Most Wanted

Send us a Text Message. This week, Lauren and Amanda discuss Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, former counterculture leftist and current Midwest housewife. Sources: The Washington Examiner: “The Terrorist Next Door” by Elliot Rothenberg History.com: “This Day in History: June 16, 1999 - SLA member captured after more than 20 years” by History.com Editors The Star Tribune (Minneap...

Send us a Text Message. This week, Amanda and Lauren cover a guy who was featured on both “The Hunt with John Walsh” and on the US Marshal’s 15 Most Wanted. Fun (?) Fact: He was identified by a missing toe! Sources: CNN: "Texas murder suspect featured on ‘The Hunt’ caught in Mexico" by Nicole Chavez CNN: "The Hunt with John Walsh: Alleged killer on the run after half-naked, drunken rant" by Thom P...

Send us a Text Message. This week, Amanda, Lauren, and their special guest (their mom!) discuss Sarah Panitzke, fraudster and one-time most wanted woman in the United Kingdom. Sources: The Independent: “One of UK’s most wanted tax fugitives has sentence doubled after failing to pay back stolen millions” by Jonathan Kanengoni BBC: “Sarah Panitzke: UK’s most wanted woman jailed over fraud” by BBC St...

Send us a Text Message. This week, Amanda and Lauren head back to the Most Notorious list, this time to talk about Delaware's only serial killer, Steven Brian Pennell. Sources: All That’s Interesting: "The Disturbing Crimes Of Steven Brian Pennell, The Only Serial Killer In Delaware History" by Neil Patmore Delaware Today: "Route 40 Serial Killer Remains an Enigma After Convicted 30 Years Ago" by...

Send us a Text Message. In the final episode of their World's Most Wanted series, Amanda and Lauren discuss Russian mob boss and overall wanted guy, Semion Mogilevich. Sources: All That’s Interesting: “Why Russian Crime Lord Semion Mogilevich Lives Up to His Title as ‘the World’s Most Powerful Mobster’” by Marco Margaritoff Fox 5 New York: “FBI: $5 million reward offered in case of fugitive busine...

Send us a Text Message. In the third episode of their World's Most Wanted series, Lauren and Amanda discuss Samantha Lewthwaite, the white widow of the UK. Sources: The Guardian: “The radicalisation of Samantha Lewthwaite, the Aylesbury schoolgirl who became ‘the white widow’ by Zoe Williams BBC News: “Profile: Samantha Lewthwaite” by no byline The Week: “Is Samantha Lewthwaite really a terrorist...

Send us a Text Message. In the second week of their World's Most Wanted series, Lauren and Amanda discuss Félicien Kabuga, the financier of the Rwandan genocide.  Sources: AlJazeera: “Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga should not face trial, UN judges say” by AlJazeera Editors AlJazeera: “Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga declared ‘unfit’ to stand trial” by AlJazeera Editors CNN: “UN court rules Rwandan...

This week kicks off a new theme month, where Amanda and Lauren explore the World's Most Wanted criminals from the 2020 Netflix series. The ladies start the series with Ismael Zambada García, also known as El Mayo, the longtime leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Sources: ABC7: “El Mayo and son: New indictment brings father and son narco tale back to the forefront” by Chuck Goudie All That’s In...

This week, Amanda and Lauren discuss the infamous Susan Smith. This case gained international attention when Susan falsely claimed that a black man had kidnapped her sons during a carjacking. Sources: Fox 29: "Susan Smith, nearing parole after murders of young sons, says she'd be 'good stepmom': report" by Christina Coulter  GoUpstate: "Linda Russell, mother of Susan V. Smith, sits in the courtroo...

It's Lauren's birthday week, so she made an episode request! Amanda and Lauren return to a wanted fugitive that was mentioned way back in Episode 10 to discuss the full story of El Gato. Sources: FBI Dallas: “FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Jose Rodolfo Villareal-Hernandez Captured in Mexico” by Public Affairs Officers Melinda Urbina and Katie Chaumont The Dallas Morning News: “Here’s the possible fa...

This week, Amanda and Lauren head to trial with Jodi Arias where she spends 18 days on the witness stand for the murder of Travis Alexander. You won’t want to miss this dramatic conclusion! Sources: Snapped: Season 11, Episodes 9 & 10 Dateline: Obsession: The Jodi Arias Story ABC News: "Friends say they warned Travis Alexander that Jodi Arias was dangerous for months before she killed him" by...

This week Amanda and Lauren head back to 2008 and discuss the murder of Travis Alexander at the hands of his ex-girlfriend - spoiler, it's Jodi Arias. Sources: Snapped: Season 11, Episodes 9 & 10 Dateline: Obsession: The Jodi Arias Story ABC News: "Friends say they warned Travis Alexander that Jodi Arias was dangerous for months before she killed him" by Gail Deutsch, Denise Martinez-Ramundo,...

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This year for Women's History Month, Amanda and Lauren are going to go on a journey through some tragic deaths of young women, and their lives that were cut too short. Because they were wanted too. In their final week of Women's History Month, Lauren and Amanda discuss the stalking and murder of Lauren McCluskey, the failures of the University of Utah, and the legacy of Lauren's Promise. Resources...

This year for Women's History Month, Amanda and Lauren are going to go on a journey through some tragic deaths of young women, and their lives that were cut too short. Because they were wanted too. It's a long one, folks! For the third week of Women's History Month, Amanda and Lauren head to Aruba to discuss the disappearance of brand new high school graduate Natalee Holloway, the winding road to...

This year for Women's History Month, Amanda and Lauren are going to go on a journey through some tragic deaths of young women, and their lives that were cut too short. Because they were wanted too. In the second episode of their Women's History Month series, Amanda and Lauren discuss the murder of Dru Sjodin, a case that was local to them when they were young, and the effect the outcome of the cas...

This year for Women's History Month, Amanda and Lauren are going to go on a journey through some tragic deaths of young women, and their lives that were cut too short. Because they were wanted too. In their first Women's History Month episode, Amanda and Lauren discuss the senseless murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, and the light her tragic death shined on the epidemic of Missing and Murdered...

For the fifth and final week of Black History Month, Lauren and Amanda discuss the murder of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Sources: CBS News: "Trayvon Martin: 10 Years Later" by CBS News History.com: "This Day in History: February 26, 2012: Florida Teen Trayvon Martin is Shot and Killed" by History.com Editors NPR News: "A Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And The Movement It Inspired" by...

For the fourth week of Black History Month, Amanda and Lauren return to Mississippi in the Civil Rights Movement era to discuss the murders of three civil rights workers in June 1964 - Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. This case is most commonly known as the Mississippi Burning case, or MIBURN, and it's a real doozy, everyone. Sources: The US Code FBI website: “Mississippi Burni...

As they reach the halfway point of Black History Month, Lauren and Amanda are changing up their format a little bit to spend two weeks in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. This week, they're covering the murder of activist and NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers. Sources: Medgar Evers College: “History: The Murder of Medgar Evers” FBI History: “Medgar Evers” Zinn Education P...

This week, Amanda and Lauren continue their Black History Month series and discuss Black Liberation Army member and current Most Wanted "terrorist" Assata Shakur. Those quotes are sarcastic... obviously.  Sources: Assata Shakur’s website: “About Assata Shakur” Democracy Now!: “Sekou Odinaga, Black Liberation Activist who Helped Free Assata Shakur, Dies at 79” by No Byline The Guardian: “Assata Sha...

It's Black History Month! This week, Lauren and Amanda cover the inspiring academic and activist Angela Davis, who was on the FBI's Most Wanted list for a crime she didn't commit, and who has made it part of her life's work to fight back against the systems of oppression that put her there. Sources: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: “Angela Davis” New York Histor...

This week, Amanda and Lauren celebrate their one-year podcast anniversary by discussing a deeply unsettling argument over music.   Sources: The San Diego Union Tribune: "Woman wanted in murder of pregnant mom added to FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list: A confrontation over loud music preceded the shooting" by Sandy Coronilla Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "Milwaukee woman gets 30 years for slaying over lou...

This week, Amanda and Lauren go back to the Old West to talk about some infamous outlaws - Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch. And what a wild bunch they were! Sources: Westgate Resorts website: “20 Things You Didn’t Know about the Sundance Film Festival” by Westgate Resorts (blog) Biography: “Butch Cassidy” Biography: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The True Story of the Fam...

In this week's more lighthearted episode, Amanda and Lauren cover the rise and fall of the crypto king, Gerald Cotten. Sources: CBC: “Quadriga CEO’s widow speaks out over his death and the missing crypto millions” by Cassie Williams with additional reporting by Andrew Chang CBC: “Crypto exchange Quadriga was a fraud and founder was running a Ponzi scheme, OSC report finds” by Tara Deschamps Coinde...