Crime With My Coffee

In December of 1994 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 27 year old Alison Botha thought she was being carjacked. It turned into a literal fight for her life. Her attackers, Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger, would rape her, disembowel her, and nearly decapitate her before leaving her for dead in a ditch on the outskirts of town. Alison had no intentions of dying that night, or letting them get away wi...

Starting in July 1976, New York City was gripped in fear because someone was shooting random people. This shooter was known as the .44 Caliber Killer but was most well known as the Son of Sam. After the eight different shootings, David Berkowitz was identified as a viable suspect. Once he was in police custody he confessed to the crimes and told them his reason for doing them. Sources for this epi...

In Septmeber of 2005 a double homicide in Pineville, Missouri and the massacre of almost an entire family in Pampa, Texas and a traffic stop at the border of Mexico and Texas were all connected. 10 year old Robin called 911 in the early morning of September 30 to report that there had been a shooting in her house in Pampa, which sadly claimed the lives of her mother, Michell Conrad, her stepdad, B...

In September 2009, Emma Neiderbrock and two of her friends, Melanie Wells and Richard "Sam" McCroskey, left Emma's home in Farmville, Virginia and travelled to Southgate, Michigan to attend the Strictly For the Wicked horrorcore music festival. When Melanie didn't return home a few days later, her mother would make phone calls to police for a welfare check. It would be a few days later when police...

In 2017 Ben Renick was living a life many would envy. He had a beautiful wife, kids, land, and a successful reptile business that he was super passionate about. On June 8th, 2017 his wife would find him dead in his reptile breeding facility in New Florence, Missouri. Initially, it was thought that one of his snakes had escaped and killed him. It was obviously a murder when they realized he had bee...

In Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 1969 was an adventurous day for bank employee Theodore Conrad. At just 20 years old, he walked into work after lunch like always, left like normal, and then disappeared. It was discovered the following Monday that $215,000 had disappeared with him. Thomas Randele was making a quiet peaceful life for himself in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He got married, helped ra...

In August of 1955, 14 year old Emmett Till left his home in Chicago, Illinois and traveled with his uncle and cousin to Money, Mississippi for a visit. While he was there, a white woman claimed that he had offended her in some way which led to two white men tracking him down and kidnapping him in the dark hours of the morning a couple of days later. His mutilated body would be found just a few day...

In August of 2009 in Brunswick, Georgia, 22 year old Guy Heinze, Jr. came home and found the nine other people that he was living with massacred in their home. Turned out that two of the nine people who had been beaten were still alive when first responders came. One of those would succumb to their injuries the next day, and the 3 year old would go on to make a full recovery. Guy was arrested and...

On July 4/5, 1990, Eric Breazeale doused Natchez, Mississippi resident, Nellie Jackson, with gasoline after she refused him entry into her brothel because he was drunk. Miss Nellie would lose the fight for her life a few days later, but her life up to that point had been one she fought hard for and she built a life that she was very proud of. Sources for this episode: Clarion Ledger - 'She will al...

Lester Gillis, better known as Baby Face Nelson, was a bank robber in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He became a well known member of several different gangs of the time, and was even named Public Enemy Number One by the FBI at one point. Listen in this week for more details of his life, and his eventual death. Sources for this episode: Wikipedia - Chicago Wikipedia - List of people from Chicago...

In Savannah, Georgia back in 1734, young teenaged Alice Riley, and indentured servant from Ireland, and Richard White, also from Ireland, turned against their master, William White. It was said that they drowned him after taking all of the abuse and sexual advances from him that they could take. After a quick trial, they were both found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Alice Riley would b...

In the summer of 2002, Scott Shanahan disappeared from the public eye in his small town of Defiance, Iowa. His wife, Dixie, told everyone that asked that her abusive husband had up and left her after she got pregnant with their third child. Eventually someone would contact the authorities and mention this super strange absence. You won't believe what their investigation turned up. Sources for this...

In May of 1999, Martha Hart, the wife of WWF professional wrestler Owen Hart, received the phone call that no wife ever wants to get. Her husband had been hurt during a live pay per view show in Kansas City, Missouri. She would receive a call shortly after that first one informing her that her husband, sadly, did not survive his injuries. Shortly after his funeral, she would file a wrongful death...

During the 1970s in Lexington, Kentucky Andrew Carter Thornton, II was living his best life. He was a police officer for the Lexington Police Department, he joined their Narcotics Division when it was formed, he held a degree in law enforcement and he was a lawyer. In the early 1980s, he quit the PD and went into private security with a friend of his. It wasn't long after that that his drug smuggl...

Theresa Cross Knorr, 5 times a bride and once a widow, went on trial for murdering her first husband when she was 18 years old, with a baby and another on the way. She was acquitted as the jury believed she acted in self defense. Over the next several years she would remarry 4 more times, have 4 more children, and abuse them while they were with her. She even caused the death of two of her daughte...

Theresa Cross Knorr, 5 times a bride and once a widow, went on trial for murdering her first husband when she was 18 years old, with a baby and another on the way. She was acquitted as the jury believed she acted in self defense. Over the next several years she would remarry 4 more times, have 4 more children, and abuse them while they were with her. She even caused the death of two of her daughte...

August 12, 1978 best friends Daryl Barber (19) and Jim Boucher (16) set out on a week long vacation road trip in Daryl's red Chevy Nova. They were headed to Daytona Beach, Florida from Metamora, Michigan. When they failed to return home, their parents jumped into actions, calling the cops, hiring a private investigator, and even writing letters to governors and other elected officials. Listen in t...

June 21, 2020, a young Amish woman, Linda Stolzfoos, disappeared on her walk home from church. It would be just a couple of weeks later when Justo Smoker was charged with her kidnapping. It wouldn't be until six months later that he was finally charged with her murder, even though she had not yet been found. Sources for this episode: Wikipedia - Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania , Gap, Pennsylvania Lanca...

In 2019, John McGuire and his girlfriend Amanda left Minnesota on a road trip to Alabama to visit John's mother. Authorities would eventually bring in Larry McClure on a tip they received, and Larry would tell the officers how he and his two biological daughters, Amanda and Anna, had tortured and killed him Valentine's Day. Sources for this episode: Owantonna People's Press - John T McGuire Jr. "B...

Between July 1979 and May 1981 the city of Atlanta, Georgia was gripped in fear. More than 20 children and adults went missing, and most were found murdered, during this time. The authorities would eventually arrest local music promoter, Wayne Williams, and charge him with two murders, though they believe that he may be responsible for 22 more he was never charged with. Sources for this episode: W...

Between July 1979 and May 1981 the city of Atlanta, Georgia was gripped in fear. More than 20 children and adults went missing, and most were found murdered, during this time. The authorities would eventually arrest local music promoter, Wayne Williams, and charge him with two murders, though they believe that he may be responsible for 22 more he was never charged with. Sources for this episode: W...

In New York City in 1933, during both the Great Depression and the Prohibition Era, a group of guys - Tony Marino, Daniel Kriesberg, Francis Pasqua, and Joseph Murphy - hatched a plot to kill Michael Malloy, a regular at the speakeasy that Marino owned, and collect on a few insurance policies that they were going to take out on him. After several failed attempts, they enlisted the help of Tough To...

Belle Gunness, a Norwegian immigrant to America, is thought to be a serial killer with at least 14 murders attributed to her, but possibly up to 40. She was in Chicago, Illinois and La Porte, Indiana during her "active" killing years between 1884 and 1908. It is thought that her killing spree came to an end with her untimely demise in a house fire, though many people believe that she actually fake...

In 2008, The Stockdale Family Band made it reality tv show debut on Season 4 Episode 15 of Wife Swap. 9 years later, on June 15, 2017, they would make the news for an entirely different reason. Jacob Stockdale, the third of four sons of the Stockdale family, had apparently shot and killed his mother, Kathryn Stockdale, his little brother, James Stockdale, before turning the gun on himself. Sources...

On September 14, 1989 in Louisville, Kentucky, pressman Joseph Wesbecker entered the Standard Gravure where he had been employed and opened fire on several of his coworkers. He went on a 30 minute shooting spree, killing 8 people, before turning his weapon on himself. Sources for this episode: sources to be updated soon Support the show