Shadows In The Pines Podcast

06/22/2026

The investigation into the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch had already spanned decades. Detectives had followed leads, families had endured years of unanswered questions, and an entire community had learned to live with the possibility that the truth might never be known. Then everyth...

06/20/2026

The Maury Island Incident It’s the summer solstice, 1947. A man named Harold Dahl is out on a salvage boat in Puget Sound when six enormous, doughnut-shaped objects appear in the sky above him. One of them falters. Debris rains down — burning the hull, injuring his teenage son, killing the famil...

06/15/2026

For decades, the murders of Jennifer Bastian and Michella Welch haunted Tacoma, Washington. Two young girls. Two bicycle rides. Two families left searching for answers. And for more than thirty years, investigators believed they were looking at a single mystery. In Part One of Bound by Assumption, D...

06/08/2026

CrimeCon 2026 was an experience we’ll never forget. This week, Dan and Rebekah take a break from the case files and pull back the curtain on their trip to Las Vegas for CrimeCon 2026. From Nancy Grace’s opening remarks and discussions about the Gabby Petito investigation, to meeting victims’ f...

06/06/2026

The Loneliest Road to the Stars — Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway What if the most famous alien highway in America has been hiding its biggest secret in plain sight? This week on Mini Pines, we travel Nevada’s mysterious Extraterrestrial Highway—a lonely stretch of desert road forever link...

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...