All Things Crime

Elizabeth Franklin is founder of law practice Elizabeth Franklin-Best, PC. She is an experienced appeals attorney based in South Carolina. She has handled a wide range of appeals cases, including those involving murder, sexual assault, and other serious crimes. In this final episode of a 3 part series, Elizabeth shares a very personal story of a friend that was falsely accused of sexual assault. T...

Elizabeth Franklin is founder of law practice Elizabeth Franklin-Best, PC. It is a boutique law firm focused on client appeals. Her focus is on helping clients beat cases. Understanding this process is crucial for detectives and investigators.  In this episode, part 2 of a 3 part series, we go deeper into the rabbit hole of evidence collection and how it leads to convictions and acquittals. Elizab...

Elizabeth Franklin is founder of law practice Elizabeth Franklin-Best, PC. It is a boutique law firm focused on client appeals. She brings a unique perspective to the show as she finds ways to prove innocence after conviction. Part of finding and rooting out evil is making certain there is no collatoral damage. Elizabeth always looks to the constitutional rights of defendants.  In this episode, El...

Cloyd Steiger is a retired homicide detective with over 22 years experience with the Seattle Police Department. He’s the author of Homicide: The View from Inside the Yellow Tape. He’s investigated over 250  murders, and today, he’s reviewing the quadruple homicide at University of Idaho.  In part 2 of this episode, we’re reviewing the University of Idaho murders and going deeper into how we can so...

Cloyd Steiger is a retired homicide detective with over 22 years experience with the Seattle Police Department. He’s the author of Homicide: The View from Inside the Yellow Tape. He’s investigated over 250  murders, and today, he’s reviewing the quadruple homicide at University of Idaho.  From what we know so far, four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death. The killer used a...

Kerrie Droban is a criminal defense attorney at Droban and Company and author of, "Aurora: Inside the Mind of a Mass Shooter."  People in general, view each other through the prism of their own perspective. Most people will look at the Aurora Theatre killer and have no ability to comprehend his thought processes, and we'll revert back to thinking he's just insane. We can't...

Kerrie Droban is a criminal defense attorney at Droban and Company and author of, "Aurora: Inside the Mind of a Mass Shooter."  Kerrie Droban is an investigator of evil. She believes people have a tendency to view others through their own prism and can't comprehend what goes on in the mind of a mass shooter. It's hard for people to process such senseless violence and our impuls...

Many people can relate to the thrill of seeing movies at the theater. The least they expect is tragedy. On July 20th, 2012, a Century 16 movie theater in Colorado was disrupted when James Eagan Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 more.  Despite not having a criminal record, James planned his evil act intensively with a notebook. Without any remorse, he orchestrated his plan and affected the liv...

Halloween is one of the most celebrated holidays of the year. Children get to play their favorite characters and gorge on candy. While Halloween is a holiday centered around fear and scary themes, current events have become the stuff of nightmares. Particularly when they involve children.  In areas where criminals operate, children become the most vulnerable. The southern border has seen a lot of...

Family sorrow is a reality for many people. In this episode of All Things Crime, Jared Bradley opens up about the grief of losing a loved one. He relates this feeling with those that have lost a child or family member to homicide and crimes. With the rising number of crimes in the United States, Jared examines the root causes of these crimes.  He advises us to keep the victims in mind when we go t...

Gun violence and racism have become prevalent issues in the United State’s current political climate. This is why a credible justice system is as important as ever. In the second part of the two-episode interview with Doug Bremner, Jared and Doug discuss how social media influences people’s opinions about recent news on crime. They cited the infamous Kyle Rittenhouse case in Wisconsin in which a 1...

When Amanda Knox got back to her apartment in Perugia, Italy, she was terrified of seeing blood in the bathroom while her roommate lay lifeless in her locked bedroom. It was 2007 and she was in a foreign country for a student exchange program. After the authorities compiled initial evidence of the gory scene with the consideration that she was in the company of her deceased roommate, Amanda was wr...

Angie Dodge suffered a terrible fate in the hands of her killer. As one of the cold cases of the 20th century, the investigation led to a false accusation. The wrongly identified culprit unfortunately spent 20 years in prison before the authorities finally traced the real perpetrator. Because of an intense DNA matching technology and the convict’s confession, the case was finally solved.  In the s...

Two innocent girls were kidnapped at a mall and were never found. It was the ‘70s, back when serial killers could easily leave their tracks unseen and their traces undiscovered. Years later, investigation led to a culprit - a dangerous suspect who murdered the girls and burned their remains in his home.  Such cases in the previous century required a lot of time and effort to arrive at a conclusion...

The world is changing. With the innovation of technology comes a shift in generational values and insights. That’s what Doug Young and Jared Bradley observed in their experience and encounters as law enforcers.  In the second part of their two-episode interview, Doug and Jared talk about the painful memories that leave a mark on law enforcers’ mental health. Gory scenes of mutilated victims, some...

A mangled, lifeless body lies on the field, dressed in tattered clothing. Upon its discovery, the dress serves as a potential clue to trace the perpetrator. In a community where crimes like this happen and cold cases go unsolved for years, how far can law enforcers go to carry out justice and ensure safety and security? Jared Bradley speaks with Doug Young, a crime scene investigator at Thornton P...

Congressman Burgess Owens grew up in a modest household in Tallahassee, Florida. His father was a WWII Veteran, taught him to respect his elders, himself, his family, those in authority like law enforcement, and to love and respect God and how much He has blessed our country.  Sadly, there are people here, and some in positions of extraordinary power, that either never learned those lessons or hav...

The US Border Czar, aka VP Kamala Harris, has STILL never visited the US Southern Border to see the massive human suffering that is going on there.  But there are elected officials that do care. Congressmen Owens and Tiffany, along with a number of others from the US Congress, have traveled to the border several times, talked to ICE and Border Patrol Agents, and are trying to raise the alarms as t...

Congressman Burgess Owens has always been an overachiever and a star.  From growing up in the deep south in the days of Jim Crow to where he is today, Burgess has always given it his all.  In his youth he was taught by his WWII Veteran father how to not only survive but to excel despite adversity.  He was one of the first African American athletes to play football at the University of Miami. He al...

December 15th, 1995 was a typical winter night in Utah. Cold. In fact, bitter cold, especially in the resort town of Midway which is nestled in the middle of the Wasatch Mountain Range.  But that night a young 17 yr old girl, Krystal Beslanowitch, was scared enough to jump out of a vehicle where she and a man were having sex, and run hundreds of meters to escape him. She was wearing nothing but a...

Anyone who is in a criminal investigation profession, whether it's as a detective, crime scene investigator, forensic scientist, supplier or any other capacity, knows how difficult obtaining solid evidence can be.  Of all the types of evidence, the gold standard is forensic DNA.  Many prosecutors won't go to trial without a viable DNA profile of the suspect it's so important!  Over...

In 1989, Sarah DeLeon was 18 yrs old.  She had her whole life in front of her.  She was young and vibrant, fun-loving, beautiful and everyone seemed to like her.  Except one person - and she ended up being the prime suspect in Sarah's murder.  In December in 1989, a train conductor noticed from his train window what he thought was a body laying next to a large, cylindrical bridge support. He...

Does your crime lab have all the latest technologies that would enable it to solve a crime committed against you?  Odds are it doesn't. Especially if it's a public lab.  Of course they do their best and are experts with what they have, but time after time cold cases are being solved as new technologies emerge.   And most public labs take a while before they are able to get those latest a...

Lina Reyes-Davis went missing on April 8th, 1998. At the time she lived in Youngstown, Ohio, with her husband, Edward Geddes. 12 days later, over 2,000 miles away in a remote area just north of Lake Powell, Utah, two men found a body by the side of the road.  But no one knew it was Lina. Her body had been tied up, frozen, wrapped in plastic and duct tape, placed in a sleeping bag all rolled up in...

Lina Reyes-Davis went missing on April 8th, 1998.  At the time she lived in Youngstown, Ohio, with her husband, Edward Geddes.  12 days later, over 2,000 miles away in a remote area just north of Lake Powell, Utah, two men found a body by the side of the road.  But no one knew it was Lina.  Her body had been tied up, frozen, wrapped in plastic and duct tape, placed in a sleeping bag all rolled up...