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By the age of twenty-six, Vincent Smothers had killed at least a dozen people, most of them drug dealers. As he saw it, he was simply hastening an inevitable conclusion. “When you grow up in the hood, you learn: if you sell drugs, you’re going to end up one of two things—in jail or dead,”  “Those are the results of that life.” As for women who got in the line of fire, he reasoned, they’d benefitte...

"Everything was going pretty good until I ran out of my special meat. So I lured another bitch up to my trailer. I got her in there and started to rip her clothes off and start knocking the hell out of her. She was screaming, but there was no one around to hear her except me. And I just kept on laughing at her." -Joe Metheny OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecrimeguys.com Facebook Twitter/Ins...

"She was there to have fun. That's all it was. She was there as a friend. He was there trying to be a boyfriend," said P.I. David Marshburn. But Kelli just thought of him as a drinking buddy.... "They went to the bar and she basically didn't pay him any attention," said Marshburn. "She was singing, cutting up, flirting with other guys. Just being friendly." Kelli would leave Froggy Bottoms with ni...

Molly Brighten (Mandy's Sister)- "Mandy, she was larger than life. … It's just she accomplished a lot in the short time that she was here."  All that promise came to an abrupt end in 1989, when the college freshman came home from Central Washington University for Thanksgiving. The day after the big holiday meal at her house, Mandy set out on the last jog of her life with her German Shepard, Kyra....

"My original plan was to kill all of us. That way, in the afterlife, we all could be a happy family."-Gary Green  Gary Green was sent to death row 10 years ago for the September 2009 slayings of his wife, Lovetta and drowning of her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their home. Lovetta was stabbed more than 25 times. One other child, Jarret, who was 9, was stabbed in the stomach. He survived along...

Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was an American model and actress. In 1986, she landed the role of Patricia "Patti" Russell in the CBS comedy My Sister Sam. Schaeffer also appeared in several films, including the black comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. At the age of 21, Schaeffer was murdered by an obsessed fan who had been stalking her...Robert John Bardo. Bardo watched Schaeffer i...

Did an Indiana teenager murder four members of his family in an argument over prom?  "No one should have seen what we saw that morning." said Detective Mark Senter. What Senter saw in the home adjacent to the Olive Branch Church was gruesome: Reverend Robert Pelley, his wife Dawn, and Dawn's daughters Janel and Jolene were shot at close range with a shotgun. Parishioners discovered the four bodies...

Colton Harris Moore is an American former fugitive. He was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, multiple cars, and the burglaries of at least 100 private residences in various locations around the Pacific Northwest of the United States and adjacent areas of Canada, all committed while still only a teenager. OhMyGaia.com Mo...

In 2007, Kelsey Smith was 18, and had just graduated from High School. She was set to start college at K State, where she would play clarinet in the marching band..until.... June 2nd, 2007, Kelsey left her house to go to Target, where she planned to buy her boyfriend a gift for their 6 month anniversary...and never returned.   OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecrimeguys.com Facebook Twitter/I...

"No one in her right mind invites a serial killer into her life. Who would want to know that kind of evil? For more than a decade, this is exactly what I did. I never imagined that I would consider someone like Michael Ross, a convicted serial rapist and murderer, a close friend. But from 1995 until his death by lethal injection in 2005, that is exactly what I did and what he became to me." -Marth...

New York Times called her "The Worst Woman on Earth"   Much of the country believed, at least for a short time, that she was the notorious murderer known as Jack the Ripper, responsible for the Whitechapel murders in London.   She also has a connection to a case we did in the past: Nellie Bly   Also convenient timing to do this case cause she was Irish, and it was just St. Patti's Day.  ...

Tulsa’s Hex House (as it became known) has a dark and evil history that haunted Tulsa for years. To this day the Hex house is still a fixture in Tulsa, mainly during October, as it's now re-born every year as the area's scariest haunted house...this episode is not about that attraction, but the odd, true events that inspired it! It all started way back during World War II...when one woman decided...

"God Blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake." Marvin Heemeyer said, just before he took his bulldozer-turned-tank on a trail of destruction. But why did he do it? Was he justified? Folk Hero, or temper tantrum? Either way here is the incredibly interesting story of a man taking matters into his own hands, a man tired of being pushed around...   OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Cre...

In 2012 Bob Bashara was 56 years old with two grown children and a seemingly perfect life. He had been married for 26 years to the lovely Jane Bashara who was a loving mother and respected member of the high end Gross Pointe Park community in which they lived. The kids were grown and gone, and the seemingly perfect couple was ready for the second act of their lives...except for they strongly disag...

Chris Watts, don't really think he needs an introduction, nor does he deserve one. This episode is not for the faint of heart. Without a doubt, one of the toughest cases to study for a plethora of reasons. Not one of our funnier episodes, but possibly one of our best.  Watts was a husband and father to two beautiful girls and a son on the way, until all of their lives took a dark turn, and greed,...

The Yuba County Five were young men from Yuba City, California, all with mild mental or psychiatric issues, who attended a college basketball game at California State University, Chico, in 1978. Afterwards, they stopped at a local market for snacks and drinks. Four of them—Bill Sterling, Jack Huett, Ted Weiher, and Jack Madruga, were later found dead; the fifth, Gary Mathias, has never been seen a...

"The day I was born all hell broke loose..Hasn't stopped since.” -Richard Speck   "Not entirely accurate, he just happened to be born the day before Pearl Harbor.” - True Crime Guys   Richard Speck was an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped,and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on the night of July 13 into the early morning hours of July 14,...

Not for new listeners, per say, but a good way to get to know us a little better, and see what our patreon exclusive show, Higher Thoughts is all about!  One of my favorite episodes of Higher Thoughts to date....I talk about Aussie slang, fatherhood, and self improvement. Oh, and I almost forgot...Lorne was here too! ;)   You can hear more at  patreon.com/truecrimeguys             Hosted by Simple...

Dorothea Helen Puente better known as The "Sacramento Sweetie" was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered her boarders and cashed their Social Security checks. Her total count reached nine confirmed murders, and six unconfirmed. OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecrimeguys.com Facebook Twitter/Instagram: @TrueCrime...

Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, burglar, and bank robber. Keyes admitted to violent crimes as early as 1996, with the violent sexual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon. He (probably) committed a long series of rapes and murders until his capture in 2012. He died by suicide while in custody, awaiting trial for the murder of Samantha Koenig. OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Cr...

*This episode originally released on Patreon in April of 2018, but contains recent shout outs and news at the end! A young gunslinger that needs no introduction, but like most legends of the west, theres always more than what meets the eye. Who was Billy The Kid? Were his actions just? Or was he a menace to society? Here's what we found out, you decide.    OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecr...

Bikram Choudhury is an Indian-born-American yoga teacher, and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga consisting of a fixed series of 26 postures practised in a hot environment of 40 °C (104 °F)... He's also, unfortunately... ... the subject of civil suits alleging sexual assault and discrimination against racial and sexual minorities.  Link to clip from HBO Real Sports Trailer used in intr...

In the 1980s, John Demjanjuk was a retired auto worker living a quiet life with his family in a Cleveland suburb. (Seven Hills)  But in 1985, a group of Holocaust survivors identified Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible, a sadistic Nazi death camp guard who tortured men, women, children, and babies before pushing them into the gas chamber at the Nazi German Treblinka camp in occupied Poland. Full inter...

****This episode contains current announcements/news/shoutouts at the end!!!!   This Episode originally released on Patreon on February 4, 2018   What can we say? In this podcasting marathon we looked at the life of the ol' Poetic Strangler" himself, you may know him as B.....T......K!!!!  ...Or Dennis...some folks call him Dennis. 0_0   OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecrimeguys.com Faceboo...

Thirty miles outside of New York City, nestled in the Long Island town of Amityville, stands the house forever linked to the Amityville Horror phenomenon. On November 13, 1974 the estate was the scene of a mass murder. But the reasons why? We're not so sure. It just seems like a LOT of money has been made over some "ghost". Heres some facts, some folklore, and good ole speculation to figure out th...