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Katy Accardo
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True Crime in the 50
Re-Release: The Disappearance of Tyler Davis and the Murders of Aaron Grexa, Eric Hlass and Kayla Hurst
In February 2019, a young couple from the Cincinnati, Ohio area left their baby with his grandparents and made the two-and-a-half-hour drive up to Central Ohio to spend the night at the Hilton Hotel at Easton Town Center, a luxury shopping mall in Columbus. They were Tyler Davis and his wife, Brittany, whose birthday was the next day. But what started out as a fun evening with another local friend, turned into a nightmare. Around 3 am, after they were all dropped off at their hotel, Tyler became confused and a little belligerent, and wandered off in a drunken stupor...and seemingly...
2024-04-14
48 min
True Crime in the 50
Louisiana's Missing: Barbara Blount and AJ Breaux
Barbara Blount was a widow with two children who lived in the small town of Holden, Louisiana. She was devout and church-going and did not have an enemy in the world. May 2nd, 2008 started out just like any other. Barbara spoke to her daughter Christy, and a friend on the phone and set about cleaning out her kitchen cupboards. But by 2 pm, when none of her friends or family could reach her, Barbara had disappeared. The cordless phone she used was shattered on the driveway and her car was found abandoned in a rural area a few miles outside of...
2023-08-28
27 min
True Crime in the 50
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2023-08-28
02 min
True Crime in the 50
Kentucky: The Crimes Against Brookelyn Farthing and Paige Johnson
On the first day of summer, Friday, June 21st, 2013, Brookelyn Farthing went with her sister to obtain her driver's license. She then went to a birthday party for a family member, and, that night, went to a party in a rural field in Berea, Kentucky to celebrate her graduation with classmates. Her sister and her friend abandoned her, so, pretty soon, Brookelyn was looking for a ride home. She found one, an older guy, Joshua Hensley, but the 23-year-old did not exactly take her home. Instead, he took her to his house that was being foreclosed on. After numerous text...
2023-08-14
28 min
True Crime in the 50
Kansas: Richard Scott Smith
When Tracy, a 40-something-year-old Kansas mother of two found Mickey on an online dating site, she thought she had hit the jackpot. He was accomplished, handsome, had his private pilot's license and owned his own real estate company. Within days they were saying I love you and within a month, moving in together. Then, they were talking marriage. It all seemed too good to be true...because it was.Mickey was really Richard Scott Smith, a scammer, cheat, liar and love fraudster who had swindled multiple women out of thousands of dollars, had used multiple aliases and social...
2023-07-31
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Iowa: The Realtor Murders
In August of 1969, Dorothy Miller, the only female real estate agent in the city of Burlington, Iowa, received a call from a man named Robert Clark, asking to see the for sale property at 118 Grand Street. Dorothy agreed to show it to the man that evening, but made sure her husband, Fred Miller, came along for safety purposes. The next day, the man called Dorothy and asked to see the property again, and this time, Dorothy went with the man alone. She was found dead at the property the next day, with multiple stab wounds to her head and back...
2023-07-17
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Indiana: Herb Baumeister
Herbert "Herb" Baumeister was born on April 7th, 1947 to a prominent doctor and a homemaker on the upscale north side of Indianapolis, Indiana. Ever since he was a child, Herb was odd. And not just odd, downright weird. He once asked a friend what he thought drinking urine would taste like, and placed a dead crow on top of his grade school teacher's desk. But Herb got married and found semi-successful careers, first at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, then by opening a chain of thrift stores in the Indianapolis area with his wife, Julie. The couple had three...
2023-07-03
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Illinois: Sarah Delashmit
It was the fall of 2003 when Southern Illinois University student Sarah Delashmit told her suitemates that she had cancer. All of them were devastated and even shaved their heads in solidarity. The next year, Sarah told her roommate she had gotten into a horrific car accident, was in a wheelchair and would never walk again. By the time Sarah moved out of the dorm, the roommate and she were not on speaking terms, and the roommate saw Sarah in the cafeteria walking just fine.Sarah Delashmit suffered from Factitious Disorder, a rare psychological condition in which a patient intentionally...
2023-06-19
39 min
True Crime in the 50
Idaho: The Murders of Katy Benoit and Lisa Stuckey
Katy Benoit was a bubbly, young, happy and personable graduate student of psychology at The University of Idaho. While she had briefly entered into a romantic relationship with a 31-year-old teacher's assistant at the college, Ernesto Bustamante, she had broken up with him and was trying to move on with her life. But Bustamante was making that difficult. He was stalking Katy and had threatened her with a gun on more than one occasion. Even though Katy reported his behavior to campus and local police, on the night of Monday, August 22nd, 2011, Katy's life ended in tragedy.Lisa...
2023-06-05
32 min
True Crime in the 50
Hawaii: Hidden in the House
Phrogging is defined as: "The act of sneaking into a person's home and hiding among it's occupants without their knowledge." While this phenomenon is rare, it is not unheard of. P. Diddy had a phrogger in his home, as did Pamela Anderson in 2001. But the creepiest and most disturbing case is the one of the Campbell family in Honolulu, Hawaii.In 2019, the Campbells had just moved to Honolulu, when Brittany Campbell started hearing strange noises, such as the front door opening and closing, while she was allegedly home alone. Doors would be unlocked, blankets would be moved and...
2023-05-22
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Georgia: The Disappearance of Justin Gaines
College freshman Justin Gaines had returned to his parent's home in Duluth, Georgia, for the weekend. The smart and outgoing 18-year-old student did not have any classes on Fridays, so he used the weekends to catch up with his parents, do a little work at their family roofing company and party with friends. And on Thursday, November 1st, 2007, he set out for Wild Bill's Nightclub with a friend and his girlfriend to do just that.But what started out as an innocent night of drinking, dancing and fun, soon turned into a hassle for Justin, who could not...
2023-05-08
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Florida Bonus Episode: The COVID Cover-Up Killing
Friends and family members were concerned, in March of 2020, when the world was shutting down because of COVID, because of the strange texts they had been getting from Gretchen Anthony. Gretchen, who lived in Jupiter, Florida, was a fitness buff, and had a little girl and a second husband, was healthy by all accounts. But no one had seen her in person for a few days, and had only received messages that said she had contacted COVID and would be going to a special center run by the CDC one hour away in Belglade, Florida. Problem was, the CDC had...
2023-05-01
17 min
True Crime in the 50
Florida's Deadly Dancer
When 24-year-old Ashley Byers met 54-year-old Doug Benefield on August 25th, 2016, at party in former President hopeful Ben Carson's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, it was love at first sight. Literally. The two started texting and said "I love you" within days. In under 14 days, they were married, much to Doug's 15-year-old daughter Eva's chagrin. But the two were very much alike; both were gun-toting supporters of the 2nd amendment and right wing-leaning. In fact, Ashley Byers had worked on soon-to-be President Trump's campaign in Sarasota, Florida, and Doug was deeply religious. Soon after they married, they decided...
2023-04-24
28 min
True Crime in the 50
Delaware: The Killing of Joe and Olga Connell
After Joe Connell was released from prison, he was a changed man who wanted to settle down and start a family. Pretty soon, he found his true love, a mail order Russian bride named Olga. Joe was successful; he ran a successful auto body repair shop in Wilminginton, Delaware with his partner, Christopher Rivers. He also had a side hustle selling sterioids out of said body shop. Joe and Olga had only been married for 107 days when they were gunned down in front of their apartment building in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 22nd, 2013. It was obviously...
2023-04-10
29 min
True Crime in the 50
Connecticut: The Unsolved Murder of Suzanne Jovin
Suzanne Jovin was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, when her life was cut mercilessly short. December 4th, 1998 started out just like any other day for Suzanne. She woke up early, went to classes, turned in an assignment to her professor, and then attended a Best Buddies volunteer organization pizza party. After that, she returned to her apartment, shot off a quick email to a friend, then set out on foot toward campus again, into the unseasonably warm winter night, to an undetermined location. On her walk, she stopped to chat with an acquaintance and then...
2023-03-27
33 min
True Crime in the 50
Colorado: The Tragic Murder of Candace Hiltz
Candace Hiltz was a 17-year-old daughter, sister and young mother to a baby girl with a debilitaring illness who lived in Canon City, Colorado. She was also a bona fide genius. By the age of 11, she was perfecting calculus equations. By age 17, Candace was already in her third year of college online at Brigham Young University, studying to be a lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, and had already been admitted to Yale Law School. She had her whole life in front of her...until her love of fairness and justice became her downfall.Candace and her mother, Mary Ann...
2023-03-13
30 min
True Crime in the 50
California Case Update: "The Lady in the Fridge" Jane Doe Identified
Show Notes:https://www.newsweek.com/lady-fridge-murder-victim-identified-amanda-deza-1784070If you have any information about the murder of Amanda Lynn Shumann-Deza, the former San Joaquin County "Lady in the Fridge" Jane Doe from 1995, please call:1-209-468-5087 or email:coldcase@sjgov.org
2023-02-28
11 min
True Crime in the 50
California's Jane Does
On October 31st, 1994, police officers in the Apple Valley area near San Bernardino, California, received a call from two individuals who were out searching for rocks. They had found what appered to be a human skull which was part of a skeleton buried in a clandestine grave site with it's body wrapped in a plastic bag. It was that of a mixed-race female, 5'1" to 5'5" and anywhere from 25-55 years old. The body had been there for 18 months.Two years later, on July 8th, 1996, two ranch hands were hunting for coyotes in the remote farmlands of Rio Visto...
2023-02-27
38 min
True Crime in the 50
Arkansas: The Mysterious Murder of Melissa Witt
December 1st, 1994, started out like a normal day unlike any other for 19-year-old Melissa "Missy" Witt in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She spent the first part of the morning with her mother, Mary Ann, had lunch with a friend at the Central Mall Food Court and then went to a class at Westark Community College. She then headed to her jog as a dental assistant. When Missy got home, she found a note from her mom, telling her to come to the Bowling World bowling alley and she would buy her a burger for dinner. Mary Ann had bowling league every...
2023-02-13
31 min
True Crime in the 50
Crimes From the East Podcast Bonus Episode: The Murder of Arpana Jinaga
24-year-old Arpana Jinaga was once a teenage technology prodigy who excelled in living life to the fullest. She moved to the U.S. to accomplish life goals and live the Dream, but instead, an unknown monster turned her life into a Nightmare. She was found murdered in her apartment after a Halloween party in 2008. Katy Accardo from the podcast True Crime in the 50 joins us as we talk about Arpana's case and how the cops hyper focused on just one suspect, and, even after two trials, we have no resolution to this case. Check out the Crimes...
2023-02-06
1h 15
True Crime in the 50
The Arizona Sleepwalking Murders
In 1981 in Scottsdale, Arizona, a man named Steven Steinberg was accused of killing his wife, Elana Steinberg. While at first, Steven attempted to blame her murder (she was stabbed 26 times with a kitchen knife,) on two bushy-bearded robbers, he soon gave up that ghost and admitted to killing her. But there was one caveat to his guilty plea: he claimed he was sleepwalking when he killed her. Her nagging, sex-withholding, social-climbing and greedy personality had led Steinberg to so much stress, and become so bitter toward his wife, that in his sleep, he killed her. A jury would have to...
2023-01-30
38 min
True Crime in the 50
Alaska's Killer Stripper Seductress
On a normal day in October of 2006 in an upscale suburb of Olympia, Washington, police officers walked up to the front door of an exclusive-looking home in a high-end neighborhood. They were looking for a 33-year-old married mother of one named Mechele Linehan. Mechele was your typical suburban housewife; she held sleepovers for her daughter, was active in the church, and hosted a weekly pizza night for the neighbors and their kids. But that was all a facade, because police had come to arrest the seemingly innocent soccer mom that day. She was wanted for murder in The Great State...
2023-01-16
39 min
True Crime in the 50
Alabama: The Murders of JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
On the night of July 31st, 1999, at 10pm, two teenage girls and best friends, JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, set out from Dothan, Alabama, to attend a party held in JB's honor for her birthday. By 10:30pm, though, the girls were hopelessly lost. After making two sets of phone calls to Tracie's mother from two separate gas stations, the last one being at 11:30 pm, the girls decided to give up on the party. They asked a woman at the gas station for directions back to route 231 and headed home. But they never made it. JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were...
2023-01-02
26 min
True Crime in the 50
Bonus Episode: American Samoa's Fugitive from Justice
David Davis was a husband, a father, a homeowner in Michigan and a farmer. He was also a cheater, a swindler and a murderer. After killing his wife, Shannon Davis, in July of 1980, and making it look like a horse riding accident, he went about his life until the feds caught on to him. But that was 7 years later. By 1987, David Davis had fled to California, Alaska and finally to the islands of American Samoa, where he married again and assumed a completely new life. But his past would catch up to him, and he would finally be convicted as...
2022-12-12
37 min
True Crime in the 50
Wyoming: The Disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel
Amy Wroe Bechtel was a really good runner. She had beat the 3000 meter dash record at her college, the University of Wyoming, and had participated in the Boston Marathon. At 24 years old, she had just settled down and bought a house in Lander, Wyoming, with her husband of one year, Steve Bechtel. But on July 24th, 1997, after Amy ran some errands and set out for her daily run in the Shoshone National Park Mountains, she simply disappeared. When she didn't return to the house by about 10 pm, Steve called the authorities and a search for Amy ensued. More than 25...
2022-11-28
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Wisconsin: The Slenderman Sacrifice
When 9-year-old Morgan Geyser saw Peyton "Bella" Leutner drawing pictures of kitties in her notebook at Horning Middle School in Wakesha, Wisconsin, she knew they would be fast friends. The girls were inseparable and stayed best friends, even through Morgan's struggles with her undiagnosed childhood-onset schizophrenia. That is, until another girl, Anissa Weier, came along. Anissa lived in the same apartment complex as Morgan, and the two quickly became best friends. Bella hated Anissa.One day, Anissa introduced Morgan to Creepypasta.com, a website for creative writing where users would post their own stories, most with horror or supernatural...
2022-11-14
44 min
True Crime in the 50
West Virginia: The Unsolved Cases of Leah Hickman and Melanie Metheny
December 15th, 2007 started out like any other day for Leah Hickman, a junior at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She went shopping for Christmas presents with her sister, Jessica, talked on the phone with a friend and made a stop at the nearby McDonald's. She then set about doing her laundry and packing to go home for break, and was never heard from again after about 6 pm. Her body was found in a crawlspace in the basement of her apartment building one week later. One year before, in July of 2006, a mother of three named Melanie Metheny dropped...
2022-10-31
41 min
True Crime in the 50
Washington: The Bellevue Triple Murders and The Mr. Big Technique
At 2:01 a.m. on July 13th, 1994, a call came in to 911 from the upscale Somerset neighborhood area in Bellevue, Washington. The caller was 19-year-old Sebastian Burns, a Canadian native, who had been staying with his friend, Atif Rafay, as well as his parents, Dr. Tariq and Sultana, and his special needs sister, Basma Rafay for 5 days. Sebastian was calling to say that he and Atif had come home from a night out to find all three Rafay's had been brutally murdered; bludgeoned to death with a baseball bats.The boys were the likely suspects, but were not arrested. Soon...
2022-10-17
47 min
True Crime in the 50
Virginia: The Mysterious Death of Sean Daugherty
In April of this year, in Yorktown, Virginia, a 12-year-old boy named Sean Daugherty got off the bus and walked home after school. Excited to find out he would be responsible for watching his 2-year-old brother for a few hours until his older sister got home from school, he finished his homework, made his favorite snack and went about doing his chores before he set his brother up on the iPad and started to play video games with friends. Sean never ate his favorite snack, never finished his chores, never set up his brother on the iPad and never logged...
2022-10-03
39 min
True Crime in the 50
The U.S. Virgin Islands: The Billionaire Rapist
Sarah Ransome had just moved to New York City to pursue her dream of a career in fashion. One night, while out at a club, she met a woman named Natalya Malashev who then introduced her to a very wealthy man named Jeffrey Epstein. After one date at the movies in Times Square, Jeffrey Epstein invited Sarah to fly on his plane to his private island that he owned in the Caribbean for a girls trip. Little Saint James had a helipad, 2 swimming pools, guest villas, 3 private beaches, a gym and a tiki hut. Sarah was excited, but as soon...
2022-09-26
27 min
True Crime in the 50
Vermont's Murderous Couple
St. Johnsbury was a quiet, small Vermont town with little to no crime. Until the night of March 25, 2012 when a 31-year-old single mother of a young son disappeared with her car running on the side of the road. Police found Melissa Jenkins' dead body the next day, floating in a river. She had been strangled. Who would have wanted the beloved teacher and coach dead?Allen and Patricia Prue. The couple lived in St. Johnsbury and ran a snowplowing business. They also experimented sexually with other women and Melissa Jenkins was a client of theirs. Allen had a crush...
2022-09-19
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Utah's Fake Online Sugar Daddy Psychopath
In the early morning hours of Monday, June 17th 2019, a flight coming from Los Angeles' LAX airport touched down in Salt Lake City, Utah. On that flight was a 23-year-old girl named Mackenzie Lueck, who was returning from attending her grandmother's funeral. Mackenzie, retrieved her luggage from baggage claim and then got into a Lyft ride share car. After texting on her phone for awhile, Mackenzie turned off the device when she was dropped off at desolated and almost deserted Hatch Park just North of Salt Lake City. Then, Mackenzie Lueck disappeared.But she had been met at the park...
2022-09-05
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Brenda Delgado: Texas' Most Wanted Killer
On September 2nd, 2015, two young men who were hanging out at the upscale apartment complex, Gables Park 17 in the Uptown area of Dallas, Texas, heard a scream and a gunshot. Following the sounds, they made their way to the first floor of the parking garage, where they found a gruesome sight. A woman was lying in a pool of blood, with her car door wide open, a magazine clip lying beside her, and her purse stolen. The woman was Kendra Hatcher, 35, a well-respected pediatric dentist in the area, who had been excited to go on a trip to Cancun the n...
2022-08-22
31 min
True Crime in the 50
Tennessee: The Zoo Man
In October of 1992, a hunter in a remote area of Knoxville, Tennessee, came across a disturbing sight. He saw the body of a bruised and beaten woman under a dirty mattress and called police. The woman, whose name was Patricia Anderson, had been a local sex worker. Pretty soon, three more female corpses were found in the same wooded area, two of whom were also in the sex trade. The police immediately thought that the murders were the work of a serial killer.Which led them to Thomas Dee Huskey, a known john who had had many complaints from the...
2022-08-08
32 min
True Crime in the 50
South Dakota's Deranged Doctor of Death
Michael Swango, born in Quincy, Illinois in 1968, was brilliant. So much so, that he chose to become a doctor of medicine. While most doctors choose the profession because they want to help people, and use their skills for good, Michael Swango chose it for evil. From a young age, he was a narcissist and a sociopath, who was obsessed with car crashes. He made himself a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings of horrendous tragedies and death. He then worked his way through medical school and became an EMT. But once Michael Swango started out on his professional journey, something was n...
2022-07-25
43 min
True Crime in the 50
South Carolina Serial Killer: Todd Kohlhepp
On November 3rd, 2016, a woman by the name of Kala Brown was found chained inside of a shipping container that sat on the sprawling 95-acre property of a man named Todd Kohlhepp in rural Moore, South Carolina. She had been held against her will for 65 days. Todd Kohlhepp was a 45-year-old single man and a successful realtor who owned his own realty company. He was also an ex-con, a rapist and a serial killer.Once in custody after rescuing Kala Brown, police began to question Todd Kohlhepp, who began confessing to multiple murders, with his criminal activity beginning in 1986 in...
2022-07-11
44 min
True Crime in the 50
Rhode Island: The Little Girl Murders of 1988
In 1988 in Rhode Island, two little girls went missing. They were 10-year-old Christine Cole from Pawtucket and 7-year-old Michelle Norris from Central Falls. Both were found days later, both had been murdered. Michelle Norris had been sexually assaulted. Both cases went cold far too soon.But the family members and friends have never given up hope. Christine Cole's case was reopened in 2018 and an arrest was made...but things were not quite what they seemed. Michelle Norris' case was not so open-and-shut, either. Investigators continue to follow tips and clues, leading them toward complete strangers, the stepfather of Michelle's best...
2022-06-27
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Puerto Rico: La Viuda Negra (The Black Widow)
She was a gorgeous Puerto Rican beauty queen. He was a wealthy Canadian businessman. From the outside, their marriage looked perfect. But Aurea Vazque-Rijos and Adam Anhang were far from it. Aurea had married Adam for his money and everyone knew it. She also faked a pregnancy and Adam was filing for divorce. But Aurea was not letting him off that easily. In late September of 2005, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Adam was brutally attacked and murdered by a masked man. And while a man was put in prison for the murder, everyone was sure that it had been...
2022-06-20
30 min
True Crime in the 50
Pennsylvania: Craigslist's Killer Couple
On the morning of November 12th, 2013, in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a woman by the name of Brittany Settler was reaching into her refrigerator to get some cream for her coffee. Outside the window of her kitchen, she saw a man lying prostrate on the ground. Upon further inspection, she realized the man was dead and called police. The man was 42-year-old Troy LaFerrera, the victim of a deadly homicide. The perpetrators of that homicide were a married couple, Elytte and Miranda Barbour, only 21 and 19, respectively. They had found Mr. LaFerrera on Craigslist, the popular online forum, when he had answered an a...
2022-06-13
35 min
True Crime in the 50
Oregon's Family Annihilators: Christian Longo and Diane Downs
On December 21st, 2001, a man by the name of Aubrey Von Mader was smoking a cigarette in his mother's backyard in West Central Oregon. As he went to toss the butt into Alsea Bay, he saw the body of a child floating along. The boy was Zachery Longo, age 4, and in the next few days, the bodies of two of his siblings and his mother would be found also floating in the bay water. But where was the patriarch of the family, con man Christian Longo? He was a fugitive in Mexico, running from the law after killing his wife...
2022-05-30
55 min
True Crime in the 50
Oklahoma: Arson, Murder and the Alleged Kidnappings of Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible
In the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, on a remote stretch of plains in Welch, Oklahoma, a couple got up early for work. As they headed out, they saw one of their neighbors' trailers on fire. With the help of other neighbors, the police and fire department were called. After the fire was extinguished, volunteer firemen found remains of a body so badly burned, they could barely tell if it was female or male. It turned out to be the body of Kathy Freeman, a mother and wife of Danny Freeman, whose corpse was also found a day later. But...
2022-05-16
40 min
True Crime in the 50
Ohio Bonus Episode: The Murders of Granville, Ohio
Granville, Ohio is a tiny town in Central Ohio, about 25 miles East of Columbus. Although it may seem quaint and sleepy, removed from the dangers of the big cities such as Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dayton, it has a dark past. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Granville, Ohio was home to a series of murders, including those perpetrated by the infamous .22 Caliber Killers; Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon, brothers and serial killers who robbed and murdered 10 people all over the state. We will also hear from longtime Granville residents Chip and Sally Gordon. Show Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga...
2022-05-09
45 min
True Crime in the 50
Ohio: The Many Trials of Ryan Widmer
Ryan and Sarah Widmer were twenty-something newlyweds living in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Ryan worked as a sports marketer for the Warren County Convention and Visitor's Bureau and cheered for the Red Sox and the Bengals; Sarah loved her work as a dental hygienist. Until one Monday night in August of 2008, Sarah wasn't feeling well. She had been plagued by sleep issues and migraines for years. She talked on the phone with her best friend, and, at around 10 pm, told Ryan she was going up to take a bath.Half an hour later, Ryan Widmer found his young bride dead...
2022-05-02
33 min
True Crime in the 50
North Dakota Cold Cases No More: The Solved Killings of Kathy Bonderson and Anita Knutson
Wife and mother of two, Kathy Bonderson's body was found in a burning car, well past midnight, on October 25th, 1987, in New Rockford, North Dakota. 18-year-old Minot University college student, Anita Knutson, was found stabbed to death in her off-campus apartment in June of 2007. Both murders were investigated, and both ended up as cold cases in North Dakota. Until the state's two-person Cold Case Unit was started in 2005. Investigators started to dig into the suspicious death of Kathy Bonderson first, taking the state's Police Department on a wild ride that culminated in the accusations of a greedy, cheating husband, a s...
2022-04-18
28 min
True Crime in the 50
North Carolina's Maniacal Murderer: Michelle Theer
From the outside looking in, Frank Martin "Marty" Theer and his wife, Michelle Theer, were the perfect couple, married for 10 years. Marty was an air force pilot stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Michelle was a smart and successful psychologist. The couple had no children, but plenty of friends, co-workers and...lovers. Michelle, at least. She had a penchant for posting ads online in order to look for paramours with whom to cheat on her husband.One such man she found was another army sergeant by the name of John Diamond. John was handsome, exciting and was...
2022-04-04
37 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 27-29
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-04-01
35 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 25-26
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
47 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 7-9
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
40 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 1-3
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
51 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 4-6
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
44 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 10-11
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
33 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 12-13
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
50 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 14-15
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
35 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 16-17
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
27 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 18-20
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
37 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 21-22
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
43 min
Goodbye, Nicole
Chapters 23-24
Freedom is a 28-year-old girl who grew up near the Hualapai Native American reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. She works as a waitress at the nearby truck stop diner. Ryan is the former skiing prodigy who became a Federal Marshal in Washington, D.C. after his Olympic dreams were dashed when he broke his leg. Martin is the Investment Banker who made millions by shorting stock in Worlds of Wonder, the toy company responsible for the wildly popular Teddy Ruxpin doll in the 1980s. Jessica is Martin's bitter and jaded daughter who grew up being home-schooled by her parents in...
2022-03-31
40 min
True Crime in the 50
Murder in Manhattan: New York's Patricidal Thomas Gilbert Jr.
Thomas Gilbert Jr. was born into extravagant wealth, and grew up in the Hamptons and on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side. He attended elite schools such as The Buckley School, Deerfield Academy and Princeton University. Once he graduated college, he took off for years to surf in exotic locations like Brazil, Hawaii and South America, and his parents footed the bill. When he returned to New York, he ran in high-end social circles, dated relatives of famous actors, and received a hefty weekly allowance from his parents, who also paid his rent in upscale apartments. During this time, Gilbert never...
2022-03-21
40 min
True Crime in the 50
New Mexico's Crazy True Crime Cult Culture
Perhaps not surprisingly, The Great State of New Mexico has been home to a good number of cults over the years. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a cult as "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object," and, as "a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister." Well, two such New Mexico cults definitely fit the bill: They are: The Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps and The Lord Our Righteousness Church.The Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps started in California, then moved to Oregon before...
2022-03-07
45 min
True Crime in the 50
New Jersey Bonus Content: The Mysterious Death of Jeannette DePalma
16-year-old Jeannette DePalma disappeared from her Springfield Township, New Jersey home on August 7th, 1972, while on her way to visit a friend in a nearby city. Police would find her body three weeks later, on top of the Devil's Teeth cliff, surrounded by what looked like wooden crosses, pentagram shapes and other satanic cult-like ritual materials. Jeannette's murder remains unsolved, 50 years later, and many wonder if devil worship may have had something to do with her murder...Show Notes:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/death-on-the-devils-teeth-jesse-pollack/1121763995
2022-02-28
14 min
True Crime in the 50
The New Jersey Devil Worship Murders
You may have heard of the New Jersey Devil? Also called the Leeds Devil, it is a flying, screaming, biped creature with cloven hooves, a horse or goat head, leathery wings and a forked tail, that is said to inhabit the remote woods of Pine Barrens, New Jersey. While some remain skeptical of it, others from New Jersey believe the Devil himself exists and inhabits certain residents of the state, making them torture and kill others in ritualistic and sadistic ways...Two such residents of the state were 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan Jr. and 46-year-old John List. Tommy killed his own...
2022-02-21
43 min
True Crime in the 50
New Hampshire Bonus Content
We'll hear from Pia, host of Crimes From the East True Crime Podcast, and her account of how the murder of Lizzi Marriott rocked her sleepy little New Hampshire town. We'll also hear her report of how she found herself in too-close proximity with killer Seth Mazzaglia, not once...but twice. Show Notes: Thanks so much to Pia from Crimes From the East for her input and for suggesting this New Hampshire True Crime Case! Please check out her awesome Podcast about twisted, bizarre, infamous and little-known criminal and mysterious cases from India and Southeast Asia on Spotify, Apple, or whe...
2022-02-14
08 min
True Crime in the 50
Seth Mazzaglia: New Hampshire's Sexually Depraved Killer
When 17-year-old Kat McDonough met 28-year-old Seth Mazzaglia, they were both performing in a play at the local community theater in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Not long after, the two would begin a secret and illicit romance that only they understood. Pretty soon, Kat moved in with Seth and their sexual escapades escalated to kinky role play endeavors and risky BDSM practices, as Kat fell more and more under his commanding spell. At the urging of Seth, Kat was tasked with finding a third woman to join them to complete his perverse sexual fantasies. Kat suggested an outgoing, friendly and bisexual...
2022-02-07
49 min
True Crime in the 50
Nevada: The Kidnapping of Kevyn Wynn
Steve Wynn is unarguably one of Las Vegas, Nevada's most famous people. A hotel magnate and real estate developer, Wynn was responsible for some of the strip's most exciting properties, such as the The Mirage, Treasure Island, Encore, and, of course, The Wynn Hotel and Casino. But Wynn's life wasn't always so glamorous...in July of 1993, Steve Wynn's 26-year-old daughter, Kevyn, was kidnapped from her swanky condominium in the Spanish Trails development. The three kidnappers then led Steve Wynn on a wild goose chase through his own casino, convenience store parking lots, and, ultimately, to McCarran International Airport, all the...
2022-01-24
42 min
True Crime in the 50
Nebraska's Nefarious Bloodline: The Levering Family and Nikko Jenkins
You've heard of organized crime families, those descendants through the years who keep it in the lineage and commit similar acts of terror...whether that be kidnapping, theft, violence or murder. But you have probably never heard of the Leverings, Nebraska's own un-organized crime family. The patriarch, Levi Levering, was an upstanding Native American Tribal chief whose subsequent offspring produced some less-than-savory characters. Down the bloodline they went, with the crimes getting more horrific and more and more prevalent. Until the current generation, when Levi's great-great-grandson, Nikko Jenkins, with the help of his mother, sister, cousin and uncle, committed multiple...
2022-01-10
39 min
True Crime in the 50
The True Crime Epidemic of Montana's Indigenous Women
The numbers are staggering: Since 2016, over 6,800 Indigenous Women have gone missing in the United States. These same women are 10 times more likely to be victims of abuse, rape or murder compared to any other race or ethnicity. And Native American Women are a tremendous 40% of the country's sex-trafficked victims. In Montana alone, Indigenous women make up 6.7% of the population, but 26% of its missing people. This is the story of four of those women: women who were targeted, tortured, drugged, taken against their will, missing, left for dead and murdered. They are Henny Scott, Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, Selena Not Afraid a...
2021-12-27
41 min
True Crime in the 50
Missouri: Homicidal Pamela Hupp
Around 9:30 pm, on December 27th, 2011, just off Highway H on a dead-end drive in Troy, Missouri, a man named Russ Faria came home from a game night with friends to find his wife, Betsy Faria, stabbed to death. Initially, Russ thought that Betsy had killed herself, as he could not see the extent of her injuries (she was stabbed 55 times,) and she was suffering from Stage 4 cancer and had attempted to do so twice before. But then, Betsy's death was ruled a homicide and Russ was the prime suspect. While Russ sat behind bars, another character would emerge...a woman...
2021-12-13
46 min
True Crime in the 50
Mississippi Mystery: Who Killed Jessica Chambers?
During the evening of December 6th, 2014, one dozen volunteer firefighters responded to a call about a car fire in the tiny town of Courtland, Mississippi, population 512. When they arrived at the scene, they found not only a car on fire, but a person, as well. 19-year-old Jessica Chambers, a bubbly, sweet, former High School cheerleader and softball player had become engulfed in flames after being doused with gasoline and deliberately set on fire. She was flown to a hospital in Memphis, where she later died from her injuries. The police set about tracking down her killer, but it would be...
2021-11-29
40 min
True Crime in the 50
Minnesota Monster Daniel Heinrich and the Kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling
On the night of October 22nd, 1989, three boys biked to a nearby convenience store to rent the movie Major League in the town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The boys were Jacob Wetterling, 11, his little brother Trevor, 10 and a friend, Aaron Larson, also 11. Major League was rented out so they grabbed The Naked Gun instead and stocked up on candy. But as they were biking home, the unthinkable happened. The boys were stopped by a masked gunmen who made them lie on the ground and recite their ages before letting Aaron and Trevor go. He ordered Jacob...
2021-11-15
48 min
True Crime in the 50
Michigan's Millionaire Murderer: Bob Bashara
On January 24, 2012, the body of Jane Bashara, a 56-year-old resident of ritzy Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, was found dead in the backseat of her Mercedes SUV in a seedy area of Detroit. The police first went to interview her husband, Bob Bashara, who came from an extremely prominent Lebanese family in the area. Bob denied anything to do with his wife's murder. Eventually, the finger was pointed at a man named Joe Gentz, a developmentally disabled handyman who worked for Bob. But as the police continued to investigate the case, they would discover that Bob's squeaky clean Rotary Club life...
2021-11-01
38 min
True Crime in the 50
Massachusetts: Harvard's Coed Killer, Sinedu Tadesse
In the Spring of 1995, two young women were finishing their junior year at the prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The girls were Sinedu Tadesse and Trang Ho, roommates, study buddies and, by all accounts, friends, and had been for the past two years. Even though Sinedu was a transplant from Ethiopia and Trang an immigrant from Vietnam, the women had many similarities. Both were gentle-mannered, hardworking, serious, 20-year-old junior premed Biology majors and both were incredibly brilliant. But what set Sinedu apart from Trang was the unfortunate fact that she suffered from significant mental issues, ones that, when left...
2021-10-18
41 min
True Crime in the 50
Maryland: The Quadruple Mansion Murders
On the afternoon of May 14th, 2015, a wallpaper installer named Donald Spence had just finished a job in an upscale neighborhood of Washington D.C. and was driving home, when he saw smoke pouring out of the upstairs windows of a high-end mansion. He ran up to knock on the door, fearing the residents were still inside, but all he could hear were dogs barking. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found four dead bodies: those of the house's owners, D.C. power couple Savvas and Amy Savopolous, their 10-year-old son Philip, and the housekeeper, Vera Figueroa. But what...
2021-10-04
44 min
True Crime in the 50
Maine Bonus Content: What the Psychic Knew
I take a closer look at psychics who help solve crime cases...and psychics who don't. I also discuss the famous psychic, Vicki Monroe, and her involvement with the Amy St. Laurent case out of Portland, Maine.
2021-09-23
11 min
True Crime in the 50
Maine: The Many Male Suspects in the Slaying of Amy St. Laurent
In October 2001, a 25-year-old woman by the name of Amy St. Laurent, went out on the town late at night in the Old Port area of Portland, Maine. She was accompanied by a new friend, a man by the name of Eric Rubright, someone she had just met three weeks prior in Florida. As the night progressed, Amy met two more men playing pool, lost Eric, and accompanied the two men, whose names were Jeffrey "Russ" Gorman and Kush Sharma, back to their apartment, where a birthday party was being held for Sharma's roommate, Jason Cook. But then, in the...
2021-09-20
37 min
True Crime in the 50
Lethal Love in Louisiana: The Deadly Infatuation of Zack Bowen and Addie Hall
In the month before Hurricane Katrina, two young people fell in love in New Orleans, Louisiana. They were Zack Bowen and Addie Hall. He was a 28-year-old Iraq war veteran, an already-divorced father of two. She was a hippie, a free spirit and a dreamer. They rode out the storm together, a famous picture of the two of them partying amongst the rubble, even showing up in Playboy and other national publications. But, in the aftermath of Katrina, things between the couple deteriorated and their downward spiral into drugs and alcohol, along with the seedy underbelly of the city, would...
2021-09-06
36 min
True Crime in the 50
The Could-Be-Connected Crimes of Bardstown, Kentucky
In the mid 2010s, there were multiple murders and disappearances in the small, rural town of Bardstown, Kentucky. First, Jason Ellis, a decorated 7-year veteran of the Bardstown Police Department was gunned down on the Bluegrass Parkway in the middle of the night...and that was no accident. Next, a mother and daughter were brutally slain in their home for no apparent reason. Third, Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old Bardstown native, daughter, girlfriend and mother of five, inexplicably disappeared. And, finally, Tommy Ballard, Crystal's own father who had been leading her search party for the better part of a year, was...
2021-08-23
43 min
True Crime in the 50
Kansas: The Internet's First Serial Killer
John Robinson was known around Kansas City as a driven entrepreneur, Boy Scout leader, basketball coach and Sunday School teacher. He was also known to be a member of a popular charitable organization and started a few businesses in which friends and neighbors invested. But, this was all a facade. What John Robinson really was, was a scam artist, fraudster, kidnapper, rapist and serial killer. He was a member of a secret sadomasochistic cult, kidnapped an infant and killed multiple women. He was known as the internet's first serial killer because he used his knowledge and expertise of the internet...
2021-08-09
35 min
True Crime in the 50
Eddie Tipton and Iowa's Huge Hot Lotto Scam
In December 2010, a few days after Christmas, someone won $16.5 million dollars in Iowa's Hot Lotto drawing. The winning ticket was purchased a few days before at a QuikTrip convenience store off of I-80 in North Des Moines. According to video surveillance footage, the mystery man buying the ticket was a heavyset middle-aged white man who wore casual clothing, and a hood pulled over a baseball cap. One whole year went by until someone attempted to claim the winnings but it wasn't the man in the video. And that was because, the man in the video, the Hot Lotto's lucky winner, w...
2021-07-26
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Indiana Bonus Episode: Fraudster Marcus Schrenker
Marcus Schrenker, a once well-established and respected financial advisor in Indianapolis, Indiana, was in trouble. Big trouble. In late 2008, he and his businesses were being sued, the FBI was investigating him and his wife was divorcing him after catching him cheating on her. So in January of 2009, Marcus Schrenker chose not to right his wrongs, but instead to fake his own death by jumping out of a plane, attempting to kill himself by slitting his wrists and sending Air Force pilots, the Coast Guard and police through three different states, on one of the craziest and most disastrous manhunts of...
2021-07-19
21 min
True Crime in the 50
Indiana's Charity Payne: Villain or Victim?
On September 14, 2000, the Lakeville, Indiana police received a call from a secretary at the Arndt Construction company saying that three of their construction workers had been found dead in a barn on the property of a mansion owned by the Sears family. They had been killed by four men from South Bend, Indiana, who had come to rob the house and had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. But how did these four murderers from out of town know to rob the residence when allegedly, no one was home? That was because Charity Payne, an unassuming, 18...
2021-07-12
26 min
True Crime in the 50
Illinois' Suburban Cop/Multiple Wife Murderer
Drew Peterson was always the life of the party. He was charming, outgoing, gregarious and a practical jokester. Once a decorated detective in the town of Bolingbrook, Illinois, he was a member of the elite Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad (MANS) and had received The Police Officer of the Year Award because of his dedicated service. But beneath the surface, Drew was hiding a very dark and deceitful personality. When his third ex-wife was found dead in the bathtub, many were willing to write it off as a tragic accident. But when his fourth wife went missing, inexplicably, in October of 2007...
2021-06-28
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Illinois Bonus Episode: The Bizarre Vanishing of a Hometown Boy
Bryce Laspisa, formerly of Naperville, Illinois, was just starting his sophomore year of college in California. But, he had been drinking heavily at the start of the school year and experimenting with the drug Vyvanse. The combination of these may have led to a big change in his personality. After his second day of classes, Bryce broke up with his girlfriend, began giving away his few worldly possessions and then suddenly set off on a road trip to his parents' house. Unfortunately, he would never reach their residence and what transpired on his journey remains, to this day, one of...
2021-06-21
24 min
True Crime in the 50
Idaho: The Girl Who Was Kidnapped Twice
In the 1970s, in Pocatello, Idaho, a close-knit and pious family, the Brobergs, befriended another church-going family, the Berchtolds, whose patriarch, Robert, was a man who came to be known to everyone as simply "B." The Brobergs and the Berchtolds spent a lot of their time with one another; their kids would play together and there were holidays and vacations. Until many noticed that B was taking an unhealthy interest in the Broberg's oldest daughter, Jan, who was only 11 years old at the time. In the fall of 1974, B suggested taking Jan horseback riding after school, and this seemingly innocuous...
2021-06-14
36 min
True Crime in the 50
Hawaii's Missing Women: Lisa Au and Diane Suzuki
In the early-80s, two women went missing from the beautiful, serene and peaceful state of Hawaii. Lisa Au was last seen alive driving home in the pouring rain after an argument with her boyfriend. Her naked body was found 10 days later in a shallow ravine. Diane Suzuki was last seen in the Dance Academy where she worked as an instructor. She finished her class at 3 pm and by 3:15 she was gone, never to be seen again. For the next decade, police tried to track down Lisa's killer and Diane herself, but the introduction of Hawaii's first serial killer in...
2021-05-31
35 min
True Crime in the 50
Georgia Gone: The Strange Disappearance of a Small-Town Beauty Queen
Tara Grinstead, a High School teacher, cheerleading coach, beauty pageant winner, and all-around sweet Georgia girl, was well-loved and respected in the small town of Ocilla. On Saturday, October 22nd, 2005, Tara attended the Miss Sweet Potato Beauty Queen Pageant as a coach and mentor and then went to a barbecue dinner party at the home of her boss. Around 11 pm, she said goodbye to her friends at the party, drove the four blocks home to try to get some sleep, and was never seen again. What followed was over a decade's worth of twists, turns and a long list of...
2021-05-17
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Florida Fraud: Miss Cleo and The Psychic Readers Network
"Call Me Now For Ya Free Readin'!" was the tagline that defined the late '90s. Whether you loved them or hated them, The Psychic Readers Network and it's magical, mystical and manufactured Miss Cleo were the King and Queen of late-night TV advertising. By the time the year 2000 rolled around, the Psychic Readers Network had made $1 billion off of unsuspecting callers. But, the company and Miss Cleo herself were not at all what they seemed. The owners and operators of the Psychic Readers Network engaged in aggressive, deceptive and manipulative marketing tactics, and the crooked and elusive Miss Cleo...
2021-05-03
34 min
True Crime in the 50
Delaware: Thomas Capano - Lawyer, Adulterer, Murderer...
Thomas Capano was a wealthy Delaware deputy attorney general and very politically connected. He had a rich father, close-knit brothers, a wife and four teenage daughters...and multiple mistresses on the side. But when one of those mistresses, 30-year-old Anne Fahey, went missing one summer evening, all eyes turned to her secret, older boyfriend. What would unravel next would be the unveiling of someone who was not what he seemed. An allegedly upstanding attorney and family man, who, deep down, was a jealous, deranged killer. Show Notes:https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Wind-Thomas-Capano-Murder/dp/0060393149
2021-04-19
39 min
True Crime in the 50
Connecticut: The Ivy League Science Lab Murder
Annie Le was a brilliant and beautiful doctoral student conducting scientific research at Yale University. She was also a bride-to-be with a gorgeous wedding coming up in five days. So when she completely disappeared from work one morning, everyone was shocked and concerned. It would take six days before her decomposing body would be discovered, and even longer to figure out who would commit such a heinous crime against a lovely and promising young woman. Show notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11866590/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-at-yale-stella-sands/1100353095
2021-04-05
34 min
True Crime in the 50
The Devil is a Dad in Colorado
Nicole Atkinson was worried. She hadn't heard from her best friend Shanann, for hours and she typically was in constant contact with her. She knew Shanann had been fighting with her husband and had been in a depressed mood during their most recent business trip. Shanann was 15 weeks pregnant with the couple's third child but she didn't believe her husband, Chris Watts, wanted the little boy. Little did she know, that not only did he not want the child, but he had been carrying on an affair with a co-worker and had murderous plans in mind. Colorado's True Crime story...
2021-03-22
43 min
True Crime in the 50
California's Conniving Catfishing Killer
Chris Smith was a laid-back millionaire surfer dude living the high life in Orange County, California. He had a thriving company, a gorgeous girlfriend and a trustworthy business partner, Ed Shin. Or so he thought. When Chris suddenly and unexpectedly takes off on a sailing trip around the world to the Galapagos Islands, Egypt, Mumbai and Costa Rica, his family isn't concerned. At first. Until they start receiving dozens of strange emails. What comes next is a story of murder and money and greed. Tremendous, life-altering, transformative greed, deception and desperation. Podcorn is the sponsor for this podcast. Check out ww...
2021-03-08
46 min
True Crime in the 50
Guilty or Innocent in Arkansas: The Twisted Tale of the West Memphis Three
On May 5, 1993, in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, three little boys were murdered. Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers were found hog-tied and beaten to death in the Robin Hood Woods on the outskirts of town. The residents and police were outraged and terrified and would do anything to bring the killers to justice. So much so, that they ended up arresting and convicting three teenage boys for the heinous crimes. The only problem was, the boys, who came to be known as The West Memphis Three, were most likely innocent.Podcorn is the sponsor for this...
2021-02-22
38 min
True Crime in the 50
Arizona: The Infamous Mormon Murderess
Travis Alexander was an ambitious, outgoing and extremely successful young man who had the world at his feet. He had a nice home in Mesa, Arizona, tons of friends and love interests and was extremely involved in the Mormon church. Everything in his life was going great...until he met Jodi Arias. After entering into a romantic relationship with Jodi, Travis would become embroiled in a dangerous game of sex, obsession and seduction. A deadly game that would ultimately lead to his brutal murder. *Correction: the first McDonald's drive-thru was in Sierra Vista, Arizona. It was not the first in t...
2021-02-08
44 min
True Crime in the 50
Alaska Serial Killer: Israel Keyes
You know Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy but you've probably never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the more terrifying serial killers of all time. In the last decade, Keyes admitted to kidnapping, raping and murdering numerous victims across multiple states...and getting away with it. Until he went after one young woman, Samantha Koenig, in Anchorage, Alaska, who would ultimately be his undoing.
2021-01-25
38 min
True Crime in the 50
The Alabama Twins Murder-For-Hire Case
For our first case, we delve into the Jack Wilson murder. Jack Wilson was a well-known ophthalmologist in Huntsville, Alabama. In May of 1992, he and his wife, Betty, a socialite, were getting ready to go on a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico over the Memorial Day weekend to rekindle their romance. But Jack and Betty would never make that vacation. On May 22nd, Jack Wilson was found in the hallway of his upstairs bedroom, brutally beaten and stabbed to death. What followed after his death, was a murder investigation that involved a deranged psychopath, twists, turns, lies, blackmail and...
2021-01-10
41 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Part 6: Solving the Murders
Upon discovering who the murderers are, Mackenzie realizes Nick may be in trouble. As she and Cameron set off to right the wrongs, bring the murderers to justice and save Nick, they realize they are in the fight of their lives.
2020-12-22
18 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Episode 5: Sleuthing Techniques
After the second gruesome murder, Mackenzie and Nick decompress by getting drunk at the Reindeer Pub and Nick sees Mac's true colors. The next day, they continue their sleuthing by going to talk to the town accountant, Tom DeWitt, to see if he may have actually carried out his threats against Denver Sebastian.
2020-12-15
26 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Episode 4: Detective Work
After Denver Sebastian's murder, Mackenzie and Nick set off to find the killer. First, they interview Rick Mathison, a known enemy of the late mayor. But little do they know, this is just the beginning of their Christmas murder adventure...
2020-12-08
16 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Episode 3: The Murder
Mackenzie, Cameron, Nick and the town of Evergreen are shocked when their own mayor, Denver Sebastian, is brutally murdered. Production on the movie has been shut down, so Mackenzie must help Nick solve the baffling case before the Christmas killer strikes again.
2020-12-01
18 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Episode 2: The Dinner
Mackenzie, Cameron and Nick attend the mayor, Denver Sebastian's, dinner party, where they meet his wife, Miranda, and a colorful local accountant, Tom DeWitt. Denver and Tom get into a heated argument regarding Evergreen's forest development and things start to spiral out of control when Tom threatens Denver's life.
2020-11-24
20 min
The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery
Episode 1: Christmas Comes to Evergreen
Mackenzie Monroe is a hardworking, high-powered Hollywood talent agent who HATES Christmas. Much to her dismay, her newest actor client, Cameron Stack, has just gone against her wishes and accepted a role as the architect ex-boyfriend-turned-current-boyfriend in a holiday movie on the Candy Cane channel. After being ordered by her boss to follow him to the tiny town of Evergreen, Ohio for filming, she finds herself in a whirlwind adventure with a menacing cast of characters, a possible love interest, and, ultimately....a real-life murder mystery. George Franklin-Author George Franklin is the author of "Incentives" a hilarious tale about the...
2020-11-17
36 min