015, Mirjana Puhar was murdered in a triple homicide inside a Charlotte, North Carolina home, part of a larger 48-hour killing spree tied to targeted robberies. What started as a drug-related setup quickly escalated into something far more violent, leaving four people dead. This is the story of Mirjana Puhar, America’s Next Top Model contestant, and the tragic murder that cut her life short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bez7-woidRo
https://abc11.com/post/americas-next-top-model-star-killed-in-triple-murder/534119/
https://people.com/crime/killer-of-americas-next-top-model-contestant-mirjana-puhar-gets-life-in-prison/
https://antm.fandom.com/wiki/Mirjana_Puhar
https://obits.al.com/us/obituaries/birmingham/name/mirjana-puhar-obituary?id=60246489
https://www.reddit.com/r/ANTM/comments/1ix0gn1/mirjana_died_on_this_day_10_years_ago/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mirjana-puhar-ex-americas-next-top-model-star-found-murdered-n312881
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/04/148819/mirjana-puhar-americas-next-top-model-killer-life-prison
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1935659.html
https://charmeckda.com/news/040417_1.pdf
https://www.wbtv.com/story/34976016/prosecutor-drugs-robbery-fueled-quadruple-homicide/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article142584879.html
https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2017/04/05/charlotte-man-convicted-of-murder-in-killings-of-top-model-contestant-3-others/21594231007/
https://www.wbtv.com/story/28567923/2nd-person-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-former-americas-next-top-model-contestant/

Think the Wild West was all cowboys and gold rush dreams? Think again. In this episode of we are diving into the chilling true crime story of the Bloody Espinosas often called Colorado’s first serial killers. Felipe and Vivian Espinosa carried out a brutal killing spree across the Colorado Territory, leaving fear and mystery in their wake.
We break down the Espinosa murders, their possible motives, and the dark reality of crime in the Wild West, while somehow ending up in an accidentally giggly episode (because apparently that’s how we cope 😅).
If you’re into true crime podcasts, Colorado serial killers, Wild West murders, and disturbing historical cases, this one’s for you.
https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/espinosa-murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Espinosa
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/espinosa-killings-in-southern-colorado-in-1863-remain-shrouded-in-mystery/article
https://www.greenhornvalleyview.com/history/espinosa-brothers-part-iii-iv#:~:text=As%20Jose%20Vivian%20Espinosa%20approached,horses%2C%20posse%20member%20Joseph%20M.&text=For%20year
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1255602139/?terms=the%20bloody%20espinosas
https://www.cpr.org/2023/09/18/who-were-the-bloody-espinosas-and-where-are-their-heads/

In this episode of That’s Disturbing, we explore real cases of children who claim to remember past lives. Around the world, some kids have described previous families, homes, and events they seemingly had no way of knowing. We break down a few of the most well-known reincarnation cases involving children and the research that has investigated these unusual memories. Could these stories point to evidence of past life memories, or is there another explanation?
https://buddha101.com/p_karma.htm#Karma%20and%20Intention
https://buddha101.com/p_nirvana.htm#Rebirth
https://vritant.substack.com/p/meet-shanti-devi-the-reincarnation
https://vritant.substack.com/p/the-story-of-barbro-karlen-the-writer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanti_Devi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbro_Karl%C3%A9n
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation
https://medium.com/@Paranormalphenomenaspiritual/the-pollock-twins-reincarnation-case-d2f1f4cf8276
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/did-the-pollock-sisters-prove-re-incarnation-3a993c782fa