Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

Send us Fan Mail Convicted double murderer Ali Abulaban says he didn’t get a fair trial because it was televised and “everybody knew him as the Tik Tok Star murderer.” It’s no surprise he’s still blaming others now that he has lost everything he wanted: freedom, a beautiful wife and family, and social media career.  The former Tik Tok creator known as "JinnKid," had what most people woul...

Send us Fan Mail Who in their right mind would brag about being related to notorious, accused ax murderer and parent killer Lizzie Borden?!  Well, convicted serial killer and nurse Kristen Gilbert not only bragged about it, she lied about it!  But it turns out lying and manipulating is something Kristen has done well since at least high school and the more you dig into her past, the more grim deta...

Send us Fan Mail What goes up must come down - even if free falling from Cloud 9 without a parachute isn't part of the plan.  That's what happened to two unsuspecting women who loved skydiving and the wrong men.  Victoria Cilliers and Els Van Doren were both victims of high-altitude murder plots, tangled up love triangles, jealousy, sabotaged parachutes, and some really bizarro, messed u...

Send us Fan Mail Two iconic fathers with adult, mentally health challenged sons. Movie director and actor Rob Reiner and renowned gospel, opera, and jazz singer Jubilant Sykes were both allegedly killed by their grown sons, a week apart, in the Los Angeles area.  The tragedies are similar in that the suspects are the victims' own children. Both young men, in their 30s, have substance abuse, a...

Send us Fan Mail When did we start calling beat downs and assaults “hazing?”  Hazing is the word you use when you’re pledging a fraternity or a sorority and now it’s being used interchangeably with locker room bullying and brawls as well as isolated attacks on individuals.  Officially, hazing is strictly against the law when it’s part of abuse, but the word doesn’t hold a candle to the terror, ang...

Send us Fan Mail Exactly two years ago I broke this story and remember standing beside the front door of Dr. Ben Brown’s office, Restore Plastic Surgery, where someone had left holiday poinsettias as a kind gesture after Brown’s wife, Hillary, had gone into cardiac arrest just on the other side of the door just before Thanksgiving 2023, after he had performed several procedures on her and later di...

Send us Fan Mail Exploring the world is normal for young people, but finding new “friends” online can be deadly.  Cybercrimes like sextortion over pictures real or A.I. generated, wire fraud, and targeted harassment are skyrocketing and children, especially teenage boys, are in the crosshairs of online predators.  These criminals aren’t breaking into homes in the traditional sense, they are crawli...

Send us Fan Mail   Remembered as a mother, sister, daughter and a friend, 25-year-old Tierra Binion’s life was cut short after a confrontation between her, Rachel DeRise, and Rachel's boyfriend Christian Ketchup who showed up armed to the Pensacola bar where he shot Tierra to death.  The night of August 23, 2023, Tierra and Rachel exchanged words which led to Christian sucker punching Tierra...

Send us Fan Mail Christy Martin was a trailblazer who took women's boxing from novelty (kinda sideshow) to mainstream during the 1990s and 2000.  As eventful as her boxing career was it had nothing on the hits she was taking in her private life. The secrets, the abuse, the drug addiction, the sex tapes, the isolation and the domestic violence she suffered.  Her public image as an attractive,...

Send us Fan Mail Jesse Mack Butler faced nearly a dozen charges related to the s3xual assault of two teenage girls he dated, and he was convicted of several of them. He pleaded no contest and faced nearly 80 years in prison for the crimes, until the court allowed him to plead as a youthful offender and reduced his sentence to no jail time, community service, curfew, and counseling. And oh, no soci...

Send us Fan Mail Self-described perfect neighbor, Susan Lorincz, was always the victim in her mind.  When she got caught trespassing on a man's private property and rammed his gate with her truck to get out, she blamed her reaction on PTSD she suffered from previous crimes allegedly done to her.  When neighborhood children played in the vacant lot next to her Ocala, Florida home, she complain...

Send us Fan Mail  High school cheerleader Kimber Mills, 18, was laid to rest on Sunday after she was shot in the head and taken off of life support at UAB.  She was injured witnesses say trying to break up a fight between several young men at “The Pit,” a gathering place in the woods in Pinson, Alabama that was the regular go-to, weekend hang out spot.  Kimber was one of four people who was shot,...

Send us Fan Mail  Tuscumbia City Schools says it’s still investigating the incident that nearly took the life of 15-year-old August Borden, a Deshler High School football player who had to be intubated for two days in the hospital with severe head and brain trauma after a so-called “freak accident” after football practice that left him fighting for his life.  Many in the community, including his f...

Send us Fan Mail There have been so many crimes, tragedies, and mysteries along the Gulf Coast. What is curious about the brutal shooting death of 25-year-old Tierra Binion is the senselessness of killing a woman and mother of two who was just out trying to enjoy herself like people often do.   Christian Ketchup and his girlfriend, Rachel DeRise, turned what is a routine, normal night out for many...

Send us Fan Mail Iryna Zarutska didn't seem much different from any of the other passengers when she boarded the late train leaving Scaleybark station a few miles outside of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22.  The pretty, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee wore khaki pants and a dark shirt and her long blonde hair was tucked under a hat from Zepeddie’s Pizzeria where she worked. Like...

Send us Fan Mail Maybe we should throw it back to old school, it used to be real cool before Zero Tolerance made it easier for bullies to do their worst.  Now victims simply have to take it like sitting ducks or find themselves in the crosshairs of school punishment for trying to defend themselves.  More than half a dozen cases involving teenage boys in Alabama, Florida, the Southeast, and beyond...

Send us Fan Mail Some women ain’t nothing but trouble. No one knows that better than Milton business owner and father, Sean Perdue.  In 2021, Perdue had a successful business and was a single dad to a young daughter he doted on, Lily. Divorced after 20 years, Perdue was looking for someone to build a life with and help him with his special needs child of whom he had custody. He thought he found th...

Send us Fan Mail This is quite the episode - we're packing in updates on two controversial cases we've been following! Before we dive into the latest on August Borden we have an update on embattled plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown. Now to Tuscumbia, Alabama where the Deshler High School football team’s motto is "Nos Non Ego," which is Latin for "We Not Me."  That begs t...

Send us Fan Mail People lost their heads over praying mantis Lynn Turner, and some people lost their lives.  She poisoned her husband and her boyfriend with anti-freeze laced green Jello, and likely would have gotten away with it all of it, but for pushing her luck killing her second the lover who took to the first husband’s funeral.  When Lynn, 32, got caught in her own poisonous web, she took a...

Send us Fan Mail August Borden continues to recover at his home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the wake of an incident that has all but divided the town because it centers around Deshler High School's football program.  The 15-tyear-old football player suffered traumatic injuries to his head and face after football practice on Aug. 19 that sent him to the hospital, but there are conflicting accoun...

Send us Fan Mail Just three weeks into his freshman year of high school, 15-year-old football player August Borden should have been looking forward to Homecoming. Instead, people in his hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, were praying that he would come home at all, after he was severely injured walking between the stadium and the fieldhouse with his teammates on Aug. 19.  Some claim he fell down a sh...

Send us Fan Mail The Honorable Judge Traci Soderstrom was anything but honorable when it came to how she ran her courtroom, even during a murder trial.  The Oklahoma Supreme Court investigated her for misconduct after she was caught texting back and forth with her in-court bailiff over 500 times while she sat on the bench during the murder trial of a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler...

Send us Fan Mail Did Whitney Cheatham read the charges right or does she know something we don’t know? ‘Cause she’s smiling so big in her police mug shot it’s making some people wonder.  Police in Cullman, Alabama say the 33-year-old salon owner is facing 25 charges related to drug trafficking and practicing medicine without a license.  Her arrest comes following an investigation into forged presc...

Send us Fan Mail Gulf Breeze parent Tara Kamm is speaking out in the wake of the arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney, who has plead not guilty to possessing, trading and sharing 23 counts of CSAM.  The incident has shaken the whole community and Kamm wants to see parents take the passion they feel over the Santa Rosa County School District’s handling of McChesney an...

Send us Fan Mail The arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney on 23 CSAM charges has set off a safety alarm for parents and the Santa Rosa County School District.  In part, because he was arrested the same month that 36-year-old Gulf Breeze High School hospitality teacher and a private team soccer coach Molly Mersereau, was arrested for grooming and having a sexual relat...