Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

After a strange man fired a shotgun blast into the window of Jennifer Holliday's vehicle, she was ripped from her seat and abducted. The other passenger, her younger cousin Ana, was left in the car to die from her wounds. Fortunately, Jennifer was able to manipulate her captor and escape. Meg walks you through this case, relates it to her own kidnapping, and gives several tips on how to survive if you are ever abducted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The small, rural town of St. Joseph, Minnesota was rocked when a man jumped out of the woods and abducted Jacob Wetterling. This case drew national attention as communities all over the country asked, "Could this happen here?". Coni takes you through this horrifying case that proves monsters lurk everywhere -- sometimes in small towns, and sometimes for years before cases can be connected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a time when gay men were disappearing from Indianapolis bars, Herb Baumeister was running a successful business and purchasing a beautiful farm. But weird Herb was hiding secrets darker than anyone could imagine. Meg walks you through the horrors the occurred at Fox Hollow Farm and why it’s said to be the most haunted place in Indiana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the Jaegers' took a month long trip from Michigan out West, they knew that it would be a trip that they would never forget. Their trip ended in horror when their 7 year old daughter was kidnapped from their camping site. Who would take Susie? Could a string of random be murders really be the work of one monster? Coni takes you through the case that ruined camping for her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As kids, we heard the scary story about a couple parked on lover’s lane that narrowly misses their demise. The case of Texarkana’s Phantom Slayer is where that old legend started. Only it’s not a legend. Meg takes you through the real attacks and murders of several couples parked at lover’s lane in 1940’s Texarkana and how they caught the person responsible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The murder of Jessica Keen rocked the Columbus, OH community in 1991. It was not only the brutality of her murder that stunned investigators, but it was also the fact they had no idea who would commit such a horrific crime against this All-American teenager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Jack the Ripper, there was Mary Ann Cotton. One could describe her as "The Mother of all Serial Killers". Meg takes you through the absolutely insane story of Mary Ann Cotton, a woman whose atrocities you have to hear to believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 2004-2008 the city of Kičevo was terrorized by their first serial killer. Dubbed The Kičevo Monster, terror spread through the small mountain town in Macedonia. Who could be targeting these women? Coni takes you through this case that has all of the characteristics of a Hollywood Thriller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playboy is an iconic brand but are the women that work for them doomed? Meg takes you through some of the most horrific cases that affected Playboy bunnies and women that have worked for the magazine. Were these women cursed or are these troubling stories just a string of sick coincidences? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arlis Perry was brutally murdered in the church on Stanford Campus in Palo Alto California in October 1974. In a time of "Satanic Panic", coming off the heels of the Manson Family Murders, did Arlis cross paths with a satanic cult? Could her murderer have been one of many infamous serial killers who were active during the time of her death? Coni takes you through the case that rocked the Stanford Campus for almost 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a listener request this week! Holly Bobo was a beautiful 20 year old who had her entire life ahead of her when she was approached by a man in her driveway and lead into the woods, never to be seen alive again. Who would want to hurt Holly? And better question, why would anyone want to hurt her? Meg takes us through this heartbreaking case and the events that followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Castillo was arrested in January 2020 on charges of cyber stalking realtors. When over 100 realtors reported that they had been receiving harassing text messages along with pictures of their children that had been taken from social media. What investigators didn't expect was a DNA sample that would unlock the mystery of a pair of 17 year old cold cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

School shootings are a very real part of our existence in the US and they leave the communities they occur in reeling. Meg takes you through a shooting in Pennsylvania, detailing what happened when Charles Roberts entered the West Nickel Mines Amish School, murdered 5 students, wounded 5 others, then turned his gun on himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK was rocked in 1993 when two year old James Bulger was lured away from his mother while shopping at the Strand Shopping Center. It wasn't just the brutality of the crime that shocked the country, it was the fact that the suspects in the case were ten years old. Coni takes you through one of the the most difficult cases we have covered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In every Psychology 101 textbook, the case of Kitty Genovese is referenced when discussing the bystander effect– the idea that people won’t help a victim if other people are around. Meg takes you through the murder of Kitty and the several other atrocities that Winston Moseley committed during his crime spree in the 1960’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coni takes you through a tale that we've seen too many times -- a man ruined by neglectful parents and a broken system. A serial killer with genuine remorse and a desire to remained incarcerated? It almost sounds too crazy to be true. David Edward Maust is an anomaly in the serial killer world who had Coni feeling something she usually doesn't feel when researching serial killers in addition to her disdain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meg takes your through a classic love triangle gone wrong. Did Edythe Klumpp murder the estranged wife of her boyfriend, Bill Bergen? Did Louise Bergen point a gun at Edythe? Why is Bill the worst? Answers to all of these questions in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40.3 million victims: that's the number of human trafficking victims worldwide in 2021. On the heels of the most trafficked event in the United States, the Super Bowl, Coni covers the difficult topic of human trafficking by reading survivors stories in their own words. Source Material: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/human-trafficking-nena/554846/ https://www.ijm.org/stories/kashi https://ag.nv.gov/Human_Trafficking/HT_Signs/ https://ourrescue.org/blog/6-forms-of-human-trafficking-exploitation-and-how-o-u-r-fights-to-end-each-one/ https://exoduscry.com/blog/shiftingculture/a-survivor-of-teen-porn-trafficking-speaks-out-on-pornhub/ Human Trafficking Resources: Domestic Violence: National Domestic Violence Hotline, 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) Missing Children and Child Pornography: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678) Sexual Abuse: Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), 24 hour Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 Text the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 233733 Contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline Web Chat via www.humantraffickinghotline.org/chat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a life of crime, Ahmad Suradji decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a dukun, another name for an Indonesian shaman. But over the course of a decade more than 80 women disappear from the small village where Ahmad was practicing black magic... What did the sorcerer do? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate started as love crossed teenage lovers and ended as two of the most notorious murderers in Nebraska's history. Coni takes you through the 11 murders that rocked the Midwest state. Was Caril an innocent bystander who stuck by Charles's side out of fear for her life? Or was she as trigger happy as he was? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On January 13th, 2021 at 1:35 am, Lisa Montgomery, of federal death row, was the first woman in 67 years put to death. Meg takes you through the chilling details of the crime that landed her there; the murder and fetal abduction of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and asks the question, did she deserve to die for her crime? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1994 Joe Metheny started his journey as a scorned lover looking for an ex-girlfriend who took his son in the middle of the night and left without a trace. He went looking for revenge, but soon discovered the love for murder. It's not that he murdered that is the most brutal part of his story. It's how he decided to dispose of the evidence. Put your food down, and try to stomach Coni telling the story of this 450 pound maniac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fall of 2002 proved that it’s not just the swamps of Louisiana that has violent predators lurking. Sometimes, the predators are the people we love and trust the most. 12-year-old Courtney LeBlanc was not only the victim of a brutal and senseless killing, but was the victim of a broken system. Courtney’s tragic death is devastating in itself but its how the crime was even able happen that will have even the calmest person absolutely furious. Join us this week, with our special guest right from the Bayou, as we discuss the tragic details that lead to the murder of Courtney Leblanc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we bring this decade to a close, Coni and Meg (and a special guest) take you through the biggest crime headlines of each year for this decade. From mass shootings to murderous parents, we're ending this year the only way we know how; bringing you the most gruesome true crime we could find. Crimes that will have you remembering exactly where you were when the news broke. Here's to a new decade, may this next one be way less eventful than this one was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After her boyfriend returns home from a weekend of visiting family, he finds that his girlfriend's phone, bag, and coat are all inside of their new apartment, but she is nowhere to be found. Smart, successful, 25-year-old Joanna Yeates disappeared on December 17, 2010 without a trace. Was it a stranger? The boyfriend? Someone she knew? Meg ruins your Christmas holida with this twisty whodunit tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sylvia Likens was your typical teenage girl, with her entire life ahead of her until her and her sister were sent to live with Gertrude Baniszewski while her parents were working for a traveling carnival. The horrors that Sylvia was forced to endure make this case the most gruesome in Indiana’s history. Brace yourself, this one is a difficult one. Please don't hate Coni after she tells you this one. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU3Bonz-HNc https://www.indystar.com/picture-gallery/news/history/retroindy/2013/08/27/retroindy-torture-death-of-sylvia-likens/2705867/ https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/23/indianapolis-most-sadistic-act-sylvia-likens-gertrude-baniszewski-torture-slaying-indianapolis-news-indianapolis-crime-crime-horror-torture/74209878/ https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-disturbing-death-of-sylvia-likens-ba64ec62d345 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During a slumber party on October 1, 1992, Polly Klaas was abducted by a career criminal, Richard Allen Davis in Petaluma, California. Meg recalls her childhood in the same Northern Californian county during the time that Polly was taken and relates this case to her own kidnapping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

November 28th, 1985 the Blount Family from the suburbs Fort Worth Texas sat down for what they thought would be your typical family Thanksgiving, only to have it end in horrible tragedy. Coni leads Meg on an emotional journey as to what happened to this family. This one is a doozy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Between 1909 and 1912, a string of ax murders that decimated entire families kept citizens on high alert in Louisiana and Texas. The killer, a supposed teenage, voodoo priestess named Clementine Barnabet is thought to have murdered more than 17 people before she was even an adult herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Vincent Gillis was a seemingly normal guy. He had a girlfriend, loved Star Trek, had friends, etc. What everyone would eventually realize was he was not your normal nerd next door. Gillis was a brutal serial killer who took the lives of 8 women. This jerk gets a 0/10. Sources: https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gillis-sean.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ13Nwrvv3M http://susanmustafa.com/sean-gillis-victims/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renee Hartevelt was murdered and EATEN by classmate and actual human monster, Issei Sagawa. Meg takes us through this very disturbing case that shows, once again, your friends can be some of the most deranged people that you know. Sources: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bwvvx/whos-hungry-502-v16n1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa https://filmdaily.co/news/issei-sagawa/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coni takes lead on THE most brutal crime that she has ever researched. For Episode 3, we tackle the extremely difficult case of Kelly Anne Bates, the 17 year old who was groomed, abused, and eventually murdered by her disgusting pig of a boyfriend. This case is one of the most brutal cases of domestic violence that we have ever encountered. COVID has brought us many challenges for 2020, including taking away the "safe space" that many children and significant others had to protect them from their abusers. If you or anyone you know is a suffering from domestic violence, please feel free to reach out or contact any of the agencies listed below. You are not alone. The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) / www.ndvh.org National Dating Abuse Helpline: 1-866-331-9474 National Child Abuse Hotline/Childhelp: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE) https://ncadv.org/resources has TONS of resources for all scenarios of abuse. Episode Sources: https://www.thescarechamber.com/kelly-anne-bates/ https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/smith-james-patterson.htm https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/our-daughter-was-tortured-to-death-by-her-sadistic-boyfriend https://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/manchesters-vilest-murder-kelly-anne-bates/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/kelly-anne-bates-james-patterson-smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tricia Lynn Reitler disappeared from the Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana on March 29, 1993. To date, there has been no arrests nor has a body ever been recovered. Join Meg and Coni as they discuss the importance of this case to Coni, possible suspects, and how this case is related to our second episode. On Wednesday's, We're Gruesome. Sources: https://ch27.tv/27-unsolved-the-disappearance-of-tricia-reitler/ https://letsfindthem.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/indiana-wesleyan-university-student-missing-since-1993-after-leaving-her-dorm-to-buy-a-soda/ https://fox8.com/news/a-family-still-looking-for-answers-25-years-after-daughter-went-missing/ https://www.lauthmissingpersons.com/the-disappearance-of-tricia-reitler-and-many-others/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meg, co-host and abduction survivor, details what happened to her after she was pulled in to a van, and taken by a man she had never met. A man who possibly had done it before.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Coni and Meg here, trying to save you from 2020. Follow us as we plunge into the horrific world of true crime this Halloween. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices