Housewives of True Crime

This week’s case is brought to us by a Housewives of True Crime listener (Thanks, Drema!), and it's certainly a doozy. Our story begins in Haiti with a young doctor and his flame Betsy. While their romance was classic young love, Jean-Claude moved to New York, where he worked as an ER doctor and married a woman named Eliette in 1980.  “Her and Jean-Claude got on like peas and carrots, right? T...

In this week’s Housewives of True Crime episode, Gretchen and Tabitha are bringing you to the small town of Neptune City, NJ, a place with a population of about 28,000 people. While you may be expecting small town charm and a tight-knit community, it housed the dark and disturbing homicide of young Sarah Stern on Dec. 3, 2016.  In this week’s Housewives of True Crime episode, Gretchen and Tabitha...

We’re back this week with yet another Texas case, and in this episode, Tabitha and Gretchen break down the murder of Jon Garner and the mysterious role his wife Sandra and her son played.  Though Jon was Sandra’s third husband, these two were certainly in love, and they spent 18 years together.  “They got married in Vegas – like me and my ice machine-loving husband.” – Gretchen (12:36)  To celebra...

Gretchen and Tabitha are back with another Texas tale, and this case is certainly living up to the city’s mantra: “Keep Austin Weird.” However, the story begins with a gravel racing competition in the tiny nearby town of Hico.  “Kind of sounds like hymen. Not a good name for a town. I don’t know why my brain is like that…” – Gretchen (7:38) Dartmouth graduate, engineer, and biker Anna Moriah “Mo”...

This week’s case was brought to us by an avid Housewives of True Crime listener (Thanks, Sasha!), and we’re not lying when we say it is a wild ride.  In San Antonio, TX lived two lovebirds, Francis and Bill Hall, who were happy with their two children… Or so Francis thought.  Bill was having an affair with 28-year-old Bonnie Contreras, a woman he had met at a Texas festival. Their affair continued...

In the beachy, California town of Oceanside sits Camp Pendleton, and in 1995, a crime like no other was committed by a former Camp Pendleton Marine.  On the night of Valentine’s Day, former Marine Sergeant Sally McNeil found herself at the center of a murder when her husband, Ray McNeil, was shot and killed. After observing abuse in her family throughout her childhood, history repeated itself in S...

In the “Heart of America,” Kansas City, a single mother named Tracy was just looking for love.  While she hoped to find a nice man to spend her life with, instead she found, unbeknownst to her at the time, a con man with a long history of meeting women and stealing every penny to their name.  Tired of the dating scene and excited by the prospect of love, Tracy was falling for his charm, but Richar...

In the not-so-sleepy town of Elizabeth City, NC in the early hours of the morning on Aug. 2nd, 2018, antique shop owner Milton Sawyer was murdered in his home. While authorities first thought this was a robbery/home invasion gone horribly wrong and that his poor wife, Angel Sawyer, was simply the devastated widow in this tragic tale, we’re breaking down her real role in the Milton Sawyer murder, a...

Back in November of 1996, Gary Triano, a prominent real estate investor from Tuscon, Arizona, was assassinated with a bomb in placed in his car. With his business he had a list of enemies, but was his ex-wife, Pamela Phillips, his biggest enemy? Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www....

On 31 October 2004, Adriane Insogna and her housemates Leslie Ann Mazzara and Lauren Menanza spent the night handing out candies to trick-or-treaters. By 11pm the lights were out and all three went to bed. Around 2am, Lauren was awakened by the sound of breaking glass...  Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensingt...

Kent Heitholt was brutally murdered leaving work in 2001. After 2 years, no leads and little evidence the case was going cold. That is until police convince Charles ‘Charlie’ Erickson that he must have blacked out and killed this man. The story was muffled and the timeline didn’t make sense but at least someone could be blamed. After a coerced confession, arrests were made and 2 people went to pri...

Knowing each other for 13 days was enough for Ashley and Doug Benefield to get married. She was 24; while he was 54. Four years later it ended with one of them dead and the other charged with second-degree murder... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check ou...

Chandler Halderson was 23 year old unemployed young man from Dane County, Wisconsin. He killed and dismembered his parents after they discovered that he was a liar about his life and career... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington Publishing...

One of the most talented college football players at the time who played for Notre Dame was involved in dramatic catfish incident... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com Advertising Inquiries: htt...

It was in June of 2014 when Derek Broaddus and his family moved into their newly purchased home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey. Few days after moving they began receiving disturbing letters delivered to their new home... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbook...

It took more than three years for police to finally discover that the nuclear engineer Mark Winger killed his wife Donnah and a cab driver Roger Harrington... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com...

Pamela Dickens was a corrections officer at Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. She first had an affair with an inmate named Rick Hampton, but then, she hired a hitman to kill her husband, Tim... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington...

Even though Randy Baker from Greely, Colorado, turned his life around from a drug addict to an addiction counselor, his wife, Kelly Baker, sister Carol Baker and nephew Kelly Robert Raisley, organized and committed first degree murder of their family member... https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/ https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/randy-baker-killed-in-plot-by-wife-kelly-bake...

Lizzie Mulder was an accountant to small businesses in Laguna Beach, California. But was she really that good at what she did? Mulder used the money for personal expenses, buying herself a luxury rental home in Laguna Beach, cosmetic surgery, vacations and an Arabian horse. Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensin...

Claud "Tex" McIver was a gun loving business man from Georgia. He and his wife Diane seemed to have it all until one fateful night Tex's gun went off in the backseat of his car killing his wife Diane. Did the gun get fired by accident? Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://ww...

Elize Matsunaga, was a Brazilian surgical nurse and entrepreneur from Chopinzinho, Brazil. Raised in a poor family, raised by her grandmother and aunt, Elize dreamed to live a luxurious life since she was a little kid. She started working as an escort in Sao Paulo when she met her future husband Marcos Matsunaga, famous food brand entrepreneur. He was the CEO of a food company named "Yoki"...

The murder story of the SNL comedy legend and The Simpsons voice actor, Phil Hartman. Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: ht...

In 1998, Karen Sanchez, a single mother of three, married Paul Thompson. Paul was the ideal husband and father-in-law until the day he suddenly disappeared... Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/clink for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com...

In 1990, at age 21, Tracie Andrews gave birth to a baby girl. After just over a year, her relationship with the baby’s father was over. Tracie grew up with parents who had a volatile relationship, which likely contributed to problems in her future relationships. In 1994, she started a relationship with local man, Lee Harvey. Not surprisingly, that relationship wasn't that good as well... Our S...

Cheryl Coker, a mother, disappeared from her home in 2018... The suspicious thing is, that this happened right after her divorce with her husband, Bill Coker. “Although I have faith in the justice system, it is hard knowing there is only one suspect reported and investigators still have not been been able to make a case in the criminal courts,” Cheryl Coker’s sister Margie Keenan told News... Our...