I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.
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Shot in the neck, murder-for-hire: When will Stephanie Linville Perdue go to trial?
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1:02:46Send us a text Some women ain’t nothing but trouble. No one knows that better than Milton business owner and father, Sean Perdue. In 2021, Perdue had a successful business and was a single dad to a young daughter he doted on, Lily. Divorced after 20 years, Perdue was looking for someone to build a life with and help him with his special needs child…
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Cover up, huddle up Tuscumbia: August Borden Part III
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58:45Send us a text This is quite the episode - we're packing in updates on two controversial cases we've been following! Before we dive into the latest on August Borden we have an update on embattled plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown. Now to Tuscumbia, Alabama where the Deshler High School football team’s motto is "Nos Non Ego," which is Latin for "We Not…
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Heartless Lynn Turner: Loved policemen to death
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28:56Send us a text People lost their heads over praying mantis Lynn Turner, and some people lost their lives. She poisoned her husband and her boyfriend with anti-freeze laced green Jello, and likely would have gotten away with it all of it, but for pushing her luck killing her second the lover who took to the first husband’s funeral. When Lynn, 32, go…
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Traumatic injury or accident: Tuscumbia divided over battered 15-year-old football player August Borden: Part II
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24:48Send us a text August Borden continues to recover at his home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the wake of an incident that has all but divided the town because it centers around Deshler High School's football program. The 15-tyear-old football player suffered traumatic injuries to his head and face after football practice on Aug. 19 that sent him to the …
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Traumatic injury or accident: Tuscumbia divided over battered 15-year-old football player August Borden.
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53:47Send us a text Just three weeks into his freshman year of high school, 15-year-old football player August Borden should have been looking forward to Homecoming. Instead, people in his hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, were praying that he would come home at all, after he was severely injured walking between the stadium and the fieldhouse with his tea…
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Judges Behaving Badly: Oklahoma Judge Traci Soderstrom - 500 texts during murder trial, not O.K.!
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30:49Send us a text The Honorable Judge Traci Soderstrom was anything but honorable when it came to how she ran her courtroom, even during a murder trial. The Oklahoma Supreme Court investigated her for misconduct after she was caught texting back and forth with her in-court bailiff over 500 times while she sat on the bench during the murder trial of a …
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What in the cornbread hell is going on in Cullman, Alabama?! Whitney Cheatham and Kody Smith
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36:14Send us a text Did Whitney Cheatham read the charges right or does she know something we don’t know? ‘Cause she’s smiling so big in her police mug shot it’s making some people wonder. Police in Cullman, Alabama say the 33-year-old salon owner is facing 25 charges related to drug trafficking and practicing medicine without a license. Her arrest come…
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Santa Rosa School District in Florida under fire over handling of Matthew McChesney investigation
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1:09:47Send us a text Gulf Breeze parent Tara Kamm is speaking out in the wake of the arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney, who has plead not guilty to possessing, trading and sharing 23 counts of CSAM. The incident has shaken the whole community and Kamm wants to see parents take the passion they feel over the Santa Rosa Co…
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Gulf Breeze Grad Matt McChesney Busted for CSAM and Teacher Molly Mersereau Arrested for Illicit Student Relationship
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46:25Send us a text The arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney on 23 CSAM charges has set off a safety alarm for parents and the Santa Rosa County School District. In part, because he was arrested the same month that 36-year-old Gulf Breeze High School hospitality teacher and a private team soccer coach Molly Mersereau, was …
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Twice Electrocuted, Once to Die: The Trial and Execution of Willie Francis
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40:04Send us a text A poor teenager from Louisiana had few options when he was charged with the murder of a local, prominent pharmacist in St. Martinville in 1946. In a town full of secrets, Willie Francis was the perfect scapegoat. He couldn’t even afford the defense attorney who eventually took over his case and his dad paid with two sacks of potatoes…
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Good Ol’ Bernie Tiede – Mortician Extraordinaire – Made Millions from Make-up to Murder
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39:47Send us a text Convicted killer Bernie Tiede is such a character that his true-crime case caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was featured in the film “Bernie,” who was portrayed by actor Jack Black. In fact, the performer was so impressed with Bernie’s magnanimous personality Black would like to see him released from prison and the film’s pr…
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Wanna be Teen Tik Tok star Sarah Grace Patrick called 9-1-1, Charged with Double Murder
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36:33Send us a text A beautiful, fresh-faced Carrollton, Georgia teen who openly grieved for her mother and stepdad on Tik Tok was arrested on July 8, 2025, and was accused of fatally shooting this past February. Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with murder of her mom, Kristin Brock, 41, and her stepfather James Brock, 45. They were found dead in th…
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’Absolutely I knew’: Gulf Coast Stapleton’s Brittani standing by her man Josh on CSAM charges
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30:02Send us a text Right here in our little slice of Paradise is the home for fun, sun, fitness, beach, boating, swimming, surfing, dining on seafood...nothing could be more beautiful and wholesome. It's the perfect backdrop for an enviable highlight reel for any Social Media Content Creator! So how would one know if this was Real or just an Illusion..…
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What in the murder and matrimony in Milton: The Jerry Odum story
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42:05Send us a text Jerry Odum was always trying to find a way out of commitments or promises that he made himself. He would be the first to let you know he was the smartest person in the room and drop it in when he could that he was "a millionaire." A non-stop pathological liar who would lie about any and every thing, even when it wasn’t necessary. If …
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Bloody Nightmare: Sleepwalking teen Benjamin Elliott stabs twin sister to death in waking ‘nightmare’
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1:05:57Send us a text What goes on in someone else’s mind is a mystery, unless they let you in on the secret. Benjamin Elliott was a studious, intelligent teen who was “enamored” with his dad’s sword collection and a survival knife his dad gave him. Pretty normal hobbies for a young man from Texas, but what was not normal was what he did with the knife. H…
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Jealousy, Greed, G-strings, and Gyrations: The Chippendale Murders
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53:14Send us a text Sexy, classy-looking men dancing for dollars and putting on a show for women. The neveau concept revolutioned not only Indian immigrant Steve Banerjee's Los Angeles nightclub, that was barely getting by on disco and backgammon, but it also caught fire across the country, thanks in part to the cast of characters that helped Banerjee l…
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Send us a text Jeannine Jaramillo, of Albuquerque, who was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal car crash in 2022. Jaramillo made a frenzied 911 call claiming to have been kidnapped, leading to a police chase on I-25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the pursuit, Jaramillo sped the wrong way on the interstate, cau…
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Carlee Russell kidnap hoax: 911’d an invisible toddler
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45:18Send us a text We all want special attention from time to time, but would you fake your own kidnapping? Would you spin a tale that puts you as a hero for possibly saving a half-dressed toddler from the busy I-459 Birmingham traffic in the dark of the night? Would your tale include leaving your bright red luxury car still running on the side of the …
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Teen Chase Jones Addicted to Speed Kills Four
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29:55Send us a text “I was addicted to speed,” 18-year-old Chase Jones told the Judge at his sentencing. He pled guilty to Four counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of 38-year-old Andrea S. Hudson, 12-year-old Boyd "Buster" Brown, 13-year-old Matilda Wilcoxson, and 12-year-old Eloise Wilcoxson. Jones was also charged with Two counts of vehicular …
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Pace Pharmacy: Accused of compounding a pill mill
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52:18Send us a text Pace Pharmacy is the target of a multi-agency bust that accuses the pharmacist-in-charge of running his business like a traveling medicine show in the Wild West: Step right up and order your own customized version of a bottle of Dr. Feelgood from the head man in charge! Pharmacist Stephen Burklow’s arrest report paints a picture of a…
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Dr. Ingolf Tuerk, renowned robotics surgeon, snapped and choked his wife
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32:22Send us a text As a pioneer of Robotic Surgery, brilliant and likeable Dr. Ingolf Harry Tuerk was used to things going his way. Tall, smart, good looking, and buff he was living his best life! Perhaps his great life could be even better when he decided to check out a dating app. That’s where he met the beautiful and fun, 45-year-old single mom of t…
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Rock throwing Joseph Koenig and gang punished for high-speed murder of Alexa Bartell
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36:11Send us a text Alexa Bartell was simply driving home from work late one Wednesday night. Something almost everybody does every day. She was especially happy that evening on April 19, 2023. The 20-year-old woman loved her family, she loved her job at a flooring company where she worked with her mom, and she loved her new girlfriend who she was going…
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Chuck Erickson’s dream becomes Ryan Ferguson’s nightmare!
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32:03Send us a text An All-American young man was enjoying the best time of his life in college when he was arrested for the murder of Kent Heitholt, a popular sports editor in their hometown of Columbia, Missouri. The tall and strapping Heitholt was found beaten and strangled in the newspaper parking lot after getting off late from work on Halloween ni…
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Three-Fer: Penelope McGee, Gerald Radford, and Kanye West
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1:13:08Send us a text Is your mouth a murder weapon? Can a bully cry self-defense? And what's up with Kanye West and Nitrous Oxide? We're talking about three cases in this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential. The first is Penelope McGee. If someone is arguing with you, is it your responsibility to make sure they don't die? Socialite Penelope McGee was argu…
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Arkansas Dr. David Diffine: The Naked Truth…and we really mean Naked!
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33:42Send us a text Dr. David Diffine made himself famous on Instagram as “Naked Dr. Dave.” Now many more agencies are on to him since he sauntered naked through his Arkansas doctor’s office. He did don a ball cap, but that’s all he had on when he walked into the reception area and exposed himself to several women who worked with him, including one who …
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Brock Horner and Tracy Nix: Everybody's talking about the Un-flipping believable Florida Man and Florida Grandmother!
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32:12Send us a text Lawd hammercy, if you like drama, trauma, and incredulous cases, don’t look any further than Florida! From one end of the Gulf Coast to another, we’re swimming in sass, sorrow, and the worst kind of decision making. In Wauchula, Tracy Nix learned she would be spending years in prison for forgetting her 9-month-old granddaughter and l…
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Forgetful Grandma Tracy Nix: Hot car baby death
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36:25Send us a text Tracy Nix was enjoying her retirement years…until two of her young grandchildren died on her watch. Up until the back-to-the-back tragedies she had no time clock, no boss, no worries and the freedom to pursue her hobbies and passions, like playing the piano. In fact, she was practicing piano for several hours when she forgot that her…
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Don’t invite Jordan Henning to the party: Killer husband’s wife died over Slip ‘N Slide
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35:24Send us a text Crime over a slip ‘n slide. Jordan Henning lied and lied. Ashley Henning was shot and died, Murder, justified? You decide. Ashley Henning, Sgt. 1st Class in the U.S. Army, was shot to death on her 37th birthday. Her death was no accident or crime committed at the hands of a stranger. She was gunned by her soldier husband, 34-year-old…
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Missing, Foul Play Suspected: What Happened to Pensacola Teen Joanna Otto 33 Years Ago?
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1:02:42Send us a text Sweet Joanna Otto gone, missing, but never forgotten since 1992! I didn't know you, but I have met the people who did and still mourn you. What can happen in 30 years? We’ve had technological changes, political shifts, global changes, disasters, and even a virus that affected the whole world We’ve broadened this thing known as the In…
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It’s Always the Susan Smith Show: Probation denied for Killer Mom who Drowned Sons
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36:36Send us a text Susan Smith has been called a lot of names: evil, egocentric, seductress, and murderer. One name she doesn’t deserve is mother. In 1994, the then 23-year-old young woman claimed a man carjacked her and took off with her children who were in the backseat. A community-wide search in Union, South Carolina went nationwide as the shocking…
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“Ole Miss Murder Mystery: Did strait-laced Tim Herrington, Jr. kill his flamboyant hook-up, Jimmie “Jay” Lee, over a bootie call?”
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24:01Send us a text Jimmie “Jay” Lee loved to shine. The 20-year-old Ole Miss Student was known for his love of flamboyant clothes, his Pomeranian ‘Lexie,’ and helping others. In fact, the day his disappearance was discovered the soon-to-be social worker had missed attending a baby-formula drive and his friends and family knew something was wrong. Jay L…
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“Blue Gatorade: Is it worth your life? Store owner Taz Zarka stabs Mark Garrity”
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24:25Send us a text Killing a customer for shoplifting seems callous and cruel, but 61-year-old Taz Zarka said he was “not a monster” for stabbing 27-year-old Mark Garrity Jr. to death on April 6, 2023. The young man was in Taz’s family-owned, neighborhood supermarket located at the City Bus Stop in Raleigh, North Carolina when the store owner thought M…
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Unnecessary Middle Men Force Patients to Pay More for Prescriptions
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39:55Send us a text It’s no secret that the Pharmacy Healthcare System is broken. Join Pam and me as we dive into the ugliness of one of the main reasons the Pharmacy Profession and Independent Pharmacies are being threatened, some pharmacists say. We invited Johnny Brooklere, Pharmacist/Owner of Brooklere Pharmacy 💊 in Birmingham, Alabama to share his …
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Lawsuit over Dr. Shaknovsky’s wrong-site liver surgery: Pandora’s Box Opened
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58:08Send us a text As unbelievable as it is that a surgeon could mistakenly remove a man’s liver instead of his spleen, the lawsuit filed over the alleged wrongful death of 70-year-old Bill Bryan says that his fatal operation is just the latest in a series of surgical errors by the same surgeon enabled by a system geared to protect doctors. According t…
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First on the scene: First responders suffer in silence
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1:00:31Send us a text Murder changes everyone. When lives are suddenly and horrifically cut short, the loss also shatters those who love them. But they aren’t the only ones who suffer. First responders who are first on the scene see it, too. Firefighters, paramedics, and police all witness the worst people can do to each other. It’s rewarding to help peop…
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Boyfriend shot girlfriend’s jealous ex-boyfriend: Don’t F-A-F-O with Brian Camp
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27:17Send us a text A man’s home is his castle and that was certainly the case for Brian Camp, when an unknown intruder broke into his home and attacked him while he, his girlfriend, and their children were sleeping. The intruder turned out to be Johnathan Letendre, his girlfriend’s jealous ex-boyfriend. Naked, unarmed, and asleep, Brian came up out of …
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Let the Good Times Roll: Terror truck attack too Easy in the Big Easy
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30:22Send us a text From historic snowfall to an unprecendented terror attack early on New Year's Day, January 2025 has been one for the record books for New Orleans. The Big Easy is always a good time. It's a city open to celebration no matter what day of the week or month of the year, there's always good food, drink, dancing and debauchery. For folks …
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Bendadryl, Babysitter, and Breastmilk: What Happened to Baby Abi Lobisch?
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23:40Send us a text Dixie Denise Villa ran an unlicensed daycare on base in Hawaii. She had several children of her own and would often help other families with their kids because of a lack of childcare. In 2019, Anna Lobisch begged Dixie to watch her 7-month-old baby, Abi, because Anna needed to study for some classes and had other appointments. Despit…
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Secret stache of nudes leads Jade Janks to kill her stepdad
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28:44Send us a text Jade Janks was a hip and fashionable young woman who had a vibrant and wholesome style that made her a favorite with family and friends, and fueled her successful career as an interior decorator in California. Even though her mom had divorced her stepdad, Tom Merriman, Jade remained close with the co-founder of a butterfly farm and d…
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Moonshine, Murder, and Missing Men in the Mountains: the Unsolved Mystery of The Brasher-Dye Disappearance
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22:29Send us a text Alabama’s oldest, active cold case is a wild, real-life tale of three cousins who disappeared one night in 1956 after heading off to a party in the moonshining, mountain country of northern Jefferson County, Alabama. Their family never saw them again. The theories as to what happened to Robert Earl Dye, Billy Howard, and Dan Brasher …
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Reverse Robin Hood Jamey Noel: The Sheriff who Stole from the People to get His
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32:30Send us a text Money is no object, especially when it’s not yours. That seemed to be the philosophy of former Indiana Sheriff Jamey Nole who was also once the star of his own reality television show on prisons, “60 Days In.” Even though he was the highest paid public official in his county at just under $200,000 a year, he was living like he made $…
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Sick to Death: Luigi Mangione guns down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson streets of New York
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31:01Send us a text Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of assassinating the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare on the streets of New York, is being hailed as a hero by some who, like him, have experienced the pain, stress, and outrage over deteriorating health and stuck in a quagmire of what will and won’t be covered by insurance. Police a…
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New to murder: Christian Ketchup accused of killing Tierra Binion in cold blood; Victim’s sister is her voice
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40:07Send us a text Why Christian Ketchup was armed at a bar the night he ran into her sister, Tierra Binion, Diamond Jordan doesn’t know. What she does know is that she wants him to be held accountable for the murder he is accused of committing. Investigators say Christian gunned down the 25-year-old mother of twin boys in the parking lot of Mugs ‘n Ju…
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Coed Killed on Campus Couldn’t Outrun Evil: Why Laken Riley Should Still Be Here!
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32:29Send us a text The morning that she died, Laken Riley did everything right. The University of Georgia nursing student let her friends and her mom know she was going for a run on campus. She even shared her location on her smartwatch and told her roommates where she would be. Despite making every effort to stay safe, the 22-year-old rule follower cr…
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The Pig, the Pastor and the Music Director: Unholy Love Triangle Ends in Execution-Style Murder
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23:38Send us a text Pastor Jeff Brown was doing more than just preaching to the choir when he began a love triangle with church Choir Director Cindy Reese, and tragically for Cindy’s husband, Michael, he was on the losing end. What started as a small-town scandal escalated into a murder investigation and the trail of evidence lead from the local Piggly …
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Heartless Hollywood Murder Suicide: Phil and Brynn Hartman
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34:41Send us a text Phil Hartman was one of Hollywood’s leading funny men. There was no impression he couldn’t make, no character he couldn’t bring to life on screen, from appearances on The Simpsons to skits on Saturday Night Live and roles in dozens of movies. Hartman was popular and loved, on and off screen, by fans, friends, and family alike, for hi…
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Taylor Wright was Dead Wrong About Ashley McArthur: PI Killed for Cash, Found in Shallow Grave
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26:25Send us a text Some people can handle temptation, but apparently Ashley McArthur isn’t one of them. When her friend, police officer turned private investigator Taylor Wright, asked her to hold onto some cash, she did. Then Ashley refused to let it go. Taylor didn’t know at the time Ashley had a lying problem, and that men, money, and friendships we…
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Whiny Toby Madden says he ‘didn’t mean’ to stab common law wife 55 times: Meltdown Madden
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24:59Send us a text Toby Madden couldn’t commit to his longtime girlfriend when it comes to marriage, but when it comes to murder, he committed to stabbing her 55 times. Rachelle Brewsaugh was used to Toby Madden’s meltdowns. They had been a couple for nearly thirty years and even had a daughter together. Rachelle’s family testified that he regularly th…
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Doctor's Orders: How Psychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder Brainwashed Her Cousin Patient to Kill for Her!
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22:09Send us a text Psychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder knows how to mess with people’s heads. When she no longer wanted to split custody of the child she shared with her baby-daddy, psychiatrist Michael Weiss, she didn’t take him to court. Prosecutors say she made a plan to kill him. That plan included brainwashing and bamboozling her bi-polar younger cousi…
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That’s the Effing Liver!’ Florida Investigates Doctor Accused of Mistakenly Removing Man’s Live
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38:56Send us a text Here’s the shakedown and breakdown of the latest Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky wrong site surgery. The doctor is under investigation and has had his medical license suspended by the Florida Dept. of Health after he allegedly mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, two easily identifiable organs for a health care professional.…
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