Criminal Discourse Podcast

Steven Mineo was murdered in the Pennsylvania Pocono Region in July, 2017. To Police, it appeared to be a straight forward crime. Then they discovered that the victim was involved with an online community that believed devil-worshiping, shape-shifting reptiles from outer space were body-snatching humans. These "reptilians" were looking to bring about the rule of the Antichrist.  Listen a...

Freelance journalist Kim Wall had finally set up an interview with the celebrity inventor Peter Madsen.  The best part was that he was going to take her on his self-built mini-submarine, The Nautilus, for a two hour tour around Køge Bay.  She would never return.  Listen to the episode of how one man's obsession led him to committing a vile, heinous murder.     

In a five month period two young girls would disappear from parks around Tacoma Washington.  What happened to them and who was responsible?  Were police looking for one killer or two?  Police were baffled and only the passage of time and new technological advances in DNA extraction would help solve this case, but that meant the killer or killers could strike again.  

The first act of air terrorism took place in Canada in September 1949.  Who could have wanted twenty-three people dead and why?  Investigators had plenty of clues and would quickly hone in on the suspects responsible.  Listen to the story of how one man's narcissism destroyed so many lives.  

One night in Laredo Texas would change three lives forever.  No one could imagine the horrors that would be inflicted on three sleeping victims by teenagers no less.  Listen to the story and draw your own opinion if justice was served.  

In the town of Poughkeepsie, NY women had gone missing starting in 1996.  These women had one thing in common besides the monster who was taking them; they all battled drug addiction.  Listen to the story of how one man got away with snatching these women up and keeping them hidden from their loved ones and the police for over two years.  

Listen to the latest update on the Sheila Keen Warren case out of Florida

A mysterious fire, missing keys and a black sports car.  What did they all have in common on Black Friday 2014?  Listen to the story of how one young woman fought for her life upsetting the plans of two nefarious murderers who wanted a big pay off.  

When playing cards started showing up at murder scenes, the Madrid Police didn't realize they had a serial killer on their hands.  Listen to the story of the Playing Card Killer's twisted spiral into murder and how no one knew when he would strike again.  

On Christmas Day 2002 three women would be discovered dead in their Middletown home.  There was one survivor who was too young to tell police the heinous crimes that had occurred in the early morning hours of December 24, 2002.  Listen to how one man was brought to justice for not only the murders, but the horrible acts that he had committed on his own family.

When a suitcase washes ashore after a devastating earthquake in Peru no one could have imaged what secrets it would hold.  The discovery would bring closure wrapped in grief to one family and a fight to bring the person responsible to justice once extradition could be granted.  Listen to the story of the "El Enigma de la Mariposa" (The Mystery of the Butterfly).  

No one knew that when Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka met that it would lead to the killings of three young teen girls.  There was nothing stopping them from destroying the lives of those around them; not even their own family members were safe.  Listen to the story of two depraved individuals who became a pair of killers that plagued communities throughout Ontario, Canada in the late 80's...

Bernie Tiede was beloved by many in the town of Carthage, Texas.  He was actively involved with various community activities and a well sought after mortician, who had a gift when it came to offering comfort to grieving families.  Margorie Nugent was a widow who fell under Bernie's spell.  Listen to the tale of an unlikely companionship that ended in murder.  

A burning car, two dead bodies and a third victim found nearby.  Who could have committed these murders and what was their motive?  Listen to a real who done it and try to figure out who had the most to gain by these untimely deaths.

Before Virginia Tech and Columbine the first mass shooting on a school's campus would occur on August 1, 1966.  Listen to the episode how one young man with so much promise killed his mother and wife before taking the lives of fourteen people and wounding thirty one more on the University of Texas in Austin campus.  Was Charles Whitman a deranged mad man or was there something else behind his...

Seven statuettes would represent his seven victims.  Joseph Miller has been called the most prolific serial killer in Dauphin County's history.  Listen to the story of his crimes and how one brave woman fought to live and helped bring down his reign of terror.

Phil Hartman would die suddenly in his sleep at the hands of his third wife, Brynn on May 28, 1998. Listen to the story of Phil's rise to fame, his troubled marriage and how he left a comedic legacy behind for his two small children and how one woman's substance abuse, and want of fame lead to this tragic murder-suicide.  

Listen to the harrowing tale of Terry Jo Duperrault.  Seven people would set sail for a weeks long excursion in the Bahamas, but only two would come back alive.

When Suzanne Jovin, a popular, intelligent senior at Yale University was murdered she left behind a lot of heartache and questions.  Who would want to kill Suzanne?  Was she in the wrong place at the wrong time or did someone intentionally want to kill her?  Listen to the fascinating mystery that surrounds the murder of a girl that was taken far too soon.  

In February 1942 in the midst of World War II a predator would strike the city of London under the cover of darkness.  During the mandatory blackouts of London one sexual sadist would take advantage of those just trying to survive in the most difficult of circumstances.  Gordon Cummins would become known as The Blackout Ripper.

When a beautiful 23-year-old school teacher is assigned a forty-year-old male mentor who would have known it would lead to murder?  An affair, a missing glove and disputed phone records would lead to not one, but two murder trials.  Listen to the fascinating case of Carolyn Warmus known as The Fatal Attraction Killer.  

We all know what it's like when dreams come true.  That feeling of excitement and anticipation of achieving something you've always wanted, but what happens when those dreams are snatched away by an unknown person? This person who calls themselves The Watcher would become one family's nightmarish dream crusher.  

How could a nightly run go terribly wrong?  Melissa Millan was an avid runner, wonderful mother on top of being a professional business woman.  Who would want to kill her?  Was it someone she knew or was she a victim of a fandom attack?  Listen and find out.  

It would take 27 years for the killer, dressed as a clown, to be arrested and brought to justice for the murder of Marlene Warrens in 1990.  Who was this killer; mistress, clown, murderer or perhaps all three?  Listen and hear the long winding road this case took investigators on to finally bring a killer clown to justice.  

Robert "Bobby" Lozano had it all.  A beautiful home, a loving wife, a burgeoning career as a police detective when the unthinkable happens. Was it a terrible accident, a suicide or was it murder?  Why did it take 7 years and a right to know request to get this case solved?