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Kristin & Mogab
A podcast for people who love stories about sketchy people doing sketchy things. Join us each week as Kristin tells Mogab about all her favorite true crime creepers, from con artists to serial killers. Who are your hosts? Kristin is a true crime fanatic who loves talking all things true crime. Mogab is a true crime newbie who hasn’t heard of any of it, but is here for ALL of it. New episodes every Thursday! Follow us on all the things @creeperspod and get access to our bonus content at www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers
Shrien and Anni Dewani had only been married for 3 weeks when they arrived in Cape Town, South Africa for their honeymoon, and they'd only been in Cape Town for a day when tragedy struck. While out sightseeing one night, their taxi was hijacked by two men. The driver and Shrien were kicked out of the car, and later the car was found with Anni's body inside. It was utterly devastating for everyone that had ever known and loved Anni, but no one could guess where this investigation would take them.
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Sources: The Honeymoon Murder - The Atavist Magazine Living in Khayelitsha is murder, say residents of the underpoliced township Anni: The Honeymoon Murder | Discovery+
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Michael and Kristine Barnett are convinced that their adopted daughter, Natalia, is not a 6 year old little girl from Ukraine, but a psychotic adult imposter using her dwarfism to masquerade as a child. They manage to convince a judge that this is true, and after that life will get much, much more difficult for Natalia. SPONSORS: Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/50creepers and and use code 50creepers for 50% off plus free shipping! Brilliant Earth Visit Brilliantearth.com to see all their beautiful jewelry! Sources: HBO Documentary - The Curious Case of Natalia Barnett Five-year-old girl who started her period age four now faces the menopause after suffering from Addison's Disease | The Independent Dr. Phil S18E44 ~ Ukrainian Orphan- Child or Adult Sociopath- The Exclusive Interview 6 Facts About Fecal Smearing That You Need To Know Antisocial personality disorder - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic. 5 Things To Know About The Natalia Grace Barnett Case | Shows | Investigation Discovery. Did Michael, Kristine Barnett change Natalia Grace's age and abandon her? Here's what we know Study: Experiencing childhood trauma makes body and brain age faster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is one of the most complex and bizarre stories we’ve covered: the story of Natalia Grace, a little girl adopted from Ukraine whose age and behavior ignited a global firestorm of controversy. When Michael and Kristine first adopted 6 year old Natalia, everything was great. Natalia was welcomed into the family, she seemed to fit right in. But after a few months, issues started to arise that caused the Barnett’s to question who Natalia really was. Was she an innocent child looking to be loved by her adopted family, or was everything about her a lie? SPONSORS: Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/50creepers and and use code 50creepers for 50% off plus free shipping! Brilliant Earth Visit Brilliantearth.com to see all their beautiful jewelry!
SOURCES: HBO Documentary - The Curious Case of Natalia Barnett
Five-year-old girl who started her period age four now faces the menopause after suffering from Addison's Disease | The Independent
Dr. Phil S18E44 ~ Ukrainian Orphan- Child or Adult Sociopath- The Exclusive Interview
6 Facts About Fecal Smearing That You Need To Know
Antisocial personality disorder - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic.
5 Things To Know About The Natalia Grace Barnett Case | Shows | Investigation Discovery.
Did Michael, Kristine Barnett change Natalia Grace's age and abandon her? Here's what we know
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This is one of the most baffling stories we have ever covered. Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos were two young men who vanished into thin air under eerily similar circumstances. In January of 2004, Terrance vanished after he was last seen getting into the backseat of Sheriff's Deputy Steven Calkins' car, who initially said he had no recollection of the event. Later, his memory would return and he said he'd only given Terrance a ride to work at a nearby Circle K. This story left so many questions unanswered: Terrance did not work at the Circle K, so why would he have told the deputy that? And where had he gone after the Circle K? This case would become even more baffling when it was connected to the disappearance of a man named Felipe Santos, who had gone missing a few months before Terrance after last being seen in Deputy Calkins' squad car. At that time, Calkins had said he'd only given Felipe a ride.... to a nearby Circle K.
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Sources: Disappeared - Season 5, Episode 3: Crime and Punishment Never Seen Again: Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2 https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/VKJQeGxZPxOs96Zh6a8Rh5E79jqr17Vg/\ The Naples, Florida, deputy and the disappearances of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases | CNN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When a police officer saw a red car stopped at a green light just after 2 AM, he figured the driver had fallen asleep and he blew his horn hoping to wake the person up and continue on his way. What he didn’t expect was for the driver, a very small, young woman, to get out of the car and start confessing to a murder. The woman was 28 year old Nikki Addimando, and she told the police officer how she had shot and killed her boyfriend of 9 years, Christopher Grover, and that his body was lying on the couch in their apartment. She told the officer she'd done it in self defense - Chris has been horrifically abusive to Nikki throughout their 9 year relationship. But there was something about her story the officer didn't like, and the prosecutor thought she could see Nikki for exactly what she really was - a master manipulator. SPONSORS: Hello Fresh Go to HelloFresh.com/50creepers and and use code 50creepers for 50% off plus free shipping! Brilliant Earth Visit Brilliantearth.com to see all their beautiful jewelry!
Sources: Get Help - 50 Obstacles to Leaving - The Hotline National Statistics on Domestic Violence Judge denies use of DVSJA in Poughkeepsie murder trial – The Miscellany News The Evidence Against Her - Type Investigations People v Addimando :: 2020 :: New York Other Courts Decisions Watch 48 Hours Season 33 Episode 59: The Case Against Nicole Addimando - Full show on Paramount Plus Watch 20/20 Season 45 Episode 18 Kill Or Be Killed Online Nikki Addimando speaks out from prison and shares her story - ABC News Battered Woman Syndrome Is a Legitimate Defense (From Violence: Opposing Viewpoints, P 158-161, 1996, David Bender, et al, eds. -- See NCJ-159343) | Office of Justice Programs When Can a Woman Who Kills Her Abuser Claim Self-Defense? | The New Yorker Someone I Know is Being Abused. Should I Call the Police? - The Hotline Battered Woman Syndrome Restraining orders among victims of intimate partner homicide | Injury Prevention Is the Heat of Passion Biased Against Women? | Psychology Today Women Who Kill Their Abusers Go to Prison. So Why Did Rachel Walk Free? Why don't women leave? - Women’s Aid Nicole Addimando guilty verdict a rare outcome in Dutchess County history Are women punished more harshly for killing an intimate partner? | US crime | The Guardian Nicole Addimando's sentence reduced under Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act
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It was every parent’s worst nightmare: Two days after Christmas, Sam and Joyce Knott’s very reliable daughter, Cara, never made it home. They knew something was wrong, so they spent the entire night searching everywhere for her. They pleaded with the police to help with the search because this was so out of character for her, but all of their cries for help were ignored. That is, until her body was discovered. Now the police would have to investigate a murder, which would lead to the discovery of a serial predator…. One of their own.
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SOURCES: The Murder of Cara Knott at the Hands of a CHP Officer | by Lori Johnston Prosecutors Outline Evidence They Say Ties Peyer to Slaying of Knott - Los Angeles Times True Stories of Law & Order: SVU: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show - Kindle edition by Dwyer, Kevin, Fiorillo, Juré. Murder Behind the Badge: True Stories of Cops Who Kill eBook : Dittrich, Stacy, Pat Brown: Kindle Store KNOTT v. STATE (1994) Mom to Face Cara Knott’s Killer – NBC 7 San Diego Sam Knott; Father of Murder Victim - Los Angeles Times A Father's Crusade : Eight years after a CHP officer murdered his daughter, Sam Knott is still trying to childproof the world. Officer Allegedly Altered Citation Night of Slaying : Driver Says Hour of Ticket Changed to Time of Killing An Anxious Peyer Showed Undue Interest in Knott Case, Officer Says - Los Angeles Times Jury Deadlock Ends Peyer's Murder Trial - Los Angeles Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Picture it: you’ve just made a dream come true by moving from the midwest to the beach. What could make it better? Oh right, the perfect guy. Joe Collier was seemingly the perfect man for Candy Williams. He was good looking, charming, smart, he seemed to have his act together. What’s not to like? Candy thought her search for the one was over. He spoiled her with gifts, he was always wanting to give her whatever she needed, he was so attentive to her. But in April of 2006, she walked into her house to find what I would consider a horror scene. Every surface of the house was covered in thousands of post it notes, all of them saying something along the lines of I’m sorry, it’s too hard, I can’t do this. From here, Joe’s behavior became increasingly bizarre. Candy started to realize that he was not her perfect match. Just when she thought it couldn’t get any worse, she found out about…… the murders.
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Sources: I Dated a Psycho (S1, E1) | Full Episode | LMN A mother's pain, a dark secret A teen killer's dark secret Woman wants isle to know of killer's presence | Local News Youth Convicted in Adoptive Parents' Murders Collects from Estate | AP News Teen's Dark Secret: He Murdered His Family - ABC News Peter Zimmer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Ethan Allen School, Wisconsin Inmate Booking
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We are still on vacation this week but didn't want to leave y'all hanging, so we are releasing an episode from the vault! This was one of the first bonus episodes we ever released, and still one of Kristin's favorites :) Martin McDonagh was driving through Vidor, Texas when he saw a series of billboards with a dramatic message: Raped While Dying. Still No Arrests. From Day One Police Knew Who Did It. These billboards left a very emotional impression on him. Such an impression that, without knowing the full story behind those billboards, he wrote a screenplay inspired by what he saw called 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which he would also go on to direct. Some of the billboards in the movie came word for word from the billboards he’d seen in Vidor. And in the real case, 30 years later, there have still been no arrests in the murder of Kathy Page, even though those billboards say the case is solved and police know who the culprit is. So today I’m telling you the true story behind the movie. This is the story of 3 Billboards Outside Vidor, Texas, where the more I dug, all I found were lies upon lies, and at the center of it, heart ache. The more I read about this case, the more I realized - nothing was what it seemed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Originally released as a mini creep on our Patreon There are so many myths and rumors surrounding human trafficking, to the point where it's confusing what it actually is. So we decided to spend this mini creep talking about what is human trafficking, and what it is not. Sources: Myths, Facts, and Statistics - Polaris.
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It was January 11, 1999 in Katy, Texas when 30 year old David Temple called 911 to report the murder of his wife, Belinda Temple. He said that he'd been running a few errands with his 3 year old son, Evan, and arrived home to find Belinda dead in their closet, shot to death. Years would go by without any movement in the case. Investigators were at a standstill. They were certain they knew exactly what happened to Belinda, but they just couldn't prove it. Sources: Book: Shattered by Kathryn Casey How a Texas football coach twice found guilty of his wife's murder may still walk free - ABC News David Temple's call for help - CBS News David Temple sentencing: Former HS coach sentenced to life for murder of pregnant wife
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In a bizarre tale that captivated the sports world, a star linebacker at Notre Dame found himself entangled in an intricate web of deception and emotional manipulation. When Manti Te'o started talking to Lennay Kekua online, they quickly bonded over their Samoan culture, their faith, and their connection to football. Texts turned to phone calls, and Manti found himself falling for her. But then, in September of 2012, he got a call letting him know that Lennay had died of the leukemia she'd been battling. Manti was heartbroken, but he decided to use his grief to fuel his football game, and he became unstoppable. Everyone knew what he'd gone through, and everyone was rooting for him. It seemed like such an inspirational story. That is, until he, and the entire world, discovered it was all a lie.
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Sources University of Notre Dame The New York Times | As ESPN Debated, The Manti Te'o Story Slipped Away Wikipedia | Manti Te'o Manti Te’o: A Linebacker, A Made-up Girlfriend and a National Hoax (Lateef Mungin and Steve Almasy) Yahoo Sports | A Decade Later, The Real Tragedy of The Manti Te’o Story is How a Victim Was Turned Into the Butt of a Joke (Dan Wetzel) Deadspin | Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax (Tim Burke and Jack Dickey) Washington Post | Manti Te’o, Victim of a Catfishing Hoax, Hopes He’s Still an Inspiration (Cindy Boren) Daily Mail | Manti Te'o hoaxer agrees to do voice of 'girlfriend Lennay Kekua' during interview where he explains his struggle to 'recover from homosexuality' Dr. Phil | Exclusive: The Man behind the Manti Te'o Girlfriend Hoax Netflix | Untold The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After an incredible investigation, private investigator Ken Brennan managed to discover how Inna Budnytska had left the hotel, and he had identified her attacker on camera. But he was still a long way away from discovering who the man was, and bringing him to justice.
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Sources: The Case of the Vanishing Blonde | Vanity Fair Watch 20/20 Season 41 Episode 31 The Woman in the Suitcase Online 20/20: ‘Woman in Suitcase’ Won $300,000 Settlement From Miami Hotel How a Serial Rapist Was Finally Caught Thanks to a Suitcase and an Eagle-Eyed Private Investigator
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Inna Budnytska was living temporarily in a Miami hotel when, on February 21, 2005, she was found dumped on the side of the road, viciously beaten, raped, and left for dead. The investigation into her attack quickly hit a dead end when no one could figure out how she left the hotel in the first place. She was seen on camera going up to her room, and then never seen on camera again. The case went cold, until Inna filed a lawsuit against the hotel, and the hotel hired private investigator Ken Brennan to look into the matter. And there was nothing Brennan loved more than a good mystery.
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Sources: The Case of the Vanishing Blonde | Vanity Fair Watch 20/20 Season 41 Episode 31 The Woman in the Suitcase Online 20/20: ‘Woman in Suitcase’ Won $300,000 Settlement From Miami Hotel How a Serial Rapist Was Finally Caught Thanks to a Suitcase and an Eagle-Eyed Private Investigator
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It was April 26, 2006. 16 year old Ashley Reeves had plans to go to a job interview that afternoon and then to play basketball at a park afterwards. Before she left, she promised her mom she'd be home before her 10 PM curfew, but her curfew came and went, and Ashley never returned home. Panicked, her mother started searching for her. She called the police, she called Ashley's friends, she drove around the town. But Ashley was nowhere to be found. Police started hearing from friends that Ashley was in a secret, romantic relationship with an older man, and that's when their investigation lead them to a high school teacher named Sam Shelton.
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It's SPOOOOKY season, y'all! I've been saving this one up for our Halloween episode, and Mogab was thoroughly creeped out so job well done! It was June of 2014, and Derek and Maria Broaddus were living the American dream: they had just closed on their dream home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey for $1.4 million. They loved everything about this house, and couldn’t wait to move in with their 3 young kids. But their dream became their nightmare when anonymous, threatening letters started showing up at the house, signed by someone calling themselves "The Watcher." The Watcher said it was their job - nay, their OBSESSION - to watch 657 Boulevard, just as their father did before them, and their grandfather before that. The Watcher referred to their kids as "young blood" and asked if they'd discovered what was hidden in the walls. And there was nothing the Broadduses could do to stop the letters from coming. Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! FACELESS Start binging new true crime podcast FACELESS now and look for new episodes dropping every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. Nobody Should Believe Me Your new true crime binge! Listen to Nobody Should Believe Me and explore the fascinating phenomenon of Munchausen by Proxy. New episodes drop every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In June of 2011, 27 year old Lauren Giddings was senselessly murdered. She had just graduated form law school, and was a month away from taking the BAR and becoming a full fledged attorney. When her friends and family discovered she'd been murdered, everyone was shocked. They couldn't figure out who would do something like this. Police had several suspects in mind, but they narrowed it down quickly when her neighbor, Stephen McDaniel, gave an odd interview to a local reporter.
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We're living in frustration city for this one! This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the disappearance of Jason Landry - a fellow Texas State University student who was driving home to the Houston area for Christmas break of 2020 and disappeared in the small town of Luling, Texas. His car was found crashed and abandoned on a gravel road miles from the interstate. The clothes he was wearing were found strewn about the road. And Jason was nowhere to be found.
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Rita Crundwell was living the high life. In 2011, she was a big deal on the quarter horse circuit; she had 52 world championships under her belt, and ran one of the best known quarter horse breeding operations in the country. She was incredibly successful, and it showed. She owned multiple homes, multiple cars. She had a $2 million dollar motor coach she used to take her to her horse competitions, and a $250,000 horse trailer to tow the horses. She was living a life of luxury, with her furs and her jewels. She also just so happened to be the treasurer for the small city of Dixon, Illinois. And the city's finances were in much worse shape than hers.
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Sources: Chicago Magazine | Remember Rita? Documentary Digs Into Illinois' Most Interesting Embezzlement (Bryan Smith) Fraud Magazine | Dixon's Quiet Hero (Dick Carozza) Wikipedia | Rita Crundwell Documentaries All The Queen’s Horses
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It was in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 3, 2016 when 19 year old Sarah Stern's car was found abandoned on a bridge in New Jersey. The car was reported by a few passers-by, and when police responded they could see the car wasn't damaged in any way, it had just been left abandoned, keys still inside. It appeared to be a suicide, but as police spoke with Sarah's friends, the possibility that she'd run off to Canada seemed to be likely. It wasn't until a big break in the case that police realized things were much more sinister than that. Sources: NJ.COM | Family searching for Sarah Stern found her Suspected Killer’s phone. Turns Out He Dropped it at the Crime Scene App. | Sarah Stern Murder: The 5 Most Disturbing Quotes from Confession Video (Kala Kachmar) App. | Sarah Stern Murder: A Shooting Star Text to her Dad, and Then Forever Silence (Kathleen Hopkins) Heavy | Anthony Curry: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know NJ Courts | State of New Jersey VS. Preston O. Taylor App. | Sarah Stern Murder Trial: Small Details Led to Liam McAtasney's Conviction (Kathleen Hopkins) App. | Sarah Stern Murder Trial : What Happened Each Day (Kathleen Hopkins) Sponsored by: BetterHelp! Visit www.BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month. Hello Fresh! Visit www.Hellofresh.com/CREEPERS65 and use code CREEPERS65 for 65% off AND free shipping! Framebridge! Visit www.Framebridge.com and use promo code CREEPERS to save an additional 15% off your first order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ashley Ellerin was loving her life in Hollywood, California. She was a student at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and she loved taking advantage of the Hollywood nightlife. She had a large social circle that included celebrities, and was pursuing a modeling job herself. But on February 21, 2001, as she got ready for a date, Ashley was viciously murdered inside her own home. Robbery was ruled out as a possible motive, as was sexual assault. Police couldn't figure out why someone would have wanted to hurt her. And then investigators got a call from detectives in Chicago, who were investigating a murder a lot like Ashley's. And as they investigated further, more victims were uncovered.
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Just before Thanksgiving of 2003, Dru Sjodin was living her best life at the University of North Dakota. She'd just finished a shift at her job at Victoria's Secret and then did a little Christmas shopping at the mall. She was on the phone with her boyfriend as she walked to her car in the parking lot, when suddenly the call was disconnected. Her boyfriend figured the call had dropped, but when she still hadn't shown up at her second job several hours later, her friends and family began to worry. When she still hadn't returned that night, it was all hands on deck to find her. This podcast is sponsored by BETTER HELP! Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month.
Sources: Articles CNN | Rodriguez Victim Tipped Police in Sjodin Case Wikipedia | Murder of Dru Sjodin Travel Weekly | Remembering Dru Sjodin (Alan Fredericks) Legacy Obituaries | Dru Sjodin Inforum | Dru Sjodin Obituary Grand Forks Herald | Farewell, Dru (Steve Lee) The Dickson Press | 15 Years Later, Memory of Dru Sjodin Lives On UND Blog | The North Dakota Clothesline Project and Take Back the Night Rally return to UND’s Memorial Union this Week Perham Focus | Dru is Not Forgotten: Linda Walker, Sjodin's Mother, Urges Students to Help End Violence Inforum | Alfonso Rodriguez's Intellectual Disability Did Not Play a Role in Overturning Death Sentence (April Baumgarten) Shows On the Case with Paula Zahn: Season 8, episode 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Whitaker family was in celebration mode - their oldest son, Thomas "Bart" Whitaker, had just finished his final exam at Sam Houston State University, he'd soon be walking the stage, and his parents, Tricia and Kent, and brother, Kevin, were so excited for him. They all went to dinner at Pappadeaux's restaurant near Sugar Land, Texas to celebrate, but when they got back home from dinner, their night turned into a horror show. As the family started filing into their home, a masked intruder inside began shooting them one by one. This podcast is sponsored by BETTER HELP! Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month.
Sources: Articles Texas District & County Attorney's Association | A Most Unusual Suspect (Jeff Strange) CBS News | Texas Man Targeted by a Hitman Fights for the Life of the Person Who Ordered the Murder – His Son (Peter Van Sant) ABC News | Murder in the Family: 'I Wanted Them Dead' (Harry Phillips & Elissa Stohler) Forensic Files Now | Bart Whitaker: Relative Tragedy ABC News | 'Murder by Family': Read Shocking Excerpt The Houston Chronicle | Whitaker Lawyer Attacks Credibility of Witness (Eric Hansen) ABC News | 'Sugar Land' Culprit Made New Life in Mexico (Denise Martinez-Ramundo & Harry Phillips) Wikipedia | Thomas Bartlett Whitaker Medium | The Whitaker Family Murders of Sugar Land, Texas Video YouTube | 911: The Sugar Land Conspiracy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Valerie McDaniel met Leon Jacob, it was not love at first sight. She found him arrogant, but was drawn to him somehow. She'd gone through a recent divorce, ending a 17 year marriage from her husband Mack McDaniel, and Leon had also recently ended a relationship. Valerie felt like they were just what the other needed. What she didn't know was that Leon had unresolved stalking charges on his ex-girlfriend, Meghan Verikas, and he was willing to do whatever he had to to make sure those charges went away.
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Beverly Carter was one of the top real estate agents in Little Rock, Arkansas. She loved her job, but over the past several years crime against real estate agents had been rising, and she was taking her safety seriously. She never went to a showing without letting her husband, Carl, know where she'd be, and she even had a secret code with the other agents in the office so they could let each other know if they were in trouble. But even with the precautions she took, one night, Beverly never came home from a showing. When Carl went to the property to look for her, he found her car with her purse still in the front seat, but no sign of Beverly anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lisa Marie Techel and her husband, Seth Techel, were high school sweethearts. They married young, both with aspirations of going into law enforcement. Lisa wanted to be like her father, Todd Caldwell, who worked for the sheriff's department in their small town in Iowa. But those dreams came crashing down one morning when Seth said he heard a gunshot go off while he was in the shower. He jumped out of the shower and raced to where Lisa was sleeping in their bedroom to see that she'd been shot in the side. She was dead, and Seth was certain he knew who had done this: their neighbor, Brian Tate.
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The Hadleys lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida, a town that was not built with teenagers in mind. There was only one movie theater but seven funeral homes, and the mall was pretty far away. There wasn't much to do, but on Saturday, July 16, 2011, the teenagers of Port St. Lucie had big plans - Tyler Hadley was throwing a party. No one could believe that Tyler's parents would let him throw a party - he'd been in a lot of trouble recently, and they were strict. But Tyler insisted - the party was on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Like everyone else in March of 2020, Gretchen Anthony was trying to do her part for the pandemic by staying home, posting memes on Facebook, and watching Tiger King (probably). But after Thursday, March 19, there were no more posts from Gretchen on facebook. Her profile went dark, and she stopped communicating with loved ones. She even stopped sharing her location on her phone with her daughter, something she took very seriously. But then on Monday, March 23, 2020, Gretchen’s friends and family started getting some bizarre texts from her. It started with a message saying she had been diagnosed with the Caronavirus, but after a few days, her loved ones started to doubt that was true. They started to think that something terrible happened to Gretchen, and someone was using the pandemic to cover up what they'd done to her.
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In 1998, women in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia were going missing. 14 year old Natasha Ryan was last seen being dropped off for school. Then Julie Turner, Beverly Leggo, and Sylvia Benedetti turned up missing. Police thought they'd traced these disappearances back to a serial rapist who had murdered 9 year old Keyra Steinhardt. But they would come to find out that nothing about this case was as it seemed.
In the 1960's, Ben and Bernice Novack were Miami Beach royalty. They were the owners of the Fountainbleu hotel, the hottest spot on Miami beach, known for it's old Hollywood glamour style. Everyone from JFK to the Rat Pack stayed there, and it was the place to be. The Novacks lived in the Penthouse Suite with their son, Ben Jr., until like all good things, the era came to an end in the 70's when the hotel went bankrupt. By 2009, Bernice was widowed and living a quiet life, while her son, Ben, found success in the hospitality industry. Then, in April of 2009, Bernice was found dead in her home at 86 years old. It appeared she had slipped getting out of her car and then stumbled into her house, where she died. Police and the medical examiner ruled her death accidental. It's unlikely that anyone would have ever looked twice at Bernice's death if not for what happened just three months later, when her now 53 year old son, Ben, was found dead in his hotel room.
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Wikipedia | Fontainebleau Miami Beach
CBS News | "48 Hours": How a Reporter Uncovered the Murder of Miami Matriarch Bernice Novack (Julie Knipe Brown)
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We're so excited to be back! This week, we're talking about the kidnapping of Denise Huskins. In the middle of the night on March 22, 2015, a group of broke into the home of Aaron Quinn and kidnapped his girlfriend, Denise Huskins. Aaron's story involved kidnappers wearing wet suits who played pre-recorded messages and wanted very little ransom for Denise's return. His story seemed so unbelievable to police, who were convinced early on that Aaron had done something to Denise. When that seemed unlikely, they formed a new theory: that Denise had never been kidnapped, and she was actually the real life Gone Girl.
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NPR | Man Pleads Guilty To Elaborate Kidnapping Initially Deemed A Hoax By Calif. Police (Merrit Kennedy)
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Briana Denison was a 19 year old psychology student at Santa Barbara City College who was back home in Reno, Nevada over the winter break in January of 2008. The night of Saturday, January 19, Brianna stayed the night on a friend’s couch, but the next morning, she wasn’t there. Her cell phone, shoes, and her purse had all been left behind, as well as a few drops of blood on the pillow where she’d been sleeping. But there was no sign of Brianna anywhere.
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Reno Gazette Journal | Brianna's Law has matched more than 1,000 DNA samples to crimes (Siobhan McAndrew)
Reno Gazette Journal | Being Brighton: Brianna Denison’s Brother Talks About His Sister's Murder (Siobhan McAndrew)
CBS News | Brianna Denison's Killer, James Biela, Gets Death; Mom Says "He Messed With the Wrong Family" (Carlin Miller)
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Tom and Jackie Hawks were living their best lives. They'd scrimped and saved for years to allow themselves to retire early. They bought a yacht, aptly named the Well Deserved, and they moved in, living their lives cruising down the California coast. But then they got the best news - their son's wife was pregnant with their first grandchild. They knew they would need to change their lifestyle if they wanted to be close enough to the baby for frequent visits, so they put the Well Deserved up for sale. They were excited when a young couple showed interest in the boat. But after they took this couple out for a sea trial, Tom and Jackie Hawks were never seen again.
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Wikipedia | Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks.
Medium | Death at Sea — The Yacht Murder of Tom and Jackie Hawks (A.W. Naves)
The Orange County Register | Defendant: Jennifer Deleon
The Los Angeles Times | Testimony: Woman knew of Plot to Kill Local Couple (Amanda Pennington)
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Part 2 is here! When we left off, Larry McNabney hadn’t been seen around his law office in months. The new secretary, Ginger Miller, was becoming increasingly suspicious of Larry’s wife, Elisa McNabney, and the office assistant, Sarah Dutra. They’d been coming up with all kinds of stories to explain Larry’s disappearance, but Ginger finally decided to go to the police. The investigation into Larry’s disappearance would uncover a twisted web of lies.
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It was late 2001, and ads for Larry McNabney’s personal injury law firm in Sacramento were running constantly, and he always ended the ads with the same sign off - I’m Larry McNabney. Call Me. Only, people had been trying to call him, and no one had been able to speak to him for months. They might be able to get a hold of his wife and office manager, Elisa McNabney, or the office assistants, Ginger Miller and Sarah Dutra, but they would just always say that Larry was in rehab for his alcoholism or on vacation at a spa.
But after several months went by and Larry still hadn’t returned to his law office, his friends and family started to worry. They realized that the last time anyone had actually seen him was while he was in Southern California for a horse show. But no one that was there could remember the details of their last encounter with Larry because that horse show had been on September 11, 2001, the day the World Trade Center was attacked in New York.
Everyone was so focused on the news, and it was such a chaotic and confusing time, that no one could remember the details of that day, which made investigating his disappearance really tough. Because the truth is, Larry McNabney wasn’t in rehab, and he wasn’t on vacation or at a spa. Larry was dead. This is the murder of Larry McNabney.
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When Deana Wild fell to her death off a cliff in Big Sur, California, authorities assumed this was a tragic accident. She was driving through Big Sur with a couple she lived with, Billie Joe and Virginia McGinnis, who said that she stumbled due to the high heels she was wearing on the cliff's edge. It's not uncommon for people to fall, they see it about once a month. The investigation was wrapped up quickly and Deana's mother Bobbie struggled to move on. When the burial insurance company wouldn't pay out to help with Deana's funeral costs, she asked for the help of a lawyer she knew, Steve Keeney. Keeney asked around, and as he dug into Deana's death and the McGinnis's background, he uncovered a web of lies, betrayal, and murder that spanned decades.
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Mickey Shunick: the golden haired girl who never gave up. It was May 18, 2012 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Mickey rode her bike home from a friend's house late that night, and was never seen again. The next morning was her brother's graduation, and when Mickey didn't show up, her family panicked. Quickly, search teams formed. Texas Equusearch got involved. But still, no sign of Mickey or her bike. That's when police realized they could trace Mickey's route by using surveillance camera footage from different businesses around town, and what they saw disturbed them.
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John Ruetten was absolutely in love with his new bride, Sherri Rasmussen. She was the total package: beautiful, fun to be with, and very smart. At 29, she was already the director of nursing at the hospital she worked at in Van Nuys, California, and she even lectured internationally on critical care nursing. But it all came to a sudden end when John arrived at their townhome just a few months after they'd gotten married to find her dead on the living room floor. He had no idea who could have done this, and told detectives neither of them had any enemies, anyone that would have wanted to hurt them. But Sherri's father, Nels, disagreed. Detectives were certain that this had been a burglary gone wrong, and as they explained that to Nels, he asked them: "Have you checked out John's ex-girlfriend? The lady cop?"
John's ex was a police officer named Stephanie Lazarus, and according to Nels, she'd had plenty of run-ins with Sherri that made Nels uneasy. But no one was listening to him.
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Vanity Fair | A Case So Cold it Was Blue (Mark Bowden)
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New Retro Wave | Top 6 Fashion Trends That Were All The Rage in 1986
The Los Angeles Times | Victim’s Father Told Police of Young Officer’s Threats (Andrew Blankstein and Joel Rubin)
The Atlantic | The Lazarus File (Matthew McGough)
Mercury News | Murder Victim’s Husband Tearfully Describes Affair With Woman Accused of Killing Her
The New York Times | Police Find Suspect in Cold Case: One of Their Own (Randal C. Archibold)
LA Times Blog | LAPD Detective Accused of 1986 Slaying Seeks Dismissal of Case (Andrew Blankstein and Joel Rubin)
KPCC | Defense Rests in Murder Trial for Ex-LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus (Abe Rosenberg)
Los Angeles Daily News | Parents of Sherri Rasmussen Can’t Sue LAPD Over Her Murder in Van Nuys at Hands of Detective Stephanie Lazarus, Court Rules
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The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation (Matthew McGough)
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Mary Yoder was a very healthy 60 year old. She'd never even taken a sick day off from her work as a chiropractor. That was why it was so weird when she suddenly fell violently ill. Doctors couldn't understand it, her family couldn't understand it, and within 48 hours, Mary had died. The investigation into her death weaves a tale of toxic relationships, anonymous letters, lies, betrayal, and a surprising culprit.
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FindLaw | What is ‘Exculpatory’ Evidence?
New York State Senate | The Laws of New York, Chapter 40 Penal Code, Section 125.27 Murder in the First Degree.
Diffen | First Degree Murder vs. Second Degree Murder.
Syracuse.Com | Court Denies Kaitlyn Conley's Appeal that she Killed her Former Boyfriend's Mom (James McClendon)
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We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder (M. William Phelps)
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Love is Respect
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When Han Pan was awoken in the middle of the night by an armed intruder in his home, his only thoughts were of his family. His son, Felix, was away at university, but his 24 year daughter, Jennifer, and his wife, Bich Ha, were home. He was led downstairs to see Bich sitting in the living room, a second intruder holding a gun to his neck. Han and Bich exchanged words in Cantonese - both worried about Jennifer, both wondering how on Earth the intruders had gotten inside the house they always kept locked and alarmed. The answers to those questions would shock everyone.
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Articles**Wikipedia | Scarborough, Toronto
Toronto Life | Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The Inside Story of a Golden Child, The Killers She Hired, And The Parents She Wanted Dead (Karen K. Ho)
Psychology Today | The Masks That We Wear (Susan Sparks)
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A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story (John Grimaldi)
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The Canadian Red Cross | Vietnamese Refugees Documents of Response
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Emily Longley was just 16 years old when she decided to make the move from New Zealand to England to attend Brockenhurst College and complete her A Levels. She thought the move might help her calm down, and put her in an environment where she could focus on her studies. While out with friends one night, she met 19 year old Elliot Turner, someone so spoiled he'd put Affluenza Ethan Couch to shame. Elliot had everything he could ever want the moment he wanted it, and from the moment he saw her, he wanted Emily.
It wasn't long into their relationship before Elliot's controlling side came out. He wanted to control everything - what Emily wore, what friends she hung out with, what she did in her free time. When she wouldn't listen, Elliot got angry.
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NZ Herald | Family Violence: Emily's Story - 'The World Was A Better Place With Her in it'
Press Reader | Ten Years on From Emily Longley's Murder
NZ Herald | 'I admit saying I would kill her' (Ben Ellery)
Daily Mail | Jealous Boyfriend Practiced Strangling Technique on Friend Days Before Model Girlfriend was Murdered' (Eddie Wrenn)
Capital FM | Elliot Turner Guilty of Emily Longley Murder
BBC | Emily Longley trial: Accused 'asked friend to kill'
NZ Herald | Accused's Best Mate: I Had Sex With Emily
Mirror | Should I Drown, Strangle or Set Fire to Emily? Trial Told of Boyfriend's 'Murder Chat With Friend (Euan Stretch)
Mayo Clinic | Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Dailey Echo | Murderer Elliot Turner Targeted By Prisoners (Jane Reader)
Heart | Elliot Turner Gets Life For Emily Longley Murder
That's Life | Evil boyfriend killed my girl over a PHOTO (Kathryn Lewsey)
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Part 2 is here! Make sure you've listened to part 1 before embarking on the second half of this wild ride. It's time for Robert Durst's murder trial for the murder of Morris Black, the neighbor he killed and then dismembered while hiding out in Galveston pretending to be little old mute lady, Dorothy Ciner.
But what about Susan Berman, his best friend that had been murdered just days before a scheduled interview to speak with police about Robert? And what about his wife, Kathleen, who had disappeared without a trace all those years ago? Would there ever be justice for them?
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Galveston, 2001. A human torso washes up in the bay. Investigators identify the body as a man named Morris Black, and their investigation into the murder leads police to Robert Durst. They discover that not only does Durst belong to one of the wealthiest families in Manhattan, but that this murder may not have been his first. Back in 1982, his wife Kathleen disappeared, and no one has seen or heard from her since.
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ArticlesABC News | Robert Durst: A Timeline of His Life and Alleged Crimes (Meghan Kneally)
The Baez Law Firm | Is Handwriting Analysis Admissible
Evidence?
NBC News | Robert Durst Urinated on Candy in Texas CVS,
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NBC News | Robert Durst: the Millionaire Drifter Who
Can't Run From His Past (Alex Johnson)
Buzzfeed News | Witnesses Just Revealed Damning New
Details In The Robert Durst Murder Case (Claudia Rosenbaum)
The New York Times | Did Robert Durst Kill His Wife? An
Investigator’s Letter May Shed Light (Charles Bagli)?
NY Daily News | Robert Durst Will Testify at Murder
\Trial, Say He ‘Found’ Susan Berman’s Body, ‘Panicked’ and Ran: Defense (Nancy
Dillon)
NBC News | Fate of Robert Durst in jury's hands after
long murder trial (AP)
The New York Times | 35 Years Later, Sister in Durst Case
Is Still Looking for Answers (Charles Bagli)
The Guardian | Real estate heir Robert Durst found guilty
of murdering his friend Susan Berman
The LA Times | Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison
for murdering Susan Berman (James Queally).
The Daily Mail | Robert Durst's Murdered Friend Susan
Berman 'Was in LOVE With the real Estate Heir' and 'Posed as His Missing Wife
Kathie to Call in Sick to Her Job at Medical School - on the Day She Vanished,'
Says Witness (AP)
Documentary
The Jinx on HBO
Podcast
Presumed Guilty with Dick DeGuerin
Video
Facebook | Prosecutor: Robert Durst Had a List to Get Rid
of Missing Wife's Body
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Presumed Guilty with Dick DeGuerin
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Simon Leviev's Tinder profile would make almost anyone swipe right. He was the CEO of a large diamond business, he had pictures in private jets, in exotic locales, and seemed to live a very adventurous and exciting life. When Cecelie Fjellhoy, matched with Simon, she found he was also an incredibly sweet and attentive partner. Not only did she get to take a private jet to Bulgaria on the first date, but as their relationship progressed she also woke up to daily good morning texts, she was sent dozens of flowers, and Simon was constantly telling her how she was the love of his life, and how much he wanted to be with her. But Simon had enemies in the diamond trade, and these enemies would stop at nothing to get to him. Simon just needed a small favor from Cecelie to make sure he would be safe...
I expect this man to pay back EVERY. DAMN. DIME. #YouHeardItHereFirst
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VG | The Tinder Swindler
Haaretz | Israeli Conman Impersonated an Oligarch's Son,
Defrauded Women – and Disappeared (Uri Blau)
Esquire | The Tinder Swindler Simon Leviev Pretended to Be the King of Diamonds (Lauren Kranc)
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Netflix | The Tinder Swindler
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Every Thursday, former State Trooper David Camm played in a couple pickup games of basketball at his church's rec center. One Thursday night in September, 2000, he came home, worried his wife, Kim, would be upset that the games had run long that night and he hadn't been home to help get their two small children to bed. But when he opened the garage as he arrived home, he discovered his entire family had been slaughtered there in the garage. As a former cop, he expected his old cop buddies to do whatever it took to find who killed his family. Instead, the police set their sights on David Camm...
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CBS News | The Alibi: Reasonable Doubt (Mary-Jayne McKay)
NBC News | 'We are Going Backward': How the Justice System Ignores Science in the Pursuit of Convictions (Jon Schuppe)
Indiana Daily Student | Suspended Justice (Katie Mettler)
Indianapolis Monthly | Trial and Errors: The David Camm Saga (Brandan Alford)
Justia | David Camm v. State of Indiana
Indy Star | David Camm Confessed to Murders While Getting Tattooed, Former Inmate Says (Grace Schneider)
Find Law | CAMM v. STATE
Wikipedia | David Camm
WHAS 11 | Mala Singh Mattingly Travels from Trinidad to Testify
Englert Forensics | Bio
ABC News | Former Indiana Trooper David Camm Found Not Guilty After 3rd Trial in Family's Slaying (Linsey Davis)
Wave 3 | Camm Trial 8/29: Kim Camm Bought More Insurance, Left Friend ‘Concerned' in Weeks Before Murder
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Hi everyone! Mogab was sick this week, and so unfortunately we do not have a new episode for you all. We did not want to leave you hanging, though, so we decided it was a great time to re-release our episode on Anna Delvey!
This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Anna Delvy - one of the greatest con artists of our generation, which is saying a lot since Millennials can claim both Billy McFarland from Fyre Fest and Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos. Everyone loves a good scam story. And this is definitely a good scam story. So good, in fact, that Shonda Rhimes is making a show with Netflix about Anna Delvy: the German heiress trying to open her Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good (or something like that...). She lives in New York's fanciest hotels, is at all the best parties, and loves to tip big and take lavish trips with her friends. But weird things keep happening: her credit cards keep getting declined, or she's having trouble tapping into her trust fund, so her friends start covering for her. Only, she's not a German heiress. And she doesn't actually have any money. So how did she manage to con all her friends Into funding this lifestyle she wanted so badly?
I want to point people towards the National Center for Victims of Crime, who have a Financial Crime Resource Center. They wanted to provide a resource for victim-centered services in the area of financial fraud and so they produce a guide called
Taking Action: An Advocate’s Guide to Assisting Victims of Financial Fraud
This guide is designed to provide advocates with practical victim-centered resources to help navigate the various options available for reporting crimes, protecting other assets and preventing re-victimization. It also offers advice on how to assist with psychological and – where possible – financial recovery.
Sources:
“How Anna Delvy Tricked New York” by Jessica Pressler, printed in New York Magazine
“My Misadventures with the Magician of Manhattan” by Rachel Deloache Williams, printed in Vanity Fair
“Who Is Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, the Alleged Soho Grifter?” by EJ Dickson for Rolling Stone Magazine
“Anna Sorokin Was Just Sentenced for Grand Larceny and Theft. Here’s What's Next for the ‘Soho Grifter' by Mahita Gajanan
“‘Anna Delvey’ Might Not Profit From Netflix Series on Her Life as a Fake Heiress” by Sharon Otterman of the New York Times.
“Anna Delvey Didn’t Look Rich—Which Is Exactly Why She Seemed Like She Was” by Rachel Tashjian printed in Garage
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It was December 16, 2000 in Tallahassee, Florida. 31 year old Jerry Williams, who was known by his middle name Michael or Mike, was up before dawn, gearing up for a ducking hunting trip on Lake Seminole, a large reservoir located on the Florida Georgia border, about 60 miles from Tallahassee. It was a usual routine for Mike to get up early on the weekends and go duck hunting, he was a very experienced hunter. But Mike never came home from this hunting trip. It was like he just completely vanished.
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Wikipedia | The Murder of Jerry Michael Williams
Tallahassee Democrat | Man With Ties to Cold Case in Jail on Unrelated Charges (Jennifer Portman)
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Evil at Lake Seminole by Steven B. Epstein
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Disappeared - Mystery on Lake Seminole (Season 4 | Episode 10)
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On April 27, 2022, in less than 80 days from the release of this episode, Texas will execute a woman who is most likely innocent, for a crime that most likely never happened in the first place, unless a miracle happens. This is the story of Melissa Lucio, and the corrupt route the state of Texas took to make her the first Hispanic woman on death row.
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Texas Observer | A Texas Mother Could Be Executed in April (Lise Olsen)
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When Sharon Cave got a call that her 21 year old daughter, Jennifer, had not shown up to work, she was worried. Jennifer lived about 3 hours away in Austin, Texas, and there wasn't much Sharon could do except call around to all of Jennifer's friends, hospitals, even morgues. She was able to find out that Jennifer had gone out with a friend of hers the night before named Colton Pitonyak, but when Sharon spoke to Colton he told her he didn't know where Jennifer was. When she still hadn't been found by the next day, Sharon and her boyfriend, Jim Sedwick, decided to make the drive to Austin. Jennifer's car had been found in the parking lot of Colton's apartment, and Sharon knew that behind his door lay the key to Jennifer's whereabouts. When Jim finally managed to get inside the apartment, he was not prepared with what he would find.
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Texas District & County Attorneys Association | The Murder Next
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Wikipedia | The Murder of Jennifer Cave
Medium | The Preventable and Grisly Murder of Jennifer Cave (Brianna Bennett)
Find Law | PITONYAK v. STATE
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The Orange Tree, Season 1
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Alice Sebold is best known for her best selling novel, The Lovely Bones, but that wasn't her first book. A few years before, Alice wrote a memoir titled Lucky that chronicled a brutal rape she experienced in 1981, when she was 18. She wrote about identifying the man that raped her, testifying against him in court, and dealing with the trauma of being raped. In 2019, the film rights to Lucky were purchased and the project was green lit. But as producer Tim Mucciante read through the script and the memoir, he started seeing discrepancies that didn't sit right with him, especially when it came to the conviction of the rapist, Anthony Broadwater.
Sources:
Articles
The New York Times | He Was Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then the Case Unraveled. (Corina Knoll, Karen Zraick and Alexandra Alter)
Daily Mail | How Dogged Movie Producer Proved the Wrong Man Went to Prison for Raping Lovely Bones Author (Jennifer Smith)
Variety | Alice Sebold’s ‘Lucky’ to Be Adapted for Film by ‘13 Reasons Why’s’ Karen Moncrieff (Elsa Keslassy)
Variety | You’ Star Victoria Pedretti Tapped to Play Alice Sebold in ‘Lucky,’ Based on the Author’s Memoir (Angelique Jackson)
MEAWW | How a Netflix Producer Brought Justice to a Man Wrongly Convicted of 1981 Rape Case (Kunal Dey)
Washington Post | FBI Admits Flaws in Hair Analysis Over Decades (Spencer Hsu)
Contexts | Microscopic Hair Comparison and the Sociology of Science (Simon A. Cole and Troy Duster)
Wikipedia | The Lovely Bones
Wikipedia | Alice Sebold
Books
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Other
Go Fund Me | Anthony Broadwater
Medium | Statement from Alice Sebold
Cornell Law Review | Cross-Racial Identification Errors in Criminal (Sheri Johnson)
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In 2003, the survivors of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 were still attempting to recover from the trauma they endured that day. One of the only places to go for support was a Yahoo chat room for 9/11 survivors and family members that lost loved ones in the attacks. One of the survivors in the group, Tania Head, saw the need for survivors to have their own group, one where they could talk freely about the details of that horrific day without the fear of offending anyone. She created a group just for survivors, and it was then that she finally felt comfortable sharing her own story. Tania had been on the 96th floor of the South Tower the day the planes hit, and her journey to survival was so incredible, so harrowing, that it left the others in the group at a loss for words. They admired her so much for what she'd gone through, and the strength she showed. Eventually, Tania helped to form the World Trade Center Survivors Network, and was elected president. She gave guided tours of ground zero, where she would share her story with visitors. No one knew that Tania Head was hiding a secret.
Sources:
Articles
NY Times | In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don’t Fit (David W. Dunlap, Serge F. Kovaleski)
The World Trade Center Survivor's Network | Surviving 9/11 (Gary Bogacz)
Wikipedia | Alicia Esteve Head
DocumentariesThe Woman Who Wasn’t There
Podcast
Swindled | Episode 37: The Survivor
Organizations to Support
https://www.911memorial.org/donate
https://www.tuesdayschildren.org/
https://scholarshipamerica.org/families-of-freedom/
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Stacey Castor seemed to be in a panic when she called the police to report that her husband, David Castor, didn't make it into work. She told them he'd been feeling depressed, and was concerned it was suicide. Police went to the Castor home and discovered David's body on his bed, dead from antifreeze poisoning. Based on Stacey's comments, they were primed to label it a suicide and call it a day. But one detective wasn't so sure, especially when he learned Stacey's first husband was also dead...
Sources:
Articles
ABC News | 'Black Widow' Stacey Castor Accused in Anti-Freeze Murder (Angela Chambers)
ABC News | Exhumed Body Reveals Stacey Castor's First Husband 'Didn't Just Die' (Angela Chambers and Jon Meyersohn)
NCBI | Gender Differentiation in Methods of Suicide Attempts
Medium | Stacey Castor Killed Two Husbands and Tried to Frame Her Daughter (Megan Ashley)
Oprah Daily | Hear Ashley Wallace of Poisoned Love Tell Her Story—in Her Own Words (Elena Nicolaou)
Wikipedia | Stacey Castor
CrimeNeverSleeps | Did "Black Widow" Stacey Castor Kill Her Father Too?
CNY Central | Stacey Castor Case Back in Court (Jim Kenyon)
Shows
20/20 | Season 41 Episode 23 Black Widow
OtherSuicide Letter Scan
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Steven Mineo had been a devoted follower of cult leader Sherry Shriner for all of his adult life. He considered Sherry a prophet of God, and believed her when she preached about Alien reptiles that had come to Earth to take over human bodies, and how these "reptilians" would lead to the return of the antichrist. Through Sherry's devoted online community, Steven met Barbara Rogers, and it wasn't long before they were referring to each other as husband and wife. Everything seemed great, until one day Sherry suddenly turned on Barbara and Steven, and her entire online community followed suit...
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Articles
WNEP News | Homicide Trial Woman Claims Online Alien Cult Led to Deadly Shooting (Carmella Mataloni)
USA Today | She Killed Her Boyfriend Because Of An Alien Cult – And Was Sentenced To Up To 40 Years (Ryan Miller)
Books
Aliens on the Internet By: Sherry Shiner
Shows
Deadly Cults: Online Alien Reptiles
Other
Orgone Positive Energy Devices
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Travis Alexander's friends found him dead in his own home, and immediately they all started pointing the finger at his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias. But Jodi had an alibi - she'd been on a road trip to see some friends when Travis was murdered. Jodi's stories would become more ridiculous as she tried to cover up and excuse what she did, and her trial was unlike any you've ever heard of.
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Travis Alexander met Jodi Arias at a work conference, and sparks started flying immediately. They started a long distance relationship, complete with late night phone calls for hours and trips back and forth to see each other. But the relationship devolved, and quickly became extremely toxic on both sides. They seemed to just bring out the worst in each other, but they couldn't stay away from each other. His friends were worried for Travis, but no one expected the relationship to actually end in murder.
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Books
Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder (Shanna Hogan)
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This week Kristin tells Mogab about the double murder of Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero. It was the summer of 1980, and the girls were hitch hiking their way across the country to Pocahontas County, West Virginia to attend a festival called the Rainbow Gathering. They never arrived, and the investigation into their murders would rove around twists and turns until the unsettling conclusion...
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Books
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Emma Copley Eisenberg)
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On September 10, 1999, Edna Dishon arrived home in the afternoon to see her 17 year old daughter's car in the driveway. Jessica should have still been at school, so Edna went inside the house to see if she'd stayed home sick that day, but Jessica wasn't there. She called the school and found that Jessica had never arrived. But when she looked inside her car, she knew immediately that something was terribly wrong. Inside were Jessica's backpack, purse, phone, and one shoe inside. Her phone had two numbers punched in: 9-1. Edna and her husband, Mike Dishon, rushed to the police station to report Jessica missing, but the sheriff's deputy didn't see any cause for concern. He told them Jessica probably ran away, or maybe she was at the football game. He told them to come back the next day if Jessica didn't come home. But Jessica never came home.
Sources:
Articles
ABC News | Why the First 72 Hours in a Missing Persons Investigation are the Most Critical, According to Criminology Experts (Julia Jacobo)
Mamas Board | Jessica Dishon
WDBR News | Behind Bars: Stanley Dishon Says He Did Not Kill Niece Jessica (Jason Riley)
Documents
Model Policy for the Evaluation of Examinee Suitability for Polygraph Testing
Shows
Blood Runs Cold - Episode “The Secret
Cold Case Files - Episode “A Family Secret”
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We might not recognize the name Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, but in Brazil, she is a celebrity. She was born in the slums of Rio de Janeiro called favelas, the 4th of 5 children, and after she made her way out, she made a name for herself as a gospel singer, eventually becoming a congressman.
But her real claim to fame was the fact that she seemed to have a real heart for the children being affected by the drugs wars in the country, and she started adopting them. She didn’t stop adopting them until she had at least 55 children. She married one of her earliest adopted sons, Anderson Do Carmo. And then, in 2019, Anderson was murdered…
**Sources:
Articles**The New Yorker | The Murder Scandalizing Brazil’s Evangelical Church (Jon Lee Anderson)
Wikipedia | Candelária Massacre
Globo | Flordelis Treated
Children Differently; 'First Generation' Had Access to Better Quality Food and
Rooms (Felipe Freire and Pedro Bassan and Jornal Nacional)
MEL Magazine | Congresswoman, Gospel Singer, Murder Suspect: The Wild Story of Flordelis
The Guardian | Did Brazil’s Evangelical Superstar Have Her Husband
Killed? (Tom Phillips)
Social Media
Twitter | Flordelis Thread
YouTube | Flordelis' Channel
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In 2013, a drunk 16 year old named Ethan Couch caused a car accident that resulted in the deaths of 4 people. He pled guilty to the 4 counts of intoxicated manslaughter and was looking at a possible 20 years in prison. But his defense team was ready. They told the court that Ethan had an excuse for his behavior - he was too rich to know better.
Sources:
Articles
ABC News | 'Affluenza' DUI Case: What Happened Night of the Accident That Left 4 People Dead (Caila Klass and Alexa Valiente)
The New York Times | Teenager’s Sentence in Fatal Drunken-Driving Case Stirs ‘Affluenza’ Debate (Manny Fernandez and John Schwartz)
D Magazine | The Worst Parents Ever (Michael Mooney)
HG Legal Resources | What is the Affluenza Defense?
Science Direct | Alcohol Blood Level
Wikipedia | Affluenza
Dallas Morning News | Judge Defends Putting Ethan Couch on Probation I had all the Facts Most People Don't (Naheed Rajwani)
LA Times | Family of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch Tangled with Law in the Past (AP)
Fox News | What Happened to 'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch? A History of a Family Breaking the Law (Frank Miles)
People | 'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch and Mother Tracked to Mexico After Using Cell Phone to Order Domino's Pizza (Char Adams)
Washington Post | How a Domino’s Pizza Order Helped Lead to the Capture of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch (Elahe Izadi and Sarah Larimer)
Videos
YouTube | |20/20: A Case of Affluenza
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Urban legends of tainted Halloween candy have spread for decades. Every year, worried parents check their children’s candy one by one, take them to the police station to be scanned for metal, anything they can do to make sure it’s okay to eat. And it turns out, we have one man to thank for that fear.
It was a rainy Halloween in 1974 and 8 year old Timothy O’Bryan was trick or treating with his dad, Ronald O’Bryan, and some family friends. The big score that night was a two foot long pixie stick, and he couldn’t wait to try it. But within an hour of eating the candy, Timothy O’Bryan was dead.
Sources:
Articles
Vice | The True Story of the Notorious Trick-or-Treat Murderer (Michael Segalov)
Fox News | Razor Blades and Poisoned Candy: A History of Americans Fearing Halloween (Courtney Moore)
Statesman | 35 Years Later, Memories of Notorious Halloween ‘Candyman’ Murder Remain Vivid (Eric Dexheimer)
Justia | O'BRYAN v. State
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Annie Le disappeared on September 8, 2009, 5 days before she was to marry her college sweetheart. She left her apartment that morning to head to the Yale campus where she was doing research as part of work towards a doctorate in Pharmacology, but when she never arrived home that night, her worried roommate called the police. Police conducted a search and were able to find Annie on the surveillance cameras walking into the research lab, but they couldn't find her anywhere on the cameras leaving the building, and she wasn't found inside the building. It was like Annie Le had simply vanished.
Sources:
Articles
CBS News | Annie Le's Fiance Mourns Yale Student's Murder (Ryan Smith)
The New York Times | Report on Yale Murder Outlines
Suspicions (James Barron and Alison Leigh Cowan)
The Hartford Courant | Affidavit Describes Evidence, Raymond
Clark's Movements (Alaine Griffin)
Academic | The Murder of Annie Le
The New Haven Independent | Annie Le Warrant: Bloody
Boots Read “Ray-C” (Melissa Bailey and Paul Bass)
The Trentonian | Yale Suspect Played Softball on Day Body
Was Found
ABC News | Annie Le's Person of Interest Had Scratches on
Chest, Arms, Back ( Sharyn Alfonsi, Lee Ferran and Russell Goldman)
The Hartford Courant | Records Show Raymond Clark III Was
Last To See Annie Le Alive, Source Says (Dave Altimari, Alaine Griffin, and
Josh Kovner)
Gawker | What We Know About Raymond J. Clark III
(Hamilton Nolan)
The Yale Alumni Magazine | The death of Annie Le (Carole
Bass)
Yale Daily News | Searching for Raymond Clark III (Everett Rosenfeld)
ABC Chicago | Yale Killing Suspect Plans to Plead Guilty
NY Daily News | DNA Shows Annie Le's Blood on Yale Lab
Tech Raymond Clark Boots; Green Pen clue Eyed: Investigators (Michael Daly)
Videos
Investigation Discovery | See No Evil Season 6 - Episode 14: Cold Feet
YouTube | Friends of the University of New Haven Library:
Prof. Dadio - "Murder at Yale, the Annie Le Story"
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16 year old Cyntoia Brown needed money, and she only knew one way to get it: sex work. But after 43 year old Johnny Allen picked her up at a Sonic and brought her back to his house, she shot and killed him. She was arrested for murder, and the prosecution argued that she'd shot him with the intent to rob him. They said she was cruel and merciless and evil. But after facts about her life and the events leading up to the crime came out, people started to wonder: who was the real victim in this situation?
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Services Available to Victims of Human Trafficking
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FASD Communities
Sources:
Articles
Fox 17 News | What Cyntoia Brown-Long would say to Johnny Allen's family (Stacy Case)
The Famous People | Johnny Michael Allen
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | FASDs
Knox News | Here's What Cyntoia Brown-Long Is Doing 2 Years After She Walked Out of a Tennessee Prison
Book
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
Documentaries
Netflix | From Murder to Mercy
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On October 10, 2016, within a 90 minute time frame and surrounded by friends and family, Typhenie Johnson vanished. She’d been making dinner for a date at the apartment she shared with her brother and his girlfriend when her ex, boyfriend, Chris Revill, showed up. They argued downstairs for awhile, and when Chris came back up to the apartment he told everyone she’d gotten in a car with someone and left. She was never seen again.
Several miles away, the Islam family was watching the news when Typhenie’s disappearance was announced. They were shocked. Taalibah Islam had disappeared almost 10 years earlier after having a new baby with Chris Revill. And he’d had a very similar story for the Islam family when Taalibah went missing…
Domestic violence resources:
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Intimate Partner Violence Resources
Sources:
Articles
Local Profile | The Link Between the Disappearances of Two North Texas African American Women (Alexandra Cronin)
JUSTIA | Christopher Revill v. The State of Texas Appeal
from 213th District Court of Tarrant County
Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Ex-boyfriend Sentenced to Life for Kidnapping Woman Who Has Not Been Seen Since 2016
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Elizabeth Horton received a phone call from her daughter, Kathleen Schroll, in the middle of the night, telling her Pete was in the house, he was going to kill her husband Carl, and then kill her. Right away, Elizabeth's son, Randy, called 911 to report the phone call, but by the time police arrived at the Schroll's, it was too late. Carl's body was found in the bedroom, and Kathleen was lying dead in the living room. Both died of gunshot wounds. When police found out about the phone call, and how Kathleen had been in a bitter court battle with a man named Pete Coones over his father's life insurance money, it was crystal clear to police who had committed the murder. But as more information was discovered, there was nothing crystal clear about this case at all...
Sources:
Articles
Chilling Crimes | Olin Pete Coones
Heavy. | Kathleen & Carl Schroll Died in
Murder-Suicide Staged as a Double Homicide
KMBC News | KCK Man Who Spent 12 Years in Prison for
Double Murder Released, Charges Dropped (AP)
The National Registry of Exonerations | Conviction
Integrity Units
Court Documents
Olin Pete Coones V. State of Kansas
Shows
Dateline | The Phone Call
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It was June 20, 2001 when Russell "Rusty" Yates got a phone call from his wife, Andrea Yates, telling him to come home. The couple had 5 children: Noah (7), John (5), Paul (3), Luke (2), and Mary (6 months), and Rusty worried that something was wrong with one of them. When he asked if any of them were hurt, Andrea said yes. When he asked who, Andrea said, "All of them."
It wasn't until he arrived home that he would discover the awful truth - Andrea had drowned each of their 5 children, one by one, in the bath tub. It was an unfathomable crime, and horrified the entire nation. What could possibly lead to something as heinous as this happening?
This is part 2 of Kristin's non-consecutive, so far 3 part hometown series: "The Women of Clear Lake Who Snapped."
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - Phone number 1-800-273-8255
Postpartum Support International
Sources:
Articles
Today | The Andrea Yates Story
Biography | Andrea Yates
ABC News | Preacher Said He Tried to Save Yates Family
CNN | Defense Yates Killed Kids to Save Them (Lisa Sweetingham)
Cult Education Institute | Michael Woroniecki's Influence Over Convicted Murderer Andrea Yates
CNN | Andrea Yates Case: Yates Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
Brownstone Law | 5 children drowned by their mother, Andrea Yates (Robert Sirianni)
Wikipedia | Andrea Yates
Murderpedia | Andrea Yates
Books
Are you there alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
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It was July, 1932 in the Bronx, New York. Prohibition is alive and well, and we’re a few years into the Great Depression. Francis Pasqua, Daniel Kriesberg, and Tony Marino were sitting together in Tony's speakeasy while Tony complains about how bad business is. That's when Francis has a completely brilliant plan - sign one of the regulars up for life insurance and then stage their murder to look like an accident. The group loved the plan, and they got right to work.
Michael Malloy was the down-on-his-luck regular they chose. They figured it would be easy. Michael would come in every day and drink until he passed out. They figured the alcohol would kill him quick enough.
Only... it didn't. The group tried everything they could think of, but Michael just wouldn't die.
Sources:
Articles
True Crime Edition | The Murder Plot of "Iron"
Mike Malloy
Smithsonian Magazine | The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Trivia Library | New York Gangs Murder Trust and Michael
Malloy Part 5
All Things Interesting | The Curious Case Of Michael
Malloy – “Rasputin Of The Bronx”
Podcast
Criminal | Episode 151: The Many Lives of Michael Malloy
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Here is Part 2 to our Cyberstalker episode, continuing the story of the disappearance of Cari Farver. Make sure you listen to part 1 first! This story is confusing enough!
When we left off, Dave is ignoring all the red flags about who his stalker really is. The detectives are a few steps ahead of him, though, and they start to close in on the stalker and discover what really happened to Cari Farver.
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After ending a 12 year relationship, Dave Kroupa decided to get back out there, and he signed up for online dating. After several months of dating a few different women, he met Cari Farver. She seemed perfect: incredibly smart, fun, and looking for a casual relationship, like him. But then, after dating for two weeks, Cari texted Dave asking if they should move in together. He was confused - he'd thought they were on the same page, so he told her no. And then he received a message back from Cari filled with vulgar, abusive insults and threats. And the messages didn't stop coming. He received hundreds a day for YEARS. Dave wanted the messages to stop, but Cari Farver could not be found.
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Articles
Iowa Cold Cases | Cari Lea Farver
Books
A Tangled Web (Leslie Rule)
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Angela Green was 51 when she disappeared in 2019. Her husband, Geoff Green, initially had a very odd explanation for Angela's disappearance. He told their 19 year old daughter, Ellie, that he'd been worried about Angela's mental state, and he'd arranged it so a psychiatric hospital would take Angela from a grocery store parking lot and commit her to their facilities. He said there was a struggle when they took her, and he didn't want Ellie to visit for her own safety. He wouldn't even tell her where the hospital is . Several days later, Geoff broke the news to Ellie - he'd gotten a call from the hospital telling him that Angela had died of a stroke in their care. Geoff said he paid a man from the hospital to cremate her and return her in an urn, which was at his house. He told Ellie they were not going to have a funeral, and he asked her not to tell Angela's family she was dead. Only, there's not a record of Angela's death anywhere in the United States. So what happened to Angela Green? Where is she?
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Sources:
Articles
FOX 4 KC | Warrant Served at Lawrence Home in Search of
Prairie Village Woman Missing Since June 2019 (Sherae Honeycutt)
FOX 4 KC | Over 150 Leads Tracked in Search for Missing
Prairie Village Woman (Sherae Honeycutt)
HuffPost | She Was Told Her Mother Died. So Why Was There No Funeral? Or A Body?
(Melissa Jeltsen)
Podcast
Voices for Justice
Shows
Dateline | Season 29, Episode 11 - Hope Whispers
Social Media
TikTok | Michelle Guo’s @Mishguo
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It was 2013 in Danvers, Massachusetts and Colleen Ritzer had been teaching math at Danvers High School for just 2 years. She loved teaching math and her students loved her, which is why it was such a shock when just before Halloween that year, she went missing. Her parents called around to her friends and colleagues looking for her when she didn't come home at her usual time and wasn't answering her phone, but no one knew where she'd been. Her parents tried not to worry too much - she'd probably made plans and forgotten to tell them, but maybe she'd been in an accident and unable to reach them. They decided to go up to the school and look for her. They found her car in the parking lot, but no sign of Colleen anywhere. And that's when they discovered Colleen wasn't the only person that was missing. Diana Chism had filed a missing persons report on her son, Phillip Chism, after he failed to come home after school. Police investigated both cases, but no one was prepared for what they found...
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Sources:Videos
YouTube | The Disturbing Case of Colleen Ritzer (That
Chapter)
YouTube | Community Heartbroken by Young Teacher's Death
(WCVB Channel 5)
YouTube | Teen Admitted Murdering Danvers Teacher (WCVB)
Articles & Documents
Discover School | Salem Witch Trials - 1692 Salem -
Economic and Social Divisions -
Court Documents | Search Warrants & Warrant Applications
Boston Globe | Official describes brutal injuries to
Colleen Ritzer (Maria Cramer)
CNN | Defense: Teen Had Psychotic Episode During Killing
(Sarah Jorgensen)
The New York Times | Timeline Provides Details for a
Grisly Crime Against a Teacher (Katharine Seelye)
Daily News | Philip Chism, Mass. Teen Accused of
Murdering Teacher, was Coerced into Confession
(AP)
The Salem News | Philip Chism Told police 'Trigger Word'
Made Him Angry at Colleen Ritzer (Julie Manganis)
Boston.Com | Mistake Led to Chism Crime Scene
‘Slaughterhouse’ Being Cleaned (Allison Manning)
The Eagle-Tribune | Families Suffer Through Difficult
Testimony in Chism Trial (Julie Manganis)
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Detectives have uncovered a potential motive to explain why Diane Downs would try to kill her three children, but can they prove it? They work to build their case, but it's going to be tough, especially when Diane becomes a media darling. There is very little evidence, and the only witnesses are severely injured, young children. Meanwhile, Diane has big plans of her own. She wants to have another baby...
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Sources:Books
Small Sacrifices (Anne Rule)
Articles
ABC News | Surgeon Who Helped Save 1 of Diane Downs’ Kids in 1983 After She Shot Her Recalls Chilling Interaction (Effron, Lauren, and Dooley, Sean)
Murderpedia | Diane Downs
TimeToast | Diane Downs Timeline
Wikipedia | Diane Downs
ABC News | Woman On Finding Peace After Learning Mother is Child Killer Diane Downs: 'Though That's Biologically My Makeup, It's Not Who I am Inside (Taudte, Jeca, Schiffman, Keren and Francis, Enjoli)
The Famous People | Diane Downs Biography
The Mommy Murder Case of Diane Downs That Rocked the 80s (Casaus, Sara)
Distractify | Diane Downs Was Sentenced to Life in Prison, but What Happened to Her Husband?
Alcatraz East Crime Museum | Diane Downs
Heavy | Diane Downs’ Children Now: Christie, Danny & Becky Today
Crime Museum | Diane Downs
DeLani Bartlette | Diane Downs: Hungry Like the Wolf
Diane Downs Website
The Trouble With Justice | The Diane Downs Case Was No Small Sacrifice
Videos
Inside Edition | Diane Downs Says From Prison That She Shot Her 3 Kids for Her Lover
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It was late on May 19, 1983 when the car pulled up to the ER in Springfield, Oregon. Inside were three children, and they'd all been shot in the chest. Their mother, Elizabeth Diane Downs, had a horrifying story to tell: she'd been driving the kids home that night when a bushy haired stranger had flagged her down. He tried to steal her car, but when Diane put up a fight, he pulled out a gun and shot her kids. The story seemed so bizarre to detectives, so unbelievable, that they couldn't help but suspect Diane of being behind the shooting. But why would a mother shoot her own children?
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Sources:Books
Small Sacrifices (Anne Rule)
Articles
ABC News | Surgeon Who Helped Save 1 of Diane Downs’ Kids in 1983 After She Shot Her Recalls Chilling Interaction (Effron, Lauren, and Dooley, Sean)
Murderpedia | Diane Downs
TimeToast | Diane Downs Timeline
Wikipedia | Diane Downs
ABC News | Woman On Finding Peace After Learning Mother is Child Killer Diane Downs: 'Though That's Biologically My Makeup, It's Not Who I am Inside (Taudte, Jeca, Schiffman, Keren and Francis, Enjoli)
The Famous People | Diane Downs Biography
The Mommy Murder Case of Diane Downs That Rocked the 80s (Casaus, Sara)
Distractify | Diane Downs Was Sentenced to Life in Prison, but What Happened to Her Husband?
Alcatraz East Crime Museum | Diane Downs
Heavy | Diane Downs’ Children Now: Christie, Danny & Becky Today
Crime Museum | Diane Downs
DeLani Bartlette | Diane Downs: Hungry Like the Wolf
Diane Downs Website
The Trouble With Justice | The Diane Downs Case Was No Small Sacrifice
Videos
Inside Edition | Diane Downs Says From Prison That She Shot Her 3 Kids for Her Lover
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Colleen Shipman's flight arrived in Orlando a little after 1 AM on February 6, 2007. Exhausted, she didn't realize someone else had arrived at the airport - someone that was watching her. They stalked her as she discovered her baggage was delayed and her drink her coffee and eat her danish in the airport Starbucks. They followed her onto the shuttle bus that would take her to her car, and finally, when they were alone in the parking lot, they struck, attacking her with pepper spray before Colleen was able to get away.
The most bizarre part of Colleen's night would be when she discovered the identity of her stalker, and the reason for the attack.
Sources:
Article
People | Astronaut Love Triangle: Colleen Shipman Says of Her
Husband: 'They Were Making Him Out to be Something Horrible' (Jeff Truesdell)
New York Times | Astronaut Charged With Attempted Murder (Maria
Newman and Christine Hauser)
Biography | Lisa Nowak: Why the Astronaut Drove 900 Miles to Attack
Her Ex's Girlfriend (Sara Kettler)
Texas Monthly | Lust in Space (S. C. Gwynne)
Wikipedia | Lisa Nowak
CNN | Ex-astronaut Can Take Off Ankle Bracelet
Book
Out There by: Diane Fanning
Video
YouTube | Colleen Shipman; Astronaut Love Triangle Turns Dangerous
YouTube | Nowak Case: A Look At What Happened At Airport
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On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found in her apartment in Idaho Falls brutally raped and murdered. Despite having plenty of DNA in the case, police quickly ran out of suspects until the following January, when a new lead brought them to 20-year-old Christopher Tapp. His DNA didn't match that left at the crime scene, but that didn't matter - not after he gave police a confession about his involvement. By trial, Chris recanted his confession, saying it was coerced, but why would anyone confess to something they hadn't done?
Sources:
Articles
East Idaho News | After 25 Years, Brian Dripps Goes to Prison for Rape and Murder of Angie Dodge (Eric Grossarth)
CBS News | How A Discarded Cigarette Led to an Arrest In Idaho Teen Angie Dodge's Cold Case Murder (Rybak, Schwartz, DiFiore, O'Connell and McLaughlin)
East Idaho News | Chris Tapp Sues Idaho Falls and Former IFPD Officers for Wrongful Conviction (Grossarth)
ISHI News | Unraveling the Twisted Case of Angie Dodge
East Idaho News | The Angie Dodge Case from 1996 Until Today. What’s Happened, Why and What's Next. (Nate Eaton)
Innocence Project | Christopher Tapp (Ken Otterbourg)
Post Register | Key Witness in Tapp Case Recants Testimony (Johnathan Hogan)
Documentaries/Shows
20/20 | Season 43 Episode 17: Stranger Than Fiction
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On May 30, 2014, Morgan Geyser celebrated her 12th birthday with her two best friends: Payton Leutner and Anissa Weier. They did all the normal stuff 12 year olds do at slumber parties - they went to a skating rink, they played dress up, they played on their phones. But the next morning, Payton was found in the park with multiple stab wounds.
First responders were shocked to find a 12 year old who had been stabbed, but their shock would turn to horror when she told them who had done it: 12 year old Morgan Geyser. And the reason behind the attack would lead investigators down a rabbit hole of internet lore, centered around one character: Slenderman.
Sources:
Articles
NPR | Judge Orders Release Of Wisconsin Woman In Slender Man Case (AP)
Meaww | Where Payton Leutner is Now? Slender Man Stabbing Victim Slept with Scissors Under Pillow (Alakananda Bandyopadhyay)
Know Your Meme | Slender Man
Documentaries/Shows
HBO | Beware the Slenderman - HBO
20/20 | Season 42 Episode 5: The Wicked
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It was the spring of 1997 and Brook Baker was a journalism student at Vincennes University in Indiana, working on an expose of one of the fraternities on campus. One night, her brother went to visit her apartment where he found her dead in her bedroom. In the bathroom, the tub had been left running, and the kitchen sink had been filled with water. As police investigated, their suspect list continued to grow faster than they could eliminate people - there were the brothers of the fraternity, the creepy landlord who would come into her apartment often unannounced, her on again, off again boyfriend. But every lead they went down turned up more questions than answers...
**Sources:
Articles**
Oxygen | Bathtub Clues Left At Crime Scenes Leads To Killer Of 2 University Students (Joe Dziemianowicz)
Documentaries
6 Degrees of Murder | Season 1 Episode 6 “Crime Writer”
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The worst mistake Claire Williamson ever made was the day she responded to an ad in a Seattle daily newspaper to ask for a copy of Fasting for the Cure of Disease, a book by Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. Claire and her sister, Dorothea, who went by Dora, were extremely close and extremely wealthy, heirs to a fortune of nearly 29 million that they alone controlled, but they were obsessed with one thing: fad cures. Cures for what, you might ask? I have no idea because both Claire and Dorothea seemed to be in perfectly fine health. Neither of them suffered from any serious illness. But Claire especially could not let this search for wellbeing go. She would die to be healthy.
Sources:
Books
Starvation Heights (Gregg Olson)
Articles
Healthline | What is An Osteopath
Forgotten Minnesota | The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Murderpedia | Linda Burfield Hazzard (Crow, C.J., Ellis, Fullerton, and Morris, JJ)
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One day, Biology professor Amy Bishop spent 50 minutes in a staff meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before pulling a gun out of her purse and letting shots fire around the conference room. By the time her gun jammed, only a minute into the shooting, she’d already killed 3 people and injured 3 others. At first glance, this seemed to be retaliation - Amy had recently been denied tenure. But then police in Alabama got a phone call from the chief of police in Amy’s hometown near Boston that would send their investigation in an entirely different direction…
Sources:
Articles
The New Yorker | A Loaded Gun (Patrick Radden Keefe)
CNN | Alabama Shooting Survivor "There Was No Way to Ever Anticipate This"
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Rebecca Zahau was found hanging outside the Speckles Mansion on Coronado Island, California. She was naked, bound, and gagged, and there was a disturbing message written on the wall, which to most lay people immediately looked suspicious. But police were quick to categorize this death as a suicide. This was especially odd, since just 2 days later there had been another death in the mansion - that of 6 year old Max Shacknai, which had happened under Rebecca’s supervision. Was this a case of grief leading to a suicide? Or was Rebecca actually murdered, and if so, by whom?
Sources:
Articles
Town & Country | The Mysterious Deaths That Rocked a Wealthy Southern California Enclave (Sean Elder)
Documentaries
Oxygen | Death at the Mansion
Investigation Discovery| Zahau: An ID Murder Mystery
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Martha Puebla was 16 years old when she became a victim of gang violence, gunned down while sitting outside her house chatting with friends. The suspect was obvious - Jose Ledesme and Mario Catalan had been arrested for another murder and told that Martha had identified them as the shooter. But instead of going after Jose and Mario, investigators arrest Mario's little brother, Juan Catalan, for the murder of Martha Puebla. Proving his innocence would require a wild goose chase involving the Dodgers, HBO, Larry David, and an enormous amount of luck.
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Sources:
Articles
The Los Angeles Times | Interrogation, Then Revenge (Joel Rubi & Ari B. Bloomekatz)
LA Weekly | Clearing the Case (Celeste Fremon)
LA Weekly | Bad Night for the Vineland Boys (Christine Pelisek)
The Los Angeles Times | 2 Men Charged in Valley Slayings (Jean Guccione and Andrew Blankstein)
The Crime Column | The Senseless Murder of Martha Puebla (Novella Vakay)
Court Documents
Study Lib | Document 18288765
Documentary
Netflix | Longshot
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Back in Spring of 2017, Fyre Fest was going to be the experience of a lifetime. A luxury music festival in an idyllic tropical setting on a private island in the Bahamas. Festival-goers were promised a real-life island fantasy with luxury accommodations, gourmet food and the chance to party with rappers and models. People paid hundreds to hundreds of thousands for their tickets and accommodations for Fyre Fest, expecting a weekend living in the lap of luxury.
What they got was something slightly less than that. The luxury villas they were promised turned out to be FEMA disaster relief tents. The local seafood, Bahamian style sushi, and pig roast they were promised turned out to be… you know it - cheese sandwiches in a styrofoam container. Mostly rich millennials with job titles like influencer were suddenly resorting to Lord of the Flies level anarchy just to make sure their most basic needs were met.
And it all started when Billy McFarland met rapper Ja Rule...
**Sources:
Articles**The Ringer | Fyre Fight: The Inside Story of How We Got Two Warring Fyre Festival Documentaries in the Same Week (Scott Tobias)
CNBC | Fyre Festival: How a 25-year-old Scammed Investors
Out of $26 Million (Tom Huddleston Jr.).
Daily Beast | Netflix’s ‘Fyre’: Inside the Millennial Scam of the Decade (Amy Zimmerman)
The New York Times | Fyre Festival Ticket Holders Win $7,220 Each in Class-Action Settlement (Sarah Bahr).
Documentaries
Hulu| Fyre Fraud
Netflix | Fyre - The Greatest Party That Never Happened
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In 2001, British tourist Peter Falconio disappeared while traveling with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, through the remote Australian Outback. Joanne was found with her wrists tied, duct tape around her neck, and blood on her shirt. Her story was bizarre and didn’t seem to fit the physical evidence, and the questions in the case would continue to pile up...
Sources:
Articles
The Guardian | Doubts Mount Over Outback Manhunt (Patrick Barkham)
Books
Dead Centre by Robin Bowles
Videos
YouTube | Outback Manhunt: The Search for Peter Falconio
Indigenous organizations:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/06/15/indigenous-charities-you-should-be-supporting/
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This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the murder of Angela Samota. Angela was a 20 year old college student in Dallas, Texas when she called her boyfriend, Ben, in the middle of the night sounding really odd. She said there was a man in her apartment asking to use the bathroom and her phone, and she asked Ben to keep talking to her. When she suddenly hung up, Ben was worried and drove over to her apartment. There, she was found on her bed, stabbed to death. It would take 20 years and a best friend who never gave up on finding Angela's killer for this case to finally be solved.
**Sources:
Articles**
The Dallas Morning News | From the Archives: Architect Suspected of SMU Sorority Student's Murder Cleared in Surprise Twist (Christopher Wynn)
The Washington Post | Her Friend’s Brutal Murder was
Unsolved for Decades. This is How She Helped Find the Killer (Lindsey Bever)
ABC 8 | Man Found Guilty in 1984 Slaying of SMU Student (WFAA Staff)
The Crime Report | Dallas Police ‘Ruined My Day’ in Charging Con in Cold Case Murder
Podcast
Criminal, Episode 88: Cold Case
Other
CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:16-CV-1150-S | Bess V. Davis
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This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Angela Diaz. She was an attorney and a survivor of cervical cancer who had finally found love in Ian Diaz. They were married within a month of meeting each other, and a few months after that Angela became pregnant with twins! Everything was going great for the new couple, until someone started a major harassment campaign against Angela. She started receiving threatening emails, and someone started posting ads on Craigslist, posing as Angela and asking men to make her rape fantasies come true. It became clear that the longer this person continued, the more danger Angela was in. But she knew exactly who was posting the ads and sending the emails....
Sources:
ArticlesLos Angeles Times | Woman is Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Framing Husband’s Ex-fiancée in Craigslist Rape Fantasy Plot (Alene Tchekmedyian)
Fox 5 | Woman Jailed for Months in ‘Rape Fantasy’ Hoax Was Actually a Victim, DA Says (Tribune Media Wire)
Film Daily | True Crime Tales: Why Did Angela Diaz Frame her Husband’s Ex? (Bec Heim)
BuzzFeed News | A “Rape Fantasy” Plot Sent Her To Jail. Now She’s Fighting Back. (Jessica Testa)
OC Weekly | Judge Isn't Impressed With Wrongly Arrested Lady's Case Against Deputy U.S. Marshal (Scott Moxley)
Courthouse News Service | Anaheim Settles Lawsuit by Woman Framed in ‘Rape Fantasy’ Case (Martin Macias Jr.)
Daily Beast | Real-Life ‘Gone Girl’ Framed Love Rival in Twisted Craigslist Rape Plot (Kate Briquelet)
Other
PowerPoint | People vs. Angela Diaz and Exoneration of Michelle Hadley
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We have a special episode for you today! You might call it a passion project. It’s Kristin’s birthday week and for her birthday, she decided this episode was going to be her genie wish case - you know, the one case you would spend a genie wish on to find out exactly what happened.
We all know the case - it’s been covered extensively in podcasts like Serial, HBO documentaries, books, blogs, etc - January 13, 1999, High school student Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her body was found almost a month later, half buried in Leakin Park in Baltimore. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is serving a life sentence for her murder, but we all have QUESTIONS.
This won’t be a total recap of Serial. Instead, Kristin takes Mogab BEYOND Serial, diving into everything Serial left out or didn’t uncover. Let’s get into it!
Sources:
Podcasts
Serial Season 1 (Sarah Koening)
Undisclosed Season 1 (Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, Colin Miller)
Truth and Justice season 1 (Bob Ruff)
Books
Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry and Adnan Syed
Documentaries
The Case Against Adnan Syed
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It's Mogab's BIRTHDAY EPISODE!! It's a two for one episode today where Kristin tells Mogab all about that time our girl, Taylor, was assaulted at a meet and greet, and then sued because of it! The level of audacity is high in this one.
Then, Kristin tells Mogab about Kesha's court situation against her producer, Dr. Luke. Just after Kesha signed a 6 year record deal with Dr. Luke's label, he (allegedly) raped her. Kesha has done everything possible to get out of this contract with her abuser, but the system continues to fail her. You will not listen to 'Praying' the same again.
**Sources
A full list of sources can be found here: Episode 29: Taylor Swift & Free Kesha Sources**
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Kelli Peters was just out there living her best life, volunteering at her daughter's school while running a small business painting tie-dyed jeans, when a police officer came to the school to say he needed to speak to her. The officer told her that they'd gotten a call that she'd been driving at the school under the influence of drugs, and that she had drugs in her car parked at the school. Kelli was shocked. The worst thing she'd ever done in her life was that time she threw her company phone out the window after she'd quit. So she let the officer search her car, and low and behold - they find the drugs. "They're not mine!" Kelli insisted, like every other person in that situation.
But Kelly wasn't lying. It turns out, Kelli had an enemy.
Sources:
Articles
LA Times | Framed (Christopher Goffard)
Other
Data USA | Irvine, CA
Videos
Dr. Phil Episode | PTA Mom Claims Another Mom Tortured
Her Allegedly As Revenge For Schoolyard Spat
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All of Abraham Shakespeare's wildest dreams came true the day he realized he'd won $30 million dollars in the lottery. From dropping out of school in 7th grade to being incarcerated in a juvenile detention center for theft until he was 18, he hadn't had the easiest life. But now, this money would change everything. He wouldn't have to struggle anymore.
Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. People started popping up all over the place, whether they actually knew Abraham or not, asking him for money. He knew what it was like to struggle financially, and so he gave and gave and gave and gave. But it was exhausting. Until Dee Dee Moore showed up, saying she could help with all his problems. After all, she had a very helpful nature...
Sources:
Articles
Film Daily | Abraham Shakespeare’s Florida Lotto Murder Mystery: All the Details (Bethany Wade)
Book
Unlucky Number: The Murder of Lottery Winner Abraham Shakespeare (Deborah Mathis)
Websites
Murderpedia.Org
Videos
YouTube | Trust & Treachery - Abraham Shakespeare Murder
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This story starts with a bit of an urban legend. An urban legend about 16 year old Daniel LaPlante tormenting two teenage girls by pretending to be the spirit of their late mother. Kristin tells Mogab the real story behind the legend, and how Daniel went from terrorizing teenage girls to murdering pregnant mother Priscilla Gustafson and her small children.
Sources:
Articles
Boston Globe | Neighbors Recall Suspect in Slayings as One Who Sowed Fear
UPI | A Teenager Accused of Holding a Man and His Three Daughters Hostage
AP News | Police Capture Youth Accused of Killing Three (Brian Murphy)
Boston 25 News | Family of Murdered Woman, Children Say Man Never Showed Remorse
AP News | Man convicted of killing mom, 2 young kids appeals sentence (Bob Salsberg)
Los Angeles Times | Man Who Found Slain Family Learns to Rebuild His Life From Tragedy (Dana Kennedy)
Lowell Sun | Judge: ‘I could pull the switch’ (Lisa Redmond)
OthersJoe Turner Books | The Bizarre Story of Daniel LaPlante
Fake Crime, True News Blog | Daniel LaPlante
Talk Murder With Me Blog | Daniel LaPlante
Commonwealth vs. Daniel J. LaPlante 416 Mass. 433
Commonwealth vs. Daniel J. LaPlante 482 Mass. 399
Legacy Obituaries | Gustafson, Andrew
Sportsman Bail Bonds Blog | How Long is a Life Sentence
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23 year old Julie Kibuishi was found murdered in her friend, Sam Herr's, apartment. She'd been shot twice in the back of the head, written on the back of the sweater she was wearing were the words "She's all yours... f*** you", and Sam Herr was nowhere to be seen. Police found texts from Sam, showing that he had asked Julie to come to his apartment the night she was murdered. It was clear - all signs pointed to Sam.... until they started pointing to someone else. Enter Daniel Wozniak....
Sources:
ArticlesLos Angeles Times | Wozniak Jury Won’t Hear About Murder Victim’s Arrest in 2002 Slaying, Judge Rules (Jeremiah Dobruck)
Heavy.Com | Juri "Julie" Kibuishi's Murder & Crime Scene ( S.M. Walsh)
ABC News | Actress Convicted of Lying to Police About Ex-fiancé’s Double Murder Pleads Innocence in Interrogation Tapes (Lauren Effron, Joseph Diaz, Denise Martinez-Ramundo)
Los Angeles Times | Wozniak Defense Raises Possibility of His Fiancée’s Role in Murder Plot (Jeremiah Dobruck)
Los Angeles Times | Trial Set On Accessory Charges for Rachel Buffett, Ex-fiancée of Double Murderer Daniel Wozniak (Daniel Langhorne and Hannah Fry)
Los Angeles Times | Jury Convicts Double Murderer’s Former Fiancé of Being an Accessory After the Fact (Priscella Vega)
Video
YouTube | Southern California's Daniel Wozniak Case
Other
Daniel Wozniak Is My Friend Blog
Episode of 20/20 - The Final Act
Episode of 20/20 - Mystery in Apartment 401
Dr. Phil episode with Rachel Buffet
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LaVena was 19 years old and fresh out of high school when she was deployed to Balad, Iraq with the US Army. Within just a few months of her deployment, LaVena was dead. The Army called it a suicide and asked everyone to kindly move on, nothing to see here, folks!
But her dad, Dr. John Johnson, was noticing things that just didn't add up with the Army's story. He fought them for all of the information they had on her death, and once he received the information, he could not believe what he was seeing. There was just no way this was a suicide...
Sources:
ArticlesDonald Watkins | The Murder of PFC LaVena Johnson - Part 1-3(Donald Watkins)
St. Louis Public Radio | 10 Years Later, A Soldier's Family Still Grieves and Questions the Army's Version of her Death (Mary Delach Leonard)
Democracy Now | Suicide or Murder? Three Years After the Death of PFC LaVena Johnson in Iraq, Her Parents Continue Their Call for a Congressional Investigation (Amy Goodman)
Los Angeles Times | A Death With Two Stories Evidence (David Zucchino)
NPR | Soldier's Family Challenges Army Suicide Report (Michel Martin)
Other
YouTube | The Story of PFC LaVena Johnson on the Rock Newman Show (Rock Newman Show)
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Betsy Faria was 42 years old when she was brutally stabbed to death in her home. Her husband, Russell Faria, was the one to find her body, and immediately police were suspicious of him, even though his alibi was rock solid. Throughout their investigation, police would uncover Betsy's friend, Pam Hupp, was the last person to see Betsy alive. She was also the sole beneficiary of Betsy's life insurance policy, and had no alibi for the time of Betsy's murder. Unfortunately, it seems the police on this case were what the French call 'les incompetents', and they arrested Russ Faria for the murder of his wife.
But Betsy would not be the last person murdered....
**Sources:
Articles**St. Louis Magazine | The Unimaginable, Infamous Case of Pam Hupp (Jeannette Cooperman)
Fox 2 Now | In Her Own Words: Pam Hupp on Her Mother's Fatal Fall (Chris Hayes)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Once Sentenced to Life for His Wife's Murder, Russell Faria to Get $2M to Settle Lawsuit Against Police (Robert Patrick)
Film Daily | How The Awful Murder of Betsy Faria Inspired A True Crime Phenomenon (Victoria Stuewe).
Today | Renee Zellweger Set To Make Broadcast TV Debut in True Crime Story (Scott Stump)
OtherCase Text - Faria v. McCarrick Case No. 4:16-cv-01175-JAR
The National Registry of Exonerations - Russell Faria
PodcastDateline Podcast: The Thing About Pam
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This week we continue our Spears saga, diving into the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for 13 years. Free Britney!
**Sources: See part 1 for the rest of our sources for this episode.
Articles**NBC News | Britney Spears' Ex-manager Ordered to Stay Away from Singer, Her Family For 5 Years (AP)
ABC News | Britney Spears vs. Sam Lutfi: 7 Biggest Revelations from the Trial (Sheila Marikar)
VOGUE | These Were Britney Spears’s Best Performances of All Time (Christian Allaire)
US Weekly | Sam Lutfi Details Britney Spears’ Alleged Drug Addiction in Court (Justin Ravitz)
HuffPost | Britney Spears, Jason Trawick Split Orchestrated By Jamie Spears
Billboard | Jason Trawick Added to Britney Spears' Conservatorship (Anthony McCartney)
DocumentariesNew York Times Presents: Framing Britney (Hulu)
PodcastsEat, Pray Britney Podcast
Britney's Gram Podcast
VideosYouTube| Britney Spears Primetime Interview with Diane Sawyer 2003
YouTube | Britney's Gram - Anonymous Voicemail
OtherTemporary Conservator Declaration
Elder Law Office of George F. Dickerman | Conservatorships and Undue Influence
www.FreeBritney.net
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This week, Kristin and Mogab dive into the major rabbit hole that is Britney Spears and the Free Britney Movement. For the past 13 years, Britney Spears has been living under a legal conservatorship that has complete control over her person and her estate. It controls who she talks to, where she lives, what she eats, what jobs she can take, and how she spends her money. The person in control of all of this is her father, Jamie Spears, someone that Britney has never been close to.
In part 1, Kristin tells Mogab all about what led up to Britney being put under the conservatorship. We all watched Britney's decline through tabloid and paparazzi eyes, but what's the real story? #FreeBritney!
Sources:
Articles
Glamour | The Britney Spears Conservatorship Situation Fully Explained (Abby Gardner)
Quad City Times | Britney Spears Drives with Son on Her Lap (AP)
Los Angeles Times | Spears is Released from UCLA Hospital Psychiatric Ward (Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton)
Daily Mail | Britney Spears Claims Never Seen Letter Silenced Threatened Team (Cheyenne Roundtree)
Los Angeles Times | Precision Teamwork in Spears Operation (Andrew Blankstein, Scott Gold, and Richard Winton)
ABC News | Could Britney Be Committed Against Her Will? (Emily Friedman)
VICE | Behind the Mental Health Law That Kept Kanye West in the Hospital (Emalie Martha)
BabyGaga | Under Her Father's Control: 15 Rules Britney Spears Has To Follow (Cynthia Levy)
Daily Mail |Our Annulment was Bull***t... I was in Love with Her: Britney Spears' Ex Jason Alexander Opens Up About Pair's 55-hour Marriage (Sarah Bull)
Cosmopolitan | The Upsetting Reason Britney Spears Shaved Her Head in 2007 (Daniella Scott)
MTV News | Britney Spears Shaved Head, Gets Tattoo (Corey Moss)
People | Britney Spears's Father Says She Was 'Out of Control' (Courtney Rubin)
MTV News | Britney Spears Was Drugged, Controlled by Sam Lutfi, Parents Allege (Jennifer Vineyard)
People | Who's in Charge of Britney Spears' Money (Howard Breuer and Marla Lehner)
Oxygen | Who Is Sam Lutfi, The Controversial Figure Seen Alongside Britney Spears Just Before Her Conservatorship? (Gina Tron)
See The Free Britney M
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It was September, 2006 and Megan Meier was 13 years old when the MySpace friend request popped up. It was from a boy named Josh Evans, and everything about him was perfect. Maybe a little too perfect... Talking to Josh made Megan happier than she'd been in a long time, because she experienced low self esteem and depression. Seemingly out of nowhere, Josh turned on Megan and began firing hateful messages at her, and this ended in absolute tragedy. But little did anyone know, Josh Evans wasn't real. Someone close to her was behind it all...
The Megan Meier Foundation
Seize the Awkward
Sources:
Friend Game by Lauren Collins
MySpace Hoax Ends With Suicide of Dardenne Prairie Teen by Steve Pokin
Megan Meier Police Reports
Exclusive: Teen Talks About Her Role in Web Hoax That Led to Suicide by Jonann Brady
Verdict in MySpace Suicide Case by Jennifer Steinhaur
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This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the ax murder of Betty Gore. In a small town in Texas, Candy Montgomery just wanted to have an affair. She wanted something to shake up her boring housewife life, and she set her sights on Betty's husband, Allen. A year later, however, Betty would end up murdered after being struck with an ax over 40 times. How did this happen? How could a petite housewife with no history of violence do something like this? And what would her defense be at trial? And where are they now!?
Sources:
Love and Death in Silicon Prairie - Texas Monthly by Jay Atkinson and John Bloom
The Murder of Betty Gore at the Hands of Desperate Housewife Candy Montgomery by Kim BryanCandy Montgomery: The Desperate Housewife Who Murdered Her Good Friend by Sarah Mangiola
The Most Infamous Ax Murder in Collin County History by Alexandra CroninTrue story of ax murderer Candy Montgomery from Secret Lives of Stepford Wives by Asa HawksLEFT TO WONDER 20 years after the ax slaying of Betty Gore, victim's daughters still have questions by Doug Swanson
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It's our first serial killer, peeps and creeps! This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Belle "Triflers Need Not Apply" Gunness, the most prolific female serial killer In American history.
Belle was a true success story - she was able to overcome the struggles of being a woman immigrating to the US on her own in the late 1800’s. She managed to make a very comfortable life for herself by employing such tactics as arson, insurance fraud, and lots of good ol’ fashioned murder. And many people, including me, think she got away with all of it.
Sources:
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter
Triflers Need Not Apply: The story of deadly Belle Gunness by Kristy Puchko
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This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Brittany Murphy and the mysteries surrounding her death. Brittany Murphy was a talented actress who starred in movies like Clueless, Girl Interrupted, Just Married, and 8 Mile. When she was 32, Brittany died suddenly of supposed "natural causes". People were confused - how could a healthy 32 year old woman die suddenly of natural causes? And then her husband, Simon Monjack, started doing interviews, and boy were they CREEPY. It made people wonder - could there be someone to blame for Brittany's death?
Kristin and Mogab also debate such philosophical questions as who is better: Eminem or TI? Is it offensive to compare Brittany Murphy to Lucille Ball? Is it a crime to have seen not a single one of her movies?
Sources:
Brittany Murphy: The Mysterious Circumstances Surrounding Her Death by Rachel Chang
The Final Difficult Days of Brittany Murphy by Alex Ben Block
Brittany Murphy's Brother Makes Fresh Claims over actress's Sudden Death
Does a Chilling Tape from Beyond the Grave Prove Brittany Murphy's British Husband Could Have Been Saved?
Cold Medicines Contributed to Brittany Murphy's Death, Coroner Says
Coroner: Brittany Murphy Didn't Abuse Alcohol or Drugs
How Did Brittany Murphy Die? Here Are the Creepy Details You Didn't Know
Staph Infections by Larry Bush
Neuropathy
The Issues of Recreational Use of Klonopin
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**This week we dive into the case of the Blue Eyed Butcher. Susan Wright had been married to her husband Jeffrey for 5 years when she stabbed him 193 times all over his body. Yes. One hundred and ninety three times. She then buried him in their backyard and it was nearly a week until someone was alerted to the murder. But there may have been more to this story than first met the eye….
If you or someone you know Is experiencing domestic violence, go to www.hotline.org or call them at 1-800-799-7233**
Sources:
193 by Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, February 2010
‘Cold Justice’ prosecutor Kelly Siegler faces possible contempt in Harris County death penalty case, federal judge warns - by Gabriel Banks in the Houston Chronicle Battered Woman Syndrome July 7, 2009 Lenore E. Walker, EdD, ABPP-CL & FamPsychiatric Times, Psychiatric Times Vol 26 No 7, Volume 26, Issue 7Battered Woman Syndrome
Medically reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT — Written by Ana Gotter — Updated on July 5, 2017Lenore E. Walker, Battered Women Syndrome and Self-Defense, 6 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 321 (1992). Wright v. State'Blue-eyed butcher' sentenced to 20 years By Lena JakobssonTx. Woman Who Tied Husband up in Bed and Stabbed Him 193 Times in 2003 Is Released from Prison By Chris Harris in People, December 31, 2020Susan Wright, woman who killed husband in 2003 by stabbing him 193 times, freed from prisonSusan Wright formally released from prison after 16 years behind bars By Jessica Willey Bachman R , Saltzman L. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: violence against women: Estimates from the redesigned survey (NCJ-154348). Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1995.New York court clears woman of murder in battered-wife case By Aman Ali
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This week It's part 2 of the Collar Bomb Heist! Last week we discussed the heist itself, which Involved Brian Wells walking into a PNC bank with a bomb around his neck, a scavenger hunt to find the keys to unlock the bomb, a body in a freezer, and a cast of wild characters. This week, we discuss new witnesses in the case, new evidence that's been brought to light, the trials involved, and our theories!
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Happy New Year, peeps and creeps! We are back this week with part 1 of the Collar Bomb Heist. On August 28, 2003 in Erie, PA, Brian Wells robbed a PNC bank for somewhere around $9,000, much less than the $250k he was trying to get. He was arrested nearby shortly after the robbery, and police discovered he had a bomb locked around his neck.
Brian told police that a group of black men had grabbed him while he’d been out on a pizza delivery, chained the bomb around his neck at gunpoint, and forced him to rob the bank. The bomb went off, killing Brian Wells, before the bomb squad could even arrive.
After his death, police found notes in his car, detailing a scavenger hunt he was to go on after he’d gotten the money that would lead him to all the keys and codes necessary to unlock the collar, and the police were left with so many questions. Who was the mastermind behind the twisted plot to rob the PNC bank, what was the point of the scavenger hunt, and just how innocent was Brian Wells?
Sources:
The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist by Rich Schapiro in Wired Magazine
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist on Netflix
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, peeps and creeps! This week, your gift from True Crime Creepers is the story of the Goose Green Stabbings. In 2003, 14 year old John was stabbed twice: once in the chest and once in the abdomen. Though he survived, his friendship with his best friend, 16 year old Mark, did not. John told police it was a crazed mask wearing stabbing man that stabbed him, but the truth was - it was Mark. Police thought that was the end of their investigation, until they got their hands on 46,000 pages of chat transcripts from an MSN chatroom Mark and John were highly involved in, and police would see that this case involved everything from British spies to the Queen herself as they sought to understand what happened between these two teenage boys.
Sources:
“U Want Me 2 Kill Him?” by Judy Bachrach in October 10, 2006 Vanity FairBizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder by Helen Carter “National Health Service” entry on WikipediaAltrincham: the highest house prices outside the south-east
Podcast - Casefile
episode 104: Mark and John.
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This Is about as Texas as it gets, peeps and creeps! Wanda Holloway wanted nothing more than to be a Texas high school cheerleader, but those dreams were dashed when her father refused to let her try out. But as we all know, the point of daughters is to allow their mothers to live vicariously through them. When Wanda had her daughter Shanna, she knew that one day she would see her cheerleading dreams fulfilled through Shanna. There was just one thing standing In her way - Verna Heath and her daughter, Amber. Wanda knew there was only one way to ensure Shanna got on the squad - assassinate Verna and Amber.
This is a true crime podcast, y'all. I can't make this stuff up.
Sources:
The Cheerleader Murder Plot by Mimi Schwartz In Texas Monthly, 1991
Cheerleader’s Mother Guilty in Murder Plot By Michael Kennedy, LA Times
The Texas Cheerleader Case: A Daughter's Painful Journey by Anne Long and Kristen Mascia
TEXAS MOM GETS 15-YEAR SENTENCE by Tom Curtis **Music from pond5.com
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It's a rough one this week, peeps and creeps! Kristin tells Mogab all about the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders, where 4 teenage girls were murdered In 1991. Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas were 17 years old, working the closing shift at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop. Jennifer's sister, Sarah Harbison, 15, and Amy Ayers, 13, were hanging out at the shop until Jennifer got off work and could take them all home. Before that could happen, the 4 girls were shot execution style and then set on fire In what was described by the lead detective as "wholesale carnage". To make matters worse, the case turned cold for 8 years until the police narrowed In on 4 teenage suspects and attempted to prosecute them without any evidence. The case remains unsolved to this day.
Sources:
Who Killed These Girls? The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town by Beverly Lowry
'Pure, unadulterated evil' | Exploring the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders by Bob Garcia-Buckalew48 Hours episode - Innocence Lost
https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-rate-by-type-in-the-us/
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3622
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ferguson-federal-grand-jury-indictment-statistics-history-134942645.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/tx-court-of-criminal-appeals/1159054.html
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3658
https://www.statesman.com/news/20161222/court-man-once-jailed-in-yogurt-shop-murders-cant-collect-funds
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-12-16/scene-of-the-crime/
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Welcome back, peeps and creeps! This week we have a real table flipping one for you. This is the story of Marissa Alexander, a woman in Florida who received a 20 year sentence (without the chance of parole) for firing a warning shot into her ceiling when her abusive husband threatened to kill her. Kristin and Mogab discuss how abusive relationships evolve, ways to spot them, and reasons women can feel trapped In these relationships.
Consider supporting the National Domestic Violence Hotline
The Hotline is the only national, full-service hotline that answers the call 24/7 for survivors and concerned friends, family members, co-workers, and others seeking information and guidance on how to help someone experiencing relationship abuse. Through one-on-one support offering crisis intervention, options for next steps, and direct connections to service providers and other resources all across the country, we’re shifting power back to the people directly affected by relationship abuse.
If you’d like to donate to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, you can do so at www.hotline.org/donate. They also have other ways to help them listed on their website.
Sources:
https://www.essence.com/news/marissa-alexander-exclusive/
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1645234.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/why-couldnt-marissa-alexander-stand-her-ground-florida/328659/
https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/28/opinion/omara-minimal-sentencing-laws/index.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/angela-coreys-overzealous-prosecution-of-marissa-alexander
Marissa Alexander entry on Wikipedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/us/marissa-alexander-released-stand-your-ground.html
https://www.freemarissanow.org/about.html
https://www.wokv.com/news/local/rico-gray-was-begging-for-life/ClgAx1Tel2NooKeKTmXwfK/
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-05-16/story/marissa-alexanders-husband-says-it-was-her-violent-nature-led-shooting?mmo_ccc=xfinity
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/10/17/1337149/-5-More-Women-Accuse-Marissa-Alexander-s-Abusive-Husband-Of-Extreme-Brutality
https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/why-people-stay/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fl
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Hey peeps and creeps! We have an extra episode for you this week - an update on two cases we have previously covered! New suspects have been uncovered by a private investigator in the Scott Peterson case, as well as a new theory Kristin dug up. Could Laci have been killed at the hands of a serial killer?
We also have an update on the Richard Glossip case! His attorney, Don Knight, has uncovered a staggering 32 NEW witnesses that can testify in his defense, but right now the state will never hear from these witnesses. An Oklahoma representative is trying to change these laws that keep death row inmates from being able to present new evidence in their case if their appeals have all been exhausted.
Sources:
@saverichglossip on IG
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-oklahoma-city-737af54104115503ae81a1b06c167923
https://www.kron4.com/news/california/scott-peterson-trial/scott-peterson-trial-who-are-the-new-suspects/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bouldercityreview.com/news/man-given-two-life-sentences-for-killing-dismembering-maid/amp/
https://ccadp.proboards.com/thread/7184/perry-monroe-suspect
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends! This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Anna Delvy - one of the greatest con artists of our generation, which is saying a lot since Millennials can claim both Billy McFarland from Fyre Fest and Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos. Everyone loves a good scam story. And this is definitely a good scam story. So good, in fact, that Shonda Rhimes is making a show with Netflix about Anna Delvy: the German heiress trying to open her Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good (or something like that...). She lives in New York's fanciest hotels, is at all the best parties, and loves to tip big and take lavish trips with her friends. But weird things keep happening: her credit cards keep getting declined, or she's having trouble tapping into her trust fund, so her friends start covering for her. Only, she's not a German heiress. And she doesn't actually have any money. So how did she manage to con all her friends Into funding this lifestyle she wanted so badly?
I want to point people towards the National Center for Victims of Crime, who have a Financial Crime Resource Center. They wanted to provide a resource for victim-centered services in the area of financial fraud and so they produce a guide called
Taking Action: An Advocate’s Guide to Assisting Victims of Financial Fraud
This guide is designed to provide advocates with practical victim-centered resources to help navigate the various options available for reporting crimes, protecting other assets and preventing re-victimization. It also offers advice on how to assist with psychological and – where possible – financial recovery.
Sources:
“How Anna Delvy Tricked New York” by Jessica Presster, printed in New York Magazine
“My Misadventures with the Magician of Manhattan” by Rachel Deloache Williams, printed in Vanity Fair
“Who Is Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, the Alleged Soho Grifter?” by EJ Dickson for Rolling Stone Magazine
“Anna Sorokin Was Just Sentenced for Grand Larceny and Theft. Here’s What's Next for the ‘Soho Grifter' by Mahita Gajanan
“‘Anna Delvey’ Might Not Profit From Netflix Series on Her Life as a Fake Heiress” by Sharon Otterman of the New York Times.
“Anna Delvey Didn’t Look Rich—Which Is Exactly Why She Seemed Like She Was” by Rachel Tashjian printed in Garage
Anna Sorokin entry on Wikipedia
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Kristin tells Mogab about the murder of Jayna Murray, a 30 year old supervisor at the Lululemon store In Bethesda, Maryland. She and her coworker, Brittany Norwood, were brutally attacked In the store after closing by two masked assailants, and though Brittany managed to survive the horrific ordeal, Jayna tragically lost her life. The case would prove tricky to solve, and would take the police on twists and turns as they attempted to put together the evidence from the crime scene.
Sources:
“The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing” by Dan Morse
Brittany Norwood found guilty of first degree murder in Lululemon trial by Dan Morse and Michael S. Rosenwald
A twist in the Lululemon murder story reminds us that most crime isn’t random. by Christopher Beam
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Annual Scholarships
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The purpose is to honor Jayna Troxel Murray by supporting and promoting her life interests and passions. The foundation goal is to promote these interests which were prominent and instrumental in defining and enriching Jayna’s life with the intended outcome of bettering the lives of others.
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Did Scott Peterson really kill his wife, Laci? This is the question that haunts Kristin as she takes Mogab through the conviction of Scott Peterson in Part 2. They discuss the trial, the evidence against Scott, and all the evidence the jury never got to hear. Kristin discusses the antics of a jury that could have their own reality show, and gives Mogab some compelling alternate theories.
Sources for this episode:
Documentary:
The Murder of Laci Peterson on A&E
https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-murder-of-laci-peterson
Court Documents:
Conner's Autopsy
Defense witness testimony
Defense exhibits
People's exhibits
People's witness testimony
Articles:
Fox News: Scott Peterson Had Several Affairs
NBC News: Coroner Finds Plastic 'Noose' Around Peterson Baby's Neck
NBC News: Amber Frey Unravels Scott's Lies
ABC News: What police found in Scott Peterson's car after Laci Peterson's body was discovered
CNN: Detective reveals new evidence in Peterson case
New York Times: Scott Peterson’s Death Sentence Is Overturned
The Alta Journal: A Tale of Two Killings
Website:
https://www.scottpetersonappeal.org/
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Mogab has been living under a rock and she knows it, okay! So Kristin tells her about the murder of Laci Peterson, who disappeared Christmas Eve 2002 when she was 8 months pregnant. Everyone seems convinced that her husband, Scott, murdered her, especially when it’s revealed that Scott had been having an affair with Amber Frey, and the media would go on to convict him night after night in the court of public opinion. However, the evidence against Scott is far from overwhelming. In part 1, Mogab and Kristin debate the guilt of Scott as Kristin takes Mogab through the events of the case, from the day Laci went missing to the day Scott is arrested for her murder.
Sources for this episode:
Documentary:
The Murder of Laci Peterson on A&E
https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-murder-of-laci-peterson
Court Documents:
Conner's Autopsy
Defense witness testimony
Defense exhibits
People's exhibits
People's witness testimony
Articles:
Fox News: Scott Peterson Had Several Affairs
NBC News: Coroner Finds Plastic 'Noose' Around Peterson Baby's Neck
NBC News: Amber Frey Unravels Scott's Lies
ABC News: What police found in Scott Peterson's car after Laci Peterson's body was discovered
CNN: Detective reveals new evidence in Peterson case
New York Times: Scott Peterson’s Death Sentence Is Overturned
The Alta Journal: A Tale of Two Killings
Website:
https://www.scottpetersonappeal.org/
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Welcome back, peeps and creeps! In this episode, Kristin tells Mogab all her favorite stories from her favorite subject: Scientology!
This episode focuses on the current leader of the church, David Miscavige, and the insanity that ensues under his leadership.
Kristin tells Mogab the story of how Miscavige schemed his way to the top, using blackmail, intimidation, and physical violence to get his way.
She then tells the story of the most insane, sadistic game of musical chairs that has ever been played (by FULL GROWN ADULTS).
Kristin finishes by telling Mogab the exciting story of how Claire Headley managed her escape from the International Headquarters of Scientology! They discuss how it’s possible Scientology has their Sea Org members trapped on these bases (FBI, answer for your crimes!).
The organization we are highlighting this episode is Families Against Cult Teachings. You can support them at https://www.familiesagainstcultteachings.org/
sources for this episode:
books:
"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” by Lawrence Wright
documentaries:
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - The HBO Special Alex Gibney
Podcasts:
"Scientology: Fair Game” by Mike Rinder and Leah Remini
"Surviving Scientology” by Jeffrey Augustine, episode 24 with Claire Headley
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Mogab knows 0.0 about Scientology, so Kristin explains how this billion dollar business (slash cult) uses tax exempt money to harass people and ruin their lives. This is all done with directives from a written policy called Fair Game. These are their stories. Dun. Dun.
Kristin tells Mogab the story of Paulette Cooper, a journalist who wrote an expose on Scientology and was then harassed for the next several DECADES, including a frame job for sending bomb threats that nearly sent her to prison.
Then, Kristin tells Mogab how Scientology used Fair Game against the IRS to get tax exempt status.
This Is part 1 of our Scientology series. Part 2 Is available now!
The organization we want to highlight for this episode is The Aftermath Foundation.
**The Aftermath Foundation exists to help those who want to leave Scientology and the Sea Organization, but lack a system of support they can rely on while getting on their feet in the outside world.
Support the Aftermath Foundation at theaftermathfoundation.org/donate/**
Sources for this episode:
books:
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper by Tony Ortega
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
documentary:
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - The HBO Special by Alex Gibney
"Scientology and the Aftermath" by Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, and A&E
Podcasts:
"Surviving Scientology" by Jeffrey Augustine
Articles:
Fair Game policy articles on Xenu.net
"Operation Snow White" entry on wikipedia
"Operation Freakout" entry on Wikipedia
pages from www.scientology.org
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This week, Kristin tells Mogab about An Unbelievable Story of Rape. This story involves 2 investigations into the same serial rapist. One investigation could have not have gone worse, with the rape victim charged and fined for making a false report. The other shows what happens when an investigation is done right. Kristin and Mogab discuss the truth about false reports of rape, and what a normal response to trauma looks like (spoiler: there is no normal response).
Sources for this episode:
"An Unbelievable Story of Rape" by T. Christian Miller with proPublica and Ken Armstrong with the Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/12/16/an-unbelievable-story-of-rape
"False Report: A True Story of Rape In America" by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
"Anatomy of Doubt" This American Life podcast episode 581
The organization we are highlighting this week is End the Backlog. Support End the Backlog at:
https://give.endthebacklog.org
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Welcome, creeper crew! This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Coco Chanel. Chanel was raised In poverty, but her adult life was spent In luxury as she built her fashion empire. Little did people know, she was also a German Intelligence Agent working with the Nazis during WWII. She ran several missions for the Nazis, and in return was able to continue living a life of luxury in Paris during the Nazi occupation. How did she manage to get away with her connection to the Nazis, avoid punishment, and maintain her legacy?
Sources for this episode:
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughn
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Welcome to the first episode of True Crime Creepers! In this episode, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Richard Glossip, who Is on death row In Oklahoma for hiring Justin Sneed to kill his boss, Barry Van Treese. His conviction Is based almost solely on Sneed's word, with no good evidence connecting him to this crime. How did the word of an accomplice carry enough weight to secure a conviction?
Just a warning that Mogab's audio quality is not tip top because she accidentally recorded through airpods Instead of the nice mic she has. Whoops. This has been rectified in all other episodes.
Sources for this episode:
The documentary "Killing Richard Glossip" by Investigation Discovery
Richard Glossip entry on Wikipedia
"Two truths and a lie: What records, interviews reveal about Richard Glossip’s murder conviction" by Cary Aspinwall
Every week we want to highlight an organization that does good work to support the topic for the week. This week, we are highlighting the Ministry Against the Death Penalty.
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