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29 year old Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day 2013. He would claim that he thought there was an intruder locked in his bathroom and he shot through the door 4 times out of fear. Prosecutors in South Africa didn’t find his story believable. There was evidence that […] The post Shots in the Dark: The Murder of Reeva Steenkamp appeared...

Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub at home on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.   In her 2002 trial, the district attorney in asked for the death penalty. She was ultimately found competent to stand trial and convicted of capital […] The post Postpartum Psychosis: The Andrea Yates Case a...

Mother of two Sara Tokars was just learning about her husband’s shady business dealings when she was killed: executed with a gunshot to the head in front of her young children. When the truth came out, everyone who knew the couple was shocked and devastated. Sara’s life was over and her children were left motherless. […] The post The Wife Who Knew Too Much: The Sara Tokars Story...

27 year-old Laura Ackerson was last seen on July 13, 2011, after stopping by the home of her ex-partner Grant Hayes and his wife Amanda Hayes.  She was reported missing two days later when she failed to show up for work. On July 20, Ackerson’s Ford Focus was found abandoned near the 5400 block of Summer Manor […] The post A Bitter End: The Murder of Laura Ackerson appeared first on Tiegrabbe...

On the evening of October 25th, 1994, a 23 year old woman frantically knocked on the door of the McCloud family in the small town of Union, South Carolina. Hysterically, she told a tale of a lone gunman who stole her car and sped off with her two children in the back seat. The people […] The post Forsaken: The Murders of Michael & Alex Smith appeared first on Tiegrabber .

A young mother who was well liked in her small Irish community, Rachel O’Reilly loved life.  She loved her children, her home, her friends, and her husband Joe.  As her marriage began to deteriorate, Rachel was determined to make it work.  Joe not so much.  Joe had fallen in love with another.  Would he go so far as […] The post A Husband’s Rage: The Murder of Rachel O’Reil...

Baby Gabriel Johnson has not been seen since 2009. And the only person who knows what happened to him isn’t talking: His mother. Elizabeth Johnson took Gabriel out of state and away from his father when he was only 7 months old. She has confessed to killing him but has retracted her confessions and told […] The post An Unfit Mother: Where is Baby Gabriel? appeared first on Tiegrabber .

On Thanksgiving day 2012, two teens were shot to death while in the act of burglarizing a home in Little Falls, Minnesota.  Initially believed to be a case of justified homicides, circumstances in this case brought that into question.  Was this cold-blooded murder? Was the homeowner lying in wait?  Join us at the quiet end […] The post Lying in Wait: The Killings of Haile Kifer & Nichol...

The story of murdered toddler Caylee Anthony gained an enormous amount of attention in 2008 when her mother Casey didn’t report her missing for 31 days. When questioned about her daughters whereabouts, Casey told police that Caylee had been kidnapped by a babysitter. As the investigation progressed, everything Casey told her family, friends, and authorities […] The post Getting Away wi...

In 2015, Dynel Lane lured 34 weeks pregnant Michelle Wilkins to her home with a Craigslist ad for baby clothes. She beat Michelle and stabbed her before cutting Michelle’s fetus from her body. This is the latest in a series of reported cases of fetal abduction which have been increasing in frequency since the 1980s. […] The post Torn from the Womb: A Case of Fetal Abduction appeared fi...

The lies told by Mark Hacking to make him feel better about himself and appear successful proved lethal to his wife Lori after they were revealed.  Lori Hacking was 5 weeks pregnant and planning a move across the country when she learned that she had been deceived by the person she loved the most.  Instead […] The post Bed of Lies: The Murder of Lori Hacking appeared first on Tiegrabber .

This may be the only True Crime Brewery case that has a happy ending…so sit back and enjoy…but not until we delve into the horrors 3 innocent girls endured for a decade.  This is a story of unimaginable crimes, but it is also a story of survival. You go girls! The post In Plain Sight: The Ariel Castro Kidnappings appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Does lightening strike twice? Paula Sims expected investigators to believe that it did when she reported her 2 newborn daughters kidnapped at gunpoint…3 years apart. Join us at the quiet end for a discussion of this incredible and disturbing story of a mother who may have killed her babies simply because they were girls. Dick […] The post No Girls Allowed: The Daughters of Paula Sims a...

Join us for a holiday episode where Jill and Dick recap and discuss the iconic Christmas film Love Actually.  The final beer of Christmas is introduced and reviewed! The post The 12 Beers of Christmas Finale: Love Actually appeared first on Tiegrabber .

JonBenet was born in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, the younger of the two children of Patsy and John Ramsey. At the time of her death, JonBenet was 6 years old and a student in kindergarten at High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. JonBenet died in her home on December 25 or 26, 1996. A […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? appeared first on Tiegrabber .

The Covina Christmas Massacre occurred on December 24, 2008, in Covina, a city in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. Nine people were killed, either by gunshot wounds or in an arson fire inside a house, where a Christmas Eve party was being held. The perpetrator, 45-year-old Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who entered the house wearing […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: The Covina Christmas M...

According to testimony, Joseph McEnroe and Michelle Anderson armed themselves and drove their pickup to the home of her parents, Wayne Anderson, 60, and Judy Anderson, 61, on the afternoon of Dec. 24, 2007. Once inside, McEnroe distracted Judy Anderson, who was wrapping Christmas gifts, while Michele shot her father. After Michele’s gun jammed, McEnroe […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas:...

Ilona Flint and Salvatore Belvedere were shot while sitting inside a parked car outside the Macy’s in Mission Valley California in the early hours of Dec. 24, 2013. Flint died at the scene while Salvatore sustained critical injuries and died a few days later. On Jan. 17, Gianni Belvedere, Salvatore’s brother, was discovered dead in […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: Mission Valley...

7 Family Members found dead on Christmas day 2011 appeared to be celebrating the holiday when they were shot dead. Who committed this horrible crime? The answer will chill you to the bone. Great Lakes Christmas Ale is reviewed on this 6th episode in the 12 beers of Christmas. The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: Psychotic Dallas Dad in a Santa Suit appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Dustin Lee Klopp punched his wife Stephanie Kilhefner in the face, causing her to fall to the floor, and then cut her throat with a knife and struck her head with an ax multiple times on Christmas Eve 2014. He put her body in a bag in a shed on their Paradise Township property and […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: Married to an Ax Murderer appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Connie Villa forced her three youngest children to ingest an undisclosed amount of drugs at their apartment before she honed in on her eldest daughter, Aniarael Macias, on Christmas day 2013. When Macias refused to take the drugs, Villa told police she suffocated her daughter to death with her bare hands in their bathroom. After […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: The Christmas Day Murde...

The Ashland tragedy is the name given to the violent murder of three teenagers, Robert and Fannie Gibbons and Emma Carico in Ashland, Kentucky in 1881. Robert and Fannie Gibbons and Emma Carico, staying together at the Gibbons home in Ashland, were beaten to death with axes on the night of December 23, 1881. The […] The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: The Ashland Tragedy appeared first on Ti...

The Italian Hall Disaster was a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913, in Calumet, Michigan. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death in a stampede when someone falsely shouted “fire” at a crowded Christmas party. Lump of Coal beer is served! The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: The Italian Hall Massacre appeared...

In 1929, share-cropper Charles Lawson brutally murdered his wife and 6 of his children after buying them Christmas outfits and having a family photo taken. Rumors of his motive range from financial stress to incest. Join us at the quiet end for a Christmas beer and a Christmas crime. The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: The Lawson Family Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber .

In our first installment in the 12 Beers of Christmas, we discuss trends in domestic violence over the holidays and how to help and support victims of domestic abuse. Dick shares his thoughts on Anchor Christmas Ale!   The post The 12 Beers of Christmas: Domestic Violence During the Holidays appeared first on Tiegrabber .