Shadows In The Pines Podcast

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

🔎 Part 2 of our Diane Downs series is available now. As detectives continue pulling apart the story from Old Mohawk Road, the investigation begins shifting in a dramatic direction. What started as the search for a mysterious roadside gunman slowly becomes something much darker as timeline problem...

05/25/2026

🚨 This week on Shadows in the Pines, we head to Springfield, Oregon for one of the most disturbing and psychologically unsettling cases in true crime history: the case of Diane Downs. On a dark stretch of Old Mohawk Road in May of 1983, three children were shot inside a family car. Seven-year-old...

05/18/2026

Just a soft recap of what we’ve learned and final thoughts along with show announcements

05/16/2026

🏔️🪣 This week on Mini Pines, we head deep into the high desert of eastern Oregon for one of the strangest lost-treasure legends in American history — The Blue Bucket Mine. 🌵✨ In 1845, a wagon train following the infamous Meek Cutoff became hopelessly lost in the Oregon wilderness. Fam...

05/11/2026

September 24th, 1997. A Spokane patrol officer pulls over a white Corvette near East Sprague. The driver is Robert Lee Yates Jr. He’s ticketed and allowed to go. The officer fills out the field interview report and writes one word in the vehicle make field.Camaro.In Part Three of the Robert Lee Ya...

05/05/2026

Shadows in the Pines — The Killing Years (Robert Lee Yates Jr., Part Two)East Sprague Avenue, Spokane. The late 1990s. A social worker named Lynn Everson parks a Winnebago on the strip once a week and keeps a bad-trick list of over a hundred and forty entries. The man in the white Corvette is neve...

05/03/2026

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. ...

04/27/2026

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...

04/22/2026

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