Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Skip the banter: 00:07:49 A family outing at Devil’s Den ended in unimaginable violence, with two parents killed on a quiet trail while their children ran for help. The manhunt that followed raised troubling questions about who we trust and how systems fail to connect the dots. Allison brings the full context, including one detail that was easy to miss at the time. Support us and become a Patron!...

Skip the banter: 00:09:27 When a 71-year-old father vanishes, the focus turns almost immediately to the person who reported him missing. This episode looks closely at how suspicion formed, how pressure was applied, and what happens when investigators become convinced too early. Allison brings the research and context that reveals the part of the story that was easiest to overlook. Support us and b...

Skip the banter: 00:07:33 Josh Hilberling was trying to leave. At 6'5", the former Air Force serviceman didn’t fit the usual image of a domestic violence victim, but court records, hospital visits, and a dismissed protective order all pointed to a volatile and escalating pattern of abuse in his young marriage. On a sweltering afternoon in Tulsa, everything came to a violent end when Josh fell 17 s...

Skip the banter: 00:07:20 Yara Gambirasio never came home from the gym. Her murder would take years to solve, unraveling generations of family secrets in the process. Allison tells us the rest of this story, where DNA didn't just catch a killer. It blew apart a family. Support us and become a Patron! Over 150 bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouple   Our Amazon Shop (stuff we...

Skip the banter: 00:07:45 (give or take a minute depending on ads) Newlyweds Rick and Gail Brink were murdered in their home just days before Thanksgiving, with no clear suspect in sight. Twenty-five years later, a strange comment from Gail’s brother shifted everything. Allison tells us the rest of this story that hinges on a terrible secret kept for decades. Support us and become a Patron! Over 1...

Skip the banter: 00:06:22 (give or take a minute depending on ads) In 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar was a bright, tech-savvy teenager who loved gaming and coding with his friends online. When a charismatic older gamer named Lewis began appearing in their chat group, claiming to be a 17-year-old entrepreneur with his own company and connections to the U.S. government, Breck was fascinated by someo...

Skip the banter: 10:12 From the outside, the Reynolds family looked picture-perfect. A deeply religious couple raising their adopted daughter in sunny Coral Springs, Florida. But beneath the surface of baseball games, church choir practices, and shopping trips at the mall, something dark was brewing. When 17-year-old Nikki Reynolds became obsessed with her high school boyfriend, her parents watche...

Skip the banter: 00:09:40 Claudia Lawrence was a beloved daughter, sister, and friend. What followed her disappearance was a long, painful search clouded by missed clues, shifting public opinion, and silence from people who might know more than they’ve said. Allison tells us the rest of this story that has one really dark twist. Support us and become a Patron! Over 150 bonus episodes: https://www....

Skip the banter: 10:00:00 (give or take a minute depending on ads) When 34-year-old mother of four Susie Casey didn't come home after a night out in April 2008, her children knew something was terribly wrong. This is the heartbreaking case of a woman who simply wanted to start over, and the devastating price her family paid in the pursuit of justice. Support us and become a Patron! Over 150 bonus...

Skip the banter: 00:10:20 (give or take a minute depending on ads) A mother reports her 12-year-old daughter missing from a Sobeys parking lot as a winter storm rolls in. The community rallies, searches are launched, and tearful press conferences follow. But when Karissa Boudreau's body is found thirteen days later in a snowbank, the truth that emerges is far more chilling than the Nova Scotia win...

Skip the banter: 00:06:52 (give or take a min or so depending on ads in beginning) Heather West disappeared in 1987. Her parents’ story kept shifting—until one of her siblings repeated a sick family joke. Allison tells us the rest of the story of this terrible couple. Support us and become a Patron! Over 150 bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouple   Our Amazon Shop (stuff we l...

Skip the banter: 00:08:21 (give or take a minute depending on ads) Jeanine Nicarico was home sick from school when someone kicked in the front door of her family’s quiet Naperville home. What followed was not just a horrific crime against a ten-year-old girl, but a decadeslong unraveling of truth, lies, and catastrophic failures within the justice system. Two young men (neither of whom matched the...

Skip the banter: 00:06:09 (give or take a minute depending on ads) Rachel O’Reilly was a devoted mother, a trusted friend, and someone who did everything right. But on a clear October afternoon, her own mother found her battered and bloodied on the bedroom floor of her quiet home in rural Ireland. The crime scene looked like a break-in, but nothing important was missing, except Rachel. Allison tel...

Here's a bonus Halloween-themed episode for our listeners. On Halloween night, 1957, Peter Fabiano is gunned down by one final trick-or-treater. Or so it seems. To listen to all three episodes of 'Halloween Horrors' right now and ad-free, subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AmericanCriminal.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for infor...

Skip the banter: 00:06:32 (give or take a minute due to ads) On a quiet spring night in 2012, the Cipriano family’s home in Farmington Hills, Michigan became the site of a savage and senseless betrayal. Nineteen-year-old Tucker Cipriano, adopted as a newborn and raised with love, broke into his own house with a friend, armed with baseball bats and a plan for money that spiraled into bloodshed. His...

Skip the banter: 00:05:50 (depends on ads in beginning) It started with a young woman left for dead on the side of a road in Oklahoma, her blue high heel abandoned in the street. But the investigation into her so-called hit-and-run revealed a far more disturbing truth—this woman wasn't who anyone thought she was. What followed was a years-long unraveling of stolen identities, a child kidnapped fro...

Skip the banter: 00:04:48 When Kari Baker was found dead in her bed, her husband, a respected Baptist preacher, told police it was a suicide. A typed note, a bottle of sleeping pills, and a tragic history of loss all seemed to confirm his story. But Kari’s mother couldn’t shake the feeling that something was deeply wrong, and when she started digging, things didn’t add up. What began as quiet susp...

Skip the banter: 00:05:54 (give or take a minute depending on ads in the beginning) When Iana Kasian moved to Los Angeles, she had dreams of a new life, one filled with family, safety, and stability. Instead, she crossed paths with Blake Leibel, a man born into wealth and obsessed with control. On paper, he was a Hollywood creative with a dark, surreal graphic novel to his name. But behind closed...

Skip the banter: 00:08:13 (give or take a minute depending on ads) Pumpkin pancake recipe When 19-year-old Brian Cohee Jr. drove his car into the Colorado River, his parents thought it was just a mistake. But a day later, his mother made a chilling 911 call: she’d found something in his closet that no parent should ever see. As police began digging into Brian’s story, a missing person report came...

Skip the banter: 00:07:00 (give or take ~30 seconds depending on ads) In 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan boarded a dive boat in Australia expecting a day exploring the coral-covered depths of the Great Barrier Reef. Instead, they surfaced to find the ocean empty—no boat, no crew, no one. What followed was a string of errors, oversights, and assumptions that left the couple stranded at sea, invisible...

Skip the banter: 00:04:34 (give or take a minute depending on ads) This case is especially close to us as Mike's sister was originally scheduled to work on the day of this massacre. We'll tell you all the details. On a freezing February morning in 2008, five women were executed in the back room of a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois. A sixth survived by pretending to be dead. The man resp...

Skip the banter: about 00:07:49 On Mother’s Day 2020, Suzanne Morphew vanished from her mountain home in Colorado. Her daughters’ texts went unanswered. Her bike was found tossed in a ravine. As the truth unraveled, so did a marriage that had long been quietly unraveling. Allison tells us the rest of this story that ends in a shallow grave and one hell of a chemical twist. Support us and become a...

Skip the banter: 00:05:11 (depending on ads) Ted Ammon built a fortune in private equity and a life most people only dream about. But one weekend, in the quiet luxury of his East Hampton mansion, that life ended violently. The timing couldn’t have been worse. He was finalizing a messy divorce, and someone close to him had just gained access to every corner of his home. Allison tells us the rest of...

Skip the banter: 00:05:49 Karen Buckley had just moved to Glasgow for graduate school, ready to explore her new city and meet new people. One Saturday night, she went out dancing with friends and stepped outside the club for what should have been a brief moment. Instead, she crossed paths with a stranger who would change everything. Within hours, police would find traces of her belongings miles aw...

Skip the banter: 00:04:20 When 14-year-old Aundria Bowman vanished from her Michigan home in 1989, police treated it like a runaway. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, said she was troubled. Said she was unpredictable. Said she’d taken off before. But Aundria had been confiding in friends about something else. Allison tells us the rest of the story. Support us and become a Patron! Over 100 bonus...