Wednesday Rewind:Murders So Unbelievable, They're Hard to Believe

·20 min

She starts with a mountain getaway update. Back from the mountains, she talks through the Clarkton Motel, a suite with three queen beds and a daybed, a gas fireplace, a kitchenette, and the fact that it was quiet and affordable. Then she hits the road. She and her family take a day trip to Cades Cove in Tennessee, get stuck in traffic in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, and she jokes that tourist season now feels permanent. After that, the true crime cases take over. One is a homicide where police are asking the public for information, with the host noting that Christopher may have been dealing with some type of mental illness while David's death has been ruled a homicide. The second is much darker. It follows Taylor, a married woman who had recently given birth, and the killing of Shad, with the host laying out Taylor's account of meth paranoia, a planned attack, and the fight she says led into the timeline she gave police. She does not soften the facts. The story moves into the aftermath, including Taylor's account of what she did while knowing he was dead, and how she used knobs from his mother's kitchen to decapitate and dismember the body. The disposal details are especially hard to sit with. Police found body parts and shopping bags in the basement, a torso and internal organs in a tote, and more remains tucked into a crock pot box in the back seat of her minivan. Taylor says the bagging was partly improvised, and the host also points to the strange detail that the case seems tangled up with a fascination for Jeffrey Dahmer. The show keeps the language simple. Even when the details get extreme, the delivery feels like a solo storyteller working through a file at the kitchen table, checking what happened, what police found, and why each piece matters. It ends with a warning that more is coming. She says both cases are still emerging news stories, promises updates when there is more to tell, and closes by saying the week's murders feel almost impossible even though they really happened. The last note stays grim: she sends listeners off with a midweek reminder to come back for Wednesday's mini episode, leaving the sense that the most disturbing parts are not invented at all, just strange enough to sound that way.

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A conversational true-crime episode that opens with a travel update and then moves into two hard-to-believe homicide cases.

This episode starts with a travel update from a three-day mountain getaway, then settles into two homicide cases the host treats as hard to believe.

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Two murder stories that sound too strange to be real.

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