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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. Crimes, cryptids, cons, and beyond. There is always something new to dive into.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee for the mysterious case of Natalee Holloway who went on a class trip and was never seen again. Will we have justice? Or will we be left with even more questions… tune in to find out more. 

Our sources for this weeks episodes:


https://www.crimemuseum.org/help-the-missing/


https://www.biography.com/crime/natalle-holloway-murder-timeline


https://apnews.com/article/natalee-holloway-extortion-joran-van-der-sloot-1f9335330de758cd7163914b81d0759f 


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/15/natalee-holloway-case-man-who-claimed-help-joran-van-der-sloot-dispose-teens-body-stabbed-death/427290002/ 


https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/natalee-holloway-resource-center/


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalee-holloway-fought-like-hell-before-death-mom-says-joran-van-der-sloot-confession/ 


https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-natalee-holloway


https://www.eonline.com/photos/28082/untangling-the-disappearance-of-natalee-holloway


https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/-3925483


https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/21/holloway.arrest/index.html

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. Crimes, cryptids, cons, and beyond. There is always something new to dive into.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss the case of Cory & Curtis Lovelace. Cory was found dead in her bed on Valentine’s Day and instantly everyone jumped to the idea that her husband had murdered her. The only problem, everything about this case had huge plot holes that no one wanted to figure out the answers to. Was Curtis being wrongly accused?

Our sources for this weeks episodes:


https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/curtis-lovelace-wins-45m-lawsuit-against-adams-county-quincy-police 


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cory-lovelace-curtis-lovelace-case-did-illinois-mother-die-from-alcohol-abuse-or-was-she-murdered/


https://investigatinginnocence.org/curt-lovelace


https://www.nprillinois.org/legal/2017-03-28/curtis-lovelace-life-after-a-not-guilty-verdict#stream/0

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. Crimes, cryptids, cons, and beyond. There is always something new to dive into.



In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as we discuss Chris Benoit’s career in the WWE, his life, family, and what happened in the last weekend of his life. Chris is known in the Wrestling Community along with the True Crime Community because of his double murder suicide that ended an entire family.



Our sources for this weeks episodes:


https://www.wrestlinginc.com/992484/the-tragic-life-of-chris-benoit/


https://www.thesportster.com/wwe-chris-benoit-death-murdered-family/


https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/cm-punk-compares-vince-mcmahon-to-chris-benoit-details-fight-that-led-to-his-aew-termination/


https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/wrestlers/chris-benoit


https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=574&name=Chris+Benoit


https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/us/27wrestler.html


https://news4jax.com/news/local/2023/05/10/going-ringside-ep-11-the-chris-benoit-murder-suicide/


https://www.si.com/wrestling/2020/03/17/chris-benoit-murder-suicide-dark-side-of-the-ring


https://allthatsinteresting.com/chris-benoit-death

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast filled with nightmares that haunt the daylight. From murders, to crimes, to cryptids, to anything in between, you can learn about what might be going bump in the night.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss the life and crimes of Stanley Romanek. Some people recognize his name from the Netflix Documentary, Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story about his alien abductions and visitations. However, Stanley was also the same person arrested for child pornography in 2014 following his wild and weird claim to fame.

Our sources for this weeks episodes:


Documentary, Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story (Youtube)


Book, Answers by Stan Romanek

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast filled with nightmares that haunt the daylight. From murders, to crimes, to cryptids, to anything in between, you can learn about what might be going bump in the night.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss the abduction of Yoshiro Fujiwara back in April of 1974. He claimed some creatures had taken him multiple times to learn more about the human race and make him an important figure in human-alien relations for the future. Not to mention the superpowers they granted him.

Our sources for this weeks episodes:


https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/kitami-abductors-japan/


https://moonlightlore.libsyn.com/abduction-in-kitami


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GHWO4VISQ


https://paranormal-strange.fandom.com/wiki/Kitami_Abductors 

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast filled with nightmares that haunt the daylight. From murders, to crimes, to cryptids, to anything in between, you can learn about what might be going bump in the night.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss the kidnapping of Jayme Closs. Jake Patterson was on a mission to find and kidnap a young girl, and when he saw Jayme he deemed her his conquest. Jake decided to show up at her house with a shotgun, murdering her parents, and then taking Jayme for himself for 88 days.

Our sources for this weeks episodes:


https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/i-cant-believe-i-did-this-accused-jayme-closs-kidnapper-writes-letter-from-jail/89-e1a0eb81-4e41-474c-9800-5aa3672a7883


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD65WwlJMnM


https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/us/jayme-closs-case-moment-by-moment/index.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/us/jayme-closs-missing-girl-barron-wisconsin.html


https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/us/jayme-closs-found/index.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05cx7iPZkU


https://drydenwire.com/obituaries/james-and-denise-closs/ 


https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-accused-kidnapping-13-year-wisconsin-girl-killing/story?id=60343911