Women and Crime

Ep 08: Lavena Johnson was just a few days shy of her 20th birthday when her body was found lifeless in a tent on a U.S. military base in Iraq. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide by army investigators, however it didn’t take long for questions to arise.  Was this a case of suicide? Murder?  A systematic cover-up by the U.S. military? More than a decade later, questions still linger … Sources Cit...

Ep 07: Darlie Routier was convicted of the 1996 murder of her two small children, Damon and Devon, but she has always adamantly maintained her innocence. Did this seemingly happy housewife and mother commit this brutal act or did tunnel vision taint the investigation from the start? Sources : ABC Documentary Last Defense CNN Injustice Watch Dallas Morning News Credits: Written and Hosted by Amy Sh...

Ep 06: In the early morning hours of June 5, 2005, 18 year old Noura Jackson discovered her mother naked and brutally stabbed in their Memphis home. Just three months into the investigation Noura was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder. Was this a case of cold-blooded murder of a mother by her daughter or was this a case of wrongful conviction?  Sources Cited for this episode: Charged by E...

Ep 05: Sheila Davaloo was convicted of the attempted murder of her husband and sentenced to 25 years in prison but was that her only brutal crime? She says she is guilty of a crime but also the victim of a wrongful conviction. What is the real story and who is the real victim? Sources Cited for this episode: Snapped, Killer Women with Piers Morgan and The Stamford Advocate Support Our Work: The ea...

Ep 04: Teenage best friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker were convicted of murdering Pauline's mother, Honora Parker. After just five years of imprisonment the girls were released. What led to this henious crime and where are the offenders now?   Sources Cited for this episode: Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham, Huffington Post, New Zealand Herald  Support Our Work: The e...

Ep 03: Karla Homolka is a seemingly normal, popular and pretty 17-year-old when she meets 23-year-old Paul Bernardo. The two, beautiful on the outside, are masking a darkness that no one expected. Was Karla an innocent victim of Paul’s or something much more sinister? Sources Cited for this episode: Documentary by Serial Killer Documentaries, Articles by Toronto Sun, The Ken and Barbie Killers by...

Ep 02: Imette, a boston native who moved to NYC to study Criminal Justice at John Jay University. She was a beautiful, vibrant graduate student who went bar hopping with a friend on the evening of Feb 24th, 2006 to celebrate her upcoming 25thbirthday, sadly she wouldn’t live to see that day.  Sources : NY Times, NY Post, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, People.com, Datel...

Ep 01: The Betty Broderick Case. Betty was a faithful partner who raised her children and put her husband through both medical school and law school. What drove this women to murder two people? Support Our Work: The easiest way you can support us is by leaving a review, telling your friends, sharing on social media or by sending us a note. We love to hear from our audience!  You can also support t...

In this podcast we use a criminologist’s lens to look at how women are treated in the criminal justice system, the causes of female crime and victimization, as well as cover cases in which women have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated. Dr Meghan Sacks and Dr Amy Shlosberg are both Professors of Criminology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. They teach classes such as: Women & Crime, Race & C...