In 1993, Shilie Turner was a bright, talented 17-year-old girl with a great future ahead of her. With multiple scouting offers from various colleges, Shilie was on her way to attending college on a track scholarship and becoming a professional athlete one day. But, all those hopes and dreams would vanish when Shilie’s lifeless body was found on February 20 after being missing for over a month. Initially, the investigation doesn’t produce any viable leads until someone close to Shilie begins acti...
Aug 31, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Nikko Jenkins had a very troubled childhood that, most likely, set up the trajectory of the rest of his life. He went from dropping out of school before being a teenager to being in and out of foster homes to spending most of his young adult life incarcerated. Through all those events, Nikko never got the mental health he needed, which would be the catalyst for the events that took place over a period of 10 days in August 2013 after he had been from a ten-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Join us...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 69
In June 2013, Larry Wells was happily married to his wife Jill, who was pregnant and was a great father to their four-year-old daughter. At the time, he was a Toys “R” Us manager, and no one had one bad thing to say about him. On the contrary, Larry was universally liked by everyone. So when he was found stabbed to death in the manager's office inside Toys "R" US, the police were stumped as far as suspects went. Who would want to kill Larry Wells? Join us for today's episode to learn what happen...
Aug 17, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Susan Monica owned a 20-acre farm in Wimer, Oregon, and spent her days isolated from everyone else, which is just how she preferred it. When she decided she wanted to build a house on her property, she put out an ad for a handyman who could assist. Robert Haney, 56, was the man for the job and began living on Susan Monica’s property in his camper while working for her. When Robert’s children stopped hearing from him, they decided to go and look for him, only for Susan Monica to tell them that he...
Aug 10, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 67
In 2016, 30-year-old hospice nurse, Tricia Todd, had recently gotten a divorce from Steven Williams. The previous couple shared a 2-year-old daughter, Faith, and kept things civil for her sake. On April 26, Tricia dropped Faith off with Steven so they could spend time together and was due to pick up her up the next day, but Tricia never made it. She was reported missing by her family immediately and a search for her ensued with no major leads. The investigation soon began to point in the directi...
Aug 03, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 66
In 2017, Loren High finally decided to move on from a relationship that was causing too many issues in his life. He and his ex-girlfriend, Porsche Humphrey, were finally going to have a conversation to settle their relationship once and for all on February 1st. On February 5th, Curtis Peterson, a friend of Loren's, decided to go look for him at his home since he hadn't been able to get get a hold of him in a couple of days, which was so unlike him. When Curtis managed to make it inside the home,...
Jul 27, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Today's episode will conclude the case of Taylor Parker. In the last episode, we left off with Taylor's due date fast approaching. With that in mind, she decided to involve Regan Simmons in her diabolical plan to have a baby by taking Regan's and calling that baby her own. With a baby on hand and no signs of actually giving birth, police are onto Taylor and work to figure out whose baby it was. But that wouldn't take long as the body of Regan was soon discovered by her parents and now the police...
Jul 20, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 64
In 2020, Taylor Parker was in a relationship with then-boyfriend, Wade Griffin, and the couple was "expecting" their first child. According to Taylor, she had previously suffered a miscarriage in 2019, so the couple was overjoyed that Taylor was pregnant for a second time, and things seemed to be progressing well. At least, that's how it looked from the outside in, especially on social media, but in reality, everything was a lie. That was all Taylor did since meeting Wade. Among a lot of things,...
Jul 13, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 63
On December 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko made her way to Westdale Mall to purchase some things and chatted with friends and acquaintances while she was doing so. As the mall's closing time approached, Michelle decided it was time to head home so she left and made her way to her car. Sadly, she would never make it home. Michelle's body was found inside her car in the early hours of December 20th, still parked at the mall's parking lot. She had been brutally stabbed and cut. Her killer would not be...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 62
For today's episode, we wanted to try something different. We talk about past and current crime stories that we have come across. There won't be a lot of detail as some of the cases are currently developing, and for the others, we only cover the basics, and will possibly be future cases we will dedicate a whole episode to. We hope you join us for today's episode. So, grab your cafecito, and let's get started. Go Fund Me for Daniel Piedra Garcia https://www.gofundme.com/f/daniel-piedra-garcia...
Jun 29, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Seasoned basketball player Lorenzen Wright had just retired from the NBA in 2009 and divorced his wife, Sherra, in early 2010. The couple shared six children, so in the summer of that same year, Lorenzen flew to Memphis, Tennessee to spend time with his kids and his ex-wife, among other plans he had. On July 19th, a friend was supposed to pick him up but he was nowhere to be found. After news of his disappearance hit the media, a 911 dispatcher recalls receiving a phone call with gunshots in the...
Jun 22, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Amy Lynn Bradley was apprehensive to join her family on a week-long cruise since she was not a fan of open water and large ships but eventually agreed to go. On March 21, 1998, the ship set sail with Aruba being the first stop. Everything seemed to be going well until the early morning of March 24th, when Amy was nowhere to be found. Time was of the essence when trying to locate Amy since the ship had docked on the island of Curacao, and all the passengers were going to be getting off the ship. ...
Jun 15, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 59
On February 3, 2004, Jamie Gough accompanied a friend of his, Michael Hernandez, to the boy's restroom inside their middle school, and sadly, he would not make it out of there alive. Michael, who had been friends with Jamie for about a year, had been increasingly obsessing over the movie Silence of the Lambs and serial killers. So much so that he wanted to know what it felt like to be one. He concocted a plan on who his victims would be and how he would go about killing them. Michael would only ...
Jun 08, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 58
In 1901, Belle Gunness decided to relocate to a farm in La Porte, Indiana from Austin, Illinois. The year before, in 1900, her first husband, passed away, and after remarrying, it wouldn't be long before she became a widow for the second time. It seemed that death followed Belle, and it started to make the people in town believe that maybe, somehow, Belle had something to do with it. The people in town always had suspicions, but it was never more than that until the body of a missing man named A...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Donna Doll was known as a focused, intelligent, quiet young woman who attended Northern Illinois University in 1970. Donna was supposed to meet her friend, also named Donna, on Friday, October 2, but she never made it. Her body was discovered on October 11 a little over a mile from campus. Her cause of death seemed like suffocation, but no fibers were ever found in her lungs or fibers. Something else that was odd was that before her death, Donna had consumed about 5 or 6 pounds of potatoes. And ...
May 25, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 56
In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare was a regular man, living life day to day, trying to make ends meet. He had no idea that his life would forever change after purchasing a lotto ticket on November 15, 2006, that would make him a multimillion overnight. Being the humble and generous man he was, he cared for his family and community, but it got to the point where people were just taking and taking from him. Dee Dee Moore became his financial adviser and seemed to have his best interest at heart, but li...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 55
In 2014 and 2015 four young men were found deceased in Barking, east London, from what appeared to be a drug overdose. According to the families, the four young men were not involved in drugs and wouldn't have overdosed but police, still, deemed their deaths as "non-suspicious." It would take the families taking matters into their own hands and beginning an investigation that would lead to some sort of lead that would point them in the right direction, and also make the police see that there was...
May 11, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Cafecito & Crime! Today's episode is part 2 of the Edward Harold Bell and we will be talking about "The Eleven That Went To Heaven." We'll speak about each girl, what they were like, and the last time they were seen alive before they were found deceased. We'll also talk about what linked each girl to Ed. And, if he was even telling the truth. Join us for today's episode, so, grab your cafecito, and let's get started. TW: This episode contains talk of sexual assaul...
May 05, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Edward Harold Bell committed plenty of crimes against children and it what was his criminal file mainly consisted of until he murdered Larry Dickens on August 24, 1978. After getting arrested, he got out on bond, but no one expected Ed to flee the country for the next 14 years. He was ultimately caught and convicted of Larry's murder in 1993. In 1998, Ed wrote letters describing how he murdered girls in the 70s and sent them to o prosecutors in both Galveston and Harris counties. What was Ed pla...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Austin Wenner and Jessica Lewis were a couple renting a room in Michael Dudley's home in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. They were in love and were considered good-hearted people by their families. It wasn't alarming when they didn't hear from Austin and Jessica in a couple of days. That wasn't out of the norm. But they never expected to be notified by police that Austin and Jessica's remains had been found on a beach by a group of teenagers. So, what happened to Austin and Jessica? How was ...
Apr 27, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Latisha Frazier was a hard-working young woman who wanted to provide for herself and her daughter. Fresh out of high school, she began working at McDonald's while pursuing a culinary arts degree. When she didn't return home from work on the night of August 2, 2010, her family knew something was wrong because she would not leave her daughter that way. Sadly, no news about what happened to Latisha would surface until the following year when a credible tip finally came in, and it led police to disc...
Apr 20, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Jayna Murray was her life to the fullest in 2011. She was going to school for two master's degrees, had great friends, and had a long-time boyfriend. She was also working at Lululemon and hoped to join their top management team in Vancouver after completing her degrees. Unfortunately, Jayna would be murdered inside her place of work ten weeks before she was set to graduate. But Jayna was not the only person discovered inside the store, Brittany, a co-worker was found as well, battered but she wa...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Daniel Halseth had been going through a rough couple of years, but in 2021, things seemed to be getting better. His kids had returned to Nevada, where he lived, from Alaska, where they had moved to with their mother. He had a great relationship with his youngest child, 16-year-old Sierra, but things started to get strained between them when she met and started to date 18-year-old Aaron Guerrero. In April 2021, when Daniel's mom couldn't get a hold of him, she knew something was wrong, and she wa...
Apr 06, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 48
From 1993 to 1995, deaths at Vermillion County Hospital rose significantly and it was all that everyone that worked at the hospital could talk about. It was until the Supervisor of Nursing, Dawn Stirek, took it upon herself to start looking into patient and unit log records to see if she could figure out what was happening. She discovered that one nurse was present for about 90 - 95% of the deaths, Orville Lynn Majors. It would take a 2-year long investigation before Orville would be arrested an...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Brianna Armstrong was the nicest person you could ever meet. She was that one friend who you could always count on to be there. She was dearly loved by her friends and her work family, which made up for the family that she didn't have. She was always punctual so when she didn't show up to her job on May 7, 2015, the people in her life started to get suspicious, including her estranged husband who reported her missing. Everyone believed that it was he who had done something to Brianna, but when a...
Mar 23, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 46
When the Van Breda family went to bed on January 26, 2015, they had no idea that it would be the last time. In the early hours of January 27th, the family would be brutally attacked in their own home where 3 of them would die, leaving 2 others injured. Henri, a surviving member, called the police at 7 that morning, telling them the intruder had attacked the family. Police immediately started to piece together that it wasn't an intruder who had attacked the family, but that it was a member of the...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 45
On September 13, 2005, Summer Lee Baldwin's body would be found in a landfill inside a suitcase. It wouldn't take police long to find the person who had done it, Rosendo Rodriguez, but what the police didn't expect was to find that Summer was not Rosendo's only victim. Eighteen months after Joanna Rogers's disappearance, her family would finally find out what happened to her. Grab your cafecito, and join us for today's episode. TW: rape. You can follow us on Instagram at cafecitoandcrimepod. Or ...
Mar 09, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Robert Wone began his day on August 2, 2006, just like any other. He and his wife, Kathy, took the metro into Washington, DC, where they both worked and went their separate ways. That was the last time Kathy would see Robert as he would be stabbed and killed that night at Joseph’s Price home, a friend. The three people in that home all stuck to one story: an intruder had broken in and killed Robert. The crime scene and Roberts's autopsy would argue otherwise. Join us for today's twisty and unsol...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 43
All Maya Millete wanted to do was take her oldest daughter on her birthday trip before taking the steps to separate from her husband. Sadly, she would never get to take her daughter on that trip because she disappeared on January 7, 2021. Larry, her husband, was arrested after evidence came out that pointed at him as the person responsible for her disappearance and murder. His trial is set to begin later this year. But what led to Maya's tragic disappearance? Listen to today's episode to find ou...
Feb 23, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Denise Leuthold began her day on February 14, 2013, like any other day. After having a small Valentine's Day morning celebration with her husband and kids, everyone set off for the day. Sadly, Denise was shot and killed in her home after she returned from dropping off her daughter at daycare. What initially was thought to be a robbery gone wrong, suddenly evidence starts pointing elsewhere, to someone close to her in more ways than one, and who no one could've predicted. Or could they have? Grab...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 41
