Dark Dialogue

For nearly ten years, the murder of Mia Zapata remained one of Seattle's most haunting unsolved cases. Investigators followed leads, interviewed witnesses, and exhausted traditional investigative methods, but the case...

When Amy Wroe Bechtel disappeared outside Lander, Wyoming on July 24, 1997, investigators faced a difficult reality. There was no body. No crime scene. No eyewitness to a crime. No physical evidence explaining what had...

On July 7, 1993, Seattle detectives began piecing together the final hours of Mia Zapata's life. Friends remembered seeing her at the Comet Tavern. Witnesses recalled her search for an ex-boyfriend. Investigators...

Before she became the center of one of Seattle's most haunting unsolved homicide investigations, Mia Zapata was an artist, a friend, and one of the most powerful voices in the Pacific Northwest music scene. In Part One...

<p>For more than twenty-five years, the murder of Janet Chandler remained hidden behind a carefully constructed robbery story.</p><p>In Episode 4, we reconstruct the final hours of Janet's life, examine how a group of...

<p>For more than twenty-five years, Janet Chandler’s murder survived as a familiar cold case story: a motel clerk abducted during a robbery in western Michigan during the winter of 1979.</p><p>But in Episode 3 of Dark...

<p>The robbery story made sense at first glance.</p><p>A missing motel clerk.<br> An interrupted phone call.<br> Missing cash from the register.<br> A frightened voice saying:<br> “Don’t take it all, sir.”</p><p>But the...

<p>In Part 1 of this Dark Dialogue investigation, John and Angela examine the environment surrounding 22-year-old Hope College student Janet Chandler before her disappearance from the Blue Mill Inn in Holland, Michigan...

<p>In April of 1920, a quiet farm outside Turtle Lake, North Dakota became the site of one of the most brutal mass murders in the state’s history.</p><p>Eight members of the Wolf family were killed in a single stretch...

<p>Dorothy Jane Scott vanished from a hospital parking lot in 1980 after months of escalating, anonymous calls.</p><p>Four years later, her remains were found in the hills of Anaheim.</p><p>In Part 2, this case...

<p>The night Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared should have been routine.</p><p>A coworker needed help.<br> A quick trip to the hospital.<br> A short walk to the parking lot.</p><p>And then—she was gone.</p><p>In Part 1 of...

<p>In 2007, Christopher Edwards was convicted of murdering Jessica O’Grady.</p><p>There was no body.<br> No recovery.<br> No direct proof of how she died.</p><p>The case was built on what investigators said happened...

<p>This episode of Dark Dialogue is something different—and something that matters.</p> <p>Originally recorded during a New Year’s live show that didn’t quite go as planned, one part stood out: a conversation worth...

<p>In May of 2006, nineteen-year-old Jessica Jo O’Grady left her Omaha apartment late at night after telling roommates she was going to see someone she had recently started spending time with. Within hours, her phone...

<p>Robert Breininger is dead. Judith Hawkey is no longer serving life without parole. And Corey Breininger is now a father trying to live beyond the night that changed everything.</p> <p>In this final installment of the...