Bent and Twisted

Episode 34 In the small hours of August 23, 1987, 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives set out together for a late night hunting trip with a pocketful of weed and a rifle. Just a few hours later, the two would be seen reclining on a railroad track mere seconds before they were mangled by a locomotive traveling 50mph. Although the deaths were originally deemed an accident brought on by...

On October 17, 1941, 73 year-old Philip Peters was discovered bludgeoned to death in his home on West Moncrieff Place in Denver, Colorado, in what would turn out to be one of the most bizarre locked-door mysteries in the annals of American true crime. Rumors of strange sounds, and ominous sightings would convince some that powers from the beyond were at play in Mr. Peters’ untimely demise. The tru...

In this chilling episode of Bent and Twisted, hosts JR and Khadijah buckle up for a bone-chilling ride as Jay unfolds the haunting tale of Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio, better known as La Mataviejitas – a notorious Mexican serial killer and former professional wrestler. Known for her brutal acts and a shocking dual identity, La Mataviejitas sent shivers down the spines of those who crossed her...

In April of 1983, Charles Dingle took himself out to Queens to paint the town red. He was a dissatisfied nobody from Brooklyn with a pathological inability to read a room; he had 99 problems, and that was just two of them. A series of criminally idiotic decisions combined with poor social skills, a fountain of alcohol, and (an apparent metric ton of) cocaine in his coat pocket, would make lasting...

Venture through the creaking door if you dare. In this episode, JR relates the batsh*t beliefs of a devoted mother who loved her children to a fault. Welcome to northern Italy, 1939. Under the fascist stylings of Mussolini, the nation teeters on the brink of war. Leonarda Cianciulli is a humble widow determined to keep her children safe from the horrors of conflict, inflation, bad luck, indigestio...

Mack Edwards was a hard working man; a veteran, husband, father, and a solid member of the block. Those who knew him personally considered him a trusted friend and neighbor, a decent family man, and pillar of the community. He was also a cold and sadistic child predator who enjoyed nothing better than gaining the trust of others and then brutally preying on their children. Edwards would confess to...

In this eerie episode of Bent and Twisted, Jay leads us on a journey into the bizarre death and supernatural encounters of music legend Gram Parsons. Discover the mysteries surrounding Gram's demise in Joshua Tree, California, and the spine-chilling afterlife experiences that continue to haunt those who cross his path. Join us for "Ride or Die:Gram Parsons" on Bent and Twisted, where true crime an...

MANIAC Adolph James (“Jimmy”) Rode was a walking nightmare - a Florida creeper who prowled through homes as people slept, blissfully unaware that a predator was within striking distance. Preferring familiar territory, this monster began preying upon his own neighbors at a young age. He had a taste for women - elderly women in particular - those who lived alone. His brutal crimes were allowed to go...

In 1912, in the Catalonian region of Spain, the search for one poor, missing, toddler led to the downfall of a notorious procuress and revealed her shocking and methodical depravity to the world. Enriqueta Marti began life as a simple country girl who migrated to the big city to work as a maid in the wealthy households of Barcelona. Intelligent, enterprising, ruthless and degenerate - Marti create...

When Rose Letts met Fred West in a quiet corner of England in 1969, it was as if gasoline met fire. They had more than a little in common, and those fascinations would fuse them - heart and soul; too bad neither of them had either. The almost preternaturally ordinary appearance of this cold-blooded couple was as deviously deceptive to rosy-cheeked young ladies as the gossamer tendrils of a web to...

In late 2010, a middle aged methamphetamine aficionado in a SoCal trailer park believed herself to be approaching the pinnacle of her career as a self-made cartel queen. In her estimation, she possessed the brains of Walter White, the strategic savvy of Teresa “La Reina del Pacifico” Beltran, and her own unique suburban swagger. If she needed muscle, she had men for that and she had ambition, too....

Between 1978 and 1983 self-obsessed loner, Dennis Nilsen, lured young men to his North London apartments before throttling or drowning them and indulging in a phantasmagorically tragic sexual ritual. His victims were posthumously subjected to an extended fetishized reverence before being disposed of like excrement. Although his ghoulish obsession would result in drains clogged with pieces of the m...

Phillip Carl Jablonski was a heartless, soulless individual who fed off of the women who tried to help him. Never a person of privilege, he still wrangled light sentences for heinous crimes, time off for good behavior while in captivity, and seemingly endless mercy delivered to him via post from untrained well-wishers trying to help him find the path to goodness. Few realized until it was too late...

Halloween greetings from Bent & Twisted. We invite you to accompany us on a dark journey into history as we present you with another double-bill - a little treat we call Dead & Deader - an homage of sorts to those pesky expired folks that can't seem to stay in the ground. The brews are frosty, the herb is green, and the hellhound is snoring peacefully by the fire as JR gets down and dirty...

Marcus Wesson: God, the Father In March of 2004, after a brief standoff with police, Marcus Wesson surrendered and was taken into custody. First responders on the scene were greeted with utter carnage inside the Wesson family home - ground zero for the worst mass murder in Fresno, California. In this episode, JR, tells us the terrifying price one family paid for a man’s descent into derangement an...

Ahoy! Yes, we've been away - and we've missed y'all. Good news, we're baaaack. And guess what? You are cordially invited aboard for a special nautical-themed double feature. Come on in, the water's fine! "Ghost Ships" may sound like the stuff of legend and lore, eerie stories of distant times gone by, but nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade derelict ocean craft have bee...

In 2008, Jennifer & Sarah Hart became proud adoptive parents to six beautiful, young children. A decade later, in 2018, they would all die horrifically at the bottom of a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway. Not all of them were victims, though. The family first came to public attention in 2014 at the Portland, OR protest against the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO when an image...

In October of 1994, the body of a three month old infant was recovered in a quiet section of Quebec. Believed to be the Antichrist, the child had been stabbed multiple times with a wooden stake in a ritualistic murder. The young woman who killed him believed she had immaculately conceived and birthed the second coming of the true Christ. She would turn up dead herself - as would more than fifty ot...

Allan Showery was arrested for mercilessly stabbing a 48 year-old woman to death in her apartment, pouring accelerant over her body and lighting her on fire in a botched attempt at concealing the crime. His accuser was the dead woman herself, speaking through the lips of a possessed woman with no previous history of clairvoyance. And, no, this didn’t occur in England during the Dark Ages, it happe...

In late 1970s Montreal, Canada, self-ordained voice of God, Roch Theriault, convinced about a dozen lost souls that the end of the world was nigh and their only hope of salvation was to follow their new messiah deep into the wilderness where they would live off-grid until the Rapture. Unfortunately, those lost souls were outnumbered by the children they dragged along with them. With a fridge full...

In November of 1988 a 17 year-old Japanese high school student and factory worker named Junko Furuta would leave work for home and never make it. Her brief commute would become a nightmare lasting more than a month and would become notorious around the world - not only for the monstrous brutality of the crime - but for the shocking travesty of justice that followed. Join the crew as J tells the st...

In May of 2012, Luka Magnotta filmed himself committing a grisly murder and defiling his victim’s body in the most ghastly ways possible. This wasn’t just for his own viewing pleasure; he wanted to share this demented deed with the world…an unfortunate habit of his. In fact, his previous “short films” would propel this zero to number one - on Interpol’s Most Wanted list. Join us by the fire for a...

We conclude our super twisted tale of self-professed Florida ghoul, Gerard John Schaefer Jr. - a putrescent stain of mediocrity who failed upward into positions of public trust. Cloaked as an honorable civil servant of the common good, Schaefer viciously preyed upon the free spirits of Fort Lauderdale. And, just when you think his story is about to end, it grows new feet and runs around the barnya...

Gerard John Schaefer Jr. considered himself a “ghoul” and he wasn’t wrong. Considered by some to be the “first serial killer in Florida” and described by Colin Wilson as having “halitosis of the soul,” he was a vile, manipulative, disgusting monster capable of unimaginable crimes. He was also capable of presenting a facade that allowed him to attain positions of authority and unfettered access to...

Home is where the heart is…It’s also where the gun is kept. In 1950s Indiana, newlywed Opal Collins isn’t exactly meshing with her new in-laws... Too bad they all live in the same house. Two decades later, devout Christian, John List, will make the ultimate sacrifice for his family…or rather of his family. JR, J and Kadijah explore the shadowy undersides of family togetherness, psychopathy, reload...