In 2002, detectives in Ferguson, Missouri, uncovered a nightmare hidden behind an ordinary smile.
Maury Travis—a polite waiter, soft-spoken neighbor, and former college student—was living a double life.
Down in his basement on 1001 Ford Drive, he built what investigators later called a house of tapes: a place where fear, control, and performance intertwined.

Known to the press as “The Street Walker Strangler,” Travis targeted women along St. Louis’s streets and filmed their final moments.
When he mailed a taunting letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his arrogance became his undoing.
The digital trail led police straight to him—and to the tapes that would reveal everything.

But this story doesn’t end with his death.
Years later, new forensic teams are still giving names back to the women he took, and the house on Ford Drive continues to carry the weight of what happened beneath its floorboards.

🎙️ Veil of Echoes tells this story not to glorify a killer, but to remember those the world ignored.
Because even in the darkest rooms, there are still echoes waiting to be heard.

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Veil of Echoes: Ep. 14 - Maury Travis: The House of Tapes
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🕯️ Works Cited / Sources

• ABC News Primetime (2002): “Serial Killer’s Home Movies”
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2002–2003) archives
• CBS News (2003): “Woman Renting Suspected Serial Killer’s Home to Move Out Early”
• FOX 59 News (2003): “Woman Sees Home on TV, Learns Deadly Secret” — interview with tenant Catrina McHaw
• St. Louis Public Radio (2025): “Illinois State Police, SIUE Students Identify Three Unnamed Serial Killer Victims”
• FBI Case Summaries — Maury Travis Investigation

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🕯️ New episodes drop every Monday (True Crime) & Friday (Paranormal) — where true crime meets the supernatural.

Show Notes

• Cold Open: “The House That Watches” — told from the perspective of the Amityville house itself.
• Segment One: The DeFeo Murders — the night that changed 112 Ocean Avenue forever.
• Segment Two: The Lutz Haunting — twenty-eight days of terror that blurred fact and faith.
• Segment Three: Truth or Hoax — where psychology, skepticism, and belief collide.
• Closing Reflection: Some houses remember… and some refuse to forget.

🕯️ Written and narrated by Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay.

Sources Cited

• People v. Ronald DeFeo Jr. – New York Supreme Court, 1977.
• Suffolk County Police & DA Reports, Amityville Homicides (1974–75).
• Jay Anson. The Amityville Horror. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
• Ric Osuna. The Night the DeFeos Died. iUniverse, 2002.
• Hans Holzer. Murder in Amityville. Doubleday, 1979.
• Ed & Lorraine Warren. Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery. St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
• Gerald Brittle. The Demonologist. Graymalkin Media, 1980.
• Channel 5 News, New York (1976) – Amityville Investigation Footage.
• Shock Docs: The Amityville Horror House – Discovery+, 2021.
• History.com & Smithsonian Magazine features on Amityville (2017–2019).
• Rolling Stone – “The True Story Behind the Amityville Horror,” 2015.
• Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 23, No. 2 (1999).
• Skeptoid Podcast, Episode #40, 2007.

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When the veil thins and the fire still burns, Halloween becomes more than costumes and candy—it becomes remembrance.

In this Veil of Echoes Halloween Special, Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay travel back to the ancient fires of Samhain, uncover the forgotten rituals that shaped All Hallows’ Eve, and share the eerie folklore that still lingers in every carved pumpkin and flickering candlelight.

But not all the night’s stories belong to ghosts.
From The Candy Man’s poisoned Pixy Stix to the Napa Valley Halloween murders, we revisit the real crimes that turned superstition into fear—and fear into legend.

Gather by the fire for strange facts, dark history, and Halloween trivia that will test how much you really know about the night the dead remember.

🕯️ New true-crime episodes every Monday
👻 Paranormal tales every Friday
🎃 Happy Halloween, Veil Walkers.

🧩 Show Notes / Segment Guide

0:00 – 2:15 The Hook — “The Night the Dead Remember”
2:15 – 5:10 Halloween Night Special Intro
5:10 – 11:00 The History of Halloween
11:00 – 20:00 Strange & Creepy Halloween Facts & Superstitions
20:00 – 33:30 The True Crimes of Halloween Night
33:30 – 45:00 Creepy Halloween Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
45:00 – 50:00 Halloween Trivia by the Fire
50:00 – End Until the Veil Closes (Outro)

📚 Sources Cited

• History.com – “The Origins of Halloween and Samhain” (2023)
• Smithsonian Magazine – “Strange Halloween Superstitions and Facts” (2022)
• National Geographic – “Halloween: From Pagan Festival to Trick-or-Treat” (2020)
• Britannica – “Samhain and All Hallows’ Eve Traditions” (2022)
• Mental Floss – “13 Creepy Halloween Facts” (2019)
• LiveScience – “The Real Origins of Halloween” (2023)
• Biography.com – “Harry Houdini’s Death on Halloween Night” (2022)
• Crime Library Archives – “The Liske Family Murders” (2011)
• Texas Monthly – “The Story of Sister Tadea Benz and Johnny Garrett” (2019)
• NBC News – “The Real Candy Man Case: Ronald O’Bryan and the Pixy Stix Murder” (2014)
• Associated Press / Reuters – “Halloween Night Murders in Napa” (2005)
• Celtic Heritage Society – “Samhain: Fire Festivals and Traditions”
• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress – “Halloween Customs and Beliefs”
• Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Cornwall – “Medieval Soul Nights and Masking Traditions”

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