I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast

This week Erin tells us about Charles Whitman, the former U.S. Marine who carried out the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, killing 14 people and wounding 31 others before police shot him dead. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-Tower-shooting-of-1966/The-shooting https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/07/08/Mass-murderers-letter-reveale...

This week Stacey tells us about Joan Robinson Hill, a glamorous Houston socialite whose sudden 1969 death sparked a scandal filled mystery that led to accusations, a murder indictment, and years of revenge-fueled fallout. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Robinson_Hill https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/26/archives/long-island-opinion-witness-connects-oilman-to-murder-of-his.html https://en...

This week Erin tells us about how Cary Kerr was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Pamela Horton in a Fort Worth suburb, after a Texas jury found him guilty in 2003. Sources:   http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/kerr1247.htm http://www.skepticaljuror.com/2011/05/impending-wrongful-execution-of-cary.html https://murderpedia.org/male. K/k1/kerr-cary.htm Support the show

This week Stacey tells us about Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and Trump ally who has held UN diplomatic roles and served in Trump-era public partnership circles, and who moved in the same worlds as Jeffrey Epstein’s modeling network, including a failed bid to acquire Elite Model Management with Epstein and later ties to Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar Project, as well as allegations from hi...

This week Erin tells us about Kristil Krug, a 43-year-old married mother of three from Broomfield, Colorado, who was harassed by stalking messages beginning on October 2, 2023, and was killed at her suburban Colorado home on December 14, 2023; her husband, Daniel Krug, was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sources: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/colorado-womans-stalker-turns-o...

This week Stacey tells us about the tragic 2019 case of Samantha Josephson, the University of South Carolina student who mistakenly got into the wrong car in Columbia, South Carolina after a night out, leading to a case that shocked the country. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samantha_Josephson https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article252885083.html https://time.com/55617...

This week Erin tells us about Barbara Elaine Dalton, an American woman convicted in Georgia for kidnapping and the fatal shooting of Donna Sanders, for which she received a life sentence. Promo Featuring: Mortal Musings Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1836958680070981 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mortalmusingspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mortalmusingspod Website: h...

This week Stacey tells us about Warriena Wright, a 26-year-old New Zealand tourist who fell 14 floors to her death after a violent Tinder date, Gable Tostee, in Australia. Sources: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-20/the-story-of-gable-tostee-and-warriena-wrights-tragic-date/7941720 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gable-tostee-balcony-murder-trial-secret-recording-reveals-audio-of-warriena-wright...

This week Erin tells us about the Mulhall Sisters, Charlotte and Linda, who on March 20, 2005, murdered their mother Kathleen's boyfriend Farah Swaleh Noor after he groped Linda, then dismembered and dumped his body in Dublin's Royal Canal. Sources: https://murderpedia.org/female. M/m/mulhall-sisters.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_Sisters_(convicted_killers) Support the show

This week Stacey tells us about the Franklin Scandal, a 1980s controversy in Omaha, Nebraska, involving allegations of a child prostitution ring tied to the failed Franklin Credit Union, where Paul Bonacci claimed to be a victim of abuse by Larry King Jr. and linked it to wider trafficking networks. Sources: https://news.isst-d.org/an-interview-with-nick-bryant-part-i-the-franklin-scandal/ https:/...

This week Erin tells us about Ricky Rodriguez, son of Children of God cult leader David Berg, who murdered his former nanny Angela Smith in revenge for childhood abuse before dying by suicide in 2005. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Zerby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rodriguez https://murderpedia.org/male. R/r/rodriguez-ricky.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg https:/...

This week Stacey tells us about the eerie disappearances and deaths of eight scientists since 2024: Frank Maiwald, Anthony Chavez, Monica Reza, Melissa Casias, William “Neil” McCasland, Jason Thomas, Carl Grillmair, and Nuno Loureiro, tied to sensitive NASA, JPL, Los Alamos, and defense research that's fueling wild media speculation and conspiracy theories. Sources: https://www.pma.caltech.ed...

This week Erin tells us about Demontra Hatfield, a Benton, Arkansas man who in 2022 murdered his girlfriend Krystle Wilder in front of their 3-year-old daughter before killing a second victim, Larry Foster, during a subsequent car crash escape and receiving a life sentence plus 170 years in 2025. Sources: https://littlerock.gov/frontage-road-homicide/ https://www.kark.com/crime/family-and-friends-...

This week Stacey tells us about Matthew Mellon, the Mellon banking heir and early cryptocurrency investor known for his substantial stake in Ripple, whose life ended mysteriously on April 9, 2022, in a Cancun hotel room while traveling from his home in Florida to an experimental rehab treatment. Sources: https://vilk.medium.com/mellons-missing-millions-he-blew-his-family-s-fortune-on-fast-living-t...

This week Erin tells us about Jason James Mahn, who on April 1, 1993, in Pensacola murdered his father’s girlfriend, Debra Shanko, and her 14-year-old son, Anthony Shanko, in their home before fleeing the state and later being arrested in Oklahoma. Sources: https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ans.pdf https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1254367....

This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Fina...

This week Erin tells us about 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, who vanished from Little Rock in October 2015 days after reporting a sexual assault and was found nearly three years later in a park drainage pipe, her death ruled a homicide that remains unsolved. Sources: https://aymag.com/a-ray-of-light-loved-ones-gain-new-allies-as-ebby-steppach-case-reaches-a-decade/ https://www.kark.com/news/local-news...

This week stacey tells us about Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher and beauty queen who mysteriously vanished from Ocilla on October 22–23, 2005, a disappearance that would haunt her community for years and later be thrust into the spotlight by the true crime podcast Up and Vanished. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Grinstead_murder_case cbsnews.com/pictures/what-happened-to-...

This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison. Sources: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the...

This week Stacey tells us about Jean Luc Brunel, a French model scout and agent linked to Jeffrey Epstein who faced multiple sex-trafficking and sexual-assault allegations and died in a Paris jail in 2022 before his trial concluded. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/epsteins-french-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-prison/2507523 htt...

This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.” Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/ https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide...

This week Stacey tells us about Mark Edward Middleton, an American businessman and lawyer from Little Rock who served as a special assistant and advisor to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later worked in his family’s HVAC business before his death in 2022. Sources: https://fism.tv/death-of-mark-middleton-clinton-advisor-linked-to-epstein-bizarrely-ruled-a-suicide/ https://en.wikipedia.org/...

This week Erin tells us about Lawrence Strempel, a Houston-area teen who in the early 1970s confessed to killing two young brothers, served roughly two years in a juvenile facility, and was then released at age 18. Sources: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1967462/m1/1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/15fonsz/lawrence_strempel_who_was_responsible_for_the/ http...

This week Stacey tells us about Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer turned drug dealer who was sentenced to life for the 2016 kidnapping and murder of four men and who briefly shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: nypost.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storag...

This week Erin tells us about serial killer Robert Garrow, who in 1973 abducted, raped, and murdered multiple victims in upstate New York, leading to a massive Adirondack manhunt and a landmark legal-ethics case over his attorneys keeping the locations of two victims’ bodies secret. Sources: https://murderpedia.org/male. G/g/garrow-robert.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garrow https://en....