Send us a text Memphian, Teresa Butler vanished without a trace on November 10, 1986. Her case ties into another disappearance, that of Leanne Green on April 15, 1987. What did the two women have in common? Robert Richards. Join us as we delve into the perplexing circumstances surrounding both missing women and the ongoing search for answers.…

Send us a text On March 24, 1944, in the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, two young girls, Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames, were found murdered. This episode delves into their murder as well as the tragic and unjust story of George Stinney Jr. George-a 14-year-old African American boy-was accused of killing the girls and became the y…

Send us a text Join us as we delve into one of the most horrific crimes in Memphis history - the Lester Street Massacre. On March 2, 2008, a shocking act of violence shook the city to its core when six people, including two children, were brutally murdered in a house on Lester Street. This episode explores the chilling details of the case, focusing…

Send us a text In December 1974, the remains of a woman were discovered near a tramway in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Despite efforts to identify her at the time, including an autopsy and outreach to various law enforcement agencies, her identity remained unknown for decades. Almost 50 years later, thanks to genetic genealogy, she was identified as Char…

Send us a text Jessica Lane Chambers, a 19-year-old woman, was found severely burned on a rural road in Panola County, Mississippi on December 6, 2014. She had been doused with an accelerant and set on fire, suffering burns over 98% of her body. Despite the severity of her injuries, Jessica was still alive when first responders found her, but she d…

Send us a text Jennifer Jackson, a 39-year-old single mother, was found stabbed to death in the bedroom of her Memphis, Tennessee home in the early morning hours of June 5, 2005. The main suspect? Her 18-year-old daughter, Noura. With matricides being extremely rare, constituting less than 1% of all U.S. homicides-this is a stand out case. Did Nour…

Send us a text In 2018, Mississippi resident John Paul Wilty was found dead at the end of his neighbor's driveway with two gunshot wounds to the chest. The subsequent investigation revealed a rocky relationship with his wife, Angela. This case is a compelling example of how domestic issues can escalate to a tragic end.…

Send us a text Leroy Stocker tragically passed away in a standoff with The U.S. Marshals Service and the Benton County Sheriff's Department in Benton County, TN. The circumstances surrounding this standoff and his subsequent death are troublesome and confusing. While his death was officially deemed a homicide, no one has been charged. Why?…

Send us a text Join us as we discuss the shocking 2011 disappearance and murder of nursing student, Holly Bobo.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text September 2022 was a particularly hard month for Memphis. The city was in the media several times--but not for our award winning BBQ, basketball teams, or blues music. No, Memphis was hit with several jolting crimes that made the national news. Join us as we discuss one of them--the tragic kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher.…

Send us a text Memphis! Montesi! Murderer? Say that three times fast! Join us as we discuss the 1965 murder of Evelyn Montesi and her notorious husband, Louis Montesi-owner of a local chain of specialty grocery stores.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Elizabeth Eisel went missing in 1985. Katherine Lowery went missing in 1999. What connects these two strangers? Steven DeLoge. Join us as we discuss our first missing persons case that is filled with family drama and unexpected twists and turns.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Join us for our very first guest interview with Shannon Franks, former 911 dispatcher and evidence clerk for the West Memphis Police. Shannon personally handled all of the evidence connected to the West Memphis Three case and offers her own insight and opinion about what she believed happened.…

Send us a text The high profile West Memphis Three case, while almost 30 years old, is still in the public eye today and remains technically unsolved. With tragic child victims, a cast of suspicious suspects, a slew of celebrity advocates, and a unique plea deal for the alleged killers-it's no wonder public fascination has never diminished.…

Send us a text Join us as we explore the tragic, unsolved 1985 death of Tennessean Carolyn Muncey and the equally tragic arrest and sentencing of her falsely accused killer, Paul House.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Special Edition! We talk about some updates we have for previous cases and give a recap of our experience at the 2022 Las Vegas CrimeCon.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Join us for the harrowing tale of the "Mother of Modern Adoption" Georgia Tann. This monster ran an adoption agency in Memphis in the 1920-40s and is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of up to 500 children under her care.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text While Jessica Johnson's 2017 death was officially ruled a suicide, the mysterious circumstances in which she was found continue to plague her family and friends with questions. Was it a suicide? Or was this an instance of foul play and poor police work?By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Sibling sleuths, Jeremy and Kelly, examine the 2010 murder of Memphis basketball player, Lorenzen Wright. While it is currently solved, it still contains a great many twists and turns that baffle true-crime aficionados to this day.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Sibling sleuths, Jeremy and Kelly, examine the 2010 murder of Memphis basketball player, Lorenzen Wright. While it is currently solved, it still contains a great many twists and turns that baffle true-crime aficionados to this day.By Jeremy & Kelly

Send us a text Sibling sleuths, Jeremy and Kelly, examine the unsolved 1989 murder of Nancy Little and her unborn but full-term baby that occurred in Memphis, TN.By Jeremy and Kelly

Send us a text Sibling sleuths, Jeremy and Kelly, examine the unsolved 1989 murder of Nancy Little and her unborn but full-term baby that occurred in Memphis, TN.By Jeremy & Kelly

Two years of simmering discord came to a head last week as the .NET OSS maintainers openly revolted against the .NET Foundation for years of non-communication, the Executive Director resigned, and newly elected board members are left to pick up the pieces. It was a wild week. First, there was some discord due to the .NET Foundation saying a board m…

VC that sells attention for NFTs wants you to buy NFTs. The .NET foundation decides to force its operations on member projects, and the Microsoft Store really really wants you to use the Microsoft Store. Please. Thank you.By George Stocker

Patch Tuesday gets delayed for more fixes, the word 'themes' now means 'new color schemes', and Microsoft releases a video called that's two minutes long filled with 8 new products... Or two minutes of 8. Not a really bright idea, that.By George Stocker

Arcade == .NET Foundation build tooling; .NET 6 RC 1 is out; and you can now specify what repositories to pull your nuget packages from -- individually.By George Stocker

The 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks is commemorated, Minimal APIs bet maximum attention, and technologies as old as it gets should be Good Enough For Everyone, says Linux Torvalds.By George Stocker

Windows 11 is coming October 5th; .NET Gets a plan for Deep Learning; and Techbash 2021 has been postponed.By George Stocker

The biggest news this week (and will likely trump any sort of news for the next couple of weeks in the Microsoft space) is that Azure has a vulnerability dubbed “ChaosDB” that exposed its customers keys to the world, leaving every single CosmosDB customer’s database data exposed for the taking. There’s a technical deep-dive into this vulnerability …

No releases this week; but lots of interesting tidbits nonetheless. If you read just one article this week, check out “The Myth of the Treasure Fox”. Link below, of course. Get the Drop on Sorting. Kevlin Henney does a deep dive on the drop-sort, a sorting algorithm that sorts by dropping elements in the collection. This is not as useless as it imm…

Releases 🔮 Magick.NET 8.2.0 has been released which is an image manipulation library for .NET. 📢 Windows App SDK 1.0.0-experimental has been releasedand Kevin Gallo attended the App Development Community STandup to underscore why it’s an important release. The release notes tout several experimental features, push notifications and windowing improv…

Microsoft sunsets OneNote, only to expand OneNote, and the .NET Compiler has a bit of chaos inside of it. Let’s get to it. ⛔✅ David Fowler, member of the .NET team, writes that “null checking in C# has gotten out of hand”. David’s right, of course, and a follow up tweet in that thread narrows it down to merely three methods to checking for null. An…

🕵️‍♀️ Using Secrets in .NET Core Console Applications Console applications remain one of the least documented parts of the .NET Core experience (compared to ASP.NET), and I’m always happy to share content on that topic. Why are console applications important? If you’re in an event-driven microservices world in .NET, using a Console application to c…

Several Zero-Days, and some more pontificating on the future of Programming as it relates to CoPilot. It’s been a busy week, so let’s see what happened Last week in .NET: 🧱 Next-generation firewall capabilities with Azure Firewall Premium. Microsoft is literally charging a premium for better security. Not a great plan. 🔓 Let’s make Visual Studio ev…

📆 July 29th is .NET “Focus on F#” Day. You can sign up to watch a whole day of videos on F# at focus.dotnetconf.net. I haven’t ever seen a CFP for these “Focus” events so I’m unsure of how they pick their speakers; but it looks like a good lineup. 🏪 Microsoft publishes its own applications through the Microsoft Store, making it about 95% of the Mic…

🍄 Jetbrains' Simon Cropp is hosting an "OSS Power-ups: Verify" event and I have no fracking idea what any of these words put together means. Which, if you think about it is entirely on brand for OSS, where marketing is shunned. ⏳ Rick Strahl has a lengthy blog post about converting the Desktop application Markdown Monster to use C#'s Async/Await. T…

I swore up and down I would not release a newsletter this week owing to the July 4th holiday (Treason day for the Brits out there), and then Microsoft's Github announced and released Github Copilot, and my promise fell apart. CoPilot is an ML trained code snippet generator. What is it trained on, you ask? All the public code on Github, GPL'd or oth…

The Windows 11 livestream happened last week, and the big news there is just about every computer older than 2017 will require you to upgrade your hardware to use Windows 11. This is bad news and I am unhappy ☠ Barry "I love tormenting people with pictures of beans" Dorrans reminds all of us that .NET Core 2.1 is End of Life at the end of August. I…

Windows 10 supports ends On October 14, 2025 according to a Microsoft support document. We’re expecting Microsoft to unveil Windows 11 this week, but I gotta say: It’s not going to be hard to get me off Windows 10 if Windows 11 promises less ads and less ‘synergy’. Appropos of nothing I bet this article on how to Disable OneDrive will be as useful …

We’ve come down from build and gotten back to the grind. Two releases this week followed by a ton of interesting stuff that’s happening in the .NET Space. .NET 5.0.7 has been released and it’s a small release that fixes CVE-2021-31957. In the same vein, .NET Core 3.1.16 has been released and it fixes the aforementioned CVE.Microsoft’s Kate Crawford…

It’s a light week this week; everyone is coming down from Build. If you missed that, check out last last week’s newsletter. Now on to what happened Last week in .NET. Jared Parsons, member of the Roslyn core team, talks about string vs. String. That is, for those of you listening to this instead of reading it, the keyword string vs. the class Strin…

So Build happened last week. This email newsletter is shockingly late for reasons that you probably don't care about but have messed up my entire week. Mea culpa. 📢 .NET 6 Preview 4 is out and contains a metric ton of bug fixes and new docker images for your testing pleasure. Seriously, far too many to list here. Thankfully though Microsoft has a b…

This week's newsletter is late because my wife and I were gone all weekend for our 10th anniversary. I am chagrined and refreshed all at the same time. With that said, let's get into what happened Last Week. 🙅‍♂️ Microsoft Teams is now available for personal use. I want to have the confidence of the executive that this would be a hit. Also in a fac…

🔧 Dave a Brock writes on how to use Configuration with C# 9 Top Level Programs One of the nicer features of C# 9 was pulling out the ceremony of the Main method. Dave uses this blog post to show how you can use configuration in this new world of no Main method. Now if only there weren't years of documentation showing varying ways to use configurati…

👽 Do you live in the UFO Hotspot? Boing Boing Asks, and my answer is: "What answer gets the aliens to come and take us away from this madness we call 2021?" 🥤📦 CVE-2020-15257 has been dubbed "Abstract Shimmer". I hear "shimmer" and I think "thirst trap". So yea. A CVE has officially been called a thirst trap. Free Association is one of the many rea…

☠ .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1 will reach End of Support on April 26, 2022 At least, that's the word right now. Governments around the world are still using Windows XP, so it's not like this is a firm 'end of support'. 🤡 Basecamp lost a third of its employees after a controversional series of blog posts last week A CEO couldn't destroy their co…

Not many releases last week, but lots of shenanigans. I spelled that word on the first try which matters not a whit to anyone else but I'm proud of myself. The shenanigans themselves are an age old story: Big Corporation finds feeble consumers, and exploits them. 🤑 Microsoft pushes MVP Influencers to Spruik Azure in Lead up to AWS: Reinvent. That's…

🚨🚨🚨🚨Microsoft Exchange has four new vulnerabilities with patches. CVE-2021-28480, CVE-2021-28481, CVE-2021-28482 and CVE-2021-28483. For some things the cloud does not make sense, but for the "I really don't want to deal with patching my own stuff", the cloud makes sense. Maybe it's time to migrate to O365, if you haven't already? By the way, this …

🎁.NET 5.0.5 has been released. This release fixes an issue where dotnet restore wouldn't work on Linux. 💸Jimmy Bogard takes you through local development on Azure Service Bus. Developers won't pay $99 a year for a tool that saves them hundreds of hours, but will happily pay to develop software in the cloud. 🕴Leverage enterprise-scale reference impl…

💣Jesse Liberty started off the week with violence by introducing his team's updated coding standards for C#. For the most part I agree with these standards, but there are a few I have problems with... which I suppose was the goal all along. ✒Do you author Markdown files in VS Code? If so Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige on twitter) has an amazing ext…