Ashes to Ash: What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld? True Crime Series - S2: Ep 19 - Under Arrest? Join the Ashes to Ash team as they begin to really break down the details of the “affairs” that may or may not have been happening around the death of Carolyn Blankenfeld. Find out more information about the woman in Wisconsin that Chris bought a house with only months after Carolyn passed away. You will learn more about the nature of their relationship and we finally get to the bottom of what happe...
Jan 17, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Ashes to Ash: What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld? True Crime Series - S2: Ep 18 - "They'll Think I Killed Her" In this episode of "What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld" Bree contacts a woman who the neighbor's claim was having an affair with Chris Blankenfeld. This woman denies these theories about what was happening between them. The woman also gives additional insight into what medical issues Chris claims to have had when he came out of the water and what he said to her when she first contac...
Jan 17, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Ashes to Ash: “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” - True Crime Series - Ep 17 - "Hiding a Smile" Join the Ashes to Ash Team as they speak with the family, who lives at the home where Chris came out of the water. (These are the FIRST people that saw Chris following the accident.) Watch as Ash and team interview Doug, and listen to him describe Chris's strange behavior and visible lack of emotion as someone who had just lost their wife. Follow us on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram: @AshesToAshT...
Jan 17, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Ashes to Ash: “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” - True Crime Series - Ep 16 - "Sold" In this episode, we meet Carol and Les, the couple who purchased Chris's home following Carolyn's death. Being an unbiased party, the couple speaks about how Chris was noticeably grief stricken and zombie like towards the sale of everything and how he didn't want any "reminders." Ash speaks with the neighbors and their reactions towards Chris getting rid of everything involving Carolyn, and how fast he sol...
Jan 17, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Ash and team continue to speak with the 'Neighbors' of Chris and Carolyn and their reactions to the news of Carolyn's death. The neighbors reflect on their account of Chris's behavior speaking at the funeral and compare the drastically different stories that they were told at the party following Carolyn's ceremony. All of the neighbors were interviewed by the police and the investigators at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation. Follow us on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram: @AshesToAshTV Fol...
Jan 17, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Ashes to Ash TV: “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” - True Crime Series - Ep 14 - Challenge Accepted Ash and team flash back to an email Chris wrote Bree and Annie, in which he stated (numerous times): "Had you bothered talking to any of the other neighbors you would've known this. However, YOU DID NOT." Well, Challenge Accepted. Ash and Team head down to Lillian and spend time with the "neighbors", that they DID in fact talk to and further dissect Chris's email. The neighbors speak with As...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Ashes to Ash TV: “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” - True Crime Series - Ep 13 - The Dance Ash and team head to Colorado to speak with Carolyn’s best friend, Lynn. She fills in a lot about who Carolyn was, their friendship, the relationship between Chris and Carolyn and the odd exchanges with Chris following Carolyn's death. The team continues to speak to Ray Evans, a former employee of Austal and former friend of Chris and Carolyn on his uneasy experiences with Chris. Bree contacts member...
Jan 17, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Ashes to Ash True Crime - “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” Episode 12 - Choke Out Trigger Warning - The following episode contains graphic and verbal depictions of bodily harm that some viewers may find upsetting and disturbing. Join Ash and team as they continue to speak with Jules on how terrifying it was to find a body in the water, so close to home. Ash speaks with Mark about the information within the autopsy report and his medical knowledge and thoughts on the state Carolyn was foun...
Jan 17, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Ashes to Ash True Crime - “What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?” Episode 11 - Billboard Join the Ashes to Ash team for Episode 11 of Season 2. Ash and Bree start discussing the idea of posting billboards to gain more attention on “What Happened to Carolyn?” The team then continues their conversation with Mark, Carolyn’s twin brother. As he fills in more about who his sister was, the relationship he had with Chris and his uneasy feelings towards Chris’s decisions and statements following the dea...
Jan 17, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Ash and her team head to Arizona to speak with Carolyn’s twin brother Mark. He fills in a lot about who Carolyn was, and the relationship between Chris and Carolyn. Mark also helps fill in some medical knowledge about the injuries Chris claims to have received the day Carolyn passed away. He also gives us some insight into Chris told him about his job, and his past. The team also travels to Florida to speak with Andy and Charles the two gentleman who discovered the missing pontoon boat. They tal...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Bree and Ash wrap up their first trip to Florida feeling great about the information that they have gathered. Ash starts contacting others who are going to be important people to speak with through the investigation. After leaving, Bree gets a call from Buddy which reveals some new and interesting information. Annie and Bree then receive an email from Chris. The letter seems like he is letting off some frustration on what is going on with the videos and with us questioning those around him. The ...
Jan 17, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Join Ash and her team down in Florida as they look further into what happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld. Bree who is Carolyn's daughter joins Ash on the investigation. Together they are looking into the mysterious death. The team is hoping to fly under the radar while in Florida, but Chris quickly finds out they are in town and they have to discuss the complications of this information leaking out. Annie, Ash's mom joins her and Bree on this leg of the investigation. Although Annie is not an offici...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Join Ash and her crew for Episode 7 of Season 2 of the true crime series Ashes to Ash TV "What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?" Ash, Bree, & Koehl head down to Lillian, Alabama to interview Buddy. Buddy talks about Carolyn, their affair, and what he believes might have occurred between Carolyn and Chris. Buddy releases new information about a possible motive and talks about the different stories people were told from Chris about what happened to Carolyn on the boat trip the day she passed a...
Jan 17, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Ash and her crew finish up their trip to Tennessee by saying goodbye to Danielle, Chris's 2nd wife. After Bree and Ash leave they attempt to figure out the timeline in a more official capacity. A surprising photograph helps them understand the timeline better and they attempt to understand its meaning within the timeline. Ash and Bree sit down with Carolyn's 2nd husband Mike whom Carolyn was married to for eleven years. They learn about who Carolyn was before she entered Bree's life. Finally the...
Jan 17, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ashes to Ash True Crime - What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld - Ep 5 "Mind Games" Join Ash and Bree for Season 2 of the Ashes to Ash true crime series "What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld." In episode 5 "Mind Games" of this eye opening series Ash Patino and Bree head to Tennessee to meet with Danielle, Chris's 2nd wife. While in town they get more information about their relationship and what ended it. As they comb through an old photo album, they make a stunning realization that alters the ti...
Jan 17, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Ash starts really delving into the initial information on this case in Episode 4 of Season 2 "What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld?" She starts with some of the activities that occurred in the months preceding Carolyn's death. Three to four months after Carolyn passed away, Chris bought a house 4 states away from where he was currently residing. The purchase of this home coincided with a woman that he was rumored to know even before he went into the Coast Guard. Ash starts the process of finding...
Jan 17, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Ash really starts digging into some of the preliminary information that she has received on the Carolyn Blankenfeld case. First she speaks to Bree about getting Carolyn's death certificate. The two patiently wait to review the findings. After they receive the certificate they attempt to reach out to the medical examiner who signed off on the death certificate. Instead of finding a bridge to help get them additional information, they find themselves standing in a possible corruption case against ...
Jan 17, 2023•26 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Join the Ashes to Ash crew and they look for clues in another unsolved death. Bree the step-daughter of Carolyn Blankenfeld, looks further into her mother's mysterious death. Bree travels to New Jersey to meet with Ash, the two dive into the back story to help understand who Carolyn was and how her and Christopher met. As the two talk it becomes apparently obvious that they have a lot of work to do and a lot of tests to run to check out the validity of Chris's statements about what happened. Chr...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Want to know what happened to 57 year old Carolyn Blankenfeld? Carolyn and her husband Christopher Blankenfeld went out on a Mother's Day Pontoon ride into the shallow Perdido Bay. Two gentleman sitting down to grab a bite, notice a pontoon coming towards the dock, but it appears to be a ghost ship. The yell and soon realize there are no humans on board and instead just 3 dogs. Later that day one of the boaters finally comes out of the water, but what happened to Carolyn? Ashes to Ash's website ...
Jan 17, 2023•1 min
Ashes to Ash TV - "What Happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld" - Episode 1 - "Uneasy" Welcome to Season 2 of Ashes to Ash TV online series, "What happened to Carolyn Blankenfeld." In this episode Ash hears about a case involving her own family. Her aunt Carolyn Blankenfeld has been discovered deceased after going on a boat ride with her husband Christopher Blankenfeld. Something about Chris's story does not add up and Ash teams up with Christopher's daughter Bree to dig in and see where the truth lies...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Ashes to Ash: The Disappearance of Robert Bee True Crime Series S1: Ep 24 - Justice for Bonzai We are starting with an overview of the Robert Bee case, from start to finish. Figure out how we got into this case, what steps we took to attempt to figure out what happened in this case, and what we are up to now. Please help out by becoming a subscriber www.AshesToAshTV.com. You get to see episodes early, unreleased content, discounted merchandise, and you get to be part of the private subscriber gr...
Jan 06, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Ashes to Ash TV: The Disappearance of Robert Bee – True Crime Series – Ep 23 – The Jerry Tape In this episode, Ash and an actor re-enact a video word for word, of someone interviewing Jerry and his recollection of the nights prior, the night of, and the nights following the day Robert Bee, aka Bonzai, was murdered. Jerry speaks of the people who were allegedly in and out of his house that night, and the information he knew and what he had heard by word of mouth. In the end, all of the stories th...
Jan 06, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode of Ashes to Ash True Crime series, Ash and Bree head out to Pekin to speak with "Andy", someone who believes that they saw Bonzai pushed down the stairs at Jerry Burch's home. Andy then brings Ash and Bree to the location where the cooler was being kept and reflects on how she remembers the cooler being wrapped with chains. Thank you to everyone who participated in the letter writing campaign, it's nice to know that this fight is bigger than just us. Please follow us @AshesToAshT...
Jan 06, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode of Ashes to Ash True Crime series, Ash and her team look back and consider all the evidence gathered against the outstanding alleged theories about what might have happened to Bonzai. The team looks at the relationship between Lisa Bee and the people who may have hurt Bonzai. We consider the location the body was found and what that means in regards to each of the alleged suspects. Please help us with our letter writing campaign. Please send letters to Luke Satterlee 801 South 7t...
Jan 06, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode Ash starts to put together a plan of attack in getting the attention of the Illinois State Police Department. Ash plans a protest that is almost cancelled because of COVID. After careful consideration a new plan is hatched and Ash and her team get to work on "Plan B." The crew enlists a group of volunteers to help hang signs the night before the protest. These signs are hung all over town BRING IN STATE POLICE FOR BONZAI. The protest in an effort to keep everyone safe has an elem...
Jan 05, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Join Ash as she starts to pick apart each of the prevailing theories surrounding the murder of 13 year old Bonzai out of Pekin, Illinois. On this journey so far, we have heard a lot of theories, 2nd hand information, and 1st hand information. Now Ash wants to start dissecting all of this, to see what fits with the hard evidence. Those pieces of evidence that are well verified. The two theories that seem the strongest have been a suspect the police named early on in the investigation, Keith Brack...
Jan 05, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Join Ash for this intense episode looking into the murder of 13 year old Robert Bee, aka Bonzai out of Pekin, Illinois. Bonzai went missing in November of 2016 and there are still no clear answers in this case. Ash tries to speak to Jonathan Tandy who was accused of possibly being involved in the murder of Bonzai, by a friend of his. Learn about there interaction and what Ash was able to uncover from this interaction. Ash continues to play the stomach wrenching tape that Teresa Vancil created th...
Jan 05, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Season 1 episode 17 brings more understanding to what might have happened to 13 year old Robert Bee, aka Bonzai in Pekin, Illinois. Ash gets to finally sit down with Kira and speak face to face. She learns about her relationship to the house at 1400 Heilman and the people who were frequenting it at the time. Ash also receives an eerie video that Teresa Vancil created. It appears to be a weird confession tape. Ash plays the first part of the tape, which begins to go into detail about what might h...
Jan 05, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Ashes to Ash TV: The Disappearance of Robert Bee - True Crime Series - Ep 16 Psychic or Psychopathic In this episode of season one "The Disappearance of Robert Bee" Episode 16 "Psychic or Psychotic" Ash continues to speak to the people who were named as allegedly being in the house the night Robert Bee, aka Bonzai was murdered. She speaks to three of the people who were named as being in the house. Their stories begin to weave together and finger pointing begins to occur. Ash also gets sent a ra...
Jan 05, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Welcome to Episode 15 of the True Crime Series, Ashes to Ash TV, Season 1, The Disappearance of Robert Bee. In this episode Ash continues to go down the list of the people Kendra mentioned might have been in the house the night the Bonzai was allegedly murdered. Ash finally gets to have a conversation with Teresa Vancil, a real linch pin in this entire story. Teresa's story ends up being similar to Kendra's, but with one major difference. Teresa is saying Kendra told her and Kendra is saying Ter...
Jan 05, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 15
