Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

21-year-old Zephen Xaver walked into a SunTrust branch in Sebring, Florida last year and unloaded his weapon execution-style into the heads of the five innocent women in the bank, according to police. This tragedy was at least the fourth mass shooting in Florida with five or more dead in the past three years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

The former Dozier School for Boys in the city of Marianna, Fla is the site of unthinkable abuse with dozens of bodies found buried in makeshift graves on the property. Spanning the school's 111 year history, there were reports of abuse, beatings, rape, torture and murder of students. Plus a Daytona Beach pastor records a strange, luminous, floating orb in his living room. See Privacy Policy at htt...

100 years ago, the Ocoee Massacre was sparked by a black man who attempted to vote in the 1920 presidential election in rural Orlando. As a result, an untold number of black Ocoee residents were killed and their homes burned to the ground. This year Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that mandates schools teach students about this travesty.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

Karen examines the possibility that there is a man on Florida's death row who is about to be executed, who may be innocent. The only evidence against 74 year old James Dailey is testimony from a jailhouse snitch who sort of recanted right before he died. Also, beware of the Swamp Witch Hattie from a sleepy Okeechobee town. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...

Small aircraft and fog don't mix. Poor visibility played a role in the fatal crashes of John F. Kennedy Jr, Kobe Bryant. And Karen has lived to tell about her near death experience in the fog as a helicopter reporter in Sky 6. She also details the tragic crash of Sky 6 and death of another fellow reporter who went down with the fiery wreckage.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

There are many deadly boating accidents in South Florida involving very famous people. Some of them involve wrecks, or people falling overboard. But one deadly boating mystery on the high seas claimed the life of four people during a freak perfect storm. Also, Davie Police release new cold case sketch of murder victim from the 1970's See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...

When a mummy with a fetus inside her is found inside a barrel stashed under the stairs of a New York home, detectives uncover the identity of a beautiful immigrant who vanished three decades before...and the murder mystery leads them all the way to South Florida. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Deltona massacre, commonly known as the Xbox murders, took place 16 years ago in August and it is considered the worst mass murder in Volusia County history. Also, another crazy Florida 911 call about a "shooting." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Notorious Miami criminal defense attorney, Ellis Rubin, came up with some pretty wild defenses to get his underdog clients off. But, ultimately, he served time behind bars to defend truth in the courtroom. Plus, Lobster Boy vs. Blockhead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In 1991 the wife of a Broward Sheriff's deputy fell into a funk and was prescribed an antidepressant she says turned her into a nymphomaniac. Her husband, Jeff Willets, couldn't keep up with his wife Kathy so he recruited a lot of other rich and powerful men to service her. The couple were finally arrested for running a brothel out of their Fort Lauderdale home. See Privacy Policy at https://art19...

A South Beach pool boy pulls back the covers on a sordid alleged love triangle with televangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki. The Full Rigor details are almost too juicy to believe. Plus, a Treasure Coast double murder solved and the latest on Cool Cat or Killer Kitten Carole Baskin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...

Wrongly convicted Florida rape and murder suspect, 55 year-old Robert Duboise, spent 37 years behind bars at one point facing the death penalty. He has just been exonerated by DNA evidence he was told was lost forever. Finally, something good happened in 2020!! Plus an update on Cool Cat or Killer Kitten Carole Baskin See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

Tiffany Sessions went missing in 1989 when she was a junior at the University of Florida. She simply vanished and no evidence of Tiffany has never been found by the police or the FBI . However, her possible killer has been identified. Also, the body of a woman is found dumped on the side of I-95. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

The slaughter of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in June of 2016 is the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. Hear terrifying accounts of the three hour rampage from surviving victims. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Did you know that blue eyes are not really blue? And what do you do if you lose an eye? Karen also shares some disturbing cases of Florida criminals gouging out the eyes of their victims. Listen to find out their motivation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A 50 year-old cold case involving the murder of a young mother is solved when DNA matches a Florida homeless man.  Also a spree of cold case killings known as the "Flat Tire Murders" from the 70's in South Florida that have never been solved. Young women were found murdered and raped in or near canals in Broward County after their car tires were flattened. The sister of one of the victims speaks t...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has arrested two brothers, and a girlfriend, in the triple homicide that occurred in Frostproof, Florida on July 17, 2020. Sheriff Judd explains what sparked the massacre of three fishermen by a man he calls "pure evil in the flesh." Plus, the sheriff shuffle in Broward County. The old sheriff who was thrown out by the governor is running against the appointed sherif...

Another case of parricide, this time the Native American father of two boys is convicted of second degree murder after driving their mother's SUV into a South Florida canal while they were strapped in the back seat. Did he know the boys were in the vehicle when they drowned? Also, Broward County has a history of felonious judges. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...

Hours after an alternative newspaper published lurid tales of sex and corruption in 2005, former Miami City Commissioner Arthur Teele Jr. walked into the lobby of The Miami Herald, put a semi-automatic pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A new DNA technology called "Snapshot" can develop the likeness of a suspect or decomposed victim when only their DNA is available. Also, a medley of supermodel mayhem stories. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Richard Nixon and his best friend, Cuban banker Bebe Rabozo, used to live large on Key Biscayne during the rise and fall of his presidency. Rabozo advised Nixon through it all and lived next door to his Winter White House in Miami. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Florida leads the nation in shark attacks and with the Fourth of July weekend approaching, find out the best way to avoid becoming a bloody mess at the beach. An expert explains how to avoid becoming shark bait. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The trials of Cheryl Araujo’s rapists were the first to be televised and became international news. I wrote a true crime book, "The Accuser," about it and now, the story has been re-examined in Netflix’s true crime anthology Trial By Media. Here's what they got right and wrong. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...

Episode 59: Triple Murder or West Palm Beach Parricide? A new perspective on a triple murder-suicide in West Palm Beach from a former boyfriend of a mother who killed her two teenage children and herself...or did she? Police say Jennifer Berman committed the parricide in January of 2014 after a messy divorce but her lover thinks the ex-husband had something to do with it.  Listen to the chilling e...

Living in South Florida, every June begins the season for deadly terror attacks from Mother Nature, the Atlantic Hurricane season. Full Rigor investigates one of the most savage attacks, Hurricane Andrew. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .