Send 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 producer and director, Richard Linklater, liked Bernie so much he let Bernie live with him between cases. Half the town of Carthage, Texas, would agree ...
Jul 22, 2025•40 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Send 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 their home on Feb. 20th, “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.” Their five-year-old daughter was the one who found the Brocks dead in their bed, and t...
Jul 15, 2025•37 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Send 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... Well Tik Tok has never been a platform known for people holding their tongue and creators and audiences alike serve up the tea, hot, cold, sweet, or...
Jul 08, 2025•30 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Send 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 Jerry had given Vickie Edge an ounce of the sympathy he gave himself, he might not have killed her. But that's what he did in August of 2020. He told ...
Jul 01, 2025•42 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Send 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. He unsheathed it in the middle of the night, then walked across the hall to the bedroom of his sleeping twin sister, Meaghan, where he stabbed her twic...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Send 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 launch the dancers including former Playboy model Dorothy Stratten. Women would line up out the door to experience the for-women-only "fantasy" of the ...
Jun 17, 2025•53 min•Season 7Ep. 8
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, causing a head-on collision that killed Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and retired firefighter Frank Lovato. Investigators found out that Jaramillo...
Jun 10, 2025•32 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Send 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 road with all your belongings still inside? Well, this is only a small part of Ms. Carlethia "Carlee" Nichole Russell did as a cry for attention or pe...
Jun 03, 2025•45 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Send 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 assault for the injuries to Hudson’s children, Nolan and Charlotte. The crash happened in a community outside Seattle. Police say Jones was weaving in...
May 27, 2025•30 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Send 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 man accused of slinging drugs just for the buck and not for your health. People were traveling from thirty and forty miles away to buy drugs from Bur...
May 20, 2025•52 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Send 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 three, Kathleen McLean. After a few years of dating, a wedding at a tacky Drive Thru Chapel in Las Vegas, a prenup, a few spirited arguments over infid...
May 13, 2025•32 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Send 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 to see that night. Life was going great – until three teenagers in another car hurled a heavy rock at her windshield that hit with the force of a can...
May 06, 2025•36 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Send 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 night 2001. The case went cold quickly, and police had no leads until Charles ‘Chuck’ Erickson said he had a dream after reading an article revisiting t...
Apr 29, 2025•32 min•Season 6Ep. 20
Send 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 arguing with her ex-husband, Andrew Savitz, when he died of a heart attack. The prosecution claimed she was the aggressor who knew his heart was weak. She...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 19
Send 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 was also a patient. Office surveillance video of Dr. Diffine casually strolling through his office and performing a sex act in front of and onto staff...
Apr 15, 2025•34 min•Season 6Ep. 18
Send 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 leaving her to die in a hot car. Tracy took the stand for the first time in her emotional sentencing hearing, but her daughter was perhaps the most hea...
Apr 08, 2025•32 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Send 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 7-month-old granddaughter was strapped into a car seat in the back of her 2019 red Lexus on a 90-degree day in Florida. Sadly, Baby Uriel died and ho...
Apr 01, 2025•36 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Send 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 Jordan Henning, who was angry her 8-year-old son couldn’t remove the water hose from a slip n’ slide they had set up in the yard for the party. Jorda...
Mar 25, 2025•35 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Send 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 Internet. You can get all up in someone’s private business with websites called Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tik-Tok. We’ve got phones we can carry...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Send 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 and tragic story of the missing 3-year-old and 14-month-old boys made headlines when Susan and her devastated husband and father of the children made...
Mar 11, 2025•37 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Send 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 Lee was last seen leaving his university-affiliated apartment early on the morning of Friday, July 8, 2022, wearing his gray slippers, silver robe and ...
Mar 04, 2025•24 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Send 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 Mark was stealing a blue Gatorade and some ice cream. Shoplifting was a constant problem for the businessman, he had them at least twice a day, and Gar...
Feb 25, 2025•24 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Send 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 expert opinion on one of the main culprits …PBM’s (Pharmacy Benefits Managers)‼️ As Brooklere points out, they have a very big fight 🥊 on their hand...
Feb 21, 2025•40 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Send 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 to the lawsuit filed by Beverly Bryan, Bill’s widow, what seems like a shocking, incredulous, and one-in-a million type of blunder that happened to her...
Feb 18, 2025•58 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Send 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 people who suffer, but it can take a terrible toll. They may not know those who died, but witnessing the aftermath can leave long-lasting trauma. Finding ...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Send 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 bed fighting for his life. He didn’t know who Johnathan was at the time or that he had brought a knife and pair of handcuffs when he broke into their ...
Feb 04, 2025•27 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Send 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 in Northwest Florida, and all along the Gulf Coast, it's often the first place you think of for fun and the last place you'd imagine someone would tar...
Jan 28, 2025•30 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Send 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. Despite having her hands full with her own children and some teenagers, Dixie agreed. Tragically, Abi was found dead the following morning at Villa’s house ...
Jan 21, 2025•24 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Send 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 dutifully agreed to help take care of him as his health deteriorated. Merriman’s health issues left him an invalid and Jade lived next door to help him...
Jan 14, 2025•29 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Send 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 are believed to be part truth, part gossip, and part urban legend. Did they get caught stealing from a bootlegger? Were they thrown down an abandoned ...
Jan 07, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 2
