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An investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah HalerIn the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep — and the shadows remember everything.Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and mysterious cases — from unsolved homicides and disappearances to long-forgotten cold cases lost to time and silence.Hosted by Dan Morgan and Rebekah Haler, each episode combines journalistic depth, forensic reconstruction, and immersive storytelling to bring clarity to the darkness. Focused on accuracy, empathy, and respect for the victims, the series delivers a cold, investigative narrative style that stays true to the facts while capturing the atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.Every sound, every silence, every shadow has meaning.“In the pines, shadows linger — and the truth waits beneath the silence.”
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Signup to Generate a PitchAn investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah HalerIn the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep, and the shadows remember everything. Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and mysterious cases, from unsolved homicides and disappearances to long-forgotten cold cases lost to time and silence.
Recent episodes include "Mini Pines - Haunted Spokane" (13 October 2026, 46 minutes), "Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg - Part 2 - The Outcome" (5 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "When The Northwest Goes Dark" (3 October 2026, 34 minutes).
Shadows In The Pines publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 81 episodes.
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Shadows In The Pines is a true crime show with 81 episodes published.
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Episode #120
Spokane has plenty of ghost stories. But how much of what gets repeated is actually documented? In this episode of Mini Pines, Bekah explores five of Spokane’s reportedly haunted locations, including the Bing Crosby...
Episode #119
For more than thirty years, the DNA profile investigators called “Individual A” had no name. In the second half of our investigation into the murders of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, the case finally begins to...
Episode #118
As October approaches, the Pacific Northwest seems to take on a different feeling. The days grow shorter, the shadows stretch longer, and old stories seem to come alive. Join me for a fireside journey through Northwest...
Episode #117
In November 1987, 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Vancouver Island for what was supposed to be a simple overnight trip into Washington. Jay’s father needed materials picked up for the...
Episode #116
We continue with the story of Dayton Leroy Rogers
Episode #115
Dayton Leroy Rogers: The Molalla Forest Killer — Part 1: The Crimes Before Dayton Leroy Rogers became known as the Molalla Forest Killer, women in Oregon had already survived him. In Part One, we follow Rogers from his...
Episode #114
The Big Burn In August of 1910, three million acres burned in two days. At least eighty-five people died, and nobody can say exactly how many, because most had been hired off barstools without anyone writing down their...
Episode #113
Aidan Victoria Spear — Found, But Without Answers In January 2022, 21-year-old Aidan Victoria Spear was supposed to meet her mother, Jessica Brown. After years of struggling with addiction and homelessness on the...
Episode #112
In 1997, a man called a late-night radio show to report a bottomless pit outside Ellensburg, Washington. Nineteen feet across, fifteen miles of fishing line, no bottom. Over five years the story grew a resurrected dog...
Episode #111
A quick update on what we’ve been working on this last week
Episode #110
The Man Who Carried His Own Key You hike eleven miles on snowshoes to a locked Forest Service cabin. You have the only key. And the stove is warm. For thirteen years in the 1930s and ’40s, someone lived off the locked...
Episode #109
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. But that plea ended the case before a jury ever heard the evidence, before experts were cross-examined...
Episode #108
The House Made of the Hill: The Wilbur-Hahn House At the end of a dead-end road on Spokane’s South Hill sits a century-old house built directly into the basalt beneath it. It’s beautiful, historically significant...
Episode #107
Finding Kit: Missing in Omak In the summer of 2021, sixteen-year-old Kit Mora left Yakima for what was supposed to be a temporary stay with their biological mother in Omak, Washington. By November, their closest friends...
Episode #106
The Bridge of the Gods There was a bridge across the Columbia River. Not the steel one at Cascade Locks with the toll booth and the hikers walking single file — the first one. Stone and dirt and the broken bones of a...
Episode #105
The day after Thanksgiving in 1989, 18-year-old Mandy Stavik left her family’s home in the small community of Acme, Washington, for an afternoon run along the roads she’d known her entire life. She never came home. What...
Episode #104
Don't Whistle Back: The Stick Indians of the Pacific Northwest There's a rule some people in this part of the country still follow: don't whistle at night. No explanation offered. Just — don't. Because something will...
Episode #103
The Lewis-Clark Valley murders remain one of the Pacific Northwest’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Between 1979 and 1982, five people either disappeared or were murdered across southeastern Washington and...
Episode #102
Deep in the cedar and spruce forests of the Oregon coast, where the fog comes in sideways and you can lose fifty feet of visibility in the time it takes to blink, the men who logged those slopes in the 1880s and 1890s...
Episode #101
The Lewis-Clark Valley was already living with unanswered questions after the disappearance of Christina White and the murder of Kristin David. Then, in the span of just a few months, the investigation took a...
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