PARTNERS IN TRUE CRIME

ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 4TH 2023, 19 YEAR OLD NOAH PRESGROVE WAS FOUND ON A ROADSIDE IN TERRAL, OKLAHOMA DEAD WITH NO CLOTHES. NOAH HAD ATTENDED A PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE ABOUT A MILE AWAY. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS RULED THE DEATH SUSPICIOUS AND THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS REPORT INDICATES NOAH DIED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA. THERE ARE STILL MANY QUESTIONS TO WHAT HAPPENED AND TODAY WE WILL BE TALKING TO NO...

ON TODAYS PODCAST, WE CONTINUE OUR CONVERSATION WITH AN AMAZING WOMAN AND CRUSADER FOR JUSTICE GLORIA BOBERTZ.  AT LEAST FIVE VICTIMS WENT MISSING OR WERE FOUND KILLED NEAR THE WASHINGTON/IDAHO BORDER BETWEEN 1979 AND 1982. GLORIA, WHO IS THE COUSIN OF ONE OF THE  VICTIMS, KRISTINA NELSON, HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING WHO KILLED KRISTINA FOR FIVE DECADES.  SHE IS ALSO INVESTIGATING THE MURDERS OF BRANDY...

A YEAR BEFORE THE ANGLIN BROTHERS ESCAPED ALCATRAZ, THEY WERE PLANNING THEIR ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON AND THEY WEREN’T DOING IT ALONE. WITH THE HELP AND GUIDANCE OF A FEW OTHER INMATES, LIKE JAMES “WHITEY” BULGER, MICKEY COHEN, AND FRANK MORRIS THEY CREATED A SYSTEMATIC WORKFLOW THAT WOULD BE FOLLOWED LIKE A RELIGION. THE IRONY ABOUT ALCATRAZ ISLAND WAS THAT THE CONDITIONS INSIDE THE PRISON WEREN’T...

AT LEAST FIVE VICTIMS WENT MISSING OR WERE FOUND KILLED NEAR THE WASHINGTON/IDAHO BORDER BETWEEN 1979 AND 1982. KRISTINA NELSON WAS 21 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS LAST SEEN.  BRANDY MILLER WAS 18 WHEN SHE WAS LAST SEEN.  STEVEN PEARSALL WAS 35 WHEN HE WAS LAST SEEN.  THE TWO GIRLS WERE FOUND DEAD 18 MONTHS LATER 35 MILES AWAY.  STEVEN PEARSALL WAS NEVER FOUND. A COUPLE YEARS PRIOR TO THAT, A SCHOOLGIRL...

AS SOON AS JOHN ANGLIN LANDED ON ALCATRAZ ALL HE COULD THINK ABOUT IS HOW WAS GOING TO ESCAPE FROM THERE. BY THE TIME HIS BROTHER CLARENCE MADE IT THERE A FEW MONTHS LATER JOHN HAD ALREADY IDENTIFIED SOME WEAK POINTS IN THE PRISON. HE ALSO ENLISTED SOME OTHER INMATES TO HELP THEM - FRANK MORRIS AND JAME "WHITEY" BULGER. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...

HOW WOULD YOU REACT IF YOU DISCOVERED THAT YOUR FAMILY MEMBER THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN ALL YOUR LIFE WAS A SERIAL KILLER… NOT JUST ANY SERIAL KILLER, BUT ONE OF THE TOOLBOX KILLERS…. ROY NORRIS. DANELLE SODERLING WAS JUST 6-YEARS-OLD WHEN SHE RECOGNIZED THAT HER OLDER FIRST COUSIN ROY NORRIS HAD A DARK SIDE TO HIM. CALL IT RAW INTUITION, CALL IT INSTINCT TO ALERT YOU FROM DANGER, BUT YOUNG DANELLE KNEW...

AFTER THE ANGLIN BROTHERS WERE ARRESTED FOR THE BANK ROBBERY IN ALABAMA, THE AUTHORITIES BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL WERE READY TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THEM. TODAY KEN AND MIKE WILL BE TAKING US THROUGH THE CRAZY LEGAL TRIAL THAT THE ANGLIN BROTHERS WENT THROUGH, WHICH MORE THAN LIKELY WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED TODAY. THE TRIAL WAS A COORDINATED ATTACK ON THE BROTHERS AND BY TODAY'S STANDARDS UNJUST, BUT W...

AFTER LISTENING TO THE PODCAST FROM THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WITH JODI BARTH AND JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN, PAULA WANTED TO COME ON TO TALK ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT SHE'S REMEMBERED. SHE ALSO HAS LEARNED SOME NEW INFORMATION ABOUT COLT THAT COULD PROVIDE A POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR HIS MURDER. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RICHARD COTTINGHAM WAS KNOWN AS THE TORSO KILLER AND THE TIMES SQUARE RIPPER.   HE WAS CONVICTED IN NEW YORK OF SIX MURDERS COMMITTED BETWEEN 1972 AND 1980 AND CONVICTED IN NEW JERSEY OF TWELVE MURDERS COMMITTED BETWEEN 1967 AND 1978.  COTTINGHAM IS BELIEVED TO HAVE COMMITTED AT LEAST 80 MURDERS IN THE UNITED STATES. TODAY WE ARE BACK TALKING WITH PETER VRONSKI A CANADIAN AUTHOR, FILMMAKER, AND FO...

THE STORY OF THE ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ IS A COMBINATION OF MYTH MIXED WITH LEGEND AND CONSPIRACY THEORY.  THESES ARE THE COMPONENTS OF ANY GREAT STORY THAT HAS HAPPENED IN HISTORY WHICH IS WHY I BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE SO FASCINATED WITH IT. TODAY WE DIVE DEEPER INTO THIS STORY LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER DONE BEFORE WITH KEN AND MIKE.  THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH THEY HAVE DONE IS INCREDIBLE, BUT WHAT IS ALSO AMAZ...

THERE ARE SEVERAL PLACES OF INTEREST THAT STILL NEED TO BE THOROUGHLY SEARCHED TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINS OF MOLLY AND COLT. WE BROUGHT IN RENOWN DEATH INVESTIGATOR JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN TO HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW THEIR BODIES COULD HAVE BEEN DISPOSED OF AND WHAT CAN STILL BE DONE TO PROVE THEIR REMAINS CAN STILL EXIST. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

THE WORK THAT LAURA BRAND DOES WITH SERIAL KILLERS IS A SOLITARY OCCUPATION.  MOST OF THE TIME IT’S JUST LAURA SITTING IN THE CAGE ALONE WITH THE WORLD’S WORST HUMAN BEINGS.  LET’S BE HONEST, THERE’S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THIS TYPE OF WORK, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS AND LAURA DOES RUN INTO THEM OCCASIONALLY. PETER VRONSKI IS A CANADIAN AUTHOR, FILMMAKER, AND FORENSIC HISTORIAN.  HE HO...

ALL THE ANGLIN BROTHERS WANTED WAS A BETTER LIFE THAN THEY HAD GROWING UP. THIS LED THEM TO DOING WHAT THEY DID BEST... STEALING THINGS AND SELLING THEM. WHEN THEIR CHILDHOOD, FRED BRIZZI, CAME BACK FROM NEW MEXICO HE MADE THEM AN OFFER THEY COULDN'T REFUSE. THAT'S WHEN THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO NOTORIOUS MOBSTER MICKEY COHEN AND THE REST IS HISTORY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...

THIS PAST WEEK BOTH MOLLY AND COLT HAD THEIR BIRTHDAYS. MOLLY WOULD HAVE BEEN 28 YEARS OLD AND COLT WOULD HAVE BEEN 33. WHO KNOWS WHAT THEIR LIVES COULD HAVE BEEN HAD THEY NOT BEEN MURDERED AND TOSS AWAY LIKE TRASH. AS WE KEEP THEIR MEMORIES ALIVE WE CONTINUE TO GO OVER AND OVER THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, WHICH THERE IS A LOT OF, TO SEE WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO TO MOVE THIS CASE FURTHER ALONG. TODAY...

THIS WILL BE PARTNERS IN TRUE CRIME'S 100TH EPISODE!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. TODAY CRIMINOLOGIST LAURA BRAND AND US WILL BE TALKING WITH RENOWNED DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF CRIME VICTIMS UNITED NINA SALERNO. NINA, LIKE LAURA, IS THE VICTIM OF A HOMICIDE IN HER LIFE. WHEN NINA WAS 13-YEARS-OLD, HER SISTER WAS BRUTALLY EXECUTED BY HER EX-BOYFRIEND DURING HER FIRST...

CLARENCE AND JOHN ANGLIN CAME FROM A POOR FAMILY OF 14 CHILDREN. THEY LIVED IN A HOUSE WITH NO ELECTRICITY AND BATHED ON THE FROM PORCH IN A TUB. IT WAS THAT EXPERIENCE OF EXTREME POVERTY THAT DROVE THEM TO WANT MORE OUT OF LIFE AND THE ONLY WAY THEY KNEW HOW TO GET IT WAS TO STEAL. THEY BECAME PETTY THIEVES AS YOUNG TEENAGERS AND THAT OFTEN LED THEM INTO REFORM SCHOOLS. THAT'S WHERE THEY FIRST LE...

THE ONLY WAY WE ARE GOING TO GET ANSWERS IN THIS CASE IS TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE EARLY TIPS AND POLICE REPORTS HAD STORIES THAT WERE CONSISTENT AND NAMES THAT HAVE SHOWN UP MULTIPLE TIMES LIKE JASON DILLARD.  TODAY WE ARE GOING TO DIVE INTO SOME OF THOSE POLICE REPORTS FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF THE INVESTIGATION BY THE WILSON POLICE DEPARTMENT. THESE POLICE REPORTS WERE ACTU...

LAURA HAS BEEN INTERVIEWING WILLIAM SUFF (LAKE ELSINORE KILLER & RIVERSIDE PROSTITUTE KILLER) FOR 10 YEARS TO GET INFORMATION ON HIS MISSING VICTIMS. ABOUT A MONTH AGO A WOMAN REACHED OUT TO US AND TOLD US THAT HER SISTER HAD BEEN MARRIED TO WILLIAM SUFF'S BROTHER DONNIE AND THAT THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE STORY. HER NAME IS HEATHER AND SHE IS SPEAKING WITH US TODAY. Learn more about your ad choic...

KEN WIDNER'S UNCLES ARE JOHN AND CLARANCE ANGLIN.  ACCORDING TO KEN, HIS UNCLES ALONG WITH FRANK MORRIS SUCCESSFULLY ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ PRISON IN 1962. EVEN THOUGH THE FBI AND US MARSHALS THEORY REVOLVES AROUND THE IDEA THAT THEY NEVER SURVIVED THE ESCAPE, THEIR BODIES WERE NEVER FOUND AND IT IS STILL AN UNRESOLVED CASE. KEN IS CONVINCED AND HAS SOME PROOF THAT NOT ONLY DID THEY ESCAPE ALCATRAZ,...

TODAY WE ARE CHECKING IN WITH PAULA FIELDER AGAIN TO SEE WHAT SHE THINKS ABOUT SOME OF THE NEWS THAT’S BEEN HAPPENING REGARDING MOLLY AND COLT’S DISAPPEARANCE SO LETS HEAR WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TODAY LAURA IS GOING TO SHARE WITH US SOME OTHER INTERVIEWS SHE RECORDED WITH SOME OF PEOPLE THAT HUNG OUT AT THE SCOTT HOTEL WITH BITTAKER AND NORRIS. VALERIA MIERO AND ELIZABETH TORRES WERE IN THEIR EARLY TEENAGE YEARS WHEN THEY STARTED HANGING OUT AT THE SCOTT HOTEL WITH BITTAKER AND NORRIS.  LIKE MOST OF THE TEENAGERS THAT SPENT TIME THERE, THEY WERE JUST LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HANGOUT TO ESCA...

RIGHT AFTER WE HAD JESSE ON THE PODCAST, WE SENT HIS INTERVIEWS TO A COLLEAGUE OF OURS WHO HAS BEEN ON THE PODCAST BEFORE TO GET HER EVALUATION TO SEE IF JESSE WAS BEING DECEPTIVE. LISA RIBACOFF IS A COURT CERTIFIED PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR AND ADVANCED TRAINED POLYGRAPH EXPERT. ON THIS EPISODE SHE WILL REVEAL HER FINDINGS ON JESSE'S 2 PART INTERVIEW WITH US AND GIVES US HER THOUGHTS ON WHETHER JESSE...

TODAY WE ARE GOING BACK INTO CRIMINOLOGIST LAURA BRAND'S ARCHIVES TO HEAR MORE OF THE RECORDED INTERVIEWS THAT SHE DID EARLY ON WITH THE TOOLBOX KILLER LAURENCE BITTAKER. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/4cMzALJ #AD https://amzn.to/3vNILuE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AS ALWAYS WITH THIS CASE FROM THE BEGINNING, THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT WE STILL RECEIVE REGARDING TO WHAT HAPPENED TO MOLLY AND COLT.  WE ARE STILL GETTING TIPS AND PEOPLE ARE REACHING OUT WHO WANT TO SHARE WHAT THEY KNOW AND THAT IS GREAT.  KEEP THE INFORMATION AND TIPS COMING. A FEW WEEKS AGO, PARAMOUNT PLUS DID A HALF HOUR PROGRAM ON THE MOLLY AND COLT CASE CALLED “NEVER SEEN AGAIN”.  ...

Criminologist Laura Brand started her research on serial killers by interviewing Toolbox Killer Laurence Bittaker for 4 long years. In that time she accumulated hundreds of hours of recordings with him as she peeled away the layers of his mind to find out why and what made him kill. Today we will be analyzing some never before heard recordings of their conversations and discuss with Laura what her...