Crime at Bedtime

On 23rd February 2008, firefighters responded to a garage fire in Lake Barrington, Illinois. Beneath a white pickup truck, they found a badly burnt body. The wallet identified the victim as Ari Samuel Squire, 39.

It looked like a tragic accident. A jack failure. A fire. A life lost.

But dental records didn't match. The body was too young—about twenty, not forty. The tattoos were wrong.

The body wasn't Ari Squire. It was Justin Newman, a young man Ari had lured to his home with the promise of construction work.
Ari was $400,000 in debt from Medicare fraud. He'd hatched a plan: kill someone who resembled him, stage his own death, steal the victim's identity, and disappear.

For eight days, Ari lived as Justin Newman, using his credit cards and ID. Then police tracked him to a Missouri motel.
Before arrest, Ari put a gun to his head.

Tonight on Crime at Bedtime, the story of a fake death that became real murder.
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On 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers claimed to see a silver, saucer-shaped object hover over a school before darting away at incredible speed. Minutes later, mysterious men arrived and the incident was hushed up. Decades on, the witnesses are still searching for the truth. This is the Westall UFO mystery.
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On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission over the Atlantic. But somewhere over the sea, things began to go terribly wrong. The pilots reported bizarre compass malfunctions, shifting skies, and confusion over their location. Then… silence.

Flight 19 vanished and no trace of the aircraft or the crew members was ever found.

Even more chilling? A rescue plane sent to find them also disappeared, adding 13 more to the list of missing.

This baffling event didn’t just confound military investigators, it ignited one of the most enduring legends in modern folklore: the Bermuda Triangle.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we follow the eerie final transmissions of Flight 19, the massive search effort that came up empty, and the strange theories that still swirl nearly 80 years later. Was it a tragic navigational error, a magnetic anomaly… or something else entirely?

Five planes went up. None came back.

And the ocean never gave up its dead.
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In 1966, the bodies of two men were discovered on a remote hill outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were lying side by side, dressed in matching suits and waterproof coats. What made the scene truly eerie were the lead masks covering their eyes, like homemade radiation goggles and the cryptic handwritten note found nearby:

"Be at the agreed place at 16:30. Take capsules after the effect, protect metals, await signal, mask..."

The victims, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, were local electronics technicians with an interest in spiritualism and scientific experimentation. But there were no signs of violence, no clear cause of death, and no trace of drugs in their system.

To this day, the Lead Masks Case remains one of Brazil’s most baffling unsolved mysteries a story that has inspired decades of speculation involving UFOs, occult practices, government experiments, and everything in between.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we follow the trail of clues from the bodies on the hill to the theories that have tried and failed to explain this chilling enigma.
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In 2011, 32-year-old Jack Froese died suddenly from a heart arrhythmia in Pennsylvania. But just months after his funeral, emails began arriving from Jack’s account, sent to close friends and family. These weren’t generic messages. They were deeply personal, referencing private conversations and recent events that occurred after Jack’s death.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we explore one of the internet’s most unsettling modern mysteries, the case of the posthumous emails that defied explanation. Were they a prank? A planned digital legacy? Or something more mysterious? Join us as we unravel the strange story of messages from beyond the grave, and ask what it means to live and die in the digital age.
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