🔎 A night out. A chance encounter. It's a deadly obsession.

In this episode of CrimePod Castle: Twisted Crime Series, we unravel the chilling case of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a promising young student whose simple decision to go out for drinks led to a horrifying fate.

When Jackie met Charles Dean Bryant at a bar in Denton, Texas, no one suspected the dark turn the night would take. Bryant—already spiralling after his ex-girlfriend filed a restraining order against him—fixated on Jackie. The next day, her remains were discovered in the most gruesome way imaginable, discarded in a blue kiddie pool near Grapevine Lake.

What led to this brutal crime? How did investigators uncover the twisted truth? And how did Bryant try to cover his tracks—even using Jackie’s socia ...