22 year old Brandi Montgomery’s charred body was found in her parents’ burning home on a January morning in 2006. Her husband called 911 claiming to have seen Brandi being attacked by an unknown perpetrator, and the tiny town was in a frenzy, being that this was the first death ruled a homicide since the 1960’s. In many cases, we don’t ever have the luxury of finding out what truly happened, but we do in this story.
From a young age we are instinctually scared of the evil that lurks in darkness. The name we've culturally given this idea is "The Boogeyman". On July 10, 2012 Aaron Schaffhausen became the Boogeyman to his own children.
When 19 year old Stephen McAfee went missing in his home town of McComb, Michigan on March 10, 2016, no one could have predicted that it would take more than a year to get a solid lead on his whereabouts. When a young woman went to investigators claiming to know what happened to Stephen, her accusations were dumbfounding. The truth that McComb County police would begin to uncover was more shocking than anyone could have imagined.
On the evening of March 3rd, 2015, two individuals in their car were stopped by a young man stumbling into the roadway of Magazine Street in Boston. The young man, identified as 17-year-old Luis Rodriguez, was bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound to his head.
When investigators asked Luis who shot him, the only words he could get out were “Rev”. Who was “Rev” and what connection did he have to Luis? What were the events that led to the senseless attack on this teenager? The only Reverend that had any connection to Luis was the well-known Reverend Shaun Harrison, Dean of Academics at Boston’s English High School. Further investigation would show Shaun had another side of his life that only few were aware of…
Eagle Scout Heath Stocks was shaped into the man he is today at the hands of his Scout Troop Leader and mentor Jack Walls III. Jack took a lot of young Boy Scouts under his wing, like Josh Aukes and Jack’s nephew, Wade Knox. Jack was voted Man of the Year by the Lonoke, AR Chamber of Commerce because of his work with young boys. In January of 1997, the murder of Heath’s family sets into motion a series of events that shakes the foundation of the small farming town. They uncover decades of abuse and realize Jack isn’t the man he says he is.
The world of online dating can be a precarious one, filled with peril. When Sydney Loofe met a young girl by the name of Audrey, she thought she had made a friend and potential girlfriend. Instead, she got sucked into the deceptive and bizarre world of Bailey Boswell and Abrey Trail.
In this special early-release two-part PLUS Episode, we go back to further examine the strange case of the death of Natalie Bollinger (first covered in S&S Episodes 109 & 110). The bizarre events surrounding this case are just as curious and interesting as the social media madness that followed, with amateur WebSleuths taking to the internet in droves to try and solve a case with little to no information. At the center of it all was a disheveled homeless man by the name of Shawn Shwartz, who Natalie Bollinger had sought a protection order against and who posted dozens of angry rambling videos talking about his uncontrollable panic attacks. After a year of silence, Shawn has reemerged, multiple videos a day attacking the victim, the victim's friends and family, anyone who has ever assisted him, along with the host of this show.
If you haven't heard the first part of this story, you can find it here...
Episode 109:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-109/
Episode 110:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-110/
PLUS Episode 46:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sword-and-scale-26401697
Brenton Walker would always try to pick up on women in the small towns surrounding his 80-acre parcel in rural Michigan but on July 30th, 2016, he was actually successful. He met Heather Young and she came home with him after the last call. They had such an exciting night that changed both of their lives forever.
Ryan Poston and Shayna Hubers’ relationship was the on again, off again type. She was getting her Masters degree 80 miles away from where Ryan lived and practiced law. Ryan couldn’t see a future with Shayna, but Shayna wanted a life with Ryan no matter what. When Ryan tried to move on and date Miss Ohio, Shayna couldn’t let go. This is when a toxic relationship became deadly.