Dawn of Mantis: True Crime, Mysteries and More

In 1987 in the tiny farming community of Elkland, Missouri, seven people in two separate households were slain on the same morning. Police quickly determined all the murders were connected, but the m…

On January 26th, 2001, Gloria and her family traveled a short distance from their home in Mena, Arkansas to hike the Lover's Leap trail at Queen Wilhelmina State Park. However just a few minutes into…

On a Spring night in 2015, Brittney Gargol and her best friend Cheyenne Antoine went out to hit a few bars and have a good time. Only Cheyenne returned alive, while Brittney's body was found discarde…

In this episode, Robin joins us in studio once again, this time to discuss "Frozen Dead Guy Days" - an annual festival held in Estes Park, Colorado, known for its quirky and unusual theme. The festiv…

In this episode, Sam's sister Robin was in studio to talk about the peculiar and fantastic event that led to the annual "Emma Crawford Coffin Race" in Manitou Springs, Colorado. 

In this episode, we cover the story of the woman known as the world's oldest serial killer. From the late 1800s to the 1920s, Baba Anujka created deadly made-to-order concoctions that were used to ki…

January 18th of this year, then 25 year old Joshua Graham-Caskey abruptly left his home in Winterset, Iowa and drove nearly 600 miles south to Mena, Arkansas. Since being spotted on an ExxonMobil gas…

In the second and final part of our series on Mary Ann Cotton, we cover her third and fourth marriages, the many more suspicious deaths that occurred in her presence, and finally her capture, trial a…

Lots of people seemed to get sick and die when Mary Ann Cotton was around. Over the course of twenty years, several of her husbands, most of her thirteen children, and even her mother and best friend…

In this episode, we cover the strange case of Zona Heaster Shue, who died suddenly in early 1897, just three months after marrying a blacksmith named Erasmus Shue. Her death was initially ruled as "n…

In this episode, we cover the cases of Christine Skubish and Jackie Poole- two women who died in very different circumstances, but share one thing in common- both of their cases were solved after som…

In the summer of 2020, 53 year old Sandra Hughes went on a solo camping trip in California's Sierra National Forest. Days later, her campsite was found abandoned and her car was discovered in the bot…

In this episode we cover the absolutely bizarre case of Julie Mott, who quite literally disappeared from her own funeral in 2015 and has not been seen since. 

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We've all heard the children's nursery rhyme, but several years ago an urban legend began alleging that back in the 16th century, an actual muffin man had moonlighted as a serial killer. In this epis…

John Thurman McCool was a successful entrepreneur and business man who lived and worked in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. After serving a brief prison sentence for fraud in the late 1950s, he was found shot t…

In this second and final episode on the disappearance of Jason Jolkowski, we cover the police investigation and end by discussing the various theories as to what could have possibly happened to Jason…

On a sunny summer day in 2001, in a sleepy neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska, nineteen year old Jason Jolkowski left his home to walk a few short blocks - and was never seen again. In this episode, we …

In our second and final part on the Toledo Clubber, we discuss the Clubber's final victims and discuss whether or not the last two murders could have been committed by someone else. 

Over the course of a few months in 1925 in Toledo Ohio, a still unidentified man attacked more than a dozen women with a blunt object. Several of his victims died from their injuries, but to this day…

William Doyle, later known as "Perilous Paddy", traveled from his native Ireland to America in the 1880s. He was enamored with the Wild West and wanted to be an outlaw. Within months of arriving, he'…