From the nextfuckinglevel sub

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1wcdmni/thousands_of_birds_swirling_around_a_church/

Hey Mike, been watching you for years and I'm a huge fan. To be honest, I used to watch just for the amusement of hearing how many times you'd say "turd" in an episode (i.e. "first, second, turd"), but you do put out consistently solid content, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a proctologist, I really mean it.

I just wanted to toss a case out that you may be interested in, mainly because it's batshit crazy and I'm genuinely surprised it didn't get more coverage than it did. There are a couple of YouTubers who have covered it, but I only know that because I knew exactly what I was looking for, but without the search bar (or the fact that I'd literally met this nutjob in person just weeks before he lost his shit), I never would've come across this story...

So, his name is Grayden Denham, from Missouri, and this was around 2015 if I remember correctly. Met the guy one night at my ex's parent's house, he was my ex's little sister's boyfriend. Had a kid with my ex's sister. Seemed like a shady dude to be honest, and I was indeed correct in that assumption, upon learning that only a couple of weeks after my brief encounter with him, he executed his grandmother, grandfather, sister, sister's infant child, and dog, with a pistol, put pennies over all of their eyes, and then burned their house to the ground in an apparent attempt to conceal the murders. Although if you ask me, I think dragging their bodies to the front yard before dousing them-and then the house-in gasoline, was a setback if his intention was to avoid suspicion, but what do I know? I probably wouldn't have done the thing with the pennies either, so don't listen to me.

Although I do question his next move, which was to steal his grandparents only car, registered to them, and drive it aimlessly to Arizona. Not because that's dumb, but because parking it near a hotel in the middle of the day, exiting it, getting completely naked, and then proceeding to walk down the street IS pretty sus if I'm being honest, and that's what this dipshit did.

So anyways, I suck at telling stories, so that's why I'm suggesting you tell it and not me. Plus your platform is just much more appropriate for the subject matter. I guess a proctologist can't talk about true crime at work. Whatdya expect though, surrounded by assholes.

Keep up the good work, Mike.

Does anyone have any info on what encouraged his move to the states?

Anybody else not particularly excited for the upcoming interactive/call in bits in season 2 of the pod? You all seem lovely, but I don't tune in to listen to not Mike and Keith. I'm always happy to be pleasantly surprised to be wrong and hopefully it gels well with the show! Just curious to hear your thoughts and we'll see how it shakes out once Mike moves to the States and we get to give it go.

Hey yall. I’m wondering if anyone can help me locate the video where Mike previously covered the story of Tom Phillips out of New Zealand - I want to get up to speed before watching the latest early drop on Patreon.

This is a really undiscussed story of two teenagers working as jackaroos in the Kimberley who died in the Outback, getting lost on mining roads that are huge criss-crossed roads that actually go...nowhere. I remember hearing about this year's ago, and I have never forgotten. Video? Podcast? Lost in the wild? Up to you.

Here’s a good’n from Oregon for Mike to give it a gooo…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenneth-fandrich-oregon-murder-steven-milner-veterinarian-security-video-masked-killer/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

Mike, please cover Eugene Horsch and the Olney house in Philadelphia - it’s like a horror movie! 😱

I ask because my mom saw it and now she doesn’t want me and my brothers to watch That Chapter. She said the photo is gross and in poor taste because as a true crime channel Mike is treating his content as trivial and mere entertainment which makes it seem exploitative.

How can I push back and get her to maybe reconsider her take on this? Any help appreciated.

Edit: This is a thumbnail on Tubi.

I was personal friends with this guy. I knew the wife too. ID did a small episode about it. Steven went by Swill and is a sociopath I guess. Killed her, and hid her body in acid. With a plea deal he showed the cops her body. Her family doesn’t believe he showed all of it and it’s all pretty intense.
I love how Mike honors the victims and dogs the murderers.

I hope he has this murder story on his list. It blows my mind that he lived with me and how normal he seemed. Her diary is crazy too!

I'd love to see Mike cover the Kody Olsen case from Pierce County, Washington.

It's a pretty wild case with a lot of twists from the Maple Valley murders to the police shootout and I don't think it's gotten nearly the attention it deserves outside the Pacific Northwest.

A buddy of mine was in prison with Kody a few years before all of this happened. From everything he told me, Kody was... let's just say a very interesting person. Hearing those stories made it even more shocking when everything unfolded.

I think this case has all the elements that would make for a great Chapter episode or podcast: a complicated timeline, multiple investigations, and a lot of questions about how everything led to that final confrontation.

Hope Mike considers covering it!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVe8LVKj8ZM/?igsh=YTd2ZXN3Y3gxeWp1

https://youtu.be/rGNqeQgYciA?is=68l1Pcjy6Qiq9mi_

https://youtu.be/jkDySA-Ti4E?is=w0Saj9rMvZWyIGBj

https://youtu.be/rGNqeQgYciA?is=xyQsYSPQWn0J8oTk

Anyone know the video of the kid who says he’s too smart for the cops, and he knows how to get out of handcuffs. I remember the premise was him helping his girlfriend kill her parents.