Hitched 2 Homicide

Thanksgiving weekend 1991, Costa Mesa, California—police respond to a tip and uncover one of the most shocking crime scenes in California history. Inside an apartment, 23-year-old Omaima Aree Nelson has killed her 56-year-old husband, William “Bill” Nelson . What makes this case unforgettable isn’t just the homicide—it’s what she did afterward: dismembering his body, attempting to dispose of it, a...

On the night before Thanksgiving, November 24th, 1971, a man in a dark suit and a sensible tie took seat 18C on Northwest Orient Flight 305—a short hop from Portland to Seattle aboard a Boeing 727. He ordered bourbon and soda, smoked his Raleighs, and handed a folded note to the flight attendant. It wasn’t a phone number. It was a promise. Inside the briefcase, he said, was a bomb. What followed w...

*This episode of Hitched to Homicide discusses the subject of suicide, self-harm, and domestic/intimate partner violence. Viewer and listener discretion is advised. In November 2020, 26-year-old Houston influencer Alexis Sharkey was found nude along a roadside. At first, her death stunned social media—no visible injuries, no clear suspect, and a picture-perfect life on Instagram. But behind the fi...

May 26, 1990, Wellington, Florida. A doorbell rings, and wife and mother opens the front door to find a clown with an orange wig, white face, red nose and gloves, holding flowers and balloons. What she believed was a delivery and gesture of kindness, wasn’t. It was an ambush and a point-blank gunshot to her head. After firing, the clown turned and calmly walked away to a waiting car. But why murde...

In 2008, a mother and her little girl rode an elevator to the 11th floor of a building in Yuanlin, Taiwan—left two red coats and their shoes—and stepped into a stairwell. They were never seen again. This is the cold case of Liu Huijun (劉惠君) and her daughter—often called the “Taiwanese Elisa Lam,” but stranger. We reconstruct the final minutes inside the Yuanlin Finance/Economics Building (員林...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On a cold morning in 1987, Sarah L. Saganitso was found behind Flagstaff Medical Center — her body arranged in a way that made investigators pause. The scene didn't look like any murder they'd worked before. And that discomfort, that hesitation, would become the foundation of one of the most unusual criminal defenses in American legal history. George Abney was cha...

In 1981 Brookfield, Connecticut, an altercation ended with Alan Bono losing his life—and a courtroom battle followed that tried to introduce demonic possession as a legal defense. We trace the full timeline: 11-year-old David Glatzel’s reported afflictions, the involvement of Ed & Lorraine Warren and multiple clergy, Arne Cheyenne Johnson’s alleged transference challenge, and Judge Robert Call...

From arrest to verdict. With Jay Orbin’s torso identified, police detain Marjorie and flip Larry Weisberg with immunity. After ten trial delays, the jury convicts her of first-degree murder; the judge orders life without parole. We unpack the evidence, the courtroom strategy, and what the case leaves behind. sources used for this podcast Support the show JOIN THE  HITCHED 2 HOMICIDE IN-LAWS AND OU...

Former Las Vegas showgirl Marjorie Orbin and Phoenix jeweler Jay Orbin looked like a desert power couple—until Jay vanished in September of 2004. In this episode, we trace their story from meeting and marriage to the birth of their son Noah , the mounting marital strain and alleged affairs, and the day Robert Ame found a Rubbermaid tub in the Arizona desert containing a torso. We stop at the disco...

On the night of March 1, 1932, someone climbed a ladder into Charles Lindbergh's New Jersey nursery and took his 20-month-old son — setting off the most sensational criminal case in American history. In this episode, we walk the full timeline from the ransom notes to the tragic discovery in the woods, then dig into the evidence that convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann: the money trail, the handwriti...

On the night of March 1, 1932, someone climbed a ladder into Charles Lindbergh's New Jersey nursery and took his 20-month-old son — setting off the most sensational criminal case in American history. In this episode, we walk the full timeline from the ransom notes to the tragic discovery in the woods, then dig into the evidence that convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann: the money trail, the handwriti...

Between 1972 and 1985, Marybeth Tinning buried nine children in Schenectady, New York. Doctors called the deaths SIDS. Neighbors called it tragedy. But investigators eventually called it what it was — murder. In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide, we trace the full, devastating timeline of the Tinning family: how nine children died one by one, how Marybeth shifted between confessions and denials,...

On January 17, 2001, Alex Algeri walked out of a fitness club in Amityville, New York — and never made it to his car. He was shot multiple times in the parking lot, leaving behind a community in shock and investigators with almost nothing to work with. Al had no enemies. No debts. No criminal history. By every account, he was exactly who he appeared to be: a good man in the wrong place at the wron...

Step into the turbulent 1930s and discover the legend of Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd—an infamous bank robber, folk hero, and symbol of defiance during America’s Great Depression. From his humble beginnings in rural Georgia to high-speed getaways across the Midwest, Floyd’s story blurs the line between villain and hero. Was he a dangerous outlaw or a misunderstood man fighting against a syste...

Before online dating was common, before “catfishing” had a name—there was John Edward Robinson. A father. A conman. And the first known serial killer to use the internet to lure, torture, and murder his victims. In this episode, we break down the chilling timeline, the fake job offers, the BDSM chat rooms, and the terrifying true story of how one man turned the web into a trap… and bodies into sec...

On a warm summer night in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, Katie Janness and her beloved dog, Bowie, were savagely murdered just steps from their home. Four years later, the case remains unsolved. Who carved letters into Katie’s body? Why weren’t the park’s cameras working? And how does a killer vanish from one of the busiest corners of the city? In this episode, we walk you through that haunting night, t...

In this disturbing episode of Hitched 2 Homicide , we uncover the bizarre and brutal case of Suzan and Michael Bear—known to the media as The San Francisco Witch Killers . What began as a psychedelic love story quickly unraveled into a delusional crusade against so-called “witches.” From the murder of aspiring actress Keryn Barnes in San Francisco to the shocking roadside stabbing of Jon Charles H...

On December 28, 1964, 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz was found bound and lifeless in her bedroom in Garfield Heights, Ohio. Her ankles were tied. A rope was wrapped around her neck. Her room showed signs of a violent struggle – but there was no forced entry, no murder weapon, and no clear suspect. In this episode, we unravel the chilling details of Beverly’s final hours, the evidence left behind, and...

In 1964, Miami's elite were shaken to their core when millionaire Jacques Mossler was found stabbed and bludgeoned 39 times in his luxury Key Biscayne condo. The prime suspects? His own wife — glamorous Texas socialite Candy Mossler — and her much younger nephew-by-marriage, Mel Powers, with whom she was rumored to be having a forbidden affair. Was it greed? Lust? A deadly conspiracy between two p...

In Part Two of The Scarsdale Diet Murder , we pick up where the gunshots left off. Dr. Herman Tarnower—the cardiologist behind The Scarsdale Diet —was dead, and his longtime lover Jean Harris was in handcuffs. But the real battle had just begun. What followed was a 14-week media-frenzied trial, filled with courtroom theatrics, handwritten, ten page love letters, prescription drugs, and a defense t...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! When Dr. Herman Tarnower—celebrity cardiologist and author of The Scarsdale Diet —was found shot dead in his Scarsdale mansion, suspicion quickly fell on his longtime lover, Jean Harris. She was a respected headmistress. He was a womanizing doctor with a younger mistress. What happened the night Jean drove 300 miles with a revolver in her purse? Was it a suicide a...

On July 18, 2003, four young people were found shot to death inside a home in Clear Lake, Texas —a quiet Houston suburb shaken by a crime that looked, at first, like a mystery with no clear motive and no easy answers. The victims were Tiffany Rowell , Rachael Koloroutis , Marcus Precella , and Adelbert Sanchez . For three years, the Clear Lake murders remained unsolved as investigators chased thou...

In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote Bavarian farm—and more than a century later, the Hinterkaifeck murders remain one of Germany’s most chilling unsolved true crime cases. Days before the killings, farmer Andreas Gruber reportedly discovered mysterious footprints in the snow leading toward the house—but none leading away. Strange noises came from the attic. A newspaper appeared...

The Cigar Girl: The Unsolved Death of Mary Rogers In 1841, Mary Rogers was the most admired woman in Manhattan—a stunning young clerk in a bustling cigar shop who caught the eye of politicians, poets, and even Edgar Allan Poe. But when she vanished one summer Sunday, and her body was found floating in the Hudson near Hoboken days later, her fame turned into infamy. Was it murder? A botched abortio...

In 1986, Marine David Cox helped carry out a Code Red at Guantanamo Bay on a Private who fully recovered from his injuries. When David and nine others were faced with a court-martial and an Other Than Honorable Discharge , he refused a plea deal, stood trial, and walked free; his attorney arguing that he was following orders. That courtroom drama would go on to inspire Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Me...