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Portland, Oregon, 2000s. A woman is home alone when a man she doesn't know gets inside. What happens next is a story of survival, and one that has stayed with listeners long after the credits rolled.
That's the case Susan Kuhnhausen brings to Episode 104 of My Favorite Murder, titled "Garden Party." Hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark do what they do best. They mix real fear with real warmth, and they keep the focus on the people who lived through it.
Then the episode swerves hard. The second story covers the Order of the Solar Temple, a secretive group whose leaders promised spiritual transcendence and delivered tragedy across multiple countries in the 1990s. It's a very different kind of danger. One is a stranger at the door. The other is a charismatic voice that people chose to trust.
Two stories, two kinds of menace, and one question that lingers: how well do we really know who we let in? Press play tonight and listen on iHeart, or find My Favorite Murder wherever you get your podcasts.
