PARTNERS IN TRUE CRIME

When Colt and Molly went missing a lot of people assumed that they were dating, but they only knew each other a short time before the car chase. When Colt disappeared, he was actually dating a woman named Stormie McPeak and she has not spoken publicly until now. At the time of Molly and Colt's disappearance, Stormie was entrenched in the local culture and she knows the players very well and she sp...

THIS WEEK WE ARE DOING THE PODCAST ON LOCATION FROM LEONARD LAKE AND CHARLES NG'S MURDER HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. IN HER INTENSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH CHARLES NG, CHARLES RECENTLY REVEALED A LOCATION OF ONE OF HIS VICTIMS PAUL COSNER. SO WE TRAVELED TO THE MURDER HOUSE AND WILL BE SPENDING THE WEEKEND SCOURING OVER THE HOUSE AND IT'S GROUNDS FOR CLUES AS TO WHERE PAUL'S REMAINS MI...

PAULA FIELDER AND MISTY MILLER HOWELL (MOLLY MILLER'S COUSINS) OFFER MORE INSIGHT AND REACTIONS AFTER HEARING JESSE HAYNES (COLT HAYNES BROTHER) INTERVIEW ON THE PODCAST. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CASE AND OTHER PODCASTS THAT WE DO CHECK OUT OUR BLOG: https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/. #AD https://amzn.to/4aj7So8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THIS WEEK WE ARE GOING TO SHARE TOUCHING YET TRADGIC INTERVIEW THAT LAURA DID LAST YEAR WITH ONE OF BITTAKER AND NORRIS SURVIVORS. TINA FORCONI WAS A TEENAGER LIVING IN BURBANK WHO WAS A PART OF GROUP OF TEENS THAT HUNG OUT NEAR THE SCOTT HOTEL WHERE BITTAKER HAD A ROOM. BITTAKER WOULD ENTICE THE TEENAGERS LOOKING TO PARTY BY BUYING THEM ALCOHOL AND GIVING THEM DRUGS.  WE’VE SPOKEN TO A FEW PEOPLE...

WHEN PAULA FIELDER AND MISTY MILLER HOWELL HEARD THE TWO PART INTERVIEW THAT JESSE HAYNES GAVE US ON THE PODCAST, THEY FELT COMPELLED TO GIVE US THEIR THOUGHTS ON WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. KEEP IN MIND, BOTH PAULA AND MISTY ONLY MET JESSE ONCE DURING THE TEN YEARS SINCE MOLLY AND COLT WENT MISSING AND BARELY KNEW HIM. OVERALL THEY ARE PLEASED THAT SOMEONE FROM COLT'S IMMEDIATE FAMILY SPOKE UP AND THEY A...

THIS WEEK LAURA BRAND HEADS BACK INSIDE THE CAGE WITH CHARLES NG, BUT THIS TIME SHE BRINGS SOME BACK UP. PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR AND BOUNTY HUNTER ROB DICK WHO HAS BEEN MEETING WITH WESLEY SHERMANTINE (ONE OF THE SPEED FREAK KILLERS) FOR 20 YEARS, ASSISTS LAURA INSIDE THE CAGE WITH CHARLES NG TO TRY TO GET INFORMATION FROM HIM ABOUT SOME OF HIS MISSING VICTIMS. #AD https://amzn.to/4azxrRG. https://pa...

COLT HAYNES' BROTHER JESSE HAYNES CONTINUES TO HIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE PODCAST REVEALING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS OR DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT HIS BROTHER'S DISAPPEARANCE AND MORE THAN LIKELY, DEATH. JESSE ALSO GOES INTO FURTHER DETAIL ON HOW JACKIE BATES, A RESERVE OFFICER FOR THE RINGLING POLICE DEPARTMENT, TRIED TO MANIPULATE HIM INTO SAYING THAT HE KILLED HIS BROTHER. https://par...

SAN QUENTIN IS CLOSING DEATH ROW AND MOVING SERIAL KILLERS TO OTHER PRISONS. LAURA BRAND HAS BEEN UP THERE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK TO HAVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE SERIAL KILLERS BEFORE THEY ARE MOVED. SHE IS WORKING ON COLD CASES FOR HOMICIDE DEPARTMENTS TO HELP FIND MISSING VICTIMS. THIS WEEK WE CATCH UP WITH HER AFTER SHE JUST MET WITH NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER CHARLE...

IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE RELEASED AN EPISODE OF THE PODCAST ON WHAT HAPPENED TO MOLLY MILLER AND COLT HAYNES. IN THAT TIME WE HAVE EXPLORED MANY OF THE THEORIES SURROUNDING THIS CASE. RIGHT BEFORE WE TOOK A BREAK ANOTHER THEORY WAS INTRODUCED TO US POINTING THE FINGER AT COLT'S BROTHER, JESSE HAYNES, AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT. WE LOOKED INTO THAT THEORY AS WELL AS SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO ARE STILL I...

TODAY WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LAURA ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT LISTENERS HAVE SENT IN ABOUT LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS. #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THE SADISTIC KILLING SPREE OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS ENDED WITH THE TRAGIC MURDER OF 16-YEAR-OLD LYNETTE LEDFORD ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1979. TODAY WE WILL TALK TO A CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF LYNETTE LEDFORD WHO HAS THE SAME FIRST NAME. LYNETTE SHIRER WAS AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO LOOKED UP TO LYNETTE LEDFORD AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH HER A YEAR BEFORE SHE WAS MURDERED. SHE REVEALS WHAT AN AMAZING...

ROB DICK IS A BOUNTY HUNTER WITH OVER 30 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE. ROB HAS BECOME PASSIONATE ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS AND HE IS DOING WORK THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT LAURA BRAND DOES. ROB HAS AN IMPRESSIVE RESUME WORKING ON HIGH PROFILE CASE SUCH AS THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE AND THE SPEED FREAK KILLERS WESLEY SHERMANTINE AND LOREN HERZOG. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2. https://partnersintruec...

TODAY WE ARE REPORTING LIVE FROM SAN QUENTIN DEATH ROW. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING BECAUSE WE ARE WITNESSING THE DISMANTLING OF THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST DEATH ROW POPULATION. BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2024 DEATH ROW WILL BE NO MORE AND THE INMATES WHO ARE SERVING DEATH ROW SENTENCES WILL BE DISPERSED TO OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. TODAY WE WILL ALSO BE TALKING TO JAMES MARLOW "THE W...

KITTI MCDOWELL VANDAHLEN WAS JUST A TEENAGER WHEN HER DEAR FRIEND JACKIE GILLIAM WAS MURDERED BY LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS IN THE LATE 1970'S. KITTI STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBERS WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY PERSON JACKIE WAS JUST LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. KITTI SHARES HER THOUGHTS ON THE TRAGIC EVENT THAT EFFECTED HER LIFE. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2 https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more a...

IN PART 1 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS REVEALED HIS INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TOOLBOX KILLER LAWRENCE BITTAKER WHILE BEEN LOCKED UP IN THE SAME TIER INSIDE LA COUNTY JAIL.  IT WAS THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT LED TO CARLO TESTIFYING AGAINST BITTAKER IN OPEN COURT TO SECURE HIS DEATH SENTENCE.  IN PART 2 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO, HE REVEALS TO LAURA SOME OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE BITTAKER B...

THIS WEEK WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS WHO WAS THE KEY WITNESS IN THE TRIAL AGAINST BITTAKER AND NORRIS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS THAT HE'S SPEAKING PUBLICLY ABOUT HIS TESTIMONY. CARLO WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER. AFTER HIS CONVICTION HE WAS HOUSED IN LA COUNTY JAIL'S HIGH POWER WING NEXT TO LAWRENCE BITTAKER. BITTAKER, BEFRIENDED THE YOUNG MAN A...

FOR THE PAST DECADE, LAURA HAS BEEN INTERACTING WITH THE SERIAL OFFENDERS ON SAN QUENTINS DEATH ROW AND OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO INTERVIEW THEM, STUDY THEM, BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM SO THEY TRUST HER ENOUGH TO GIVE HER INFORMATION ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS WHO LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO RELEASE AN AUDIO RECORDING OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER IN THE DAYS...

IN 1979, 16-YEAR-OLD CYNDE AND 17-YEAR-OLD JINA WERE BEST FRIENDS LIVING IN BURBANK, CA... THEY DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER. THEY LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM THE SCOTT MOTEL AND EVERYDAY THEY WALKED TO SCHOOL TOGETHER PAST THE MOTEL. WHAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT THE TOOLBOX KILLERS, LAURENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS WERE LIVING AT THE SCOTT MOTEL STALKING YOUNG WOMEN TRYING TO DECIDE WHO WAS GOING TO...

ANDY KAHAN IS THE DIRECTOR OF VICTIM SERVICES AND ADVOCACY AT CRIMESTOPPERS HOUSTON AND HE IS A BOARD MEMBER OF TEXAS EQUUSEARCH A NON-PROFIT THAT ASSISTS IN FINDING VICTIMS REMAINS THAT WERE A RESULT OF VIOLENT CRIMES. ANDY AND LAURA BRAND MET AT CRIMECON AND QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER IN THEIR QUESTS TO BRING SOME CLOSURE TO VICTIMS FAMILIES. CINDY SCHAEFER AND ANDREA HALL...

IN THE 1970’S AND 1980’S LOS ANGELES WAS A HUNTING GROUND FOR SERIAL KILLERS, THE NIGHTSTALKER, THE  HILLSIDE STRANGLER AND THE TOOL BOX KIILLERS. THERE WERE NO CELLPHONES, PEOPLE OFTEN HITCHIKED ALONG THE CALIFORNIA ROADS AND THE AREAS AROUND LOS ANGELES WERE NOT AS POPULATED AS THEY ARE NOW. LAURA’S WORK WITH THE TOOL BOX KILLER HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON GETTING INFORMATION FROM BITTAKER ABOUT OTHER V...

IN THE 10 YEARS OF LAURA BRAND’S RESEARCH SHE HAS DISCOVERED MOUNTAINS OF INFORMATION ON SERIAL KILLERS CASES THAT REVEAL ADDITIONAL VICTIMS, WITNESSES, AND EVIDENCE TO WHERE MISSING REMAINS COULD BE FOUND. THREE YEARS AGO, LAURA STUMBLED ON SOMEONE WHO LAURENCE BITTAKER SHARED DETAILS OF HIS BRUTAL MURDERS TO WHILE INCARCERATED IN LA COUNTY JAIL AFTER HIS ARREST.  IN THE LATE 70’S ANTHONY CONJEJO...

TODAY’S EPISODE WE WILL BE TALKING TO LINDA HOLTZ WHO WAS A FRIEND AND CLASSMATE OF LYNETTE LEDFORD WHO WAS ONE OF LAURENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS’ VICTIMS. ON HALLOWEEN IN 1979 LYNETTE LADFORD WAS DROPPED OFF BY FRIENDS AT A GAS STATION NOT FAR FROM HER HOUSE IN SHADOW HILLS, CALIFORNIA.  SHE WAS THEN PICKED UP BY BITTAKER AND NORRIS.  THE NEXT MORNING, SHE WAS FOUND WITHOUT CLOTHES BRUTALLY MUR...

WHEN LAURA BRAND FIRST EMBARKED ON THE JOURNEY TO GET INSIDE OF THE MINDS OF SERIAL KILLERS TO HELP FIND THE REMAINS OF THEIR VICTIMS, SHE REACHED OUT TO OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD FOR GUIDANCE. ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WAS DR. ALLAN PASS. DR. PASS HAS A WELL DOCUMENTED HISTORY IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH AS WELL BEING AN EXPERT WITNESS FOR BOTH DEFENSE ATTORNEYS AND THE PROSECUTION SINCE 1973. Lea...

KRISTIN MESSINGER WAS A FUN LOVING TEENAGER LIVING IN A BEACH COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHEN SHE DECIDED TO GET INTO A CAR WITH ROY NORRIS (ONE OF THE TOOLBOX KILLERS). WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGED HER FOREVER. LAURA, REVEALS TO KRISTIN WHAT THE KILLERS TOLD HER ABOUT THAT DAY SHE GOT AWAY AND HOW HER LIFE WAS IMPACTED BY THIS INCREDIBLE NEAR DEATH EX...

DOUGLAS CLARK WAS AN AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER AND NECROPHILE. CLARK AND HIS ACCOMPLICE, CAROL BUNDY WERE KNOWN AS THE SUNSET SLAYERS AND WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE ALTHOUGH OFFICIALS AND LAURA BRAND BELIEVES THERE ARE MORE. LAURA HAS HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH CLARK DURING HER STUDY AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED ON OCTOBER 11, 2023 HE RELEASE ALL OF HIS CASE FILES TO LA...