Wine and Crimes: Recent Episodes
Wine and Crimes
Three girlfriends from New York decided to combine their two favorite things: drinking wine and talking true crime. Grab your glass and sit your ass, we are ready to tell these killer stories!
Vanessa Guillen was a 20-year-old soldier at the For Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas. On April 22, 2020, shortly after telling her mother that she had been sexually harassed by a fellow soldier, Vanessa disappeared. Roughly six weeks later Vanessa's charred and dismembered remains were found encased in cement near Leon River in Bell County, Texas.
Cause of Death: Bludgeoned with a hammer.
On April 30, 1989, police in Lakeville, Indiana encountered a crime scene they'd never forget. Reverend Bob Pelley was found shot to death in the hallway of his home. Downstairs in the basement we the bodies of Bob's wife, Dawn Pelley, and her daughters Janel, 8, and Jolene, 6, each had been shot at close range.
Three of the Pelley children Jacque, Jeff and Jessica were not home that night. However, one question remained: Who would do this to a seemingly perfect, religious family?
Cause of Death: Gun Shot Wound (Shotgun)
They seemed like picture-perfect high school sweethearts, but their toxic relationship ended in murder.
Emma Walker, a beautiful and vibrant cheerleader, had been killed by a gunshot wound to the head after two bullets had been fired into her bedroom from outside the family's single-story home. One bullet had hit her behind her left ear and the second had lodged into her pillow.
Cause of Death: Murdered, Shot
Ellen, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was found dead on January 26, 2011, with a kitchen knife lodged in her chest, inside the apartment she shared with her fiancé, Samuel Goldberg, in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Authorities eventually ruled Ellen’s death a suicide, but her parents believe she was murdered.
On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp returned to her home at Cabin 28 in the Keddie Resorts in California from the next-door neighbor’s house. What the 14-year-old girl discovered inside the modest four-room cabin instantly became one of the most macabre scenes in modern American crime history — and has come to be known as the gruesome Keddie murders.
To this day, the grisly quadruple homicide remain unsolved and still haunts those who heard and read about it.
Till death do us part , . .
Valentine's Day. What does it mean to you? Is it 24 hours to devote to the celebration of the pure, unconditional and unbearably soul-shattering love that you feel for your soulmate? A wondrous day of passion and hugs and kisses, to be enjoyed on a rose petal-covered bed with flutes of Champagne and heart-shaped chocolates... It is? Oh, how lovely for you!
For the rest of us, here’s something much more interesting - a rundown of some of the most infamous and shocking Valentine’s Day murders ever...
In May of 2010, Shannan Gilbert ran from a home in Long Island, claiming that someone was trying to killer her. Seven months later, police - in an effort to track down Shannan - stumbled upon the bodies of ten other women.
They have identified some, but struggled tp answer the most difficult question: "Who killed all of these victims?"
Cause of Death: Murdered, Strangled
JonBenét Ramsey was an American child beauty queen.
The daughter of affluent parents, JonBenét was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, residence on December 26, 1996.
Her murder — which is still unsolved — became one of the decade's most famous police investigations.
Died: December 26, 1996
Cause of Death: Murdered, Strangled