Sirens: Southern True Crime

This is a Southern True Crime Podcast (AKA The Sirens Podcast) with creator and host Raven Rollins - journalist, award-winning author, and victim advocate - where she discusses cases from her home state of Oklahoma, and many other Deep South and Southwestern cases with friends, experts, true crime authors, and more!Advocacy. Investigation. Education. Storytelling.

Sirens: Southern True Crime is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 109 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Sirens: Southern True Crime, a education show with 109 episodes published.

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  Introducing: Dreadfully Yours, Raven Rollins | Conversations with Dark Storytellers

  May 13, 20263 minS0

  <p>A special announcement from Raven Rollins introducing Dreadfully Yours: Conversations with Dark Storytellers — a brand new companion-ish podcast dedicated to conversations with authors, filmmakers, journalists, podcasters, musicians, and the minds behind the stories that linger long after the final page.</p><p>🎙️ Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p>From chilling novels and psychological thrillers to horror, film, true crime, and the art of storytelling itself, Dreadfully Yours is a podcast that invites listeners into conversations with the minds behind the stories that stay with us.</p><p>Hosted by author, audiobook narrator, and podcaster Raven Rollins, each ch...

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  Episode #1

  Athena Strand

  May 6, 202647 minS5

  <p>Seven-year-old Athena Strand should have been safe at home.</p><p>Instead, on November 30, 2022, she vanished from outside her father’s property in Paradise, Texas after a FedEx delivery driver came to the home. What followed became one of the most haunting child murder cases in recent memory — a case that would ultimately lead to the arrest, conviction, and death sentence of Tanner Horner.</p><p>In this episode, I walk through the timeline of Athena’s disappearance, the search efforts that gripped the community, the disturbing evidence shown during the capital murder sentencing trial, and the heartbreaking testimony from t...

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  Episode #22

  Book Club | Kathy Reichs - Evil Bones

  Jan 15, 202655 minS4

  <p>In this episode, I'm joined by Kathy Reichs, one of the most respected voices in forensic science and crime fiction. A practicing forensic anthropologist and the author behind the Temperance Brennan series (Bones), Reichs brings a rare dual perspective—working real cases involving unidentified remains while also translating that science into compelling narrative.</p><p>Our conversation moves beyond pop-culture portrayals of forensic work and into the reality of what bones can—and cannot—tell us. We talk about skeletal trauma, time since death, identification challenges, and the responsibility that comes with speaking for the dead. Reichs also reflects on how...

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  Episode #21

  Book Club | Rachel Corbett - The Monsters We Make

  Dec 12, 202552 minS4

  <p>In this episode of Sirens, I’m joined by Rachel Corbett, journalist, academic, and author of The Monsters We Make, for a deeply thoughtful conversation about crime, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves about evil.</p><p>Rachel shares how her own childhood experiences—and the moments that shaped her understanding of violence and fear—ultimately led her down the path of researching crime, criminal behavior, and the FBI’s approach to criminal profiling. What began as personal curiosity evolved into years of research that challenge some of the most widely accepted assumptions in true crime.</p><p>We talk...

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  Episode #20

  Tulsa's Hex House

  Oct 29, 202513 minS4

  <p>Hosted by Raven Rollins</p><p>Tulsa’s infamous Hex House wasn’t just a haunted legend—it was real. Beneath the surface of an ordinary duplex at 10 East 21st Street lay a story of control, psychological manipulation, and hidden abuse that gripped the city in the 1940s. Two women were found living in a cold, dark basement—isolated, exploited, and convinced they were earning salvation under the direction of a woman named Carol Ann Smith.</p><p>In this episode, Raven unearths the true history behind the Hex House. It’s a story of power, belief, and the dangerous...

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