Hitched 2 Homicide

Joey Banis was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Jeffrey Mundt was acquitted of murder and released after one year. Same crime. Same house. Same body buried in the same basement. Two men who pointed at each other across three years of legal proceedings — and two juries that reached completely opposite conclusions. In Part 2 of Buried Under Fourth Street, Kris and Rob go inside t...

In December 2009, a Louisville hairdresser and beloved drag queen named Jamie Carroll walked into a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville — and never walked out. For seven months, he lay buried beneath the basement floor while the two men who killed him went on with their lives above his grave. Nobody reported him missing. Nobody came looking. Until a 911 call, a domestic dispute, and four words spo...

She was 26 years old, self-employed, literate, and by every account exceptional. Bridget Cleary was a dressmaker in rural County Tipperary who made her own money, kept her own chickens, and lived life largely on her own terms — which, in 1895 Ireland, made her unusual. It may also have made her a target. When Bridget fell ill in late February 1895, her husband Michael didn't call a doctor. He call...

* This is Part 2 of our series on the murder of Eric Richins. Start with Episode 1 if you haven't already. March 4th, 2022. Eric Richins, a 39-year-old husband and father, is found dead in his Kamas, Utah home. Toxicology reveals illicit fentanyl at five times the lethal concentration. He had no history of drug use. As the official investigation stalled, Kouri Richins — Eric's wife — quietly began...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In March 2022, Eric Richins was found dead in his Kamas, Utah bedroom. He was 39. He had four children. And he had enough fentanyl in his system to kill four people. His wife, Kouri Richins, told investigators she found him unresponsive. But prosecutors told a different story — one involving forged documents, fraudulent mortgages, multiple life insurance policies,...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of serial murder, sexual sadism, fetishistic violence, the abduction and killing of young women, and disturbing descriptions of post-mortem criminal behavior. Some details may be graphic and are not suitable for all listeners. Please take care of yourself and listen at your own discretion. He seemed like a...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! She wasn’t a real doctor—but she convinced patients fasting would heal them, then starved them to death. From Minneapolis (1901) to Washington’s “Starvation Heights” and her 1911 arrest, we break down the victims, the fraud, and the shocking medical abuse behind Linda Hazzard. sources used for this podcast: https://www.hitched2homicide.com/post/dr-linda-hazzard-th...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! *This episode deals with the subject of domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know need help, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE  (800-799-7233). A Texas mother of four, Suzanne Simpson, disappears after an alleged domestic dispute—and prosecutors later charge her husband, Brad Simpson, with murder in a c...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In of July 2007, 33-year-old Joey Lynn Offutt disappeared from Sykesville, Pennsylvania. Days later, her home caught fire—investigators believe the blaze was intentionally set. In the aftermath, Joey’s infant son was found deceased in a bathtub inside the burned home. Joey was not there, and she has never been found. In this episode, we lay out the known timeline,...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In April 2006, Kari Baker —a 31-year-old teacher and mother of two—was found dead inside her home in Hewitt, Texas , just outside Waco . The scene was initially treated as a suicide . But almost immediately, questions surfaced: the timeline, the circumstances, and whether what looked like self-harm was actually a staged scene meant to conceal a homicide. In this e...

A “church lady” in small-town Georgia. A trusted daycare operator. A grieving wife and mother. And five funerals . In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide , we dig into the chilling case of Janie Lou Gibbs —the Georgia serial killer who poisoned her own family with arsenic , including her husband, three sons, and an infant grandson, all while collecting money and playing the role of the devoted care...

On June 25, 1906, New York City’s Gilded Age glitter cracked wide open on the Madison Square Garden rooftop theater —when millionaire heir Harry K. Thaw shot famed architect Stanford White during a performance of Mam’zelle Champagne . At the center of the scandal was Evelyn Nesbit , a teenage model and chorus girl whose fame, trauma, and private life were turned into public spectacle. In this epis...

In this UK true crime episode, we tell the devastating story of Sameena Imam , a 34-year-old Costco marketing manager whose “secret” relationship with Roger Cooper ended in calculated violence. Investigators and prosecutors said Cooper wanted the affair kept hidden—and when the truth threatened to surface, he and his brother David Cooper carried out a plan that led to Sameena’s death. We follow th...

On a cold December night in 1969, a woman vanished from her comfortable Wimbledon home without a trace. Within hours, the phone rang: a man calling himself “M3” claimed she’d been taken by the mafia, demanded £1 million, and insisted she would die if the police were called. What he didn’t realize was that he’d kidnapped the wrong woman. This episode unravels the kidnapping and presumed murder of 5...

On December 26, 1907, a teenage boatman walking along the Passaic River spotted two pale feet jutting from the black water of a swamp outside Harrison, New Jersey. Dragged from the muck, the woman had no clothes, no identification, and only a torn red coat and a homemade fur muff nearby to hint at who she’d been. Within days, the tabloids were calling it the Lampblack Swamp mystery—and when the vi...

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...