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Dec. 16, 2025
Child Predator On The Loose |E192
Send Robert a Text! Today, finding out whether a convicted sex offender lives nearby takes just a few clicks — but decades ago, communities had no such warning system. Long before Megan’s Law made that information public, one...
Dec. 9, 2025
Encore: Fort Cook: Mystique & Murder
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Dec. 2, 2025
UNSOLVED: The Mysterious Death of Augustus | E191
Send Robert a Text! In the final summer of the Roaring Twenties, just weeks before the stock market crash would shatter the nation’s confidence, a quiet and disheveled stranger wandered into Bakersfield. Within hours, that ma...
Nov. 25, 2025
Mercy Or Murder? | E190
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Nov. 18, 2025
Sid Sheffield | E189
Send Robert a Text! For decades, Sidney “Sid” Sheffield devoted his life to making Bakersfield a better place — as a teacher, administrator, and champion of local education and health care. His warmth drew people in, his opti...
Nov. 11, 2025
Encore: Psycho Scared
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Nov. 4, 2025
Encore: Ruby Jackson Meriweather
Send Robert a Text! Notorious Bakersfield Brief: A Greenlawn Cemetery worker was shot while on his lunch break in front of his coworkers in 1974. Ruby Lee Jackson Meriweather was murdered in 2000. Her case went unsolved for n...
Oct. 27, 2025
The Clown That Terrified Kern County | E188
Send Robert a Text! It all started with a clown, a few eerie pictures posted to Instagram, and a wave of panic that spread faster than anyone could’ve imagined. Click Here to purchase the 2025 Halloween Tour: https://2025hall...
Oct. 21, 2025
Don't Point That At Me | E187
Send Robert a Text! It was a quiet afternoon in 2013 in the Rosedale community when neighbors heard gunfire. What began as a family’s desperate attempt to save a troubled young man from addiction would end in tragedy. Click H...
Oct. 13, 2025
The Matchmaker Murder | E186
Send Robert a Text! Nearly a decade before the murder that would shock Bakersfield, Dennis Weis had been convicted in Illinois for a brutal sexual assault against an ex-girlfriend who tried to leave him. By the mid-1980s, he’...
Oct. 10, 2025
Promo: George The Giant's Strange Museum!
Send Robert a Text! Check Out George The Giant's Strange Museum of Oddities & Wonders, Oct. 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, and November 1! Friday hours are 5 to 10 PM, and Saturday hours are 2 to 10 PM. Admission is $10 per person. ...
Oct. 7, 2025
The Pearl Harbor Survivor's Wife | E185
Send Robert a Text! Inside a charming Northeast Bakersfield Craftsman-style home lived Joe and Margy LiCastro—he, a 91-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor; she, his 84-year-old wife, known for her grace and kindness. But one cold ...
Oct. 1, 2025
The 2025 Halloween Tour!
Send Robert a Text! This year's Notorious Bakersfield Halloween Tour will take you to all NEW locations in downtown Bakersfield! Visit this link to purchase the 2025 Halloween Audio Driving Tour: https://2025halloween.superca...
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