Six Degrees of WTF

For our final Doc Watch episode, we watched and discuss the Netflix documentary, The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker.

The official synopsis on Netflix's website reads:

This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep downward spiral that resulted in his imprisonment.

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Welcome to the final episode of Six Degrees of WTF! Yes, it's true. We've decided it's time for us to move on to other projects. True crime is too heavy! That said, we go out on a high note with a couple of interesting cases!

Erin kicks things off with the case of David Snow, a Canadian antique store owner who one day closed up shop and disappeared. When he reappeared, he'd turned to a life of crime...

On our final members-only episode, Erin hops across the pond to cover a case of love gone wrong.

Sometimes we meet people that we mesh very well with, and sometimes we meet people we should never be around, but can't stay away from. This case is definitely the latter. Before all is said and done, a man is dead, and the girlfriend is the prime suspect...

On this members-only episode, O'Dell covers a case from England about a group of teen boys who spent a majority of their time in online gaming rooms.

Unbeknownst to the boys, a mysterious 18-year-old member of the online group where the met had singled one of them out and over the course of a year would groom the 14-year-old away from his friends and family before assaulting and murdering him...

O'Dell kicks this episode off discussing the case of the Circleville Letters. Someone wrote inflammatory and threatening letters to citizens of Circleville, OH in the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Police thought they caught the culprit, but many believe they had the wrong guy.

After the break, Erin covers the disappearance of Brittney Wood and the uncovering of a child sex trafficking ring (major trigger warning here)...

This time around we watched and discuss the Netflix documentary, "Capturing the Killer Nurse". The official synopsis reads:

This documentary reveals how investigators proved ICU nurse Charles Cullen was killing patients — and how close he came to getting away with murder.

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Erin kicks things off discussing the 1984 disappearance of 12-year-old Sherry Marler who was last seen walking across a parking lot.

After the break O'Dell covers the strange case of three lighthouse keepers who mysteriously vanished in 1900. Were they swept away by the sea, or is something paranormal to blame?

We close things out with a WTF story about a mayor who may have been too committed to her hands-on approach, and a palette cleanser about changing your past...

This time around we watched and discuss the documentary, "Finders Keepers". The synopsis reads:

Amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill that he bought at an auction.

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O'Dell kicks off this episode with several cases of missing and murdered indigenous women - all in Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA.

After the break, Erin covers a case that involves several years of lies and deception that led a French man to murder several members of his family simply because he didn't want to face the truth...

On this episode we discuss the Sundance Channel documentary, "The Case of Sally Challen".

The official synopsis reads:

Jailed for life in 2011 for killing her husband, Sally Challen was convicted on the unanimous decision of the jury. Yet evidence later revealed that Challen was the victim of coercive control from her husband.

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