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Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 102: Mother's Day Bonus- Top 10 Ways of How Not to Raise a KillerSend us a textSince the very beginning of our podcast, Kori and I have pointed out many mistakes that parents have made with their children or dire situations that young children have been privy to that has led to their sinister actions. So, for Mother’s Day we put together a Top 10 list of How Not to Raise a Killer. Support the showemail- sinistercrimesandcocktails@gmail.comwebsite-https://www.sinistercrimesandcocktailspodcast.com/Facebook Page-https://www.facebook.com/sinistercrimesandcocktailsInstagram Page-https://www.instagram.com/sinistercrimesandcocktails/Cash App-2024-05-1239 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 98: Are Serial Killers Made or BornSend us a textFrom July of 1976 to July of 1977, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, David Berkowitz, better known by his moniker, The Son of Sam, swept panic through the streets and boroughs of New York City with a murder spree that captivated the nation and ignited a media frenzy. Over the course of that year, in three of the city’s boroughs, Berkowitz, using a.44 caliber Bulldog revolver randomly shot New York citizens, leaving six dead and seven wounded. He left handwritten letters at some of the crime scenes, in which he taunted and...2024-04-1542 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 97: The Memory Card KillerSend us a textIn Anchorage, Alaska on February 22, 2024, 53-year-old South African immigrant Brian Steven Smith was convicted in 14 charges including first and second-degree murder, sexual assault, tampering with physical evidence and misconduct involving a corpse for the murders of 52-year-old Veronica Abouchuk and 30-year-old Kathleen Jo Henry. Both women were from small villages in western Alaska and had experienced homelessness and addiction. Smith was connected to the murders in September of 2019, when a stolen phone containing gruesome photos and videos spanning over a five-day period, which included the brutal beating and strangulation of a woman was...2024-04-0837 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 96: The Taco Bell Serial StranglerSend us a textThe most infamous serial killer in the history of North Carolina is that of Henry Lewis Wallace, also known as “The Charolette Strangler or “The Taco Bell Killer. During the early-90’s Wallace murdered nearly a dozen black women, who almost all had one thing in common, they knew him. For several years he remained at large, causing hysteria in the city of Charolette, especially amongst the minority community where a large number of the murders had taken place. A lack of adequate police patrolling in that area of Charlotte and the fact that t...2024-04-0156 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 95: An Easter Tradition filled with Crime StoriesSend us a textFor most of us when we think of Easter, we think of church services, the Easter bunny, dyed eggs, family gatherings, and Easter egg hunts. However, for one country their most common Easter tradition is something altogether more sinister.References:Easter Traditions in Norway - Life in NorwayEaster crime: Norwegian Easter equals brutal murders | The Norwegian phenomenon påskekrim (visitnorway.com)Norway’s Weird 100-Year-Old Easter Tradition Of Crime Fiction (forbes.com)How did crime fiction become a Norwegian Easter tradition? (sciencenorway.no)S...2024-03-3119 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 94: A Deadly British GardenSend us a textA small English community in Cornwall, England would be shaken to its core when in 1952 the battered bodies of a wealthy and well-respected married couple were discovered on Porthpean Beach near St Austell, England. The investigation of the double murder would lead authorities to the couple’s only living son, Miles William Giffard, who was eventually found guilty of murdering his parents and hung to death in 1953. So, what caused Miles Giffard to kill his parents and were their other sinister forces at play?References:Miles Giffard - Alchetron, The Free So...2024-03-2529 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 93: The Long Island Serial KillerSend us a textIn December of 2010, along a remote stretch of sand on the South Shore of Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, a police officer and his dog would discover human remains while searching for a missing woman. Just a few days later, the police would find the remains of three other women. Like the first victim, they were petite, in their 20s and worked as escorts. In the following weeks, six other bodies were discovered, including that of a man and a 2-year-old girl who have never identified. The discovery of the bodies...2024-03-1848 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 92: St. Patty's Day Bonus- A Killer Irish WeddingSend us a textIrish newlyweds Colin Whelan and Mary Gough had been married just six months when on March 1, 2001, Colin called for an ambulance claiming that his wife had fallen down the stairs of their home in Balbriggan Co Dublin and wasn’t breathing. Mary was pronounced dead at the hospital but when her autopsy examination revealed she died of asphyxiation, a murder investigation quickly ensued. Police would soon learn that Colin had been planning his wife’s brutal murder for almost a year. He would be released on bail as he awaited his murder trial but...2024-03-1732 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 91: The Bullseye KillerSend us a textWelsh serial killer John Cooper, a diagnosed psychopath committed two double murders, one in 1985 and the other in 1989 in the Pembrokeshire area of Wales. The murders became known as the "Pembrokeshire Murders" or the "Coastal Murders" with Cooper earning the name the "Bullseye Killer" after his appearance on a game show that would eventually help led to his arrest. Now these were not Cooper's only sinister misdoings, he had a long history of violent crimes that included armed robbery and sexual assault. So, could John Cooper possibly be responsible for other sinister crimes?2024-03-1141 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 90: The Sleeping Bag MurdersSend us a textIn August of 2004, in the small coastal town of Jenner, California 22-year-old Lindsay Cutshall and her fiancé 26-year-old Jason Allen, where found shot to death in their sleeping bags on Fish Head Beach with little evidence being left at the crime scene. The couple’s murder investigation would span over 13 years with countless conspiracy theories spurred before their killer was identified. In 2017, self-proclaimed survivalist Shaun Michael Gallon was arrested for the murder of his brother and in a twist of fate, he would be linked to the murders of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason All...2024-03-0443 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 89: A Sailor's Gene's Gets Him CaughtSend us a textThe first public arrest through genetic genealogy was the April 2018 identification of the suspected "Golden State Killer." Since then, genetic genealogy has helped identify more than three dozen suspects in violent crimes, with one of those being the murder of Pamela Cahanes. In August of 1984, Orlando Navy recruit 25-year-old Pamela Cahanes was found beaten and strangled to death in Sanford, Florida. Almost 40 years later DNA and genetic genealogy would link Thomas Lewis Garner, a former naval classmate of Pamela’s, to her 1984 murder. Garner was arrested and convicted of Pamela’s murder. However, tis...2024-02-2631 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 88: Catching a Sinister Mind with Genetic GenealogySend us a textOn October 4, 1978, two electric company workers found the remains of a young woman near the campus of Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled; at the time police called her injuries "extreme trauma". The young woman was soon identified as 16-year-old Krisann Baxter who had been reported to police as a runaway just a few days earlier. The case soon turned cold, but her clothing and other evidence was preserved despite this being before the era of DNA testing, in hopes that it would one day reveal t...2024-02-1922 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 87: Valetines Day Bonus- A Poisonous Kind of LoveSend us a textJust last month, on January 24, 2024, 37-year-old Sarah Scheffer, a part-time art and design teacher at the Christian Calvary Lutheran High School in Jefferson City, Missouri was charged with the attempted murder of her husband by continuous poisoning. Over a six-week period, Sarah’s husband had grown suspicious of his wife after becoming severely ill from ingesting several meals and beverages made by her. Her husband then set up a hidden camera in their kitchen. After capturing his deadly discovery on surveillance footage, Sarah’s husband turned over his deadly findings to the Jefferson Coun...2024-02-1422 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 86: Did New Hampshire have a Serial KillerSend us a textIn late September of 1981 23-year-old Laura Kempton’s body was discovered in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire apartment by police. Laura had last been seen alive in the early morning hours before her murder, entering her apartment alone after a night out with a friend. Over the next four decades, investigators pursued hundreds of leads and potential suspects, but were unable to identify the perpetrator. That was until 2022, when the Portsmouth Police Department, working in conjunction with the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory, the Maine State Police Forensic Laboratory, the Attorney General's Cold Cas...2024-02-1229 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 85: Catching a Serial Killer with DNASend us a textBetween1986 and 1989 on or near a scenic drive that connects Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown in southeastern Virginia, two double homicides occurred with a third believing to have taken place, but those bodies have never been found. The killings were suspected to be the workings of a serial killer. Sadly, investigators were unable to apprehend the culprit and the slayings now known as the "Colonial Parkway Murders” went cold. Between those years, in the 1987, 20-year-old David Knobling and 14-year-old Robin Edwards were found fatally shot near the south bank of the James River in Is...2024-02-0527 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 84: The Boy in the BoxSend us a text Located in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia at the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Cedarbrook, there is a headstone that reads “America’s Unknown Child.” The child who lies beneath the headstone, is a boy who was found in a cardboard box beaten to death some 65 years ago in 1957. The death of the young boy is one of Philadelphia’s most famous unsolved murders with the case having become known as the “Boy in the Box.” For decades this cold case has baffled Philadelphia police who over the years have pursued thousands of leads in search of the child’s i...2024-01-2932 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 83: Part 3- Paying It Forward with Cold CasesSend us a textThe two cases that we will be diving into today are our last Texas cold cases we will be looking at this month. Both these cases have had more details made public than any other Texas cold case we have covered but have yet to find a resolution for the victims’ families. However, a new theory has emerged for one that does not include foul play, while police have three suspects for the other with no arrest being made so far. References:Details - Unsolved Homicide (texas.gov)Missing Pieces upd...2024-01-2248 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 82: Part 2 of Paying It Forward with Cold CasesSend us a textWe are still paying it forward this month and once again are looking at cold cases in our home state of Texas. Just like before, few details have been released to the public since they are still ongoing investigations. If you have any information regarding the cold cases we cover, please come forward and help give closure to the victims’ families. · If any of you have any information about these unsolved cases you can submit a tip through the Texas Rangers’ Cold Case website http://www.dps.texas.gov/TexasRangers/UnsolvedHomicides/index.htm or co...2024-01-1529 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 81: Paying it Forward with Cold Cases Part 1Send us a textAs part of us paying it forward for the month of January we decided to try to renew interest in some cold cases in our home state of Texas. Since Texas does not have a statute of limitations when it comes to murder, these cold cases are still considered active investigations, with few details pertaining to the crimes and suspects having been released. Our hope is that this coverage will spark a memory or bring someone forward who has information about the crimes or perpetrators. At the end of our episode as well...2024-01-0832 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 80: Paying it forward with SlaycationSend us a textWe have been fortunate to have other podcasts such as Into the Looking Glass, Darkly to help promote our show when we first launched Sinister Crimes and Cocktails. For our New Years Bonus Episode this year, Kori and I wanted to pay it forward by promoting the new podcast Slaycation, that has a truly fascinating twist on true crime podcasts. Slaycation, which will be launched on January 9th, is a gripping and darkly comedic podcast that delves into the chilling world of murders on vacation. Hosted by true crime enthusiast Kim Davis, her...2024-01-0122 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 79: Deadly HallucinationsSend us a textOn July 23, 2016, inside the Ellenville, NY, apartment of 27-year-old Sarra Gilbert a murder in the most horrific fashion occurred. Sarra stabbed her 52-year-old mother, Mari Gilbert more than 200 hundred times and then bludgeoned her head with a fire extinguisher until she was certain her mother was dead. Sarra had a long history of mental illness staring at a young age, with her defense attorney arguing that on the day of the murder, she had been suffering from hallucinations and was hearing voices that told her to kill her mother. The defense would also...2023-12-2533 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 78: Christmas Bonus- A Christmas Eve Filled with CrimesSend us a textRegardless of whether you take part in the Christmas traditions or not, most everyone in the world is familiar with the plump jolly guy dressed in a velvet red suit, fashioned with a big shiny belt buckle and clunky black boots as the face of Christmas. Sorry, Jesus, but it’s kind of true. As part of our Christmas traditions, we sing carols of praise as well as those embedded with Santa himself. One such popular Christmas carol, sung by Americans is Santa Claus is Coming to Town, but have you ever stopped to...2023-12-2422 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 77: The Deadly French HunterSend us a textOn the evening of September 23, 1995, in Sollies-Pont, France, 16-year-old high school student Éric Borel, murdered his entire family with his stepfather’s .22-caliber rifle. Afterwards, he walked several miles to the Village of Cuers, where the next morning he strolled through the streets and continued his shooting spree. Éric took the lives of 13 people, including his family, and injured four more during his deadly rampage. What had caused such a heinous act of violence remains unclear but there was speculation that his mother, who was fanatically religious and extremely controlling, was physically abusing him...2023-12-1826 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 76: Murder was the ONLY WAY OUTSend us a textIn January of 1999, thirteen-year-old Catherine Jones and her twelve-year-old brother Curtis Jones fatally shot their father’s live-in girlfriend, Sonya Speights at their Port St. John, Florida home. On several occasions prior to committing the murder, the young siblings had cried out for help about the sexual abuse they were enduring at the hands of another male relative who was living in the home. But when those cries for help fell on deaf ears, with their father nor his girlfriend doing anything to protect them, Catherine and Curtis turned to extreme measures planning to...2023-12-1137 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 75: One Killer PartySend us a textOn the late summer afternoon of July 16, 2011, 54-year-old Blake Hadley and his wife 47-year-old Mary-Jo Hadley, were bludgeoned to death in their Port St. Lucie, Florida home. Their killer was their 17-year-old troubled son, Tyler Hadley. After murdering his parents, Tyler hid their bodies in the master bedroom, attempted to clean up the evidence and then later that night, threw a ragger of a party at their home. A couple of weeks prior to the double murders, Tyler had allegedly told several of his friends about his disturbing intentions to kill his parents...2023-12-0437 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 74: A Snack of LeftoversSend us a textOn December 15, 2011, in the beautiful seemingly small town of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 35 -year-old Tyree Smith hacked a homeless Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez, to death with an ax in an abandoned apartment building. He then removed part of Gonzalez’s brain and one of his eyes, placing the organs safely in his backpack and walked to a nearby cemetery. While Tyree stood over one of his family members’ graves, he snacked on pieces of brain and the lone eyeball he had brought with him. Since childhood, Tyree had suffered with mental illness and in fact soug...2023-11-2735 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 73: Thanksgiving Day Bonus-Death Row Inmates Last MealsSend us a textAccording to U.S. News & World Report, those delivered with the dreaded verdict of capital punishment are often afforded the right to a final meal of their choosing, and as long as the demands aren't unreasonable, they are generally granted their edible wish. Even the most sinister of serial killers are not denied this luxury. For our Thanksgiving Day Bonus this year we thought it would be fun to give you a tasty little treat of some of the final meals of the death row cases we have covered as well as a c...2023-11-2325 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 72: Killer Meaty EmpanadasSend us a textIn 2012, Brazilian cannibals Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Pires(pie-res), and his mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva were arrested, for the murders of two women and a teenage girl whom they dismembered and ate. Not only did they dine upon their victims but also stuffed the flesh of the females they killed into savory pastries selling them to neighbors and other locals. The sinister three were dubbed as the “cannibals of Garanhaus” (gar-an-house) being named after the region where the murders took place. Jorge was described as the “ringleader” of the t...2023-11-2027 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 71: The Cannibal of BaltimoreSend us a textAmerican serial killer and cannibal Joe Metheny aka “The Cannibal” claimed to have killed up to 10 female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland during the 1990’s. Joe dismembered his victims’ bodies, saved pieces of their meat in his freezer, and discarded the rest of their remains in a nearby river or buried them. The 41-year-old serial killer who had an addiction to drugs and alcohol, admitted to eating the remains of some of his victims, combining the human meat with pork and beef. This meaty recipe wasn't one that he consumed all on his own thou...2023-11-1330 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 70: The Cannibal Boogey ManSend us a textAlbert Fish is known by many monikers such as the “The Vampire of Brooklyn”, “Moon Manic” or “The Grey Man” and is one of America’s most disturbed cannibal serial killers who was obsessed with sadomasochism. Many Americans during the Roaring Twenties spent their time at flashy parties, but Fish who suffered from deadly hallucinations spent his time developing at taste for human flesh. Authorities believed that Fish murdered as many as 10 children, luring them into abandoned homes to kill them and then dine upon their carcass. Although Fish claimed to have killed up to four hun...2023-11-0642 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 69: A Halloween's Toolbox of NightmaresSend us a textLawerence Bittaker and Roy Norris were two American serial killers, who over a 5-month period from June of 1979 to Halloween of that year, killed five teenage girls. The sinister pair used a modified torture van they ghoulishly nicknamed “Murder Mack, to drive along their hunting grounds on the lonely backroads of southern California. Lawerence and Roy hunted for teenage girls to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder, using ordinary tools like ice picks, pliers, and screw drivers as their instruments of torture and death causing them to be notoriously known as the Toolbox Killers. So, wh...2023-10-3145 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 68: The Killer Vampire ClanSend us a textSixteen-year-old American killer Roderrick Justin Ferrell founded a teenage cult in Murray, Kentucky known as the “Vampire Clan”. The cult teens believed they were vampires with Roderrick claiming he was a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago, a character he created for himself after becoming obsessed with a role-playing video game. Roderrick along with three other teenage cult members of the “Vampire Clan” traveled from Kentucky to Florida to pick 15-year-old Heather Wendorf, who wanted to run away from home and join the cult. However, things would turn deadly on the night of November 25, 1996, when Roderric...2023-10-3028 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 67: A Lesbian Vampire's Tale of MurderSend us a textIn October of 1989, in the city of Brisbane, Australia, City Council worker 47 -year -old Edward Baldock was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack on the bank of a river in a suburb of the city. It was one of the most notorious crimes Brisbane has ever seen — and if not for one tiny clue left by the victim himself, it might have gone unsolved. The culprit was 24-year-old Tracey Wigginton, who believed that she was a vampire that needed to feed off human blood to survive. She led a band of three le...2023-10-2336 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 66: A Vampire's Deadly BiteSend us a text Friedrich Haarmann known as Fritz, was a notorious serial killer in Hannover, Germany in the early 1920’s. Working as a police informant, Fritz was able to carry out a killing spree right under the noses of the police, committing sexual assault, , mutilation, dismemberment, and murder of at least twenty-four young male vagrants between 1918 and 1924. He would kill these young males by biting through their throats in a kind of sexual frenzy. These horrific acts earned Fritz the name nicknames the “Vampire of Hannover” and the “Butcher of Hannover”. Rumors swirled around that he woul...2023-10-1638 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 65: The Countess Who Bathed in Virgin BloodSend us a text According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most prolific female serial killer in the history of the world, is the Hungarian Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. In late 16th and early 17th centuries she tortured and killed anywhere between 50 to 650 young women for pure pleasure, and reportedly bathed in their blood to keep herself young and vibrant. These acts earning her the nickname “The Blood Countess” was allegedly one of the inspirations for Bram Stoker’s character Count Dracula. It took 35 years of her reigning terror over the citizens of Hungary before King Matthia...2023-10-0933 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 64: The Real DraculaSend us a textMost people today are familiar with the writer Bram Stoker’s Dracula published in 1897. The story is that of a vampire named Count Dracula who feeds on human blood, hunting his victims and killing them in the dead of night. The book was that of Stoker’s own creation, but he in fact drew inspiration for the bloodthirsty vampire from a real-life man with an even more gruesome taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or better known throughout history as Vlad the Impaler. The true history of Vlad the Impaler is far...2023-10-0230 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 63: The Sinister Yorkshire SchoolmasterSend us a textYork is a walled medieval city in North Yorkshire, England, that was founded by the ancient romans in 71 AD. The city rich with history has quite a bloody one, suffering through the Black Death to the heads of enemies being displayed on spikes at the city’s entrance to being bombed in World War II. Yet, York is embedded with even more sinister secrets and purportedly laced with the most ghost hauntings in all of Europe. Such a ghost haunting is that of the children who were murdered at the York Industrial Ragged Sc...2023-09-2528 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 62: The Quite Contrary Bloody MarySend us a textIn recent years many well-known nursery rhymes have been tied to suspected dark historical origins. Such a nursery rhyme is the English one, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary that is often song by children who are playing. The nursey rhyme’s origins and actual meaning are disputed with many believing it has ties to a religious theme. But others argue that the children’s song is about governorship or even fertility. The name Mary has been used in several humorous nursery rhymes, but in the case of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, some historians believe the...2023-09-1828 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 61: The History of the Cannibalistic FairytaleSend us a textMost fairytales have darker realities or cautionary themes lying underneath their cheerful exteriors. Some of the most famous fairytales are those written by the Grimm brothers, who’s stories are dark and filled with murder, mayhem, premarital sex, child abuse, incest, and wicked mothers. One of their most horrific tales is that of “Hansel and Gretel”, a story which nightmares are made of. The fairytale features famine, child abandonment, attempted cannibalism, enslavement, and murder. The origins of the story are equally — if not more — horrifying.References-Twisting Fairy Tales: The Dark Origin & E...2023-09-1121 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 60: Do You Know the Muffin Man Killer?Send us a textChildren’s literature has always been vital to society, helping young minds understand complex issues. Many literary experts believe that nursery rhymes often contain hidden meanings, references to historical events or were critical of the political and social climate of the day. Most people are familiar with the nursey rhyme: Do You Know the Muffin Man with its lyrics: Do you know the muffin man /The muffin man, the muffin man? /Do you know the muffin man/Who lives on Drury Lane? There are different variations of the nursery rhyme, but they don’t dev...2023-09-0420 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 59: The Death of Tejano Princess SelenaSend us a textTwenty-three-year-old singer Selena Quintanilla Pérez was a Mexican American Tejano superstar on the verge of an even higher level of fame when she was shot and killed on March 31, 1995. She achieved international fame with her band Selena y Los Dinos as well as for her solo career both in Spanish and her crossover into the mainstream English market. At the height of her career in 1994, Selena won a Grammy for Best Mexican American Album, making her the first female Tejano artist to win the award. Selena’s father and manager, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., wou...2023-08-2845 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 58: Update on My Mom Joined a Cult and Nobody KnewSend us a textIdaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was finally sentenced for murdering her two children and conspiring to murder her fifth husband Chad Daybell’s first wife Tammy Daybell in what People magazine call “a plot that stemmed from the bizarre doomsday prophesies she believed.”References:Lori Vallow Daybell found guilty of murdering her 2 children - CBS News"Doomsday Mom" Lori Vallow Daybell's son testifies in murder trial - CBS NewsLori Vallow Daybell trial: What to know about the "doomsday mom" found guilty of killing her children, Tylee Ryan a...2023-08-2227 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 57: The Notorious Murder of Biggie SmallsSend us a textChristopher Wallace, better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper who is considered one of the best of all times. Biggie became a central figure in the East Coast rap scene with the release of his 1994 album, "Ready to Die” and went on to collaborate with Sean Combs, Lil' Kim, Faith Evans, and Jay-Z. AllMusic described him as "the savior of East Coast hip-hop who had a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession” and his...2023-08-2148 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 56: A Not So Poetic Justice- The Death of Tupac ShukarSend us a textTupac Shakur was an American rapper who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time. Among being one of the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, Tupac’s music has been known for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued the inner cities, and considered a symbol of activism against inequality. However, his short-lived career was riddled with controversy and violence. On the night of September 7, 1996, 25-year-old Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada as he headed to a...2023-08-1440 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 55: "What's Going On"- The Murder of Marvin GayeSend us a textAt the peak of Marvin Gaye’s career he was known as the Prince of Motown—topping the charts with his soulful voice with hits like "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)”, “Mercy Mercy Me”, “What’s Going On”, and of course the infamous bedroom love song "Sexual Healing". Throughout his musical career spanning over three decades, Marvin Gaye worked as a recording artist and record producer. The New York Times described him as someone who "blended the soul music of the urban scene with the beat of an old-time gospel singer an...2023-08-0736 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 54: The Angel of Death in Bremen TownSend us a textGerman born Gesche Gottfried also known as the Angel of Bremen, for her kindly habit of nursing her victims through their death throes, she had inflicted on them, was the real deal when it comes to serial killers. Between 1813 to 1827, it is estimated that Gesche murdered 16 people by poisoning their food in Bremen and Hanover, Germany. Her poison of choice was a mixture of arsenic and a fat called ‘mouse butter’ that was usually used to kill mice. Gesche claimed her parents preferred her twin brother over her, which would leave lingering effects. Many...2023-07-3136 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 53: The Murderess Lucha LibraSend us a textBetween 1998 and 2006, elderly women in Mexico City were being ruthlessly murdered in their homes. The victims were all strangled to death and had a similar profile. Juana Barraza dubbed the “Old Lady Killer” was a professional wrestler who murdered at least 16 elderly women, although some estimates go as high as 48. She specifically targeted women that were over the age of 60 who had lived alone, portraying herself as a caring individual or a social worker. Once she had gained her elderly victims trust, Juana would strangle them to death and then rob them. Before Juan...2023-07-2434 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 52: The Sexual Thrill KillsSend us a text Jane Toppan, also known as Jolly Jane, was a female nurse serial killer from Boston, Massachusetts. Between 1880 to 1901, Jane claimed to have given lethal injections of morphine to 31 trusting victims with many being her patients. Ironically, the doctors that worked with Jane considered her one of the best nurses around. Jane however did not limit her victims to just the sick and elderly she was caring for, as her victims also included landlords, her own adopted sister and even friends she grew to dislike. After her arrest on October 29, 1901, Jane admitted to having com...2023-07-1731 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 51: Hell's Belle's- The Mid-West Black WidowSend us a textBelle Gunness (gun-ness) nicknamed Hell's Belle, was a Norwegian immigrant who came to the United States in 1881, becoming one of the country’s most infamous female serial killers. Belle was a violent killer who is thought to have murdered between 14 to 40 people including several of her husbands and children, throughout Illinois and Indiana. A series of suspicious fires and deaths which seemed to follow Belle wherever she would go, mostly resulted in insurance money being awarded to her. Belle also began posting lonely hearts columns in local newspapers to entice wealthy men to her...2023-07-1035 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast4th of July Bonus Episode 50: The Fourth of July MassacareSend us a text On July 4, 2022, 21-year-old Robert Eugen Crimo III opened fire into an unsuspecting crowd attending a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois killing seven adults and injuring dozens more ranging in ages from eight to eighty-eighty. A manhunt quickly ensued with authorities looking for the suspected shooter throughout the Chicago area and would end eight hours later when a member of the community spotted Robert in his mother’s car leading to his arrest. Robert had a history of being mentally unstable and had left a trial of what seemed to be rac...2023-07-0435 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 49: The Boarding House KillerSend us a textDorothea Puente was an American female serial killer that disguised herself as a kind-hearted boarding house owner in the 1980’s. She was convicted of drugging and killing, three of her nine tenants found buried in her backyard. By many Dorothea was deemed as a saint who opened her unlicensed boarding house to disabled people, older adults, drug abusers, alcoholics and the mentally ill. However, in exchange, Dorothea stole her tenants Social Security and disability checks. According to Sactown Magazine, social workers loved that she would take in their "ailing or most erratic clients" wh...2023-07-0336 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 48: The Deadly Photo Shoot KillerSend us a textHarvey Glatman was one of the most notorious American serial killers of the twentieth century who at a young age displayed antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies. Glatman’s killing spree started in the 1950’s after moving to Los Angeles, California where he posed as a professional photographer to lure girls into his apartment with the promise of easy and quick money. Once in his apartment, Glatman would tie up his unsuspecting victims, photograph them, and eventually killing them. He would then dump their bodies in the desert. The Media quickly coined Glatman as "...2023-06-2630 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 47: The Serial StranglerSend us a textBetween 2007 and 2009, Anthony Sowell (sa-well) murdered 11 black women luring them to his house with the promise of drugs and alcohol. After Anthony rapped his victims, he would then manually strangle them to death, earning him the nickname “The Cleveland Strangler.” For two years Anthony was able to go unnoticed by authorities as he hid his victims who either had mental health issues or were drug addicts by burying them around his property Anthony a former U.S. Marine was a convicted sex offender who served 15 years in prison for kidnapping, rape, and attempted rape of a...2023-06-1934 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 46 Father's Day Bonus: An Unhappy Wife Leads to a Deadly LifeSend us a textIn May of 2004, over a period of 12 days three dark green Kenneth Cole suitcases were discovered in and near Chesapeake Bay. One of the suitcases contained a pair of legs, another a pelvis, and the third a torso and head. The body parts would be identified as thirty-nine-year-old William or Bill McGuire, a New Jersey father of two sons. Following the trial of evidence would lead police to Bill’s wife Melanie McGuire, who they believe killed her husband to start a new life with her secret lover. However, Melanie claimed that her hu...2023-06-1834 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 45: The Serial ButcherSend us a textBetween the years of 1984 and 1988 Kansas City, Missouri would be plagued with sinister acts of sexual torture and murder by one of the most brutal serial killers in U.S. history, Robert Berdella. Growing up Berdella was physically and mentally abused by his father, and as a loner in school who struggled with his sexuality was bullied constantly. By the time he had entered college, Berdella had begun torturing and killing animals. At least six young men fell victim to Berdella’s rape, torture, and murdering after forcing his victims to endure periods of...2023-06-1244 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 44: The Scottish Gentlemen KillerSend us a textArchibald Thomas Hall, also known as Roy Fontaine, was a Scottish career criminal who minored in petty thief at a young age but by the time he had reached his early 50’s in 1977 had begun majoring in killing using a variety of blunt objects. Over the course of a year, Archibald would claim the lives of five victims including his own brother. He would eventually become known as the Killer Butler or the Monster Butler after committing murders while working in service as a butler to members of the British aristocracy. In January of...2023-06-0529 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 43: The Death of a Musical LegendSend us a textOn December 8, 1980, 40-year-old John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, a band that transformed the music scene in the 1960s, was shot and killed on the steps of his Manhattan apartment by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman. Chapman had suffered years with mental illness and after his arrest psychiatrists deemed him borderline psychotic. Chapman was instructed by his lawyers to plead insanity, but instead he pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life. Today, Chapman remains behind bars. So, was the murderer of the legendary musical genius John Lennon, a...2023-05-2927 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 42: The Last Set PlayedSend us a textOn the night of December 8, 2004, the Alrosa Villa night club in Columbus, Ohio was buzzing excitedly with fans eagerly waiting for the heavy metal band Damageplan to take the stage. Thirty-eight-year-old Darrell Abbott, also known as Dimebag or Dimebag Darrell, and his brother forty-year-old Vincent Paul Abbott had formed Damageplan after the breakup of their heavy metal band Pantera -- a group they formed in the 1980s. However, the night of December 8th would take a deadly turn when 25-year-old Nathan Gale, an audience member, shot Dimebag Darrell four times at point blank...2023-05-2234 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 41: Murdering Mommy DearestSend us a textThroughout Gypsy Rose’s childhood her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, a former nurse’s aide, made claims about her daughter’s health which resulted in a series of dire diagnoses and unneeded medical interventions. Due to Dee Dee's claims of Gypsy Rose’s aliments, she was prescribed a catalogue of medications, had to sleep using a breathing machine, was on a feeding tube, and went through multiple surgeries, including procedures on her eyes and the removal of her salivary glands. On the surface Dee Dee seemed like a devoted mother who gave her daughter...2023-05-1542 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 40: A Mother's Day MurderSend us a textOn Mother’s Day morning of May 13, 1995, the nude, brutally beaten, and almost decapitated body of thirty-one-year-old Nannette Krenzel, a single mom from Chicago, Illinois would be found along a desolate stretch of highway on the Wisconsin/Illinois state border. The night before Nannette’s body was discovered she had a fight at a sports bar in Chicago with her live-in boyfriend of three years, Jacob Stutz. This led to Jacob being the police’s prime suspect, however, there was no evidence to link him to Nannette’s murder. With no other leads, Nannette...2023-05-1431 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 39: It Is FinishedSend us a textIn 1948, the lifeless body of a man dressed in suit and tie, would be found leaning against the concrete seawall of Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. The well-dressed man had no physical signs of trauma, no identification, and the tags of his cloths had been removed. The mystery man’s cause of death and identity eluded local police. An extensive search was conducted hoping to discover his identity including having newspapers worldwide publish the man’s face. As the police deepened their investigation, the mystery of the dead man did as well. The few...2023-05-0839 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 38: The Baby Blue's KillerSend us a textThirty-six-year-old Andrea Yates who had history of mental illness and postpartum depression was a stay-at-home-mom, home schooling her five young children, 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John, 3-year-old Paul, 2-year-old Luke, and 6-month-old Mary. Throughout the years of having children Andrea was treated for her severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia with anti-psychotic medications and antidepressants. On the morning of June 20, 2001, Andrea made a 911 call, stating that she needed police officers dispatched to her home in Houston, Texas. When officers arrived, Andrea confessed to methodically killing all five of her children by drowning them...2023-05-0146 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 37: A Wrongful or Rightful AcquittalSend us a textOrenthal James Simpson, commonly known as O.J. or "The Juice," was an American football star, broadcaster, and actor, but perhaps best known for his murder trial for the deaths of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the evening of June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside of Nicole's Brentwood, California home. The specific details of whether O.J. was involved in the deaths of Nicole and Ron will probably never be known, but their murders along with...2023-04-241h 19Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 36: An Italian MurderSend us a textIn November of 2007, the Italian city of Perugia would draw people’s attention from around the world with the gruesome murder and sexual assault of 21-year-old foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher from Surrey, England. She had been found dead in her Italian apartment on the floor of her locked bedroom. Meredith’s 20-year-old American roommate Amanda Knox who was also studying abroad and Amanda’s Italian citizen boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, would emerge as the primary suspects. World media outlets reported sinister tales of sex games gone wrong and viciously portrayed Amanda and Raffaele as hei...2023-04-1757 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 35: The Harlem SixSend us a textOn April 20, 1989, shortly after 1 am the barely clinging to life Trish Meili (ma-lee), a young white woman, was discovered in New York City’s Manhattan Central Park. Trish would survive her severe injuries, waking from a coma with no memory of the violent and horrific assault leaving her with no memory of her attacker. Two days after Trish’s assault, five teenagers, four being Latino and one being black, ranging in ages from 14 to 16 and were from Harlem would implicate themselves in Trish’s rape and assault after hours of psychological pressure and aggressive interr...2023-04-101h 04Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 34 Easter Bonus: The CrucifixionSend us a textSince we are looking at wrongful convictions for the month of April, we decided to look at one of the most famous stories of wrongful convictions and executions known worldwide for our Easter Episode, The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We will be looking at the arrest, charges, and crucifixion of Jesus from the angle of the law of a wrongful conviction. Now, with saying that, we will looking at this case both from historical facts and stories from the New Testament as this is one of the biggest sources about Jesus’s crucifixion. We...2023-04-071h 00Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 33: The Four Unfortunate SailorsSend us a textIn 1997 four United States Navy sailors 25-year-old Danial Williams, 27-year-old Derek Tice, 21- year-old Joseph Dick, Jr., and 21- year-old Eric Wilson collectively known as “The Norfolk Four,” confessed to the brutal rape and murder of 18-year-old Michelle Moore-Bosko, the wife of a U.S. Navy man, in Norfolk, Virginia. The four were sentenced based on their declared false confessions, as they were subjected to high-pressure interrogation tactics, including threats of death penalty and questionable use of lie detector tests., The details of Williams, Dick, Tice, and Wilson’s confessions did not match the cri...2023-04-031h 20Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 32: Two Brits and an Irish PactSend us a text Britons John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans would become known as Ireland’s first serial killers. The sinister duo first met while serving time together in an England prison during the 1970s and it is there the two career criminals concocted their sinister sick plot to abduct, torture, rape and murder a woman once a week. Once released from the English prison the deadly two would leave the UK and travel around Ireland committing burglaries for several years. In the long hot summer of 1976, Shaw and Evans twisted sinister plot would begin and ending in...2023-03-2748 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 31: The Irish Sinister SistersSend us a textDuring 2005 in Dublin, Ireland, the murder of Farah Swaleh Noor shocked and appalled the country due to the horrific details surrounding his murder. After a long day and night fueled by drugs and alcohol consumed by 40-year-old Noor, his 58-year-old girlfriend Kathleen Mulhall and her two daughter’s 30-year-old Linda and 21-year-old Charlotte Mulhall, would end their night back at Kathleen’s flat. According to Kathleen and her two daughters at some point in the late-night hours Noor made unwanted sexual advances toward Linda, leading the two sisters to slash Noor’s throat, stab...2023-03-2036 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 30 Saint Patrick's Day Bonus: A Gun-Slinging and Thieving LeprechaunSend us a textOn St. Patrick's Day in 2010, First State Bank in the town of Gallatin, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee was robbed by a gun toting leprechaun, with hopes of having the luck of the Irish on his side while stealing someone else’s pot of gold. The armed leprechaun scored an undisclosed amount of cash before leaving the bank where he then joined another suspect in a car outside, where the two fled. As police gave chase with the leprechaun and his getaway driver, and a wild gunfight broke out. The two college suspects wo...2023-03-1726 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 29: A Fetish for MurderSend us a textElaine O'Hara went missing from her home in Blackrock, Ireland on August 22, 2012. Elaine having suffered from mental illness was initially reported missing by her family, who suspected she had taken her own life although her body could not be located. At first it was assumed she had disappeared while volunteering at the 2012 Tall Ships' Races. However, in 2013, more than a year after Elaine had gone missing a woman walking her dog on wooded land near Kilakee in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains would discover human bones. Dental records would identify the human...2023-03-1347 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 28: The Dapper Irish KillerSend us a textMurders are a relatively rare occurrence in Ireland, but when one does occur it typically shocks the country to its core. Malcom Macarthur an eccentric socialite is undoubtedly one Ireland’s most infamous murders. In the summer of 1982, after Malcom had depleted his hefty family inheritance, a family whom he had deep rooted issues of endured childhood abuse would devise a sinister plan of a series of unbelievable and bizarre robberies to continuing living the life of luxury, ending in a double murderer and Malcom being arrested in the home of Ireland’s Atto...2023-03-0627 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 27: A Murderous AppetiteSend us a textIn the early '90s, an infamous couple from Manassas, Virginia would become headline news for weeks when in June of 1993 24-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Lorena Bobbitt became known as the woman who cut off her husband's penis with a carving knife. On the night of the shocking appendage dismemberment, Lorena claims her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, came home drunk and raped her, a charge he profusely denied and was acquitted of later. A jury would find Lorena not guilty due to insanity. So, was this a woman who had been sexually abused by...2023-02-2733 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 26: A Deadly Hand JobSend us a textOn April 23, 2008, in Leeds, England, 36-year-old Anthony Marley, a professional sue chef, brutally killed his boyfriend 36-year-old Damian Oldfield, and would then go to carving, seasoning, frying, and chewing parts of Damian’s body. Anthony would state to authorities that Damian had sexually assaulted him and tried raping him. However, it would come to light that Anthony had struggled for years with his sexuality and had a history of violence. Anthony Marley would be found guilty of murdering Damian Oldfield and given a sentence of 30 years in prison. So, was this a case of...2023-02-2037 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 25 Valetine's Day Special: A Killer Valetine's Day DinnerSend us a textAfter 24 years of marriage, On February 13th, 2021, 66-year-old retired accountant Penelope Jackson, stabbed her 78-year-old husband David Jackson, three times at their home in Somerset, England before telling a 999 operator: “I thought I’d get his heart, but he hasn’t got one.” Penelope claimed her husband, a retired lieutenant colonel, was coercive, controlling and physically violent towards her for decades, stating she lost control when he called her "pathetic". The couple was just three weeks shy of the 25th wedding anniversary. Penelope would be found guilty by Bristol crown court for the murder o...2023-02-1435 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 24: I Fine Line Between Love and MurderSend us a textIn February 2005, 34-year-old Lisa Underwood who was seven months pregnant, along with her 7-year-old son, Jayden, were reported missing after she failed to show up at her baby shower. The investigation into their disappearance would reveal a brutal crime fueled by jealousy, passion, and fear of exposure. Lisa’s then-boyfriend, Stephen Barbee, would be arrested, tried, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. According to the New York Post, Stephen had initially confessed to the shocking slayings but later recanted his admission, saying the confession was coerced and insisting he only helped co-defendant an...2023-02-1337 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 23: A Killer for HireSend us a textIn November of 1994,33-year-old Farah Fratta, a beloved mother of three was executed in her own driveway in Texas receiving shots to the head by an unidentified gunman. As the murder gained attention, suspicion would begin mounting on Robert Fratta, Farah’s estranged husband and the father of their children. The authorities would use phone records and witness testimony to uncover a sinister murder-for-hire plot that ended with Farah’s murder. Robert Fratta maintained his innocence until the time of his execution. So, was this a sinister mind that hired a hit on his...2023-02-0645 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 22: Part 2 The Car Hop KillerSend us a textIn part 1 we left on 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown being charged with first degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Johnny Allen, aggravated robbery, handgun possession and criminal impersonation. Pour yourself a cocktail and settle in for the second part of this sinister crime. Believe us you are going to need it!References:www.https://allthatsinteresting.com/cyntoia-brownwww.htps://.refinery29.com › en-us › 2018/12/219015www.https://npr.org › 2019/08/07 › 749025458www.https://tennessean.com › story › newsCyntoia Brown, alleged sex trafficking victim who was convicted of murder, released fro...2023-01-3053 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 21: Part 1 The Car Hop KillerSend us a textOn August 6, 2004, 16- year- old Cyntoia Denise Brown had been walking the East side of Nashville, Tennessee and area well known where the ladies of the night work the streets looking for her next client. The young black teen would be picked up by a 43-year-old white man named Johnny Allen. The pair would end up back at Allen’s house. Several hours later, Cyntoia would end up shooting Allen in the back of the head killing him, claiming that she had believed that her life was in emanate danger. Cyntoia Brown would en...2023-01-3056 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 20: The WrongfulSend us a textIn 1986 Rhonda Morrison, a white woman was murdered working at a dry cleaner in Monroeville Alabama. Unable to identify Morrison’s murderer police would eventually focus their attention on an unlikely suspect, that of 45-year-old Walter McMillian. A self-employed black man, McMillian had done work for many of the community members in Monroeville having no criminal history or that of violence. What would pull Walter McMillian into the limelight was his affair with a married white woman that would cause him to go from being someone who had an interracial affair with a 2023-01-231h 13Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 19: A Evil Runs Through ItSend us a textOn August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, a young black teen, Emmett Till, 14-years-old, from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant four days earlier. Emmet’s assailants were Carolyn’s husband and his half-brother. An all-white jury would take less than hour to come back with a not guilty verdict allowing Emmet Till’s murders to walk free. The inflaming tensions around Till’s murder trial brought to light the brutality of the Jim Crow segregation in the South and would help in sparking the civi...2023-01-1634 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 18 Bonus: A Friday the 13th SlasherSend us a textOn October 24, 1988, in Greenfield, MA, 18-year-old Sharon Gregory’s slain body was found by Sharon’s twin sister Cheryl, in the bathtub of their home with multiply gashes to the head, chest and torso. The urban legend of a small-town killer inspired by the horror movies from the Friday the 13th film series, might have played a role in 19-year-old Mark Branch brutally killing Sharon Gregory. Police and the media quickly blamed the tragedy of Sharon’s murder on Branch’s obsession with horror movies as he supposably was wearing a hockey mask like that...2023-01-1335 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 17: The Ghost of JasperSend us a textOn June 7, 1998, in the small Texas town of Jasper, 49-year-old JamesByrd Jr, a black man, accepted a ride from three white men with two of the men being avowed white supremacists who brutally lynched James Jr.chaining him to the back of their truck and dragged him to his death. Hisbrutal murder that was racially motivated made national headlines andsparked legislative changes. In 2009, President Barack Obama signedthe Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law.References:Jasper, Texas 2...2023-01-0934 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 16: New Year's Sinister Crime Battle OffSend us a textHappy New Years to all you wonderfully strange and unusual creatures! Kori and I hope 2023 brings everyone one of you peace and happiness. For our New Year’s episode Kori and I have decided to change things up a bit and thought is it would be fun to have a sinister crime battle off. We have each picked and have no idea what case the other has chosen and will be hearing the details for the first time right along with you listeners. We need our listeners help in voting which case was th...2023-01-0236 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 15: A Silent Night Murder: Part 2Send us a text JonBenét Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Her murder made national headlines, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey, a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. JonBenét’s murder became one of the decade's most famous police investigations and to date, no one has ever been charged for JonBenét's death and the investigation remains open over two decades after her death. For the second part we...2022-12-291h 09Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 14: A Silent Night Murder Part 1Send us a textJonBenét Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Seven hours after JonBenet was reported missing her lifeless body would be found in the basement of her home. She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled. Her murder made national headlines, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey, a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. JonBenét’s murder became one o...2022-12-251h 23Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 13: The Christmas PresentSend us a text18-year-old Alexis Valdez, who had been living with his aunt and her 41-year-old boyfriend Silvestre Diaz-Hernandez, would return home from making a run to a local convenient store with Silvestre on Christmas eve 2013. Upon returning from the quick trip, Valdez would let Silvestre enter their apartment first and then savagely attacked Silvestre from behind with a hammer and brutally killed him. Valdez would leave a Christmas present on his aunt’s bed one that she would never forget. Had something sinister been occurring in the apartment to make Valdez react in such a violent wa...2022-12-1930 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 12: The Santa SlayingSend us a textTwas the night before Christmas when all through the Ortega house, 25 people were partying when an unexpected visitor was announced. Who could it be, why it was Santa himself! That jolly old elf was carrying a large, wrapped package. What could it be a mower or blower? Nope, it was a homemade flamethrower and guns full of lead, leaving 9 people dead. Was this Santa simply unhinged or had he sought revenge?References:1. Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, Killer Santa | The Scare Chamber2. Bruce Pardo | WickedWe - The Dark Side of Huma...2022-12-1239 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 11: Once Upon a Christmas MurderSend us a textIn the late afternoon of Christmas day in 2016, Tricia McCauley a 46-year-old actress who worked in a series of short films and body double for leading ladies in Hollywood left her home in Washington D.C. to head to a friend’s Christmas dinner. As Tricia was getting in her car to head out, she would cross paths with 29-year-old Adrian Duane Johnson, a man who had a history of mental illness and criminal behavior. In the late-night hours of December 26, 2016, Tricia’s lifeless body would be found in the backseat of her car with...2022-12-0536 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 10: A Nightmare Before ChristmasSend us a textDuring the Christmas Holidays in 2010, 15-year-old- Kristy Bamu and four of his siblings would visit their 29-year-old- sister, Magalie and her 28-year-old boyfriend, Erik Bikubi, staying in the couple’s east London flat in Newham. Instead of basking in the holiday cheer, Kristy and his four siblings were subjected to a prolonged attack of unspeakable savagery lasting almost 4 days at the hands of Magalie and Erik, ridding the siblings from their evil spirits in the name of witchcraft or Kindoki. On Christmas Day 2010, the cruel and heinous attacks ended in an exorcism performed on...2022-11-2840 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 9: Thanksgiving Special -The Thanksgiving ButcherSend us a textOmaima Aree Nelson, a 24-year-old Egyptian nanny and model would be compared to Jeffery Dahmer and the fictional character Hannibal Lector by authorities, after discovering that on Thanksgiving Day in 1991, Omaima had not cooked a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner of turkey and sides. Instead on the menu, Omaima had chopped up and cooked her husband of three weeks as a stomach-churning revenge for his alleged sexual attacks on her. So, was this a case of revenge killing or that of a sinister mind?References:1. https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrNO5zjGX...2022-11-2141 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 8: A Mind Made for MurderSend us a textThe family, friends and neighbors of Richard Kuklinski woulddescribe him as a loving, devoted husband and father who was livingthe American dream in the suburbs of New Jersey. However, Kuklinskiwould be living a double life. To the criminal underworld and hisvictims, he was known a ruthless and brutal hitman for the mafia.Although law enforcement and organized crime experts have expressedskepticism about Kuklinski’s claiming to have ties with the Mafia. On May 25, 1988, Richard Kuklinski dubbed as the Iceman by authorities was co...2022-11-1456 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 7: My Mother Joined a Cult and Nobody KnewSend us a textWe have all heard the stories of people flocking to Cult leaders committing heinous crimes like those of Charles Manson, David Koresh, Warren Jeffs, and David Miscavige. A man named Chad Daybell would also try his hand as a cult leader under the guise as the chosen Prophet by God to lead and provide the chosen ones with salvation when the end of times would occur according to Daybell’s prediction, on July 22, 2020. Lori Vallow, a mother of 2 would be so captivated by Daybell and Daybell by her, that their cultish attempts would le...2022-11-072h 15Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 6: The Sinister Mister Who Killed Halloween: HALLOWEEN EPISODESend us a text I am sure that all you have heard one or two of the urban legends surrounding Halloween. Such as razors blades embedded in apples that children would go bobbing for, temporary tattoos laced with LSD, or the infamous candy filled with poison or needles. But what if I told you that one of those urban legends would actually become a reality. On the drizzling and fateful evening of Halloween 1974 the suburbs of Houston, Texas sidewalks were crawling with children bubbling over the brim with excitement for trick or treating. One in particular 8-year-old boy...2022-10-311h 08Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 5: Behind Closed DoorsSend us a text On September 27, 2017, 29- year- old Chris Grover was found in his home dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Chris's longtime and live-in girlfriend 28-year-old Nicole Addimando admitted to killing him but claimed that she had suffered years of abuse by Chris and that she had acted out of self-defense because she was afraid for her life. The New York town, Poughkeepsie, would become divided with half the town believing that the former preschool teacher, coach and young mother of two had in fact acted out of self-defense. While the other half of...2022-10-241h 13Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 4: The Hooker from Hell: Part 2Send us a text Brief overview of what we covered in Part 1 of The Hooker from Hell. Aileen Wuornos shot a killed seven men at point blank range between 1989 and 1990, while engaging in prostitution along the highways in Florida. Wuornos claimed that she had acted out of self- defense and that each of her victims had either raped her or tried to rape her. Aileen was continually betrayed by those closest to her for her entire life. Was Aileen a sinister cold-blooded killer or was she acting out of self-defense? For Part 2 of The Hooker from Hell we a...2022-10-1750 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 1: The Family AnnihilatorSend us a textHello all you strange and unusual creators settle in for this sinister true crime where we will dig into the dark depths of the sinister mind behind the menacing crime and the mistakes left behind all while sipping on a sinister cocktail master minded by us for each episode. In the summer of 2018, 15-week pregnant Shan’ann Watts and her two young daughter’s Bella and Celeste were reported missing from their Fredricks Colorado home by Shan'ann's close friend. After a 3-day search, an investigation would lead to their bodies being discovered in the...2022-10-101h 04Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 2: How to Raise a PsychopathSend us a textHello all you strange and unusual creators settle in for this sinister true crime where we will dig into the dark depths of the sinister mind behind the menacing crime and the mistakes left behind all while sipping on a sinister cocktail master minded by us for each episode. On the fateful evening of June 3, 2019, 17-year-old Anthony “AJ” Templet made a call to 911 implicating himself in the shooting and killing of his 53-year-old father, Burt Templet, in their Baton Rouge, Louisiana home. At first glance the crime would seem to be a straightforward and...2022-10-1054 minSinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 3: The Hooker from Hell: Part 1Send us a textHello all you strange and unusual creators settle in for this sinister true crime where we will dig into the dark depths of the sinister mind behind the menacing crime and the mistakes left behind all while sipping on a sinister cocktail master minded by us for each episode. Aileen Wuornos shot a killed seven men at point blank range between 1989 and 1990, while engaging in prostitution along the highways in Florida. Wuornos claimed that she had acted out of self -defense and that each of her victims had either raped her or tried...2022-10-1044 min
The Freely Rooted Podcast14. Pursuing Wellness Outside of the Broken Healthcare System | Dr. Courtney KahlaDr. Courtney Kahla has been one of our favorite voices in the alternative health community for years. She is a Doctor of Chiropractic & the founder of Our Well House, which is a Christ-centered wellness collective that includes chiropractors, pelvic floor therapists, functional medicine practitioners, & a massage therapist. Dr. Courtney not only pours into her local community, but she has also cultivated an online community of critical thinkers who share her values of faith, respectful parenting, home birthing, medical freedom, non-toxic living, & living outside of cultural norms. We knew that Dr. Courtney would be the most epic guest to have...2021-11-2446 min