• Tombstone Shadows

  • By: Lex Wahl
  • Podcast
Tombstone Shadows  By  cover art

Tombstone Shadows

By: Lex Wahl
  • Summary

  • The Tombstone Shadows podcast visits U.S. cemeteries, and explores the lives behind forgotten graves of ordinary people.
    2019 Tombstone Shadows
    Show more Show less
Episodes
  • Tombstone Shadows Podcast #14 - Murdered While Sleeping (1990, Harbor City, California), and From Murder to Bank Robbery (Seattle, Washington)
    Mar 9 2022

    In the 14th episode of Tombstone Shadows, we’re going to visit San Francisco, California, where we’ll meet a young lady named Kyoko. We will follow her and her husband to southern California and hear how her life tragically ended.

    Then we will head over to the east coast of the United States to New York, where we’ll hear about a grisly death, and then follow one of the involved persons back to the west coast in Seattle, Washington, and find out what else went wrong in that individual’s life.

    • Kyoko Kuwako Johnson
      Born: April 20, 1937
      Died: November 23, 1990
      Born in Japan, Kyoko married a U.S. military man while she was living in San Francisco. The couple moved to Harbor City, California (southern California), where, after raising a family, she was brutally killed on a late November morning as she slept. Her husband was put on trial, but found not guilty.
    • Wells Benner van Steenbergh Jr.
      Born: March 29, 1935
      Died: June 19, 2012
      In an attempt to steal some cash from a home, Wells Jr. burned down a home where a husband and wife lived, who had been friends with Wells Jr. for a few years. Unknown to Wells Jr., the wife was at home sleeping. Wells Jr. later moved to Seattle where he almost pulled off another perfect crime.
    Show more Show less
    45 mins
  • Tombstone Shadows Podcast #13 - Rudy Mejia at Cabrillo Beach, and San Gabriel Officer Elmer Griffin
    Nov 13 2021

    In episode #13 of Tombstone Shadows we’re going be in Southern California, visiting two lives. Both were murdered. One in San Pedro, and the other in Alhambra.

    • Rudy Ernst Mejia III
      Born: January 29, 1955
      Died: July 21, 1990
      Burial place unknown.
      Late one evening, Rudy left his home in Pico Rivera on a warm evening for San Pedro's Cabrillo Beach. Perhaps unknown to Rudy, was that Cabrillo Beach at night was not a safe place to be—especially alone.
    • Elmer Hearn Griffin
      Born: 1904
      Died: February 7, 1926
      Buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena, California
      Elmer Griffin had been a motorcycle officer for the San Gabriel Police Department for less than one year, when he had a violent run-in with "booze runners."
    Show more Show less
    33 mins
  • Tombstone Shadows Podcast #12 - We’ll Visit Harbor City, California in 1965 and Boston, Massachusetts in the 1890’s.
    Jun 28 2021

    In episode #12 of Tombstone Shadows we’re going to visit Harbor City, California for the tragic end to the lives of two young navy-men in 1965; and then head back east to Boston, and hear about a life that started at 4-years-old as very bad, but ended up doing a lot good later in life; in a related life, you'll hear about the sordid life of a spiritualist named Oscar Concannon who lived a short life that included being sent to a mental institution in the late 1890s.

    • Dudley G. Kimball
      Born: July 31, 1872
      Died: 16 Oct 1969
      Buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Oscar L. Concannon
      Born: March 21, 1869
      Died: July 11, 1904
      Buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Dennis Gerald Benson
      Born: July 15, 1944Died: July 25, 1965
    Show more Show less
    45 mins

What listeners say about Tombstone Shadows

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.