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Unforbidden Truth

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Unforbidden Truth is hosted weekly by Andrew Dodge. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with convicted criminals/murderers for 14 years now. Unforbidden Truth will consist of exclusive interviews with convicted criminals/murderers, professionals in the fields of criminal justice and psychology and more. Andrew is not an expert in the field and will never claim to be. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with prisoners for over a decade. Support this podcast: www.unforbiddentruth.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unforbidden-truth--4724561/support.

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Episodes

  1. The murder of Rebecca Schaeffer: Jailhouse interview with Robert Bardo

    In this episode of Unforbidden Truth, I sit down with Robert John Bardo, the man convicted of murdering 21-year-old actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989. Best known for her role on the television sitcom My Sister Sam, Schaeffer was a rising Hollywood star whose life was tragically cut short. Bardo's...

  2. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Breck Buchanan

    In this episode, I sit down with Breck Buchanan to hear his story firsthand. Buchanan was charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony following the death of his stepfather, John, whom he referred to as Scott. Buchanan entered an Alford plea as part of a…

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  3. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Robert Hogans

    Robert Hogans was convicted in Michigan in connection with the September 1990 abduction and killing of Pamela Kay Bandy. Bandy was abducted from a car wash in Pontiac, Michigan, and Hogans placed her in the trunk of her own Cadillac. He then drove around with her trapped inside for approximately...

  4. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Heather McCollum

    Heather McCollum is serving a life sentence, whom is eligible for release after 51 years, along with a consecutive five-year sentence for arson to be served at 30%, following her conviction for the 2012 first-degree murder of John Poteete and the subsequent arson of his home....

  5. Jailhouse conversation with convicted murderer Tadaryl Shipp: Raw Live feed Part 2

    Christa Pike is an American woman convicted of a notorious 1995 murder in Tennessee. At 18, she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States. Pike, along with fellow Job Corps students, lured Colleen Slemmer to an isolated location where Pike carried out a prolonged and especially...

  6. Jailhouse conversation with convicted murderer Tadaryl Shipp Part 2: Raw Live feed

    Christa Pike is an American woman convicted of a notorious 1995 murder in Tennessee. At 18, she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States. Pike, along with fellow Job Corps students, lured Colleen Slemmer to an isolated location where Pike carried out a prolonged and especially...

  7. Live Interview (Raw Audio) Jailhouse conversation with Steven Wiggins (With Robert Bradford of Timeless Mysteries)

    This is the first installment of a two-part interview featuring Steven Wiggins, a death row inmate in Tennessee. Wiggins was convicted of fatally shooting Sergeant Daniel Baker from the Dickson County Sheriff's Office. Following Baker's murder, Wiggins attempted to incinerate his body. When...

  8. Jailhouse conversation with convicted murderer Tadaryl Shipp: Raw Live feed

    Christa Pike is an American woman convicted of a notorious 1995 murder in Tennessee. At 18, she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States. Pike, along with fellow Job Corps students, lured Colleen Slemmer to an isolated location where Pike carried out a prolonged and especially...

  9. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Tadaryl Shipp: Music, recent parole hearing, peer mentorship & college in prison

    Christa Pike is an American woman convicted of a notorious 1995 murder in Tennessee. At 18, she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States. Pike, along with fellow Job Corps students, lured Colleen Slemmer to an isolated location where Pike carried out a prolonged and especially...

  10. Jailhouse interview with convicted triple murderer Mickey Douglas

    The case of Mickey Douglas centers on a deadly shooting at a Coney Island–style restaurant in Detroit in July 2020, where Douglas opened fire inside the establishment after a brief interaction reportedly triggered by a comment about his girlfriend. The attack killed three victims—Brian Jackson,...

  11. Interview with former cult member Isabella Young

    Isabella Young is a cult survivor who has rebuilt her life after escaping from a high-control, religious group that she joined with the belief it was a spiritual community under the guidance of a spiritual teacher. What began as a search for healing, purpose, and belonging became a fight for...

  12. Jailhouse interview with convicted school shooter/murderer Erica Hainstock

    The criminal case of Eric Hainstock centers on a 15-year-old student who, in September 2006, brought a shotgun and handgun into Weston High School and fatally shot his principal, John Klang, after a confrontation over disciplinary issues. Hainstock had a history of behavioral problems and claimed...

  13. Jailhouse interview with convicted sex offender Mendy Kent

    According to court records and regional news coverage, Mendy Kent was one of several individuals charged in Mobile County, Alabama, in connection with a long-running sexual abuse and exploitation case involving members of her extended family. Prosecutors alleged that the group participated in the...

  14. Jailhouse interview with convicted sex offender Wendy Holland (Second Phone Call)

    Wendy Holland is an Alabama woman who became publicly known after a broader criminal investigation involving members of her extended family in Mobile County. The investigation gained attention during the time of the 2012 disappearance of her teenage relative, Brittney Wood, a case that drew...

  15. Jailhouse interview with convicted sex offender Wendy Holland

    Wendy Holland is an Alabama woman who became publicly known after a broader criminal investigation involving members of her extended family in Mobile County. The investigation gained attention during the time of the 2012 disappearance of her teenage relative, Brittney Wood, a case that drew...

  16. Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer Lazale Ashby

    Lazale Ashby is a Connecticut inmate whose legal saga stems from the December 2002 rape and murder of 21-year-old Elizabeth Garcia in her Hartford apartment; DNA evidence and his own statements led to his arrest and a 2008 conviction on multiple counts, including capital felony, for which he was...

  17. Jailhouse interview with Rebecca Martinez (Released)

    Andrew speaks with recently released California prisoner, Rebecca Martinez. Martinez was released after serving a 32-month prison sentence. Rebecca Martinez has been convicted of burglary, vehicle theft, battery on an officer, murder, accessory to murder, kidnapping, carjacking, battery, assault...

  18. A conversation with retired criminal investigator Steven Lampley

    Steven David Lampley is a former police officer and undercover sex-crimes (SVU) detective with more than two decades of law-enforcement experience who has since become a bestselling true-crime author, speaker, and expert on deception and forensic investigation. He’s worked high-profile cases...

  19. Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer Dani Holder

    When he was 15 (later described as 16 when sentenced), Betournay was tried and convicted for killing his 14-year-old sister (April Betournay) and her 14-year-old friend (Beth Garbe) on December 14, 1994. He bound the girls’ wrists and ankles with duct tape, then sealed plastic bags over their…

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  20. A conversation with Martin McNally and film directors Eli Kooris and Joshua Shaffer

    American Skyjacker (2025) is a true-crime action documentary that chronicles the story of Martin McNally, who in June 1972 hijacked an American Airlines Boeing 727, demanded $500,000 in ransom, and parachuted out of the back — modeling his crime after the infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking. McNally...

  21. A conversation with Randy Garnder, brother of executed prisoner Ronnie Gardner: Live Feed

    Please note that the live was done on a cell phone, due to Randy being unable to access a laptop/tablet. Ronnie Lee Gardner was a convicted murderer from Utah whose violent criminal history and dramatic courtroom escape attempt made him one of the state’s most infamous prisoners. Born in 1961,...

  22. Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer Jeffrey Franklin

    In March 1998, Jeffrey Franklin, a 17-year-old high school student from Huntsville, Alabama, brutally attacked his family in their home in the Camelot subdivision. Armed with a hatchet, sledgehammer, and knife, Franklin killed his mother, Cynthia, and father, Gerald, and severely injured three of...

  23. A conversation with 'the selfie killer' Amanda Taylor (2022)

    In April 2015, Amanda Taylor, a 24-year-old woman from Virginia, committed a shocking and highly publicized murder that would earn her the nickname “The Selfie Killer.” Still grieving the suicide of her husband, Rex Taylor, Amanda blamed his father, Charles Taylor, for his death. On April 4, she...

  24. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Keith Griffith

    In January 2014, Julie Lane Kennedy Griffith (age 55) was found dead in her home in Reidland (near Paducah). Investigators later determined that she had been shot three times in the chest, and her house was then set on fire in what was believed to be a cover-up of the murder. Two dogs inside the...

  25. Interview with former federal prisoner Steven Nigg (2023): Assaulted Jared from Subway

    Steven Nigg is a former federal inmate best known for his 2016 assault on notorious sex offender Larry Nassar’s fellow high-profile prisoner, former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle. While serving time for a firearms conviction at a low-security prison in Colorado, Nigg became enraged that Fogle was...

  26. Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer Luis Bracamontes (2023)

    Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was convicted of murdering two sheriff’s deputies in Sacramento, California, in 2014. Bracamontes, who had previously been deported multiple times, carried out a violent shooting spree that left Deputy Danny Oliver and Detective Michael…

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  27. Interview with convicted murderer Victor Gonzalez

    In April 2006, 23-year-old Christopher Lampkin was murdered in a Salem apartment, shot execution-style, and dismembered by Leonardo Garcia Gonzalez and Victor Gonzalez. His remains were stuffed into a duffel bag and fed to pigs at a Yamhill County farm, where police later recovered partial…

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  28. Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer Theresa Knorr (2021)

    Theresa Knorr is convicted of murdering 2 of her 6 children. Theresa has been married a total of 4 times. Her first husband, Clifford Sanders died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, inflicted by Theresa. Theresa was acquitted of his murder. Theresa was known to be physically,...

  29. Jailhouse interview with 3 death row inmates Steven Wiggins, Jonathan Stevenson, Donald Middlebrooks

    Please note the prisoners were on speaker phone, on a prison tablet, so that's why it is so loud/why the quality is the way it is. This was a live interview I conducted on tik tok, which i occasionally do on Tuesday's. @unforbiddentruthpodcast is my username. Donald Ray Middlebrooks In 1987…

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  30. Jailhouse interview with convicted serial killer Prentiss 'PJ' Williams

    Prentiss Williams, of Toledo, Ohio, ultimately pleaded guilty to four murders committed in the mid‑1990s—specifically those of Shelley Johnson, Robert Hendricks, Carmita Dickey, and Jonathan Booker—and was also implicated in a jail incident in which he obtained a weapon and fired shots (with no…

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  31. A conversation with Christopher 'Life' Willars: Tik Tok Live Feed

    Christopher “Life” Willars is a renowned motivational speaker, prison‑rights and mental‑health advocate, and successful social‑media content creator who, after spending 17 years incarcerated, emerged to co‑found and lead a cosmetology vocational school outside Atlanta called Lasting Layers of...

  32. An inteview with historian, true crime author & filmmaker Peter Vronsky

    Peter Vronsky is a Canadian historian, true crime author, and filmmaker specializing in serial killers and criminal history. He has extensively interviewed serial killer Richard Cottingham, also known as the "Torso Killer," and has worked on uncovering Cottingham’s previously unknown crimes,...

  33. A conversation with Virginia prisoner Demetrius Neely: Tik Tok Live Feed

    On June 30, 2008, in the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Demetrius L. Neely was convicted on multiple drug‑ and firearm‑related counts. Those convictions included: possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (second offense), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession…

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  34. A conversation with 'The Tiger King' Joe Exotic: Tik Tok Live Feed with advocates Staci & Jennifer

    Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is an American former zoo operator and convicted felon who gained international fame as the eccentric, flamboyant star of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020). He owned and operated the Greater Wynnewood…

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  35. A conversation with juvenile offender Victor Mercado: Tik Tok Live Feed

    In 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, 16-year-old Victor Mercado allegedly shot and killed a man named Anderson. Mercado was identified as a suspect based on eyewitness descriptions. Mercado was convicted and was facing life in prison but was sentenced to 18 years. https://linktr.ee/Unforbiddentruth Become…

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  36. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Martha Freeman

    Martha Ann Freeman is a Tennessee resident who, along with Rafael DeJesus Rocha‑Perez, was convicted by a Davidson County jury of first-degree, premeditated murder in the April 2005 slaying of her husband, Jeffrey Freeman. Neighbors reported that she behaved strangely, both were found guilty and...

  37. Jailhouse interview with convicted domestic terrorist Michael Reynolds

    Michael Curtis Reynolds is an American convicted of domestic terrorism after attempting to orchestrate a plot in 2005 to bomb U.S. energy infrastructure, including oil pipelines and refineries. Posing as a terrorist sympathizer online, Reynolds sought assistance from what he believed were…

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  38. A conversation with Tennessee death row inmate Donald Middlebrooks: Tik Tok Live Feed

    Donald Ray Middlebrooks is a convicted murderer from Tennessee who was sentenced to death for the 1987 racially motivated killing of 14-year-old Kerrick Majors, a Black teenager. Along with two other white men, Middlebrooks participated in the brutal torture and murder of Majors, who was beaten,...

  39. A conversation with comic book writer/publisher Hart D. Fisher

    Hart D. Fisher is an American horror crime author, comic-book writer, and publisher best known for founding Boneyard Press and creating the controversial “Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer” comic in 1992 He’s also dubbed “the most dangerous man in comics” in the ’90s…

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  40. A conversation with Victoria McDorman: Younger sister of Christopher Bennett

    Christopher Bennett is a native of Craigsville, Virginia, who made national headlines in 2003 when, at 18, he fatally shot his stepfather, Vincent McDorman. Bennett was subsequently convicted of capital murder as well as robbery and breaking and entering, accepting a plea deal that resulted in a...

  41. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Donald Middlebrooks

    Kerrick Majors was a 14-year-old African American boy from Nashville, Tennessee, whose brutal, racially motivated murder in April 1987 became a symbol of both racial violence and justice in the American South. Described as a kind, respectful middle school student, Kerrick was abducted after a…

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  42. A conversation with criminologist James Sparks: Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Toole & Serial Homicide

    James Sparks is a criminologist; he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Murray State University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from UAB. His academic focus and teaching responsibilities at UAB encompass specialized topics such as serial killers, serial killers in international contexts…

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  43. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Barbara Phillips

    In June 1997, Uwe Durbin was brutally tortured and murdered in Riverside, California. Durbin, who had been staying with Lester “Woody” Wilson and his wife Barbara Phillips, was accused by Wilson of stealing electronics from their home. In retaliation, Wilson and Phillips abducted Durbin at…

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  44. Men's Mental Health Month: A conversation with Dr. Bill Kimberlin

    Dr. Bill Kimberlin is a clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, and author best known for his work studying and documenting life on death row in the United States. Dr. Kimberlin speaks about men's mental health and also speaks about his experiences with convicted murderer, Scott Peterson....

  45. Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Christopher Bennett

    Christopher Bennett is a Virginia man serving a 1,800-year prison sentence for the 2003 killing of his mother's boyfriend, Vincent McDorman. Bennett, then 18, claimed he shot McDorman after catching him molesting his six-year-old half-sister, Victoria. He was convicted of capital murder, robbery,...

  46. A conversation with convicted serial killer Prentiss 'PJ' Williams: Tik Tok Live Feed

    Prentiss Williams is an inmate currently incarcerated at the Trumbull Correctional Institution in Leavittsburg, Ohio. Born on December 30, 1978, he has been serving a lengthy sentence since his admission on December 22, 2003. His offenses include multiple counts of aggravated murder, attempted...

  47. A conversation with exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic: Tik Tok Live Feed

    Jeffrey Deskovic is an American attorney, advocate, and exoneree who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder at the age of 17. He spent 16 years in prison before DNA evidence led to his exoneration. Since then, he has dedicated his life to criminal justice reform and the exoneration of the...

  48. A conversation with convicted serial killer William Holbert AKA Wild Bill (2024)

    William Dathan Holbert, also known as "Wild Bill," is an American criminal who became infamous for his involvement in a series of murders and financial crimes in Panama. www.unforbiddentruth.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unforbidden-truth--4724561/support.

  49. Interview with retired supervisory special agent (BAU) Mark Safarik

    Mark E. Safarik is a retired Supervisory Special Agent who served 23 years with the FBI, including 12 years as a criminal profiler in the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). He co-founded Forensic Behavioral Services International, where he consults on complex violent crime cases and has appeared on...

  50. A conversation with William Harder: Tik Tok Live Feed

    William Harder is known for his controversial collection of items associated with notorious criminals, a hobby often referred to as "murderabilia." His collection includes letters, artwork, and other memorabilia from individuals such as Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker," and Charles Manson....

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Unforbidden Truth is hosted weekly by Andrew Dodge. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with convicted criminals/murderers for 14 years now. Unforbidden Truth will consist of exclusive interviews with convicted criminals/murderers, professionals in the fields of criminal justice and psychology and more. Andrew is not an expert in the field and will never claim to be. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with prisoners for over a decade. Support this podcast: www.unforbiddentruth.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unforbidden-truth--4724561/support.

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