Once a year, the archive doors open.

This Halloween, The Grimes Files presents a chilling anthology of real stories that blur the line between truth and terror. From a 1950s Hollywood murder born out of jealousy and disguise… to a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood hiding secrets behind its gates… to the haunting mystery of a young woman known only as “Orange Socks.”

Each case in The Halloween Files 2025 unearths a different kind of darkness — the kind that lingers in quiet suburbs, behind bedroom windows, or down lonely country roads. Together, they form a portrait of what fear really looks like when it’s rooted in reality.

Step inside the evidence room. Turn off the lights. And remember — every file you’re about to hear is true.

👁️‍🗨️ Written, narrated, and produced by Joey Grimes.

🎧 A Grimes Files Special Presentation

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On a quiet Friday night in 1965, six friends stopped for gas in Villa Rica, Georgia.

Moments later, nine gunshots shattered the stillness.

Twenty-seven-year-old Arthur James Hill lay dying beside his car—shot by a white service-station attendant named Buner Lee Green.

Green claimed self-defense.

An all-white jury believed him.

Their deliberation took just twenty-two minutes.

Nearly sixty years later, The Grimes Files reopens the case — the shooting, the trial, and the silence that followed.

Using original court records, FBI and Department of Justice files, and firsthand accounts, host Joey Grimes uncovers how a small Georgia town buried a civil-rights killing in plain sight — and how the same men who defended the shooter later stood on courthouse steps at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

This is the story of Arthur James Hill:

Unarmed. Unmarked. But not forgotten.

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In This Episode

Rare DOJ and FBI files obtained under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act

The 1965 shooting, the biased trial, and the all-white jury’s 22-minute verdict

The segregationist attorney who helped free the shooter — and later spoke at a Klan rally

What happened when the FBI reopened the case decades later

🎙️ The Grimes Files — The Death of Arthur James Hill (1965)

🕯️ True crime. Real history.

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This isn’t just a story from the highway — it’s what happens when silence hides the truth.

In this episode of The Grimes Files, Joey Grimes traces the violent trail of long-haul trucker Doug Sager, whose life on the road stretched from the mountains of West Virginia to the Deep South. Behind the wheel of his rig, Doug carried more than freight — he carried the kind of darkness that left fear, silence, and unanswered questions scattered across America’s highways.

Through survivor testimony and firsthand accounts, we revisit the stories of the women whose lives crossed paths with Doug — including Ellen, who endured years of abuse; Peaches, a woman who never came home from a Mississippi motel; and a survivor in New Jersey who couldn’t speak until she was shown proof that Doug was dead. Their stories connect through time, geography, and the interstates that defined the 1980s trucking world.

As Joey digs deeper, the investigation leads to a truck stop that no longer exists — the Panhandler Truck Stop and Restaurant near Martinsburg, West Virginia — where witnesses remembered a young woman found strangled in 1985. The records are gone, the site bulldozed, but the silence remains. From there, the story threads into the Redhead Murders and the unsolved killings that haunted I-81 and I-95, the same routes Doug drove every week.

This episode is about more than one man — it’s about the women who vanished, the ones who survived, and the investigators still trying to connect the dots before the last traces of evidence fade away.

Because the files may be gone, but the stories aren’t.

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Every donation helps fund records requests, interviews, and outreach to families still waiting for answers.

If you have information about Patty Vaughan, Doug Sager, or any of the women who disappeared along his routes, please reach out. Even the smallest detail could help bring answers.

If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, help is available. In the U.S., call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.

If you are thinking about suicide, dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

You are not alone.