GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

So many nights on the town end with stories of merriment, joy and good times and yet at the same time there are many nights on the town that wind up with the complete opposite kinds of stories.  When you add alcohol to a situation unfortunately the events of an evening can change at a moment’s notice.  Sadly, no matter how you look at this week’s story it is one of those stories on the awful side...

Certainly one of the most baffling crimes that you can learn about are the cases where parents kill their own child or children.  It is hard enough to fathom that we live in a world where anyone believes that they can take a life, or lives, and they will get away with it or they simply do not care what the repercussions will be.  When someone takes that awfulness to an entirely new level and takes...

As we have seen in the plethora of murder cases that we have covered on this podcast killers, and even serial killers, come in all shapes and sizes.  There is no defining characteristic that is seen across the board in the case of all, or even most, killers.  One of the things that  is certainly seen in more murderers than not though is a progression in crime and another maddening trait that we co...

Children are our most important commodity.  Full stop.  We live in a world where it seems that everyone forgets that and our children are not as protected or as cherished as they should be.  Far too often there are stories all over the news of children being beaten, kidnapped and killed and it seems that we have almost been desensitized to it on some level as a society.  Sometimes our minds don’t...

As our listeners who are in Canada would know, one of the things that is on the minds of many people who are into true crime, in this country especially lately, is the way that criminals are treated when in prison and the ways that they are sometimes seemingly lost in the system when they get out.  In Canada we have recently had Paul Bernardo, a convicted serial killer and serial rapist, moved fro...

When we talk about killers there are always words and statements that seem to float around the killers themselves.  Things like psychopath, sociopath, abuse, escalation of crime, lack of emotion and so on and so forth.  But, if you are into the psychology of true crime you are very well aware of the fact that we barely know what makes a killer tick and we barely knows what causes something to one...

If you are listening to this podcast I reckon that that means that you have taken in your fair share of true crime in your life.  You then know that nearly any podcast has taken the time to warn people against the pitfalls that can come in the world of online dating.  Sites like Tinder and every other dating site that has popped up essentially have turned dating and hookup culture into a game of w...

We have talked so many times in passing on the podcast about the fact that the advent of the internet and the passions behind true crime have caused many different positives and negatives over the years.  One of the worst aspects of course is the fact that especially in today’s day and age, many people online seem to think that because they have an unfiltered voice and an opinion that means that t...

Let’s face it, we are living in a world where for a lot of us there seem to be fewer and fewer things that bring joy and fewer and fewer things that are capable of lifting our spirits.  Imagine though if you found yourself in a situation that brought you joy, expectation and so much love that it couldn’t do anything other than brighten your day.  Now imagine if you were to have that very thing qui...

There are so many stories when it comes to true crime.  You could literally tell stories that involve mystery, murder, solved or unsolved crimes and the like forever without running out of stories.  That is sad for sure because it goes to show that the world around us is always in some semblance of a shambles.  There are people doing things that are inherently wrong every single day.  This week we...

Many people experience varying degrees of what we all call a stalker in their lives and sadly situations like the one that we are going to discuss today occur more often within the lives of young women.  Those women, like this case, become the object of affection for a man who has been rejected or fears rejection and so instead that person becomes a stalker, possibly believing in their warped mind...

When we do these multi-episode cases on serial killers there tend to be a mix of emotions along the way.  The first episode when we cover the killer’s younger life tends to give us pause as we see some of the things that may or may not have played a part in them becoming the monsters that they became.  The second episode usually leaves me with sadness and pause as we cover the people who wound up...

As I have mentioned countless times in the past on the podcast, I do like to cover the psychology and the killers that commit the crimes that we talk about here because I do genuinely feel that studying people and what makes or made them tick can be helpful to help understand crime as a whole.  However, one thing that I feel that a lot of podcasts tend to forget is the victims of the crimes that a...

If you have ever taken a deep look at a serial killer and their entire story before, you know that there are many things that people believe are parts of building a person who is capable of killing and becoming a serial killer.  The more that you study the psychology and the childhoods of these killers you really do start to see a lot of similarities across many stories.  One of those similarities...

When people find out that I am into true crime and likely when people find out that you are into true crime there are generally two reactions that are the most prevalent.  The first is happiness as they find someone else that is into learning about the dark and the macabre like ourselves.  The second is that look that many of us know that recognizes us from that point on as a bit of a freak.  True...

When it comes to true crime there seem to be varying degrees of how a case will hit you as you do research and dive deeply into a case.  For some people missing person cases hit the hardest because there is just nothing to go on and there is just no answers to the plethora of questions that come up as you unpack the life story of someone who simply seems to have disappeared.  For me, the cases tha...

There are so many things that nobody really thinks about when they think about missing person’s cases.  People will generally say things like “I’m so sorry” or “I can’t even imagine” and of course, those things are true.  Putting yourself into the shoes of someone who has lost a loved one, especially a child, is something that we hope that we never have to fully understand.  This week I want to ta...

Thankfully, Canada has not been the site of too many mass casualty events.  Anyone that lives here knows that crime if not something that is dormant, but we can at least say that we do not find ourselves in situations like what happened on April 23rd, 2018 too often.  If you live anywhere near Toronto, Ontario, you likely remember where you were, what you were doing and how you heard about the tra...

One of the most common sentiments that I think is seen in the world around us these days is that the world is becoming a scarier and scarier place regardless of what you look at and what you see in your direct circle of friends and family.  One thing that I believe is certain is that our children and our teens are growing up faster and growing up in a world that is much more rife with anger, menta...

In this podcast and in true crime as a whole there is one certainty.  That certainty is that there are likely even more unsolved cases out there than there are solved cases that we can tell the stories of.  Perhaps the worst of the worst is when you have a case where there are multiple murders that could very well be a case of a serial killer.  This week we are going to talk about one of those cas...

As a true crime podcast one thing is true of the vast majority of the cases that we cover.  There is generally someone within the story, whether solved or unsolved who was a criminal of one kind or another.  In this week’s case we are going to cover a case that looks at a criminal of a completely different kind than we have ever looked at on the podcast before.  In today’s society and with movemen...

When we are children we are warned of stranger danger.  We are told that we should not speak to strangers, should not approach vehicles of people that try to talk to us and we are trained to be aware and safe in our surroundings at all times.  As parents, our most pressing fear is that all it takes is a moment for one of our babies to be taken from us and perhaps never returned.  All it really tak...

We have all heard the saying at one time or another, money does not buy happiness and regardless of who you are and how much money that you have, you likely have a knee jerk reaction to that statement in one way or another.  For one such heir to a family fortune however it would seem that all of the money that he had and had coming to him only caused him to believe that he was untouchable and perh...

When tragedy strikes, we are taught from a very young age to call 911 or to call the local police and that they will help us out of trouble or help us solve a crime if one has been committed.  However, as I have covered on this podcast many times in the past, unfortunately that is not always the way and that is not always the answer.  We have covered multiple cases here on GBNF already that show t...

Obviously in cases where4 someone goes missing for a long time there seem to be two ways that the story can go in the vast majority.  Either the person that disappeared had decided that they would move on to a new place and an entirely new life and wipe the slate clean or the worst is eventually confirmed, and those searching find out that their loved one has passed away in one form or fashion or...