Melanin Mayhem Podcast

Love, money & murder — things that never mix well in Texas. In 1987, Frances Newton’s quiet Houston home became the scene of unthinkable tragedy: her husband and two children murdered. The police called it diabolical. The press called it cold-blooded. And the state of Texas called for justice. A life for a life. But was Frances really a calculating killer… or a woman caught telling the wrong s...

In 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia was shooketh. Headlines screamed about a serial killer targeting the elderbuns and all the while another monster was hiding in plain sight a melanated baddie with delusions of grandeur. For months, our mayhem maker terrorized the city, murdering women near Fort Benning and sending letters to police pretending to be something he was not. His twisted deception...

Orlando in the 80s was all sunshine, theme parks, and vacation dreams… until it wasn’t. Tourists were flying in for fun in the sun, but someone waiting in the shadows turned paradise into panic. A teenage terrorist with a taste for mayhem was using a popular tourist strip as his personal hunting ground, and his crimes would leave Orlando shooketh. This week, we head to the Sunshine State to unrave...

Behind the doors of a quiet Houston home, David Conley turned a family’s love into a chamber of terror. What started as control and manipulation ended with eight lives stolen in cold blood — eight futures wiped out in one night of pure evil. They say home is where the heart is, but inside this little house, horror reigned supreme. In this week’s Love Kills , your Favorite Country Girl breaks down...

This week I am headed to Springfield, Massachusetts to bring you the story of a disgusting doped up demon that was disconnecting black women like he worked for the power company. Alfred Gaynor was not only chasing a fix — he was chasing victims. Women overlooked and under investigated by police, all raped and killed by a dope smoking killer who thought his crimes would disappear like the crack smo...

This week, Noir Nation, we’re headed to Tampa, Florida, where the Seminole Heights neighborhood was under siege in late 2017. For 51 days, residents were shooketh because of a serial killer whose random, unprovoked attacks left four people dead and an entire community terrified. The man behind the violence? Someone no one ever would have thought could or would be behind it all- a young man named H...

This week on Love Kills x Melanin Mayhem , we ain’t talking about some far-off case in another city—nah, this one hit me right in my backyard. I knew the people. I worked with them. And when the news broke, it shook me to my core. What happens when a dusty, trifling DJ decides he’d rather destroy his wife rather than let go? What happens when the trigger man shows up not only at the crime scene, b...

Noir Nation have you ever seen somebody get caught with their hand in the cookie jar… then burn down the whole damn kitchen? This week’s Melanin Mayhem maker turned a petty hustle into pure carnage and went from “caught slipping” to “counting bodies” in minutes. This week we're going to Connecticut, and I've got a crazy story of how one man made the leap from misdemeanor theft to felony mu...

In the winter of 1857, a Mississippi plantation dinner ended with more than just indigestion — we got a dead body, a master and mistress poisoned, and all fingers pointing to the cook. Was she serving dinner with a side of revenge, or was she the perfect scapegoat in a house already boiling with jealousy, colorism, pettiness and lust? This story has everything: a master who couldn’t keep out of hi...

This week on Love Kills x Melanin Mayhem , it’s ugly, y’all. I can't even dress it up for you. I'm bringing you the story of a love triangle between a broke-down, ain’t-shit 21-year-old predator with a jealous ride-or-die dumb girlfriend, and a pregnant 14-year-old girl caught in the middle. One day in Richmond, all that toxic mess turned into a bloodbath — and got everybody paying the pri...

For years, a staggering number of Black women turned up dead in Bridgeport, CT. They died a horrific death- raped, strangled, stabbed, even burned. The streets whispered about a serial killer on the loose, but nobody knew who he was. Our mayhem maker on the surface was just another working man, blending into the fabric of the neighborhood like he belonged. But in reality, he was hiding evilness in...

This week’s Melanin Mayhem maker turned an ordinary commute into a nightmare. Picture it, a crowded train, rush-hour passengers just trying to get home, and in a matter of minutes— bullets start flying. The aftermath? Chaos and tragedy that stunned New York and the nation. But the mayhem didn’t end there. What followed in the courtroom was a spectacle unlike anything the justice system had ever se...

The Virgos have linked up, and y’all already know that means trouble. In this special collaboration, I’m joined by Tiffany from Melanin Mysteries and Brittany from A Sip of Redrum to bring you the Side Piece Trilogy —three twisted tales of when love triangles explode. We’re talking passion, betrayal, and the deadly fallout of being “the other one.” Because when 1 + 1 = 3, somebody always gets cut...

Chuck E. Cheese is supposed to be all about kids running around on a sugar high, eating nasty pizza, and parents trying to survive the chaos. But in Aurora, Colorado, one night in ’93 turned into anything but fun. See what happened when a job went left, and a disgruntled employee decided not to do the right thing. His anger didn’t just stop at a pink slip. It came back with a gun. And what should’...

Today we are starting out in Colorado to spill the tea on a man whose face and life were forever scarred, both literally and figuratively and forever branded with the nickname “Scarface” after a childhood trauma. Barely skating on murder charges for a shocking crime in Aurora he then embarks on a crime spree in Virginia and New York. Join me as I delve deep into the life and crimes of Joshua Wayne...

Today’s cautionary tale is straight outta Virginia, where one man’s madness ripped through not one, not two, but three families. Cola Beale wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill narcissist—he was a gaslighting, smooth-talking storm who turned deadly on the very people he claimed to love. The boldness of his crimes will leave you shaking your head, because this wasn’t no secret rage—it was audacity on f...

I don’t usually cover gang shenanigans, mostly because I like my edges intact. But today I got some vintage tea on a wild story about one of Chicago's most vicious gang- the Royal Family, where “no witnesses, no mercy” wasn’t a motto; it was protocol. This story has everything- murder, drugs, intimidation and hitmen for hire. But the real gangster shit didn't happen in the streets, it went...

Listen, fam — you can only push somebody so far before they show you better than they can tell you. Emanuel Burl Patterson wasn’t a career criminal, wasn’t out here terrorizing folks… until one morning in Huntsville when an argument over a CD player turned into a mass shooting. This ain’t your typical “snapped” story — this is a cautionary tale about what can happen when you clown the wrong one. N...

This week we are headed to Dayton to tell the story of a man with a rap sheet a mile long who received a second chance to do the right thing but instead he walks right back into the same story he already wrote in blood. This episode tracks Nicole “Nico” Cunigan. We unpack the red flags, the parole piece, and how the system looked away while a mother, her unborn child, and a teenager paid the ultim...

Picture it, Memphis, September 2022. A teen with a long paper trail of criminality since he was knee high to a butterfly hits “go live” and turns a regular Wednesday into a citywide nightmare—random shootings, carjackings, and panic streaming in real time. In this episode, we trace Ezekiel Kelly’s path from early charges and second chances to the hours-long rampage that shut the city down and left...

Kimberly McCarthy had the kind of smile that could disarm you — and a hustle that could leave you dead. Once an occupational therapist, she fell deep into the streets, trading scrubs for a crack pipe and a dangerous game of survival. But when a sweet-talking “visit” to her elderbun neighbors house turned into a savage murder, Texas was ready to make an example out of her. Then all hell broke loose...

When love walks into a prison and never walks back out… Two women. Two “family visits.” Same California prison. Same deadly ending. In less than five months, 47-year-old Tania Thomas and 62-year-old Stephanie Brinson each stepped into Mule Creek State Prison to spend private time with their husbands — one serving life for attempted murder, the other serving four life terms for a quadruple homicide...

When a charming smile hides a bloodstained truth, how many warnings get ignored before the mayhem boils over? This week on Melanin Mayhem , we head to New York to dissect the chilling case of Nathaniel White —a convicted killer who stalked the Hudson Valley in the early '90s, leaving behind a trail of brutalized Black women. Despite a prior conviction and multiple red flags, White managed to s...

Today we are taking the way back machine to 1902 to learn about the story of how one black man with one rifle held off a mob that was determined to get to him by any means necessary. This week we’re digging into the story of a man whose trigger finger made history, even if most folks have never heard his name. Lock in as we unravel the chaos, the carnage, and the calculated aim of one of the South...

Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem brings you the firey tale of a neighborhood vigilante whose warped sense of righteousness led to the death of nine innocent people in Akron, Ohio. In this scorcher of an episode, we’re striking the match on Stanley Ford — the Akron man who turned petty neighbor beef into a deadly firestorm. Stanley appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, anyone he thought wasn&#...