GBRLIFE Transmissions

A free flight. Fifteen minutes inside an elderly woman’s home. Eighty-eight credit card charges. And a note telling her to call a stranger her granddaughter. Investigators say twenty-four-year-old American Airlines flight attendant Destiny Blake used her employee standby benefits to travel to Palm Coast, Florida, where a seventy-five-year-old woman had been caught in a fake Publishers Clearing Hou...

Positive pregnancy tests. Doctored medical records. An ultrasound belonging to another woman. And a former Bachelor star determined to uncover the truth. Laura Owens told Clayton Echard she was pregnant with his twins. What followed became a court battle that exposed other men with strikingly similar stories—and a pattern stretching back years. In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, Kaitlyn follows...

He was home. She was at the wrong door. On September 6, 2018, Botham Jean was spending the evening in his Dallas apartment when off-duty police officer Amber Guyger entered and shot him. She said she believed the apartment was hers and that the man inside was an intruder. But the questions went beyond how she reached the wrong floor. What did she overlook before opening the door? Why did she enter...

The rhyme made her infamous. The trial left her free. In August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their Fall River home. Lizzie Borden was accused of the murders, but the jury that acquitted her never heard her inquest testimony or testimony about an alleged attempt to buy poison. So what did the jury hear? And what might the familiar nursery rhyme have kept us from questioning? In t...

For years, Angie Mock was a familiar face on the morning news. On Halloween morning in 2025, the former television anchor approached neighbors in Wichita, Kansas, and asked them to call 911. Her mother, Anita Avers, had been attacked in her bed. Angie said she had acted to save herself. Later, she told detectives she believed her mother was the devil. Her family described years of delusions, angry...

For years, Danette Colbert approached visitors in the French Quarter. Men reported waking up without their money, watches, phones, or access to their accounts. Despite a growing criminal record, she kept returning to the streets where she had become known as the Bourbon Street Hustler. During Super Bowl week in February 2025, she met Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old sports reporter covering the Kansas...

Christa Pike was 18 years old when she told a friend at the Knoxville Job Corps Center that she planned to kill another student. When asked why, she simply said she felt mean that day. Less than two days later, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was found dead near an abandoned steam plant. Christa had lured her away under the pretense of making peace, but she arrived carrying a box cutter and a miniatur...

 Frances Zaayer spent a year and a half terrorizing the family across the street, but the Scotts were not strangers. They were the same family who had taken her in as a teenager and welcomed her into their home again decades later. What began as a property dispute became a campaign of surveillance, false accusations, repeated 911 calls, racist abuse, and staged injuries. Her accusations eventually...

Carrie Phenix presented herself as an attorney who handled wills, trusts, and estates. In reality, her name was Caroline Herrling, she had no law license, and the legal authority she displayed existed almost entirely on forged paper. Using fake identities, counterfeit wills, impostors, and practiced signatures, Carrie stole nearly $3.9 million from vulnerable people, including the elderly, the iso...

Lisa Hayden-Johnson was praised as a devoted mother caring for her desperately ill son. But Matthew was healthy. For years, Lisa convinced doctors that he had numerous serious conditions, resulting in a wheelchair, feeding tube, oxygen bottles, and more than 325 unnecessary medical procedures. She even added glucose to his urine samples to create false evidence of diabetes. In this episode, we exa...

Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza spent months convincing her husband and family that she was pregnant. She gained weight, altered medical documents, produced fake ultrasound images and celebrated at a baby shower for a child she knew she was not carrying. But a fabricated pregnancy came with a very real deadline. On June 17, 2009, Ale entered the maternity ward of Hospital General de México carryin...

Donna Adelson had no direct connection to the men who murdered her former son-in-law, Dan Markel. What investigators found instead was a trail of phone calls, suspicious payments, family interference, handwritten scripts, and a 2014 day planner containing the license plate number of Dan’s car. In this episode, we examine the Adelson family’s enmeshed dynamics, the custody dispute that prosecutors...

A tire was deliberately placed in the middle of a dark road. When Jared Bridegan stopped to move it, he was shot while his two-year-old daughter waited inside his vehicle. Four years later, his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, is preparing to stand trial for allegedly conspiring with her second husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, to have him killed. But the man prosecutors identified as the gunman has withd...

On the evening of January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy left his Duxbury, Massachusetts, home to pick up medicine and dinner. He was gone for less than 30 minutes. When he returned, he found his wife, Lindsay, catastrophically injured outside their home. Inside the basement, he found their three young children. There is no mystery about who caused their deaths. The question now before a Plymouth County...

In the early morning hours of February 22, 2022, a mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, walked into her basement looking for her son. What she found would become the center of one of the most disturbing criminal cases in the state’s history. Twenty-four-year-old Taylor Schabusiness was arrested within hours and confessed to killing 25-year-old Shad Thyrion, someone she had known since high school. The...

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes , we examine the case of Ruby Franke , the former momfluencer behind 8 Passengers , and the journal that revealed how she justified abusing her own children. After her 12-year-old son escaped from Jodi Hildebrandt’s home asking for water and help, investigators uncovered starvation, isolation, forced labor, and a belief system that framed cruelty...

 In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes , we examine the case of Jodi Hildebrandt , the licensed counselor behind Connexions whose “truth versus distortion” framework became a tool of control. After a 12-year-old boy escaped from a home in Ivins, Utah, asking for water and help, investigators uncovered the abuse of two children and the disturbing belief system used to justify it. This...

On June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, a long-running neighborhood dispute ended in tragedy when Susan Lorincz fired a single shot through her locked front door, killing her neighbor, Ajike “AJ” Owens, while AJ’s young son stood beside her.  In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes , we examine the Susan Lorincz case beyond the headline. This is not just a story about one fatal shot. It is a case about f...

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we cover the disturbing case of Taylor Parker, a Texas woman who spent months pretending to be pregnant while building an elaborate web of lies around the people closest to her. Taylor told her boyfriend the baby was coming. But there was no baby. There was no pregnancy. And when the truth was close to coming out, her deception turned into one o...

Kouri Richins presented herself as a grieving widow after her husband, Eric Richins, died from fentanyl poisoning. But behind the public image was a case involving debt, life insurance, alleged prior poisoning attempts, and a children’s book about grief that shocked everyone watching. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes , we break down the Kouri Richins case and the psychology behind one of the c...

On July 31, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove a Toyota Camry into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at 100 miles per hour. Inside the car were her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan. Both were killed. Mackenzie survived. At first, it looked like a tragic accident. But the car’s event data told a different story: full acceleration, no brakes, and a deliberate stee...

Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was only six years old when he disappeared from Everman, Texas. For more than three years, his case remained a heartbreaking missing child investigation. Then, in May 2026, investigators confirmed that Noel’s remains had been found. His mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, is accused of calling him “possessed,” mistreating him, lying about where he was, and fleeing the country wit...

What happens when a girl the world never protected finally fights back? In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we return to the life and crimes of Aileen Wuornos—not starting on a Florida highway, but with a four-year-old child no one came for. We revisit Aileen’s story from the ground up: the abandonment at age four, the abuse inside the only home she had, pregnancy at eleven, and being forced to...

What really happened inside that Miami penthouse on April 3rd, 2022? Courtney Clenney said it was self defense. Prosecutors say the physical evidence tells a different story. And in the middle of it all is a relationship that had already spiraled into violence long before Christian Obumseli died.   In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the full timeline of the Courtney Clenney case,...

England. A quiet street. A normal house.  And beneath it… bodies. For nearly 20 years, inside 25 Cromwell Street, some of the most horrifying crimes imaginable were happening behind closed doors — hidden beneath the life of a woman who looked completely ordinary. Rose West wasn’t just a participant.  She was a mother. A neighbor. A woman raising children… while helping torture and murder young wom...