Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

Send us Fan Mail Louisiana Pastor Tony Spell doesn’t hold back.  He first made national news in 2020 when he continued to hold massive in-person services at Life Tabernacle Church in Central, a city north of Baton Rouge, despite health restrictions.  Now he’s back in the headlines after a video went viral of him sprinting across four lanes of highway to confront his neighbor’s son after the young...

Send us Fan Mail What is it about pickleball that it sometimes turns into pickle-BRAWL?! For some, the fastest growing sport in America is just a game, but for others it’s almost a total obsession. In this week’s episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, we’re talking about the community, the weird terminology, and why a lot of folks are suddenly spending their Saturdays fighting over court...

Send us Fan Mail Thank goodness most of us feel safe in our own homes. Botham Jean thought he was safe when he was sitting on the couch in his apartment enjoying a bowl of vanilla ice cream. Afterall, he lived only a couple of blocks from the Dallas Police Department Headquarters.  However on September 6, 2018, that turned out to be a downside when his downstairs neighbor, police woman Amber Guyge...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever seen a grown man cry, whoop, and hyperventilate for a solid seven minutes? That’s what Miami real estate broker George Pino did while his own attorney was giving opening statements during his manslaughter trial which just got started this month. He’s accused of killing one of his daughter’s friends and leaving another severely injured after crashing his boat into a s...

Send us Fan Mail This week our Podcast is a lil different.   We're talking about more than half a dozen cases we're following and it’s a little bit of everything: *Nicolette Keough the lady that urinates on items in Airbnb here along the Gulf Coast and then posts her photos of said activity on an Adult Internet Site.  We'll have more on how her latest court hearing went.  *Updates o...

Send us Fan Mail Mean girls rule by fear – the gossip, the condescension, the ostracizing – it’s all designed to keep them at the top of the food chain and others around them so scared that no one holds them accountable for their cruelty and corruption.  Some people take whatever mean girls dish out – no matter what – because they’re afraid of becoming the next target of bullying or rumors.  Queen...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a medical error takes your loved one's life, but the state of Florida says you have no right to answers?  In this powerful personal documentary, we follow the family and friends of 33-year-old Cameron Perritt as they fight against Florida Statute § 768.21(8)—better known as the "Free Kill" law.  Because Cameron was over 25 and unmarried, his surviv...

Send us Fan Mail Mackenzie Shirilla never hit the brakes when she crashed her car into a brick building speeding at 100 mph. Two passengers in her car were killed: her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan. Her friends and family claim it was an accident, but the judge disagreed calling Mackenzie “hell on wheels.”  Mean Girl Regina George Wannabe Mackenzie Shirilla was senten...

Send us Fan Mail Dean Faiello looked the part of a doctor. The handsome charmer wore the white coat well and spoke as if he knew what he was doing.  No one who came to his New York City officer for skincare and beauty services had any idea the so-called dermatologist didn't even have a medical license.  But behind the scenes he was cutting corners along with people’s bodies.  Faiello was bust...

Send us Fan Mail If Pensacola’s Judy Buenoano was the most infamous “Black Widow” serial killer, then Anniston, Alabama’s Audrey Marie Hilley was the original. Like Judy, Hilley used poison to kill, or in several cases try to kill, her husband and one of her children. When she got caught in her murderous web, Hilley ran and took on other identities, even another husband to hide from her past, but...

Send us Fan Mail Nurses often choose their career because they care. They’d have to be dedicated to give as much time, compassion, and professionalism as so many do every minute of every day to their jobs. So, when allegations arose that some nurses were violating not just patients’ privacy, but also their dignity at Jay Hospital, just 44 miles north of Pensacola, many people were outraged. Accord...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Bryan’s wife said they never dreamed he wouldn’t come back from surgery alive, but how he died is especially hard for her to take. According to Beverly Bryan, Bill went into to have his spleen removed, but bled to death on the operating table when Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky surgically removed his liver instead.  It’s a case that by all accounts shocked the operating room staff, th...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of folks talk about their aggravation with mother-in-laws, but has your's ever hired a hitman to take somebody out?! Well Ann Trexler, ex mother-in-law of Ron Stovall, did just that‼️  Ann had just moved from Virginia to Panama City, Florida to be near her beloved granddaughter, when Ron, a U.S. Navy vet and delivery driver, filed for full custody of his daughter and An...

Send us Fan Mail You’re never too old for love or a love triangle, it turns out.  Judy Church was in a love triangle with her younger boyfriend, 55-year-old Leroy Fowler, who was also dating an easy-going woman who enjoyed hanging out with him despite his relationship with his Sugar-Mama.   Judy Church was the cool girlfriend. She bought her man a motorcycle, a Dodge Ram truck, and a house for the...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Coleman fancied himself to be a tough guy, and for good reason. He was a former U.S. Marine who worked out all the time and headed up security for internationally renowned televangelist and Bible teacher Joyce Meyer, working for years as her personal bodyguard.  The son of two devout, evangelical preachers, Coleman's parents helped him secure his good-paying job of $100...

Send us Fan Mail Joseph Duggar is back on camera accused of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child while on vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida.  Dr. Gerhardt Konig in Hawaii is on trial for trying to push his wife off a cliff.  Kouri Richins’ trial just ended for poisoning her husband with fentanyl. Wisconsin man and Board of Education President, Joe Bragger, is facing charges for threateni...

Send us Fan Mail  Hannah Pettey was just 18 years old when she married Alabama chiropractor, Dr. Brian Mann. The beautiful, blonde, Birmingham area teen fell head over heels for the handsome, successful man ten years her senior.  On the outside, their small and growing family looked perfectly happy and healthy, but behind closed doors Hannah said Brian could be controlling and there were fights wh...

Send us Fan Mail Colin Gray gave his son, Colt, the AR-15-style rifle that his 14-year-old son used to kill two students and two teachers and injure nine others at Apalachee High School in Georgia, in September 2024.  It was a Christmas present for the boy in 2023, just months after the FBI showed up at Colin’s house to question him and Colt regarding online threats made on Discord about "sho...

Send us Fan Mail Kendy Howard was found dead in her bathtub by her husband, Dan, a former Idaho State Police Trooper who told detectives his wife shot herself.  He called 9-1-1 to report the "suicide" and when officers responded they had no reason to doubt how she died until they started noticing inconsistencies.  Like why was Kendy's gun in the bathtub? Why wasn't there more b...

Send us Fan Mail Missing matriarch Nancy Guthrie, a relatively healthy, 84-year-old sharp-minded woman with only a few mobility issues, has been missing from her own home in Tucson, Arizona since Jan. 31. With no known motive and no suspects identified, it’s the kind of situation that can make anyone feel vulnerable, and there are so many theories as to what could have happened.  Was it a pre-plan...

Send us Fan Mail Most any of us that have been on the Ole Miss Campus in the Gulf Coast state of Mississippi most likely fell in love with the sweet, syrupy, Southern charm of the campus and students.  Bubbly and fun Ally Kostial fell in love  with everything about her first choice for college, from her classes in marketing and fashion, to enjoying golf, fitness, and her sorority.  The 21-year-old...

Send us Fan Mail ‘Kinky catfish’ arranged on a BDSM fetish site by an IRS Agent and his Au Pair - all to get rid of Brendan Banfield’s wife. Nurse Christine Banfield had no idea that when their 25-year-old, Brazilian Au Pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, took her 4-year-old daughter to the zoo that she was opening the door to a diabolical plot.  Little did she know that her husband, Brendan, had been...

Send us Fan Mail  This week we have cases about people devaluing the lives of other human beings. Just wicked, corrupt, evil people. In other words, diabolical.  The overly sexual Au Pair trying to help get rid of the lady of the house so she could be “the lady of the house” by implementing a Cat fishing scheme with the “man of the house” resulting in double murder.  We’ve got the stories of two o...

Send us Fan Mail Linda Duffey was such an animated character few questioned her wacky and wonky story about the sudden and violent death of her husband, Patrick, who was found dead on their living couch after Linda said she shot him twice in the head accidentally.  In fact, police detectives were charmed, bamboozled, and "entertained" when she described how the tragic so-called mistake h...

Send us Fan Mail Martin Luther King Jr., who we just remembered this week, was an advocate for justice. One of his many famous quote was, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” That is fitting for this week’s episode, “Justice cut short for Torrey King after convicted killer set to go free, ” the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast.  Losing a loved one is a grief many peop...