Crime at Bedtime

On 10th October 2024, 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem set up camp in the Montana wilderness to spend the weekend with his girlfriend. He pitched his tent, gathered firewood, and prepared for a peaceful night under the stars.

A stranger arrived at the campsite. Dustin, known for his generosity and kindness, welcomed him. Offered him a beer. Invited him to sit by the fire.

Within hours, Dustin was dead—beaten with a block of wood, stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver, and struck repeatedly with his own axe.

When Dustin's girlfriend arrived the next day, she found his body in the tent. Police initially thought a bear had killed him. But forensic examination revealed something far worse: a brutal, prolonged murder.

The killer was Daren Abbey, a 41-year-old stranger with a violent criminal history. He murdered Dustin because he wanted his campsite.
Tonight on Crime at Bedtime, we examine this shocking case.
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On 7th August 1994, at 3 a.m., something strange fell from the sky over Oakville, Washington. It wasn't rain. It wasn't hail. It was gelatinous blobs—translucent, jelly-like masses the size of rice grains that covered twenty square miles.

Within hours, people across town were violently ill. Animals died. Officer David Lacey could barely breathe. Dotty Hearn collapsed and was hospitalised for three days.

Scientists tested the blobs and found human white blood cells and bacteria from the digestive tract. Microbiologist Mike McDowell concluded they were man-made "carrier systems."

Then all the samples vanished.

Over three weeks, the blobs fell six times. Witnesses reported military helicopters. Men from Fort Hood questioned residents. Anonymous letters claimed government experiments.

Then, in April 2025—31 years later—it happened again in nearby Rochester.

Tonight on Mysteries at Bedtime, we examine one of America's most baffling unsolved phenomena.
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On 23rd February 2008, firefighters responded to a garage fire in Lake Barrington, Illinois. Beneath a white pickup truck, they found a badly burnt body. The wallet identified the victim as Ari Samuel Squire, 39.

It looked like a tragic accident. A jack failure. A fire. A life lost.

But dental records didn't match. The body was too young—about twenty, not forty. The tattoos were wrong.

The body wasn't Ari Squire. It was Justin Newman, a young man Ari had lured to his home with the promise of construction work.
Ari was $400,000 in debt from Medicare fraud. He'd hatched a plan: kill someone who resembled him, stage his own death, steal the victim's identity, and disappear.

For eight days, Ari lived as Justin Newman, using his credit cards and ID. Then police tracked him to a Missouri motel.
Before arrest, Ari put a gun to his head.

Tonight on Crime at Bedtime, the story of a fake death that became real murder.
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On 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers claimed to see a silver, saucer-shaped object hover over a school before darting away at incredible speed. Minutes later, mysterious men arrived and the incident was hushed up. Decades on, the witnesses are still searching for the truth. This is the Westall UFO mystery.
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On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission over the Atlantic. But somewhere over the sea, things began to go terribly wrong. The pilots reported bizarre compass malfunctions, shifting skies, and confusion over their location. Then… silence.

Flight 19 vanished and no trace of the aircraft or the crew members was ever found.

Even more chilling? A rescue plane sent to find them also disappeared, adding 13 more to the list of missing.

This baffling event didn’t just confound military investigators, it ignited one of the most enduring legends in modern folklore: the Bermuda Triangle.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we follow the eerie final transmissions of Flight 19, the massive search effort that came up empty, and the strange theories that still swirl nearly 80 years later. Was it a tragic navigational error, a magnetic anomaly… or something else entirely?

Five planes went up. None came back.

And the ocean never gave up its dead.
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