Throughout the day of October 17th, none of 27-year-old Sasha Samsudean's friends couldn't reach her. Obviously concerned, they phoned 911. When police arrived at Sasha’s apartment, there was no answer to their knocks. Eventually they were able to get inside and found the young woman’s lifeless body, battered and wrapped in a comforter. Bleach had been poured on certain areas of her body and it had been determined through an autopsy that Sasha had been strangled to death.
Sarah Stern had a secret. A secret that's almost impossible to keep anything secret for long.
Though it wasn’t anything particularly gruesome or embarrassing, it was something you wouldn’t necessarily go around sharing. At the tender young age of 19, Sarah had incidentally become well off for a 19 year old, after the untimely death of her mother, receiving a generous inheritance.
Right in the middle of Wisconsin, that’s where you’ll find the small rural town of West-Salem. It’s an idyllic little village that exudes the small-town stereotypes one would expect, its home to kind and hospitable folks who all know one another. And it’s where Barbara and Todd Kendhammer called home. On the morning of Friday, September 16th 2016, what seemed like a sudden freak accident would change their lives forever.
From a young age we are instinctually scared of the evil that lurks in darkness. The name we've culturally given this idea is "The Boogeyman". On July 10, 2012 Aaron Schaffhausen became the Boogeyman to his own children.
In this special early-release two-part PLUS Episode, we go back to further examine the strange case of the death of Natalie Bollinger (first covered in S&S Episodes 109 & 110). The bizarre events surrounding this case are just as curious and interesting as the social media madness that followed, with amateur WebSleuths taking to the internet in droves to try and solve a case with little to no information. At the center of it all was a disheveled homeless man by the name of Shawn Shwartz, who Natalie Bollinger had sought a protection order against and who posted dozens of angry rambling videos talking about his uncontrollable panic attacks. After a year of silence, Shawn has reemerged, multiple videos a day attacking the victim, the victim's friends and family, anyone who has ever assisted him, along with the host of this show.
Eagle Scout Heath Stocks was shaped into the man he is today at the hands of his Scout Troop Leader and mentor Jack Walls III. Jack took a lot of young Boy Scouts under his wing, like Josh Aukes and Jack’s nephew, Wade Knox. Jack was voted Man of the Year by the Lonoke, AR Chamber of Commerce because of his work with young boys. In January of 1997, the murder of Heath’s family sets into motion a series of events that shakes the foundation of the small farming town. They uncover decades of abuse and realize Jack isn’t the man he says he is.
In this special early-release two-part PLUS Episode, we go back to further examine the strange case of the death of Natalie Bollinger (first covered in S&S Episodes 109 & 110). The bizarre events surrounding this case are just as curious and interesting as the social media madness that followed, with amateur WebSleuths taking to the internet in droves to try and solve a case with little to no information. At the center of it all was a disheveled homeless man by the name of Shawn Shwartz, who Natalie Bollinger had sought a protection order against and who posted dozens of angry rambling videos talking about his uncontrollable panic attacks. After a year of silence, Shawn has reemerged, multiple videos a day attacking the victim, the victim's friends and family, anyone who has ever assisted him, along with the host of this show.
If you haven't heard the first part of this story, you can find it here...
Episode 109:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-109/
Episode 110:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-110/
PLUS Episode 46:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sword-and-scale-26401697
22 year old Brandi Montgomery’s charred body was found in her parents’ burning home on a January morning in 2006. Her husband called 911 claiming to have seen Brandi being attacked by an unknown perpetrator, and the tiny town was in a frenzy, being that this was the first death ruled a homicide since the 1960’s. In many cases, we don’t ever have the luxury of finding out what truly happened, but we do in this story.
Brenton Walker would always try to pick up on women in the small towns surrounding his 80-acre parcel in rural Michigan but on July 30th, 2016, he was actually successful. He met Heather Young and she came home with him after the last call. They had such an exciting night that changed both of their lives forever.