Hold My Sweet Tea
Where True Crime collides with chilling ghost stories and Southern folklore. Join us, sip sweet tea, and uncover shocking tales of murder, mystery, and the supernatural, all with a healthy dose of Southern charm and a touch of sass!
Episodes
142 episodes
Ep. 131-The House on Chew Avenue: The Eugene Horsch Investigation
This episode discusses an active criminal investigation. Some information presented is based on law-enforcement statements and reporting from multiple news organizations and may change as investigators review additional evidence. Eugene Horsch ...
Ep. 130-Jacques Saint Germain And The Blood-Wine Mystery Of The French Quarter
A handsome stranger moves into the New Orleans French Quarter, starts throwing the kind of dinner parties only the elite can access, and somehow becomes the toast of the town almost overnight. Then one woman ends up injured in the street after ...
Ep.129-The Disappearance and Murder Of Jimmy Wood In Ponchatoula Repost
A quiet stretch of River Road in Ponchatoula, Louisiana doesn’t feel so quiet when a man disappears and the search turns into something far worse. We’re talking about James “Jimmy” Wood, 43, last seen on camera June 19 and reported missing days...
Ep. 128-Danny Rolling The Gainesville Ripper
It's a Summerween Re-Mix!! We are dropping one of my favorite past Spooky Season Cases for your listening pleasure! A quiet college town. Freshmen hauling boxes into a new apartment. Parents doing that first-day check-in...
Ep. 127- The Bourbon Street Cold Case Revisit: Dan Bettencourt Jr.
Summer is at it's PEAK and our job is all consuming. Please come with us as we revisit a past episode that could use a little more attention. Fret not we will return soon! A crowded New Orleans nightclub, a sudden death...
Ep. 126-Can Evil Be Born? The Case Of Paris Bennett
**Correction: In the episode, I made a statement that Paris Bennett is now in his mid twenties. I meant to say mid thirties. Paris Bennett's first parole eligibility date is February 2027. He was sentenced to 40 years in pris...
STAD Ep. 9-Smut And Then You Die; A Fictional Cautionary Tale
A cemetery that doesn’t exist on any map should be easy to avoid. The problem is Saint Lazarus Cemetery doesn’t wait for you to find it. It finds you, right when the Mississippi fog rolls in and the church bell dares to ring thirteen times.&nbs...
Ep. 125-Serial Killer "Cannibal" Joe Metheny
You can tell a lot about a true crime show by how it handles laughter. We start by addressing listener feedback about our humor and why we refuse to confuse coping with disrespect. We take victims seriously, we treat families carefully, and we ...
Ep. 124-Pamela Colman Smith And The Art That Defined Modern Tarot
You probably know the images even if you’ve never learned the name. The Rider-Waite tarot deck is the visual backbone of modern tarot, and it didn’t become iconic because people memorized esoteric theory. It became iconic because the art tells ...
STAD Ep. 8-Bad Bitch History: Marie Laveau Without The Hollywood Nonsense
New Orleans loves a legend, but we’re not interested in the souvenir version. We’re talking about Marie Laveau as a real woman in 1800s Louisiana: a free woman of color navigating slavery, racism, class power, and public fear while building inf...
EP. 123-Inside Ohio’s Strangest Crime Scene: The Leaf Killer
A house stuffed with leaves sounds like a joke until SWAT opens the door and realizes the piles aren’t just weird, they’re dangerous. We travel to Mount Vernon, Ohio to unpack the Matthew Hoffman “Leaf Killer” case, a true crime story where a m...
Ep 122-A Horror Movie Come to Life: The Jonathan Gerlach Case
🚨 WARNING: This episode contains discussion of grave desecration, human remains, and disturbing crime scene details. Listener discretion is advised.When volunteers at Pennsylvania's historic Mount Moriah Cemetery began discovering broken ma...
STAD Ep. 7- Cryp-TOE Through The Honey Island Swamp With Us: Honey Island Swamp Monster
Something about Honey Island Swamp makes a good story feel dangerously believable. Maybe it’s the miles of protected Louisiana marshland north of Lake Pontchartrain, maybe it’s the Pearl River cutting through cypress and shadow, or maybe it’s t...
Ep. 121-The Tragedy and Legacy of Moriah Wilson
A champion athlete with a clear sense of purpose shouldn’t become a headline, but Moriah “Mo” Wilson did and the details are as heartbreaking as they are infuriating. We start where Mo wanted the story to start: with the legacy. Her journal cap...
Ep 120- Woman In The Trunk: The Unsolved Murder Of Betty Thomas
A car doesn’t just “sit there” for two days without someone noticing, especially not a white Jaguar in a busy Austin hotel parking lot. When police finally open the trunk, they find 45-year-old Betty Thomas bound with duct tape, blindfolded, ga...
STAD Ep 6-A Quiet Drive To Snake River Canyon Turns Chilling
He doesn’t come off charming. He doesn’t look like trouble. He just seems normal, and that’s exactly why this story hits so hard.We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re sharing an anonymous listener submission that takes us to Idaho, where Kar...
Ep. 119-Two Young Lives Lost In Unsolved Alabama Murders: Christian Boyle and Kandace Faulk
Two young people in Alabama are gone, and the silence around their cases is the part we can’t accept. We’re sharing two separate cold cases that don’t have a lot of public detail, which is exactly why they can slip out of the spotlight. Christi...
Ep. 118-The Priest, The Parishioner, and the Killer: The Antonio Tyson Case
Two beloved members of a small Louisiana community are gone, and the path from a quiet neighborhood to a brutal double homicide is almost impossible to wrap your head around. We’re talking about Covington, Louisiana, where Ruth Pratt and Revere...
STAD Ep.7- The "LIGHT" Man
A little kid looks past her mom’s shoulder, smiles at the dim hallway, and says, “There’s a light man.” That’s how Eleanor’s listener submission starts, and it’s the kind of paranormal story that can go two ways fast. Pearl and Holly brace for ...
Ep. 117- The Laken Riley Murder : Women Shouldn't Have to Run Scared
A normal morning jog should not come with a survival plan, but that’s exactly where our minds go when we talk through the murder of Laken Riley. We start with the heartbreaking basics: Laken is a 22-year-old nursing student who texts her mom be...
Ep. 116-Mackenzie Shirilla Case: How Do You Prove Intent Before Impact?
A quiet back road at night doesn’t look like danger, but sometimes it’s the most frightening setting of all. We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re unpacking the Mackenzie Shirilla case out of Strongsville, Ohio, where a late-night drive ends with a ...
STAD: Ep6-What the Fouke? A Hairy Three Toed Giant Turns A Small Town Into A Legend
A small town in Arkansas builds a big legend, and the details are too strange to forget: dark hair head to toe, red eyes catching headlights, and three toed footprints stamped into swamp mud. We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re taking Sweet Tea Af...
Ep. 115-When A Healer Becomes A Predator: Nathan Chasing Horse
Las Vegas hits different when the headline isn’t a party, it’s a predator hiding behind “healing.” We’re Pearl and Holly, and we’re breaking down the Nathan Chasing Horse case: a man prosecutors say used a Lakota medicine man persona, public ap...
Ep. 114-Chris Benoit: When the Machine Broke the Man
A final early morning text about the dogs and an open back door becomes the last breadcrumb before pro wrestling’s most haunting headline. We walk through the Chris Benoit case with care for the victims and clarity about what the public record ...
Ep. 113-Surgical Castration For Child Sex Offenders In Louisiana
Louisiana is taking a hard-line approach to crimes against children, and the details are more complicated than the headlines. We read through the core language of the state’s surgical castration law for certain sex offenses involving victims un...
