Cafecito & Crime

On February 3, 2004, Jamie Gough accompanied a friend of his, Michael Hernandez, to the boy's restroom inside their middle school, and sadly, he would not make it out of there alive. Michael, who had been friends with Jamie for about a year, had been increasingly obsessing over the movie Silence of the Lambs and serial killers. So much so that he wanted to know what it felt like to be one. He...

In 1901, Belle Gunness decided to relocate to a farm in La Porte, Indiana from Austin, Illinois. The year before, in 1900, her first husband, passed away, and after remarrying, it wouldn't be long before she became a widow for the second time. It seemed that death followed Belle, and it started to make the people in town believe that maybe, somehow, Belle had something to do with it.  The peo...

Donna Doll was known as a focused, intelligent, quiet young woman who attended Northern Illinois University in 1970. Donna was supposed to meet her friend, also named Donna, on Friday, October 2, but she never made it. Her body was discovered on October 11 a little over a mile from campus. Her cause of death seemed like suffocation, but no fibers were ever found in her lungs or fibers. Something e...

In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare was a regular man, living life day to day, trying to make ends meet. He had no idea that his life would forever change after purchasing a lotto ticket on November 15, 2006, that would make him a multimillion overnight. Being the humble and generous man he was, he cared for his family and community, but it got to the point where people were just taking and taking from h...

In 2014 and 2015 four young men were found deceased in Barking, east London, from what appeared to be a drug overdose. According to the families, the four young men were not involved in drugs and wouldn't have overdosed but police, still, deemed their deaths as "non-suspicious." It would take the families taking matters into their own hands and beginning an investigation that would...

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Cafecito & Crime!  Today's episode is part 2 of the Edward Harold Bell and we will be talking about "The Eleven That Went To Heaven." We'll speak about each girl, what they were like, and the last time they were seen alive before they were found deceased. We'll also talk about what linked each girl to Ed. And, if he was even telling the trut...

Edward Harold Bell committed plenty of crimes against children and it what was his criminal file mainly consisted of until he murdered Larry Dickens on August 24, 1978. After getting arrested, he got out on bond, but no one expected Ed to flee the country for the next 14 years. He was ultimately caught and convicted of Larry's murder in 1993. In 1998, Ed wrote letters describing how he murder...

Austin Wenner and Jessica Lewis were a couple renting a room in Michael Dudley's home in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. They were in love and were considered good-hearted people by their families. It wasn't alarming when they didn't hear from Austin and Jessica in a couple of days. That wasn't out of the norm. But they never expected to be notified by police that Austin an...

Latisha Frazier was a hard-working young woman who wanted to provide for herself and her daughter. Fresh out of high school, she began working at McDonald's while pursuing a culinary arts degree. When she didn't return home from work on the night of August 2, 2010, her family knew something was wrong because she would not leave her daughter that way. Sadly, no news about what happened to...

Jayna Murray was her life to the fullest in 2011. She was going to school for two master's degrees, had great friends, and had a long-time boyfriend. She was also working at Lululemon and hoped to join their top management team in Vancouver after completing her degrees. Unfortunately, Jayna would be murdered inside her place of work ten weeks before she was set to graduate. But Jayna was not...

Daniel Halseth had been going through a rough couple of years, but in 2021, things seemed to be getting better. His kids had returned to Nevada, where he lived, from Alaska, where they had moved to with their mother. He had a great relationship with his youngest child, 16-year-old Sierra, but things started to get strained between them when she met and started to date 18-year-old Aaron Guerrero. I...

From 1993 to 1995, deaths at Vermillion County Hospital rose significantly and it was all that everyone that worked at the hospital could talk about.  It was until the Supervisor of Nursing, Dawn Stirek, took it upon herself to start looking into patient and unit log records to see if she could figure out what was happening. She discovered that one nurse was present for about 90 - 95% of the death...

Brianna Armstrong was the nicest person you could ever meet. She was that one friend who you could always count on to be there. She was dearly loved by her friends and her work family, which made up for the family that she didn't have. She was always punctual so when she didn't show up to her job on May 7, 2015, the people in her life started to get suspicious, including her estranged hu...

When the Van Breda family went to bed on January 26, 2015, they had no idea that it would be the last time. In the early hours of January 27th, the family would be brutally attacked in their own home where 3  of them would die, leaving 2 others injured. Henri, a surviving member, called the police at 7 that morning, telling them the intruder had attacked the family. Police immediately started to p...

On September 13, 2005, Summer Lee Baldwin's body would be found in a landfill inside a suitcase. It wouldn't take police long to find the person who had done it, Rosendo Rodriguez, but what the police didn't expect was to find that Summer was not Rosendo's only victim. Eighteen months after Joanna Rogers's disappearance, her family would finally find out what happened to h...

Robert Wone began his day on August 2, 2006, just like any other. He and his wife, Kathy, took the metro into Washington, DC, where they both worked and went their separate ways. That was the last time Kathy would see Robert as he would be stabbed and killed that night at Joseph’s Price home, a friend. The three people in that home all stuck to one story: an intruder had broken in and killed Rober...

All Maya Millete wanted to do was take her oldest daughter on her birthday trip before taking the steps to separate from her husband. Sadly, she would never get to take her daughter on that trip because she disappeared on January 7, 2021.  Larry, her husband, was arrested after evidence came out that pointed at him as the person responsible for her disappearance and murder. His trial is set to beg...

Denise Leuthold began her day on February 14, 2013, like any other day. After having a small Valentine's Day morning celebration with her husband and kids, everyone set off for the day. Sadly, Denise was shot and killed in her home after she returned from dropping off her daughter at daycare. What initially was thought to be a robbery gone wrong, suddenly evidence starts pointing elsewhere, t...

On September 15, 2010, Greg Fleniken was in his hotel room, watching a movie like he usually did when he stayed at the Elegante Hotel. Nothing was out of the ordinary, but sadly Greg would die that night. His body was discovered the next day with no major physical wounds, and his manner of death was thought to be caused by a heart attack initially until his autopsy. The autopsy revealed extensive...

When Brittani Marcell headed home for her lunch on September 11, 2008, no one could have imagined the tragic events that would follow. After being beaten severely with a shovel within an inch of her life, Brittani miraculously recovered.  Brittani suffered major memory loss and did not remember anything from the attack, and there were no other suspects. There was DNA recovered at the scene, but it...

In today's episode, Barbie brings us the case of Clinton Young. In November 2001, at the age of 18, Clinton was accused of murdering two people but maintained his innocence throughout his trial. He would get convicted of capital murder in 2003 and sentenced to death. Eight days before Clint's execution date in 2017, his conviction would be overturned by the Texas Supreme Court of Appeals...

In our latest episode, we discuss the case of the Kyoto Animation studio arson attack. On a regular Thursday, a man set fire to the animation studio that had over 70 people inside. He killed 36 and injured over 34, including himself. It would take almost a year before he was actually arrested due to his injuries. So what made this man carry out Japan’s biggest massacre since 2001? Grab your cafeci...

In today's case, Barbie brings us the story of Michele Williams, Keller's "Black Widow." When she called 911 in the early hours of October 13, 2011, she claimed that an intruder in her home shot and killed her husband, Greg, and then attacked her. She later goes on to change her story multiple times and says that Greg committed suicide. From a plea deal, to a pregnancy, to a ne...

When we hear the term serial killer I think our minds automatically picture an adult, but in today’s case, the serial killer is a child. Mary Bell was born to a mother who didn’t want her and made it known. She also went through all types of abuse and loss before they age 6. Was it her environment that made her kill at such a young age or was she born evil? Join us for today’s episode to find out....

On today’s episode, we’ll be discussing the case of Jennifer Schuett. At the age of 8, she survived the impossible and gave the police all the information needed to capture her kidnapper and rapist. Unfortunately, her case would go cold in 1990, and it wouldn’t be until 2008 when he was finally captured. Join for todays unbelievable case, so grab your cafecito and lets gets started.  TW: rape and...