Two women with the same name are murdered in the same spot, just days apart. A machete murder in Saint Augustine leads to another suspicious death and a book that someone desperately didn’t want written. Two young Atlanta women at the same bank and same desk disappear two years apart under eerily similar circumstances.

Five true tales from the Gothic South with a single thread running through: each has an unbelievable connection to an entirely different cold case. Is it coincidence or something more sinister?

In this episode:

• The unsolved cold case executions of Mary Lou Morris and Mary McGinnis Morris in Texas, October 2000
• The 1991 murder of Dorothy Donovan and the bizarre coincidence that moved her son, Charles Holden, from suspect to innocent victim
• The 1974 cold case machete death of former model Athalia Ponsell Lindsley in St. Augustine, Florida, and its possible connection to another baffling murder only a few months later
• The brutal 1955 execution-style murders of Judge Curtis Chillingworth and Marjorie Chillingworth and the Judge’s connection to Trapper Nelson, a South Florida legend who died of a suspicious shotgun blast
• The disappearances of Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields in 1965 and 1967 and the chilling links between their Atlanta employers, friends, and even roommates

Chance is everywhere if you look hard enough, but so is conspiracy. So, is it just coincidence? Sometimes the most unsettling answer is “Maybe.”

Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content.