Hearth, Home and Homicide

A perfect family image is hard to convey when one of the family members suffers from severe mental illness.  What can a son do to help his little sister in such a situation -- is murder in the realm of possibility?  And if so, what price is the killer willing to pay?

A son murders his mother...or did he?  Justice was served thanks to the father and the killer's brother...or was it.  A confounding family murder is a conundrum to consider, and a fascinating story.  

A healer, a community builder, a loving wife and mother is murdered by a trusted family member.  The motive and the aftermatch is shocking as well as lasting.  

Brace yourself.  This killer wants to murder his wife of thirty years and be with his lover.  He grooms a vulnerable  member of his synagogue to get it donw.  

 A loving couple care for a disabled grandson after his mother dies.  Their remaining son sees them as a cash cow, even after they bail him out of jail and buy him a house and give him spending money....BTW the son is in his forties.  Unbelievable greed that just keeps on growing, until his parents are dead.  

A narcisistic conman exploits the loving nature of a delightful, accomplished, brave woman and tries to kill her to steal even more from her than he has already stolen...Will he be willing to kill their children if he gets what he wants?  

A family business in Ohio is catapulted into mega-millions by one of the sons.  Every family member has an equal share in the profits.  If not money, what then is the motive for a family member to kill the goose that lays the golden egg for everyone?

Bonnie Harkey, the heart of soul of San Saba world-renowned pecan growers, is beloved by her town and everyone who knew her.  Then, the aged matriarch of the Harkey family is murdered along with her caregiver.  Is it possible that the motive was about more than the family fortune?  Today's story is filled with amazing people, and a killer who didn't want to do his own killing, ruini...

A much-loved woman, mother, wife, community member develops a gambling addiction.  In order to feed her addiction, she turns to murdering family...then strangers.

A loving husband and father one day decides his wife has to go.  But not through  -- so he hires a hit man.  The hit man decides to take the money and run without fulfilling the hit.  So this loving husband and father hires another hit man.   Or does he....

Helen Bailey -- a beloved writer of books for teens and tweens, is highly successful and happily married for twenty-two years until her husband is suddenly drowned while they are on holiday.  She blogs about her pain from that blog called "Planet Grief" comes a new life, and a new love.  How is this man?  We can only know by observing what he does to Helen.  

A prominent psychiatrist brainwashes her mentally vulnerable cousin to murder her baby daddy with a sledgehammer.  She almost got away with it.  This is the story of how much damage one highly trained professional can do when she decides to use all of her knowledge to play a deadly mind control game.  

A teenager instigates the annihilation of her family in order to be with her boyfriend and continue having sex.  The father survives and his amazing story is at the center of today's episode.  He is a religious man who follows his faith in pursuing dictating his actions, words and deeds.  We all can have whatever faith we chose - - or none at all.  Some of us are half-hearted a...

A daughter leading a double life murders her mother rather than face the truth of what she has done.  She has failed at college and when her parents find out, she picks murder as her problem solver.  Did her shame turn her from an accomplished young adult to a convicted killer?  

Today we have a very special guest, Collier Landry, who tells his story of his mother, Noreen.  She gave Collier the self-development and wisdom to provide the key witness testimony in her own murder.  The killer?  Collier's father.  This murder shattered a family and sent Collier on a life quest to help others who feel bereft, lost, alone, betrayed, not heard and traumatized....

A single mother by choice is raising a daughter with constant fear of losing her.  The child grows up indulged.  When this daughter asks her mother for something she wants, she gets it.  When her mother finally puts her foot down, she is murdered because of it.    Will this daughter/killer pay the price?

Chris Watts is infamous for killing his wife and two little girls and his unborn son and disposing them in an unspeakable way.  Why, and what was going on in this family before the monster that was the real Chris Watts came out of the shadows? We give our listeners a key to unlocking the too-good-to-be-true identity of that new person in your life. 

The most harrowing tale is one that convinces you once and for all that some people are born sadistic, manipulative, narcissistic and murderous.  Some of these born-hideous killers use family to get their sadistic kicks and get money and property via gaslighting.  Our victims in today's episode just wanted what we all want -- love and family.  

How does warm blood turn to cold ice in a human?  And when it happens, does it transform the human into a killer?  Perhaps such a human never had the warmth of humanity in the first place.   This cold killer builds a family and murderously brings it down, as well as many innocent others.

This is the story of a truly loving family.   But there was one son who didn't deserve his family.  He stole from them everything they had, including their future.  

A woman murders two husbands and shifts the blame to her favorite daughter.  What happens when a linguist becomes involved?

She was a different kind of woman who successfully navigated a rise to international business achievement with an unlimited future.  She loved her children and her husband.  When everything is shattered, who in the family can possibly ever rise above a hideous and unforeseen betrayal? 

What happens when your son is found guilty and sent to prison for the murder of his sister.  Would you visit him?  This is a story about a loving family who lost both their children -- one to murder and one in prison.  They chose to pretend like everything is still cottage cozy.  They pretend their imprisoned child is still living at home with Mom and Dad in a little cottage on...

What if your family was annihilated and you were the only one who lived, save for the annihilator himself, who happens to be your son.  Would you forgive him?  Would you love him still and would you devote yourself to him no matter what?  In our first episode 2024, Bridget and Caroline introduce to you to such a man.

A wealthy, legendary Houston horsewoman longs for true love and dies a mysterious death, leaving her mother and father stricken with grief.  This grief gives rise to lawsuits and another murder in the same family.  While hope springs eternal as well as true love, this family may not survive.