Melanin Mayhem Podcast

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Power. Betrayal. Bloodlines. And a mother who was NOT to be played with. This week, your favorite country girl takes Noir Nation all the way to 19th-century Rwanda for some royal shenanigans of the highest order introducing you to Queen Mother Nyirayuhi V Kanjogera, a woman whose legacy should be synonymous with power, ambition, and controversy....

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com For years, elderly women across the Dallas area were dying in their homes and upscale senior living communities. Their deaths seemed natural—after all, they were in their 80s and 90s. But grieving families kept noticing something strange: jewelry was missing. Cash had disappeared. And little details surrounding some of the deaths just didn't...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com For more than a decade, Linda Ann Weston moved vulnerable people through multiple states, leaving behind a trail of abuse, exploitation, missing questions and warning signs that somehow never seemed to connect. Then, in October 2011, Philadelphia police opened a chained steel door in the basement of an apartment building. What they found was horr...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week on Melanin Mayhem: In Alabama, they called him Reverend… but he didn't have a pulpit. But Rev. Willie Maxwell was stacking bodies and cashing checks. Family members kept dropping like flies, and somehow the “Voodoo Preacher” always had an insurance policy ready to cash in. Was it voodoo? Was it hustle? Or was it just cold-blooded mu...

Subscribe: https://melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com FLASHBACK EPISODE- Sometimes you just gotta pop out and show ninjas. Before Terry Blair became one of Kansas City’s most notorious serial killers, violence was already woven deep into his family history. This week, we’re going back into the Melanin Mayhem archives for one of the wildest family trees ever covered on the podcast. Terry Anthony Bl...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Two men. Two families. Two devastating killing sprees separated by more than 40 years. In this episode of Melanin Mayhem, we examine the cases of Romeo Nance, the 23-year-old Illinois man linked to the 2024 Joliet mass shooting, and King Edward Bell, an Indianapolis father whose 1981 family massacre became one of the city’s most disturbing crimes. B...

Subscribe: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com There are some things Black folks just know we don’t do. Except… sometimes we do. This week on Melanin Mayhem , Your Favorite Country Girl is calling an audible and tackling one of the most uncomfortable myths in the Black community: Black people don’t die by suicide by hanging. Our history gives us very good reason to question a Black person found han...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week on Melanin Mayhem , we’re heading to Maryland for the unbelievable story of Lawrence Banks Sr., later known as Malik Samartaney —a man whose violent history stretched across decades, jurisdictions, relationships, and more trips through the criminal justice system than anybody with his track record should have been allowed. Banks could work...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week, Your Favorite Country Girl is headed to 1990s Chicago, where the Englewood neighborhood had more than enough mayhem to go around. Hubert Geralds Jr. had been in and out of trouble since his teenage years, but petty crime was only the beginning. After landing in Chicago and making himself comfortable at his sister’s house, Geralds gradu...

Subscribe at: https://melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Two spree killers. One last name. No relation... at least I certainly hope not. This week on Melanin Mayhem, we're diving into the chilling cases of Arthur James Davis and Leon Davis Jr.—two melanated spree killers separated by four decades, hundreds of miles, and completely different motives, yet forever connected by a name they happen...

Subscribe at: www.melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week, Your Favorite Country Girl revisits one of the most disturbing true crime cases involving the dead: Ray Brent Marsh and the infamous Tri-State Crematory scandal. Families believed they were laying their loved ones to rest. Instead, investigators uncovered a nightmare that shocked the nation. Then, because apparently history refuses to...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Michael Hughes. Southside Slayer. Los Angeles serial killer. For years, investigators believed one predator was responsible for a string of brutal murders targeting Black women across South Los Angeles. The truth was far more disturbing. This week, Melanin Mayhem examines the case of Michael Hughes , a convicted California serial killer whose crimes...

Subscribe now: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com The Wilkes-Barre Massacre was one of the deadliest mass killings in Pennsylvania history. In 1982, a troubled corrections officer with a violent past and growing paranoid delusions turned two quiet neighborhoods into crime scenes within hours. But the massacre was only the beginning of a legal battle over mental illness, the death penalty, and whet...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week your favorite country girl Renee Davis explores the true crime cases of Louis Craine and Howard Arthur Allen—two lesser-known Black serial killers whose violent crimes targeted some of society's most vulnerable victims. While their names are rarely mentioned alongside America's most infamous murderers, their cases reveal disturbing...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Children were disappearing. Teenagers were being found murdered. And for years, no one realized the same predator was responsible. Before his name became synonymous with terror, Lorenzo Fayne was dismissed as just another violent repeat offender. But behind the robberies, assaults, and prison time lurked a child predator and serial killer whose vict...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com For over three decades, Theodore Johnson slipped through the cracks of the justice system—leaving a trail of dead lovers behind him. From a deadly fall in the 80s to a brutal hammer attack in 2016, Johnson’s pattern of violence was impossible to ignore… yet somehow ignored for years. In this episode of Melanin Mayhem , your favorite country girl...

Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.comPolice saw Ivan Hill as just another violent street criminal — armed robberies, aggravated assaults, with multiple prison bids. Was he dangerous? Sure. But nobody suspected the far darker truth hiding beneath the surface. While law enforcement tracked the crimes they could see, Ivan Hill was committing a string of brutal rapes and murders no one conn...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Two killers. One death row bond. The final reckoning. This week on Melanin Mayhem Podcast , we unpack the violent path of Quincy Allen—a man shaped by chaos, trauma, and brutality—whose deadly spree landed him on South Carolina’s death row. But behind those prison walls, he formed an unlikely friendship with fellow condemned killer Mikal Deen Mah...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Paris. The City of Light. The city of romance. The city of fashion. And for three terrifying years in the 1980s, it was also home to a pair of predators who turned some of its most vulnerable residents into targets. When elderbuns across Paris began turning up beaten, bound, tortured, and murdered inside their own apartments, police were baffled....

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com He wanted fame. Instead, he became one of Georgia’s most chilling modern serial killers. This week, your favorite country girl heads to the Peach State to unpack the disturbing case of Aeman Lovelle Presley—a failed actor, self-proclaimed gang member, and drifter whose frustration with life turned deadly in 2014. Over the course of just a few mon...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.comWhat happens when a convicted predator reinvents himself over…and over…and over again—until hundreds of people believe he’s a prophet sent to save humanity? This week, your favorite country girl is taking Noir Nation down the rabbit hole of one of the wildest cult stories you may have never heard: the rise and fall of Dwight York. From Brooklyn be...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Brielle Livingston has spent her whole life wondering where she came from. One decision changed everything. A family she never knew. A grandfather she never met. A hometown her mother swore never to return to. But when death strikes twice in a matter of days, Brielle starts to wonder… Was her mother hiding the truth? Stay connected: www.melaninma...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Wayne “Silk” Perry wasn’t just feared in the streets of Washington D.C.—for some, he became a legend. This week, your favorite country girl heads to 1980s and 90s Washington D.C., when crack cocaine, fast money, and violence turned Chocolate City into the Murder Capital of America. At the center of whispers, rumors, and street mythology stood one...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.comWhat if the witness wasn’t as innocent as she seemed? In this alternate ending of  The Witness , grief turns into obsession, old wounds refuse to heal, and Shemeka’s need for justice starts looking a whole lot like revenge. As secrets from the past begin to surface, one thing becomes clear: everybody ain’t telling the same story… and some people a...

Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.comFor more than a decade, women in one Columbus neighborhood lived in fear of a man who slipped into their homes in the dead of night. Police were hunting a serial rapist. DNA existed. Victims kept piling up. So what went wrong? This week, your favorite country girl drags the audacious and diabolical Robert Patton Jr.—aka the Linden Area Rapist—to t...