Melanin Mayhem Podcast

Subscribe Now: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Noir Nation… y’all made your choice 👀 And baby, I hope you stand on it. Because this version? This ain’t about loyalty. This ain’t about friendship. This is about survival. Danielle is sitting in that room with everything pointing straight at her… and the only thing standing between her and a life she didn’t sign up for is one decision. One move....

Hey Noir Nation, today it's flashback mayhem with some bonus content to help you get over the hump including an update on the poll results for how the Melanin Mayhem Story Series - The Favor will end. We have one more Wednesday to get through and I will be back with fresh mayhem for everyone. I went antiquing with this one… and not the cute, little knick-knack kind either. I’m talking way back...

You ever did somebody a favor… and wished you never did? Danielle Brooks thought she was doing a friend a small favor. Just hold a bag for a couple days. No questions. No drama. But when that bag leads to a dead man, a police interrogation, and a friendship built on lies, Danielle realizes too late that some favors don’t come cheap. Welcome to the first installment of the Melanin Mayhem Original S...

***Flashback Episode*** She played in everybody's face as the grieving widow when all the while she was playing them like poker chips. This week, we dive into the twisted tale of Josephine Gray — a woman whose lovers had a nasty habit of ending up communing with the Lord. But while the bodies dropped, her bank account grew, getting fat off life insurance payouts. With voodoo, manipulation, and...

A peaceful protest in Dallas. An ex-soldier armed to the teeth. And a night that at the time would become the deadliest attack on law enforcement since 9/11. This week we examine the case of Micah Xavier Johnson — the Army veteran who turned a BLM demonstration into a battlefield. Who was the man that would ultimately carry out a shocking act of violence that left multiple police officers dead and...

In this week’s episode we are diving into one of the most disturbing stories this podcast has ever covered. Joshua Anderson terrorized a North Tulsa neighborhood in the mid-2000s with a relentless, unforgiving pattern of violence—assaults, robberies, shootings, and intimidation that left residents too afraid to speak out and essentially prisoners in their own homes. The violence reached unimaginab...

Subscribe now: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com/This week’s mayhem maker didn’t kill anybody. Didn’t assault anybody either. But what he did? So foul… lawmakers had to step in and make sure it could never happen again. So we’re taking it back with a replay of one of the wildest stories from the vault. We’re heading to the Tri-State Crematory— where things were NOT what they were supposed to be....

Three women. Nine months. One garage on Hayden Avenue. In the summer of 2013, a stretch of road in East Cleveland was engulfed in a smell nobody wanted to name. What started as whispers of missing women turned into trash bags, flies, and a predator hiding in plain sight. But this isn’t just a story about a serial killer. It’s about what happens when warning signs get ignored, when entire neighborh...

In 1920 Kentucky, a brutal crime shocked a quiet ruralcommunity — but the crime itself isn’t what made history. What happened after did. When Will Lockett was accused of the murder of a 10-year-oldgirl, outrage spread fast. A lynch mob formed. Thousands gathered. The entire town braced for blood. But instead of turning him over… the government did something almost unheard of in American history. T...

This week we’re talking about faith, flash, and felonies. Meet Lamor Miller-Whitehead — the designer-dripped preacher who built a brand on prosperity, power circles, and pulpit performance… until the feds came knocking. From mortgage fraud to fake financial documents, political name-dropping, and a church robbery that had the internet in shambles — this is the story of a man who blurred the line b...

For nearly 30 years, women were being found dead on Milwaukee’s north side — and nobody saw the monster standing right in front of them. This week we are dragging a career criminal who was in and out of jail, in and out of police files… and somehow still walking free while women kept turning up dead around his mama’s house. He was violent. He was reckless. He was a known problem. And still — he sl...

In Virginia in the 80s, women were being attacked, little evidence was being left behind, and the wrong man was sitting in a prison cell. This week I bring you the unbelievable story of Timothy Wilson Spencer — a serial killer whose audacious crimes were eerily quiet, yet the impact was like a bomb going off in these bedroom communities of Arlington and Richmond. A story of investigatory missteps,...

Noir Nation… this one is WILD. We’re going back in time for a dusty and disgusting tale of brick-to-the-dome brutality, creepy break-ins, and press coverage so racist you’ll want to fight the newspaper. Robert Nixon was a young cat committing grown-man crimes—and the system wasted no time making sure he didn’t live long enough to become anything else. But here’s the twist: the deeper you dig, the...

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we’re dragging James Edward Swann Jr. , aka the “Shotgun Stalker.” In 1993, DC had a real-life nightmare rolling through two very different neighborhoods in the metro area and baby—this case is equal parts terrifying and infuriating. Random victims. A hunting ground that he never switched up. And a police response that’ll have you yelling at your speaker. Press play an...

It’s been a year of audacity, diabolical behavior, and pure mayhem — and now it’s time to run it back. In this 2025 Year-End Review , your favorite country girl counts down the Top 10 Melanin Mayhem Podcast episodes of the year , based on listener engagement and the sheer what-the-hell-did-I-just-listen-to factor. From serial offenders and scandalous lovers to insurance schemes, courtroom chaos, a...

America’s Forgotten Black Female Serial Killer The FBI says serial killers are usually white men — but Roberta Elder shatters that profile. In this retelling of the inaugural episode of Melanin Mayhem , your favorite country girl brings you the chilling story of a Black woman in Jim Crow–era Georgia who is believed to have poisoned at least 13 people, including husbands, children, relatives, and b...

For the final episode of Love Kills , your favorite country girl is closing the series with a story that begins in love and ends in devastation. What starts as a young family building a life together slowly unravels after a husband returns home from war… changed. As isolation tightens, paranoia grows, and control replaces care, a once-happy home becomes something far more dangerous. When the road...

This isn’t about glorifying a killer—this is about the women he tried to erase and the system that helped him do it. In Quiet Carnage , I'm closing out The Samuel Little Files by confronting the part America avoids: the deadliest violence is often the violence nobody treats like an emergency. We’re talking unchecked movement across state lines, cold cases that lost urgency the moment Sam died,...

This chapter isn’t about Samuel Little. It’s about the women whose voices were stolen long before their lives were taken. In Part 3 of The Samuel Little Files , we shift the focus where it always should’ve been—on the victims the system ignored, dismissed, and failed to protect. Many of these women lived on the margins, and because of that, their disappearances didn’t raise alarms. Their names wer...

It’s New Year’s Eve… and there’s a man laid out dead on the floor. This wasn’t random — it was a setup. And once the body dropped, the heat came down fast looking for somebody to pay. One stupid ass decision cost one brother everything . So lock in, because this is a story about how sibling love can turn lethal. And nah — this ain’t Cain and Abel. This diabolical duo is giving Menendez-style broth...

America’s deadliest secret was exposed in 2012. It all started with a traffic stop in Kentucky which led to a cheek swab in California. This DNA sample would link what looked like an unassuming senior citizen to being a serial killer. They knew they were prosecuting a killer; they had no clue they would be uncovering the most prolific serial killer the US had ever seen. In Part 2 of The Samuel Lit...

You've asked and now it is my pleasure to give yall what you want. Your favorite country girl is bringing you the story of the killing-est killer to ever kill- Samuel Little. In order to do it justice I am bringing you a four-part series on America's most prolific killer past or present. In this episode we go back to the beginning and learn how it this killer came to be. From the red clay...

Happy Black Friday Noir Nation. Enjoy a replay of one of the top Love Kills episodes. I'll be back in 2 weeks with a brand-new episode for your listening pleasure. When religion turns to manipulation and devotion becomes deadly, what’s left is a twisted legacy soaked in blood. In this episode of Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem, I'm diving into the disturbing case of Marcus Wesson—a man who cal...

This week we’re headed to St. Petersburg, Florida for a story that proves once again—that some people should never be given second chances. A teenager with a violent past grows into a full-blown menace the moment he hits the free world, leaving a trail of mayhem that went unnoticed for far too long. From vanished women to cold cases that refused to stay buried, this episode digs into how one man s...

In 1911, a family was slaughtered in their sleep in Lafayette, Louisiana. By 1912, a young woman named Clementine Barnabet had been branded the Voodoo Murderess — accused of killing at least fifteen people and a part of a blood stained cult called the Church of Sacrifice. But separating fact from fiction is tricky. Was Clementine the OG serial killer or was she caught up in the South’s obsession w...