Crime & Spirits: A True Crime & Cocktail Podcast

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. On March 16, 2015, Emad Tawfilis and Robert Dahl met to discuss a financial dispute that two men were in. By noon that day, both Emad and Robert would no longer be alive. Join us while we dive into Napa's wine industry and the shocking murder that shook the l...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. We're diving into the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. This case is as sad as it is intriguing. Unfortunately, 27 years later, we're no closer to solving it. On the morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey discovered a ransom note that d...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. We're diving into the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. This case is as sad as it is intriguing. Unfortunately, 27 years later, we're no closer to solving it. On the morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey discovered a ransom note that d...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. This week we are diving into the life and crimes of Dorothea Puente. Back in the 80s, Dorothea ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California. To most, she was a kind and caring older woman who just wanted to help people. In reality, Dorothea was incredibly abusi...

Greetings and welcome to Don't Drink With Strangers. Here, the hosts pour a glass of wine, switch on the microphone, and let the fun begin. As you know, we just got done diving into the life and crimes of Dennis Rader aka the BTK killer. While wrapping up the case, we found an interesting thread on X (rip Twitter). Per Kerri Rawson, Rader's daughter, BTK is being investigated as a person of intere...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for the last installment of our Serial Killer Summer. This week we're wrapping up our deep dive into one of America's most notorious serial killers, BTK. Dennis Rader took the lives of ten people over the course of 17 years. He evaded the police e...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. This week is part one of our deep dive into one of America's most notorious serial killers, BTK. Dennis Rader took the lives of ten people over the course of 17 years. He evaded the police even longer; he wasn't arrested until 2005. He began having bondag...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us as we dive into the life and crimes of David Berkowitz. In the 1970s, he was known as The Son of Sam, terrorizing New York City. When the shootings first started, there was no reason to believe that they were the work of just one person. 13 months and several...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us as we discuss one of Cleveland's most notorious serial killers, the unidentified Cleveland Torso Murderer. This person is officially responsible for 12 victims, but recent research shows the number could be much higher. The people targeted by this kil...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us as we dive into one of America's most notorious serial killers, Joseph DeAngelo Jr aka The Golden State Killer. This week is the second part of our deep dive, if you missed part one, we highly suggest you check it out! De Angelo began committing his c...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true, crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us as we dive into one of America's most notorious serial killers, Joseph DeAngelo Jr.  This man is also known as The Golden State Killer. De Angelo began committing his crimes in 1974 and didn't stop until 1986. Before he was a killer, DeAngelo was...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for the third installment of our Serial Killer Summer series: Unsolved Edition. This week we're bringing you a two-for-one special. And as the title suggests, the identity of the serial killers we'll discuss remains a mystery. The Doodler: An unid...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for round two of our Serial Killer Summer Series. This week we'll be diving into John Linley Frazier. He's responsible for the deaths of five people. His motive? He was chosen by God to save the planet and was instructed that murder was the only w...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for the very first installment of our Serial Killer Summer Series! This week we'll be diving into Herbert Mullin. He was responsible for taking the lives of 13 people over four months. Herbert Mullin was a man who was compelled to murder by both his m...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we explore what happened during the Stonewall uprising. In June of 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in NYC. Things did not go according to plan and police quickly lost control of the situation. Violence and chaos en...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Matthew was approached by two men in a bar. They spent the next few hours having some drinks and chatting. At the end of the night, these two men offered to give Matthew a rid...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into part two of the Tate/LaBianca Murders aka the Manson Family murders. In the late 1960s, at the height of The Civil Rights Movement, Charles Manson "predicted" that the world's end was rapidly approaching. He clai...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into part one of the Tate/LaBianca Murders aka the Manson Family murders. In the late 1960s, at the height of The Civil Rights Movement, Charles Manson "predicted" that the world&#39...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us while we dive into the murders of Annette Schnee and Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer. On January 6, 1982, both women went missing within hours of each other. With no connection between the victims, the case went cold quickly. T...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the mysterious disappearance of Bryce Laspisa. In August of 2013, Bryce began acting peculiar and those close to him grew concerned about his behavior. Things came to a head one day when...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we wrap up this two-parter and dive into the trial of Adnan Syed. Last week we learned about Hae Min Lee, her relationship with Adnan Syed, and her untimely death. This week will be about the trials,...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Hae Min Lee. On January 13, 1999, 18-year-old Hae Min Lee was reported missing by her family. Just under a month later, her body was discovered in a park. The pol...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into one of Australia's most infamous women: Katherine Knight. In the early 2000s, she brutally took the life of John Price, the man she was seeing at the time. The murder was vi...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Jayna Murray, also known as, the Lululemon murder. In 2011, Jayna Murray was found dead inside the Lululemon Athletica store she worked at. What looked like a bur...

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the serial killer duo known as The Toolbox Killers, part two. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were highly disturbed and deranged individuals responsible for killing five teena...