Overkillers with Brooke Makenna

Thanks to our sponsors: Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://www.forhers.com/makenna to get personalized, affordable care that gets you. It was April 20th 2012 and the Celis family were going to bed in Tucson, Arizona. When Sergio Celis woke up that Saturday morning about 8am, he went to wake up his daughter Isabel Celis for the day but Isabel was nowhere to be seen. Her mother Becky was alrea...

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Thanks to our sponsors: If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/OVERKILLERS Breaking with Brooke is a series on Overkillers Podcast where we keep you up to date on everything true crime. Updates have occurred in May 2026 in a case of missing 6 year old Noel Rodrigez-Alvarez. Back on March 20th...

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 It was 2am on the 1st of January 2021 when Cherokee Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call in Canton, Georgia. They had received a call from a man stating that someone had broken into the home of his ex-wife and he found her face down on her deck with a pillowcase over her head. She was bound with zip ties and the back door was wide open. When they arrived, Rodney Metzer was on the front porch,...

Thanks to our sponsors: If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/OVERKILLERS What if the monster everyone feared was your father? What if like Lucy Studey, no one believed you? Lucy began telling anyone she could that her father Donald Dean Studey was a serial killer. He would force his young c...

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If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/pod/OVERKILLERS A terrifying kidnapping of a tourist, found by members of the criminal underworld, possibly using an instagram location tag led to body parts washing up on the beach. Bali was once said to be a safe place to travel, however, the increase...

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On July 24th, Morgan Violi was right outside of the apartment building with her sister and the friends they had made where they lived. They were all playing when Morgan would vanish. Witnesses stated that a white man grabbed Morgan and put her into a Maroon Chevrolet van and drove away. One witness remembered the van was burgundy with a KY license plate containing the letters MN and said that the...

Thanks to our sponsors: If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/OVERKILLERS 3 victims, all in the Syracuse, New York area, were kidnapped and released within 6 years. However, they didn’t appear to fit the same victim profile. The 14 year old Michelle was a Latina, whereas 53 year old La was V...

In 2011, 3 students were found dead within months from the North Port High School in Sarasota Co, Florida. On March 15th 2011, 16 year old Marcus Freeman passed away. That day, he was driving his girlfriend home when he got into a car crash and died from his injuries. A devastating loss but not the last the community would face. A month later, on April 8th 2011, 16 year old Wesley McKinley passed...

Back in 2001, Michelle Hundley Smith was a 38 year old married mother of 3  living in Eden, NC.  She had a 19 year old daughter, a 14 year old daughter and a 7 year old son. ON December 9th 2001, she left her home to go Christmas shopping for the kids. She was allegedly headed to a nearby Wal-Mart. She left around 8:30pm and headed to the shopping area in Martinsville, VA which was about 17 miles...

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On December 26th 2021 police were called to a Texaco gas station in Garland Texas. Garland PD arrived at 730 W Walnut St that evening to find 4 victims. They all appeared to be teenagers. CCTV footage of the incident was located in the gas station. The victims deceased inside were found to be 14 year old Xavier Gonzales, 6 year old Ivan Noyola and 17 year old Rafael Garcia.  Now, upon full examina...

Back in 2023, 6 people were renting a home together in Berkeley, MO. This was nearby St. Louis and the international airport. 29 year old Naaman Williams, 23 year old Mikayla Thompson, 26 year old mother Gerielle German and her 3-year-old son Ashton Mitchell as well as 25 year old mother Ma’Kayla Wickerson and her 3-year daughter Malaiyah. A mother of one of the victims pointed detectives in the d...

This is a deep dive into the massive compilation of information regarding a murder discovered within a house fire and teenage sons gone missing. Two separate trials, 3 suspects but outcomes you would never expect. Present in this case is manipulation, false statements, sick behavior, past trauma, past convictions and many different versions of the same story. The murder of Terry King and the convi...

Back in 2021, Derontae Martin was a 19 year old living in Madison County, MO. On the evening of Saturday April 24th 2021, he had gone to a birthday party at a rural home belonging to James "Jimmy" Wade. Jimmy pointed the officer to the stairs and they went to the second floor. As they entered the bedroom, Jimmy pointed to a door that led to an unfinished area. He had to step on the rafters for foo...

On March 15th 2021, a call for help escaped a prison-like room created to hold the victim inside for the last two decades. A man then called the police stating that he was concerned for the welfare of an individual and gave the address. This was a home in Twekesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Police responded to the call that evening and inside the residence, found a frightened and gaunt victim wh...

Are family murders on the rise? What is causing this? In this episode, we're discussing two eerily similar survivor stories. On December 17th 2024, in West Valley City, Utah 5 bodies were found shot inside of a home. A mother, father and 3 children were deceased but the eldest son, Sha Reh, was breathing. He would survive, blinded by the murder-suicide committed by his own father. Then on December...

What REALLY Happened to Dee Warner? On April 25th 2021 Dee Ann Warner was believed to go missing. Her daughter Rikkell would state that during her last conversation with her mother the night prior, Dee had declared that she was leaving Dale, for good. Now, Rikkell made sure to add that it was common for Dee to leave Dale only for a couple of days to cool down after a fight. However, she never stop...