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He claimed to be an 18-year-old Marine heading off to war, and she alleged to be an attractive young woman sending him off with provocative pictures. Or so they thought. However, they were actually two middle-aged people carrying out a fantasy internet relationship that seemed like a harmless lie. Sources: When Catfishing Turns Into a Deadly Love Triangle - Life (livingmgz.com) Also, the 2009 documentary film Talhotblond. 

Awe, young love can drive us to do crazy things, like steal a car, rob a bank, or murder someone we thought was trying to steal our significant other. But most people would fortunately not do any of things and either end the relationship or figure out some more mature way of handling the situation. That would not be the case for Christa Pike and Tadaryl Shipp. Sources: Christa Pike: The Youngest American Woman Ever Sentenced To Death (allthatsinteresting.com) Christa Pike | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Colleen Slemmer's Mom Wants Christa Pike, Only Woman On Tennessee's Death Row, Executed (newsweek.com) State v. Shipp, C.C.A. No. 03C01-9711-CR-00492 | Casetext Search + Citator

Should it matter why people choose an Alford plea, listen and find out? Sources:  Alford plea | Wex | U.S. Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu) North Carolina v. Alford - Wikipedia Alford plea - Wikipedia https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/alford-plea-what-is-it-and-which-states-use-it-49755

The disappearance of Molly Bish and Familial DNA or Bill 1595 Sources: Molly Bish Case: Heather Bish Provides Update on DNA – NBC Boston Home | The Molly Bish Foundation Person of interest named in 2000 murder of Molly Bish (wcvb.com) Molly Bish: Inside The Unsolved Murder Of A 16-Year-Old Lifeguard (allthatsinteresting.com) Killing of Molly Bish - Wikipedia Familial DNA Bill Aims to Find Answers to Unsolved Cases (thisweekinworcester.com)

Sources:  Ada Blackjack - Wikipedia Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition - Atlas Obscura Ada Blackjack: Forgotten Queen of Arctic Expeditions (oceanwide-expeditions.com) The Inuit Woman Who Survived Alone on an Arctic Island After a Disastrous Expedition - HISTORY Short documentary: Ada Blackjack Rising by Brice Habeger --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Misidentification locked up Kevin Strickland for 43 years. Please find out how and why this case took so long to make its way through the court system.  Sources: Kevin Strickland - National Registry of Exonerations (umich.edu) Kevin Strickland rebuilds his life after wrongful conviction | The Kansas City Star BY LUKE NOZICKA Kevin Strickland - Wikipedia Mike Parson - Wikipedia --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

She was the youngest child in an unusual family; her father, Thomas, was 65 years old at the time of her birth, while her mother, Ann, was, at 16, still a minor. The family was below the poverty line, and Christine did not receive the necessary early childhood support. Because of this, she was considered mentally challenged; she also had epilepsy and was also obese. To make matters worse, her parents also physically and sexually abused her. She required a regular dose of medication to control her epileptic seizures. Sources:  Christine Falling - Wikipedia Sudden infant death syndrome - Wikipedia https://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/falling-christine.htm Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Who Have No Surrogate or Advance Directive? | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org) Christine Falling | Deadly Women Wiki | Fandom --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The insurance money was a factor for Teresa, but by walking away from the church, Randy took her farther away from David. She no longer would work in the church kitchen, attend choir rehearsals, or other David’s sermons stir the congregation on Sunday mornings. Randy also knew, or suspected, enough to possibly crash David Love’s future. His financial questions could get David fired from New Hope. And if he acted on suspicions of his wife’s affair, Randy could wreck any hope that David Love would work again as a Baptist pastor. Whether or not he realized it, Randy Stone had become the greatest threat to David Love’s happiness and livelihood. Sources:  Teresa Stone | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Former Marine's Murder Exposes Wife's Affair with Pastor - ABC News (go.com) https://thecinemaholic.com/randy-stone-murder-where-are-teresa-stone-and-david-love-now/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Minutes later, David Love stepped off an elevator, flanked by two detectives. Teresa Stone emerged from a hallway with her detective escort, looking as if she had stumbled into a chance meeting. The two stopped and looked at each other. In their final encounter, neither spoke the truth. “I told them everything,” a distraught Teresa said. David appeared stoic and did not speak for 20 seconds. “Don’t worry,” he said. “I will take care of everything.” Sources:  Teresa Stone | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Former Marine's Murder Exposes Wife's Affair with Pastor - ABC News (go.com) https://thecinemaholic.com/randy-stone-murder-where-are-teresa-stone-and-david-love-now/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Women came to Ishikawa's ward, gave birth, and abandoned their children. One woman had a terrifying and horrible solution in her own right. That solution was infanticide, or the crime of killing a child within a year of birth. Sources: Miyuki Ishikawa - Wikipedia Miyuki Ishikawa, The 'Demon Midwife' Who Killed 100 Babies (allthatsinteresting.com) Miyuki Ishikawa | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Miyuki Ishikawa - Absolute Crime Details You Should Know About Serial Killer Miyuki Ishikawa (grunge.com) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

At about 11:30 am on November 8, 1979, a black man walked into a newly opened antique store in Gretna, Louisiana. The owner, B.N., a 39-year-old white woman, became suspicious. She attempted to direct him to furniture outside, but he grabbed her from behind and clubbed her in the head with a handgun as she walked to the front door. He then forced her into a bathroom at the rear of the shop and raped her at gunpoint.      --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The trail in the snow led to the middle of Lava Lake, where the missing sled was recovered. On the sled was more blood and clumps of what was believed to be human hair.  Sources:  The Unsolved Mystery Of The Lava Lake Murders (grunge.com) The Lava Lake Murders: One of Oregon’s Oldest Unsolved Crimes (the-line-up.com) Lava Lake murders - Wikipedia Offbeat Oregon: Lava Lake murders are still officially unsolved, but … | Community | tillamookheadlightherald.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sources:  Robert William Fisher | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Robert William Fisher - Wikipedia 475. Robert William Fisher — FBI Arizona fugitive Robert Fisher removed from FBI 10 Most Wanted list (azcentral.com) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Intellectual disability involves problems with general mental abilities that affect functioning in two areas: intellectual functioning (such as learning, problem-solving, judgment) adaptive functioning (activities of daily life such as communication and independent living) Intellectual disability affects about one percent of the population, and of those about 85 percent have a mild intellectual disability. Males are more likely than females to be diagnosed with intellectual disability. Sources:  Atkins v. Virginia | Oyez Roper v. Simmons | Oyez Hall v. Florida | Oyez Atkins v. Virginia - Wikipedia Hall v. Florida - Wikipedia Roper v. Simmons - Wikipedia --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Summary: He planned to bring a group of boys together, allow them to make friends, then separate them into two factions to compete for a prize. He believed they would forget their friendships and start demonizing one another at this point. The piece de resistance was to come at the end: he planned to set a forest fire in the vicinity of the camp. The intentional forest fire would force the boys to work as one team again, facing a shared threat. Sources: Book: the Lord of the Flies by Gina Perry  Robbers Cave Experiment: How Group Conflicts Develop - PsyBlog (spring.org.uk) Robbers Cave Experiment (SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY) - iResearchNet Robbers Cave Experiment / Realistic Conflict Theory | Simply Psychology A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment | Psychology | The Guardian ‘Come on out and fight!’: an extract from The Lost Boys by Gina Perry | Psychology | The Guardian The Robbers Cave Experiment: Realistic Conflict Theory - Explore Psychology

One beautiful girl, two extravagant and prominent men. Throw in jealousy and a family history of mental instability and you have the recipe for a shocking murder, at an outdoor theater in the heart of New York City in front of nearly a thousand witnesses. The trial that followed was quickly dubbed "the trial of the century." The 1907 trial, and a second the next year after the first jury hung, helped closed the curtains on America's "Gilded Age." Sources  Evelyn Nesbit - Wikipedia The Love Triangle | American Experience | Official Site | PBS Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Thaw, Stanford White, And The Trial Of The Century (allthatsinteresting.com) Evelyn Nesbit and “the Trial of the Century” – PortableNYC – New York history, architecture and secrets (portablenycblog.com) Historian writes true-crime account of Evelyn Nesbit scandal (brooklyneagle.com) Story of Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw-White Murder The 100-Foot Gibson Girl: A Symbol of Abuse, Then and Now - The New York Times (nytimes.com) The Trials of Harry Thaw for the Murder of Stanford White (famous-trials.com) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Found in Port St. Lucie, the Devil Tree is a big oak in a county park on canal C-24. A mighty oak, an ordinary tree, nothing to write home about…except the fact that thing might as well growl and snatch up little old ladies and unsuspecting kids and gobble them up like a throwback from a Grimm Fairy tale. The Devil Tree has an evil, macabre, and incredibly blood-soaked reputation; one that’s entwined with Florida history and its amazing capacity to attract the worse of the worse that humanity has to offer. Sources Gerard John Schaefer - Wikipedia The Devil Tree – Florida’s First Serial Killer & The Hauntings He Left - Miami Haunts CRIME HUNTER: How 'damn weird' Florida cop became a serial killer | Toronto Sun UNTANGLING TORTURED WEB OF A KILLER - Sun Sentinel (sun-sentinel.com) Gerard Schaefer Jr.’s horrifying 'Killer Fiction' stories could have been filed on memoir shelf - New York Daily News (nydailynews.com) Gerard Schaefer: Serial Killer Cop | by DeLani R. Bartlette | Lessons from History | Medium Gerard Schaefer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers The Sexual Sadist | Officer --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Summary:  “I want to give you something to think about while we’re traveling down the road… Number one, I want you to observe the weather conditions, it’s raining, it’s sleeting, it’s freezing, driving is very treacherous, visibility is poor, it’s going to be dark early this evening. They are predicting several inches of snow for tonight, and I feel that you yourself are the only person that knows where this little girl’s body is, that you yourself have only been there once, and if you get a snow on top of it you yourself may be unable to find it. And, since we will be going right past the area on the way into Des Moines, I feel that we could stop and locate the body, that the parents of this little girl should be entitled to a Christian burial for the little girl who was snatched away from them on Christmas Eve and murdered. And I feel we should stop and locate it on the way in rather than waiting until morning and trying to come back out after a snow storm and possibly not being able to find it at all.” Sources:  https://www.oyez.org/cases/1976/74-1263 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/430/387/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer_v._Williams https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/criminal-procedure/criminal-procedure-keyed-to-weinreb/the-privilege-against-self-incrimination/brewer-v-williams/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

During World War 1, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dails with luminous radium paint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/radium-girls https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/13/263/2096834/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On the night of August 31, 1986, 65-Year-old William Delton Frost and his 60-year-old invalid wife, Callie was fatally shot in their two-room home in Downsville, Louisiana. The front door had been smashed in and police believed the motive was robbery because Frost didn’t trust banks and was believed to keep his cash in a suitcase in the home. The shots appeared to have been fired through a window. Their bodies were discovered 2 days later. Sources: Albert Burrell (witnesstoinnocence.org) Albert Burrell - National Registry of Exonerations (umich.edu) Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. (nationalgeographic.com) BURRELL v. STATE | FindLaw Description of Innocence Cases | Death Penalty Information Center Albert Burrell (danielbolick.com) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Without exception, each man who saw the lifeless body of Betty Gore on the night of June 13th reflexively averted their eyes. Even those who already knew what lay beyond the utility room were never bold enough to look more than a moment before closing the door. Sources  A jury decided Candace Montgomery was acting in self... - UPI Archives Fatal Perfection | Dallas Observer The True Story of the Friday the 13th Murder: Why Candy Montgomery Killed Betty Gore (msn.com) Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I: Candy Montgomery’s Affair – Texas Monthly Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part II: The Killing of Betty Gore – Texas Monthly Watch The 1980s The Deadliest Decade Season 2 | Prime Video (amazon.com) episode 3 specifically  Book Amazon.com: Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs eBook: Bloom, John, Atkinson, Jim: Kindle Store --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It happened on the church volleyball court, on a late-summer day in 1978. Candy and Allan both tried to make a play on the same ball—and collided. It was a harmless bump, really, and went unnoticed by everyone else on the court, but for Candy, it brought a revelation: Allan Gore smelled sexy. For several weeks she had been talking abstractly to friends about having an affair. Candy wanted something to shake up her “very boring” life with Pat. She was explicit about the kind of affair she was interested in transcendent sex. As she put it, “I want fireworks.” A jury decided Candace Montgomery was acting in self... - UPI Archives Fatal Perfection | Dallas Observer The True Story of the Friday the 13th Murder: Why Candy Montgomery Killed Betty Gore (msn.com) Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I: Candy Montgomery’s Affair – Texas Monthly Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part II: The Killing of Betty Gore – Texas Monthly Book Amazon.com: Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs eBook: Bloom, John, Atkinson, Jim: Kindle Store --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode will detail a lot of facts that are known about this case and who the prime suspect was at the time.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app