Crime Curious

Music by: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell Sources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/news/local/the-short-life-and-tragic-death-laila-marie-daniel/RoUb8hgCcWJZBB5NhhGqJO/%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.11alive.com/amp/article/news/crime/nightstick-fracture-doctor-testifies-about-broken-bones-suffered-by-laila-daniel/85-ef2bba53-b7fa-4334-bf73-d01e0c799f9e https://...

Irene Schroder was the youngest of 15 children born in poverty with very little life skills and choices ahead of her. When she meets married Boy Scout leader and Sunday school teacher Walter Glenn Dague the choices they make together would lead to Irene being the first woman in Pennsylvania to be executed via electric chair. Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell 23 February 1931 – Iren...

In 2017 Sarah and Jacob Henderson were married and living with Sarah's two beautiful little girls. On November 1 Jacob became concerned for his wife and her mental state, and called 911. It turned out to be a false alarm....or so they all thought. Jacob's next call to 911 came at 2:29 a.m. on November 2 after being woke up by his wife telling him that she had done the unthinkable. Music by: Jonas...

Rattlesnake James thought he was one smooth dude collecting insurance money on the wives of his life....and for a while he was. Until the fate of his actions catch up to him and he ends up being the very last man to go to the gallows in the State of California.  Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art by: Charnell In One of L.A.'s Most Outrageous Murder Cases, a Rattlesnake Was the Weapon (lamag.com)...

What should have been a typical bus ride home for 26 school children and one bus driver ended up being the longest ride of their life when they were all kidnapped and held hostage by three individuals in 1976. Music by: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell Chowchilla bus kidnapping survivor: "I felt like I was an animal going to the slaughterhouse" — "48 Hours" Live to Tell - CBS News 1976 Chow...

Cover Art By: Charnell Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Sources:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/48-hours-ncis-search-for-a-missing-military-wife-takes-ncis-agents-into-dark-world-of-bdsm/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/fallbrook-marine-wife-killing-brittany-killgore-autopsy-report-unsealed/110969/%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsandiego.com...

Ocey Snead married her first cousin but that isn't even the weirdest thing that happens in her life. She is raised by her mother and two aunts that dress in mourning garb and chant prayers around people that appear to make them bend to their will. Unfortunately for Ocey, the greed of her relatives ends up bringing her to her death.  The Slow Death of Ocey Snead. Starved, overdosed, and drowned by...

Andre was a tall dark drink of water and had his whole life ahead of him at 27 years old. He was kind hearted and helpful, something that would ultimately lead to his death all at the hands of three individuals that thought if they could prove themselves capable of murder then they could take on the world. It is possible his case might never have been solved if Andre's sister had not enlisted the...

Julie Popovich was a 20 year old aspiring model before she disappeared from a bar in Ohio on the early morning hours of August 12, 2005. Her body was found by county workers nearly a month after her death....and three weeks after a medium named Kristy Robinette said that Julie's spirit came to her and told her to draw a map to the location of her body. The man convicted of her murder has exhausted...

This book will make you shit yourself by: James Proud The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Germany’s Oldest Unsolved Massacre | by Sh*t Happens - Lost Girl Travel | The Mystery Box | Medium Casefile Episode 124 Ranker.com Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell 

Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/sep/24/ursula-herrmann-germany-kidnapping-mystery https://www.irishtimes.com/news/mystery-of-child-buried-alive-solved-as-accused-convicted-1.643889 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Ursula_Herrmann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammersee

This case couldn’t be more fitting for our Halloween special. It really has it all, and probably not in a good way. We are discussing the tragic true  case of Leonarda Ciancuilli. Born out of hate, and a victim of extreme trauma herself-Leonarda’s life was full of pain and tragedy and as a result she becomes obsessed with various forms of the occult, Wicca and other alternative spiritual practices...

In honor of Halloween, we wanted to bring you a good old fashioned spooky case…a case in which a series of well known horror movies stemmed from in 1979, into the 1980s, ‘90s, and STILL into the 2000s.  If you are a scary/paranormal movie buff, you of course know of Amityville. This week we discuss the very horrific TRUE crime story involving the murder of the Defoe family in November of 1974.  Mu...

We are finishing up our “Cut it OUT Michigan” theme with another story just way too close to home. Kevin “Kip” Artz and his wife Patty were small business owners, working hard in their very own Pizza Taco House. The establishment was located in Jackson, MIchigan.  As bills piled up and the business began to struggle… tensions started to rise.  Join us to find out what happens in this very unsettli...

Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell  Sources: Dead North, 2018 documentary,    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-kelly-cochran-sentencing-st-0517-story.html%3foutputType=amp , Snapped, Season 24, Episode 13: Kelly Cochran, https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/woman-murders-husband-forces-her-kill-lover-marriage-p...

Grab your wine, you will need it as we conclude the case of the Rucki family.  Make sure you listen to part one to learn all of the details as to how this case transpired!!!!  Missinginminnisota.com The Girls Are Gone By: Allison Man & Michael Brodkorp Purchase Here: The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to K...

Sandra Grazzini-Rucki was married to her husband David Rucki for almost 20 years. To the outside world the Ruckis seemed liked a well to do, all American family with five beautiful children. In 2011 Sandra decided to separate from her husband. The whirlwind of chaos, lies and unimaginable events that followed  are hard for even us to comprehend. Join us as Charnell does a very deep dive into a two...

Music By: Jonas Bjornstad Cover Ary By: Charnell  Our Story - Matthew Shepard Foundation The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie and a World Transformed by:Judy Shepard with Jon Barrett. 'The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard' by Stephen Jimenez - Lambda Literary Changing Hearts and Minds - Matthew Shepard Foundation Matthew Shepard - Wikipedia  Geen, Jessi...

Music By: Jonas Bjornstand Cover Art By: Charnell  Sources:  https://youtu.be/4unT6wyUefY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Teena https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/282738/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.biography.com/.amp/crime-figure/brandon-teena

William and Margaret Patterson looked like a typical couple from El Paso Texas....that is until they disappeared without a trace and police start to piece together some pretty sketchy details not only about their disappearance but also about their life. Take a listen to hear the legit theories that range from murder, to spy games....to alien abduction! The Bizarre Vanishing of William and Margaret...

Zach Bowen and Addie Hall met while bar tending in the French Quarter, New Orleans.  Shortly after they were acquainted, they became an inseparable couple. Join us in discussing a love story that quickly turned into horror, among the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.   Music By: Jonas Bjornstad Cover Art By: Charnell  Resources:  https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/the-gruesome-tale-of-zack-bowen-an...

This was a highly recommended case, but many called it the "Jeepers Creepers" case because the real life murder of Marilynn DePue in Branch County Michigan was said to have inspired the opening scene in the 2001 blockbuster horror film....but what often gets lost in the story is that one mother of three lost her life at the hands of her ex husband and he almost got away with it....almost.  https:/...

We are not sure it gets much worse than two 16 year old shit for brain girls who think they are untouchable, and murder their best friend in cold blood for no other reason than "we didn't like her anymore". Skylar was a beautiful and intelligent young woman who deserves to have her story told, so her murderers can stay where they belong. Music By: Jonas Bjornstad Cover Art By: Charnell  The Murder...

Junko was a brilliant and steadfast student when she was abducted by a group of teenage dirtballs, and held in captivity and tortured for over 40 days. The punishment for these teens defiantly did not meet the crime, and the extent of what she went through in her final days is nearly unbearable to conceive. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta https://japaninsides.com/44...

Marybeth Tinning was a mother of nine....and considered to be an early case example of fictitious disease...but perhaps after you hear the way all nine of her children mysteriously pass away, you might ask yourselves did she suffer from fictitious disease (also known as Munchhausen by proxy) or was it simply madness? Music By: Jonas Bjornstad Cover Art By: Charnell  Marybeth Tinning: Mom Who Kille...