Nightmares

Amityville, New York was the scene for a 70’s movie called Amityville Horror, but 2020 reminded residents that horror can strike at any time. Vietnam vet Dwight Powers would be the focus of this true ...

13 Apr 202323min

A brilliant psychopath traps multiple women in his secret basement and begins plans to create the perfect family.Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true crime podcasts at...

6 Apr 202332min

“Artist, women’s rights activist, Japanese immigrant, renowned arts professor”. These are the words that describe Rie Hachiyanagi, a paper artist living and working in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke C...

30 Mar 202324min

“If you were gorgeous and running out of money, what would you do? If you loved hurting things, what would you do?” 30-year-old Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian woman who was about to marry into a very wea...

23 Mar 202331min

The entire second floor of the Graham-Greenlee dormitory on the University of Arizona’s campus was suddenly awoken in the early morning hours of September 5th, 2007. It sounded like someone was moving...

16 Mar 202331min

Detectives fear the worst after a 9-year-old girl goes missing, and an empty grave is discovered in the nearby woods.Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true crime podcast...

9 Mar 202331min

From the moment Katie Fusco learned that she was an adopted child, she longed to understand where she came from and why she was put up for adoption in the first place. At age 18, just as she was about...

6 Mar 202327min

In 1986, a young Navy Seaman went missing from Gibraltar, a British naval base, after the ship The Illustrious docked for a few days. Simon Parkes’s grief-stricken parents would search for him for mor...

2 Mar 202326min