Cafecito & Crime

In 1993, Shilie Turner was a bright, talented 17-year-old girl with a great future ahead of her. With multiple scouting offers from various colleges, Shilie was on her way to attending college on a track scholarship and becoming a professional athlete one day. But, all those hopes and dreams would vanish when Shilie’s lifeless body was found on February 20 after being missing for over a month. Ini...

Nikko Jenkins had a very troubled childhood that, most likely, set up the trajectory of the rest of his life. He went from dropping out of school before being a teenager to being in and out of foster homes to spending most of his young adult life incarcerated. Through all those events, Nikko never got the mental health he needed, which would be the catalyst for the events that took place over a pe...

In June 2013, Larry Wells was happily married to his wife Jill, who was pregnant and was a great father to their four-year-old daughter. At the time, he was a Toys “R” Us manager, and no one had one bad thing to say about him. On the contrary, Larry was universally liked by everyone. So when he was found stabbed to death in the manager's office inside Toys "R" US, the police were st...

Susan Monica owned a 20-acre farm in Wimer, Oregon, and spent her days isolated from everyone else, which is just how she preferred it. When she decided she wanted to build a house on her property, she put out an ad for a handyman who could assist. Robert Haney, 56, was the man for the job and began living on Susan Monica’s property in his camper while working for her. When Robert’s children stopp...

In 2016, 30-year-old hospice nurse, Tricia Todd, had recently gotten a divorce from Steven Williams. The previous couple shared a 2-year-old daughter, Faith, and kept things civil for her sake. On April 26, Tricia dropped Faith off with Steven so they could spend time together and was due to pick up her up the next day, but Tricia never made it. She was reported missing by her family immediately a...

In 2017, Loren High finally decided to move on from a relationship that was causing too many issues in his life. He and his ex-girlfriend, Porsche Humphrey, were finally going to have a conversation to settle their relationship once and for all on February 1st. On February 5th, Curtis Peterson, a friend of Loren's, decided to go look for him at his home since he hadn't been able to get g...

Today's episode will conclude the case of Taylor Parker. In the last episode, we left off with Taylor's due date fast approaching. With that in mind, she decided to involve Regan Simmons in her diabolical plan to have a baby by taking Regan's and calling that baby her own. With a baby on hand and no signs of actually giving birth, police are onto Taylor and work to figure out whose...

In 2020, Taylor Parker was in a relationship with then-boyfriend, Wade Griffin, and the couple was "expecting" their first child. According to Taylor, she had previously suffered a miscarriage in 2019, so the couple was overjoyed that Taylor was pregnant for a second time, and things seemed to be progressing well.  At least, that's how it looked from the outside in, especially on so...

On December 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko made her way to Westdale Mall to purchase some things and chatted with friends and acquaintances while she was doing so. As the mall's closing time approached, Michelle decided it was time to head home so she left and made her way to her car. Sadly, she would never make it home. Michelle's body was found inside her car in the early hours of Decembe...

For today's episode, we wanted to try something different. We talk about past and current crime stories that we have come across. There won't be a lot of detail as some of the cases are currently developing, and for the others, we only cover the basics, and will possibly be future cases we will dedicate a whole episode to. We hope you join us for today's episode. So, grab your cafec...

Seasoned basketball player Lorenzen Wright had just retired from the NBA in 2009 and divorced his wife, Sherra, in early 2010. The couple shared six children, so in the summer of that same year, Lorenzen flew to Memphis, Tennessee to spend time with his kids and his ex-wife, among other plans he had. On July 19th, a friend was supposed to pick him up but he was nowhere to be found. After news of h...

Amy Lynn Bradley was apprehensive to join her family on a week-long cruise since she was not a fan of open water and large ships but eventually agreed to go. On March 21, 1998, the ship set sail with Aruba being the first stop. Everything seemed to be going well until the early morning of March 24th, when Amy was nowhere to be found. Time was of the essence when trying to locate Amy since the ship...

On February 3, 2004, Jamie Gough accompanied a friend of his, Michael Hernandez, to the boy's restroom inside their middle school, and sadly, he would not make it out of there alive. Michael, who had been friends with Jamie for about a year, had been increasingly obsessing over the movie Silence of the Lambs and serial killers. So much so that he wanted to know what it felt like to be one. He...

In 1901, Belle Gunness decided to relocate to a farm in La Porte, Indiana from Austin, Illinois. The year before, in 1900, her first husband, passed away, and after remarrying, it wouldn't be long before she became a widow for the second time. It seemed that death followed Belle, and it started to make the people in town believe that maybe, somehow, Belle had something to do with it.  The peo...

Donna Doll was known as a focused, intelligent, quiet young woman who attended Northern Illinois University in 1970. Donna was supposed to meet her friend, also named Donna, on Friday, October 2, but she never made it. Her body was discovered on October 11 a little over a mile from campus. Her cause of death seemed like suffocation, but no fibers were ever found in her lungs or fibers. Something e...

In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare was a regular man, living life day to day, trying to make ends meet. He had no idea that his life would forever change after purchasing a lotto ticket on November 15, 2006, that would make him a multimillion overnight. Being the humble and generous man he was, he cared for his family and community, but it got to the point where people were just taking and taking from h...

In 2014 and 2015 four young men were found deceased in Barking, east London, from what appeared to be a drug overdose. According to the families, the four young men were not involved in drugs and wouldn't have overdosed but police, still, deemed their deaths as "non-suspicious." It would take the families taking matters into their own hands and beginning an investigation that would...

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Cafecito & Crime!  Today's episode is part 2 of the Edward Harold Bell and we will be talking about "The Eleven That Went To Heaven." We'll speak about each girl, what they were like, and the last time they were seen alive before they were found deceased. We'll also talk about what linked each girl to Ed. And, if he was even telling the trut...

Edward Harold Bell committed plenty of crimes against children and it what was his criminal file mainly consisted of until he murdered Larry Dickens on August 24, 1978. After getting arrested, he got out on bond, but no one expected Ed to flee the country for the next 14 years. He was ultimately caught and convicted of Larry's murder in 1993. In 1998, Ed wrote letters describing how he murder...

Austin Wenner and Jessica Lewis were a couple renting a room in Michael Dudley's home in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. They were in love and were considered good-hearted people by their families. It wasn't alarming when they didn't hear from Austin and Jessica in a couple of days. That wasn't out of the norm. But they never expected to be notified by police that Austin an...

Latisha Frazier was a hard-working young woman who wanted to provide for herself and her daughter. Fresh out of high school, she began working at McDonald's while pursuing a culinary arts degree. When she didn't return home from work on the night of August 2, 2010, her family knew something was wrong because she would not leave her daughter that way. Sadly, no news about what happened to...

Jayna Murray was her life to the fullest in 2011. She was going to school for two master's degrees, had great friends, and had a long-time boyfriend. She was also working at Lululemon and hoped to join their top management team in Vancouver after completing her degrees. Unfortunately, Jayna would be murdered inside her place of work ten weeks before she was set to graduate. But Jayna was not...

Daniel Halseth had been going through a rough couple of years, but in 2021, things seemed to be getting better. His kids had returned to Nevada, where he lived, from Alaska, where they had moved to with their mother. He had a great relationship with his youngest child, 16-year-old Sierra, but things started to get strained between them when she met and started to date 18-year-old Aaron Guerrero. I...

From 1993 to 1995, deaths at Vermillion County Hospital rose significantly and it was all that everyone that worked at the hospital could talk about.  It was until the Supervisor of Nursing, Dawn Stirek, took it upon herself to start looking into patient and unit log records to see if she could figure out what was happening. She discovered that one nurse was present for about 90 - 95% of the death...

Brianna Armstrong was the nicest person you could ever meet. She was that one friend who you could always count on to be there. She was dearly loved by her friends and her work family, which made up for the family that she didn't have. She was always punctual so when she didn't show up to her job on May 7, 2015, the people in her life started to get suspicious, including her estranged hu...