Shadows In The Pines

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True Crime

True crime podcast focusing on crime in the Pacific Northwest.

2d ago

Bryan Kohberger Update

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, and before some of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding 1122 King Road were tested in open court. Now, with Kohberger attempting to withdraw his guilty plea, those questions matter again. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, Dan takes another look at the evidence and the parts of this case that still don’t sit right: the handling of the knife sheath, the identification of the white sedan, the complete absence of identified victim DNA from Kohberger’s Elantra, the late-night Moscow trips, unidentified DNA, conflicting accounts from inside the house, the seven-and-a-half-hour delay before 911 was called, and the destruction of 1122 King Road before any trial took place. This isn’t an argument that Kohberger is innocent, and it isn’t about blaming anyone for surviving. It’s about asking questions that never received complete answers. Four young people were murdered. Their families deserve to know exactly what happened.
4d ago

Mini Pines - The Hahn House

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, privately owned—and by local reputation, one of the most haunted houses in Spokane. But the documented history of the Wilbur-Hahn House is stranger than most of the legends. Built in 1916 as an elaborate “love cottage,” the house passed from mining wealth and a marriage that lasted barely two years into the hands of Rudolph Hahn, the man newspapers would eventually call the “Mad Doctor of the South Hill.” His years there brought enormous parties, illegal liquor, radio towers, Jimmy Doolittle performing aerial stunts overhead, gunfire inside the house, the death of his wife Sylvia, a manslaughter conviction, and eventually Hahn’s own violent death. Then the house sat vacant for years, and Spokane supplied the rest: a woman seen on the staircase, screams from the basement, slamming doors, arguing voices, shadow figures, disappearing bloodstains, secret tunnels and stories of money hidden somewhere on the property. Some of those claims have roots in documented history. Others fall apart once you look closely. This episode separates the history from the haunting and the people who actually lived and died there from the legends that grew around them. The House Made of the Hill: The Wilbur-Hahn House.
Aug 10

Kit Mora - Missing In Omak

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 and family had stopped hearing from them. Kit stopped posting online. They stopped attending school. And yet months would pass before anyone realized this teenager had seemingly disappeared. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we follow Kit’s story from the people who knew and loved them through a welfare check that left serious questions, 33 unexcused school absences, a runaway classification, and an investigation that didn’t fully begin until more than a year after Kit’s last known communication with the people closest to them. Kit is Indigenous and nonbinary, and their disappearance also brings us into the larger crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the gaps that can exist between schools, child welfare, local police, tribal authorities, state agencies and federal investigators. Kit Mora is still missing. If you know anything about Kit’s disappearance, contact the Omak Police Department at 509-826-0383, the Washington Attorney General’s Office MMIP Cold Case Unit at 844-770-7900, or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678. Finding Kit: Missing in Omak — Shadows in the Pines.
Aug 8

Mini Pines - Bridge Of the Gods

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 mountain, wide enough to walk across, with the river running underneath it in the dark. For a long time, the people who told you about it were not believed. This is the story of a tired man in a canoe who wrote down the answer in 1805 and didn’t know it. A young novelist who heard the story from Klickitat elders, believed it when nobody respectable would, and died at twenty-nine without ever learning he was right. A botanist and his wife who spent the winters of the Great Depression counting dead trees in the freezing shallows of the Columbia, racing a dam that was about to drown the evidence forever. And the tree rings that finally answered the question — not to the century, not to the decade, but to a single season. It’s also the story of a girl named Kalliah, who was a year and a half old when the Army hanged her father, and who refused for the rest of her life to leave the river. The mountain came down in the winter of 1446. The story survived four hundred years to tell us so. Lamplight on the Trail — folklore, landmarks, and lost history of the Pacific Northwest.
Aug 4

The Murder Of Mandy Stavik

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 followed was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most haunting unsolved murders. Despite an extensive investigation, a massive search effort, and crucial biological evidence, detectives spent nearly three decades without knowing who had taken Mandy’s life. Then an ordinary conversation between two women, a determined detective who refused to let the case die, and a discarded plastic cup changed everything. In this episode, we trace Mandy’s story from the quiet roads of Acme through one of Washington State’s longest-running homicide investigations, following every step that ultimately led to justice nearly thirty years later. Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of murder, sexual assault, and violence that may not be suitable for all listeners. If you enjoy the show, please follow Shadows in the Pines on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen, and consider leaving a five-star review. It genuinely helps more people discover the stories of victims who deserve to be remembered. New episodes premiere every Sunday at 8:00 PM Pacific. Keep your eyes open and your footsteps light… because in the pines, the truth never stays buried.
Aug 1

Mini Pines - Stick Indians

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 hear you. This episode is about what's on the other end of that whistle. The Salish called them tsiatko. The Nisqually called them Seatco. In English they became the Stick Indians, or the Night People — though the older tradition holds that naming them at all is a way of drawing their attention. We trace what the historical record actually preserves, drawing on the work of Arthur C. Ballard, an Auburn city clerk who began sitting with Puget Sound elders in 1916 and writing down stories from people born before 1880. Beings who sleep by day and move at dusk. Who never cross water. Whose language is a series of whistles, low to high, carrying impossible distances through the trees. We walk through the rules the legends encode — don't go out alone after dark, don't disrespect them, don't say their name — and what those rules were quietly teaching about survival in the deep woods. We also look at the related traditions that get flattened into one another: Dzoonokwa, Slapu, Sasquatch. And we're honest about the modern cryptid layer that's grown up alongside the living tradition, and where one ends and the other begins. The forests here are old, and they are large. Take that seriously. Mini Pines explores the folklore, mysteries, and layered histories of the Pacific Northwest. New episodes wherever you listen.
Jul 20

The Lewis Clark Valley Murders - Part 3 - Lance Voss

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 north-central Idaho, leaving investigators to wonder whether they were hunting a single offender who operated undetected for years. In the conclusion of our series, we follow the investigation as detectives begin laying decades of evidence side by side, transforming what were once separate cases into a single, sprawling investigation. We examine why one man became the focus of so much investigative attention, why suspicion alone has never been enough to support criminal charges, and how advances in DNA testing and investigative genetic genealogy continue to keep hope alive for the families still searching for answers. We also look at where these cases stand today, the work of investigators and family members who refused to let them be forgotten, and the questions that remain unanswered nearly half a century later. If you have information about the disappearances of Christina White or Steven Pearsall, or the murders of Kristin David, Kristina Nelson, or Brandy Miller, please contact the appropriate law enforcement agency. Even the smallest detail can matter in a long-running investigation. New episodes of Shadows in the Pines premiere every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Pacific. If you enjoy the show, please follow, rate, and review us wherever you listen—it helps more people discover these stories.
Jul 18

Mini Pines - Gumberoo of the Cedars

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 had a story. It was called the Gumberoo. Coal-black, barrel-bodied, and completely indestructible — bullets bounced off its glossy hide, axes glanced away, even a charging elk got knocked backward by its own momentum. It would eat anything, couldn't be hurt by anything, and the only way out of an encounter was to lead it toward fire and hope you were standing far enough back when it went up. Tonight we're getting into the Fearsome Critters — the monsters of the American lumberwoods, born in bunkhouses, carried from camp to camp like gear — and specifically into what the Gumberoo was actually doing for the men who told stories about it. Because it wasn't just a campfire tale. It was a very specific kind of story, invented by people doing genuinely dangerous work in genuinely unforgiving country, about the one thing no amount of skill or strength could protect you from. Something that turns your own force back on you. That doesn't resist. That returns. Pull up a chair.

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True crime podcast focusing on crime in the Pacific Northwest.

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Years Active

2025 - 2026
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69
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