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Jim Harold\'s Crime SceneJim Harold's Crime SceneGuilty CreaturesThis week on Jim Harold's Crime Scene we speak with Mikita Brottman about her book, Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida. She examines the psychology of a killer couple and how it felt to live with murder on their souls. The New York Times calls it “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.”You can purchase her book on Amazon HERE.Thanks Mikita!This post contains Amazon affiliate links that benefit Jim Harold Media when you make a qualifying purchase. Thank you...2024-10-2334 minThe Paranormal 60 NetworkThe Paranormal 60 NetworkGuilty Creatures with Mikita Brottman - Mysteries, Mayhem & MerlotGuilty Creatures with Mikita Brottman - Mysteries, Mayhem & MerlotA shocking murder, a web of lies, and a quiet Florida town forever marked by the brutality of a crime no one saw coming. In the heart of Tallahassee, the murder of a prominent figure rocked the community, unraveling a complex narrative of guilt, innocence, and everything in between. Author, Mikita Brottman of Guilty Creatures, takes us beyond the headlines to explore the chilling details of a murder that left more questions than answers. What really happened on that fateful day, and how did justice—or perhaps injustice—prev...2024-09-2241 minRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU303: DR MIKITA BROTTMAN ON GUILTY CREATURES, SEX, GOD & MURDER IN FLORIDA, TRUE CRIMERU303: MIKITA BROTTMAN ON GUILTY CREATURES – SEX, GOD & MURDER IN FLORIDA http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru303-mikita-brottman-on-guilty-creatures-sex-god-murder-in-florida/ Rendering Unconscious episode 303 Dr. Mikita Brottman returns to Rendering Unconscious to discuss her latest book Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida (2024) https://amzn.to/3YsEbhB Watch this episode at YouTube: https://youtu.be/z4-EMKFZyCg?si=vw3GILsGxjBgKDqD Dr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Pr...2024-08-0140 minISBN Readin\'ISBN Readin'Guilty Creatures with Mikita BrottmanIn this compelling episode of ISBN Readin', we dive into the gripping world of true crime with acclaimed author Mikita Brottman. Join us as we explore her latest book, Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida. Mikita takes us through the harrowing case of Mike Williams, unraveling the complexities of this chilling murder and the societal issues surrounding it. We discuss her meticulous research process, the challenges she faced while writing, and the insights she gained from delving into this dark narrative. While cohost Georgianna is off the grid and exploring Norway, we...2024-07-2947 minExperience the Story, Anywhere, Anytime With Free AudiobookExperience the Story, Anywhere, Anytime With Free AudiobookGuilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Audiobook by Mikita BrottmanListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 719090 Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Length: 06:49:11 Language: English Release date: 07-23-24 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Genres: History, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, North America Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed au...2024-07-236h 49Get Lost In This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.Get Lost In This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719090to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practit...2024-07-236h 49Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasGrab the Essential Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasGuilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest...2024-07-2303 minGrab the Essential Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasGrab the Essential Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasGuilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719090to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practit...2024-07-236h 49Download New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeDownload New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeGuilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest...2024-07-2303 minDownload New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeDownload New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeGuilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719090to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practit...2024-07-236h 49True Murder: The Most Shocking KillersTrue Murder: The Most Shocking KillersGUILTY CREATURESMike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole.After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident, his body eaten by alligators. But things took an unexpected turn when, within five years of Mike’s disappearance, Brian Winchester divorced his wife and married Denise. Their surprising romance set tongues talking. Peop...2024-07-221h 02WAKE ISLANDWAKE ISLANDGuilty Creatures with Mikita BrottmanFrom the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep South. Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole. After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mik...2024-07-151h 16Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler DawsonWicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler DawsonWicked Words - Mikita Brottman: Couple Found SlainIn February of 1992, a 22 year old walked into a police station in Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents. He claimed that he had been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity. But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane” end up? Nonfiction author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman unravels the story at the center of her book Couple Found Slain. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.l...2023-11-2040 minsumbu komporsumbu komporDownload [EPUB] Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman #ebook #epub #pdf #kindle[epub] Free DOWNLOAD Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman Download at https://turjaun990.blogspot.com/55077549 [PDF] Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Ebook | READ ONLINE Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman read ebook online PDF EPUB KINDLE Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder PDF - KINDLE - EPUB - MOBI #ebook #pdf #mobi #kindle #audiobook #epub #free #download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder pdf download Couple Found Slain: After a...2023-08-1200 minom wajolom wajol[PDF DOWNLOAD] Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman #ebook #epub #pdf #kindle[epub] Free DOWNLOAD Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman Download at https://turjaun990.blogspot.com/55077549 [PDF] Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Ebook | READ ONLINE Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman read ebook online PDF EPUB KINDLE Download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder PDF - KINDLE - EPUB - MOBI #ebook #pdf #mobi #kindle #audiobook #epub #free #download Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder pdf download Couple Found Slain: After a...2023-08-1200 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 169 Lyle Menendez’s GirlfriendsLyle and Erik Menéndez were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise (“Kitty”) Menéndez. They claimed the murders were self-defense after years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Traci Baker, a witness for the defense, was Lyle Menéndez’s ex-girlfriend. She testified to witnessing Kitty’s bizarre and aggressive behavior. Jamie Pisarcik, a witness for the prosecution, was also a girlfriend of Lyle’s. She remained supportive after the murders, but when Lyle confessed that he and Erik did kill their parents because their parents had abused them, Jamie di...2022-10-011h 01Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 167: Fidel Lopez Murder ConfessionOn September 20, 2015, after being called to an apartment in Sunrise, Florida, police found the naked body of Maria Nemeth, 31, was found disemboweled; the apartment had been destroyed, and on the floor were tequila, blood, human tissue and guts. The perpetrator was Maria’s boyfriend Fidel Lopez, 24, who said that he and Maria had got drunk on tequila and Maria wanted to have “rough sex” in the closet. During their intimacy, according to Fidel, Maria went crazy and asked him to penetrate her with various objects. Afterwards, he said, she became sick, started bleeding and went to the bathroom, where she ha...2022-09-0230 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 166: Mormon Doomsday CultIt’s difficult to keep things straight in this complex and ongoing case, but here’s the short story. Lori and Charles Vallow were members of the LDS church who lived in Arizona with their five children from Lori’s four previous marriages. In 2015, Lori became obsessed with a series of apocalyptic books by Chad Daybell, an LDS renegade who documented his unconventional spiritual beliefs through pamphlets and podcasts. In 2018, she attended one of Daybell’s seminars, and was immediately drawn into the cult. Daybell said he’d lived 31 different lives on various earth-like planets, and believed in zombies and demon...2022-09-0225 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 165: The Gainsville Ripper TrialDanny Rolling was convicted of murdering five students in Gainsville, Florida, over four days in late August 1990 (he claimed to have killed eight people in addition to committing numerous rapes). The Gainsville murders were particularly horrible; after raping and stabbing them, Rolling mutilated and posed the women’s bodies. Rolling was tried in 2004 and pled guilty to all charges.  He was executed in 2006. This episode contains trial testimony from Lillian “Bunnie” Mills, a self-styled country and western music producer, who was Rolling’s girlfriend from 1988 until 1989, and helped him with his prospective career as a country music and gospel singer. S...2022-09-0258 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 164: Depp vs. HeardOn April 25, 2022, during the Johnny Depp defamation trial, Depp’s attorneys called on Depp’s butler, genteel Ben King. Until this point in the trial, Depp had been portrayed as a “drunken, cocaine-fueled menace who beat women.” King presented a different story. Depp’s butler, who managed the home where the couple stayed in Australia during the 2015 filming of the fifth instalment of the “Pirates” franchise, described how Depp’s then-wife Amber Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, smashing his finger against the edge of a bar in the house. King testifies that he found Depp’s severed fingertip in a tis...2022-08-211h 47The Beauty of HorrorThe Beauty of HorrorS2E18: DISGUST - Kelly Gredner on Thanatomorphose (2012)Content warning: discussions of decay and decomposition, misogyny, depression, anxiety, dysmorphia, physical and sexual abuse, masturbation, and death/dying. On this episode of The Beauty of Horror, Chandler talks with co-host of I Spit on Your Podcast, horror writer, and one half of The Spinsters of Horror, Kelly Grender about the sickening beauty of Éric Falardeau's THANATOMORPHOSE (2012)! They talk about Kelly’s start in podcasting, the increasing appeal of extreme horror and how it challenges you, expressing female rage, sexuality, liberation through decay, decomposition as a metaphor for depression, abjection, cinéma vom...2022-04-291h 37Autumn\'s OdditiesAutumn's OdditiesThe Unexplained Death of Rey Rivera: Part 2In the conclusion of the bizarre death of Rey Rivera, I get into the infamous "note" and some theories on what could have happened if his death weren't a suicide.  Bust out your tinfoil hat, because there are some wild theories!Promo: Batwings & ButterfliesSOURCESAn Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere – Deckle Edge, November 6, 2018by Mikita Brottman REY RIVERA, SUICIDE OR HOMICIDE?: There is only one truth and science holds the key – February 16, 2021by Miryam Moya https://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/fact-sheet-on-the-death-of-rey-rivera.pdfhttps://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/fbi-report-exhibit-1.pdfBecome a supporter of this podcast...2022-02-0442 minAutumn\'s OdditiesAutumn's OdditiesThe Unexplained Death of Rey RiveraLoving husband Rey Rivera got a phone call that sends him running from his Baltimore home and he never returned. Days later, his body was found beneath a hole in the Hotel Belvedere and investigators quickly leaned toward suicide. But the injuries don't match a fall from a great height and Rey wasn't suicidal. In the weeks before his death, he had become paranoid and wrote a strange note alluding to secret societies. Did Rey Rivera jump from the hotel rooftop or did something more sinister befall him? SOURCESAn Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere – De...2022-01-3146 minOccult Experiments in the HomeOccult Experiments in the HomeOEITH #206 Telepathy and Projective IdentificationLet's join our minds to explore together the nature of telepathy, taking in along the way: the usefulness of magick in understanding the paranormal; definitions of telepathy and their problems; crisis apparitions; Nick Totton's definition of telepathy as "the experience of transparency between subjects"; the strengths of this definition; how telepathy tends to creep into both magick and therapy; telepathy in psychotherapy; a personal example of apparent telepathy in therapy; its significance in terms of my relationship to my therapist; reasons why therapy might encourage telepathy; the fear of telepathy within therapeutic organisations; Mikita Brottman's take on this and...2022-01-0152 minRealificciónRealificciónContra la lectura, de Mikita BrottmanLeer, especialmente ficción, muchas veces desvela lo que funciona mal en nuestro entorno, y descubrirlo nos hace más conscientes de nuestras decisiones y nuestro lugar en el mundo, pero esto no nos hace más felices. No siempre. https://hgquintana.com/contra-la-exigencia-felicidad-y-diversion-obligatorias/ https://youtu.be/9EvculiTTCk https://go.ivoox.com/rf/767188692021-10-1212 minRealificciónRealificciónContra la lectura, de Mikita BrottmanLeer, especialmente ficción, muchas veces desvela lo que funciona mal en nuestro entorno, y descubrirlo nos hace más conscientes de nuestras decisiones y nuestro lugar en el mundo, pero esto no nos hace más felices. No siempre. https://hgquintana.com/contra-la-exigencia-felicidad-y-diversion-obligatorias/ https://youtu.be/9EvculiTTCk https://go.ivoox.com/rf/767188692021-10-1212 minRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU158: MARY WILD ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, FILM, CINEMA, FREUD MUSEUM LONDON, PROJECTIONSToday’s guest is Mary Wild, Freudian Cinephile and host of the Projections series held at the Freud Museum, London, as well as co-host of Projections Podcast with Sarah Cleaver. https://www.projectionspodcast.com Mary Wild is presenting Sunday, September 12, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT: Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: Mary Wild on “Taxidermy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho” and Discussion with Anna Biller, Writer and Director of “The Love Witch” & “Viva”: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events/2021/7/15/psychoanalysis-art-and-the-occult-mary-wild-on-taxidermy-in-alfred-hitchcocks-psycho-and-discussion-with-anna-biller-writer-and-director-of-the-love-witch-amp-viva See the entire series of PsychArtCult events at Morbid Anatomy online, Sundays in September, here: http://psychartcult.org Join Mary at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marywi...2021-09-031h 00Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture23rd Mind TV – episode 10, with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl AbrahamssonWelcome to episode 10 of 23rd Mind TV! Join us at Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Episode 10 of 23rd Mind TV by and with Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. “This is our first episode in our new house! Thank you all for your support. We are so appreciative! Here’s a little bit about what we’ve been up to and what are we working on now. Plus mentions of new work by our many friends, like Blanche Barton, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Mikita Brottman, Hannah Zeavin, Adel Souto, Axel Torvenius, Artemis, Annsofie Jonsson & more…” This episode also available at YouTube: https://yo...2021-09-0133 minRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU149: DR MIKITA BROTTMAN ON HER BOOK COUPLE FOUND SLAIN: AFTER A FAMILY MURDER, TRUE CRIMEDr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Her work blends memoir, history, psychoanalysis, and creative speculation. Currently, she's especially interested in reconsidering and interrogating the true crime genre. This interest is at the heart of her two most recent books, An Unexplained Death (Henry Holt, 2018) and Couple Found Slain (Henry Holt, 2021). http://mikitabrottman.com Follow her at Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrottmanMikita And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikitabrottman/ This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/dyVlTMMDcYE Rendering Unconscious the book available from Trapart: store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at our Patreon...2021-07-281h 07What You Should ReadWhat You Should ReadYou Should Read: True Crime books! (Kelly's Wheelhouse Episode)Send us a textCONTENT WARNING: This episode features a discussion about murder and violence toward women, children and animals. Sexual assault and suicide are also discussed and described. Hi, Should-Heads! We're going to discuss true crime in today's episode. It's been getting increasingly popular over the past few years and has taken over podcasts, Netflix, cable shows, and of course the book world. So...why? Kelly has some theories and some recommendations. Book News:New Cursebreakers book:  https://twitter.com/BrigidKemmerer/status/1414624947553640453?s=20  Currently Reading:Jul...2021-07-2057 minEye 94Eye 94Eye 94 • 7-15-21This episode featured Mikita Brottman, author of “Couple Found Slain,” out now from Henry Holt. This episode first aired on July 15, 2021.2021-07-1552 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 163: Three 911 Calls (1) In November, 2009, Jiverly Wong, 41, walked into the American Civic Association, where he had recently taken an English class with other immigrants, and shot 13 former classmates and association employees and wounded four others, firing 98 shots from two handguns in about a minute, before taking his own life. Wong was apparently angry after being laid off from his job at a vacuum cleaner plant, and his broken English made it difficult for him to apply for unemployment benefits. This 911 call reveals the confusion at the scene. (2) In February 2009, Susana De Jesus and Karen Jackson left work in...2021-07-1026 minTrue Murder: The Most Shocking KillersTrue Murder: The Most Shocking KillersCOUPLE FOUND SLAIN-Mikita BrottmanOn February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity.But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder, as well as his complicated afterlife in a maximum security psychiatric hospital, where he is neither imprisoned nor free. Du...2021-07-071h 04WAKE ISLANDWAKE ISLANDMikita Brottman - Couple Found SlainMikita Brottman is an author and psychoanalyst with particular interests in true crime, forensics, psychoanalysis, animals, abjection, and the unexplained. Her work blends memoir, history, psychoanalysis, and creative speculation. Currently, she is especially interested in reconsidering and interrogating the true crime genre. This interest is at the heart of her two most recent books, An Unexplained Death (Henry Holt, 2018), and Couple Found Slain (Henry Holt, 2021). COUPLE FOUND SLAIN: “In 1992, a young man named Brian Bechtold was judged “not criminally responsible” for the murder of his parents, a crime he had never tried to conceal. Diagnosed with sc...2021-07-071h 26Savor The Immersive Full Audiobook Experience!Savor The Immersive Full Audiobook Experience!Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories en...2021-07-068h 44Absorb This Captivating Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Absorb This Captivating Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories en...2021-07-068h 44Your Library on the Go With Free AudiobookYour Library on the Go With Free AudiobookCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Audiobook by Mikita BrottmanListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 454147 Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Christina Delaine, Mikita Brottman Format: Unabridged Length: 08:44:37 Language: English Release date: 07-06-21 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law & Politics, Social Science Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. Mikita Brottman is one of todays finest practitioners of nonfiction. The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of...2021-07-068h 44Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsBest Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stori...2021-07-0605 minListen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsListen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories en...2021-07-068h 44Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeListen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stori...2021-07-0605 minListen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeListen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True CrimeCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories en...2021-07-068h 44Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceDownload Incredible Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceCouple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Mikita Brottman, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stori...2021-07-0605 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 162: Neil Entwistle Trial TestimonyOn 22 January 2006, the bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian Entwistle were found shot to death in the master bedroom of their family home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The immediate suspect was Rachel’s husband Neil, 28, a British citizen, who bought a one-way ticket to London and left the country hours after the murders. Back home, Neil met up with some of his old college friends, Ben Prior and Dashiel Munding, and told them he’d come home to find his wife and daughter dead. The friends went drinking, went to see a movie, and talked about helping Neil to find...2021-06-3047 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 161: Death of Ted BinionTed Binion was a wealthy American gambling executive and one of the sons of Vegas casino magnate Benny Binion, owner of the Horseshoe Casino. Ted, a multi-millionaire, loved the high life and ran the Horseshoe for a while, hosting the casino’s poker tournaments. But in 1998, Ted, 55, was having problems. Due to his heroin addiction and associations with known criminals, he’d recently lost his gaming license and his ties to the casino.  His wife Doris had moved out, taking the couple’s daughter, Bonnie, after learning of Ted’s affair with a topless dancer named Sandra Murphy. Just before hi...2021-06-211h 00Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 160: Interview with a VampireRoderick Ferrell and Heather Wendorf were best friends at school in Eustis, Florida before Rod moved with his mother to Murray, Kentucky. In Kentucky, he began dressing in black and talking about vampires. When he visited his friends in Eustis over Thanksgiving of 1996, he said he’d formed a vampire cult and got four of them to leave home and join him: Heather Wendorf, Scott Anderson, Charity Keese, and Dana Cooper, all teenagers. But Rod’s car was too cramped to fit all five, and they needed money, so before they left, on November 25, 1996, Rod and Scott broke into Heat...2021-06-0741 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 159: Betty Broderick TrialDuring her 17-year marriage, Betty Broderick worked and raised four children while her husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, went through medical school and law school. When Dan finally qualified, he was in high demand as an attorney in medical malpractice cases. The family moved to a lavish house in San Diego, and Betty no longer needed to work. Not long after the move, however, Dan, unhappy that Betty had aged and put on weight, began an affair with his 28-year-old secretary, Linda, who many said looked like a younger version of Betty. Eventually, he divorced Betty and married Linda...2021-05-302h 06Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 159: Betty Broderick TrialDuring her 17-year marriage, Betty Broderick worked and raised four children while her husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, went through medical school and law school. When Dan finally qualified, he was in high demand as an attorney in medical malpractice cases. The family moved to a lavish house in San Diego, and Betty no longer […]2021-05-302h 06Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 158: Testimony of Vanessa BullsOn April 7, 2006, Kari Baker, an elementary school teacher, was found dead in the family home near Waco, Texas. Her husband Matt, a Baptist minister, said that Kari had been depressed and suicidal since the death of the couple’s young daughter Cassidy some years earlier. However, Kari’s family and friends did not believe she […]2021-05-191h 02Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 158: Testimony of Vanessa BullsOn April 7, 2006, Kari Baker, an elementary school teacher, was found dead in the family home near Waco, Texas. Her husband Matt, a Baptist minister, said that Kari had been depressed and suicidal since the death of the couple’s young daughter Cassidy some years earlier. However, Kari’s family and friends did not believe she was suicidal, and suspected Matt was responsible for her death. In January 2010, Matt Baker was tried for the murder of his wife. Critical testimony came from Vanessa Bulls, 27, his former mistress, who told the jury that Matt had drugged his wife, handcuffed her to the...2021-05-191h 02Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 157: Phil Spector TrialMelissa Pileggi Grosvenor said she met Phil Spector in New York in 1991 when she was a waitress, found him “very charming, quick-witted,” and was in a platonic relationship with him for a year and a half. She testified that after a dinner in Beverly Hills she went back to his house, but when she […]2021-05-0730 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 157: Phil Spector TrialMelissa Pileggi Grosvenor said she met Phil Spector in New York in 1991 when she was a waitress, found him “very charming, quick-witted,” and was in a platonic relationship with him for a year and a half. She testified that after a dinner in Beverly Hills she went back to his house, but when she told Spector around 2 a.m. that she was tired and wanted to go, he left the room and returned with a gun, which he holstered and “started walking back and forth, cursing and talking crazy.” She said after she returned to New York he started asking h...2021-05-0730 minThe Path Went ChillyThe Path Went ChillyThe Mysterious Death of Rey Rivera Part FourThis is the Part Four, the conclusion of our series on Rey Rivera.32 year old writer Rey Rivera and his wife Allison moved to Baltimore from sunny California after his dreams of screenwriting didn't come to fruition. Rey took a job at good friend Porter Stansberry's 'Stansberry & Associates Investment Research'. It didn't take long for Rey to realize that investment advice was not his strong suit so he started work for a another subsidiary of Agora where he would be making videos. This was far more in line with Rey's creative side. Some strange events would transpire prior...2021-04-2956 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 156: The Ice Cream VigilanteIn this episode, Norma Jean Towers, of South Tampa, Florida, tells the jury that she was a regular at a met karaoke bar, where, in 2009, she met Michael Keetley, 49, a quiet, charming ice cream man. In 2010, she learned that Keetley had been shot four times and his ice cream truck robbed. He […]2021-04-221h 41Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 156: The Ice Cream VigilanteIn this episode, Norma Jean Towers, of South Tampa, Florida, tells the jury that she was a regular at a met karaoke bar, where, in 2009, she met Michael Keetley, 49, a quiet, charming ice cream man. In 2010, she learned that Keetley had been shot four times and his ice cream truck robbed. He was left permanently disabled, and his injuries required surgery and therapy. He was forced to move back in with his parents and slept in a hospital bed in the dining room. He told a detective that “he wished every day that the people who did this would be...2021-04-221h 41The Path Went ChillyThe Path Went ChillyThe Mysterious Death of Rey Rivera Part ThreeJoin us for part Three of Four (episodes released weekly)32 year old writer Rey Rivera and his wife Allison moved to Baltimore from sunny California after his dreams of screenwriting didn't come to fruition. Rey took a job at good friend Porter Stansberry's 'Stansberry & Associates Investment Research'. It didn't take long for Rey to realize that investment advice was not his strong suit so he started work for a another subsidiary of Agora where he would be making videos. This was far more in line with Rey's creative side. Some strange events would transpire prior to Rey's wife Allison...2021-04-221h 00The Path Went ChillyThe Path Went ChillyThe Mysterious Death of Rey Rivera Part TwoJoin us for part Two of Four (episodes released weekly)32 year old writer Rey Rivera and his wife Allison moved to Baltimore from sunny California after his dreams of screenwriting didn't come to fruition. Rey took a job at good friend Porter Stansberry's 'Stansberry & Associates Investment Research'. It didn't take long for Rey to realize that investment advice was not his strong suit so he started work for a another subsidiary of Agora where he would be making videos. This was far more in line with Rey's creative side. Some strange events would transpire prior to Rey's wife Allison...2021-04-1555 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 155: Michael Colucci TrialMichael and Sara Lynn Colucci had been through some ups and downs in their marriage. Sara, apparently had never fully recovered from the suicide of her first husband. She was smart, quick-witted, and impulsive, but also prone to depression. At first, she seemed to have been happy in her marriage to South Carolina jeweler Michael Colucci, but due to some bad business decisions, money had become tight and the couple were facing significant financial losses. On the way back from a difficult discussion money issues with their attorney on May 20, 2015, Sara apparently asked Michael to pull up...2021-04-1326 minThe Path Went ChillyThe Path Went ChillyThe Mysterious Death of Rey Rivera Part OneJoin us for part One of Four (episodes released weekly)32 year old writer Rey Rivera and his wife Allison moved to Baltimore from sunny California after his dreams of screenwriting didn't come to fruition. Rey took a job at good friend Porter Stansberry's 'Stansberry & Associates Investment Research'. It didn't take long for Rey to realize that investment advice was not his strong suit so he started work for a another subsidiary of Agora where he would be making videos. This was far more in line with Rey's creative side. Some strange events would transpire prior to Rey's wife Allison...2021-04-0856 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 154: Testimony of Myron LevinIn this episode, Myron “Pepi” Levin takes the witness stand in the murder trials of Cherry Hill Rabbi Fred J. Neulander. The rabbi’s wife, Carol Neulander, was murdered in the family home in 1994. The two men responsible for the murder, Len Janoff and Paul Daniels, said they were paid by Fred Neulander, who was in love with a wealthy widow. Mr. Levin, who went to prison during the 1980s after being convicted in a food-stamp-theft scam, was Neulander’s racquetball partner and also testified in the rabbi’s second trial when the first was declared a mistrial. Levin said that Neula...2021-04-011h 13Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 153: Sanel Saint-SimonOn July 28, 2014, Alexandria Chery, 16, an Olympia, Florida High School student, told her mother she was feeling well and wanted to stay home from school. Her mother, Haitian immigrant Rosalie Joseph, agreed. She tried to call Alex at various times during the day, but her daughter didn’t pick up. When Joseph got him, her daughter was missing. She found blood in Alex’s bedroom, along with bleach that appeared to be used to cover up the blood splatter. Police investigators learned that Alex had told her friends and her older brother Fanzo that her stepfather Sanel Saint Simo...2021-03-2228 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 152: Four 911 Calls(1) In August 2009, Lynea Hambrice, 36, jumped to her death from the 12th-story balcony of the Coeur D’Alene Resort in Idaho. Her boyfriend Ian James, 38, called 911 to report what happened. The couple were visiting the area from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ian told police that Lynea threw herself off the balcony during an argument. When an autopsy showed she had a blood alcohol content of .23 (and Ian passed a polygraph), the death was ruled a tragic accident. (2) In Oct. 2009 several people who had paid more than $9,000 to attend a motivational retreat in Sedona, Arizona, fell unconscious while taking part in...2021-03-1248 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 151: Pastor Lewis Clemons DepositionThis deposition features another sinful apostle (see episode 106). In this case, Apostle Lewis Clemons, of the Church of God in Christ in Columbus, Georgia. Clemons was deposed reluctantly by attorneys for Lakisha Smith, a member of Clemons’ church from 2011-2016, who describes three occasions where the pastor acted inappropriately, on one occasion “anointing her body with oil” as he had been taught to do by “an older pastor.” When Lakisha Smith filed a civil suit against Clemons, another woman came forward with similar accusations. Lequita Jackson, who started attending pastor Lewis Clemons’ church when she was 14 and did not leave it unt...2021-02-271h 35Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 150: Len Kachinsky Stalking Trial Part 2This episode presents the December 2018 defense case in the trial of Wisconsin lawyer and former Fox Crossing municipal judge Len Kachinsky, who was accused of stalking his court manager Mandy Bartel, as featured in episode 140. Kachinsky was one of the  lawyers defending Brendan Dassey in the Making a Murderer series on Netflix. The stalking charge was punishable by up to 5 years in prison. His clerk, Mandy Bartelt, said she started feeling uncomfortable with Kachinsky’s behavior. She said he harassed her and retaliated against her when she tried to take their relationship from a friendship to one tha...2021-02-211h 09Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 149: Sean Foley CaseSean Foley, 26, didn’t like the fact that his girlfriend, Miranda Goddard, 25, was very close to her stepdad, Jimmy Shelton, who had–as Shelton had admitted–abused and molested her when she was a child. Miranda’s response to the abuse was complicated. From the time she turned 18, she began asking her stepdad for money in exchange for sexual favors. Miranda had got used to using her body to make a living–she worked as a stripper and also appeared in home-made porn. Sean  didn’t believe the sex between them was fully consensual. On August 28, 2018, after a day of drin...2021-02-141h 45Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 148: Bob Ward Trial TestimonyIn June 2018, millionaire real estate mogul Bob Ward, 65, shot and killed his wife Diane, 54, in the master bedroom of the couple’s ritzy home in Isleworth, Florida. For some time, Bob’s company had been suffering financial losses due to the collapse of the real estate market, and the couple’s cars had been repossessed. They had to sell their home in Altanta, where Diane had friends and was happy, and move to Florida full-time. Bob Ward claims the shooting was a tragic accident. He said his wife had been severely depressed. He said she had a gun, and when h...2021-02-0758 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 147: My Lai Massacre TestimonyIn March 1968, Lieutenant William Calley ordered his troops to rape and murder a village of  Vietnamese civilians in a search-and-destroy mission performed on a Viet Cong stronghold known as “Pinkville.” At least 109 civilians were killed, including unarmed woman and children. On September 6, 1969, Calley was formally charged with six specifications of mass murder just a few days before he was due to be released from active service. He was cleared of all charges. Audio in this episode is extracted from Four Hours in My Lai directed by Kevin Sim, a 1989 television documentary made by Yorkshire Television. Testimony in the episode is fr...2021-01-2825 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 146: Pamela Smart Trial TestimonyThis episode contains testimony from the March 1991 trial of Pamela Smart for conspiracy to commit the murder of her husband, Gregg. This was one of the first trials in the U.S. to allow TV cameras in the courtroom, and Pamela believes this played a significant role in her conviction. In 1990, at age 22, Pamela began working as a media lab coordinator at a high school in Hampton, New Hampshire. She also joined Project Self-Esteem, a local drug awareness program at the school. Here, she met 15-year-old sophomore Billy Flynn, who was also a volunteer. She also met...2021-01-121h 11Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 145: Luis Toledo Family Murder TrialKevin Dredden and Yessenia Suarez both worked at American K9 in Lake Mary, Florida, a military dog-training company. Although both were married with children, both were having marital problems and in early 2013, began to confide in each other. When they were both scheduled to go on a business trip to Alabama in October 2013, Kevin and Yessenia, 28, began an affair. When they returned to Deltona, they planned to get together at a hotel along the I-4 corridor but Kevin called off the meeting because he was worried his wife would notice the money for the hotel room missing from their...2021-01-112h 30Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 144: Jessica Chambers CaseThis horrible crime took place in Courtland, Mississippi, on December 6, 2014, when, as firefighters Daniel Cole, Brandy Davis, and Shane Mills testify here, cheerleader Jessica Chambers, 19, was found burning next to her car which was also on fire. She had burns on all of her body. A flammable liquid had been poured all over her, down her throat, and up her nose. Early the next morning, she died as a result of her injuries. Before she died, she was able to tell the firefighters that the person who did this to her was named “Eric” or “Derrick.” Jessica had spen...2020-12-312h 23Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 143: Joel Guy Jr. Trial TestimonyThis episode contains the testimony of Joel Michael Guy Jr’s three half-sisters, Angela Crane, Chandise Fink, and Rene Charles, and his two sisters, Michelle Tyler and Robin White.  Everything seemed fine when the Guy family sat down together for 2016 Thanksgiving dinner at their home in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, one week later, the family’s reclusive 28-year-old son Joel Jr. apparently stabbed and dismembered his parents, 61-year old Joel Guy Sr. and 55-year old Lisa Guy. He had planned to dissolve their remains in acid, but was injured during the murder of his father, and left the parti...2020-12-2347 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 142: Erin Andrews Stalking TrialIn 2016, the TV sports journalist Erin Andrews brought a $75 million lawsuit against a stalker, Michael David Barrett, and the managing company of the Nashville Marriot, where she stayed in 2009. Erin, who at the time was a college football reporter for ESPN, was followed by Michael Barrett, who asked hotel staff what room Erin was staying in, and asked to be put in the room next to hers. In a taped deposition, Barrett said, “I heard the door slam close next to me and saw it was her leaving her room. I took [her door’s] peephole out, altered it, put...2020-12-1845 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 141: Jeffrey Willis / Rebecca Bletsch Murder TrialThis episode contains the testimony of Jeffrey Willis in October 2017 during his trial for the murder of Rebekah Bletsch, who was shot and killed on June 29, 2014 as she was jogging in rural Muskegon County, Michigan. He is also questions about the disappearance of Jessica Heeringa, who vanished from an Exxon gas station where she was working the late shift in Norton Shores, Michigan, on April 26, 2013. Willis denies knowing either Rebecca Bletsch or Jessica Heeringa. Nonetheless, he was found guilty of the murder of Rebecca Bletsch, and received life without parole. After Willis’s conviction, his cousin, Kevin Bl...2020-12-111h 01Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 140: Len Kachinsky Stalking HearingThis episode contains the testimony of Mandy Bartelt in a court hearing against Len Kachinsky, best-known as Brandon Dassey’s attorney in the Making a Murderer Netflix docuseries. Kachinsky served for 21 years as the municipal judge of Fox Crossing before being accused of a felony stalking charge based on his treatment of Mandy Bartelt, his court manager. Kachinsky was acquitted of the felony stalking charges, but suspended from his position by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in an opinion released on July 9, 2019.  The court found that his behavior towards Mandy violated judicial ethics rules. Kachinsky had hired Mandy in...2020-11-291h 11Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 139: Eichmann Trial TestimonyThis episode contains testimony from Auschwitz survivor Vera Alexander during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1961. Alexander begins by giving an account of her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz as well as her arrival at the camp and the block to which she was assigned. The judge questions her about her work detail at Auschwitz and Alexander explains how she used her position to help other prisoners and describes her placement in the hospital block when she fell ill. She describes Dr. Mengele’s experimentation on twins as well as the arrival of Hungarian Jews and the or...2020-11-2229 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 138: Sammy “The Bull” Gravano TestifiesSalvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano used to be John Gotti’s right-hand man, in October 1991, after learning Gotti had bad-mouthed him on government wiretaps inside their Little Italy headquarters, the Ravenite Social Club, he turned himself over to the feds. As a federal prisoner and government informant, Gravano, 47, testified before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations about the mob’s connections with boxing, in addition to many other investigations. In exchange for turning himself in to the government, Sammy got a sweetheart deal — a mere five years in prison for 19 homicides and a key role in other illicit businesses...2020-11-151h 18Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 137: Rayne Perrywinkle TestimonyThis episode contains the testimony of Rayne Perrywinkle during the trial of Donald James Smith. On June 21, 2013, Rayne, 45, was out shopping with her 3 daughters at a Dollar General in Jacksonville. Walmart on June 21, when she got into conversation with man named Donald James Smith, who offered to take the family to buy clothes at a nearby Walmart. She said she and her daughters got into his van and rode with him to the store. When the girls started getting hungry, Smith offered to get them food at the McDonald’s inside the Walmart. He took Rayne’s youngest daughter, Cher...2020-11-1052 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 136: Jacob Cayer Trial TestimonyALL PREVIOUS EPISODES AVAILABLE AT FORENSIC TRANSMISSIONS On June 7, 2016, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after a fight with his dad, Jacob Cayer, 30, broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend, Sabrina Teague, 25, hid in the bathroom, then stabbed Sabrina’s mother, Heesun “Sunny” Teague, 63. He then lay in wait for Sabrina to return home with her new boyfriend, Joel Kennedy. When they returned, Cayer stabbed Sabrina then chased Joel to the garage, where he was stabbed. Joel then hit Cayer in the head with a shovel, ran back in the house and called 911 from a bedroom. Joel Kennedy survived; Sabrin...2020-08-141h 48Strange & UnexplainedStrange & Unexplained#17 The Man That Ran Off The Belvedere On the evening of May 16, 2006 Rey Rivera was sitting in his office at his desk working from home. His cell rang and a short conversation ensued and we are left wondering who is on the other line. “Oh shit” Rey says then he grabs his keys, runs down the stairs and out the front door of his Baltimore home...thats the last time he was seen alive.   Patreon!   Sources: Netflix: Unsolved Mysteries-Ep1-Mystery On The Rooftop https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/hjqmc1/i_wrote_out_rey_riveras_suicide_note_as/  Transcribed note https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a33261034/rey-riv...2020-07-2738 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 135: Cindy Blitzer TestimonyWhen Craig Blitzer became district attorney of Rockingham County in North Carolina, he was worried about taking a pay cut because his wife Cindy had got the couple into a lot of debt. But he was reassured when he realized he could employ her as his assistant. After all, that’s what his friend Wallace Bradsher, district attorney of neighboring Person and Caswell counties, had done with his wife, putting her on salary as an assistant. When both district attorneys learned from the state ethics commission that they weren’t allowed to hire relatives, they made a deal to swap...2020-07-011h 33Forensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 134: Brent Wolgamott TestimonyThis episode contains the testimony of college student and former male escort Brent Wolgamott in the trial of author Michael Peterson for the alleged murder of his wife Kathleen (the case featured in Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s excellent documentary miniseries The Staircase), whom, he claimed, had fallen down a staircase in the couple’s home. The prosecution brought in Wolgamott (“Brad from Raleigh”) to testify in the belief that his testimony would support their argument that the Petersons’ marriage was far from happy, and that Kathleen had discovered Michael’s alleged secret “gay life” and wanted a divorce. Wolgamott testifies that h...2020-06-1231 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 133: three 911 callsThe first call was placed in January 7, 2007 by Dylon Peterson, 25, who tells the dispatcher that he has just killed  two people. Peterson, who is drunk, seems incoherent, has a bizarre affect, and gives no explanation for his act. He was homeless at the time, and had been staying with a friend, Nick Nagle, whom he’d met at a culinary arts class in Vancouver. While Nick and his father were out of town, Dylon stabbed to death Nick’s younger brother Mathew, 15, and his mother Sandra Torell, 45. He was sentenced to 57 years for murder. His motive remains unclear. The...2020-05-3121 minForensic TransmissionsForensic TransmissionsEpisode 132: Darryl La Ray Johnson Sentencing Hearing Darryl La Ray Johnson, 32, of Great Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty on March 1 2017 to possession of marijuana. In May, he went to court for a sentencing hearing after spending five months in jail. At the beginning of the hearing, he fires his attorney at the hearing and asked to represent himself. He goes on to argue that an Idaho judge has no jurisdiction over him because he’s a “Moorish American national.” Johnson is referring to a religious sect formed in the 1920s on the belief that African-Americans came to America from Morocco and they’re related to the ancient Canaanit...2020-05-2039 minPublic Intellectual with Jessa CrispinPublic Intellectual with Jessa Crispin"Women <3 True Crime" (w/ Mikita Brottman)Jessa speaks with Mikita Brottman, author of An Unexplained Death, about the new "true crime" wave and what it says about its mostly female audience. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/2019-08-1941 minDark and Stormy Book ClubDark and Stormy Book ClubBess Carnan & Mikita Brottman InterviewsBess Carnan - 2019 Winner of the William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers. These days she and her husband live in Orlando, Florida with their rescued garbage cat, Squeaker, and an endless stream of foster kittens. In between feedings, flea baths, and snuggles she writes cozy mysteries that are really love letters to all the places she’s lived.Makita Brottman - She is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Her work blends memoir, history, psychoanalysis, and creative speculation. Currently, she is especially interested in reconsidering and interrogating the true crime genre. This interest is at the hear...2019-07-2332 minRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU27: RENDERING DR MIKITA BROTTMAN UNCONSCIOUS, Author, Professor, Psychoanalyst, Writing, ForensicsDr. Mikita Brottman is a writer, mostly of non-fiction. Although her writing includes elements of memoir, psycho-analysis, history, and forensic psychology, her most consistent focus is the reconsideration and interrogation of the true crime genre. Dr. Brottman has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and Director of the Humanities Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where she teaches courses in literature, critical studies, and myth. Dr. Brottman is also a psychoanalyst certified s...2019-04-1653 minThe Land of the UnsolvedThe Land of the UnsolvedThe Body at the BelvedereIn 2006 filmmaker Rey Rivera left his North Baltimore home and disappeared. Nearly a week later, his body was found in a second floor conference room of the Belvedere Hotel. Police believe Rivera committed suicide by jumping from the roof, but his family and friends didn't believe it. We talk with Mikita Brottman who investigated his death for her book "An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere," about the evidence and the mysterious details of Rey's case. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-land-of-the-unsolved/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters...2018-12-0436 minJim Harold\'s Crime SceneJim Harold's Crime SceneA Body at the BelvedereA mysterious death at a historic hotel is the subject of this week's Crime Scene. Dr. Mikita Brottman is our guest. You can find her book at Amazon.com: An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere Thanks Dr. Brottman!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-11-1536 minLETTERS READLETTERS READLETTERS READ: Text Dating Part IWelcome to PART I in the fifth installment of LETTERS READ. The ongoing series of live events in which local artists interpret personal letters written by culturally vital individuals from various times and New Orleans communities presented by me, Nancy Sharon Collins, and Antenna. Thanks to Antenna, Press Street, Paper Machine, and to contributors Mikita Brottman, Kyle Petrozza, John Rushing, Cate Root, Erin Callais, Folwell Dunbar, Chris Kamenstein, Charles Thomas T. Strider, and to emcee Adam Newman.2018-03-3049 minSmarty PantsSmarty Pants#30: Jane Austen and the Making of DesireThis week on the podcast, we’re talking about sublimated desires—and the repressed kind, too. William Deresiewicz expands on an essay he wrote for us about being a man in Jane Austen’s world—and how her novels are about so much more than Colin Firth-as-Mr. Darcy. And Hallie Lieberman explains how the history of sex toys—and the laws banning them—can illuminate America’s complicated relationship with sexuality. • Go beyond the episode: William Deresiewicz’s essay, “A Jane Austen Kind of Guy” • Read an essay on the dark underbelly of Mansfield Park’s grand estates and country balls from Mikita Brott...2017-11-2037 minRoughly SpeakingRoughly SpeakingMaximum-security inmates read Shakespeare in professor's prison book club (episode 109)Mikita Brottman, a literary scholar and professor in humanities at the Maryland Institute College of Art, established a book club for inmates at Maryland’s maximum-security Jessup Correctional Institution. The club members, some of them convicted murderers serving life sentences, read Melville’s "Bartleby," "The Scrivener", Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness," Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," Stevenson’s "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and Poe’s "The Black Cat," among other works. Brottman, who is also an author and psychoanalyst, tells about her experiences sharing her favorite books with prisoners in a new memoir, “The Maximum Security Book Club,” published by Harper Collins.Brottman...2017-11-0532 minSmarty PantsSmarty Pants#3: Reading Lolita in Maximum Security PrisonHow do you run a literature course for convicts, and what do a headless chicken and Pinochet have in common? Mikita Brottman discusses her new book, The Maximum Security Book Club; Idra Novey reads a short story; and we venture underground to check out what's happening to the abandoned streetcar tunnels under Washington, D.C. Mentioned in this episode:• Idra Novey’s short story, “Under the Lid”• Our original coverage of the Dupont Underground• Mikita Brottman’s essay, “Jane Austen’s Ivory Cage”Tune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public...2016-07-1142 minDownload Free Audiobook in Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsDownload Free Audiobook in Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsThe Maximum Security Book Club by Mikita Brottman | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Maximum Security Book Club Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Beverley Crick Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-16 Publisher: HarperAudio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman...2016-06-077h 07Start: This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.Start: This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita BrottmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263961to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Beverley A. Crick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman star...2016-06-077h 08Audiobooks in Biography & MemoirAudiobooks in Biography & MemoirThe Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita BrottmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison Author: Mikita Brottman Narrator: Beverley A. Crick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 7, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brot...2016-06-0705 min