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High –powered Hollywood agent Mackenzie Monroe has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend Nick Tenenbaum and they are planning what else? A Christmas wedding in the tiny town of Evergreen Ohio where they first met... oh and where they first solved two murders. After putting the perpetrators away for life, Mackenzie is looking forward to returning to Evergreen, seeing all of her friends and getting married to the love of her life. But of course, Evergreen and Christmas have other plans in store for her.
Not long after Mackenzie gets back, someone winds up dead. And, almost before she can start to investigate that killing, another murder occurs. Mackenzie must once again solve the murders before her own Christmas wedding. Will she make it down the aisle or will she be next?
The wildly popular series The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery is back with a third season. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. -
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The Evergreen Murders: Return to Evergreen premieres Tuesday, November 19th
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On the night of February 22nd, 2002, a woman named Taylor Schabusiness picked up her boyfriend Shad Thyrion and a friend in her Town and Country minivan in Green Bay, Wisconsin to go buy drugs. The three friends did meth, marijuana and Trazadone until the friend left. Then, Taylor and Shad went into the basement of his mother's house to continue doing drugs and to have sex. They carried on until after midnight, using sex toys and other paraphanalia. Until something went horribly wrong. Shad's mother Tara came down in the wee hours of the morning to check on her son and made a horrific and gruesome discovery that would haunt the residents of Green Bay forever.
Show Notes:
https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2023/07/26/taylor-schabusiness-and-the-murder-of-shad-thyrion/ -
Danny Casolaro was a journalist on the verge of discovering something huge. A U.S. Intelligence military breach, lies, scandal, computer data hackings, killings and bribery that went up to the top of the government. The conspiracy even involved President Reagan himself. So when Danny Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia, many thought he was murdered, even though the death was ruled a suicide.
Show Notes:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81168725 -
David Anderson and Alex Baranyi werhe best of friends. They were also murderers. Both boys had bad childhoods and were abused. But no one could have known that they would commit the ultimate sin.
Show Notes:
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secrets-School-Crime-Killers/dp/038080087X -
Michelle Castillo was 43 years old and lived in Ashburn, Virginia in a 10,000 square foot mansion with her four young children. Michelle had recently been estranged from her husband, Braulio Castillo and had obtained a restraining order against him. She was enjoying her newfound freedom, and had just found out she had acheieved a dream of hers: to participate in the Boston Marathon in 2014.
But little did she know that Braulio, who had moved just a few doors down from Michelle, was tracking her every move and stalking her. And then he escalated. On the night of March 19, 2014, he snuck into the house where he used to live with his family and committed the most heinous of crimes, leaving his five children without a mother and a murderer for a father.
Show Notes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15545452/ -
George Peacock, 76, and his wife, Catherine, 73 were creatures of habit. So much so, that when George did not show up at a local convenience store one morning in his hometown of Danbury, Vermont to get the paper, the clerk noticed. He also did not show up for his part time job at the Rutland Travel Lodge on Sunday, September 17, 1989. Friends of the couple were asked to go check their home.
What they saw there shocked them. Both George and Catherine were dead, and both had been stabbed multiple times. There was no forced entry into the home so it must have been someone they knew. The couple's three daughters and their husbands were interviewed, and their middle daughter, Penny, had a husband named Michael Luis whose story kept changing for the day of the murders. It would take over 30 years and modern science to finally solve the case of the senseless killings.
Show Notes:
https://darkdowneast.com/georgecatherinepeacock/ -
Lauren McCluskey was an excellent 21-year-old athlete who competed on the track at field team at the University of Utah. At the beginning of Lauren's senior year there, in 2018, she met a man named Sean Fields while out at a club. Sean was 28 years old and went to the local community college. Sean and Lauren started dating for a few weeks in September and October and things were going great...or so Lauren thought.
It turned out that Sean Fields was actually 37-year-old Melvin Shawn Roland and he was a criminal. Roland had been arrested many times throughout his troubled life. Once Lauren found out about his past, and the fact that he had lied to her about his age and his name, she broke it off with him.
But Melvin was not done with her. He stalked, extorted, blackmailed and harrassed Lauren so much so that Lauren went to the campus police and the local police. But no one would listen and no one would take her claims seriously. Until one night, in October of 2018, the unthinkable happened.
Show Notes:
https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2023/03/directors-statement-nicole-noren/ -
Mary Lou Morris and Mary McGinnis Morris were two middle-aged women with short, dark curly hair and brown eyes. Mary Lou Morris was a bank loan officer and lived in Baytown, Texas. Mary McGinnis Morris was a healthcare medical director and lived in Sugarland, Texas. Mary Lou Morris was murdered by being burned alive in her car on a country road on October 12, 2000. Mary McGinnis Morris was murdered by being shot in the head on October 16, 2000. The two women were killed in towns that were only 30 miles apart.
The Texas police considered the women's deaths to be coincidences, since the two did not know each other and had never met. But many believe that two women with the same name, same look and who lived in neighboring towns were killed because of a case of mistaken identity. But who wanted one or both of them dead?
Show Notes:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/death-x-southwest/double-trouble-the-murders-tKFoaXqphvO/
Please call The Harris County Sherrif's Department Homicide Hotline at 713-967-5810 with any information.
Correction: Tune in in two weeks on Monday, August 26th for another Crazy True Crime Episode from The Great State of Utah. -
Blair Adams was from Surrey British Columbia, Canada, was 31 years old and had a good job as a construction site manager. He had struggled with drugs and alcohol at one point in his life, but, at the time of his death, had been sober for two years. On Friday, July 5th, 1996, Blair went to the bank and drained his checking and savings accounts. He then tried to get over the Canadian border to Seattle, Washington by ferry. He was turned away because of the large amounts of cash and gold coins he had with him. On Monday, July 8th, Blair, without warning, quit his job at the construction site and left for the airport to buy a $1700 ticket to Germany. But, instead of going to Germany, he purchased another round-trip ticket to Washington D.C. and made it to the nation's capital. From there, he rented a car and drove south.
And this is where Blair Adams' story gets even stranger. From "losing" the keys to the rental car, to driving to Knoxville, Tennessee, to loitering in the lobby of a hotel for an hour, to being found dead in the parking lot of another hotel under construction on the morning of July 11, Blair Adams' mystery death gets even creepier. Was he murdered in cold blood, and, if so, for what reason? Or was his death simply a tragic accident?
Show Notes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinking-sideways-blair-adams/id679462887?i=1000364153311
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0737586/ -
South Dakota's cold cases include: Tammy Haas, Eugene Prins, Morgan Bauer, Pamela Dunn and Morgan Lewis
Show Notes:
Tammy Haas:
Yankton Police Department: 605-668-5210
FBI Office in Sioux Falls: 605-334-6881
tips.fbi.gov
Anonymously at Yankton CrimeStoppers: 605-665-4440
Eugene Prins:
Sanborn County Sherriff's Office: 605-796-4511
SD DCI: 605-773-3331
Morgan Bauer:
Atlanta PD: 404-546-4235
Atlanta CrimeStoppers Anonymous: 404-577-8477
Pamela Dunn:
Watertown PD: 605-882-6210
Department of Criminal Investigation:
605-773-3331
Morgan Lewis:
Aberdeen PD: 605-626-7000
Brown County Sherriff's Office: 605-626-3500 -
David Smith met Susan Vaughn at the local Winn Dixie in Union, South Carolina when the two were teenagers working as cashiers. Soon, they started dating and fell in love and Susan became pregnant. The two married and started a life together. They then had a second son.
But things were not perfect, not even close. Susan and David both had affairs and they fought over things like money constantly. Until October 25, 1994, David received a call at work. He and Susan were separated by that point. It was Susan telling him that she had been carjacked and that the man had taken off with her car and their two boys in the backseat. For nine days, a massive search effort was launched, until early November when Susan admitted the terrifying truth. She had made the whole thing up, and had drowned their two precious baby boys.
Show Notes:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-All-Reason-Susan-Smith/dp/0786002921 -
Ernest Brendel was an attorney who lived with his wife, Alice, a library assistant, and their young daugther, Emily in Barrington, Rhode Island. Through a mutual friend, Ernie met Chris Hightower, a twice-married financial advisor and the families became close. They even vacationed together in the New Hampshire moutains. But Ernie had invested $11,000 of his money with Chris and Chris lost it all. Irate, Ernie called the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission and placed a complaint against Chris Hightower.
That enraged Chris to the point where, on September 20, 1991, Chris snapped. He purchased a crossbow at a local sporting goods store and laid in wait for Ernie Brendel in his garage. The next few days would have Chris going on the run, committing multiple murders and other criminal acts, and would involve wild tales of mob hits and buried bodies.
Show Notes:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216550.Death_of_an_Angel -
Andrew Bagby was a well-liked and gregarious guy who always knew he wanted to be a doctor. He went to medical school in Newfoundland, Canada, and that is where the 28-year-old met 40-year-old Shirley Turner. Shirley was twice divorced and had left three kids behind with three different fathers when she went to medical school.
Andrew Bagby broke things off with Shirley Turner when he started his residency in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, but Shirley did not like that much. She came back to Pennsylvania and fatally shot Andrew Bagby on November 5, 2001. Shirley would be in and out of jail, and, over the next year, birthed Andrew's baby, a boy named Zachary.
What followed was a tragic occurence that Andrew Bagby's parents tried to prevent. Shirley would soon take her own life, as well as that of her son, Zachary.
Show Notes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/ -
On the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, 1974, the Cowden family, which consisted of Richard Cowden, 28, Belinda, 22, David, 5, and Melissa, 5 months, made a spontaneous decision to go camping at one of their favorite spots, Carbury Creek, 40 miles to the Southwest from where they lived in White City, Oregon. They packed the truck then stopped off at the General Store in Copper, Oregon to visit Belinda's mother, Ruth Grayson. Ruth offered to have the family over for lunch the next day, Sunday. The family agreed and set off.
But when the next night rolled around and Ruth still hadn't heard from her daughter and her family, she made the mile drive to go look for them. What she found was concerning. Melissa's diaper bag and fishing poles were next to some trees. Richard's wallet and watch were on the ground, along with Belinda's cigarettes. And some milk and water had been left out on a picnic table. There was no sign of the Cowden family.
A search began that same day and lasted for months. Until finally, half a year later, the family's bodies were discovered near and inside an old mining cave. But who would do such a thing? And what sort of depraved killer would have wanted a young, innocent family dead?
Show Notes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22138532/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372106-but-i-trusted-you-and-other-true-cases -
Brittany Phillips had just moved back home to Tulsa, Oklahoma to attend nearby Tulsa Community College, with plans to transfer to Oklahoma State. She aspired to work in the medical field. She had a lot of friends nearby, and was very close with her mother, whom she talked to at least once a day and made the two hour drive to visit every weekend. But at the end of September, 2004, Brittany's mom, Maggie had not heard from her.
Neither had her friends. So one of her friends went to check on her and found her apartment door ajar. Not wanting to enter, she called her father, a former District Attorney, who called some police buddies to do a wellness check. There was Brittany, lying on the floor by her bed. She was dead and had been sexually assaulted.
What followed was two decades of the desperate search for Brittany's killer. Her mother, Maggie, still travels the country, searching in desperation for who could have done this to her. If you have any information on Brittany Phillips' murder please contact someone below.
Show Notes:
Brittanyphillipsmurder.net
Eddie Majors: Lead Detective: [email protected]
Tulsa homicide hotline: 918-596-9141 or 596-COPS
https://casefilepodcast.com/case-146-brittany-phillips/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brittany-phillips-part-1-732/id1062418176?i=1000642664084 -
On the morning of Sunday, August 12th, 2012, a 16-year-old High School student, Jane Doe, woke up in Steubenville, Ohio, about 15 miles from her hometown of Weirton, West Virginia. She woke up in a strange basement and had no idea where she was. She was missing her earrings, underwear and cell phone. In the room with her were tow boys, aged 16 and 17, named Trent May and Malik Richmond. Jane remembered very little from the night before, only that she had been at a few parties with the Steubenville Varsity Football players, and, after texting some friends, that she had also been raped.
The following year would bring chaos to Steubenville, Ohio. Accusations, denials, lawsuits, hackers, crime blogs and an article in the New York Times would divide this small town. It was their word against hers, and they were the star football players. Until damning evidence in the form of text messages and a video came to light.
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https://rollredrollfilm.com/ -
In February 2019, a young couple from the Cincinnati, Ohio area left their baby with his grandparents and made the two-and-a-half-hour drive up to Central Ohio to spend the night at the Hilton Hotel at Easton Town Center, a luxury shopping mall in Columbus. They were Tyler Davis and his wife, Brittany, whose birthday was the next day. But what started out as a fun evening with another local friend, turned into a nightmare. Around 3 am, after they were all dropped off at their hotel, Tyler became confused and a little belligerent, and wandered off in a drunken stupor...and seemingly vanished into thin air. He was never seen or heard from again...In July of 2003, an alleged drug deal was going down in an apartment in Columbus, adjacent to The Ohio State University's main campus. A man by the name of Vernon Spence visited the apartment of Aaron Grexa, a soon-to-be OSU student, hoping to buy marijuana. Spence decided he didn't like the quality of the weed and left. But one night later, he returned, with two other men and forced his way inside the apartment. Their intent was robbery: weed, pills, cash...but Spence's intentions went horribly awry. The next day, a third roommate returned from a night away and encountered the gruesome sight. Three innocent, young people, two roommates and a girlfriend, who was a student at OSU, murdered in cold blood. This is the disappearance of Tyler Davis and the murders of Aaron Grexa, Eric Hlass and Kayla Hurst. Show Notes: https://www.wnewsj.com/news/188391/clinton-county-man-missing-nearly-3-years-declared-deceased-by-courthttps://open.spotify.com/episode/5P0nf2barp7gmKuaPAHA9ghttps://www.thelantern.com/2005/05/murder-of-osu-shooting-victim-still-hard-on-family/https://casetext.com/case/state-v-spence-9Smells Like HumansLike spending time with funny friends talking about curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Barbara Cotton was born on November 10th, 1965 in Tayoga, North Dakota. She had 9 brothers and sisters and a hard life. Her family was poor and her father abused many family members. When her mother finally divorced her father in 1973, she took Barb and two siblings and moved to Williston, North Dakota. There, Barb went to High School, partied some, had a bussing job at a local restaurant, The Country Kitchen, and saved money for a place of her own.
But on the night of April 11th, 1981, Barb disappeared. She was last seen by her mother when she visited her place of work with a 21-year-old male friend named Stacy Wardner. Stacy was the last person to see Barb that night as she walked three blocks toward home. But no body was ever found, and the investgation would lead authorities down a winding path, with plenty of suspects, one of them being Barb's own brother.
Show Notes:
https://wondery.com/shows/the-vanished-podcast/episode/5623-barbara-cotton-part-1-a-lost-girl/ - Show more
