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People do crazy things for love. Some people kill for love. Sometimes people die for love and their loved ones are left to somehow go on without them. To ponder the whys and what ifs. When Rusty Sneiderman was shot dead after dropping his 3-year-old son at daycare on November 18, 2010, police speculated that […] The post Crazy Love: The Plot to Kill Rusty Sneiderman appeared first on Tiegrabber.

The story of Lisa Irwin, who went missing when she was just 10 months old, has riveted the nation and left behind unanswered questions. How does a 10-month old infant disappear from her crib, never to be seen again? The police have focused on Lisa’s mother Deborah although there was plenty of evidence pointing to […] The post Gone Baby: The Disappearance of Lisa Irwin appeared first on Tiegrabber.

The Lillelid family van drove on through the twilight of Greenville, Tennessee, in April of 1997. Gravel crunched beneath its wheels as quiet sobs echoed inside. The sun had set and dusk gave way to nightfall. When the van stopped, the doors opened to an unusual congregation. One by one, the occupants climbed out. A […] The post Natural Born Killers: The Lillelid Killings appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Sheila Bellush’s 13-year-old daughter Stevie came home from school on November 7th, 1997, and found her 23-month-old quadruplet siblings crying and spotted with blood. Sheila was on the laundry room floor, dead from a gunshot wound to her face and a large gash to her throat. It was clear that there had been a struggle. […] The post Four Little Witnesses: The Murder of Sheila Bellush appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On the morning of July 18th, 2014, Ross Harris was expected to bring his 22-month-old son Cooper to daycare on his way to work. Ross and Cooper ate breakfast at a Chick-fil-A restaurant less than one mile from Ross’ office. After breakfast, Ross drove his SUV to the Home Depot office where he worked. Cooper […] The post A Devil Down in Georgia: The Murder of Cooper Harris appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Murder is stupid. If you have any doubt, this case will fully convince you. Buckle up for a twisted tale of murder and deceit that will cause you to shake your head. You may even lose a few hours of sleep, contemplating the unpredictable and cold behavior of some of our fellow human beings. When […] The post Twisted: The IHOP Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On a Saturday morning in June 1998, no one could find mother and daughter Vicki and Valessa Robinson. The night before, single mother Vicki had dined with her boyfriend while Valessa hung out with her boyfriend and another friend. Everyone was aware that Vicki had been having difficulty getting Valessa to follow her rules. Her […] The post Love’s Labor Lost: The Disappearance of Vicki and Valessa Robinson appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Friends and housemates hadn’t heard from Travis Alexander for 5 days when they let themselves into his house to check on him. What they found was shocking. And they knew who was responsible: Travis’s ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. Petite and pretty, Jodi had a normal childhood by all accounts. But something went very wrong after she […] The post Fatal Exposure: The Jodi Arias Story appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Life in the Aftermath of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ted Bundy moved from Seattle, Washington to the University of Utah in 1974 after committing a series of brutal murders of young women. Police weren’t yet aware that he was a serial killer. To those who knew him, he was a polite, handsome and well-educated young […] The post Surviving Ted Bundy appeared first on Tiegrabber.

A Discussion of Felony Murder Rule Cases Blake Layman made a very bad decision when he was 16. That decision set off a series of circumstances that culminated with his arrest and conviction for felony murder. But Blake didn’t kill anyone. He broke into a house unarmed. The homeowner, who was armed, shot him and […] The post Guilt by Association: Felony Murder Rule Cases appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On a high, jagged cliff overlooking the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Green River, Wyoming, a young mother and her 5 year-old son plunged to their deaths, their bodies crashing from rock to rock until they landed splayed and bleeding in the dust. Bob Duke’s accounting of his family’s death was heartbreaking. He described a sudden […] The post A Taste for Murder: The Deaths of Liana & Erik Duke appeared first on Tiegrabber.

In the middle of the night, as thunderstorms engulfed the remote tents of Camp Scott in Locust Grove, Oklahoma, 3 girl scouts were snatched from their sleeping bags. Their ravaged young bodies wouldn’t be found until morning. The discovery was shocking, but there had been warnings: Warnings that were ignored by camp counselors and not […] The post The Girl Scout Camp Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Young and eager nurse Beverly Allitt was trusted by the parents of her young patients. But after a series of unexplained deaths on the children’s ward at Grantham Hospital, all eyes turned to her. Investigators wondered why Beverly was always the one at the bedside when a child took seriously ill. Could she be behind […] The post No Mercy: The Victims of Killer Nurse Beverly Allitt appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Young couple Frances and Darren Jenkinson of Glasgow, Scotland, were happy and attentive parents of 8 week-week old baby boy Aaron when tragedy struck. After 3 bouts of difficulty breathing, their baby boy had irreversible brain damage and was taken off life support. This loss was especially difficult for Frances who was only 18 years […] The post Fatal Father: The Murders of Aaron & Jacob Jenkinson appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Hann and Bich Ha Pan had high expectations for their daughter Jennifer. She lived a sheltered life filled with piano lessons, figure-skating competitions, and several hours of studying each day. This type of parenting is commonly called “tiger parenting.” But as Jennifer approached adulthood, she began a life of deceit. Forging report cards and college […] The post A Daughter’s Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On October 5th, 2012, Sarah Ridgeway called 911 to report her 10 year-old daughter, Jessica, missing. Jessica had left her home at 8:25am that morning to walk to school. At 10:11am, the school left a message on Sarah Ridgeway’s cell phone to tell her that Jessica never arrived. But Sarah, who worked the overnight shift, […] The post A Monster in the Neighborhood: The Abduction of Jessica Ridgeway appeared first on Tiegrabber.

In the 1980s and 1990s, at least 70 women were killed in the Seattle and Tacoma Washington area by the Green River Killer. The victims were mainly prostitutes and runaways who were picked up along the Pacific Highway South. The women were strangled and most of their bodies dumped into wooded areas around the Green […] The post Dead in the Water: The Victims of the Green River Killer appeared first on Tiegrabber.

This is the first True Crime Brewery commissioned podcast! Thank you to Todd Feitl—a listener so fascinated by true crime (and beer!) that he paid us to do a TCB episode on the Son of Sam murders. The Son of Sam shootings back in the 1970s terrorized the citizens of New York and its Burroughs. […] The post When Evil Came to Town: The Son of Sam Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.

To Dr. Bart Corbin, til death do us part meant murder. In 2004, Jenn Corbin’s 7 year-old son found her murdered in her bed. He knew his father was responsible. In fact, he told anyone who would listen that his Daddy killed his Mommy. After hearing of Jenn’s death, the family of Dolly Hearn came […] The post Death by Dentist: The Murders of Dolly Hearn & Jennifer Corbin appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 first on Tiegrabber.

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 appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 Tiegrabber.

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’Reilly appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 & Nicholas Brady appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 with Murder: Casey Anthony appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 first on Tiegrabber.

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 appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 Massacre appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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: The Carnation Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 Christmas Killings appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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.

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 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 Murder of Aniarael Macias appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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 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.

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.

Erin Corwin thought she was being taken into the desert for a marriage proposal. Excited, she texted a friend in Tennessee, eager to share the big news. And then she vanished without a trace. We would later learn that Erin was lured to a remote location and brutally murdered. What kind of ruthless person would […] The post Lured: The Vanishing of Erin Corwin appeared first on Tiegrabber.

When 8 month old Matthew Eappen died of severe head trauma, his 18 year old Au Pair was arrested for murder. What followed was a trial second only to the O.J. Simpson trial in media attention and controversy. In this episode, Jill and Dick discuss the Eappen family, the life of Louise Woodward, and the […] The post Shaken Baby: The Murder of Matthew Eappen appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Lacey Spears’s struggle seemed to be every mother’s worst nightmare. From the day he was born, her son Garnett was afflicted with multiple illnesses. She shared all of his struggles on social media along with her struggles to be a perfect single mom. Apparently a courageous and selfless mother whose entire life was dedicated to her son, Lacey […] The post Munchausen by Proxy: The Lacey Spears Story appeared first on Tiegrabber.

The recent news is shocking and we’re learning more each day. Todd Kohlhepp, successful real estate agent and convicted sex offender, has been arrested in 7 murders after his latest kidnapping victim was saved from her chained and caged torture chamber–a storage container—for 3 months. We will discuss the lives and deaths of his victims, […] The post Buried Secrets: The Victims of Todd Kohlhepp appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On December 6, 1991, Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas, both 17, were scrubbing down counters and sweeping the floors at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas, anticipating going home and having a sleepover. Jennifer’s 15-year-old sister , Sarah, and her 13-year-old friend, Amy Ayers, were sitting at one of the tables in the shop, waiting […] The post Four Dead Girls: The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.

Born again Christian Chris Coleman had a great life: an intelligent and loving wife, two healthy and robust young sons, and a six figure income from his job as televangelist Joyce Meyers’ chief of security. Then Chris began getting threats related to his job, putting a target on the backs of his family. The horrible […] The post Sins of the Father: The Coleman Family Murders appeared first on Tiegrabber.