Tales From the Glovebox

Tales From The Glovebox is your ride into real-life mysteries, true crime, and scary stories that follow you home. For Video Episodes, check out our YouTube Channel at youtube.com/@talesfromthegloveboxBuckle up for true crime, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, and unexplained events that take a dark turn. Each episode will make you check your rearview mirror. If you like MrBallen, Lore, Nexpo, NightMind, Disturbed Podcast, or CreepsMcPasta, you're in the right car.

Tales From the Glovebox is a true crime podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 53 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Tales From the Glovebox, a true crime show with 53 episodes published.

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  Episode #54

  The Men Who Disappeared From Bars

  Oct 2, 202610 min

  1990s Indianapolis case about a missing persons pattern and a quiet family property, retold for true crime fans who like a slow reveal.In the early 1990s, just outside Indianapolis, a man named Herb seemed to have it all. He ran a couple of successful thrift stores, he had a wife named Julie and several kids, and the family lived on eighteen acres with a big house and a swimming pool. One afternoon, Herb's thirteen year old son was playing in the woods behind the house and came running back inside. He had found a human skeleton, half buried in the dirt. Herb stayed calm and told the boy it was an old medical skeleton that had belonged to his late father, a doctor, and that he had finally gotten rid of it. The family believed him, and for two more years, nobody thought about those woods again.While that was happening, a different and much quieter story was unfolding across Indianapolis. For years, men had been going missing from the city, the kind of disappearances that never made headlines. A man would go out for the night and simply never come home. Many of these men were gay, and at the time that often meant they were estranged from their families, so some were not reported missing for a long time. Police noticed a pattern building, but with no bodies and no crime scenes, there was almost nothing to work with. Every now and then a man would come forward after barely escaping a violent encounter, but he could rarely say where he had been or who he had been with. Whoever was behind it blended in completely and did not look like a monster at all.The two stories finally crossed when one of the survivors gave investigators new details, including a memory of a house with a large swimming pool. That detail helped narrow the search to the area north of the city, toward eighteen acres with a big house and a pool out back. In June of 1996, while Herb was out of town, his wife Julie gave investigators permission to search the property. They went straight to the woods behind the house, the same woods where Herb's son had found a skeleton two years earlier. This time, they found thousands of bone fragments scattered through the trees, burned, broken, some buried and some lying in the open. Along with the bones were pieces of handcuffs and spent shotgun shells. Investigators eventually recovered close to ten thousand fragments and accounted for at least eleven men, with the real number believed to be twenty five or more. Every one of them had gone missing from Indianapolis, and every one had been on this property the whole time.When police came looking for Herb, he had already driven north into Canada. He took his own life in a provincial park, leaving behind a three page note that talked about his failing marriage and his struggling businesses, and even apologized for spoiling the scenery of the park where he died. He never once mentioned the men whose remains were found on his land. Julie, married to him for twenty five years, has said she never knew. Investigators are still working through the recovered remains today, matching fragments to names and calling families decades later to tell them their son or brother has finally been found. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠

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  Episode #53

  The Phantom Terrorized Texarkana in 1946

  Sep 28, 20269 min

  A 1946 unsolved serial attack case from the Texas-Arkansas border, retold for true crime fans and cold case listeners who like a strange ending instead of a clean one.In the spring of 1946, a masked man started attacking couples parked on lonely back roads outside Texarkana, Texas. He wore a white flour sack over his head with two holes torn out for the eyes, and over about ten weeks he attacked eight people, killing five of them and leaving three survivors who barely escaped. The newspapers called him the Phantom, and for almost eighty years, most people have heard that the Phantom was never caught. Two detectives who worked the case would tell you a very different story.The first attack left a young couple alive but badly beaten, and for a while the town believed it was a one time thing. Then the Phantom came back, and this time both victims of a parked couple were killed. A few weeks later, a teenage girl and her boyfriend never made it home. The whole town of Texarkana locked its doors, parents kept their kids inside on weekends, and gun stores sold out fast. Two lawmen, a detective named Tackett and a deputy named Johnson, worked every lead they had and chased down every man in the area with a violent record, but each one came back to nothing.Then in early May, the Phantom did something that broke his own pattern. He shot a man named Stark through the window of his own house while the man sat inside. The man's wife barely escaped. After that, the attacks stopped completely, and the two detectives had less and less to go on. But they kept working the case, and they noticed something nobody else had. Every attack lined up with a stolen car reported nearby around the same time, later found abandoned. That pointed them toward car thieves moving through east Texas, and one name kept coming up, a man named Youell Swinney.The break in the case came from Swinney's wife, Peggy, who talked to investigators in detail about things only someone close to the Phantom could have known. Among the items she handed over was a shirt with the name STARK sewn into the collar, the same Stark who had been shot through his window. It was the direct link the detectives needed. But before it ever reached a courtroom, Peggy changed her mind and refused to testify, and without her, the murder case fell apart. So investigators charged Swinney with the one thing they could prove without her, car theft. As a repeat offender, he was sentenced to life in prison for stealing cars.Then, in 1973, a court reviewed his old convictions, found problems with how they were handled, and threw the sentence out entirely. Youell Swinney walked out of prison a free man. He lived quietly for another twenty years and died in a nursing home in 1994. The Phantom case remains officially unsolved to this day. Not one of the five murders was ever formally closed, and the two detectives who believed they knew the truth went to their graves without an official answer. To this day, true crime researchers and amateur sleuths still argue over whether Swinney acted alone, whether he had help, and whether the case against him would have held up if Peggy had ever taken the stand. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠

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  Episode #52

  A Family and Their Dog Walked Away From $32,000

  Sep 25, 20269 min

  A 2009 family disappearance from rural Oklahoma, retold for true crime fans and unsolved mystery listeners who like a strange, unresolved ending.In the fall of 2009, a man named Bobby loaded up his wife Sherilynn and their six year old daughter Madyson and drove into the Sans Bois Mountains of eastern Oklahoma to look at a forty acre piece of land he wanted to buy. Eight days later, someone found their truck parked on a remote dirt road, locked up tight with the windows rolled all the way up, and the family dog inside, half starved but alive. Bobby, Sherilynn, and Madyson were gone, and almost nothing about what was left behind made any sense.Inside the truck, investigators found the family's wallets, their phones, and thirty two thousand dollars in cash sitting out in the open on the seat. Bobby's finances had been a mess for months before the trip, and nobody could explain where that kind of money came from or why it was left there for anyone to take. In the weeks before they vanished, Sherilynn had told friends she felt like someone was watching the house and that she did not feel safe outside, even in broad daylight. Bobby's handgun, which he always kept close, was never recovered. Search teams covered the Sans Bois Mountains for months. Helicopters flew overhead and volunteers walked the woods in widening circles, but there was no trail, no tracks, and no sign of which direction the family had gone. The case went cold for four years, and the Jamison family's disappearance became one of the strangest unsolved cases in Oklahoma history.In November of 2013, two hunters walking about three miles from where the truck had been parked found human remains lying close together on the ground. They belonged to Bobby, Sherilynn, and Madyson. As investigators dug back into the case, the story everyone had assumed, that someone had taken this family from the woods, started to fall apart. Home security footage from the morning they packed up showed Bobby and Sherilynn moving slowly between the house and the truck, almost like they were in a trance. The couple had been struggling with drug use, and they had told their pastor they believed they were seeing spirits inside their home. Tucked in with the cash inside the truck, investigators found a letter Sherilynn had written that was angry, paranoid, and hard to follow.The medical examiner could not determine a cause of death, because the remains had been in the woods too long. There was no evidence of another person, no struggle, and no proof anyone else was ever out there. But there was also no proof that no one was. The official record could never rule out either possibility, drugs and paranoia driving a family into the wilderness on their own, or someone following them in from the start. What is certain is that a six year old girl trusted the two adults responsible for her safety, on a night when something inside that house had already gone terribly wrong, and that three miles of Oklahoma wilderness kept its answer for four full years. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠

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  Episode #51

  Tennessee Let Her Lie to the Mothers

  Sep 21, 202610 min

  The true story of Georgia Tann, who sold babies through a Tennessee adoption agency, told for fans of historical true crime and cases that exposed a hidden system.In Memphis, Tennessee in the 1920s, a woman named Georgia Tann took over the local branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and began placing children into adoptive homes faster than anyone in the country had done before. Social workers across America knew her name. Newspapers ran stories about her work. Politicians called her a personal friend. She testified before legislative committees and changed how the entire country thought about child welfare and adoption law. By the time anyone was able to stop her, nearly five thousand children had passed through her agency over twenty-five years.Georgia also had something almost nobody else in Memphis had. The city's political machine was run by a man named E.H. Crump, who controlled the courts, the sheriff's office, and most of city government. Georgia had spent years making sure she stayed on his good side. When questions arose about her agency, Crump made those questions go away. Judges signed whatever she needed. Nobody asked hard questions about the Baby Lady.The adoptive families who worked with Georgia were not struggling households. They were lawyers, doctors, and celebrities with large houses in cities across the country. The fees were high, and the checks went directly to Georgia rather than to the agency. She kept about eighty cents of every dollar and reported none of it. Joan Crawford adopted twin girls through Georgia's agency in 1947. The families on her waiting list had no idea anything was wrong. The children placed through her agency went to good homes. For them, everything worked out.The problem was on the other end. Georgia had more demand for children than supply, and she had been secretly solving that problem for twenty-five years.She targeted mothers who had no way to fight back. She went into hospitals and approached single mothers and immigrant women who had just given birth and had no money for a lawyer. Georgia or one of her assistants would tell the mother that her newborn needed to be taken for treatment right away. And then she told the lie. She told the mothers their babies had died.She filed fraudulent death certificates. She controlled every piece of documentation in the official files. The real mothers went from office to office asking questions and got the same answer everywhere. The records showed nothing. Their children were already gone, placed with wealthy families hundreds of miles away, and the paperwork had been constructed to make them impossible to find.Georgia had also helped write the adoption laws that sealed records permanently in Tennessee. Adopted children could not search for biological families, and biological families could not search for the children who had been taken from them. She built the legal lock herself and then used it for twenty-five years to keep anyone from undoing what she had done.In 1950 a new governor came in and the formal investigation went through Georgia's files without interference. They found everything. Georgia Tann was sixty-three years old and dying of cancer. She died three days before her crimes went public. She was never charged with a single count. There was no one left to prosecute.Today, online DNA testing is slowly undoing what Georgia's laws hid. Her victims, now in their seventies and eighties, are finding their biological families for the first time. If you are searching for true crime stories about child trafficking, adoption fraud, stolen children, historical abuse of power, or cases where the system was built to protect the criminal, the Georgia Tann case is one of the most sweeping examples in American history. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠

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  Episode #50

  This Long Island Hospital Had a Silent Killer

  Sep 18, 202610 min

  The true story of a Long Island hospital where a trusted caregiver turned out to be a killer, told for true crime fans who like a hidden-in-plain-sight medical case.In the fall of 1987, patients on a cardiac ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, Long Island were going into sudden crisis with no warning. Staff rushed to each bedside as the emergencies came. Some patients survived. Some did not. Nobody on the medical staff or in hospital administration could explain why it kept happening.The crashes kept coming. Outside investigators went through months of records, shift schedules, and patient files and came up empty. Equipment checked out clean. Nothing pointed to a cause. Then they found something they had not been looking for.The emergencies were not random. They were tied to specific shifts. When investigators lined up every incident against the staff schedule, one name appeared at the center of too many incidents to be coincidence. They narrowed their focus. A doctor on the cardiac team had access to the medication storage and the training to know exactly what certain drugs would do to a patient in seconds. He became the center of the investigation. Then a patient in the cardiac ward pushed a call button before losing all muscle control, and investigators finally found proof of what the drug was. Paralytic agents. The kind used in operating rooms to stop a body from moving before surgery. These drugs had no medical reason to be on a cardiac ward.The doctor was cleared when his schedule showed he was on a different part of the hospital the night that patient was attacked. Investigators went back through the logs and looked again at who was on the ward for every incident. And there was one nurse who had appeared at every single scene. She had not been looked at before because she was always part of the response. She was always the one running toward the bedside when something went wrong. But when investigators got precise about the timing, she was not arriving at the scene. She was already there.Her locker was searched under warrant. Inside, investigators found vials of the exact paralytic drugs that had been appearing in the blood of patients with no medical reason to have them. The nurse was arrested. His name was Richard Angelo. He was twenty-five years old, a male nurse on the cardiac ward, and everyone at Good Samaritan loved him. He had been an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter before going into nursing. People looked to him in a crisis because he was always calm, always fast, always the first to know what to do.What Angelo told investigators was that he needed to feel needed. When things were routine and no one required saving, he manufactured the emergencies himself. He injected patients with paralytic drugs that stopped their breathing so he could be the one who swooped in and brought them back. Four patients on the cardiac ward died. At least ten others were seriously injured. A jury convicted Angelo of murder in 1989 and the judge sentenced him to sixty-one and a third years to life in prison.This is the Richard Angelo case, also known as the Good Samaritan Hospital murders on Long Island in 1987 and 1988. It is one of the most studied examples of hero syndrome, also called Munchausen syndrome by proxy in a medical setting, in American true crime history. If you are searching for stories about healthcare serial killers, medical murder cases, hero syndrome, or unsettling hospital crime, this case is one of the defining examples. For the FULL experience, watch this story as a Video on our YouTube channel here: ⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@talesfromtheglovebox⁠

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