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Beginning in Summer 1972, several young New Jersey women vanish while hitchhiking. All are later found dead in the woods miles away from home - and some of their bodies are allegedly found surrounded by strange and occult objects. Some locals fear a serial killer is on the loose. Others say a Satanic cult is to blame. Whispers of a police cover-up permeate the air. What really happened? Join author and Weird NJ correspondent Jesse P. Pollack as he chronicles a strange series of cold cases that still haunt the Garden State to this very day.
A supposedly lost case file leaves you staring at a surviving 1972 wanted flyer.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A cold case gains a sharper lead through prison correspondence, while its unanswered questions keep resisting easy closure.
The episode centers on Richard Cottingham's return as a possible lead in Jeanette DePalma's cold case. Jesse P. Pollack lays out why he and Mark Moran had once set him aside: the murders behind Cottingham's convictions involved dismemberment and fire, while DePalma was strangled…
A quiet case resurfaces through old memories, disputed records, and a surviving wanted flyer.
A long-quiet local case starts to move again after Weird New Jersey publishes basic details from a shop owner's story and former Springfield residents share memories of the alleged satanic murder at Hudai Quarry.
A trial built on inference is complicated by a vision that points somewhere less certain.
The trial of Otto Nilsen rests on what could be inferred rather than what anyone saw. No witness placed Joan Kramer's murder in front of the court, but prosecutors built their case around the claim that she had been seen getting into Nilsen's car on the night she died.
A tense account of family pressure and violence that makes one suburban night feel grimly immediate.
Greg Sanders comes through as a sharp Mountainside teenager shaped by a home where academic focus and suburban comfort carried real weight. His parents' expectations, Wendy's earlier departure, and Greg's life in her shadow give the episode its central unease before the story…
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
Jesse Pollack closes DEVIL'S TEETH by connecting Jeanette DePalma's 1972 Union County murder to the 2021 release of her case file after a 2019 FOIA request and to Richard Cottingham's confessions to other New Jersey murders.
DEVIL'S TEETH Episode 11 follows Mark Moran and Mark Skerman of Weird New Jersey after a 2002 record-store conversation pulls Jeanette DePalma back into public view.
Devil's Teeth episode 10 follows Otto Neil Nilsen's July 1975 trial over Joan Kramer's death in Essex County.
DEVIL'S TEETH episode 7, 'His Name Was Gregg Sanders,' follows Greg Sanders from his Mountainside, New Jersey childhood to the January 14, 1975 Sanders family deaths.
This episode recounts the unsolved murder of Carol Ann Farino in 1966, part of a series on mysterious deaths in New Jersey.
This episode investigates the mysterious death of Jeanette DePalma in 1972, exploring theories of murder, occult involvement, and a possible cover-up.
This episode explores the fears surrounding the Jeanette DePalma murder case, including rumors of occult objects found at the scene.
The episode introduces a cold case murder from 1972 involving occult elements and a potential police cover-up, based on a book by Jesse P.