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?

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.

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 speechless

Join us as we peel back the layers of a case that still haunts the Bronx to this day.