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Stacey Castor seemed to be in a panic when she called the police to report that her husband, David Castor, didn't make it into work. She told them he'd been feeling depressed, and was concerned it was suicide. Police went to the Castor home and discovered David's body on his bed, dead from antifreeze poisoning. Based on Stacey's comments, they were primed to label it a suicide and call it a day. But one detective wasn't so sure, especially when he learned Stacey's first husband was also dead... Sources:ArticlesABC News | 'Black Widow' Stacey Castor Accused in Anti-Freeze Murder (Angela Chambers) ABC News | Exhumed Body Reveals Stacey Castor's First Husband 'Didn't Just Die' (Angela Chambers and Jon Meyersohn) NCBI | Gender Differentiation in Methods of Suicide Attempts Medium | Stacey Castor Killed Two Husbands and Tried to Frame Her Daughter (Megan Ashley) Oprah Daily | Hear Ashley Wallace of Poisoned Love Tell Her Story—in Her Own Words (Elena Nicolaou) Wikipedia | Stacey Castor CrimeNeverSleeps | Did "Black Widow" Stacey Castor Kill Her Father Too? CNY Central | Stacey Castor Case Back in Court (Jim Kenyon) Shows20/20 | Season 41 Episode 23 Black Widow OtherSuicide Letter Scan Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Mineo had been a devoted follower of cult leader Sherry Shriner for all of his adult life. He considered Sherry a prophet of God, and believed her when she preached about Alien reptiles that had come to Earth to take over human bodies, and how these "reptilians" would lead to the return of the antichrist. Through Sherry's devoted online community, Steven met Barbara Rogers, and it wasn't long before they were referring to each other as husband and wife. Everything seemed great, until one day Sherry suddenly turned on Barbara and Steven, and her entire online community followed suit... Disclaimer: Mogab was on location over the holiday break when we recorded this, and despite our best efforts, her audio is not up to our usual quality. A huge thanks to these sources: Articles WNEP News | Homicide Trial Woman Claims Online Alien Cult Led to Deadly Shooting (Carmella Mataloni) USA Today | She Killed Her Boyfriend Because Of An Alien Cult – And Was Sentenced To Up To 40 Years (Ryan Miller) Books Aliens on the Internet By: Sherry Shiner Shows Deadly Cults: Online Alien Reptiles Other Orgone Positive Energy Devices Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis Alexander's friends found him dead in his own home, and immediately they all started pointing the finger at his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias. But Jodi had an alibi - she'd been on a road trip to see some friends when Travis was murdered. Jodi's stories would become more ridiculous as she tried to cover up and excuse what she did, and her trial was unlike any you've ever heard of. We will be on break until January 6, but if you want more True Crime Creepers in the meantime, please check out our Patreon for bonus content! Link Below! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're tackling a big one here today, which is why we'll be delivering this story to you in 2 parts. Part 2 is available right now over on our Patreon at all levels, so if you can't wait until next week, hop over there to finish this wild saga. Travis Alexander met Jodi Arias at a work conference, and sparks started flying immediately. They started a long distance relationship, complete with late night phone calls for hours and trips back and forth to see each other. But the relationship devolved, and quickly became extremely toxic on both sides. They seemed to just bring out the worst in each other, but they couldn't stay away from each other. His friends were worried for Travis, but no one expected the relationship to actually end in murder. Sources: Books Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder (Shanna Hogan) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Kristin tells Mogab about the double murder of Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero. It was the summer of 1980, and the girls were hitch hiking their way across the country to Pocahontas County, West Virginia to attend a festival called the Rainbow Gathering. They never arrived, and the investigation into their murders would rove around twists and turns until the unsettling conclusion... Sources: Books The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Emma Copley Eisenberg) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On September 10, 1999, Edna Dishon arrived home in the afternoon to see her 17 year old daughter's car in the driveway. Jessica should have still been at school, so Edna went inside the house to see if she'd stayed home sick that day, but Jessica wasn't there. She called the school and found that Jessica had never arrived. But when she looked inside her car, she knew immediately that something was terribly wrong. Inside were Jessica's backpack, purse, phone, and one shoe inside. Her phone had two numbers punched in: 9-1. Edna and her husband, Mike Dishon, rushed to the police station to report Jessica missing, but the sheriff's deputy didn't see any cause for concern. He told them Jessica probably ran away, or maybe she was at the football game. He told them to come back the next day if Jessica didn't come home. But Jessica never came home. Sources: Articles ABC News | Why the First 72 Hours in a Missing Persons Investigation are the Most Critical, According to Criminology Experts (Julia Jacobo) Mamas Board | Jessica Dishon WDBR News | Behind Bars: Stanley Dishon Says He Did Not Kill Niece Jessica (Jason Riley) Documents Model Policy for the Evaluation of Examinee Suitability for Polygraph Testing Shows Blood Runs Cold - Episode “The Secret Cold Case Files - Episode “A Family Secret” Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We might not recognize the name Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, but in Brazil, she is a celebrity. She was born in the slums of Rio de Janeiro called favelas, the 4th of 5 children, and after she made her way out, she made a name for herself as a gospel singer, eventually becoming a congressman. But her real claim to fame was the fact that she seemed to have a real heart for the children being affected by the drugs wars in the country, and she started adopting them. She didn’t stop adopting them until she had at least 55 children. She married one of her earliest adopted sons, Anderson Do Carmo. And then, in 2019, Anderson was murdered… Sources: Articles The New Yorker | The Murder Scandalizing Brazil’s Evangelical Church (Jon Lee Anderson) Wikipedia | Candelária Massacre Globo | Flordelis Treated Children Differently; 'First Generation' Had Access to Better Quality Food and Rooms (Felipe Freire and Pedro Bassan and Jornal Nacional) MEL Magazine | Congresswoman, Gospel Singer, Murder Suspect: The Wild Story of Flordelis The Guardian | Did Brazil’s Evangelical Superstar Have Her Husband Killed? (Tom Phillips) Social Media Twitter | Flordelis Thread YouTube | Flordelis' Channel Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2013, a drunk 16 year old named Ethan Couch caused a car accident that resulted in the deaths of 4 people. He pled guilty to the 4 counts of intoxicated manslaughter and was looking at a possible 20 years in prison. But his defense team was ready. They told the court that Ethan had an excuse for his behavior - he was too rich to know better. Sources: Articles ABC News | 'Affluenza' DUI Case: What Happened Night of the Accident That Left 4 People Dead (Caila Klass and Alexa Valiente) The New York Times | Teenager’s Sentence in Fatal Drunken-Driving Case Stirs ‘Affluenza’ Debate (Manny Fernandez and John Schwartz) D Magazine | The Worst Parents Ever (Michael Mooney) HG Legal Resources | What is the Affluenza Defense? Science Direct | Alcohol Blood Level Wikipedia | Affluenza Dallas Morning News | Judge Defends Putting Ethan Couch on Probation I had all the Facts Most People Don't (Naheed Rajwani) LA Times | Family of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch Tangled with Law in the Past (AP) Fox News | What Happened to 'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch? A History of a Family Breaking the Law (Frank Miles) People | 'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch and Mother Tracked to Mexico After Using Cell Phone to Order Domino's Pizza (Char Adams) Washington Post | How a Domino’s Pizza Order Helped Lead to the Capture of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch (Elahe Izadi and Sarah Larimer) Videos YouTube | |20/20: A Case of Affluenza Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Urban legends of tainted Halloween candy have spread for decades. Every year, worried parents check their children’s candy one by one, take them to the police station to be scanned for metal, anything they can do to make sure it’s okay to eat. And it turns out, we have one man to thank for that fear. It was a rainy Halloween in 1974 and 8 year old Timothy O’Bryan was trick or treating with his dad, Ronald O’Bryan, and some family friends. The big score that night was a two foot long pixie stick, and he couldn’t wait to try it. But within an hour of eating the candy, Timothy O’Bryan was dead. Sources: Articles Vice | The True Story of the Notorious Trick-or-Treat Murderer (Michael Segalov) Fox News | Razor Blades and Poisoned Candy: A History of Americans Fearing Halloween (Courtney Moore) Statesman | 35 Years Later, Memories of Notorious Halloween ‘Candyman’ Murder Remain Vivid (Eric Dexheimer) Justia | O'BRYAN v. State Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annie Le disappeared on September 8, 2009, 5 days before she was to marry her college sweetheart. She left her apartment that morning to head to the Yale campus where she was doing research as part of work towards a doctorate in Pharmacology, but when she never arrived home that night, her worried roommate called the police. Police conducted a search and were able to find Annie on the surveillance cameras walking into the research lab, but they couldn't find her anywhere on the cameras leaving the building, and she wasn't found inside the building. It was like Annie Le had simply vanished. Sources: Articles CBS News | Annie Le's Fiance Mourns Yale Student's Murder (Ryan Smith) The New York Times | Report on Yale Murder Outlines Suspicions (James Barron and Alison Leigh Cowan) The Hartford Courant | Affidavit Describes Evidence, Raymond Clark's Movements (Alaine Griffin) Academic | The Murder of Annie Le The New Haven Independent | Annie Le Warrant: Bloody Boots Read “Ray-C” (Melissa Bailey and Paul Bass) The Trentonian | Yale Suspect Played Softball on Day Body Was Found ABC News | Annie Le's Person of Interest Had Scratches on Chest, Arms, Back ( Sharyn Alfonsi, Lee Ferran and Russell Goldman) The Hartford Courant | Records Show Raymond Clark III Was Last To See Annie Le Alive, Source Says (Dave Altimari, Alaine Griffin, and Josh Kovner) Gawker | What We Know About Raymond J. Clark III (Hamilton Nolan) The Yale Alumni Magazine | The death of Annie Le (Carole Bass) Yale Daily News | Searching for Raymond Clark III (Everett Rosenfeld) ABC Chicago | Yale Killing Suspect Plans to Plead Guilty NY Daily News | DNA Shows Annie Le's Blood on Yale Lab Tech Raymond Clark Boots; Green Pen clue Eyed: Investigators (Michael Daly) Videos Investigation Discovery | See No Evil Season 6 - Episode 14: Cold Feet YouTube | Friends of the University of New Haven Library: Prof. Dadio - "Murder at Yale, the Annie Le Story" Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 year old Cyntoia Brown needed money, and she only knew one way to get it: sex work. But after 43 year old Johnny Allen picked her up at a Sonic and brought her back to his house, she shot and killed him. She was arrested for murder, and the prosecution argued that she'd shot him with the intent to rob him. They said she was cruel and merciless and evil. But after facts about her life and the events leading up to the crime came out, people started to wonder: who was the real victim in this situation? Resources: Services Available to Victims of Human Trafficking Highlighted Organization: FASD Communities Sources: Articles Fox 17 News | What Cyntoia Brown-Long would say to Johnny Allen's family (Stacy Case) The Famous People | Johnny Michael Allen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | FASDs Knox News | Here's What Cyntoia Brown-Long Is Doing 2 Years After She Walked Out of a Tennessee Prison Book Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System Documentaries Netflix | From Murder to Mercy Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 10, 2016, within a 90 minute time frame and surrounded by friends and family, Typhenie Johnson vanished. She’d been making dinner for a date at the apartment she shared with her brother and his girlfriend when her ex, boyfriend, Chris Revill, showed up. They argued downstairs for awhile, and when Chris came back up to the apartment he told everyone she’d gotten in a car with someone and left. She was never seen again. Several miles away, the Islam family was watching the news when Typhenie’s disappearance was announced. They were shocked. Taalibah Islam had disappeared almost 10 years earlier after having a new baby with Chris Revill. And he’d had a very similar story for the Islam family when Taalibah went missing… Domestic violence resources: The National Domestic Violence Hotline Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Intimate Partner Violence Resources Sources: Articles Local Profile | The Link Between the Disappearances of Two North Texas African American Women (Alexandra Cronin) JUSTIA | Christopher Revill v. The State of Texas Appeal from 213th District Court of Tarrant County Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Ex-boyfriend Sentenced to Life for Kidnapping Woman Who Has Not Been Seen Since 2016 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth Horton received a phone call from her daughter, Kathleen Schroll, in the middle of the night, telling her Pete was in the house, he was going to kill her husband Carl, and then kill her. Right away, Elizabeth's son, Randy, called 911 to report the phone call, but by the time police arrived at the Schroll's, it was too late. Carl's body was found in the bedroom, and Kathleen was lying dead in the living room. Both died of gunshot wounds. When police found out about the phone call, and how Kathleen had been in a bitter court battle with a man named Pete Coones over his father's life insurance money, it was crystal clear to police who had committed the murder. But as more information was discovered, there was nothing crystal clear about this case at all... Sources: Articles Chilling Crimes | Olin Pete Coones Heavy. | Kathleen & Carl Schroll Died in Murder-Suicide Staged as a Double Homicide KMBC News | KCK Man Who Spent 12 Years in Prison for Double Murder Released, Charges Dropped (AP) The National Registry of Exonerations | Conviction Integrity Units Court Documents Olin Pete Coones V. State of Kansas Shows Dateline | The Phone Call Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was June 20, 2001 when Russell "Rusty" Yates got a phone call from his wife, Andrea Yates, telling him to come home. The couple had 5 children: Noah (7), John (5), Paul (3), Luke (2), and Mary (6 months), and Rusty worried that something was wrong with one of them. When he asked if any of them were hurt, Andrea said yes. When he asked who, Andrea said, "All of them." It wasn't until he arrived home that he would discover the awful truth - Andrea had drowned each of their 5 children, one by one, in the bath tub. It was an unfathomable crime, and horrified the entire nation. What could possibly lead to something as heinous as this happening? This is part 2 of Kristin's non-consecutive, so far 3 part hometown series: "The Women of Clear Lake Who Snapped." National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - Phone number 1-800-273-8255 Postpartum Support International Sources: Articles Today | The Andrea Yates Story Biography | Andrea Yates ABC News | Preacher Said He Tried to Save Yates Family CNN | Defense Yates Killed Kids to Save Them (Lisa Sweetingham) Cult Education Institute | Michael Woroniecki's Influence Over Convicted Murderer Andrea Yates CNN | Andrea Yates Case: Yates Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Brownstone Law | 5 children drowned by their mother, Andrea Yates (Robert Sirianni) Wikipedia | Andrea Yates Murderpedia | Andrea Yates Books Are you there alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was July, 1932 in the Bronx, New York. Prohibition is alive and well, and we’re a few years into the Great Depression. Francis Pasqua, Daniel Kriesberg, and Tony Marino were sitting together in Tony's speakeasy while Tony complains about how bad business is. That's when Francis has a completely brilliant plan - sign one of the regulars up for life insurance and then stage their murder to look like an accident. The group loved the plan, and they got right to work. Michael Malloy was the down-on-his-luck regular they chose. They figured it would be easy. Michael would come in every day and drink until he passed out. They figured the alcohol would kill him quick enough. Only... it didn't. The group tried everything they could think of, but Michael just wouldn't die. Sources: Articles True Crime Edition | The Murder Plot of "Iron" Mike Malloy Smithsonian Magazine | The Man Who Wouldn't Die Trivia Library | New York Gangs Murder Trust and Michael Malloy Part 5 All Things Interesting | The Curious Case Of Michael Malloy – “Rasputin Of The Bronx” Podcast Criminal | Episode 151: The Many Lives of Michael Malloy Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is Part 2 to our Cyberstalker episode, continuing the story of the disappearance of Cari Farver. Make sure you listen to part 1 first! This story is confusing enough! When we left off, Dave is ignoring all the red flags about who his stalker really is. The detectives are a few steps ahead of him, though, and they start to close in on the stalker and discover what really happened to Cari Farver. Support the show by joining our PATREON and get a monthly bonus episode and at least 2 Mini Creeps a month, plus stickers and other perks!! Support the show by buying MERCH! Join the True Crime Creepers Discussion Group on Facebook! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After ending a 12 year relationship, Dave Kroupa decided to get back out there, and he signed up for online dating. After several months of dating a few different women, he met Cari Farver. She seemed perfect: incredibly smart, fun, and looking for a casual relationship, like him. But then, after dating for two weeks, Cari texted Dave asking if they should move in together. He was confused - he'd thought they were on the same page, so he told her no. And then he received a message back from Cari filled with vulgar, abusive insults and threats. And the messages didn't stop coming. He received hundreds a day for YEARS. Dave wanted the messages to stop, but Cari Farver could not be found. Can't wait until next time for part 2? You can listen to it RIGHT NOW by subscribing to our PATREON! Sources: Articles Iowa Cold Cases | Cari Lea Farver Books A Tangled Web (Leslie Rule) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela Green was 51 when she disappeared in 2019. Her husband, Geoff Green, initially had a very odd explanation for Angela's disappearance. He told their 19 year old daughter, Ellie, that he'd been worried about Angela's mental state, and he'd arranged it so a psychiatric hospital would take Angela from a grocery store parking lot and commit her to their facilities. He said there was a struggle when they took her, and he didn't want Ellie to visit for her own safety. He wouldn't even tell her where the hospital is . Several days later, Geoff broke the news to Ellie - he'd gotten a call from the hospital telling him that Angela had died of a stroke in their care. Geoff said he paid a man from the hospital to cremate her and return her in an urn, which was at his house. He told Ellie they were not going to have a funeral, and he asked her not to tell Angela's family she was dead. Only, there's not a record of Angela's death anywhere in the United States. So what happened to Angela Green? Where is she? Support the show and get bonus content by signing up for our Patreon! If you have information about Angela Green, please contact: Prairie Village police at 913-642-6868 or the anonymous Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477) Sources: Articles FOX 4 KC | Warrant Served at Lawrence Home in Search of Prairie Village Woman Missing Since June 2019 (Sherae Honeycutt) FOX 4 KC | Over 150 Leads Tracked in Search for Missing Prairie Village Woman (Sherae Honeycutt) HuffPost | She Was Told Her Mother Died. So Why Was There No Funeral? Or A Body? (Melissa Jeltsen) Podcast Voices for Justice Shows Dateline | Season 29, Episode 11 - Hope Whispers Social Media TikTok | Michelle Guo’s @Mishguo Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was 2013 in Danvers, Massachusetts and Colleen Ritzer had been teaching math at Danvers High School for just 2 years. She loved teaching math and her students loved her, which is why it was such a shock when just before Halloween that year, she went missing. Her parents called around to her friends and colleagues looking for her when she didn't come home at her usual time and wasn't answering her phone, but no one knew where she'd been. Her parents tried not to worry too much - she'd probably made plans and forgotten to tell them, but maybe she'd been in an accident and unable to reach them. They decided to go up to the school and look for her. They found her car in the parking lot, but no sign of Colleen anywhere. And that's when they discovered Colleen wasn't the only person that was missing. Diana Chism had filed a missing persons report on her son, Phillip Chism, after he failed to come home after school. Police investigated both cases, but no one was prepared for what they found... Click here to support us on Patreon for bonus content and more perks! Click here to support Homicide Survivors Inc Sources: Videos YouTube | The Disturbing Case of Colleen Ritzer (That Chapter) YouTube | Community Heartbroken by Young Teacher's Death (WCVB Channel 5) YouTube | Teen Admitted Murdering Danvers Teacher (WCVB) Articles & Documents Discover School | Salem Witch Trials - 1692 Salem - Economic and Social Divisions - Court Documents | Search Warrants & Warrant Applications Boston Globe | Official describes brutal injuries to Colleen Ritzer (Maria Cramer) CNN | Defense: Teen Had Psychotic Episode During Killing (Sarah Jorgensen) The New York Times | Timeline Provides Details for a Grisly Crime Against a Teacher (Katharine Seelye) Daily News | Philip Chism, Mass. Teen Accused of Murdering Teacher, was Coerced into Confession (AP) The Salem News | Philip Chism Told police 'Trigger Word' Made Him Angry at Colleen Ritzer (Julie Manganis) Boston.Com | Mistake Led to Chism Crime Scene ‘Slaughterhouse’ Being Cleaned (Allison Manning) The Eagle-Tribune | Families Suffer Through Difficult Testimony in Chism Trial (Julie Manganis) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Detectives have uncovered a potential motive to explain why Diane Downs would try to kill her three children, but can they prove it? They work to build their case, but it's going to be tough, especially when Diane becomes a media darling. There is very little evidence, and the only witnesses are severely injured, young children. Meanwhile, Diane has big plans of her own. She wants to have another baby... Want more True Crime Creepers? Consider supporting us on Patreon! Use code CREEPERS for free shipping off our merch!! Sources: Books Small Sacrifices (Anne Rule) Articles ABC News | Surgeon Who Helped Save 1 of Diane Downs’ Kids in 1983 After She Shot Her Recalls Chilling Interaction (Effron, Lauren, and Dooley, Sean) Murderpedia | Diane Downs TimeToast | Diane Downs Timeline Wikipedia | Diane Downs ABC News | Woman On Finding Peace After Learning Mother is Child Killer Diane Downs: 'Though That's Biologically My Makeup, It's Not Who I am Inside (Taudte, Jeca, Schiffman, Keren and Francis, Enjoli) The Famous People | Diane Downs Biography The Mommy Murder Case of Diane Downs That Rocked the 80s (Casaus, Sara) Distractify | Diane Downs Was Sentenced to Life in Prison, but What Happened to Her Husband? Alcatraz East Crime Museum | Diane Downs Heavy | Diane Downs’ Children Now: Christie, Danny & Becky Today Crime Museum | Diane Downs DeLani Bartlette | Diane Downs: Hungry Like the Wolf Diane Downs Website The Trouble With Justice | The Diane Downs Case Was No Small Sacrifice Videos Inside Edition | Diane Downs Says From Prison That She Shot Her 3 Kids for Her Lover Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was late on May 19, 1983 when the car pulled up to the ER in Springfield, Oregon. Inside were three children, and they'd all been shot in the chest. Their mother, Elizabeth Diane Downs, had a horrifying story to tell: she'd been driving the kids home that night when a bushy haired stranger had flagged her down. He tried to steal her car, but when Diane put up a fight, he pulled out a gun and shot her kids. The story seemed so bizarre to detectives, so unbelievable, that they couldn't help but suspect Diane of being behind the shooting. But why would a mother shoot her own children? Don't want to wait a whole week for part 2? It's up right now on our Patreon! Subscribe at any level and listen to part 2 right away! www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers Free shipping on all merch, now until August 12! Promo code CREEPERS www.truecrimecreepersmerch.com Sources: Books Small Sacrifices (Anne Rule) Articles ABC News | Surgeon Who Helped Save 1 of Diane Downs’ Kids in 1983 After She Shot Her Recalls Chilling Interaction (Effron, Lauren, and Dooley, Sean) Murderpedia | Diane Downs TimeToast | Diane Downs Timeline Wikipedia | Diane Downs ABC News | Woman On Finding Peace After Learning Mother is Child Killer Diane Downs: 'Though That's Biologically My Makeup, It's Not Who I am Inside (Taudte, Jeca, Schiffman, Keren and Francis, Enjoli) The Famous People | Diane Downs Biography The Mommy Murder Case of Diane Downs That Rocked the 80s (Casaus, Sara) Distractify | Diane Downs Was Sentenced to Life in Prison, but What Happened to Her Husband? Alcatraz East Crime Museum | Diane Downs Heavy | Diane Downs’ Children Now: Christie, Danny & Becky Today Crime Museum | Diane Downs DeLani Bartlette | Diane Downs: Hungry Like the Wolf Diane Downs Website The Trouble With Justice | The Diane Downs Case Was No Small Sacrifice Videos Inside Edition | Diane Downs Says From Prison That She Shot Her 3 Kids for Her Lover Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Shipman's flight arrived in Orlando a little after 1 AM on February 6, 2007. Exhausted, she didn't realize someone else had arrived at the airport - someone that was watching her. They stalked her as she discovered her baggage was delayed and her drink her coffee and eat her danish in the airport Starbucks. They followed her onto the shuttle bus that would take her to her car, and finally, when they were alone in the parking lot, they struck, attacking her with pepper spray before Colleen was able to get away. The most bizarre part of Colleen's night would be when she discovered the identity of her stalker, and the reason for the attack. Sources: Article People | Astronaut Love Triangle: Colleen Shipman Says of Her Husband: 'They Were Making Him Out to be Something Horrible' (Jeff Truesdell) New York Times | Astronaut Charged With Attempted Murder (Maria Newman and Christine Hauser) Biography | Lisa Nowak: Why the Astronaut Drove 900 Miles to Attack Her Ex's Girlfriend (Sara Kettler) Texas Monthly | Lust in Space (S. C. Gwynne) Wikipedia | Lisa Nowak CNN | Ex-astronaut Can Take Off Ankle Bracelet Book Out There by: Diane Fanning Video YouTube | Colleen Shipman; Astronaut Love Triangle Turns Dangerous YouTube | Nowak Case: A Look At What Happened At Airport Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found in her apartment in Idaho Falls brutally raped and murdered. Despite having plenty of DNA in the case, police quickly ran out of suspects until the following January, when a new lead brought them to 20-year-old Christopher Tapp. His DNA didn't match that left at the crime scene, but that didn't matter - not after he gave police a confession about his involvement. By trial, Chris recanted his confession, saying it was coerced, but why would anyone confess to something they hadn't done? Sources: Articles East Idaho News | After 25 Years, Brian Dripps Goes to Prison for Rape and Murder of Angie Dodge (Eric Grossarth) CBS News | How A Discarded Cigarette Led to an Arrest In Idaho Teen Angie Dodge's Cold Case Murder (Rybak, Schwartz, DiFiore, O'Connell and McLaughlin) East Idaho News | Chris Tapp Sues Idaho Falls and Former IFPD Officers for Wrongful Conviction (Grossarth) ISHI News | Unraveling the Twisted Case of Angie Dodge East Idaho News | The Angie Dodge Case from 1996 Until Today. What’s Happened, Why and What's Next. (Nate Eaton) Innocence Project | Christopher Tapp (Ken Otterbourg) Post Register | Key Witness in Tapp Case Recants Testimony (Johnathan Hogan) Documentaries/Shows 20/20 | Season 43 Episode 17: Stranger Than Fiction Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 30, 2014, Morgan Geyser celebrated her 12th birthday with her two best friends: Payton Leutner and Anissa Weier. They did all the normal stuff 12 year olds do at slumber parties - they went to a skating rink, they played dress up, they played on their phones. But the next morning, Payton was found in the park with multiple stab wounds. First responders were shocked to find a 12 year old who had been stabbed, but their shock would turn to horror when she told them who had done it: 12 year old Morgan Geyser. And the reason behind the attack would lead investigators down a rabbit hole of internet lore, centered around one character: Slenderman. Sources: Articles NPR | Judge Orders Release Of Wisconsin Woman In Slender Man Case (AP) Meaww | Where Payton Leutner is Now? Slender Man Stabbing Victim Slept with Scissors Under Pillow (Alakananda Bandyopadhyay) Know Your Meme | Slender Man Documentaries/Shows HBO | Beware the Slenderman - HBO 20/20 | Season 42 Episode 5: The Wicked Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was the spring of 1997 and Brook Baker was a journalism student at Vincennes University in Indiana, working on an expose of one of the fraternities on campus. One night, her brother went to visit her apartment where he found her dead in her bedroom. In the bathroom, the tub had been left running, and the kitchen sink had been filled with water. As police investigated, their suspect list continued to grow faster than they could eliminate people - there were the brothers of the fraternity, the creepy landlord who would come into her apartment often unannounced, her on again, off again boyfriend. But every lead they went down turned up more questions than answers... Sources: Articles Oxygen | Bathtub Clues Left At Crime Scenes Leads To Killer Of 2 University Students (Joe Dziemianowicz) Documentaries 6 Degrees of Murder | Season 1 Episode 6 “Crime Writer” Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The worst mistake Claire Williamson ever made was the day she responded to an ad in a Seattle daily newspaper to ask for a copy of Fasting for the Cure of Disease, a book by Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. Claire and her sister, Dorothea, who went by Dora, were extremely close and extremely wealthy, heirs to a fortune of nearly 29 million that they alone controlled, but they were obsessed with one thing: fad cures. Cures for what, you might ask? I have no idea because both Claire and Dorothea seemed to be in perfectly fine health. Neither of them suffered from any serious illness. But Claire especially could not let this search for wellbeing go. She would die to be healthy. Sources: Books Starvation Heights (Gregg Olson) Articles Healthline | What is An Osteopath Forgotten Minnesota | The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder? Murderpedia | Linda Burfield Hazzard (Crow, C.J., Ellis, Fullerton, and Morris, JJ) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One day, Biology professor Amy Bishop spent 50 minutes in a staff meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before pulling a gun out of her purse and letting shots fire around the conference room. By the time her gun jammed, only a minute into the shooting, she’d already killed 3 people and injured 3 others. At first glance, this seemed to be retaliation - Amy had recently been denied tenure. But then police in Alabama got a phone call from the chief of police in Amy’s hometown near Boston that would send their investigation in an entirely different direction… Sources: Articles The New Yorker | A Loaded Gun (Patrick Radden Keefe) CNN | Alabama Shooting Survivor "There Was No Way to Ever Anticipate This" Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Zahau was found hanging outside the Speckles Mansion on Coronado Island, California. She was naked, bound, and gagged, and there was a disturbing message written on the wall, which to most lay people immediately looked suspicious. But police were quick to categorize this death as a suicide. This was especially odd, since just 2 days later there had been another death in the mansion - that of 6 year old Max Shacknai, which had happened under Rebecca’s supervision. Was this a case of grief leading to a suicide? Or was Rebecca actually murdered, and if so, by whom? Sources: Articles Town & Country | The Mysterious Deaths That Rocked a Wealthy Southern California Enclave (Sean Elder) Documentaries Oxygen | Death at the Mansion Investigation Discovery| Zahau: An ID Murder Mystery Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martha Puebla was 16 years old when she became a victim of gang violence, gunned down while sitting outside her house chatting with friends. The suspect was obvious - Jose Ledesme and Mario Catalan had been arrested for another murder and told that Martha had identified them as the shooter. But instead of going after Jose and Mario, investigators arrest Mario's little brother, Juan Catalan, for the murder of Martha Puebla. Proving his innocence would require a wild goose chase involving the Dodgers, HBO, Larry David, and an enormous amount of luck. The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles seeks to achieve equal justice for people living in poverty in Los Angeles. Click here to learn more or donate, or search for a legal aid foundation in your community. Sources: Articles The Los Angeles Times | Interrogation, Then Revenge (Joel Rubi & Ari B. Bloomekatz) LA Weekly | Clearing the Case (Celeste Fremon) LA Weekly | Bad Night for the Vineland Boys (Christine Pelisek) The Los Angeles Times | 2 Men Charged in Valley Slayings (Jean Guccione and Andrew Blankstein) Court Documents Study Lib | Document 18288765 Documentary Netflix | Longshot Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back in Spring of 2017, Fyre Fest was going to be the experience of a lifetime. A luxury music festival in an idyllic tropical setting on a private island in the Bahamas. Festival-goers were promised a real-life island fantasy with luxury accommodations, gourmet food and the chance to party with rappers and models. People paid hundreds to hundreds of thousands for their tickets and accommodations for Fyre Fest, expecting a weekend living in the lap of luxury. What they got was something slightly less than that. The luxury villas they were promised turned out to be FEMA disaster relief tents. The local seafood, Bahamian style sushi, and pig roast they were promised turned out to be… you know it - cheese sandwiches in a styrofoam container. Mostly rich millennials with job titles like influencer were suddenly resorting to Lord of the Flies level anarchy just to make sure their most basic needs were met. And it all started when Billy McFarland met rapper Ja Rule... Sources: Articles The Ringer | Fyre Fight: The Inside Story of How We Got Two Warring Fyre Festival Documentaries in the Same Week (Scott Tobias) CNBC | Fyre Festival: How a 25-year-old Scammed Investors Out of $26 Million (Tom Huddleston Jr.). Daily Beast | Netflix’s ‘Fyre’: Inside the Millennial Scam of the Decade (Amy Zimmerman) The New York Times | Fyre Festival Ticket Holders Win $7,220 Each in Class-Action Settlement (Sarah Bahr). Documentaries Hulu| Fyre Fraud Netflix | Fyre - The Greatest Party That Never Happened Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2001, British tourist Peter Falconio disappeared while traveling with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, through the remote Australian Outback. Joanne was found with her wrists tied, duct tape around her neck, and blood on her shirt. Her story was bizarre and didn’t seem to fit the physical evidence, and the questions in the case would continue to pile up... Sources: Articles The Guardian | Doubts Mount Over Outback Manhunt (Patrick Barkham) Books Dead Centre by Robin Bowles Videos YouTube | Outback Manhunt: The Search for Peter Falconio Indigenous organizations: https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/06/15/indigenous-charities-you-should-be-supporting/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the murder of Angela Samota. Angela was a 20 year old college student in Dallas, Texas when she called her boyfriend, Ben, in the middle of the night sounding really odd. She said there was a man in her apartment asking to use the bathroom and her phone, and she asked Ben to keep talking to her. When she suddenly hung up, Ben was worried and drove over to her apartment. There, she was found on her bed, stabbed to death. It would take 20 years and a best friend who never gave up on finding Angela's killer for this case to finally be solved. Sources:ArticlesThe Dallas Morning News | From the Archives: Architect Suspected of SMU Sorority Student's Murder Cleared in Surprise Twist (Christopher Wynn)The Washington Post | Her Friend’s Brutal Murder wasUnsolved for Decades. This is How She Helped Find the Killer (Lindsey Bever)ABC 8 | Man Found Guilty in 1984 Slaying of SMU Student (WFAA Staff)The Crime Report | Dallas Police ‘Ruined My Day’ in Charging Con in Cold Case MurderPodcastCriminal, Episode 88: Cold Case OtherCIVIL ACTION NO. 3:16-CV-1150-S | Bess V. Davis Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Angela Diaz. She was an attorney and a survivor of cervical cancer who had finally found love in Ian Diaz. They were married within a month of meeting each other, and a few months after that Angela became pregnant with twins! Everything was going great for the new couple, until someone started a major harassment campaign against Angela. She started receiving threatening emails, and someone started posting ads on Craigslist, posing as Angela and asking men to make her rape fantasies come true. It became clear that the longer this person continued, the more danger Angela was in. But she knew exactly who was posting the ads and sending the emails.... Sources: Articles Los Angeles Times | Woman is Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Framing Husband’s Ex-fiancée in Craigslist Rape Fantasy Plot (Alene Tchekmedyian) Fox 5 | Woman Jailed for Months in ‘Rape Fantasy’ Hoax Was Actually a Victim, DA Says (Tribune Media Wire) Film Daily | True Crime Tales: Why Did Angela Diaz Frame her Husband’s Ex? (Bec Heim) BuzzFeed News | A “Rape Fantasy” Plot Sent Her To Jail. Now She’s Fighting Back. (Jessica Testa) OC Weekly | Judge Isn't Impressed With Wrongly Arrested Lady's Case Against Deputy U.S. Marshal (Scott Moxley) Courthouse News Service | Anaheim Settles Lawsuit by Woman Framed in ‘Rape Fantasy’ Case (Martin Macias Jr.) Daily Beast | Real-Life ‘Gone Girl’ Framed Love Rival in Twisted Craigslist Rape Plot (Kate Briquelet) Other PowerPoint | People vs. Angela Diaz and Exoneration of Michelle Hadley Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a special episode for you today! You might call it a passion project. It’s Kristin’s birthday week and for her birthday, she decided this episode was going to be her genie wish case - you know, the one case you would spend a genie wish on to find out exactly what happened. We all know the case - it’s been covered extensively in podcasts like Serial, HBO documentaries, books, blogs, etc - January 13, 1999, High school student Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her body was found almost a month later, half buried in Leakin Park in Baltimore. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is serving a life sentence for her murder, but we all have QUESTIONS. This won’t be a total recap of Serial. Instead, Kristin takes Mogab BEYOND Serial, diving into everything Serial left out or didn’t uncover. Let’s get into it! Sources: Podcasts Serial Season 1 (Sarah Koening) Undisclosed Season 1 (Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, Colin Miller) Truth and Justice season 1 (Bob Ruff) Books Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry and Adnan Syed Documentaries The Case Against Adnan Syed Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Mogab's BIRTHDAY EPISODE!! It's a two for one episode today where Kristin tells Mogab all about that time our girl, Taylor, was assaulted at a meet and greet, and then sued because of it! The level of audacity is high in this one. Then, Kristin tells Mogab about Kesha's court situation against her producer, Dr. Luke. Just after Kesha signed a 6 year record deal with Dr. Luke's label, he (allegedly) raped her. Kesha has done everything possible to get out of this contract with her abuser, but the system continues to fail her. You will not listen to 'Praying' the same again. Sources A full list of sources can be found here: Episode 29: Taylor Swift & Free Kesha Sources Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelli Peters was just out there living her best life, volunteering at her daughter's school while running a small business painting tie-dyed jeans, when a police officer came to the school to say he needed to speak to her. The officer told her that they'd gotten a call that she'd been driving at the school under the influence of drugs, and that she had drugs in her car parked at the school. Kelli was shocked. The worst thing she'd ever done in her life was that time she threw her company phone out the window after she'd quit. So she let the officer search her car, and low and behold - they find the drugs. "They're not mine!" Kelli insisted, like every other person in that situation. But Kelly wasn't lying. It turns out, Kelli had an enemy. Sources: Articles LA Times | Framed (Christopher Goffard) Other Data USA | Irvine, CA Videos Dr. Phil Episode | PTA Mom Claims Another Mom Tortured Her Allegedly As Revenge For Schoolyard Spat Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All of Abraham Shakespeare's wildest dreams came true the day he realized he'd won $30 million dollars in the lottery. From dropping out of school in 7th grade to being incarcerated in a juvenile detention center for theft until he was 18, he hadn't had the easiest life. But now, this money would change everything. He wouldn't have to struggle anymore. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. People started popping up all over the place, whether they actually knew Abraham or not, asking him for money. He knew what it was like to struggle financially, and so he gave and gave and gave and gave. But it was exhausting. Until Dee Dee Moore showed up, saying she could help with all his problems. After all, she had a very helpful nature... Sources: Articles Film Daily | Abraham Shakespeare’s Florida Lotto Murder Mystery: All the Details (Bethany Wade) Book Unlucky Number: The Murder of Lottery Winner Abraham Shakespeare (Deborah Mathis) Websites Murderpedia.Org Videos YouTube | Trust & Treachery - Abraham Shakespeare Murder Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This story starts with a bit of an urban legend. An urban legend about 16 year old Daniel LaPlante tormenting two teenage girls by pretending to be the spirit of their late mother. Kristin tells Mogab the real story behind the legend, and how Daniel went from terrorizing teenage girls to murdering pregnant mother Priscilla Gustafson and her small children. Sources: Articles Boston Globe | Neighbors Recall Suspect in Slayings as One Who Sowed Fear UPI | A Teenager Accused of Holding a Man and His Three Daughters Hostage AP News | Police Capture Youth Accused of Killing Three (Brian Murphy) Boston 25 News | Family of Murdered Woman, Children Say Man Never Showed Remorse AP News | Man convicted of killing mom, 2 young kids appeals sentence (Bob Salsberg) Los Angeles Times | Man Who Found Slain Family Learns to Rebuild His Life From Tragedy (Dana Kennedy) Lowell Sun | Judge: ‘I could pull the switch’ (Lisa Redmond) Others Joe Turner Books | The Bizarre Story of Daniel LaPlante Fake Crime, True News Blog | Daniel LaPlante Talk Murder With Me Blog | Daniel LaPlante Commonwealth vs. Daniel J. LaPlante 416 Mass. 433 Commonwealth vs. Daniel J. LaPlante 482 Mass. 399 Legacy Obituaries | Gustafson, Andrew Sportsman Bail Bonds Blog | How Long is a Life Sentence Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 year old Julie Kibuishi was found murdered in her friend, Sam Herr's, apartment. She'd been shot twice in the back of the head, written on the back of the sweater she was wearing were the words "She's all yours... f*** you", and Sam Herr was nowhere to be seen. Police found texts from Sam, showing that he had asked Julie to come to his apartment the night she was murdered. It was clear - all signs pointed to Sam.... until they started pointing to someone else. Enter Daniel Wozniak.... Sources: Articles Los Angeles Times | Wozniak Jury Won’t Hear About Murder Victim’s Arrest in 2002 Slaying, Judge Rules (Jeremiah Dobruck) Heavy.Com | Juri "Julie" Kibuishi's Murder & Crime Scene ( S.M. Walsh) ABC News | Actress Convicted of Lying to Police About Ex-fiancé’s Double Murder Pleads Innocence in Interrogation Tapes (Lauren Effron, Joseph Diaz, Denise Martinez-Ramundo) Los Angeles Times | Wozniak Defense Raises Possibility of His Fiancée’s Role in Murder Plot (Jeremiah Dobruck) Los Angeles Times | Trial Set On Accessory Charges for Rachel Buffett, Ex-fiancée of Double Murderer Daniel Wozniak (Daniel Langhorne and Hannah Fry) Los Angeles Times | Jury Convicts Double Murderer’s Former Fiancé of Being an Accessory After the Fact (Priscella Vega) Video YouTube | Southern California's Daniel Wozniak Case Other Daniel Wozniak Is My Friend Blog Episode of 20/20 - The Final Act Episode of 20/20 - Mystery in Apartment 401 Dr. Phil episode with Rachel Buffet Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LaVena was 19 years old and fresh out of high school when she was deployed to Balad, Iraq with the US Army. Within just a few months of her deployment, LaVena was dead. The Army called it a suicide and asked everyone to kindly move on, nothing to see here, folks! But her dad, Dr. John Johnson, was noticing things that just didn't add up with the Army's story. He fought them for all of the information they had on her death, and once he received the information, he could not believe what he was seeing. There was just no way this was a suicide... Sources: Articles Donald Watkins | The Murder of PFC LaVena Johnson - Part 1-3(Donald Watkins) St. Louis Public Radio | 10 Years Later, A Soldier's Family Still Grieves and Questions the Army's Version of her Death (Mary Delach Leonard) Democracy Now | Suicide or Murder? Three Years After the Death of PFC LaVena Johnson in Iraq, Her Parents Continue Their Call for a Congressional Investigation (Amy Goodman) Los Angeles Times | A Death With Two Stories Evidence (David Zucchino) NPR | Soldier's Family Challenges Army Suicide Report (Michel Martin) Other YouTube | The Story of PFC LaVena Johnson on the Rock Newman Show (Rock Newman Show) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Betsy Faria was 42 years old when she was brutally stabbed to death in her home. Her husband, Russell Faria, was the one to find her body, and immediately police were suspicious of him, even though his alibi was rock solid. Throughout their investigation, police would uncover Betsy's friend, Pam Hupp, was the last person to see Betsy alive. She was also the sole beneficiary of Betsy's life insurance policy, and had no alibi for the time of Betsy's murder. Unfortunately, it seems the police on this case were what the French call 'les incompetents', and they arrested Russ Faria for the murder of his wife. But Betsy would not be the last person murdered.... Sources: Articles St. Louis Magazine | The Unimaginable, Infamous Case of Pam Hupp (Jeannette Cooperman) Fox 2 Now | In Her Own Words: Pam Hupp on Her Mother's Fatal Fall (Chris Hayes) St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Once Sentenced to Life for His Wife's Murder, Russell Faria to Get $2M to Settle Lawsuit Against Police (Robert Patrick) Film Daily | How The Awful Murder of Betsy Faria Inspired A True Crime Phenomenon (Victoria Stuewe). Today | Renee Zellweger Set To Make Broadcast TV Debut in True Crime Story (Scott Stump) Other Case Text - Faria v. McCarrick Case No. 4:16-cv-01175-JAR The National Registry of Exonerations - Russell Faria Podcast Dateline Podcast: The Thing About Pam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we continue our Spears saga, diving into the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for 13 years. Free Britney! Sources: See part 1 for the rest of our sources for this episode. Articles NBC News | Britney Spears' Ex-manager Ordered to Stay Away from Singer, Her Family For 5 Years (AP) ABC News | Britney Spears vs. Sam Lutfi: 7 Biggest Revelations from the Trial (Sheila Marikar) VOGUE | These Were Britney Spears’s Best Performances of All Time (Christian Allaire) US Weekly | Sam Lutfi Details Britney Spears’ Alleged Drug Addiction in Court (Justin Ravitz) HuffPost | Britney Spears, Jason Trawick Split Orchestrated By Jamie Spears Billboard | Jason Trawick Added to Britney Spears' Conservatorship (Anthony McCartney) Documentaries New York Times Presents: Framing Britney (Hulu) Podcasts Eat, Pray Britney Podcast Britney's Gram Podcast Videos YouTube| Britney Spears Primetime Interview with Diane Sawyer 2003 YouTube | Britney's Gram - Anonymous Voicemail Other Temporary Conservator Declaration Elder Law Office of George F. Dickerman | Conservatorships and Undue Influence www.FreeBritney.net Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kristin and Mogab dive into the major rabbit hole that is Britney Spears and the Free Britney Movement. For the past 13 years, Britney Spears has been living under a legal conservatorship that has complete control over her person and her estate. It controls who she talks to, where she lives, what she eats, what jobs she can take, and how she spends her money. The person in control of all of this is her father, Jamie Spears, someone that Britney has never been close to. In part 1, Kristin tells Mogab all about what led up to Britney being put under the conservatorship. We all watched Britney's decline through tabloid and paparazzi eyes, but what's the real story? #FreeBritney! Sources: Articles Glamour | The Britney Spears Conservatorship Situation Fully Explained (Abby Gardner) Quad City Times | Britney Spears Drives with Son on Her Lap (AP) Los Angeles Times | Spears is Released from UCLA Hospital Psychiatric Ward (Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton) Daily Mail | Britney Spears Claims Never Seen Letter Silenced Threatened Team (Cheyenne Roundtree) Los Angeles Times | Precision Teamwork in Spears Operation (Andrew Blankstein, Scott Gold, and Richard Winton) ABC News | Could Britney Be Committed Against Her Will? (Emily Friedman) VICE | Behind the Mental Health Law That Kept Kanye West in the Hospital (Emalie Martha) BabyGaga | Under Her Father's Control: 15 Rules Britney Spears Has To Follow (Cynthia Levy) Daily Mail |Our Annulment was Bull***t... I was in Love with Her: Britney Spears' Ex Jason Alexander Opens Up About Pair's 55-hour Marriage (Sarah Bull) Cosmopolitan | The Upsetting Reason Britney Spears Shaved Her Head in 2007 (Daniella Scott) MTV News | Britney Spears Shaved Head, Gets Tattoo (Corey Moss) People | Britney Spears's Father Says She Was 'Out of Control' (Courtney Rubin) MTV News | Britney Spears Was Drugged, Controlled by Sam Lutfi, Parents Allege (Jennifer Vineyard) People | Who's in Charge of Britney Spears' Money (Howard Breuer and Marla Lehner) Oxygen | Who Is Sam Lutfi, The Controversial Figure Seen Alongside Britney Spears Just Before Her Conservatorship? (Gina Tron) See The Free Britney M Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was September, 2006 and Megan Meier was 13 years old when the MySpace friend request popped up. It was from a boy named Josh Evans, and everything about him was perfect. Maybe a little too perfect... Talking to Josh made Megan happier than she'd been in a long time, because she experienced low self esteem and depression. Seemingly out of nowhere, Josh turned on Megan and began firing hateful messages at her, and this ended in absolute tragedy. But little did anyone know, Josh Evans wasn't real. Someone close to her was behind it all... The Megan Meier Foundation Seize the Awkward Sources: Friend Game by Lauren Collins MySpace Hoax Ends With Suicide of Dardenne Prairie Teen by Steve Pokin Megan Meier Police Reports Exclusive: Teen Talks About Her Role in Web Hoax That Led to Suicide by Jonann Brady Verdict in MySpace Suicide Case by Jennifer Steinhaur Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the ax murder of Betty Gore. In a small town in Texas, Candy Montgomery just wanted to have an affair. She wanted something to shake up her boring housewife life, and she set her sights on Betty's husband, Allen. A year later, however, Betty would end up murdered after being struck with an ax over 40 times. How did this happen? How could a petite housewife with no history of violence do something like this? And what would her defense be at trial? And where are they now!? Sources: Love and Death in Silicon Prairie - Texas Monthly by Jay Atkinson and John Bloom The Murder of Betty Gore at the Hands of Desperate Housewife Candy Montgomery by Kim Bryan Candy Montgomery: The Desperate Housewife Who Murdered Her Good Friend by Sarah Mangiola The Most Infamous Ax Murder in Collin County History by Alexandra Cronin True story of ax murderer Candy Montgomery from Secret Lives of Stepford Wives by Asa Hawks LEFT TO WONDER 20 years after the ax slaying of Betty Gore, victim's daughters still have questions by Doug Swanson Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our first serial killer, peeps and creeps! This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Belle "Triflers Need Not Apply" Gunness, the most prolific female serial killer In American history. Belle was a true success story - she was able to overcome the struggles of being a woman immigrating to the US on her own in the late 1800’s. She managed to make a very comfortable life for herself by employing such tactics as arson, insurance fraud, and lots of good ol’ fashioned murder. And many people, including me, think she got away with all of it. Sources: Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter Triflers Need Not Apply: The story of deadly Belle Gunness by Kristy Puchko Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Brittany Murphy and the mysteries surrounding her death. Brittany Murphy was a talented actress who starred in movies like Clueless, Girl Interrupted, Just Married, and 8 Mile. When she was 32, Brittany died suddenly of supposed "natural causes". People were confused - how could a healthy 32 year old woman die suddenly of natural causes? And then her husband, Simon Monjack, started doing interviews, and boy were they CREEPY. It made people wonder - could there be someone to blame for Brittany's death? Kristin and Mogab also debate such philosophical questions as who is better: Eminem or TI? Is it offensive to compare Brittany Murphy to Lucille Ball? Is it a crime to have seen not a single one of her movies? Sources: Brittany Murphy: The Mysterious Circumstances Surrounding Her Death by Rachel Chang The Final Difficult Days of Brittany Murphy by Alex Ben Block Brittany Murphy's Brother Makes Fresh Claims over actress's Sudden Death Does a Chilling Tape from Beyond the Grave Prove Brittany Murphy's British Husband Could Have Been Saved? Cold Medicines Contributed to Brittany Murphy's Death, Coroner Says Coroner: Brittany Murphy Didn't Abuse Alcohol or Drugs How Did Brittany Murphy Die? Here Are the Creepy Details You Didn't Know Staph Infections by Larry Bush Neuropathy The Issues of Recreational Use of Klonopin Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive into the case of the Blue Eyed Butcher. Susan Wright had been married to her husband Jeffrey for 5 years when she stabbed him 193 times all over his body. Yes. One hundred and ninety three times. She then buried him in their backyard and it was nearly a week until someone was alerted to the murder. But there may have been more to this story than first met the eye…. If you or someone you know Is experiencing domestic violence, go to www.hotline.org or call them at 1-800-799-7233 Sources: 193 by Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, February 2010 ‘Cold Justice’ prosecutor Kelly Siegler faces possible contempt in Harris County death penalty case, federal judge warns - by Gabriel Banks in the Houston Chronicle Battered Woman Syndrome July 7, 2009 Lenore E. Walker, EdD, ABPP-CL & Fam Psychiatric Times, Psychiatric Times Vol 26 No 7, Volume 26, Issue 7 Battered Woman Syndrome Medically reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT — Written by Ana Gotter — Updated on July 5, 2017 Lenore E. Walker, Battered Women Syndrome and Self-Defense, 6 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 321 (1992). Wright v. State 'Blue-eyed butcher' sentenced to 20 years By Lena Jakobsson Tx. Woman Who Tied Husband up in Bed and Stabbed Him 193 Times in 2003 Is Released from Prison By Chris Harris in People, December 31, 2020 Susan Wright, woman who killed husband in 2003 by stabbing him 193 times, freed from prison Susan Wright formally released from prison after 16 years behind bars By Jessica Willey Bachman R , Saltzman L. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: violence against women: Estimates from the redesigned survey (NCJ-154348). Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1995. New York court clears woman of murder in battered-wife case By Aman Ali Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week It's part 2 of the Collar Bomb Heist! Last week we discussed the heist itself, which Involved Brian Wells walking into a PNC bank with a bomb around his neck, a scavenger hunt to find the keys to unlock the bomb, a body in a freezer, and a cast of wild characters. This week, we discuss new witnesses in the case, new evidence that's been brought to light, the trials involved, and our theories! Sources: Music from Pond5.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Year, peeps and creeps! We are back this week with part 1 of the Collar Bomb Heist. On August 28, 2003 in Erie, PA, Brian Wells robbed a PNC bank for somewhere around $9,000, much less than the $250k he was trying to get. He was arrested nearby shortly after the robbery, and police discovered he had a bomb locked around his neck. Brian told police that a group of black men had grabbed him while he’d been out on a pizza delivery, chained the bomb around his neck at gunpoint, and forced him to rob the bank. The bomb went off, killing Brian Wells, before the bomb squad could even arrive. After his death, police found notes in his car, detailing a scavenger hunt he was to go on after he’d gotten the money that would lead him to all the keys and codes necessary to unlock the collar, and the police were left with so many questions. Who was the mastermind behind the twisted plot to rob the PNC bank, what was the point of the scavenger hunt, and just how innocent was Brian Wells? Sources: The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist by Rich Schapiro in Wired Magazine Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist on Netflix Music from: Pond5.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/truecrimecreepers) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices