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Women serial killers can be slotted into categories, Avengers, Angels of Death, Black Widows, Baby Farmers and this is the dark insights into the lives of a handful of these lady killers. Get the book here: https://amazon.com Visit his site here: www.ad-hoc-productions.com

Susan Fensten lived a quiet, normal life until it spun out of control in a vicious series of manipulations, threats and deception. Who could she trust? Where could she turn when it seemed there was nowhere left that was safe, the curtain dropped and the real horror began. Get the book here: https://amazon.com PLUS: An all new Dumb Crimes and Stupid Criminals!!

On today's episode,we chat with Cathy about the very different lives and personalities of The Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur, and the similar circumstances of their deaths, and why both deaths and murder cases are more cut and dried than people may think! Plus, one surprise revelation in Biggie's death! Cathy Scott is a Los Angeles Times best selling author, investigative journalist, and blogger for Psychology Today. Cathy"s Website: https://www.cathyscott.com/ Purchase Cathy's books here: htt...

November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shroud...

On today's episode, a remarkable look at the Beast Ted Bundy in a new light from the Author who has obsessed on this case, Kevin Sullivan, the survivor of his final attacks, Kathy Kleiner and then a look at the current fascination and admiration of Bundy with Dr. John Huber. Dr. Huber is a Clinical Forensic Psychologist. Get more info on Kevin Sullivan here: https://wildbluepress.com/true-crime-author-kevin-m-sullivan/ Visit Dr. Huber's site: http://www.mainstreammentalhealth.org/

In late October of 2006, police responded to a call from the Omni Hotel in New Orleans regarding a jumper. A man had apparently leaped off the roof of the building and landed five stories down on the hotel’s parking garage roof. It seemed, at first, that this was not a job for homicide. What did they have to do with a man who took his own life? The answer was in the deceased’s front pocket in the form of a shocking, several page long suicide note. Visit Mark Anthony's website here: https://ww...

More than a year after the bureau began digging into the slaughter of 58 people -- and the wounding of scores of others -- at a Las Vegas country concert, the FBI said it hadn't concluded anything more about Stephen Paddock's mysterious motive for the attack than it had the day after the shooting stopped. The FBI's conclusions on the mass murder, which Paddock undertook from a sniper's perch in the Mandalay Resort and Casino in October 2017, were unveiled by the Associated Press. The attack at ...

Samantha Harer was a young, well liked 911 dispatcher in a rocky relationship with a local police officer before her unexpected death in February of 2018. In a case reminiscent of the Drew Peterson case from just down the road, Samantha's reported suicide seems to raise more questions than it answers in what is now considered a closed case. But has the Thin Blue Line begun to unravel as a city mourns and a cop remains on paid leave. Visit John's site here: www.JohnFerak.com

A Brutal Serial Killer Was Stalking Omaha. But Who Could Kill With Such Precision? Detective Derek Mois wasn’t sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent Omaha neighborhood and was confronted with the bodies of an 11-year-old boy and the housekeeper. Both had been murdered with kitchen knives plunged into their throats. Who would do something so vile, and why? Lacking answers, Mois and other detectives working the case were stumped.Five years later, a ...

Take a heapin' helping of Twin Peaks, a dash of The Strangers and put it in the hands of the The Cohen Brothers and you still can't come close to the very strange true tale of the Keddie Cabin Murders. The Keddie Murders is an unsolved 1981 American quadruple homicide that occurred in Keddie, a rural resort town in the Sierra Nevada of northern California where everyone has something to hide, friends, family, neighbors and perhaps the law itself. Hold on tight, this is one wild ride of insanity...

We find another horrific story within a story on today's episode with special guests Allison Mann & Michael Brodkorb. PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals! The Girls Are Gone is the true story of two sisters who went missing, the father who kept searching, and the adults who conspired to keep the truth hidden. This is an emotional rollercoaster for Dave as they examine this disturbing case and quickly a story within the story unfolds that leaves Dave in an emotional upheaval. Do Not Miss this epis...

We investigate The Short Tragic Life Of Brandon Sims with prosecuting attorney Diane Marger Moore PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals! Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. Truth is stranger than fiction where Santeria curses, the law and politics are only a few of obstacles to justice, in Indiana, no one had ever been convicted of murder without a body. Get her book here:...

What happens when one of the most evil men in the history of America meets a man he trusts to share his darkest secrets with? How does it affect someone already on the edge of society when he is taken under the wing of a serial killer? Partly told through the letters of Arthur Shawcross, THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS is the tale of one of America's most notorious serial killers and his relationship with his would-be biographer, John Paul Fay. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/SHAWCROSS-LETTERS-...

“Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever. … Fascinating.”—New York Times bestselling author Steve JacksonTo write his new book, high powered attorney Kathleen Zellner, perhaps America’s most successful wrongful conviction attorney, gave John Ferak unique access to the exhaustive pro bono efforts she and her small suburban Chicago law firm dedicated for a man she believes to be a victim of an unscrupulous justice sys...

When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.Nearly four decades later, two Cincinnati reporters re-examined the murder and discovered that law enforcement ignored leads that might have uncovered who really killed Beth Andes. It wasn’t that there weren’t other people to look at. There were plenty. But no one bothered…until now. For more information about the book and more on ...

The year was 1965. The Beatles filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away.In this account written in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmid, the details of getting involved way i...

For years Lori Orr believed her Los Angeles firefighter dad was a selfless hero. When Lori’s dad was arrested and charged with four murders and countless arson fires, it was her testimony that helped keep him from being sent to Death Row. Eventually, Lori’s search for the truth lead her to the dark secrets lurking in her family’s past and to an inescapable conclusion about the remorseless killer and arsonist known as the "Pillowcase Pyro" and his reign of terror in sunny Southern California.PLUS...

It was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence?In THE LAST MAN STANDING, true crime author Alan Warren writes in exacting detail about the crimes & subsequent investigations—both in 1957 and 2008—that eventually led to the murder conviction of Jack McCullough. But the story doesn’t stop there as it delves into the years McCullough spent in prison and the efforts to have his conviction overturned. Wa...

This is a very personal episode, one that crosses from the page to the author to the host of the show. An examination of a horrific set of crimes and its impact on the author of the book. This story seems to transcend the program from its normal narrative into a darker realization of how these types of crimes impact the author and researcher when they uncover how deep and dark the story goes and why this case remains, "OPEN" on the books, but closed behind the scenes. Get the book here: https:/...

In 2012, the Canadian Press ignited a firestorm of criticism by naming killer Luka Magnotta as its “Newsmaker Of The Year.” But while the recognition was questionable for its sensitivity, there’s no doubt that few people had captured the public’s attention like the young murderer and internet sensation.Partnered with the mother of the killer, Brian Whitney explores the story, behind the story of a criminal so bizarre and unusual , a twisted soul that committed an atrocity that still is spoken ab...

Over two decades ago, the Boulder County District Attorney Office and the Police Department had different views of what happened to JonBenet Ramsey. Where did the case go wrong? Were prominent figures of the Boulder community, John and Patsy Ramsey, protected because of their status of wealth? What was Burke Ramsey’s possible role in his sister’s death? Why did the Ramsey's have a suicide pact that was hidden from the public long after authorities knew?Tune in today for answers! PLUS All New Du...

Filmmaker and Publicist Bridget Sutton joins the show to talk about a Crime movie made in Minnesota based on the events of the Columbine massacre, then Psychic/Medium Chris Fleming from TV's Dead Famous and Psychic Kids joins the show to talk about what it is like to actually make contact with the spirits of deceased murderers! Psychic/Medium John J. Oliver weighs in with stories from the set of Tru TV's Haunting Evidence about being a psychic investigator/profiler, and then the Great-Grandson o...

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for thirty years.Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Shallow-Graves-Bedford-Highway-Serial/dp/15...

High-profile celebrities, political figures, religious leaders, and many others have fallen prey to assassins, and many have survived. Stephen discusses inside information regarding high and low profile Assassinations and insights into killers. Visit his site here: www.stephenspignesi.com Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Crosshairs-Famous-Assassinations-Attempts-Julius-dp-1510713018/dp/1510713018/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1539794618