GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

On November 13th, 2022 four students from The University of Idaho would go out for the night and into the wee hours of the morning.  One couple and two friends at different locations.  They would then all return home to the rooming house that two of the students lived in off campus.  That night an assailent would enter the home and stab all four of the setudents to death using a fixed-blade knife....

New Year's Day 2008 started with bright prospects for the year ahead for two young women who lived just six kilometres away from one another in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as they both started the day and the year with their families in their family home's. Unfortunately though, one of those girls, Melissa Todorvic, had some serious issues with the other, Stefanie Rengel, based out of nothing more th...

Albert Guay had an extramarital affair with a seventeen year old girl which was rooted in lies, conceit and control. He lived his entire life as an entitled child, believing that he should always get whatever he wanted and everyone should bow down to his every whim. To try and force the girlfriend to stay with him he hatched a plan to kill his wife and killed many other innocent people alongside h...

On March 4th, 2008 a young man in Australia named Julian Buchwald would ask permission of his girlfriend's family to take their 17-year-old daughter, and his long term girlfriend, for a hike and picnic on the immense property that was owned by his parents.  The two set out for a picnic and to check out a waterfall but that is not what happened.  The two were kidnappped from that area and drive for...

After having guns and a television stolen from his home following a break-and-enter a man named Kevin Watkins felt that the police were not dealing with the crimes and so he took matters into his own hands including making threats to neighbourhood teens and even impersonating an officer. He told the teens that if his property was not returned, Christmas 2015 would be a bloodbath and when his prope...

On June 15th, 2016 Erin McCleskey, who was a process server, would attempt to serve a man with legal papers just outside of Austin, Texas when she was attacked by dogs and she lost her life.  It was immediately ruled that the six adult dogs that were found on the property should be euthanized and charges were not laid against the man that owned the property.  For over a year the euthanization thou...

Between December 1977 and January 1978 serial killer Richard Chase would go on a rampage that not only was about murder but about mutilation, necrophilia and cannibalism as well.  Richard lived a life that wasn't just filled with red flags, his entire life was a gigantic red flag that was ignored by doctors, by his family, by neighbours and literally seemingly by every single person that ever knew...

On November 15, 2017 Sydney Loofe left work to go on a second date with a woman that she had met on Tinder.  When she didn't show up for work the following day her family called police as it was out of the norm for her to not go home and to miss work unannounced. The heart-breaking truth was that Sydney was a girl who suffered from mental health struggles and was just looking to turn her life arou...

Just after midnight on January 29th John O'Keefe was dropped off after a night out at two bars at a fellow Boston Police Officer's home by his girlfriend Karen Read.  What happened on that rop off and the following hours is of much debate.  Investigators and the prosecution allege that Karen hit John with her SUV when she dropped him off and left him for dead while others believe that John's death...

On December 15, 1994 Bill McLaughlin was shot dead in his own home gangland style and his murder would remain unsolved for many years even though investigators were nearly certain that they knew who was behind the hit and the murder.  Years later their suspicions would be confirmed.   GBNF on Patreon GBNF on Facebook GBNF on X GBNF on Instagram GBNF on YouTube GBNF on TikTok Intro Music: Provided...

Every country has their serial killers or criminals that garner some level of infamy because of their crimes and because of the stories that come out when they are captured.  In Canada many people will obviously name Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka as well as Robert Pickton but another name that is often mentioned, especially by people who were alive at the time, is Roch Theriault.  The story of R...

On February 24th Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres would allegedly play a game of hide and go seek while they were drinking and Jorge and Sarah determined that it would be funny if Jorge climbed into a suitcase and zipped it up.  It is unclear whether that much of the story was true but what happened next is very clear based on videos that were taken by Sarah herself.  She left Jorge inside of the suit...

On April 26, 2010 Doug Stewart followed through on a devious plan that he hatched to take the life of his wife and the mothers of his two daughters.  He thought that he had his alibi worked out and he believed that his plan was foolproof.  It took investigators a couple of months to find the connective tissue and then the holes in the story but they did and ultimately his plan, that he said was to...

Russell Williams seemed to lead what many would consider to be a charmed life.  He was born into money, he attended Canada's most prestigious prep school and he moved up the ladder in the Canadian Armed Forces at a break-neck speed.  He seemingly had everything that almost anyone would kill to have and so...he had it and killed anyways.  Listen to the case of a man who literally flew with royalty...

On July 22, 1995 Elyse Pahler would sneak out of her house under the impression that she was going to smoke marijuana with three boys that she had just recently started to spend time with.  Sadly, however, she was actually leaving the house as an elaborate plan to lure her to her own murder and the reasons that they chose her to die and their motives for murder will blow your mind and you've got t...

On the night of February 28, 1978 five young men who dealt with varying degrees of mental health and special needs difficulties ventured off to watch a basketball game at Chico State whils anticipating their own basketball tournemant that was to begin the very next day.  After the game was over the men, known as "The Boys" were to head home but instead wound up in the Plumas National Forest where...

Liminal Land is either an elaborate hoax that stands the test of time because of the internet or it is a theme park that broke boundaries, took lives and played a part in MANY disappearances.  What you believe is your own business but this week we are going to take a look at a theme park that once gave Disney a run for it’s money and certainly gave thrills and chills to all who visited.  Hello, my...

Sadly, more and more it seems that there are murders occuring in the world around us when people believe that they know how to outsmart the system and beat the crime.  This week's case is certainly one of those as we look the case of Samantha Wohlford who alleged that she had suffered abuse at the hands of her husband Ernie Lee Ibarra Jr. in the past.  It is unclear whether that abuse had stopped...

On February 19, 1997 Evan Ramsey would hide a shotgun in his pants, take the bus to school and take the lives of one student and the principal of the school.  GBNF on Patreon GBNF on Facebook GBNF on X GBNF on Instagram GBNF on YouTube GBNF on TikTok Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

On January 29th, 1979 in what was a premeditated attack, Brenda Spencer opened fire on Grover Cleveland Elementary School, which was across the street from her house.  She shot at elementary students, wounding eight of them and adults, killing two and wounding one, without remorse and when she was later questioned as to why she had opened fire on unsuspecting people she said that she didn't like M...

On November 27th, 2021 a young man who certainly had a rough childhood amd was suffering from some unchecked mental health struggles walked into the washroom at his school and when he walked out he was in posession of a firearm and he had one thing on his mind, death. In the end he would surrender to police but not before he took the lives of four young and vibrant students, inuured many more and...

On December 6th, 1989 a man would find his way inside of the École Polytechnique, on the campus of The University of Montreal, and he would take the lives of fourteen women and he would also injure ten more women and four men.   The shooter, known as Marc Lépine was driven by hatred towards feminists and feminism as well as the mere thought of women attempting to achieve jobs in what he considered...

On December 14th, 2012 one of the most disgusting and horrifying acts took place.  Not only was this a school shooting that took place but this was a school shooting that lasted five minutes and took the lives of twenty-six people, twenty of those being children in grade one, between the ages of six and seven.   Adam Lanza was a man who grew up with an obsession with guns because his mother taught...

Starting in June of 1987 and extending to September of 1988 Delaware faced their first, and still only, serial killer.  Stephen Pennell seemingly just snapped and started to take his frustrations out by kidnapping, torturing and murdering young women. What set him off?  How was he stopped?  What craziness took place when he went to trial and then when he represented himself before The Superior Cou...

On February 13th, 2017 Abby Williams and Libby German took advantage of a warmer than seasonal day and decided to go for a hike at the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana.  When the girls were supposed to be picked up though they were nowhere to be found and a day later their bodies were found 800 metres (half a mile) away from the bridge.  There was not an arrest made in the case until five year...