Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for the third installment of our Serial Killer Summer series: Unsolved Edition. This week we're bringing you a two-for-one special. And as the title suggests, the identity of the serial killers we'll discuss remains a mystery. The Doodler: An unidentified killer who targeted gay men in the mid-1970s. This person is believed to be responsible for...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 65
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for round two of our Serial Killer Summer Series. This week we'll be diving into John Linley Frazier. He's responsible for the deaths of five people. His motive? He was chosen by God to save the planet and was instructed that murder was the only way he could do so. Many believe that Frazier's delusions were symptomatic of a deeper psychologi...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 64
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us for the very first installment of our Serial Killer Summer Series! This week we'll be diving into Herbert Mullin. He was responsible for taking the lives of 13 people over four months. Herbert Mullin was a man who was compelled to murder by both his mental illness and his belief that his killings were preventing the occurrence of natural disasters. ...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 63
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we explore what happened during the Stonewall uprising. In June of 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in NYC. Things did not go according to plan and police quickly lost control of the situation. Violence and chaos ensued over several days. Once the uprising itself began to die down, the LGBTQ+ community concluded t...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 62
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Matthew was approached by two men in a bar. They spent the next few hours having some drinks and chatting. At the end of the night, these two men offered to give Matthew a ride home. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson had nefarious intentions that night. The two proceeded ...
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 61
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts teach you about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into part two of the Tate/LaBianca Murders aka the Manson Family murders. In the late 1960s, at the height of The Civil Rights Movement, Charles Manson "predicted" that the world's end was rapidly approaching. He claimed that an apocalyptic race war called Helter Skelter would erupt, which would wipe out half the po...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 60
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into part one of the Tate/LaBianca Murders aka the Manson Family murders. In the late 1960s, at the height of The Civil Rights Movement, Charles Manson "predicted" that the world's end was rapidly approaching. He claimed that an apocalyptic race war called Helter Skelter was go...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 59
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us while we dive into the murders of Annette Schnee and Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer. On January 6, 1982, both women went missing within hours of each other. With no connection between the victims, the case went cold quickly. Then 40 years later, there's not only an arrest but also a conviction and jail time served! This ...
May 28, 2023•54 min•Ep. 58
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the mysterious disappearance of Bryce Laspisa. In August of 2013, Bryce began acting peculiar and those close to him grew concerned about his behavior. Things came to a head one day when Bryce got into his car and drove off. Seemingly on the way to his parent's home, Bryce made seve...
May 21, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 57
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make a great cocktail. Join us this week while we wrap up this two-parter and dive into the trial of Adnan Syed. Last week we learned about Hae Min Lee, her relationship with Adnan Syed, and her untimely death. This week will be about the trials, the appeals, and Adnan's release from prison. Hae was last seen leaving school on January 13, 19...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 56
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Hae Min Lee. On January 13, 1999, 18-year-old Hae Min Lee was reported missing by her family. Just under a month later, her body was discovered in a park. The police immediately look at her current boyfriend (a man named Don) and her ex: Adnan Syed. Adnan became...
May 07, 2023•57 min•Ep. 55
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into one of Australia's most infamous women: Katherine Knight. In the early 2000s, she brutally took the life of John Price, the man she was seeing at the time. The murder was vicious and brutal. The crime scene looked like something from a horror movie. Katherine's a viole...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 54
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the murder of Jayna Murray, also known as, the Lululemon murder. In 2011, Jayna Murray was found dead inside the Lululemon Athletica store she worked at. What looked like a burglary gone wrong on the surface was so much more. For sipping along this week, we're mixing up a...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 53
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one hell of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the serial killer duo known as The Toolbox Killers, part two. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were highly disturbed and deranged individuals responsible for killing five teenage girls across a five-month period in the late 1970s. This week we're going to cover the last t...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 52
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the serial killer duo known as The Toolbox Killers. They were highly disturbed and deranged individuals responsible for killing five teenage girls across a five-month period in the late 1970s. This week we're going to cover all the individual background information on Law...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 51
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. **HEY! WE MADE IT TO 50 EPISODES!** YAY!! Join us while we dive into the conclusion of the Gregg and Pamela Smart story. Over the last couple of weeks, we've learned all sorts of stuff about Gregg's murder, Pamela's questionable decision-making, and of course the investigation that revealed i...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 50
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join us while we dive into the second part of the Gregg and Pamela Smart story. Last time we learned all about the relationship these two shared. They were young and in love. And they got married very quickly. Unfortunately, their marriage began to fall apart soon after it began. Affairs were had, they w...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 49
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (us!), teach you all about true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join us this week while we dive into the Gregg and Pamela Smart Story. In May of 1990, Gregg Smart was shot and killed after he interrupted a burglary inside his home. His wife Pamela found him hours later and immediately rang the alarm. What unfolded over the next few months was shocking, not just to the community of Derr...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 48
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze (that's us!), teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join us this week while they dive into the disappearance, and subsequent murder of Laci and Conner Peterson. This is one of those cases that everyone knows. Laci was eight months pregnant when she went missing on Christmas Eve 2002. That morning was like any other and the two went their separate w...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they dive into the life and crimes of Robert Hansen, a man better known as The Butcher Baker. He and his family lived in Anchorage, Alaska where he owned his own bakery. To the community, he was a meek and mild family man who served pastries. However, there was another side...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 47
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they dive into the dark and twisty Slender Man Stabbing. In May 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their best friend Payton "Bella" Leutner into the woods and stabbed her almost twenty times. A few hours later, once the police are...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 46
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they get back into the Lorena Bobbitt story for part two. After years of abuse (allegedly), Lorena had hit her breaking point. While her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, was sleeping one night, she grabbed an 8-inch carving knife and proceeded to cut off the part of him that hu...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 45
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they dive into part one of the Lorena Bobbitt story. After years of abuse (allegedly), Lorena had hit her breaking point. While her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, was sleeping one night, she grabbed an 8-inch carving knife and proceeded to cut off the part of him that hurt he...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 44
This week the girls are diving into the life and crimes of America's most notorious gangster, AL Capone. By the age of 26 Capone was running the largest crime syndicates in the country. His brutality was legendary. Chicago in the 20s was a wild and dangerous place to be. Tensions rose and culminated in what is known today as the St. Valentine's Day massacre. A case that is technically unsolved to this day.
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 43
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they discuss the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart, a case also known as "The Scream Murder". In the fall of 2006, she was terrorized and then killed by two classmates while house-sitting for her family one weekend. Brian Draper and Torrey Adamcik were horror movie enthusiasts who one day wan...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 42
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they discuss the Gainesville Ripper. In the summer of 1990, Daniel Rolling took the lives of five college students. A bank robber turned murderer, he single-handedly held the city of Gainesville, Florida, hostage for four long days. Police were desperate to find the person responsi...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 41
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they discuss the murder of Angel Melendez and the events that led up to it. In the early 90s, New York City nightlife was swiftly being taken over by the Club Kids. This notorious movement was led by Michael Alig, a misfit from the midwest looking to carve out a space just for him ...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 40
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. This week the girls are diving into a time in history that Americans likely want to forget. Of course, we're talking about the prohibition movement that occurred throughout the 1920s in the United States. The passing of prohibition laws across the states bred an environment full of resentment and desperation. Pe...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 39
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Happy Christmas everyone! This is a little bonus Don't Drink With Strangers for you. If you've listened before, you already know that Bree is a former Jehovah's Witness and isn't familiar with a lot of traditions and things surrounding Christmas. Krampus is in that category, so the girls thought it would be fun t...
Dec 25, 2022•26 min
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. This week the girls are talking about all things Christmas. This episode will feature four different crimes/cases that had to do with/or happened on Christmas. We’ll start with a string of art thefts in NYC and work our way backward in time. We’re going to dive into the events that led to a bloody Christmas...
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 38
