Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

Send us Fan Mail Unconscious, exposed in every way. People are incredibly vulnerable when they go under in order to undergo surgery. They can’t argue, push back, or move out of the way once they’re on the operating table and under the knife. Thinking of that helplessness breaks Beverly Bryan’s heart. Her tall, strong, and strapping husband was a force to be reckoned with when he was standing on hi...

Send us Fan Mail Daniel and Stephanie Menard were well known and well liked in their small, close-knit community -  Olive Dell Ranch , a family-friendly nudist resort in Colton, California.  The elderly couple loved the naturist lifestyle, their church and their little Shih Tzu, Cuddles, and they looked out for each other. Daniel Menard, 79, was a diabetic with dementia and 73-year-old Stephanie M...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ben Brown, the Florida plastic surgeon arrested for the untimely death of his young wife, has legal battles on several fronts these days.  Brown has a pre-trial conference in Santa Rosa Count court next week on his negligent homicide charge. His attorney filed a motion to waive his appearance, but just two days ago Brown filed a motion asking to appear telephonically or virtua...

Send us Fan Mail Fashion to die for. Shopping and combing the racks for clothes is supposed to be fun, even necessary at times, but not deadly.  The ladies in these next two cases went shopping for all the same reasons many of us do, to buy a new outfit for a special occasion, to pick up a gift for a friend, or to just kill time. Instead, they were killed.  Police are still looking for the man who...

Send us Fan Mail You’d have to be insane to kill your mother, but can you become un-insane? According to Florida State Hospital you can.  Several psychologists say Brandon Aydelott, who at 17 stabbed, slashed, beat and stomped his mother, Sharon Hill Aydelott, to death on Christmas Eve 2013 because she put him in rehab two weeks before he killed her, say he no longer meets the criteria for commitm...

Send us Fan Mail Kendrick Johnson was known for being a talented athlete, so how did the strong, healthy 17-year-old basketball player end up dying upside down, head-first in a rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym?  Three autopsies, two exhumations, six tennis shoes, and lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages later there are still more questions than answers.  Kendrick’s parents...

Send us Fan Mail Shot in the face. Sonya Massey called 9-1-1 over a suspected prowler, not imagining the police would take aim at her when she was in her own house.  Illinois deputy Sean Grayson, who had a history of policing at five other police departments in 3 years, as well as allegations of misconduct in the military and other issues, was one of the officer’s who answered Massey’s call.  Inst...

Send us Fan Mail Darrell Brooks plowed through the Waukesha Christmas Parade like he was in the fast lane driving home from work in rush hour traffic. He drove around barriers in his race through the Wisconsin town, rarely hitting the brakes and only honking at the performers and parade goers who lined the street for the small town’s annual, holiday celebration.  Brooks didn’t seem to care he mowe...

Send us Fan Mail Sandra Birchmore had nothing but respect and admiration for the police. So much so, that at 13-years-old she joined a police explorer’s program in her hometown in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She had lost members of her own family, including her mother, and the close-knit department helped fill a void in her life.  However, several officers in the program did more than just take the...

Send us Fan Mail Avery Pickle was a young man who looked out for others. The 17-year-old Elberta High School student was a valued member of the football team, as well as a competitive wrestler, and super likable. He was kind and the kind of guy everybody wanted to be around, thanks to his quick wit, and charm, and easy-going personality.  He made friends easily and with everyone from his fellow st...

Send us Fan Mail Aubreigh Wyatt loved making tik toks, four-wheeling, and her family. The 13-year-old Ocean Springs, Mississippi middle schooler was a lot like any all American-girl her age, she liked to laugh, have fun, and still get good grades and make it to Sunday school.  Sadly, like a lot of other children her age, finding the right friend group was also hard. Aubreigh’s mother, Heather Wyat...

Send us Fan Mail After being an absent father, Christopher Gregor waltzed into his 6-year-old son’s life expecting everyone to fall in line. He ran little Corey Micciollo and the boy’s mother like a drill sergeant. Corey was the result of an unfortunate tryst between his parents, and he never knew his father until his mom applied for financial assistance and a paternity test was required.  Relucta...

Send us Fan Mail 8 is enough - lawyers that is! A judge finally put his foot down and has had it with Sarah Boone, the Orlando area woman who is accused of killing her boyfriend by zipping him up in a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek.  Boone was charged with second degree murder for the homicide of Jorge Torres Jr. whose suffocation death in a suitcase she said was his own fault. Bo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ben Brown or someone claiming to be him had a lot to say on the doctor’s Facebook page. Restore Plastic Surgery, this week. The Gulf Breeze plastic surgeon is charged with negligent homicide in the death of his wife Hillary, who died after her heart stopped during procedures he was performing on her in his office. He has denied any wrongdoing.  While out on bond, this bizarre,...

Send us Fan Mail Have you been catfished? Lawd, I’m not even sure what that means, but when I think of a catfish, I see a big, ugly, opportunistic bottom dweller with spiky whiskers. It’s not much different with people who use “catfishing” to lure and deceive someone.  It’s ugly enough when a stranger puts on a false persona, but what if it’s your own mother?!  That’s what happened to a 15-year-ol...

Send us Fan Mail Florida plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown, has been arrested for the untimely death of his young wife, Hillary Brown. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office charged Brown with Second Degree Felony Homicide: Manslaughter by Culpable Negligence.   Investigators say he not only failed to immediately call for help when 33-year-old Hillary went into cardiac arrest in his office surgi...

Send us Fan Mail Alabama politician Stephen Nodine seemed to have it all and then some. The Mobile County Commissioner was well-known for his charm and charisma which served him well in his successful political career, but became a stumbling block in his personal life. The middle-aged married man and father met the young and beautiful Angel Downs in 2004, at the Flora-Bama Lounge Mullet Toss, a be...

Send us Fan Mail The bomb that killed millionaire real estate developer Gary Triano caused an explosion so big, it sent pieces of his car crashing around the country club where it happened. In the mid-1990s, Triano was a well-known businessman who rubbed elbows with the likes of Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples. He lost big on some failed business investments, but who hated him enough t...

Send us Fan Mail Conrad Roy was no quitter. If anything, the 18-year-old marine salvage captain with an endearing smile put a lot of pressure on himself to work hard and succeed.  Maybe a little too much pressure. Sometimes his depression took a dark turn and he wanted to follow through on ending his pain, permanently.  Most of the time he didn’t give in, until attention-seeking Michelle Carter en...

Send us Fan Mail Frances Hall’s husband and business partner of more than 30 years was cheating, and he didn’t bother to hide it. Adding insult to injury, the trucking tycoon’s girlfriend flaunted their affair in France’s face. The scorned wife couldn’t put the brakes on her fury when she saw her husband’s mistress driving the Hall’s Range Rover and chased her down the highway, repeatedly ramming...

Send us Fan Mail A relaxing day on the river turned into a deadly moment of terror and horror for a group of young people and a middle-aged man they had surrounded.  Video of the deadly encounter shows 54-year-old Nicolae Miu looking for a friend’s lost cell phone when a group of intoxicated teens and young adults began taunting and teasing him over unfounded suspicions he was preying on children....

Send us Fan Mail Urban legends are nothing new, but tweenagers attempting to murder a friend at a sleepover in order to appease an ominous one certainly is.  In 2014, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in sacrifice to the fictional character Slender Man.  The girls’ shared madness nearly cost Payton her l...

Send us Fan Mail The Florida Department of Health has issued an emergency order immediately restricting the medical license of Dr. Ben Brown, the Gulf Breeze plastic surgeon whose wife, Hillary Brown, died after he performed several procedures on her after hours in his office last November. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo said Brown’s “inability or unwillingness” to follow basic medical...

Send us Fan Mail Alex King, one of two brothers who made headlines worldwide in 2001 when they confessed to beating their unsuspecting father to death with a baseball bat in Pensacola, Florida, when they were just 12 and 13 years old, has died.  Now 35, Alex died of a drug overdose according to family. It's a demon he has been battling for years and his family says he lost the fight against a...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Smith was only 13 years old when he murdered a child. Smith, a red-headed, freckle-faced boy with thick glasses, was something of a loner and said he was often targeted by bullies. When he saw four-year-old Derrick Robie walking alone to a summer day camp at the park, in 1993, he became the bully. Smith lured the happy, blonde headed boy neighbors nicknamed “the mayor” into t...