Most Wanted

Kendra and Ricky were about to start their perfect life together; until Brenda took matters into her own hands with some hired help. Sources: Rolling Stone: "FBI Adds 10th Woman to 'Most Wanted' List: Meet Them All" by Sonia Weiser TV Guide Time: "Brenda Delgado" The US Sun: "Jealous Lover's Fury: Who was Kendra Hatcher and what happened to her?" by Kevin Quinitchett Dateline Season 29, Episode 12...

Shane Franklin Miller was a marijuana farmer with a mean streak who took the lives of his entire family to prevent them from leaving him.  Content warnings for this episode: abuse, murder, and suicide. Take care of yourself, friends. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or thehotline.org National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 988 or 988lifeline.org Am I Abused? https://dvsbf.org/dvsbf...

Andrew Cunanan's killing spree never really made sense to the investigators who were attempting to track him down, which is part of the reason the Cunanan manhunt turned into the "largest failed manhunt in US history." As Amanda and Lauren discuss, in their third and final episode in the series on Andrew Cunanan, investigators may not have been using all of their available resources to find Cunana...

The big questions are... are Andrew Cunanan's victims connected? How did they know Cunanan and get involved in his life? In the second of the three-part series on Andrew Cunanan, Amanda and Lauren cover the story from the aftermath of Cunanan's first murder through his third murder, including some wild rumors, some cringeworthy policework, and a fair amount of speculation. Sources: Mirror: “What h...

Prior to his infamy, Andrew Cunanan just wanted to spend money and not work. Was that too much to ask? Well... in short, yes, but there's a lot more to the story with this guy. In the first episode of a three-part series, Amanda and Lauren cover the Andrew Cunanan story from his beginnings through his first murder. Sources: Mirror: “What happened to Gianni Versace’s long-term boyfriend? Antonio D’...

Did you know that there was a southern gang that acted as the muscle for the Ku Klux Klan in the Jim Crow South? Enter... the Dixie Mafia, including members Jerry Ray James and Donald Eugene Sparks. Sources (some are old-timey and don’t have bylines): Hobbs Daily News-Sun (Hobbs, New Mexico): “Two Former Hobbsans on FBI’s List” The Daily Standard (Sikeston, Missouri): “Jerry Ray James, Gang Leader...

When confronted about the overdue rent that he owed, Thayne Alan Smika took being a bad roommate to a whole new level. Sources: 9News Denver: “39 years later, FBI searching for Boulder murder suspect” by Matt Jablow Investigation Discovery: “Thayne Smika Has Been on the Run Since 1983 When He May Have Murdered His Roommate” by Michelle Sigona CNN: “‘The Hunt’: Thayne Smika” by CNN Staff Denver Pos...

Ernest Tait was a robber at his very core... even if he wasn't very good at getting away with it. He's one of the few criminal dudes in history who made the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list twice in his lifetime! More horrifyingly, though, he was a really really bad friend. Sources (most are old-timey and don’t have bylines): Nashville Banner: “Ernest Tait Joins Rank of ‘Ten Most Wanted” by James...

David James Roberts was just an everyday career criminal/dirtbag until a brand new TV show solidified his place in history as the first person featured on America's Most Wanted. He went on to also be the show's first capture! Sources: New York Post: “How This Staten Island man became America’s Most Wanted’s first capture” by Dean Balsamini United Press International: “Feds seek shelter director be...

We're doing something a little different this week and we're giving you an ad free bonus episode! There are two new people on the FBI Most Wanted List!

Amanda and Lauren travel back in time to the Old West to discuss some famous - or infamous - horse thieves. Old fashioned crime is afoot! Sources: Legends of America: “Dutch Henry Borne - Biggest Horse Thief in the American West” by Kathy Weiser True West: “The Notorious Dutch Henry” by Marshall Trimble True West: “Flora Quick, aka Tom King” by Marshall Trimble Texas State Historical Association:...

Amanda and Lauren are joined by a special guest this week - their dad, Keith! The three of them go through the story of Yaser Abdel Said, a real control freak who did so many gross things that the content warnings include basically... everything. He made the FBI's Most Wanted list, America's Most Wanted, the Interpol Most Wanted list, and was one of John Walsh's Dirty Dozen. This one is a doozy. T...

This episode (also) has everything! Prison escape! Actual aliases! Love on a boat! More underground things! Drug running! Narcissism! There's so much going on here! In this second (longer) episode of our two-parter, we hear the origin stories of Ruth Eisemann-Schier and Gary Steven Krist, how they managed to pull off the wild kidnapping of Barbara Mackle, and what their lives were like afterward....

During finals week in December 1968, an affluent college student with the flu was kidnapped and buried alive. In the first episode of a two-parter, this is the story of the kidnapping of Barbara Mackle. Sources: 83 Hours Till Dawn by Gene Miller and Barbara Mackle Corrections 1: “Notorious Georgia kidnapper out of prison again” by Arielle Kass United Press International: “Mackle kidnapper says he...

This episode has everything! Murder! Prison break! Air piracy! Misplaced male confidence! Nearly naked federal agents! What started out as a night of "harmless" armed robberies ended in a murder. That night kicked off George Edward Wright's life of crime, which culminated in some light... terrorism? Sources: FBI Website: Wanted poster for George Edward Wright NPR: “Fugitive George Wright Captured...

Lauren wanted white collar crime, so we've got a white collar crime episode this week! Samuel Isreal III didn't want to rely on his family's wealth. No! He wanted to make it all on his own. So when it turned out he was really bad at hedge funding, he just pretended he was good at it. Sources: Business Insider: “The Crazy Story of Samuel Israel, the Ponzi Schemer who Faked His Own Suicide and Spark...

Frederick Grant Dunn was a notorious criminal in his day... or maybe he was notoriously bad at crime. You decide! Sources:  Kansas City Star: “A Hundred Dollar Bill Tripped the ‘Most Wanted Man’” by Joe Henderson Deseret News: “Felon Spends 40 Years in Prison” by Ted Himstreet Des Moines Register: “Eldora boys’ school violence continues, but monitor says mental health care is improving” by Tony Le...

In this special 10th episode, Amanda and Lauren talk about the ten fugitives currently on the FBI's Most Wanted list (only seven of which are still fugitives!), what their crimes were, and in some cases, where they might be found. What's this? A preview of some future episodes?! You betcha! Have you seen one of these fugitives? Do you have information to share? Please visit tips.fbi.gov , or call...

After a horrifying stint in prison as a young adult, Kazuko Fukuda wasn't going back, no matter what the cost. So the women with seven faces went on the run, and her own face was her best disguise. Sources: Medium: “She Killed Then Changed Her Face to Escape Police for 15 Years” by S. A. Ozbourne Crime Reads: “Kazuko Fukuda: The Woman of Seven Faces” by Tori Telfer Tokyo Reporter: “Heisei Flashbac...

"Mean" Marie Dean Arrington always taught her children to do as she said, not as she did. And what she did was a fair amount of petty crime... along with some not so petty crime. After her son received an unreasonable sentence for his own petty crime, Arrington lived up to her nickname. Sources: Crime Reads: “Marie Dean Arrington: The Woman Who Fled from a Florida Electric Chair” by Tori Tefler Or...

In part two of our two part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe, we find out what happened to each of the members of the poorly executed bank robbery team, including these two radicals on the run.  Sources: *Note: Some of these old articles come from a time before everything had a byline. If I’m not naming a person, it’s because there wasn’t a byline on the article.*·       New York...

It's time for some "counterculture!" What do you get when you cross two liberal arts educated Vietnam War protesters and some actual criminals? R A D I C A L S. This is part 1 of our two-part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe. Happy Women's History Month! Sources: *Note: Some of these old articles come from a time before everything had a byline. If I’m not naming a person, it’s be...

Shauntay Henderson joined the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list on March 31, 2007 and was captured the same day. They say she was a tough broad and a gang member who was terrorizing the streets of Kansas City and taunting the police while on the run. But... was she? Sources: ·       The Pitch: “Shauntay Speaks” by Nadia Pflaum ·       Wait to Panic podcast: “Episode 38 – FBI Most Wanted Women Serie...

Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak really wanted to rob the Wah Mee Nightclub. He'd been talking about it for years. But he couldn't do it alone, so he enlisted his high school friend Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng and acquaintance Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng to help him. Unlike Benjamin, Tony wasn't actually friends with Willie - he just owed Willie some money, and Willie agreed to forgive the debt if Tony came along that ni...

Christopher Jones and Alison Gracey were two Brits hanging out in the Caribbean, owning dive shops and totally following all of the laws set by the Coast Guard about their boats and the maintenance of those boats. Definitely following the laws. No maritime crimes here! Sources:·       The Guardian: “Britons Arrested in Caribbean over Tourist Aimee Rhoads’ Diving Death” by Claire Phipps·       AP N...