"Blood Mountain: My Father Was the Southeast's Most Prolific Serial Killer"

What happens when the monster under your bed isn't a childhood nightmare—it's the man who tucks you in at night? In this soul-crushing episode, we hear the harrowing testimony of a survivor who grew up in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains with a father who wasn't just abusive—he was the most prolific serial killer the Southeast had ever seen, responsible for at least 47 murders across five states. Through the eyes of someone who called a monster "Daddy," we experience the psychological horror of living with a man who seemed like a loving father by day but spent his nights hunting human prey through the mountain wilderness. We reveal how this killer used his family as the perfect cover, how he trained his children to help dispose of evidence without them understanding what they were doing, and why his own son's testimony finally brought justice to dozens of families who never knew what happened to their loved ones. But this isn't just about one family's nightmare—it's about how a serial killer operated undetected for decades in rural America. We expose how he used the vast wilderness of the Blue Ridge Mountains as his personal killing ground, how he targeted hitchhikers, runaways, and drifters who wouldn't be missed, and why local law enforcement dismissed disappearances as people simply "moving on." Through never-before-heard audio recordings of the killer's own confessions, crime scene evidence that was hidden for decades, and the gut-wrenching testimony of family members who lived with evil incarnate, we reveal how this monster accumulated one of the highest body counts in American serial killer history while maintaining the facade of a devoted family man. This is the story of how innocence dies, how evil hides in plain sight, and how sometimes the person you trust most is the one who destroys everything you thought you knew about humanity.