Special Episode: The Silence Between the Trees

Lake Bodom, Finland — June 5th, 1960.
Four teenagers went camping beside a tranquil lake just outside Helsinki. By morning, three were dead. The fourth, badly wounded, would become the only witness — and eventually, decades later, a suspect.

This is the story of the Lake Bodom murders: one of Finland’s most infamous unsolved crimes. But unlike every other story told in These Walls Remember, this one takes place in the open. There’s no house. No door. No walls to hold the memory. Only a tent, torn open in the dark. Only forest. Water. And silence.

This special episode steps outside our usual format — because some places don’t need walls to remember. Some hold their stories in the shape of the ground, in the angle of the trees, and in the way the light changes near midnight.

Because what happened here… never truly left.

📍 Location Featured: Lake Bodom, Espoo, Finland
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of violence and murder involving minors. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 5: 2136 North Summit Street

Easter Sunday, 1993. Inside a modest home in Sylvania Township, four members of the Duvall family were murdered — not by a stranger, but by their oldest son. This episode revisits the house where it happened, the chilling calm that followed, and the silence that never left.

📍 Address Featured: 2136 North Summit Street, Toledo, OH
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of family murder and violence involving children. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 7: 1120 Morning Glory Drive

Houston, Texas — early 1970s.
In a neighborhood of tidy lawns and unlocked doors, a quiet man named Dean Corll hid a secret darker than anyone could imagine. Over the course of three years, Corll — aided by two teenage accomplices — abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys and young men. They called him “The Candyman” because of the sweets he handed out to children. They never suspected what he kept behind the walls of his small green bungalow on Morning Glory Drive.

This episode unravels one of the most horrific serial murder cases in American history — not just the crimes, but the way the crimes blended into the fabric of an unsuspecting city. We follow Corll’s early life, his slow transformation into a predator, the recruitment of his teenage accomplices, and the chilling way Houston Heights became a silent hunting ground. We walk inside the houses where innocence ended. We listen to the spaces that bore witness. And we sit in the unbearable silence left after the truth was finally dragged into the light.

The house at Morning Glory Drive is gone now. But the address remains. And the ground underneath still carries the weight of what happened there.

Some places aren’t haunted because of what we can see.
They’re haunted because of what we can never fully forget.

📍 Address Featured: 1120 Morning Glory Drive, Houston, TX (site of primary crimes)
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains descriptions of sexual violence, torture, and murder involving minors. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 3: 12727 East Birchwood Drive

Wichita, Kansas – December 2000.
Five friends share a quiet home in the suburbs. They are young, educated, and building lives grounded in faith, love, and purpose. A teacher. A financial advisor. A seminarian. A preschool educator. A devoted couple.

One night, they answer a knock at the door.

By morning, four will be dead. One will survive.

This is the story of the Wichita Massacre, a brutal home invasion carried out by two brothers—Reginald and Jonathan Carr—that left a permanent scar on the city of Wichita. But this isn’t just a story about what happened. It’s about where it happened—and how places can hold on to the trauma long after the headlines fade.

This story is not just about loss. It’s about resilience. About the power of memory. And about the homes that outlive the people who once trusted their walls to keep them safe.

These Walls Remember does not glorify killers. We focus on the spaces left behind—and the people they refuse to let go.

📍 Address Featured: 12727 East Birchwood Drive, Wichita, KS
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode includes descriptions of sexual violence, assault, and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 2: 379 Mountain Road

Irvington, New York. June 3, 1928.
A gray-haired man in a suit arrives at a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, carrying strawberries, cream, and a soft smile. He calls himself “Frank Howard.” He says he’s here to offer work to the family’s teenage son — and to take their 10-year-old daughter to a birthday party in the countryside.
Her name is Grace Budd.
She would never return home.

That day, the man led her north — to a rented cottage in the quiet hills of Irvington. Locals called it Wisteria Cottage.
The address: 379 Mountain Road.
The man’s real name: Albert Fish.

In this episode, we return to one of the most horrifying crimes in American history — the abduction, murder, and cannibalization of Grace Budd by a man whose brutality would haunt generations. But more than that, we return to the place: a modest, unassuming home that still exists, still stands, and still holds the weight of what happened inside its walls.

This is not a story for the faint of heart. It’s a story about the fragility of trust, the danger that hides behind politeness, and the darkness that can live in ordinary places. The original Wisteria Cottage is gone, but the ground it stood on remains. And so does the memory.

At These Walls Remember, we don’t glorify killers. We revisit places changed by violence. We give voice to the stories these spaces still hold — the ones that never really left.

📍 Address Featured: 379 Mountain Road, Irvington, NY
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child murder, cannibalism, sexual violence, and graphic content. Listener discretion is strongly advised.