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  • ...we therefore commit this body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
    — A phrase for burial in the Book of Common Prayer.

    Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie. Strung out in heaven's high and hitting an all-time low.
    — David Bowie

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  • This is a FULL episode of our new monthly series. Created by the team at TAPES FROM THE DARKSIDE. The lead writer is Josh Lami from Obscura. Minor additions by TZ. Each episode is a self-contained one-off true crime story. All episodes are now streaming on Patreon — new episode posted each month.

    In 2018, Jacqueline Ades went on a single date with a man she met on an online dating app. Over the next 10 months, she sent him over 159,000 text messages. Among these many colorful messages she included ones that described how she desired to make "sushi" out of his kidneys and "chopsticks" out of his finger bones.

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  • Exactly what happened during the early morning hours of July 2, 2021? Through the fire and flames, we continue on with our coverage of the Halderson case.

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  • Date: July 1, 2021
    Location: The Halderson's basement

    Bart and Krista's lifeless bodies are sprawled across the cold cement floor. Various blood soaked tools are strewn about the room. Hedge clippers, scissors, a keyhole saw, a hacksaw, and an axe.

    The air is thick with death and desperation.

    Chandler is bent over his father's half naked body, hacksaw in hand, as he begins the slow and methodical process of sawing through both of Bart's femurs.

    The ridges of the blade begin their incision into the bone, then halt abruptly, leaving a clue. One that would tell investigators exactly what tools Chandler used that night. The very same tools that police would later find inside a rusty oil barrel on Crescent L'sai's farm.

    This is Chapter 10: False Start.

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  • Where was Cat Mellender on July 1, 2021?

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  • A horrific discovery is made at Cottage Grove.

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    The following link contains EXPLICIT IMAGES showing a dismembered body. Please approach with caution and respect: https://imgur.com/a/oazEdAk

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  • In this episode, we'll travel to Tarkov, Russia. Where Chaz and his friend, Smitty, fought side-by-side in a brutal never-ending war.

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    For more info about the online community that Smitty mentions...for veterans, first responders, and medical personnel: https://www.forwardoperatorsgroup.com/

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  • Let's step inside the interrogation room with a cold-blooded killer.

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  • The date was June 29, 2021. An ordinary Tuesday afternoon.

    But in just two days time, Bart and Krista Halderson would be dead. Their body parts strewn across rural Wisconsin.

    Omar Jobe, 33-years-old, answers the phone while working his job at the Madison Area Technical College help desk. He's connected with a man named Bart Halderson (pictured below).

    Bart would assume his son's identity in an attempt to get to the bottom of a seemingly impossible, year-long struggle to obtain his son’s college transcripts.

    And it's during this phone call that Bart would finally learn the truth about his son's academic situation. Chandler Halderson's intricate web of lies was about to be unspun—one thread at a time.

    This is Chapter 5 in a multi-part series. Please start at the beginning if you're new to the story.

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  • On June 17, 2021, Chandler slipped and fell down the stairs at his parents' house. And in that one brief moment the entire trajectory of his life was forever changed.

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  • We travel into the interrogation room with Cat. And also learn more about her background.

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  • The twenty-three-year-old Chandler Halderson appeared to be living the ideal life. Beautiful girlfriend, a loving family, and the dream job. How did it all go so wrong?

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  • A jailhouse phone call.

    An interesting phenomena in its own right. The prison industrial complex in the USA generates an estimated 1.3 billions per year. In March of 2020, when the Dane County Jail stopped all in-person visitations due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus they implemented a policy in which every inmate was allotted two 15-minute phone calls per day.

    No matter if it's free or charged, if you happen to be on either end of a jailhouse phone call you should be aware this is not a normal phone call.

    That’s because there’s an inherent irony in this kind of call. Especially one that takes place pre-trial—like the one you hear at the beginning of this episode between Chandler Halderson and his girlfriend Catherine. And the irony is this.

    You’re free to talk about nearly any subject you'd like—except for the one that you both would like most to discuss.

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  • Bart and Krista Halderson went missing in July of 2021. Their bodies were found dismembered, decapitated, and strewn throughout rural Wisconsin. The last person to see them alive was their son, Chandler, and he quickly became the lead suspect in a criminal case. But what could possibly lead a person to murder their own parents?

    This is "The Haldersons" presented by Tapes from the Darkside.

  • “In the end, however, despite all the mystery still surrounding Otto, it is essential to remember two facts that endure as unyielding as gravestones: Otto’s death and the grief of those he left behind.” —Doug Bock Clark, investigative reporter

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    Sources:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-speaking-one-voice-north-korea-state-dept-spox-n791261
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-crisis-how-events-have-unfolded-under-trump-n753996
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/fire-fury-rocket-man-barbs-traded-trump-kim/story?id=53634996
    https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html
    https://thetab.com/us/2017/06/26/professor-said-otto-warmbier-got-deserved-will-not-rehired-69870
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-wilmore-apologizes-to-otto-warmbiers-family
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180217063012/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/otto-warmbier-death-professor-facebook-post-north-korea-delaware-university-fired-a7809146.html
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/9/28/no-signs-of-torture-in-death-of-otto-warmbier
    https://www.wlwt.com/article/president-recognizes-otto-warmbiers-parents-during-state-of-the-union/15932163
    https://nextshark.com/white-people-made-comedy-north-korea-now-want-sympathy-otto-warmbier

  • The intricacies of international diplomacy and political power-plays unravel while a young man's life hangs in the balance.

    While Otto Warmbier faces 15 years in a North Korean prison camp, the tension between superpowers begins to boil, political tides shift, and strategies of the past are weighed against the fate of an American held hostage abroad.

    Amidst these high-stakes negotiations, who could anticipate a former NBA legend would come to play a critical role in the process?

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  • If convicted of this alleged crime what kind of punishment was awaiting Otto Warmbier? Allow me to introduce you to the North Korean "re-education" prisons; a network of concentration camps that perpetually holds and brutally tortures approximately 200,000 people.

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    Sources:

    Human Rights Watch Video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZby_vxrJ0Q&ab_channel=HumanRightsWatch
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120513133927/
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3326738/I-saw-an-entire-family-being-killed.-They-were-put-in-the-gas-chamber-where-they-all-suffocated.-The-last-to-die-was-the-youngest-son.html
    https://ethnoscopes.blogspot.com/2013/03/eyes-of-tailless-animals-book.html
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/life-north-korean-labor-camp-no-thinking-just-fear-n32076

  • It was the last time his family would hear him speak. This is Otto Warmbier's confession.

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  • Calvin says that the first thing you noticed right away was the low ceilings. It was half that of the other floors. This truly felt like a nonexistent floor. Built between the crawlspaces of two actual floors.

    The taller members of the group buckled their knees to give the necessary headroom. And then excited, but also anxious, the group spread out and began to explore.

    Calvin cautiously walked the length of a dimly lit, concrete hall. The layout wasn’t much different than your normal hotel corridor. Doors branching off on either side to other rooms.

    Most were locked, but one was open.

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  • The story of Otto Warmbier, an all-American boy with an adventurous spirit. A former high school standout who would decide to take a daring vacation to North Korea during his college years.

    This episode begins to unravel the mystery of his New Year's Eve night in Pyongyang that would forever change the trajectory of his life.

    Discover the untold truths behind his capture, the resulting international controversy, and the cruel fate Otto was ultimately destined to endure.

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