Southern Nightmare: The Hunt for the South Side Strangler Podcast
1) Bonus: Radio Interview with Host Richard Foster
Southern Nightmare host Richard Foster was recently interviewed by Boomtown Richmond radio, so we thought we'd share that and tell you about the new Southern Nightmare book, available now in paperback...Show More
2) Episode 10: Nightmare's End
In the season finale of Southern Nightmare, Timothy Spencer has an imminent date with the Virginia electric chair. But can FBI profilers and a State Police agent get him to talk about his crimes befor...Show More
3) Episode 9: The DNA Legacy
In 1989, stay-at-home mom Debbie Smith was abducted from her Virginia home and raped by a masked assailant while her police officer husband was fast asleep in their bedroom. Was history starting to re...Show More
4) Episode 8: The Wrong Man
Someone raped and strangled talented young Washington, D.C., attorney Carolyn Hamm in her home. When detectives questioned a neighbor, his sister pointed them to David Vasquez, a mentally challenged f...Show More
5) Episode 7: The Trials
On July 11, 1988, opening arguments were delivered in accused serial killer Timothy Spencer's landmark trial for the bondage rape and murder of Arlington, Virginia, magazine editor Sue Tucker. It woul...Show More
6) Episode 6: The Match
In January 1988, with the South Side Strangler still at large, Medical College of Virginia lab tech Rena Chapouris didn't show up for work and wasn't answering her phone. A too-familiar horror story s...Show More
7) Episode 5: a.k.a.
In the wake of the sadistic rape and bondage strangulation murder of magazine editor Sue Tucker, Arlington County homicide detective Joe Horgas re-examines old cases from years before and finds some s...Show More
8) Episode 4: Her Last Debt
On Thanksgiving weekend 1987 a quiet townhouse community in suburban Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., is rocked by the bondage strangulation murder of a woman in her home. A hundred...Show More
9) Episode 3: Escalation
The Cho family immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in search of the American Dream. Instead they found a Southern Nightmare. Fifteen-year-old Diane Cho was a typical 1980s teenager, arguing with h...Show More
10) Episode 2: Powder Keg
After the South Side Strangler kills a promising young surgeon, the city erupts into fear with the revelation that a serial killer is on the prowl, hunting women who are home alone.