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Nightmares

Sword and Scale

77 episodes

Welcome to Nightmares. True-Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now…

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  1. No Good Deed

    · 33 min · S1 E26

    Mormons and entrepreneurs Tony and Katherine Butterfield were the kind of people who gave a leg up to anyone who needed it. They invited jobless citizens to work for their landscaping company and homeless ones into…

  2. Nice Shot

    · 29 min · S1 E25

    In Tennessee in 2005 a jury was faced with a difficult question. What would you do if you were in Kim Cunningham’s place? It was a difficult question to answer. After the law failed her once Kim gunned down a man in…

  3. Porcelain

    · 28 min · S1 E24

    In the spring of 2006, a bubbly young woman with close ties to friends and family suddenly goes missing, leaving behind all of her personal belongings and a ransacked apartment. When Christina Eubanks turns up dead,…

  4. Paper Thin

    · 25 min · S1 E23

    Neighbors in a Santa Cruz beachside bungalow are alarmed when a strange smell starts emitting from one apartment building. No one could have imagined what happened inside. Get commercial free access to over a decade of…

  5. Doctor Death

    · 30 min · S1 E22

    In 2008, something strange started happening in Omaha, Nebraska. Multiple members of Creighton University Medical Center’s pathology department were targeted in violent crimes. Five years later, it happened again.…

  6. Spoiled

    · 30 min · S1 E21

    Not hearing from her sister in a while Pamela Powel called the police. Upon a welfare check the police would discover her home was empty. It wasn’t just Alison Sapikowski that was missing, it was her husband James, and…

  7. Going for a Spin

    · 32 min · S1 E20

    In June of 1977, Yale students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman are on a cross-country biking trip when a terrifying attack changes their lives forever. Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true…

  8. Peeping David

    · 30 min · S1 E19

    When Kent law enforcement arrived at 67-year-old David Fuller’s home on December 3rd, 2020, they expected to put an end to a 33-year-old murder investigation. They never expected that closing this case would shatter…

  9. Exorcism

    · 28 min · S1 E18

    While police search a small Pentecostal church for kidnapped Baby Brandon, another disturbing case emerges… one involving the horrifying exorcism of Arely Proctor. Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword…

  10. Protective Services

    · 33 min · S1 E17

    It was May of 1998 in the small town of Romeo, Michigan and a crew of detectives found themselves knee-deep in a hoarder’s nest. The once quaint home of the Verellen Sisters now resembled the inside of a dumpster. The…

  11. Kid Van

    · 30 min · S1 E16

    After a little boy’s body is found floating off the Oregon coastline in December of 2001, detectives are alarmed that no one in the area reports a missing child. Soon, more bodies are pulled from the water, and a…

  12. Immaculate

    · 24 min · S1 E15

    Happily married Joseph Parker and his wife fell on hard times after he lost his job. Their beautiful home in Tennessee was foreclosing soon, and they were equally distressed. The pressure was mounting, and they…

  13. Culture War

    · 30 min · S1 E14

    Amarillo, Texas is known to many as “Bomb City” because it’s home to the Pantex nuclear weapons facility. In the 90’s, Amarillo was filled with lots of country-folk and bible-belt families, but there also existed a…

  14. Check Out

    · 30 min · S1 E13

    In 1997, Ricki Ellsworth, a wife, mom and daughter went missing from her night job at a Memphis hotel. Her only remains were the red stains left behind on the walls and floor where she worked. While her murder would be…

  15. Three Strikes

    · 30 min · S1 E12

    A shocking news headline sends minor league baseball player Blake Bivens home in a hurry. Something was happening in his hometown in Virginia and he feared the worst. A tragedy struck that affected the whole community…

  16. The Final House

    · 33 min · S1 E11

    In fall of 1974, a father and son bond over multiple armed robberies, sexual assaults, and brutal murders. Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true crime podcasts at http://swordandscale.com

  17. Not Recovering

    · 24 min · S1 E10

    Amityville, New York was the scene for a 70’s movie called Amityville Horror, but 2020 reminded residents that horror can strike at any time. Vietnam vet Dwight Powers would be the focus of this true story, and he…

  18. The Hole

    · 32 min · S1 E9

    A brilliant psychopath traps multiple women in his secret basement and begins plans to create the perfect family. Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true crime podcasts at…

  19. Women's Rights

    · 24 min · S1 E8

    “Artist, women’s rights activist, Japanese immigrant, renowned arts professor”. These are the words that describe Rie Hachiyanagi, a paper artist living and working in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. When she…

  20. Graphic Novel

    · 31 min · S1 E7

    “If you were gorgeous and running out of money, what would you do? If you loved hurting things, what would you do?” 30-year-old Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian woman who was about to marry into a very wealthy Canadian…

  21. Dorm Life

    · 32 min · S1 E6

    The entire second floor of the Graham-Greenlee dormitory on the University of Arizona’s campus was suddenly awoken in the early morning hours of September 5th, 2007. It sounded like someone was moving furniture until…

  22. Second Grave

    · 32 min · S1 E5

    Detectives fear the worst after a 9-year-old girl goes missing, and an empty grave is discovered in the nearby woods. Get commercial free access to over a decade of Sword and Scale's true crime podcasts at…

  23. All in the Family

    · 28 min · S1 E4

    From the moment Katie Fusco learned that she was an adopted child, she longed to understand where she came from and why she was put up for adoption in the first place. At age 18, just as she was about to graduate high…

  24. All Aboard

    · 26 min · S1 E3

    In 1986, a young Navy Seaman went missing from Gibraltar, a British naval base, after the ship The Illustrious docked for a few days. Simon Parkes’s grief-stricken parents would search for him for more than fifteen…

  25. Roadkill

    · 32 min · S1 E2

    Two men on vacation in Florida happen upon a battered and desperate woman who stumbled out of the brush on the side of a remote highway in South Florida. As the men try to help Shandelle Maycock they realize her…

  26. One Thousand

    · 28 min · S1 E1

    The report of what appeared to be a body on the front porch of a home in small-town St. Johns, Arizona triggered an investigation that would be quick, but not without a myriad of twists and turns. In this gripping…

  27. Trailer

    · 1:47 · Trailer

    Welcome to Sword and Scale Nightmares! True Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now...The first three episodes will drop on 3.2.23 at 3:23pm EDT. In the meantime, please take a moment to subscribe on your…

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