Twisted Travel and True Crime

A young professional cyclist named Moriah "Mo" Wilson is found dead after returning from a night out in Austin, TX.  She was staying there with a friend in order to compete in an upcoming event. Initially police turned to fellow professional cyclist Colin Strickland who Mo had gone out with earlier that night. Police were able to eliminate him  using cameras in the neighborhood and throu...

Tracy Nessl began a romantic relationship with her biological uncle, Tim McNamara, in 2012.  To escape the criticism of their relationship, they fled to Belize to start a new life. On Christmas day of 2014, Tim would be found dead by a gunshot wound to his head.  His death was originally reported as a suicide but was later deemed to be a murder. Tracy claims crooked Belizean cops tried to frame he...

Lana and Chuck, both 35 years old, disappeared under what her family believes are mysterious circumstances.  They were on a boating vacation in Lake Huron when their boat was found off course, tossing about in rough water with the engine in idle, music still playing on the stereo. No one was on the boat.  Nearly 2 weeks later, Lana's body was found 7 miles from where her boat was found. She was na...

An American couple quit their jobs to bike around the world in search of experiences they couldn't find behind their desks. After thousands of miles, through more than two dozen countries, Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan's trip came to horrific end on the side of a road in Tajikistan.  They, along with 4 travel companions were plowed down and stabbed by terrorists in the Pamir Mountain Range.   DO...

Geetha Angara's body was discovered in a water tank at a plant where she worked for over 12 years.  The injuries she sustained. pointed to murder but there was very little evidence.  The facility was well guarded and fenced in. This meant her killer had to be one of 50 coworkers, if there was a killer at all...  This is a fascinating and confounding cold case.  Sponsors: https://javahouse.com Disc...

It was an uncomfortably hot and dry day in February of 2016, when two backpackers, one from Germany and one from Brazil, struck up a friendship and decided to head to Melbourne, Australia from Adelaide.  They asked to share a ride with 59-year-old Roman Heinz. Little did they know, they had accepted a lift from a man who was planning a vile and terrifying attack. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.co...

The boy was tired, dirty and hungry.  He climbed up the side of the house using the window ledge to boost himself up to the roof.  He’d been to this house before.  His muddy bare feet barely left a mark on the metal roof.  His tracks snaked along the roof line then disappeared near the window that, he knew, had been left unlocked. He quietly slipped inside.  The house was currently unoccupied but...

While on vacation with his wife and son in Brazil, boxing legend, Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 37.  His wife, Amanda reportedly woke up to discover her husband had been strangled but she repeatedly stated to police that she didn't do it.  She was taken into custody because part of her purse had been used a the murder weapon and no one else had access to the...

A Belgian honeymoon comes to a terrible end when a freak accident leads to a newlyweds death.  The accident is questionable and the investigation leads police down a winding road of violence, deceit, and deaths.  The Diabolical Lovers is the perfect nickname for this devious duo.  The investigation culminates in an international manhunt for a calculating killer. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com...

On July 22nd, 2019 a Canadian officer was driving around on his normal patrol route when up ahead of him he saw a truck run a red light at an intersection.  The officer quickly flashed his lights and signaled to the trucks driver to pullover.  Inside were two young men who appeared to be in their late teens. They looked nervous and scared. He told them he’d watched them run a red light and that th...

A pretty, blonde haired, young woman walked into a Caltex gas station in Mitchell, Australia. She was a 22 year old British backpacker who was visiting the country on a prolonged holiday.  Video footage shows her walking in, wearing flip flops on her feet, a purple sundress and matching purple  bruises on her face and body.  She walks up to the cashier with tears rolling down her face and tells th...

What if the person you have fallen in love with, whisks you off on a dream vacation.  Once there, on a beautiful balcony overlooking the sea, you and your partner   are feeling romantic and boozy. Then out of the blue your partner tells you that they plan to kill their ex?  Truth is stranger than fiction in this case.  Dr.  Gregory Konrath, a former orthopedic surgeon...

On a foggy afternoon in Craig Alaska,  a large fishing vessel named the Investor was engulfed in flames.  The sleepy little town and visiting fisherman jumped into action and went to work to put out the raging fire.  Once the fire had been put out, what had originally been thought to be a horrible accident was found to Alaska's largest mass murder.  Myself, the wonderful ladies from Coffee and Cas...

When they lovingly said I do, I don’t think they meant murder.  Two seemingly stable, young people fell in love but the chemistry between them was toxic.  It would lead to addiction, theft, violence and a gruesome thrill killing. This is tale of the unholy  matrimony of Benjamin "BJ" and Erika Sifrit and the murder of Josh Ford and Martha "Geney" Crutchley. Sponsors: https://javahouse.com/ Discoun...

Natural disasters are always horrible but what is even worse is when opportunistic predators slither out into the open, looking to take from those who are already suffering. In Armero, Columbia tragedy in the form of a volcanic eruption, demolished the sleeping  town.  In the aftermath of the destruction, volunteers descended hoping to help in whatever way they could.  Families tried to find their...

When 13 year old Melonie Biddersingh, her little brother Dwayne and step brother Cleon went to Canada to live with their father, they had dreams just like many immigrants do.  They hoped for a brighter future, better than the one they had growing up in a Jamaican slum. The reality was something they never expected and something that no one would ever want to live through.  One of them would be wit...

Genevieve Lewis and Steven Cornish were brutally murdered while walking on a beautiful beach on the island of St. Thomas.  The murder by machete was brutal, gory and witnessed by many. Daniel St. Clair's defense was, of course, insanity.  The prosecution disagreed stating that his belief in voodoo steered his choices that fateful day.  It's a classic case of Voodoo Prosecution VS. The Insanity Def...

72 year old Andre Bamberski seemed like an unlikely kidnapper.  He was a mild mannered but tenacious accountant. The victim was a 74 year old physician and step father to Andre's children.  These two men, who in many ways led parallel lives, also had one big difference between them.  One was a serial rapist and murderer, the other a devoted father who wanted justice for his daughter and worked for...

Have you ever known someone who drives you absolutely mad?  The kind of person who makes your middle finger twitch?  It's just itching to raise every time that person comes around?  You only put up with them because you feel like you have to?  That is how many people felt about Phillip Boudreau.  He was a local scallywag, a pest that everyone had to deal with, until that is, he disappeared.  His c...

Amber Peck and John Parker were looking for peace, quiet and to connect with nature and each other when they went camping in Ocala National Forest.  Sullying the beauty of nature was another man,  one with no good intentions.  In fact, he entered the woods with one reason.  The purpose of his trip was to kill someone in the forest but he didn't care who.  How does someone make a decision like that...

Leaving his home and fiance to go to work was harder for Chris Lemons thank for most people.  He was a saturation diver whose job was to make underwater repairs on oil rigs. This North Sea Diver faced death after a catastrophic computer failure caused his boat to drift away and his oxygen supply to cut off.  Hear what he did with his last breath from his oxygen tanks. DONATE: One time: https://ven...

A pregnant tourist named Sara Kuszak was abducted while out on a morning jog in Puerto Rico. She was stuffed into the trunk of a car and while trapped inside, she was able to make one last phone call to her fiance.  An hour later she was found dead.  Was she able to help lead police to her killer?  Absolutely.  Find out how this woman helped put away a suspected serial rapist and murderer. DONATE:...

On November 9, 2016 in the coastal town of Tofo, Mozambique, Elly Warren's lifeless body was found face down in the sand with her bikini bottoms around her ankles. Fisherman found Elly‘s body near a toilet block which was the location of the small coastal towns only public freshwater taps. It’s there that the fisherman go each morning to get their boats ready for the day. A botched or non-existent...

The crime scene was brutal. It was Friday the  13th of  June 1980.  Local officers entered Al and Betty Gores home to find it drenched in blood. Betty Gore, a 30 year old mother of two, had been hacked to death with an ax. One of her good friends, Candy Montgomery, was the last person to see her. Candy had a lot of secrets she was keeping from her friend Betty including an affair with Betty’s husb...

18 years ago , A young woman named Carmen Greentree travelled to India in search of enlightenment and spirituality. But she ended up on a houseboat in Kashmir in north India where she was allegedly held captive for two months and raped repeatedly.  DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881  Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support  Social Media Links:...