Shadows In The Pines

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  • 3.7 (3)
  • TRUE CRIME

True crime podcast focusing on crime in the Pacific Northwest. 

  1. 1D AGO

    Mini Pines - The Thing In The Lake

    The Thing in the Lake: Idaho’s Sharlie In the mountains of central Idaho, there’s a lake that drops nearly 400 feet into darkness. Cold. Still. Old. And for over a century, people standing along its shoreline have reported the same thing—something moving beneath the surface. Long. Deliberate. Not a wave. Not a fish. They call it Sharlie. Tonight, we head to Payette Lake in McCall—a place where folklore never really faded. From early railroad workers in the 1920s to modern-day sightings, the descriptions stay eerily consistent: a massive, multi-humped creature slipping through deep, glacial water. But what are people actually seeing? A relic of the prehistoric world? A misidentified giant sturgeon? Something simpler… or something we don’t fully understand? This episode isn’t just about a lake monster. It’s about why stories like this refuse to die—and what it says about the places that keep them alive. Because sometimes, the mystery matters more than the answer. So if you ever find yourself standing at the edge of a deep, dark lake… and the water shifts— You’ll understand why they still whisper the name. Sharlie. ⸻ 🎧 Listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts #ShadowsInThePines #TrueCrimePodcast #PNW #Idaho #Sharlie #Cryptids #Folklore #LakeMonster #McCallIdaho #PayetteLake

    30 min

  2. APR 27

    Robert Lee Yates Jr Part 1

    The Predator Next Door — Robert Lee Yates (Part 1) Shadows in the Pines   Spokane, Washington. A quiet city tucked beneath pine-covered hills and long stretches of highway. The kind of place where routines feel safe… and danger doesn’t look the way you expect it to.   In the late 1990s, women began disappearing—many from the edges of society, their lives overlooked, their absences barely making headlines. Some were last seen along East Sprague. Others simply vanished into the night. At first, the cases felt disconnected. Isolated. Easy to ignore.   They weren’t.   Because moving quietly through Spokane was a man who knew exactly how to blend in. A husband. A father. A decorated veteran. Someone who didn’t fit the profile people thought they were looking for.   In Part One of our four-part series, we begin at the surface—before the name Robert Lee Yates meant anything at all. We trace the early disappearances, the missed connections, and the growing sense that something wasn’t right. And we examine how an entire pattern of violence can take shape… without anyone realizing what they’re seeing.   This is the story of how a predator hides in plain sight—and how a city slowly begins to understand the truth.   🎧 New episodes weekly. 📍 Based in the Pacific Northwest. 🌲 In the pines, the truth never stays buried.

    1h 2m

  3. APR 22

    The Insane Tale of Jan Broberg

    Hey Listeners, both Bekah and I are a bit under the weather this week. Please enjoy a Patreon exclusive episode this week while we take time to recover and heal. We will return next week when we begin a four part series on Hometown killer Robert Lee Yates

    1h 41m

  4. APR 18

    Mini Pines - Creature Legends Of The PNW

    What walks through the forests of the Pacific Northwest after dark? What waits in the water, watches from the mountain, or drifts just beyond the fog? In this episode of Many Pines, Becca takes you deep into the eerie folklore of the Pacific Northwest for a fireside journey through five of the region’s most haunting legends. From the ancient presence of Sasquatch to the impossible mystery of Mel’s Hole, from the spirit-laden slopes of Mount St. Helens to the ghostly wreck of the SS Valencia, and finally to the chilling whispers of the Water Babies, this is a story-rich exploration of the myths that still cling to the rivers, forests, coastlines, and mountains of the Northwest. Told in a warm, conversational, and slightly haunted style, this episode digs into the history, origins, cultural roots, and modern-day staying power of these legends — and what they reveal about a place where the land itself can feel alive. If you’ve never visited the Pacific Northwest, consider this your invitation into the dark. Legends covered in this episode: * Sasquatch * Mel’s Hole * The Witch of Mount St. Helens * The Ghosts of the SS Valencia * The Water Babies #ManyPines #PacificNorthwest #Folklore #LocalLegends #MythsAndMysteries #GhostStories #Sasquatch #SSValencia #MountStHelens #WaterBabies

    20 min

  5. APR 15

    Inside The Mind: The Birth Of FBI Profiling

    Inside the Mind: The Birth of FBI Criminal Profiling If you’ve been listening to this show, you’ve heard the language everywhere. Behavioral profiles. Organized offenders. Victim typology. Signature behavior. The science that runs in the background of every major serial crime investigation in the country. Today we tell the story of where it came from. In 1972, the FBI opened a new academy in Quantico, Virginia, and quietly tucked a small, skeptical unit into the basement. Eleven agents. No windows. A director who thought the whole thing was hokum. And one question that nobody in American law enforcement had ever formally answered: what does a crime scene tell you about the person who made it? This episode is about the people who answered that question. Howard Teten — the former beat cop turned FBI instructor who built the first criminal profile in 1970 and is almost entirely unknown outside forensic circles. Robert Ressler — who coined the term serial killer in a lecture hall in England in 1974 while thinking about Saturday matinee movies. John Douglas — who nearly died from the weight of the Green River case at thirty-eight years old and kept going anyway. And Ann Burgess — the Boston College nursing professor who listened to hours of prison interview recordings, told two seasoned FBI agents that what they had wasn’t research, and then built the scientific framework that turned their work into a discipline. We also walk through the Atlanta Child Murders — the case that made the BSU famous, and the clearest real-world example of what a behavioral profile can and can’t do. This one is for the listeners who want to understand the science behind the cases. Shadows in the Pines is a victims-first true crime podcast covering cases across the Pacific Northwest.

    1h 16m

  6. APR 6

    The Amazing Survival Tale Of Shasta Groene - Part 4 - Confessions & Closure

    Episode 4 — Confession of a Predator Joseph Edward Duncan the Third was calm when they arrested him. He didn’t resist. He didn’t run. He sat in that Denny’s booth while officers escorted him outside, and then he waited. From the moment he was taken into custody, Duncan confessed. All of it. Freely, consistently, and in meticulous detail across twenty-four hours of recorded FBI interviews. He didn’t need to be broken down. He wanted to talk. In this final episode of the series, we go into the interrogation room. We cover the full scope of what Duncan confessed to across three decades of violence. We walk through the legal proceedings in Idaho state court and federal court — the pleas, the sentencing hearing, and the jury that deliberated for three hours before recommending death. We examine the psychological profile that had been building since 1978, and the question that sits underneath all of it: the system didn’t fail to see him clearly. It failed to act on what it saw. And then we close where this series has always been heading. With the people he left behind. With who they were. And with Shasta Groene McClain — who survived forty-eight days in the Montana wilderness, who built a life on the other side of the unsurvivable, and who woke up the morning Joseph Duncan died and wrote: “Today, I woke up feeling like my soul was finally free.” Shadows in the Pines is a victims-first true crime podcast covering cases across the Pacific Northwest. New episodes every Sunday. https://www.patreon.com/Shadowsinthepines?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator

    1h 7m

  7. APR 4

    Mini Pines - The Bandage Man Of Oregon

    Mini Pines — The Oregon Bandage Man Along a quiet stretch of highway outside Cannon Beach, drivers have reported something they can’t quite explain. A figure. Wrapped head to toe in what looks like bloody bandages. Standing just off the road… or worse—stepping into it. They call him the Bandage Man. In this Mini Pines episode, we’re heading into the fog-soaked coastline of the Pacific Northwest to explore one of Oregon’s most unsettling roadside legends. Witness accounts span decades—stories of a man burned beyond recognition, said to have escaped from a nearby hospital, now wandering the highways in pain… and rage. But like a lot of PNW lore, the truth is harder to pin down. Is the Bandage Man just a campfire story that grew legs? A misidentified drifter? Or something people only see when they’re alone… and it’s too late to turn around? Because out here, the road doesn’t just take you somewhere. Sometimes… it brings something back with you. 🎙️ Mini Pines — short, haunting stories pulled from the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. Listen now at ShadowsInThePines.com #ShadowsInThePines #MiniPines #Oregon #BandageMan #PNW #UrbanLegend #TrueCrimeAdjacent #CreepyStories #PacificNorthwest #Folklore

    29 min

  8. MAR 30

    The Amazing Survival Tale Of Shasta Groene - Part 3 - The Hunt For Shasta

    Episode 3 — The Hunt for Shasta On July 4th, 2005, FBI agents worked their way up a primitive forest service road in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana. They had been directed there by an eight-year-old girl who had walked out of a Denny’s restaurant in Coeur d’Alene two days earlier. What they found at the end of that road confirmed what Shasta Groene had already told them. Dylan was gone. In this episode, we go into the forty-eight days between the night Joseph Duncan drove away from Wolf Lodge and the morning Shasta sat in that Denny’s booth and said her name out loud. We cover the campsite in the Lolo National Forest. The small Montana town that didn’t know two missing children were being held in its backyard. The letters Shasta and Dylan wrote to their father that were never mailed. And the moment an overnight waitress looked at a small, dirty girl and trusted what she saw. This is the episode about what Shasta endured, how Dylan died, and how an eight-year-old girl survived forty-eight days in the Montana wilderness by understanding, in real time, exactly what she needed to say. Shadows in the Pines is a victims-first true crime podcast covering cases across the Pacific Northwest. New episodes every Sunday.

    55 min
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True crime podcast focusing on crime in the Pacific Northwest. 

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  • Creator
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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
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