Bloody Happy Hour

The cult leader whose HAIR became a visual of her ego - as her church grew, so did her hair! Gwen Shamblin Lara created the Christian diet plan called, the Weigh Down Workshop, eventually growing (ahem like her hair) into its own religion and church known as Remnant Fellowship. Despite Gwen's unshakeable devotion, everything she built soon came crashing down in unexpected circumstances. Who is more likely to join this cult?? April or Caroline?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in to find out how the alleged "reincarnated Jesus" Marshall Applewhite and his cult partner Bonnie Nettles became obsessed with the Bible and Star Trek and then convinced 39 members of their cult, to cut off their "member" put on some Nike's and then eat applesauce laced with drugs along with a vodka chaser in order to commit suicide and enter the "Next Level" on a UFO. Need I mention they had to have $5.75 for UFO fare????? Who is more likely to join this cult?? April or Caroline??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Murdering Minister - Matt Baker Part 2 Kari Baker's family is convinced she was murdered by the man they once embraced as a son-in-law. In part 2 the family fights to get to the truth by hiring a local attorney and his team of investigators. What they didn't expect was to find out about all of Matt's dirty little secrets from the mouth of his mistress, Vanessa Bulls. But these aren't all the dirty little secrets that are revealed...what the heck do Matt's parents, Barbara and Oscar, have to do with this...you'll find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MURDERING MINISTER MATT BAKER: Part 1: Matt Baker, a 31 year old Baptist preacher in Waco, called 911 on April 7, 2006 reporting to have found his wife Kari Baker's lifeless body in their bedroom. Matt suggested to police it appeared Kari had committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. Local police agreed and determined her death a suicide. But Kari's family had doubts and decided to take the investigation into their own hands. Could Kari have in fact been murdered?? And could a Baptist preacher have played a part in the murder?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April and Caroline interview Walter Reaves, the attorney for David Wayne Spence, who also handled the appeal for Tony Melendez, and represented Joe Sydney Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April and Caroline interview with Russ Hunt, the attorney of David Wayne Spence the convicted Killer for the Lake Waco Murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LAKE WACO MURDERS: In Part 2 April drops a bomb on the solved and sentenced Lake Waco Murder case. Tune in to find out how a new murder brings about a new investigation into the Lake Waco murders and raises eyebrows for the Waco PD and the local community. Were David Wayne Spence and the Melendez Brothers the actual murderers? Did they get a fair trial? Is this case really solved? Did we execute an innocent man? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LAKE WACO MURDERS: In Part One: April does a deep dive into the infamous murders by the lake. Three Teens go missing one Summer in Waco Texas. Less than 24 hours later Kenneth Franks, Jill Montgomery and Raylene Rice are found naked and bound with over 46 stab wounds between them in Speegleville Park at Lake Waco. Tune into to find out how a local investigator Truman Simons moved mountains to solve this murder and bring the killers to justice. Who committed these murders and WHY??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just stopping by to say thank you for the support for the past 6 months of listening. Tune in to find out what Bloody Happy Hour has planned for 2022 and some True Crime stories that we will be following. See you next year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline and April take you on a quick tour of 12 of the most infamous Christmas Murders! Grab a drink and tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holidays and Homicide: The Santa Covina Massacre. Meet the biggest douch bag EVER!!!!! Bruce Pardo.... even his own mom knows he is worthless. Tune in to find out what drove him to concoct this horrible plan to dress up as Santa Claus, build a flame thrower and go Clint Eastwood on his wife's whole family on Christmas Eve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In December of 1990 the Tiede family was planning to spend Christmas together at their remote cabin Oakley, Utah. Rolf and Kaye Tiede along with their two daughters Linae and Tricia, and grandmother Beth went out to do some shopping only to be met back at the cabin by two intruders inside. Linae watched in horror as the two men fatally shot her mother, Kaye and her grandmother, Beth in cold blood. Linae and Tricia both witnessed their father, Rolf, also being shot. The sisters were then kidnapped and taken from the cabin. You won't believe what happens next.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MURDER: Zack Bowen and Addie Hall were so in love and were a popular couple in the French Quarters. But if they were so in love how did Addie Hall's head end up in a pot on the stove. Why were her legs cooked in the oven and her torso inside the refridgerator? Who, What, When, Where and Why? Tune in to find out why this love story ended so tragically. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MURDERED: Teresa Sievers Get ready y'all, we've got dumb, dumber, a hammer and a doppelganger all in one episode! In June 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers returned home early from a family vacation only to be brutally attacked and bludgeoned to death by an intruder wielding a hammer. Listen to this quickie to find out the the details of this terribly orchestrated plot which would cross multiple state lines. Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teresa-sievers-murder-how-gps-led-cops-to-killers-of-florida-doctor/ https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/why-teresa-sievers-florida-physician-and-mother-of-two-was-bludgeoned-to-death https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2020/02/14/who-killed-teresa-sievers-faqs-notorious-murder-case-48-hours-florida/4761767002/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SERIAL KILLER: Dennis Nilsen "The British Jeffrey Dahmer" was a lonely, gross necrophile who killed at least 12 young boys and men from 1978-1983. What did he do with the bodies after he killed them? Tune in to hear about the plumbers discovery when a routine "clogged pipes" house call turns into the discovery of human flesh. Get your shot glasses ready! Special Guest Fellow Podcaster of "The Public Affair" Andrew G. Sources: History Of a Drowning Boy- Dennis Nilsen Crimes and Victims Revised Edition- Frank Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SERIAL KILLER: Joe "The Cannibal" Metheny In 1996, Fat Joe Metheny joined the ranks of serial killers who served their victims' bodies to people in food (what an achievement!!) He claimed to have murdered and dismembered up to 10 people in his revenge murder spree. This case will have you second guessing the next time you stop for a bite to eat at a food stand you've never seen before - because you never know who you may be eating. IG: @bloodyhappyhour Twitter: @BloodyHappyHour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Metheny https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/metheny-joe.htm https://random-times.com/2020/04/15/joe-metheny-the-serial-killer-who-made-his-victims-into-hamburgers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SERIAL KILLER: Carl Eugene Watts goes by Coral Watts and coined the Sunday Morning Slasher terrorized the women of Detroit and Houston for years. This Black Serial Killer broke all serial killer rules. Tune in to find out how this serial killer could be linked to approximately 90 deaths but only got convicted of 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you knew the dark secret about a friends past would you tell his or her significant other? in 2004 47 year old Charlie Bandt brutally murdered his wife, Teri, and her niece Michelle, before hanging himself with a bedsheet. But what most people didn't know t the time was that Brandt had killed before- when he was 13!! The question is how many more murders did he commit within these 30 years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener discretion is even more advised as we take a stroll to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and pay a visit to satan himself, David Parker Ray aka The Toy-Box Killer. This family affair involves aspects of torture, rape, abduction, and some of the most horrifying details you will probably ever hear. Happy Sippin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another s**t bag ALERT!!!! Sh**bag Joseph thought it was a good idea to build an underground bunker/dungeon for his new wife/sex slave. He has 7 kids by her 3 of which she raises in the dungeon. He beats, starves and rapes her for 24 years. Oh yeah did I mention this sex slave is actually his biological daughter????? I literally can't but I will so be sure you tune in. I hope you are thirsty!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ABDUCTED & TORTURED: Ariel Castro Part 1 - Cleveland Abduction - This will be a two-part story of the survival of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. April details how the nasty, greasy, ridiculous short fat ball of a man named Ariel Castro fooled them into coming into his house where he chains, rapes, and tortures them for the next 10 years. Who, What, When, Where and WHY in the hell did this go on for so long????? Sources: Hope a Memoir fo Survival in Cleveland by: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness by Michelle Knight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ABDUCTED & TORTURED: Ariel Castro Part 2 - Cleveland Abduction - This will be a two-part story of the survival of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. April details how the nasty, greasy, ridiculous short fat ball of a man named Ariel Castro fooled them into coming into his house where he chains, rapes, and tortures them for the next 10 years. Who, What, When, Where and WHY in the hell did this go on for so long????? Sources: Hope a Memoir fo Survival in Cleveland by: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness by Michelle Knight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Vincent was just 15 when she was hitchhiking and caught a ride with a sweaty, nasty, old douchebag man named Lawrence Singleton. What transpired that night was a completely horrifying nightmare. Mary was abducted, raped, chopped with a hatchet, and left for dead at the bottom of a 30-foot ravine. But…she survived! Here is her story... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BHH BONUS: Gabby Petito-April and Caroline host a guest. Tiffany is a Texas Lawyer who works with victims of abuse. Join them as they break down the Gabby Petito/ Brian Laundrie case, discuss signs of the possibly violent relationship as well as addressing the controversy behind this case and how it has gone viral! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprinter who made history in 2012 as the first amputee to compete in track events at the Olympics. Pistorius made headlines again on Valentine’s Day 2013 when he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The question is, was this a case of mistaken identity or premeditated murder? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KILLER ATHLETE: Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, 40-year-old Chris Benoit a Canadian Wrestler who wrestled for WWE killed his wife Nancy Benoit and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself while living in Fayetteville, Georgia. What drove this once devoted father and husband to such madness? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baylor Basketball Scandal: Leave it to Waco to bring another insane story to the forefront. In this episode, Caroline, April and special guest "Sweet Pea", take you for a wild with murder, drugs, and corruption at the college down the street, Baylor University. This is the murder of Patrick Dennehy and the scandal of coach Dave Bliss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline and April Read you a fan letter that is bound to make your jaw drop! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KILLER ATHLETE: Rae Carruth born Rae Lamar Wiggins was formerly an American Football Wide Receiver for the Carolina Panthers. In 2001, he was found guilty of conspiring to murder his then-girlfriend Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with his child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WOMAN KILLER: On Friday June 13th 1980, a vicious axe murder shocked the Wylie, Texas community. Candy Montgomery is your typical churchgoing housewife and mother of two... until her frustrations and unanswered desires lead to a gruesome tragedy - and an unbelievable ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BONUS: BHH In the Know: April and Caroline update you on some crazy True Crime articles and read you haunted email from a local fan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WOMAN KILLER: "Chameleon Killer" Elaine Antoinette Parent was an American criminal known as "the world's most wanted woman" in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She was wanted for the murder of her potential roommate, Beverly McGowan, a 34-year-old bank clerk. McGowan had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WOMAN KILLER: Sheila Davalloo: Sheila Davalloo is an Iranian-American woman who was a pharmaceutical researcher and came from a well-to-do family. She had a seemingly normal life until her secret obsession turned violent. This story will leave you wondering “how well do I really know my significant other?” Sources: https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/davalloo-sheila.htm “Killer Women with Piers Morgan” “Snapped” - Sheila Davalloo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WOMAN KILLER! Most couples fight and make up and apologize at the end, but not Katherine. Her fight ended in murder and mutilation. Not only did she slash her lover with a butcher knife at least 37 times, she then chopped him up, cooked him, and prepared to serve him to his own children. Sources: Man Eater by Ryan Green Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SERIAL KILLER: Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MURDERED: Realtor Beverly Carter believed she was meeting a married couple for one last showing at a rural Arkansas property, but the meeting would ultimately cost the 50-year-old her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hunt for Robert Fisher: Man accused of murdering his wife and two children then rigging their Scottsdale home to explode remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, and is still missing 20 years later. Where in the world is Robert Fisher? And is he dead or alive?” https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/robert-william-fisher https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Fisher https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042712/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Jane Baker thought she married the love of her life and so did everyone else until they left town suddenly. In December of 2001, Mary Longo was found dead along with her children. But there were no signs of the husband Christian...Where was he and what made him snap? Sources: https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/christian-longo-family-annihilator-69eacacd9b7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab an eyepatch or some safety goggles for this one because this week we're diving into the Texas Eyeball Killer. Caroline covers Charles Albright, who murdered sex workers in Dallas, Texas leaving behind his own signature on every victim - removing their eyeballs. Sources: Mark of a Killer S1 E3 - Oxygen https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/see-no-evil-3/ https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/albright-charles.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KILLER: The Otaku Killer Tsutomu Miyazaki. Tsutomu is the worst piece of trash that came out of Tokyo. A pedophile, murderer, and necrophiliac, and just when you think he couldn't get any lower he does. Tune in to see how! Sources: The 10 Worst Serial Killers by Victor McQueen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social media plays a big role in the lives of many teenagers today, and in this case, the clues were hiding in plain sight. This is the story of 16-year-old Skylar Neese who was "unfriended" in a brutal way when her best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, did the unthinkable. On July 6, 2012, Skylar Neese snuck out of her West Virginia home and never returned. What happened to Skylar and the bigger question, why? Listen as we discuss a case of jealousy, betrayal, and just plain evil. Sources: https://skylarneesemurder.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Skylar_Neese https://abcnews.go.com/US/teenage-killers-eerie-tweets-stabbing-friend-death/story?id=64541231 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April details this Waco, Texas serial killer and how we went from Death Row and facing electrocution to paroled and FREE to KILL. Sources: Bad Boy of Rosebud by Gary Cartwright Texas Monthly Free to Kill Gary Cartwright Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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