Southern Nightmare host Richard Foster was recently interviewed by Boomtown Richmond radio, so we thought we'd share that and tell you about the new Southern Nightmare book, available now in paperback and ebook via Amazon stores worldwide. Enjo

Episode 10: Nightmare's End

Jul 31st, 2018 34m 25s

In the season finale of Southern Nightmare, Timothy Spencer has an imminent date with the Virginia electric chair. But can FBI profilers and a State Police agent get him to talk about his crimes before he dies?Special Offers Pre-order the S

Episode 9: The DNA Legacy

Jul 24th, 2018 29m 15s

In 1989, stay-at-home mom Debbie Smith was abducted from her Virginia home and raped by a masked assailant while her police officer husband was fast asleep in their bedroom. Was history starting to repeat itself? Or this time, would law enforc

Episode 8: The Wrong Man

Jul 17th, 2018 32m 1s

Someone raped and strangled talented young Washington, D.C., attorney Carolyn Hamm in her home. When detectives questioned a neighbor, his sister pointed them to David Vasquez, a mentally challenged fast food worker who had moved out of the are

Episode 7: The Trials

Jul 10th, 2018 32m 54s

On July 11, 1988, opening arguments were delivered in accused serial killer Timothy Spencer's landmark trial for the bondage rape and murder of Arlington, Virginia, magazine editor Sue Tucker. It would be the first time in U.S. history that DNA

Episode 6: The Match

Jul 3rd, 2018 37m 15s

In January 1988, with the South Side Strangler still at large, Medical College of Virginia lab tech Rena Chapouris didn't show up for work and wasn't answering her phone. A too-familiar horror story seemed to be playing itself out once again in

Episode 5: a.k.a.

Jun 26th, 2018 33m 57s

In the wake of the sadistic rape and bondage strangulation murder of magazine editor Sue Tucker, Arlington County homicide detective Joe Horgas re-examines old cases from years before and finds some striking similarities: “Everything just seems

Episode 4: Her Last Debt

Jun 19th, 2018 25m 3s

On Thanksgiving weekend 1987 a quiet townhouse community in suburban Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., is rocked by the bondage strangulation murder of a woman in her home. A hundred miles north of the state capital in Richmon

Episode 3: Escalation

Jun 12th, 2018 32m 47s

The Cho family immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in search of the American Dream. Instead they found a Southern Nightmare. Fifteen-year-old Diane Cho was a typical 1980s teenager, arguing with her little brother, hanging out with her frie

Episode 2: Powder Keg

Jun 5th, 2018 33m 23s

A promising young neurosurgery resident at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Susan Hellams was breaking ground at a time when there were very few women in her field. She was also fated to become the South Side Strangler's second victim. And

Episode 1: The Empty Car

May 29th, 2018 30m 5s

Debbie Davis was a quiet, single woman who liked baking cookies and reading mystery novels. What a police patrolman found in her apartment bedroom on the morning of Sept. 19, 1987, would mark the beginning of a nightmare that would haunt and te

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True-Crime Writer Billy Jensen Discusses Golden State Killer

May 11th, 2018 3m 16s

We're still a few weeks from the May 30 launch date of our first episode but in the meantime, here's an excerpt from an interview that we did this week with true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen, who helped complete Michelle McNamara

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Extended Sneak Preview Trailer

May 3rd, 2018 6m 12s

Get a sneak peek at what's ahead over the next 10 episodes -- and make sure to listen all the way to the end! Please subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podbean, etc., and tell your friends about this podcast!

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Teaser Trailer: Coming May 30

Apr 21st, 2018 1m 24s

Southern Nightmare: The Hunt for The South Side StranglerComing May 30, Southern Nightmare: The Hunt for The South Side Strangler is a new podcast hosted by Richmond, Virginia, journalist Richard Foster in cooperation with Style Weekly magazin

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