Severed | True Crime Podcast

We discuss the menacing NYPD Officer, Ryan Olsen, who flashed his gun at a stripper outside The Carousel: Gentlemen's Club in Huntington Station, Long Island. We outline the complaints against him and identify patterns in his behavior.

We discuss “dead” kayaker, Ryan Borgwardt, and his attempt to fake his own death, leaving his wife and three children in Watertown, Wisconsin, to be with his online lover in the former Soviet republic. 

We discuss the salacious sexual scandal between Rev. Travis Clark and two dominatrices, Lady Vi (Mandy Dixon) and Melissa Cheng (Empress Cheng), that occurred at a church’s altar in 2020. Listener discretion is advised. NSFW.

We celebrate our 100th episode by discussing the history and details of the Overlook Asylum (Essex County Hospital), the haunted Ayers-Allen House in Metuchen, and the tragic history of the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City. 

We discuss historical facts and mythos surrounding The Myrtles. We succinctly chronicle the plantation’s 230-year history and explore the autobiographical (and erotically-charged) accounts of one-time proprietress, Frances Kermeen, in her book, The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America’s Most Haunted House, published in 2005.