The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

A Pair Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bank Robberies Carried Out By McArthur Wheeler Using The Magic Of Invisibility Happy 200th episode to us Dreamers!  This story has nothing to do with California, but everything to do with crimes that make you go hmmmmm....  But we must ask ourselves one burning, eye stinging question...what do you do when life hands you lemons?!   SOURCES: https://qz.com/986221/w...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 6] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 5] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 4] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 3] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 2] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

The Years-Long Crime Spree Of Former Glendale Fire Chief John Orr Who Set Fires Up And Down The State of California All While Working As An Arson Investigator [Part 1] From 1984 through 1991, thousands of fires were intentionally set from Southern California to the Central Coast, the Central Valley and countless places in between.  Homes, business, dry brush...nothing was off limits.  The arsonist...

** WARNING:  EXPLICIT LANGUAGE** An Episode Inspired By A 2013 Episode Of Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' That Featured A Restaurant & Bakery Owned By Amy & Samy Bouzaglo In 2001, Amanda Bossingham committed a federal crime by using someone else's social security number when taking out a $15,000.  After years of delays and appeals, she finally served her 14 month s...

The Tragic 1999 Shooting Death Of Halloween Prankster 17 Year Old Brandon Ketsdever This is a remastered re-release of a bonus episode from October of 2018 entitled The Tale of the Castle Doctrine.  I was asked to take the episode down.  It was one that was suggested to me by a listener.  But someone closely related to the story took issue with the episode, so I pulled the version where I thanked...

A Pair Of Double Murders in 2008 And 2013 In Omaha Nebraska And The Former Physician Sitting On Death Row Convicted Of The 4 Killings Anthony Garcia [Part 4] On March 13th, 2008, the citizens of Omaha, Nebraska were shaken as news broke that there had been a double murder in Dundee, one of the city’s normally quiet, affluent neighborhoods.  It was a mysterious crime that, on the surface, made no s...

A Pair Of Double Murders in 2008 And 2013 In Omaha Nebraska And The Former Physician Sitting On Death Row Convicted Of The 4 Killings Anthony Garcia [Part 3] On March 13th, 2008, the citizens of Omaha, Nebraska were shaken as news broke that there had been a double murder in Dundee, one of the city’s normally quiet, affluent neighborhoods.  It was a mysterious crime that, on the surface, made no s...

A Pair Of Double Murders in 2008 And 2013 In Omaha Nebraska And The Former Physician Sitting On Death Row Convicted Of The 4 Killings Anthony Garcia [Part 2] On March 13th, 2008, the citizens of Omaha, Nebraska were shaken as news broke that there had been a double murder in Dundee, one of the city’s normally quiet, affluent neighborhoods.  It was a mysterious crime that, on the surface, made no s...

A Pair Of Double Murders in 2008 And 2013 In Omaha Nebraska And The Former Physician Sitting On Death Row Convicted Of The 4 Killings Anthony Garcia [Part 1] On March 13th, 2008, the citizens of Omaha, Nebraska were shaken as news broke that there had been a double murder in Dundee, one of the city’s normally quiet, affluent neighborhoods.  It was a mysterious crime that, on the surface, made no s...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 6 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 5 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 4 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 2 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 3 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

The 2003 Murder Of Robert Kissel By His Wife Nancy And The 2006 Unsolved Murder Of His Brother Andrew Kissel [Part 1 of 6] The Kissel boys were born and raised in what we used to think of as the quintessential American family...like something you’d watch on some wholesome sitcom.  They were as competitive as they were ambitious and those qualities would take both brothers on their very own, unique...

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All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12 year old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly smile. Hickman was not the girl’s father, he was not a relative, he was not a friend of the family...he was a stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a persuasive story - he told the offic...

All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12 year old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly smile. Hickman was not the girl’s father, he was not a relative, he was not a friend of the family...he was a stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a persuasive story - he told the offic...

All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12 year old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly smile. Hickman was not the girl’s father, he was not a relative, he was not a friend of the family...he was a stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a persuasive story - he told the offic...

All William Edward Hickman needed to pick up 12 year old Marion Parker early from Mount Vernon Junior High School one day in December of 1927 was a pleasant personality and a friendly smile. Hickman was not the girl’s father, he was not a relative, he was not a friend of the family...he was a stranger, but he came armed with a fictitious name, Mr. Cooper, and a persuasive story - he told the offic...

This is the story of a young woman from Southern California  who, despite what many people and newspaper articles have to say about her, was still a person who did have hopes and dreams for a better, stable, fulfilling life.  She was in her final year in high school.  She played softball.  She was a cheerleader.  She was an excellent student who maintained good grades.  She had been accepted to No...