The Silver Linings Handbook

Raul Montero, also known as CatchLisk, joins us again for our second episode on the Long Island Serial Killer and invisible victims. and efforts to help give a voice to marginalized victims and their loved ones. We explore how the investigation fell apart, the cost to the community and attention was re-focused on the case, leading to the July 2023 arrest of Rex Heuermann Contact me at silverlining...

On November 11, 2024, Richard Allen was convicted on all counts in the murders of 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams, two best friends who decided to take a walk in the woods in Delphi, Indiana. Kevin Greenlee and Áine Cain, the host of The Murder Sheet podcast, join me to discuss the resolution of the trial and our role as journalists to bear witness. To donate to a cause cher...

The 2023 arrest of Rex Heuermann for the Long Island Serial Killer murders brought many answers. But would the murders have been solved faster if the victims were not marginalized? Raul Montero, a victims' advocate who has expanded his efforts beyond this case to attempt to help solve missing and unidentified persons cases across the United States, joins to discuss the case and marginalized victim...

The trial of Richard Allen in Delphi, Ind., for the murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German is headed to the jury. In this bonus episode, we are joined by Kevin Greenlee and Áine Cain of The Murder Sheet podcast join us for this bonus to explore the trial itself, the town of Delphi, the grace that has been shown by family members of the victims and what true crime consume...

Kendra Closter is the director for government relations at the Alaska Federation of Natives and the former co-director for Law and Policy at the Alaska Native Women's Resource Center, an organization dedicated to strengthening local, state, and tribal government responses to the needs of Native women and children in their communities and their homes. In this episode, we talk about Native communiti...

In this Silver Linings Handbook bonus that was originally released on Patreon, Kevin Greenlee and Áine Cain of The Murder Sheet podcast join to discuss the human costs of the way we consume and the way people cover true crime. The lessons that are shared by Kevin and Áine, who are covering the trial of now of Richard Allen, the man accused of the 2017 killings of 13-year-old Abby William...

What do love and grief have in common? They are both eternal. Chris Soucy joins us to discuss the connection between grief, love and ghosts. We explore literature, movies, European, Black and Native cultures and paranormal experiences to examine the common threads between these things in society and culture. We discuss hope we can find in being touched by those who are gone. Chris is the co-host o...

In 2021, The Prosecutors Podcast did a five-part series on Dyatlov Pass. Brett Talley, the co-host of that podcast, joins to revisit the series, talk updates and discuss our theories on what happened to the nine hikers who disappeared in the Ural Mountains. Was it an avalanche? A Soviet military experiment? Aliens? To listen to The Prosecutors Podcast series on Dyatlov Pass, The Dyatlov Pass Incid...

We return to mysteries with celebrated author Brett Talley, the co-host of The Prosecutors Podcast, where we explore the connection between modern-day true crime and the human fascination with mysteries. Among other things, we explore the human need to search, solve puzzles, make sense of the world and what happens when those enigmas are solved. This is the second episode of a two-part series. Thi...

Brett Talley, is the co-host of The Prosecutors Podcast and an author of several bestselling novels and anthologies, including He Who Walks in the Shadows, That Which Shall Not Be, and The Fiddle is the Devil's Instrument. We're going to talk about the world of mysteries, from classic literary whodunits to modern-day true crime. Brett shares his journey from being a fan of classic mysteries to bec...

A ransacker stalked a small city in California, breaking into 120 homes in 20 months. Two hundred and twenty miles away, three years later, a man committed 50 home-invasion rapes. Three years after that and 300 miles to the south, a series of at least 11 murders occurred. Former FBI Profiler Julia Cowley, the host of The Consult podcast and lead profiler on the case, joins us to discuss the man wh...

Allison Dickson, who has been writing novels and short stories for more than 15 years, joins Jayson to explore our fascination with psychological thrillers. Jayson and Allison discuss how many psychological thrillers are exaggerated versions of realities that allow us to address our challenges and fears in life in a more palatable form. We touch on Gone Girl , Girl with the Train , the Room , the...

Julie Murray, the sister of Maura Murray, and I discuss our shared experience with LaDonna Humphrey, a past guest and the subject of an investigation by Javier Levia's PRETEND podcast. LaDonna is suspected of altering emails with the Murray family that permanently altered the public perception of Julie's family and the case around Maura's 2004 disappearance. Julia discusses her fear of coming forw...

Gabby Petito's parents, Nicole and Jim Schmidt, join us to talk about Gabby, a 22-year-old woman who was murdered by her fiancé while they were traveling together on a "vanlife" journey across the United States. Jim and Nichole also discuss their efforts to tackle the challenges of domestic violence and missing persons cases through their foundation. Check out the Silver Linings Handbook website a...

Time to get ready for the Spooky Month. Join us in October (late September for Patreon members) and listen to the trailer about our star-studded set of guests: We will be joined by the author Allison Dickson on psychological thrillers; Brett Talley, the author and co-host of The Prosecutors Podcast, on mysteries; former FBI Profiler and host of The Consult Julia Cowley on a real-life nightmare and...

Belonging plays such a key role in attracting and retaining talent. Creating environments where people are free to bring their entire self to work and feel welcome is a crucial leadership attribute. It is the key to successfully achieving inclusive environment when there are a diverse range of people in that environment. There is a ton of psychological research going back to Maslow...

We are joined by Jim Reed, a photographer and documentarian who was been chasing storms for almost four decades. Jim discusses chasing hurricanes, tornados and other anomalous weather across the world, the realities versus the depictions of storm chasing, the psychological and emotional cost of the work and why, for him, it's all about chasing beauty. Check out the Silver Linings Handbook website...

We wrap our episodes on the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders with former FBI Profiler Julia Cowley, the host of The Consult podcast. In this episode, Julia gives a consult like FBI's behavioral analysis unit would for investigators and Allison Dickson of the Vintage Villains podcast and I share our theories. Special thanks to Jessica Olive Cash of Just the Facts True Crime Research for research on the...

In this second episode with Kristen Mittelman, co-founder of Othram, a forensic DNA and genetic genealogy company that has revolutionized the resolution of cold cases, Kirsten takes questions from listeners. Kristen discusses the most difficult cases Othram has solved, Othram's selection process, how Othram has built a data set that allows them to conduct genetic genealogy within underrepresented...

We continue with the case of the murders of Lori Farmer, Michele Guse and Denise Milner, three preteen girls killed at their Girl Scout camp in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. We pick up at the arrest of Gene Leroy Hart, a 33-year-old Cherokee man, explore the community reaction and take you through the trial and the verdict. Check out the Silver Linings Handbook website at: https://silverliningshandbook....

Kristen Mittelman, co-founder of Othram, a forensic DNA and genetic genealogy company that has revolutionized the resolution of cold cases, joins Jayson for a one-on-one conversation. They discuss how she and her husband, David, went from working on the Human Genome Project to attempting to identify victims, perpetrators and the unidentified who died. Othram's technology has made what was once imp...

In this gripping true crime bonus episode, we dive deep into the tragic story of the Girl Scout murders at Camp Scott in Oklahoma. Allison Dixon joins us to take us through the chilling events of June 1977, where three young girls were brutally murdered, leading to the largest manhunt in Oklahoma history. The episode explores the racial tensions, forensic challenges, and the controversial trial of...

We are joined by Tom Slattery, a former site member of the US Army's Delta Force, and his wife, Jen, where we discuss the bloodshed, the wounds, the moments of guilt, depression and trauma that they have dedicated their lives to help other members of the Special Forces and their loved ones heal from, and how they think this approach would help anyone. Tom is one of the Delta Force commandos who pa...

Julie Murray, a victim's advocate, the current host of the Media Pressure podcast, and the sister of Maureen Murray, a 21-year-old woman who went missing in 2004 in New Hampshire, is the host of a new podcast called Media Pressure , where she not only tells the story of her sister, Maura's disappearance from the perspective of her family, she has also become an advocate for victims and their famil...

Jayson is joined by Brett Talley and Alice LaCour, co-hosts of The Prosecutors Podcast and The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs for part 2 on the dark side and bright side of true crime. They dive into the challenges and responsibilities of covering true crime cases, especially those involving missing and murdered Indigenous women. They discuss the impact of media coverage on public perception and the cr...