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On June 30th, 1987 22-year-old Anita Carlson had a lot to be excited about. Two months before she’d graduated with honors from Bemidji State University with a degree in communications and she’d already been offered a job at a television station. The upcoming weekend was an exciting time for residents in Bemidji. It was the fourth of July and many people celebrated by visiting the Water Carnival. Anita had no reason to suspect her future was anything but bright. Sadly, her promising life would come to a bitter end when she abducted from Pete’s Place West, a convenience store where she was working the night shift. A week later her body would be discovered in a heavily wooded area. For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/anitacarlson Helme House: http://jrericksonauthor.com/product/helme-house-troubled-spirits-novel/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings

It was an odd weekend for camping on October 8th, 2000 in Wallowa County, Oregon. The weather was cool and would soon be turning cold, especially in places like the Wollowa-Whitman National Forest, but that didn’t deter 44-year-old Chris Northon and 38-year-old Liysa Northon from taking their three-year-old son into the mountains for a weekend in the outdoors. Tragically, though three people drove into the mountains, only two would come back out alive. In the early dark of Saturday, October 9th, Chris Northon would be shot in the head by the woman he’d married just four years before. For complete show notes and sources: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/chrisnorthon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings The Troubled Spirits Novels: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1

It was warm spring day on Friday April 25th, 2008 in Aiken, South Carolina when 47-year-old Ann Fox Smith didn’t show up for work. Ann was a beloved special education teacher at Kennedy Middle School and this was definitely out of the ordinary. As the day went on with no word from Ann, her friend and fellow teacher, Sally Ferriter drove to Ann’s house on Whitney Drive to check on her. As she stepped from the sunny spring day into Ann’s home, she did not realize she was moments away from a life altering discovery. Ann Fox Smith lay dead on the floor in a blood spattered bedroom. For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/annfoxsmith Find Me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Find Me on Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings Check out the Troubled Spirits Series: https://amzn.to/3sUzEop Check out the Northern Michigan Asylum Series: https://amzn.to/3FLku8d www.jrericksonauthor.com

Nothing about Cherryl’s day on Friday January 4th, 2002 foretold the trouble awaiting her. The 37-year-old pediatrician lived in Bartlett, Tennessee; a city located northeast of Memphis with a population of more than 50,000 people. That evening, she attended a Memphis Grizzlies game at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis. Cherryl had season tickets and as a former basketball player herself, it was a sport she enjoyed. She went to the game alone, which was not unusual. After the game, around 10:30pm Cherryl returned to her brick home located across the street from a golf course on Daybreak Drive in Bartlett Tennessee. Her close friend Andrea Fox and another girlfriend came over to hang out for a while leaving around 1 a.m. These friends would be the last known people to ever see Cherryl Pearson. For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/cherrylpearson To Support the Podcast: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings Check out Helme House and the Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1

It was a seemingly ordinary day for thirty-one-year-old stay-at-home mom Joan Risch on October 24th, 1961 at her home in Lincoln Massachusetts. Joan was married and lived with her husband and two children, a son and a daughter, in a nice suburban home in a quiet, safe neighborhood. That morning Joan’s husband went of of town on a business trip, and Joan went about usual day. Unfortunately that day would turn out to be anything but usual. Sometime in the early afternoon hours, while her young son slept upstairs and her daughter played at a neighbors, Joan would vanish mysteriously. She would leave behind a house smeared with blood and an array of clues that would puzzle investigators for sixty years. For complete Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/joanrisch If you'd like to support the Bitter Endings Podcast: Helme House: https://amzn.to/3CIV0pG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitterendings Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitterendings Thanks for watching!

This video is part of the true crime podcast Bitter Endings. This episode was originally released on 4/23/21. For complete show notes visit: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/adamcampbell Show Sponsor: The Troubled Spirits Series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KSC9SV1? In the cold early morning hours of April 9th, 2011, 26-year-old Adam Campbell left Baron’s Bar where’d been hanging out with friends in downtown Escanaba, Michigan. He walked west on Ludington Street and seemed to vanish into the night. Adam would not be gone for long, just one hour after he left the bar, his body was found burning in a parked car in an alleyway behind a residential neighborhood in the 300 block of Escanaba. To this day neither law enforcement or his family know who put him there.

It has been nearly 27 years since 15 year old Chanty Shiverdecker disappeared after basketball practice in Alexander City, Alabama, nearly 27 years since her body was discovered at an abandoned lumberyard, and nearly 27 years without answers for her family. Nearly three decades have gone by without an answer to the question: Who killed Chanty Shiverdecker? If you have any information regarding the unsolved murder, please contact the Coosa County Sheriff’s Office at 256 377 2211 or email office@coosaso.com. For complete show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/chantyshiverdecker The Northern Michigan Asylum Series: https://amzn.to/3ia86F3

This video was adapted from the audio podcast Bitter Endings. For complete show notes visit: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/samanthalang Show Sponsor- The Bitter Endings Series: https://amzn.to/2YApBHR Many people will never have heard of Derry Township Pennsylvania. Those that have might think of small town America or perhaps that most iconic of American company’s Hershey Chocolate whose first factory was built and remains in Derry Pennsylvania. But every city has its mix of light and dark. In Derry Township the dark doesn’t get much worse than the unsolved brutal killing of 22-year-old Samantha Joann Lang on March 27th, 2007. Samantha’s life ended bitterly on the kitchen floor of her father’s home where she bled to death after an intruder slashed her throat. For nearly fourteen years Samantha’s family has lived with the horror of what occurred that night and with the mystery of who stole her life.

This is the second part of the Crimes of Robert Durst. Bob Durst might have faded from the spotlight after Kathie’s case went cold, but the man would end up in the news again and again and each time a violent death seemed to be at the center of the focus on Bob Durst. Two more murders would occur that would put his name back in the headlines. The first was the shooting death of his close friend Susan Berman. The second, and much more gruesome of the two was the murder and dismemberment of Morris Black. Show notes: https://bitterendingspod.com/podcast/episode-20-the-murders-of-susan-berman-and-morris-black-durst-part-2 Northern Michigan Asylum Series: https://amzn.to/3AqgI0W