Stuttering in Silence

• The Fall of Dixon: Betrayal From Within.

  Imagine living in a small Midwestern town where every pothole, every broken police car, every delayed road project… all had one thing in common: the money for it was stolen.For twenty-two years, Dixon, Illinois trusted one woman — their longtime comptroller, Rita Crundwell. What they didn’t know was that she secretly siphoned off over fifty-three million dollars from city funds… making it the largest municipal fraud in American history.How did no one notice? How did she pull it off? And what happened when everything finally fell apart?

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• Ink, Fear, and a Death in Circleville

  In the quiet farm town of Circleville, Ohio, secrets once lived safely behind closed doors — until anonymous letters began arriving in the 1970s, each one exposing affairs, crimes, and private lives with terrifying precision. No return address. No mercy.Then one of the targets, Ron Gillispie, dies under suspicious circumstances. A booby-trapped gun appears years later. A man is imprisoned. And yet… the letters continue.In this slow-burn, cinematic episode, Matt and Gavin unravel one of America’s strangest and most unsettling unsolved mysteries — a case where fear arrived daily by mail, suspects hid in plain sight, and the truth may have been buried deeper than the letters ever revealed.This is the story of a town that read its own secrets… and never recovered from what it learned.

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• The Bronx Butcher: The Murder of Tanya Byrd & the McLean–Harris Mystery

  A mother disappears in the Bronx… and within hours, trash bags start turning up across multiple blocks. Inside them? Human remains. What follows is one of the most chilling and confusing cases New York has seen — a crime where the suspects blame each other, where the evidence is scattered like breadcrumbs, and where the truth gets darker the closer you look.In this episode of Stuttering in Silence, Matt and Gavin break down the brutal 2013 murder and dismemberment of Tanya Byrd, a beloved mother whose son, Bahsid McLean, and his friend, William Harris, became the center of a twisted investigation. We take you through the timeline, the conflicting stories, the psychological red flags, and the shocking details the media could barely process.This is not just a murder — it’s a window into mental illness, manipulation, fear, and the secrets that can exist inside a family home.✔️ The discovery of the scattered body parts ✔️ The conflicting confessions ✔️ The role of mental illness ✔️ The trial that left jurors speechlessJoin us as we peel back the layers of a case that still haunts the Bronx to this day.

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• Lisa’s Lookout: The Manderach Murders and the Playground That Heals a Community

  A mother and her 19-month-old daughter walk into a children’s clothing store on a quiet Sunday afternoon… and vanish. What unfolds next will shake a Pennsylvania community to its core — and inspire one of the most powerful acts of healing the region has ever seen.In this cinematic, act-based episode, Matt and Gavin chronicle the heartbreaking murders of Lisa and Devon Manderach, the hunt for justice, the courtroom battles that followed, and the extraordinary community movement that rose from the tragedy: a half-million-dollar playground built in their honor.This is the story of darkness — and the people who refused to let it win.

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• Cabin 28: The Keddie Murders

  In 1981, the small mountain town of Keddie, California — population under 100 — became the scene of one of America’s most chilling unsolved murders. Inside Cabin 28, a mother, her son, and his friend were brutally slain, and a young girl vanished. Decades later, questions still linger: who did it, why, and how did the truth slip away?

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