Cousins on Crime

In the heat of the summer, 1996, a Texas couple set out on a road trip to Mississippi. They could have never imagined this journey would lead them to a nightmare that only one of them would live to tell. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join us on Patreon! patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Visit our new merch store! https://cousinsoncrime-shop.fo...

When an ice cream man is robbed and shot in broad daylight, the community rallies around him to raise funds for the uninsured victim. But when the search for the assailants stalls, the ice cream man takes matters into his own hands. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://youtu.be/G3zVFbrFhAw?si=rf2pdPyAWewPOQNn https://youtu.be/...

In 1999, Orange County, California was a place to take in the gorgeous scenery and rub shoulders with the super wealthy. Kenneth and Carolyn Stahl were a married couple who'd set themselves up for a life of privilege and luxury in the OC, but money can't buy everything...or can it? Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://www.lati...

In the Summer of 2008, eight innocent people would meet their end at the hands of a drug-filled Nicholas Sheley, when he went on a killing spree across the state of Illinois.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Troy_Sheley https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-accused-in-8-deaths-gets-2nd-li...

Marc Van Beers was a quiet accountant in Belgium, where he lived with his new wife. A few months after they married, they decided to take their dream honeymoon to Calvi in Corsica, but the honeymoon came to a screeching halt when their car barreled off a cliff. This story is full of lies, deceit, and an illicit affair that would repeat history in the worst way possible. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimeP...

Lula and Linda were the best of friends, and lived in a beautifully quaint neighborhood; leaning on each other for both good times and bad. Lula overcame hardships over the years with a determined strength, but she couldn't have imagined that the one she trusted the most in the world, would be the one to take her down.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music...

Emily Lambert was excited to spend the weekend with her boyfriend in Carlsbad, New Mexico in the Spring of 2014. What started off as a fun-filled time of sightseeing and local bar hopping, soon turned into a deadly nightmare. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://youtu.be/6AVUch6rfZ0?si=uPWcLnL8lL50cD3K https://www.koat.com/art...

The media has been a buzz lately with a shocking tale of an author of a children's book about grief who is scheduled to stand trial for the murder of her husband. In this episode, Candace outlines some pretrial information pointing the finger straight at Kouri Richins. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://kutv.com/news/local/f...

Let's call it what it is... the media doesn't report on every homicide case in the same way and with the same amount of air time. In this episode, Alayna highlights two cases where the victims didn't get attention they deserved. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://mvnnews.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/hoyleton-man-enters-alford-gu...

On Valentines Day in 2018, two murders would rock a community and bewilder police as they try to unravel the tangled web that between them.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: See No Evil, Investigation Discovery https://www.nbcrightnow.com/kndu/double-murder-trial-reaches-verdict/article_b4da2bd2-25c6-11e9-9355-5f03d352d34e.html ht...

Seventeen-year-old Shilie Turner was a stand out on her track team, dedicated student, and loyal friend. So, when she didn't show up to one of the most important track meets of the season, everyone grew very concerned. No one could have imagined that she would be found dead and that the murderer would be so close to home.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Mus...

After a bitter divorce and custody battle with his first wife, Ben Oxley had finally found his soul mate in his new wife Melissa. But on a cold February night in 2008, Melissa called 911 to report her husband had been shot while they were sleeping, thus sparking an investigation into the obvious suspect. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa So...

On a cold December night, just a week before Christmas, a newly married woman was found by her husband on the ground below their third floor balcony. After a frantic 911 call and hours of life saving measures, Michelle tragically succumbed to her injuries. Experts were at odds with the manner in which she died, causing years of confusion and unanswered questions for her family. Instagram: @Cousins...

Janelle Patton had found her paradise on Earth, on Norfolk Island. But the weekend her parents visited for the first time would be anything but a happy occasion when she was brutally murdered and left in a popular tourist location. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelle_Patton https://www.abc.net.au...

When Kenneth McDuff was paroled in 1989, there was terror and outrage among the public and police alike. Kenneth was on the prowl and he was just getting started. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/broomstick-killer-kenneth-mcduff-s-trail-17793994.php# https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-...

Kenneth McDuff terrorized the small town of Rosebud, Texas, with his reckless, bad boy antics. He cleverly avoided punishment at every turn which gave him the confidence to offend and escalate again and again. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/broomstick-killer-kenneth-mcduff-s-trail-1...

A young mother relocated to a trailer park, looking for a fresh start and a village for her and her kids. What she thought were trusted friends would end up bringing endless drama into her life and eventually ending her life.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/381187/file/12-2159_I...

Steven Catlin skirted through life, stealing money to fund his drug habits and collection wives like they were Disney pins. Sadly, vital information, regarding his crimes, slipped through the cracks and two more people had to die for him to be caught. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://justicecounts.com/paraquat-lawsuit/why-...

A triple homicide stunned a small desert town on an ordinary Sunday night, September 17, 2006. The case would stall in the early days of the investigation, turning into years of frustration for the victims' loved ones. But renewed interest in the case made way for a fresh perspective, which ultimately led to a conviction. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Musi...

A warm July night in Cresco, Iowa turned deadly when a trusting, young mother thought she would be enjoying an evening at home with a new suitor. The truth behind what really happened to Angela and her daughter, Ashley, was more horrifying than investigators could have imagined. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Sources: https://www.newspap...

There a few things in life scarier than crossing paths with a delusional and depraved individual who is at the end of their rope. With her tangled web of lies quickly spiraling out of control, Taylor Parker was planning a scheme so heinous that it would not only NOT solve her problems, but it would destroy so many lives forever.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Th...

We have an amazing episode for you today! This episode is a follow up to Episode 76: Who Killed Jane Neumann? so if you haven't listened to that one yet, go check it out first! In this episode we talked to Jane and Jim Neumann's niece, Amber, and revisited details of the case and added to the growing list of questions we have about how she really died. 

In the early 90's two family members went missing... on different days... under different circumstances. But could their disappearances be linked? https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LD8S-4JN/zilpha-louise-lowery-1969-1993 https://www.newspapers.com/image/199560729/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE5OTU2MDcyOSwiaWF0IjoxNzAxNjY0MDU1LCJleHAiOjE3MDE3NTA0NTV9._HHX...

In 1991, a masked man stormed into a dental practice in Edgewater, Florida and opened fire; killing forty-year-old dentist, Norman Larzelere. Authorities soon realized that they wouldn't need to go far from home to find the people involved in the plot and they'd unravel a tangled web of deceit, adultery, and possible incest.    Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Them...

A husband found his young wife dead in their home in late November, 1993 of a gunshot wound to the head. With no weapon found at the scene and signs of a break in, police initially thought she must have been murdered. But the husband would eventually tell police an entirely new version of events regarding her death and he alleged it wasn't murder at all. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: Co...