A kidnapping case turns on public judgment, then the cell phone trail that exposed Matthew Muller.
Reverie True Crime frames the Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn case as a painful example of what can happen when a kidnapping is treated as a hoax.
True crime with memory, evidence, and consequence.
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Reverie True Crime follows severe criminal cases from the people harmed through the investigative and legal record. Paige gives special weight to victims' lives, family impact, public misunderstanding, and the long aftermath of convictions, retrials, or unanswered questions.
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About Reverie True Crime
Reverie True Crime is built for listeners who want more than a case headline. Paige tells severe true crime stories through chronology, evidence, and aftermath, with a recurring focus on the people whose lives were reduced to court records or news clips. The show is blunt about harm. It is also careful about memory. Recent episodes spend time on who Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were before the case became known for its brutality, including family, work, school, and relationships. The series then follows the investigation, arrests, trials, judicial scandal, retrials, public debate, and family advocacy that stretched the case far beyond the original crime. Other episodes show a similar interest in the long tail of violence. Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn's story is framed around the damage caused when victims were disbelieved and publicly judged before the real kidnapper was identified. Wilma June Nissen's case centers on a woman whose body was found and whose identity, evidence, and dignity remained central to the telling. The Daub family episode turns toward mental illness, religious extremism, suicide, and the collapse of a family system. These are not light listens. Paige names traumatic material plainly, often pausing to warn listeners and point to support resources when an episode includes sexual violence, suicide, or extreme violence. The pacing is narrative but not casual. Details accumulate: clothing, phone evidence, DNA, court testimony, public statements, media coverage, and the words of relatives or investigators when the digest supports them. The show also pays attention to how communities react after a crime, including harassment, racialized narratives, advocacy, and the pain of being forced to relive a case in court. Legal process matters here. So does the difference between a solved crime and a healed wound. Reverie True Crime suits listeners who can sit with distressing material when it is handled seriously. Its strongest moments come when it refuses to let procedure, spectacle, or notoriety erase the people at the center of the case.
Made for: For true crime listeners who prefer detailed case histories, legal aftermath, and victim-centered context over fast summaries. It is best for audiences prepared for graphic, emotionally difficult material.
What sets it apart: Reverie True Crime lingers on what happens after the crime: public blame, court reversals, family advocacy, investigative breaks, and the burden carried by survivors or victims' loved ones. Paige's narration is solemn, direct, and attentive to dignity.
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Reverie—a word that evokes dreamy introspection, yet not all daydreams are serene. Sometimes, when our minds wander, they lead us into shadowy corners filled with intrusive thoughts, fears, and questions about the darker aspects of humanity. These unsettling reveries can spiral into haunting curiosity about the crimes, mysteries, and injustices that mark our world. Paige shares stories of unspeakable crimes and their lasting impacts. She also speaks with survivors, victims' loved ones, and fellow storytellers, creating a space where the weight of these stories is honored with empathy and respect. Occasionally, Paige ventures into the realm of haunting, paranormal tales that blur the line bet…
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Reverie True Crime makes complex cases legible while keeping victims, evidence, and investigative failures in the same frame.
Paige builds Reverie True Crime around patient, single-narrator case reconstruction, moving from personal history through investigative evidence and the consequences of official decisions.
Why you'd press play
A real kidnapping gets called a hoax; if you distrust tidy verdicts, Paige has your attention.
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- to follow the dropped phone that led police to Denise Huskins's kidnapper
- to hear Wilma June Nissen remembered as a person after the brutal evidence
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Best episodes of Reverie True Crime
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A family retreat becomes a harrowing account of mental illness, religious extremism, and fatal isolation.
Reverie True Crime follows the Dobb family's collapse from a disarmingly ordinary starting point into something much more unsettling. The family once known for handing out hot dogs and Bibles on Halloween gradually pulled away from the world, as Morgan's religious videos and her…
A forensic reconstruction of Wilma June Nissen's killing, shaped by the daughter who asked Paige to tell her story.
Wilma June Nissen's case turns on one hard image: green khaki pants with braid trim, white go-go boots, and a braided hemp rope around her feet in a roadside ditch.
A sober final chapter about prison, public conflict, family justice, and the lives left behind.
Reverie True Crime ends its four-part account by staying close to what followed. As of 2025, the five perpetrators remain in prison, laws were passed in Shannon Christian and Christopher Newsom's names, the family continues to push for justice, and Shannon and Chris are…
A grim, evidence-led case summary that stays close to the trial record and does not look away.
Reverie True Crime keeps its focus on the aftermath of the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom case, tracing Christopher Newsom's killing, Channon Christian held in the north bedroom, and the testimony that follows her final hours.
A careful opening that lets Chris and Shannon feel fully human before the violence.
Reverie True Crime opens with a patient focus on who Chris and Shannon were before everything changed, and that framing gives the episode a clear human center.
A letter, a map, and a locked basement door keep the case sharply in view.
Reverie True Crime keeps the case anchored in details that stick: the May 21, 2002 letter Bill Smith received, the West Alton map that pointed investigators toward skeletal remains, and the upside-down flag stamp paired with the bondage-website return address.
A sprawling corporate-abduction case that keeps shifting shape and never quite gives up its mystery.
Reverie True Crime covers the Glico case in Osaka with a steady, case-first approach, following a rare kidnapping in the early 1980s as it turns into a public scramble of ransom demands, taunting letters, poisoned candy scares, and mounting pressure on food companies.
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Episodes
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196. Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn: The "Gone Girl Hoax" That Wasn't
Reverie True Crime covers the March 23-25, 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn in Vallejo, California, and the Vallejo Police Department's public claim that the case was a hoax.
Feb 14, 2026·58m·3 clips - 2
195. Sword of the Lord: The Daub Family's Descent into Darkness
Host Paige covers the January 24, 2023 deaths of James, Deborah, and 26-year-old Morgan Dobb, a devoutly religious family in West Manchester Township, Pennsylvania, found dead in their backyard from a planned suicide pact nine months in the making.
Jan 3, 2026·42m·3 clips - 3
194. Wilma June Nissen: The Woman in the White Go-Go Boots
Host Paige tells the story of Wilma June Nissen, found murdered in a Lyon County, Iowa ditch in October 1978 and identified only as Jane Doe for 27 years, at the request of Wilma's daughter Chrissy Atkison.
Dec 20, 2025·56m·4 clips - 4
193. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom: Inside the Aftermath of a Knoxville Nightmare (Part IV)
In the fourth and final episode on the 2007 torture-murders of Shannon Christian and Christopher Newsom, host Paige reports that all five convicted perpetrators remain in prison as of 2025, with Lamarcus Davidson on death row and Eric Boyd serving two life sentences plus 90 years.
Dec 13, 2025·36m·2 clips - 5
192. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom: The Judge, the Drugs, and the Retrials (Part III)
This episode details the arrest of five suspects in the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom case and introduces the ensuing judicial scandal.
Dec 6, 2025·37m - 6
191. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom: 36 Hours in Hell (Part II)
Shannon Christian's captivity is described as lasting about 36 hours before her body was found in a kitchen trash can.
Nov 29, 2025·33m·2 clips - 7
190. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom: Two Stars Lost in the Tennessee Night (Part I)
Reverie True Crime opens Shannon Christian and Christopher Newsom's Knoxville, Tennessee case with a warning about 'some of the most brutal crimes ever prosecuted in Tennessee.' Paige says the story will span four episodes and focuses here on Shannon, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee senior, and Chris, a 23-year-old carpenter.
Nov 22, 2025·30m·2 clips - 8
189. Maury Troy Travis: The Basement Tapes
Hidden gemReverie True Crime traces the Maury Troy Travis case through the murders of Black women in the St.
Nov 15, 2025·51m·2 clips - 9
188. Ellen Greenberg (Part II): Did This Bride-to-Be Stab Herself 20 Times?
Nov 8, 2025·46m - 10
Introducing: Ghost Bites - The Dybbuk Box
Nov 2, 2025·7m - 11
187. Ellen Greenberg (Part I): What Really Happened in Apartment 603?
Nov 1, 2025·54m - 12
Brew Crime News - October Edition feat. Reverie True Crime
Oct 26, 2025·1h 10m - 13
186. Malinda Hoagland: The 12-Year-Old Held Captive in Her Own Home
Jun 24, 2025·51m - 14
185. Fan Man-yee: Hidden Inside Hello Kitty in Hong Kong
Jun 17, 2025·30m - 15
184. Hijacked: Cassie Ventura’s Testimony and the Neuroscience of Survival
Jun 10, 2025·1h 8m - 16
183. Amy Fitzpatrick: The Ground Holds Secrets in Spain - Part 3 of 3
Jun 3, 2025·57m - 17
182. Amy Fitzpatrick: Lost to the Night, Silenced by the Blade - Part 2 of 3
May 27, 2025·1h 15m - 18
181. Amy Fitzpatrick: The Space Between Goodnight and Gone - Part 1 of 3
May 20, 2025·1h - 19
180. Lindsay Ann Hawker: No Way Out - Tragedy and Terror in Tokyo, Japan
May 13, 2025·1h 9m - 20
179. Crystal McCrory Jones: Letters, Lies, and a Little Hope - Part 5 of 5
May 6, 2025·54m - 21
178. Crystal McCrory Jones: Signed, Sealed, and Wrong - Part 4 of 5
Apr 29, 2025·1h 5m - 22
177. Crystal McCrory Jones: Autopsy Red Flags, Accusations Online, and a Sheriff Who Looked Away - Part 3 of 5
Apr 22, 2025·1h 5m - 23
Introducing: Morning Cup of Murder - The Ninja Burglar
Apr 18, 2025·10m - 24
176. Crystal McCrory Jones: He's a Chronic Liar...But Not About This? - Part 2 of 5
Apr 17, 2025·1h 15m - 25
175. Crystal McCrory Jones: Ignored Evidence and a Sister's Fight Against a Broken System - Part 1 of 5
Apr 15, 2025·1h 2m - 26
174. Meth, Murder, and Mystery in South Fremantle
Apr 8, 2025·37m - 27
173. No Footprints to Follow: The Vanishing of Sarah Kinslow
Apr 1, 2025·43m - 28
172. Sister Megan Rice: The School of the Americas and the Nun Who Broke into a Nuclear Facility
Mar 25, 2025·55m - 29
171. Did the CIA Help Create Charles Manson?
Mar 18, 2025·46m - 30
170. LaVena Lynn Johnson: The Soldier Who Never Came Home
Mar 11, 2025·18m - 31
169. 2025: New Year, New True Crime Binge! (Part Two)
Jan 6, 2025·1h 34m - 32
168. 2025: New Year, New True Crime Binge! (Part One)
Jan 2, 2025·1h 21m - 33
167. Voicemail from the Void: The Vanishing of Henry McCabe
Jan 23, 2024·48m - 34
166. Twisted Roots: Incest, Intrigue, and Tragedy
Jan 1, 2024·38m - 35
165. Metropolitan Designated Case 114: The Monster with 21 Faces
Reverie True Crime's "The Monster with 21 Faces" follows the 1984 kidnapping of Katsuisa Ozaki from his Nashiomiya home in Hyogo Prefecture and the ransom demand for 1 billion yen plus 100 kilograms of gold.
Sep 14, 2023·42m·2 clips - 36
The BrewVerie Report #17
Sep 5, 2023·52m - 37
164. Interview with Neama Rahmani
Host Paige interviews former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani about his background and his thoughts on high-profile true crime cases.
May 23, 2023·34m - 38
The BrewVerie Report #16
May 16, 2023·1h 13m - 39
163. Dorothy Jane Scott: When a Killer Calls
May 15, 2023·24m - 40
162. Twisted Sisters: Murder of Oscar Velazquez
Apr 25, 2023·21m - 41
161. Blanca Montano: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy / Factitious Disorder
Apr 11, 2023·33m - 42
160. Murder in Room 1046
Apr 3, 2023·29m - 43
Rogue Transmissions: April Fools
Mar 30, 2023·1h 22m - 44
159. Ricky Nolen McGinn: The Axe Murder of Stephanie Flanary
Mar 27, 2023·40m - 45
158. The Latest News: Crime
Mar 20, 2023·35m - 46
The BrewVerie Report #15
Mar 14, 2023·1h 4m - 47
157. Cordell Farrington: Missing Boys of Grand Bahama Island
This episode explores the unsolved disappearances of three young boys in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 2003.
Mar 13, 2023·42m - 48
156. Shawn O’Brien: Murder or Seizure (with Shawn’s daughter, Natalia)
Natalia St.
Mar 6, 2023·44m - 49
Bonus: Matthew Gentile - Writer and Director of the Film “American Murderer”
Interview with director Matthew Gentile about his film 'American Murderer' based on fugitive Jason Derrick Brown.
Feb 28, 2023·37m