Shadows In The Pines

An investigative true crime podcast by Dan Morgan & Rebekah Haler In the Pacific Northwest, the forests are vast, the fog runs deep — and the shadows remember everything. Shadows in the Pines is a cinematic true crime podcast that exposes the region’s most haunting and mysterious cases — from unsolved homicides and disappearances to long-forgotten cold cases lost to time and silence. Hosted by Dan Morgan and Rebekah Haler, each episode combines journalistic depth, forensic reconstruction, and immersive storytelling to bring clarity to the darkness. Focused on accuracy, empathy, and respect for the victims, the series delivers a cold, investigative narrative style that stays true to the facts while capturing the atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest. Every sound, every silence, every shadow has meaning. “In the pines, shadows linger — and the truth waits beneath the silence.”

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  Episode #110

  Mini Pines - The Man Who Carried His Own Key

  Aug 21, 202637 min

  The Man Who Carried His Own Key You hike eleven miles on snowshoes to a locked Forest Service cabin. You have the only key. And the stove is warm. For thirteen years in the 1930s and ’40s, someone lived off the locked backcountry cabins of north-central Idaho, letting himself in and out without ever breaking a thing. The men who worked that country had a nickname for him before they ever had a face. They called him the Ridgerunner. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, Dan and Bekah head into the Idaho backcountry to uncover who the Ridgerunner actually was, how he managed to open seemingly every lock in two national forests with a strip of metal cut from a meat can, and what Forest Service workers discovered beneath a sheet of canvas on a ridge above Skull Creek in February 1945. For years, his story became the stuff of wilderness legend. But the real story is stranger, darker, and far more human than the legend that survived him. Some legends are made from what a man did. This one is made from what he was running from. Shadows in the Pines New episodes every Sunday at 8 PM Pacific.

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  Episode #109

  Bryan Kohberger Update

  Aug 17, 20261h 56m

  Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. But that plea ended the case before a jury ever heard the evidence, before experts were cross-examined, and before some of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding 1122 King Road were tested in open court. Now, with Kohberger attempting to withdraw his guilty plea, those questions matter again. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, Dan takes another look at the evidence and the parts of this case that still don’t sit right: the handling of the knife sheath, the identification of the white sedan, the complete absence of identified victim DNA from Kohberger’s Elantra, the late-night Moscow trips, unidentified DNA, conflicting accounts from inside the house, the seven-and-a-half-hour delay before 911 was called, and the destruction of 1122 King Road before any trial took place. This isn’t an argument that Kohberger is innocent, and it isn’t about blaming anyone for surviving. It’s about asking questions that never received complete answers. Four young people were murdered. Their families deserve to know exactly what happened.

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  Episode #108

  Mini Pines - The Hahn House

  Aug 15, 202645 min

  The House Made of the Hill: The Wilbur-Hahn House At the end of a dead-end road on Spokane’s South Hill sits a century-old house built directly into the basalt beneath it. It’s beautiful, historically significant, privately owned—and by local reputation, one of the most haunted houses in Spokane. But the documented history of the Wilbur-Hahn House is stranger than most of the legends. Built in 1916 as an elaborate “love cottage,” the house passed from mining wealth and a marriage that lasted barely two years into the hands of Rudolph Hahn, the man newspapers would eventually call the “Mad Doctor of the South Hill.” His years there brought enormous parties, illegal liquor, radio towers, Jimmy Doolittle performing aerial stunts overhead, gunfire inside the house, the death of his wife Sylvia, a manslaughter conviction, and eventually Hahn’s own violent death. Then the house sat vacant for years, and Spokane supplied the rest: a woman seen on the staircase, screams from the basement, slamming doors, arguing voices, shadow figures, disappearing bloodstains, secret tunnels and stories of money hidden somewhere on the property. Some of those claims have roots in documented history. Others fall apart once you look closely. This episode separates the history from the haunting and the people who actually lived and died there from the legends that grew around them. The House Made of the Hill: The Wilbur-Hahn House.

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  Episode #107

  Kit Mora - Missing In Omak

  Aug 9, 20261h 21m

  Finding Kit: Missing in Omak In the summer of 2021, sixteen-year-old Kit Mora left Yakima for what was supposed to be a temporary stay with their biological mother in Omak, Washington. By November, their closest friends and family had stopped hearing from them. Kit stopped posting online. They stopped attending school. And yet months would pass before anyone realized this teenager had seemingly disappeared. In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we follow Kit’s story from the people who knew and loved them through a welfare check that left serious questions, 33 unexcused school absences, a runaway classification, and an investigation that didn’t fully begin until more than a year after Kit’s last known communication with the people closest to them. Kit is Indigenous and nonbinary, and their disappearance also brings us into the larger crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the gaps that can exist between schools, child welfare, local police, tribal authorities, state agencies and federal investigators. Kit Mora is still missing. If you know anything about Kit’s disappearance, contact the Omak Police Department at 509-826-0383 , the Washington Attorney General’s Office MMIP Cold Case Unit at 844-770-7900 , or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 . Finding Kit: Missing in Omak — Shadows in the Pines.

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  Episode #106

  Mini Pines - Bridge Of the Gods

  Aug 7, 202634 min

  The Bridge of the Gods There was a bridge across the Columbia River. Not the steel one at Cascade Locks with the toll booth and the hikers walking single file — the first one. Stone and dirt and the broken bones of a mountain, wide enough to walk across, with the river running underneath it in the dark. For a long time, the people who told you about it were not believed. This is the story of a tired man in a canoe who wrote down the answer in 1805 and didn’t know it. A young novelist who heard the story from Klickitat elders, believed it when nobody respectable would, and died at twenty-nine without ever learning he was right. A botanist and his wife who spent the winters of the Great Depression counting dead trees in the freezing shallows of the Columbia, racing a dam that was about to drown the evidence forever. And the tree rings that finally answered the question — not to the century, not to the decade, but to a single season. It’s also the story of a girl named Kalliah, who was a year and a half old when the Army hanged her father, and who refused for the rest of her life to leave the river. The mountain came down in the winter of 1446. The story survived four hundred years to tell us so. Lamplight on the Trail — folklore, landmarks, and lost history of the Pacific Northwest.

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