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
151 episodes
Ep. 137-UPDATE The House on Chew Avenue: What Investigators Found Next
One minute you think you’re looking at a disturbing collection of staged horror content, and the next you’re staring at evidence investigators believe may capture real violence. We’re back with major updates on the Philadelphia investigation ti...
STAD Ep. 12 The Hills Have Eyes and We Have Regrets!
The darkest woods are the ones that feel empty until they don’t. We share a listener submission from Rachel about a late October backpacking trip in the Appalachian Mountains near the West Virginia and Virginia border, where a simple choice to ...
Ep. 136-America's Most Haunted Hotel: The Historic Crescent Hotel
A resort town built on “healing springs” sounds like the safest kind of escape, until a smooth-talking promoter shows up with a miracle cure and a talent for making people believe. We head to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and follow the strange, in...
Ep. 135- Forty Years Without a Name: The Donnell Bluain Cold Case
Windows cracked open on a hot Louisiana night shouldn’t turn into a life sentence of fear, but that’s exactly what happened in Jefferson Parish in 1986. We walk through a tight cluster of home invasion sexual assaults in Metairie and River Ridg...
STAD Ep.11-Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers, Bestie
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Ep. 134-Justice For Morgan Bauer
A case update like this doesn’t feel like “news” when it’s a real person’s life and a family’s decade of questions. We revisit the Morgan Bauer case with the biggest development yet: Katelyn Goble’s trial, the evidence that dismantled the origi...
Ep. 133- Louisiana's Axe Murder Cult: The Strange Story of Clementine Barnabet and the Church of Sacrifice
Historical Note: This episode discusses historical newspaper accounts that contain racist, sensationalized, and derogatory descriptions of Black people and Black religious practices. These terms are reproduced only when necessary to accurately ...
STAD Ep. 10-🩸 Bloodsuckers & Sweet Tea
We chase vampire myths back to the real fears that shaped them, from tuberculosis outbreaks to communities that truly believed the dead could come back and drain the living. We tell the Mercy Brown story, explain why decomposition fooled people...
Ep. 132-Murder For Hire In Music City: Holly Williams and Bill Lanway
A wrecked white Acura in Nashville looks like a tragic crash until the details start shouting back. We follow the trail from the moment two bodies are found to the surveillance footage that shows men creeping toward an apartment door and a woma...
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...
