Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki went to Cape Cod for a weekend away on January 24th, 1969. When they didn’t return home afterwards, their friends and family were very concerned. The police initially thought the girls had just taken off travelling on an adventure, as many young people were doing at the time. The police had also failed to investigate the disappearance of other young women in the area for this reason. They didn’t realise until it was too late that they had a serial killer on t...
Apr 20, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 149
Matthew Brady and Mark Jeffries were bushranger highwaymen in the wilds of Tasmania in the 1820s. Although they were both escaped convicts on the lam and being hunted by constabulary, they had little in common. Matthew Brady was considered chivalrous, a man who used violence only in self-defence. Dubbed the Gentleman Bushranger, due his fine manners and his way with the ladies. Brady was charming and a little bit mischievous with a cheeky sparkle in his eye. Mark Jeffries was not like Matthew Br...
Apr 13, 2020•56 min•Season 4Ep. 148
This is Part 2 of Blood Oath: The Van Krevel Evil… if you haven’t listened to part one and you want anything we’re saying to make sense, go back and listen to Episode 146 before listening to this one. One week before his trial for the murders of David O'Hearn and Frank Arkell, Mark Van Krevel levels accusations of sexual abuse against his father Jack for the first time. It's seen by many as a cynical ploy to reduce his culpability in the murders. Although Jack says he was “hard on Mark” he denie...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 147
In June 1998, the residents of the seaside city of Wollongong were shocked and horrified by the decapitation murder of local shop keeper, David O'Hearn. Two weeks later, another brutal mutilation murder was committed, that of former lord mayor and alleged paedophile, Frank Arkell. Rumours of Satanism, the occult, gay hate murder squads and paedophile rings swirled about the city as Police struggled to find any real leads. But despite their best efforts, three murders would be committed before th...
Mar 29, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 146
Previously a patron episode, now unlocked! Teenagers Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludemann hated each others guts. They were both in what they thought was a relationship with a guy named Josh Camacho, who encouraged them to fight over over him. Their feud started on social media then escalated to threatening phone calls and culminated in a violent confrontation that would leave one of them dead. A dispute over a fence line between neighbours, Kevin Skeyhill and Darren Lorke, escalated when punches were...
Mar 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 135
Well Shit in bucket, what’s going on in the world? Hi Everyone, this is Barney Black from Bloody Murder. Unfortunately there will not be a regular new episode this week. My co-host Tara Sariban has been sick in bed for a week with a nasty cold and has lost her voice...or rather I wish she had. She sounds like a phlegm filled croaking witch from the bottom of a very dark bog. Nobody needs to hear something that scary, especially in these trying times. Don’t worry, it’s just a crappy cold. We’ve a...
Mar 22, 2020•1 min
Considered one of very few female African-American serial killers, Josephine Virginia Gray's husbands and boyfriends had a nasty habit of being murdered after making her the beneficiary of their life insurance policies. Those around her believed Josephine's claims that she was a voodoo queen and practitioner of black magic. Intimidated by her powers, they refused to testify against her, lest she put a curse on them causing them to wind up dead too. TCNT: Helen Deakin reviews the band "The Madeli...
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 145
Darryl Lewis was a small time crook who did a big time crime. This brought him to the attention of the Finks Motorcycle Club. The then president of the Beenleigh Chapter, Stephen Cranney was a man who would not tolerate the thieving of his beloved Harley Davidson motorbike. In November 1996, eighteen very hairy and very pissed off bikers descended on Darryl Lewis' semi rural property in Queensland, like a lava rain from hell, determined to get the bike back and reap a terrible and bloody revenge...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 144
When 41-year-old mother of three, Peggy Carr got struck down with a mystery illness in October 1988, doctors didn't know what to make of it. After test results showed Peggy had been poisoned, suspicion naturally fell on her new husband Pye. But this case would prove to be far more complicated. The real perpetrator would only be brought to justice after a long, undercover operation that involved infiltrating a Murder Mystery Weekend held by the biggest high IQ society in the world, Mensa. True Cr...
Mar 01, 2020•58 min•Season 4Ep. 143
In late November, 1989, Karen Randell's friends were worried about her. Her alcoholic and drug addled ex boyfriend Paul Snabel was stalking her and wouldn’t leave her alone. He had already bashed her and given her a black eye. Karen was afraid. One night over drinks Karen, together with her sister Donna and friends Irene Maslin and Rhona Heany devised a diabolical plan that would get Paul out of Karen's life for good. If you feel you are affected by family violence. You are not alone. Here's som...
Feb 23, 2020•45 min•Season 4Ep. 142
Young mother of two, Lynsey Quy went missing from the town of Southport, England in 1998. It was 53 days before a social worker reported her disappearance to the police. Her husband Mitchell claimed Lynsey had deserted him and their kids on Christmas Day. He ran to every media outlet in the vicinity to throw himself a public pity party and denigrate her to the press. The police and Lynsey's family knew that Lynsey had died at the hands of her abusive husband. The problem was how they would find ...
Feb 16, 2020•48 min•Season 4Ep. 141
Mad Dog Morgan was one of Australia’s most feared bushrangers. Resentful, bitter and bent on revenge after being wrongly convicted, Morgan terrorised the Australian countryside and was known for his erratic, violent and rambunctious behaviour. His tendency toward impulsive cruelty and unpredictable mood swings earned him his title ‘Mad Dog’. Morgan would often brutally murder his victims, only to weep and beg for forgiveness as they lay dying in his arms. True Crime Nerd Time: Thanks to Dawn Sen...
Feb 09, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 139
The Just Sweats Life Insurance Murder. Dodgy Just Sweats business owners John Hawkins and Melvin Hanson had been cashing in on insurance scams since the early 1980's. After running their company into the ground with reckless spending, they came up with the scam to end all scams. They decided to take out over a million dollars in life insurance on Melvin Hanson, then fake his death for the insurance money. To do so, they convinced their friend and fellow con artist, Californian neurologist Dr Ric...
Feb 02, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 138
The Unnoticed Murders of the Wycherley's and The Black Prince of Lygon Street... In October 2012, a woman called the Nottinghamshire police in England, to report that William and Patricia Wycherley had been killed 14 years earlier and she knew where their bodies were buried. If she was telling the truth, why had nobody reported the couple missing? And what did their daughter Susan Edwards and her husband Christoper have to do with it? Alphonse “The Black Prince of Lygon Street” Gangitano has bee...
Dec 08, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 136
The Nicotine Murder of Linda Curry and The True Story of Batman and Robyn... At 11pm, on the night of June 9th, 1994, Paul Curry called 911 and reported his wife Linda was unconscious and not breathing. When the paramedics arrived, they were unable to revive her. Linda Curry's cause of death was massive acute nicotine poisoning, but how did non-smoker Linda come to die in such a way? Femme Fatale and spoilt brat Robyn 'Colette' Lindholm loved horses and manipulating men. When she found her lover...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 134
The Objectifier and The Short Life of Edward Jockey Smith... Sean Vincent Gillis was a serial killer who lived with his unsuspecting long-term girlfriend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He used cable ties to incapacitate his victims, who ranged in age, race and socio-economic stature. This flew in the face of FBI profiling theories at the time, and allowed him to elude capture for over a decade. Edward Jockey Smith was short of temper and of stature. A notorious tight ass, Eddie enjoyed a bit of shop...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 133
The Sandman Panel Van Murders with True Crime Island... On July 5th, 2012, Cindy Masonwell and her husband Scott Maitland flew from Mt Isa to Cairns, in far north Queensland, to pick up their HJ Holden Sandman Panel Van. The couple loved their sweet ride and entrusted a mechanic named Brandon Peter Macgowen to restore it at a local workshop. They would never be seen alive again. This is the story of the Sandman Panel Van murders. Become a Bloody Murder Patron (for as little as $1 per month, whic...
Oct 27, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 131
The Welsh Dragon and The Cunning Fox... Australian locksmith Paul Parsons was hoping for forever-afters when he married his second wife Donna, a wrestler from the UK who went by the stage name “The Welsh Dragon.” Unfortunately for Paul, Donna tired of their union and decided he was worth more to her dead than alive. So she hired an amatuer hitman who aspired to be a vigilant like his hero "the Crow." Fitness fanatic Russell 'The Fox' Cox loved yoga and jogging. He also dug guns and robbing banks...
Oct 13, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Sex Lies and Parachutes and Sad Ray Denning... Belgium native Els Van Doren was an experienced skydiver with over 2,300 jumps behind her. In November 2006, Els went skydiving with other members of the the Zwartberg Parachute Club, including her friends Els Clottemans and Marcel Somers. After leaping from a Cessna at 13,000 feet, Els was horrified to find that her parachute ropes had been cut and her parachutes wouldn't open. Els plummeted to the ground, dying on impact. But who would want the mo...
Sep 29, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 129
Killer Con Woman Brenda Nicholas and Melbourne Mick Sayers... Brenda Nicholas was a con artist and thief who preyed on elderly people. She often pretended to be a tarot reader named “Lady Monica,” who gained their trust before taking them for all they were worth. In 2011, she and her ragtag gang of petty criminals stabbed 70-year-old Navy veteran and two-time Purple Heart recipient Patrick Fleming to death, just so they could steal his valuable coin collection. Lovable rogue Michael "Melbourne M...
Sep 15, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 127
Hero Husband Mark Winger and Nasty Nikolai Radev... In August 1995, Mark Winger shot a man named Roger Harrington twice in the head. Mark said he'd heard a noise and come upstairs to find Roger beating his beloved wife Donnah Winger to death with a hammer. After Roger's death, investigators soon determined that Mark had acted in self-defence. Sounds like a pretty straight forward case, doesn't it? Bulgarian born Nikolai “The Russian” Radev was a nasty piece of work whose hobbies included extorti...
Sep 01, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 126
Contract Killer Mad Dog Joe Sullivan - Part 2... In part two of this two-part special, new father, 38-year-old Mad Dog Joe Sullivan soaks up some culture while honeymooning with his wife Gail. He then gets right back into knocking mobsters for "Fat Tony" Salerno and the Genovese family, including Mickey Spillane's top enforcer Tommy “The Greek” Kapatos, and Antonio Caponegro aka “Tony Bananas”. There was also a botched hit on Carmine “Lilo” Galante and a near miss on “Ol' Blue Eyes” himself, Fra...
Aug 18, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 124
Contract Killer Mad Dog Joe Sullivan - Part 1... Contract killer “Mad Dog” Joe Sullivan started out life as a good Irish Catholic boy in a squarehead family in Queens. In part one of this two-part special, we cover how the sudden death of Joe's detective father, and the horrendous effect it had on his family broke something inside young Joe. And when Joe broke, he broke bad. Mad Dog Sullivan spent most of his teen years in Juvenile Detention for petty crimes, before graduating to armed robberies...
Aug 04, 2019•51 min•Season 3Ep. 123
All That Remains Of Li Ping Cao and Stan 'The Man' Smith... When 42-year-old Cairns resident Li Ping Cao disappeared on November 30th, 2011, her 70-year-old husband Klaus Andres did an appalling job of feigning concern for her whereabouts. He didn't report her missing and used a press conference to try to convince the public she was a terrible, rebellious woman who had deserted her poor long-suffering husband. While he was out there spreading lies about her, Li Ping's body was dissolving in a bi...
Jul 21, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 122
The Assassination of Colin Winchester... Colin Winchester was the Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police and the commander of the ACT police force. When he was assassinated in his driveway in the summer of 1989, the nation was sent into a state of shock. These feelings were taken over by anger as the investigation dragged on, until finally five years after the murder a lone crazed gunman named David Eastman was arrested. Did the police have the right man or was this killing, as ...
Jun 23, 2019•53 min•Season 3Ep. 121
Neddy Smith Special Edition... Neddy Smith is one of Australia's most infamous and feared criminals. Partnering with the likes of other underworld figures, including Graham “Abo” Henry and Christopher “Mr Rent-a-kill” Flannery, Neddy tore through Sydney's underworld in the 1970's and 80's. Robbing, raping, selling heroin and murdering with near impunity thanks to a green light given to him by corrupt NSW detective Roger Rogerson. See our website! bloodymurderpodcast.com for all our social media ...
Jun 10, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Motivated To Death and Dino the Sunshine Boy... In 2009, motivational speaker and self-help author Jeffrey Locker was stabbed to death in his car in East Harlem. What initially seemed to be a robbery gone wrong turned out to be something far more complicated. Dino “The Sunshine Boy” Dibra was a violent thug by the age of 12, jailed by 19, a ruthless multiple killer at 23 and murdered by 25. He was described by his family as having a heart of gold. But others saw him as murderer, standover man, d...
May 26, 2019•57 min•Season 3Ep. 118
The Headmistress and the Millionaire Doctor and The Burning of Mary Channing... In 1980, Jean Harris, the headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, made national headlines after the murder of her lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, a wealthy cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Scarsdale Diet. Mary Channing liked to party, which was a frowned upon in Dorchester, England in the early 1700s. After being forced into an arranged marriage by her parents, Mar...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Sexy Sadistic Slayer Sheila LaBarre with Kate Wallinga from Ignorance Was Bliss... Diagnosed as acutely delusional and sadistic, rabbit-loving Sheila LaBarre murdered at least two of her boyfriends, Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie, on her remote farm in Epping, New Hampshire. She said she had died of a drug overdose and was sent back to Earth as an angel with special powers here to seek vengeance on paedophiles. The problem was that her victims were not paedophiles. She would seduce slightly ...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Jill Coit’s Deadly Deception and The Dominos Pizza Murder Spree... In October 1993, 52-year-old hardware store owner Gerald Boggs was found murdered in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado home. Suspicion soon fell on his former wife, Jill Coit, a con artist and serial bigamist who had been married nearly a dozen times. Investigators would reveal Gerald wasn't the first of her husbands to be murdered. Volatile Mitchell Sims, liked pizza but hated Domino’s, where he worked. An argument with his manage...
Apr 15, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 114
