Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast

Part 3: The trial of serial killer Roger Reece Kibbe begins, with trace evidence on trial as well and much riding on the testimony of a shaky key witness. Karma comes around for the Roger Kibbe, as Jill updates the Kibbe case, leading to several other homicide investigations. And as in done in 2ndCast, Jill pulls the threads alluded to in the story, that of the poisoned beauty queen and others mur...

Part 2: The frustrated detectives hunker down to work what little evidence they have from the bodies of the young women slain by the I-5 strangler.   Working closely with the criminalists who provide the forensic science, more bodies are discovered that exhibit the 'non-functional cutting" ritual unique to this serial killer. Once the killer is identified, how do they get enough evidence to arrest...

Part 1: A gut-twisting behind the scenes police investigation story of the missing women, that triggers a realization that a serial killer is at work.  With twists and turns, law enforcement hunts for the elusive killer, who shows no signs of stopping. How many will die, as Lt Ray Biondi, Vito Bertocchini, Pete Rosenquist, Stan Reed, Harry Machen, Bob Bell, and Jim Streeter begin to gather the evi...

Part 3: Another terrible murder sends out shockwaves of horror, rocking a family already mourning.  Victim advocacy, competing autopsies, and new evidence creates more questions. Arrests, trials, and a search for answers and justice are pursued as the Suffolk County Police Department comes under investigation for corruption.  What does this mean for the Long Island serial killer case?  Join Jill a...

Part 2: With the discovery of 4 bodies on Gilgo Beach, the existence of a serial killer is realized, and the fate of the missing women is known. The families respond very differently, most of all, that of Mari Gilbert, whose daughter, Shannan, is not found with the others, Maureen, Melissa, Megan and Amber.  The torturous waiting begins as law enforcement belatedly begins to investigate the murder...

Part 1: From 2007-2010, five young women vanished: Maureen, Melissa, Megan, Amber, and Shannan.  And, except for their families, law enforcement and society did not care what had happened to them. Jill tells the stories of these women, the people they loved, the dreams that drove them, and the hard choices they felt they had to make.  Who were these young women, forever united by their deaths, but...

Part 5: From the pinnacle of judicial success, DOJ prosecutor James L Blackburn successfully prosecuted the Jeff MacDonald case, (See Episodes 21, 22, and 23, plus later Said Update), sending Green Beret doctor to jail for life for murdering his wife and two little girls. Now a celebrity judicial hero, Blackburn was on top of the world.  For years, he succeeded in all aspects his life, until he ut...

UPDATE! Part 4:   For 12 years the family of Patricia Owens waited for the first wave of justice for her daughters, Amina and Sarah Said. It took that long to capture the girls' alleged murderer, their father, Yaser Abdel Said. The story doesn't stop there.  Jill takes you through the investigative twists and turns that shattered a family seeking justice in this Episode 23 update (A Wilderness of...

Part 3: Tara and Jill take the plunge into the terror and pure evil of the family annihilator, those men who slaughter their wives, partners, children, even the pets and often, themselves. Mixing the latest psychology with stories pulled from the news reel, they explore the "WHY" of these cases, focusing Chris Watts, John List, Yasser Said, Mesac Damas and others. Did we mention baseball trivia?  ...

Part 2: Convicted of murdering his wife, Colette, and daughters Kimberly and Kristen, Jeffrey MacDonald began serving his life sentence in 1979.  This is only the beginning, however, as defense attorneys file appeal after appeal, going to bat repeatedly as they doggedly pursue justice.  Hidden evidence, disputed forensics,  missing jewelry, disbarred prosecutors, join Tara and Jill as they wind th...

Part 1: February 16, 1970 Ft. Bragg, NC:  Jerked awake from sleep, Capt. Jeff MacDonald is seized upon by murderous hippies, only to find his wife, Collette and daughters, Kimberly 5, and Kristen 2, viciously murdered.  Or had he? Evidence would convince some that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his family after a terrible argument went horribly wrong.  Convicted, Jill and Tara revisit the evidence, bo...

Part 4: Jill and Tara peer into the bleakest blackest corners of the history of the infamous haunted Cecil Hotel of Los Angeles, CA., telling the stories of the strange beginnings, odd endings, Dahlias, dark forces, and the serial killers who called it home, Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker and Jack Unterweger, the Austrian Ghoul. Who is the Night Stalker, whose rising body count had all of L.A....

Part 3: Happy Birthday Murder Shelf Book Club!  *Bonus Episode* A year ago, Tara and Jill launched the first episode of the Murder Shelf Book Club! Please enjoy this special bonus episode as we celebrate this milestone! Tara and Jill sit down with Jake Anderson, author of Gone at Midnight, the Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam to discuss delving into body language, backlog of processing rape kits in t...

Part 2--The mystery deepens as the conspiracy theories about Elisa Lam's death spring forth full throttle, as Tara and Jill contend with creepy security guards, altered videos, police corruption, business investments turned malignant, medication cartels, dark entities, demonic influences …  Which ones seem the most viable?  And, Jake Anderson, suffering his own serious mental health crisis, mirror...

Part 1: True crime sleuths recall the last images of Elisa Lam alive in the elevator of Los Angeles' haunted Cecil Hotel, triggering this baffling case from 2013 of the Canadian tourist, found dead days later in the water tanks on top of the building. What happened? Murder? Suicide? Accident? Supernatural interference? The investigation created more questions than it answered as did the autopsy. D...

Part 3: Still in Oklahoma in this Killers of the Flower Moon trilogy, Tara and Jill delve into a 'missing and presumed dead' case from May 25, 2018.  Indigenous woman, Kristyn Sue Richerson, 51 years old, from Muskogee, Oklahoma, known as Krash by many, disappeared after attending the Rocklahoma concert with her roommate in Memorial Day weekend.  Or did she? What happened to Kristyn? Who were the...

Part 2: Twenty-four Osage Indians have died under mysterious circumstances, casting a shadow across all daily existence in Oklahoma. Terror is commonplace, the fear is all too real. FBI Agent Tom White enters the scene with his team to root out those behind the conspiracy of death.  Following the trail of bodies, what he uncovers is deviousness and calculating betrayal.  Undercover agents, informa...

  Part 1:  The relationship between white man, his government, and the Osage was not easy, fraught with prejudice, broken promises, and 2nd class status. Then, oil was discovered, 'black gold", and it brought the oil barons.  Oil wealth changed everything for the Osage Nation, money, as well as challenges that disrupted their traditional way of life for the new millionaires. Nevertheless, Mollie B...

Part 3: What is Charlie Cullen's fate? Will justice be done?  Can one spot a potential 'Angle of Death' working at a hospital? What are the red flags that signal something may be "off" at a facility where you or your loved one is recovering? And there are other male nurses who kill, and we will analyze these cases.  Did the law change after Charlie? Are we safer today? What happened to "Agent" Amy...

 Part 2: Suspicions of Nurse Charlie Cullen are rising. But the police have no leads, no evidence and no cooperation. What the police need is an insider, one who understands nursing-- AND Charles Cullen. Enter - Amy Loughren, RN, who throws life into the investigation into possibly many deaths involving many hospitals and one Angel of Death. The Good Nurse book and episodes deal with suicide. We c...

Part 1- The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber, Pt 1 This true crime story is a chilling account that leave us asking how  was this possible? Who is this nurse, Charles Cullen?  How does a nurse become a cold-blooded killer?  We follow this a Angel of Death across the wards of many hospitals, leaving far too many of bodies in his wake, so many, he wouldn't know the actual number! Would anyone   act to...

Part 3: Tara and Jill had two goals in this episode- remembering the women who were lost to their families, their friends, and to us all. Who were these unique, special people?  They are more than the night they were murdered. They are much more than victims who parted their hair in the middle. Secondly, they expose Ted Bundy as the monster he was, dispelling the mythos that surrounds him, especia...

Part 2, Liz Kendall's story of untangling her intertwined existence with Ted Bundy continues…   A jailed Ted continues calling Liz, writing Liz, and escaping? Will he come to Liz?  Or kill Liz and Molly both?  Painful, terrifying, and fraught with uncertainty, Liz shares it all in telling us about the Ted Bundy she knew best. Liz's daughter, Molly, also tells us of the Ted Bundy she knew, the man...

Part !: This is Elizabeth Kendall's story of meeting Ted Bundy, beginning their relationship which would become exceedingly complex, testing Liz's love many times over the years. Ted the boyfriend, Ted the father-figure to her daughter, Molly, Ted as part of their little family is explored.  But Ted is not her Prince Charming, all is not as it seems.  As women go missing, as bodies begin to be dis...

Part 3: Serial Killer Wayne Nance claimed to be a 3rd degree witch, frightening friends who thought he may have killed to reach this pinnacle.  Rumors swirled of satanic cults, not only in Missoula, MT, but across the United States, unleashing the 'Satanic Panic'. Terror, horror stories and arrests follow, with harsh consequences. What were people saying in Missoula after the murders began?  What...