An elderly St. Petersburg woman disappears in an unexplainable ball of fire. A corpse in a rural Alabama creek is found without its head, hands, heart, or its spleen. A young volunteer vanishes in the Carolina mountains, only to turn up hogtied and strangled in the backseat of an abandoned car. And a wealthy Georgia couple dies grisly deaths, his headless body dumped in their garage and her body at the bottom of a lake.

This collection of true tales from the Gothic South has a single thread running through each: bizarre death scenes that, even decades later, left investigators scratching their heads with more questions than answers.

In this episode:

• The fiery death of Mary Reeser in 1951, one of the best documented cases of spontaneous human combustion
• The bizarre death of Jefferey Douglas Kimzey in Arab, Alabama, a still-unsolved cold case that left a baffling crime scene with very few clues
• The 50-year-old murder of volunteer Nancy Morgan whose case remains unsolved despite evidence of a local coverup
• The brutal execution of Russell and Shirley Dermond in their Georgia home that has left investigators with nothing but dead ends

 
Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content.