FINAL EPISODE! On December 23, 2006, 18 year old Ryan Waller and his girlfriend Heather Quan were enjoying an evening together, but by Christmas Eve one of them would be dead. Police shook their heads, at another case of what they were sure was domestic violence. Or was it? This horrifying case was so badly mishandled... Wow, besties! You really pulled it together for us over the last 3 years! Stay sassy & amazing out there! Support the show Thanks for listening! Follow us on Instagram, TikT...
Apr 27, 2024•29 min
Today’s case is one of the most bizarre in Germany’s crime history. It’s June 2006 and Germany is hosting the World Cup, with millions of people out and about watching the games. On June 20th, Frauke Liebs, 21, disappeared without a trace after walking home from an Irish Pub in downtown Paderborn. What’s so disturbing about this, is that Frauke still sent mysterious text messages and called almost every day for a week, before they abruptly stopped. Her heavily decomposed body was found a few mon...
Apr 24, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 17
"I realize now that he was right when he said our battles would continue until one of us was dead." These are the words from a betrayed wife whose husband seemed to be as bent on her destruction as she was determined to get him back from another woman who took him away. Betty Broderick’s life became notorious due to a highly publicized case in the late 1980s. She was married to Dan Broderick, a successful attorney, with whom she had four children. The couple's marriage ended in a contentious and...
Apr 19, 2024•57 min
Rod Ferrell was introduced to a game that invaded his mind. A game that would actually blur the lines of reality for him, and he would go on to believe that he was in fact a 500 year old vampire. But Rod wasn’t alone with this new found persona. His newfound blood lines would make him a cult leader in which he was willing to do anything to protect and provide for them. Content Warning: This episode briefly mentions topics surrounding animal cruelty & details of murder. Sources: https://wendo...
Apr 12, 2024•40 min
Danish engineer and mad inventor Peter Masden was intriguing to Swedish journalist Kim Wall. He was inspiring to many and well known for his rockets, space lab, and multiple submarines. But her story of a lifetime turned into making headlines in a very different way that she had expected. Peter secretly plotted to get her alone, under the ocean, and then reveal who he really was. Sources: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/peter-madsen-guilty-verdict-leaves-lingering-questions-and-pa...
Apr 10, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Today’s episode is wild. We’re talking about Charles "Smitty" Schmid, a charismatic sociopath who compensated for his below average height by stuffing his cowboy boots with rags and crushed beer cans, wore pancake makeup, and sported a fake beauty mark on one cheek. He murdered three teenaged girls and buried their bodies in the desert outside of his hometown, Tucson, Arizona. Weird Law: https://www.hastingsandhastings.com/absurd-arizona-laws/ Merch: https://belleame-creations.square.site/shop/j...
Apr 05, 2024•53 min
Laura Parker was a quiet 14 year old girl, who lived with her parents in Lindenhurst, New York. She had been in choir, active in church, and a softball player at her high school. She disappeared on May 25, 1984, but most people believed that she was a runaway. Laura’s parents knew better and wondered where she was, searching everywhere. Four months later, her remains were discovered a few miles from her family home. Her killer has never been found. Around the same time, three other young girls f...
Mar 29, 2024•44 min
In June of 1988, 23-year old Philip Fraser started his trek from Anchorage, Alaska to Olympia, Washington - where he was set to start his pre med classes at Evergreen State College. However, a week after he left, his vehicle was found abandoned and set on fire at a car wash in Prince George, British Columbia… and Philip was nowhere to be found… Merch: https://belleame-creations.square.site/shop/judgy-crime-girls/2 Sources: https://unresolved.me/philip-fraser https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/T...
Mar 27, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Not long after Robert Spangler learned he was dying of cancer, detectives came knocking at his door on the chance he had something he might want to get off his chest before the end came. And he didn’t disappoint them… Spangler matter-of-factly admitted killing his family in 1978 and pushing his third wife, Donna, to her death at the Grand Canyon 15 years later. The death of his second wife, Sharon, was ruled as suicide and was never investigated. Death, it seems, had always been an “easy way out...
Mar 21, 2024•50 min
Hannah Upp, a 23-year-old middle-school teacher in New York City has disappeared three times. The first time was in August 2008 in New York City, where she was found floating in the Hudson River almost three weeks after she went missing. She was suffering from a rare form of amnesia called dissociative fugue. The second time was in September 2013 in Kensington, Maryland, where she went missing for two days and was later found in a creek. The third time was in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in S...
Mar 15, 2024•26 min
On Easter Sunday, 1937, Robert Irwin, a talented and very disturbed young sculptor, who had been in and out of mental hospitals for years, committed a horrific triple murder in the fashionable Manhattan neighborhood of Beekman Hill. The victims were Veronica Gedeon, a beautiful true crime magazine model, her mother Mary, both strangled to death, and a male boarder, Frank Byrnes, stabbed eleven times with an icepick while he slept. These murders led to one of the largest manhunts since the Lindbe...
Mar 12, 2024•30 min•Season 5Ep. 15
A father’s love knows no bounds. André Bamberski would have moved heaven and earth for his daughter Kalinka....a fact that became clear after her mysterious death. Kalinka Bamberski suddenly died in July 1982 while living with her mother, Danielle, and stepfather, Dr. Dieter Krombach, at Lake Constance in southern Germany. She was found in her bed one morning with needle marks on her arms and an injury to her genitals. Krombach said the death was an accident after he injected her with a substanc...
Mar 07, 2024•40 min
Gallaudet University located in Washington DC, the only four-year school for the deaf and hearing-impaired in the ENTIRE WORLD, has a grim history. Just four weeks into the fall semester in 2000, a murder quietly took place, or so it seemed. The close knit campus was terrified and the language barrier created chaos between police, media, and the community. When students returned to campus after winter break, they were hopeful for a fresh start. But much to their horror, another student was found...
Mar 01, 2024•39 min
Katie Collman was a 10 year old girl that went missing in January of 2005 from Crothersville, IN. Five days later, she was found floating in nearby Lake Cyprus. After months of searching for her killer, a rather unusual suspect was convicted. Years later, behind prison walls, the monster would be reminded of what he did in a surprising act of revenge. *This little girl was loved beyond measure by her family and her community. Our sincerest condolences, as always, to everyone there. Our hearts go...
Feb 28, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 14
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of Australia’s most famous tourist attractions. Clear waters and tropical marine life make it popular with scuba divers from around the world. For American newlyweds Gabe and Tina Watson, a visit to the Great Barrier Reef was part of their dream honeymoon. But when their scuba diving trip ended in tragedy, a question quickly emerged: was it an accident or was it murder? As investigators delved deeper into the case, c...
Feb 22, 2024•38 min
In this exclusive episode of Judgy After Dark, join us as we delve into the case of Archie McAfferty, who vowed to kill seven people because voices in his head were urging him to do so. Archie McAfferty led a sinister life from the young age of just 10 when he started strangling animals. Known as "Mad Dog" in the annals of crime history, McAfferty's case stands as a chilling reminder of the horrors that can occur when mental illness is left untreated. Take a journey with us through the eerie det...
Feb 16, 2024•49 min
Today we talk about a Valentine’s Day murder of a mother and her children which is sometimes referred to as the “Lonely Hearts Murders”. On February 14, 1985 Cassandra Rundle and her two children were found brutally murdered in their Colorado Springs home. In the months before her death, Cassandra had taken out personal ads in a local newspaper. She received more than 80 responses and made contact with several men, but no evidence could be found to link any of them to the murders. Years later Po...
Feb 14, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 13
It was kind of a Cinderella story…a young woman from a poor working class family to living at Buckingham Palace. Jane Andrews was a personal stylist for Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, Duchess of York. But it wasn’t her impeccable styling skills that made her famous. No, she gained worldwide attention for murdering her boyfriend, Tom Cressman, in a brutal crime that shocked everyone. Sources available upon request. Support the show Thanks for listening! Follow us on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook....
Feb 09, 2024•47 min
Part 2 of the Sante Kimes criminal mind involves a plot twist in New York. She puts her son, Kenny, up to the ultimate scheme by creating an alias that allows him to get a suite in the home of a elderly woman's home with the intentions of killing her and forging a deed transfer to the property. Sante even dresses as this woman in an attempt to have documents notarized...and the evil duo attempt to take over the entire building. Thanks for listening! Support the show Thanks for listening! Follow ...
Feb 04, 2024•24 min
As if forging checks, stealing cars, burning down houses, shoplifting, and slavery wasn’t enough...this woman manipulated the world’s wealthiest people and then went on to murder them. In the 90's Sante Kimes demanded her son, Kenny, do her dirty work for her and together, they became “Mommy” and Clyde. Sante's crime spree lasted over 40 years across the U.S., even manipulating her way into the guest suite of Vice President Gerald Ford and crashing several ambassador parties along the way! Suppo...
Feb 02, 2024•32 min
In 2016, millionaire Blake Leibel tortured and mutilated Hollywood model Iana Kasian who had just given birth to their daughter. Presumed to be out of jealousy of the baby, he scalped Iana and drained her blood. The scene was similar to a grim novel he had helped create in 2010 called “Syndrome,” foreshadowing the tragedy. Non-Profit Mentioned: (Support for Children with Murdered Parents) https://dfyf.org/wp-content/uploads/COMPS18.pdf Sources: https://authorcindyparmiter.medium.com/tortured-to-...
Jan 31, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 12
The Isdal woman case has intrigued me for years and has led me down endless rabbit holes. It remains Norway’s greatest mystery, and for good reason. The Isdal Woman refers to an unidentified woman found dead in Norway in 1970. The case is shrouded in mystery, with elements of espionage and an unknown identity. Was it suicide? Was she murdered? Despite extensive investigations, her identity and the circumstances surrounding her death remain unresolved. Who was this mysterious woman, and what led ...
Jan 28, 2024•50 min
Beverly Allitt, also known as the "Angel of Death," became one of Britain's most notorious female serial killers. She terrorized 14 innocent babies and murdered four of them in under 60 days. This is the one of the worst cases of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy that I have ever covered, and this episode was extremely emotional to cover. Takeaway: Question doctors, nurses, and staff. Don't leave your babies and vulnerable loved ones without you questioning their care and never be afraid to get a sec...
Jan 19, 2024•39 min
We’re back this week with a spine chilling case from Oregon. We’re talking about the abduction and murder of Sherry Eyerly, an 18-year-old Domino's Pizza delivery driver who disappeared without a trace in Salem, Oregon in 1982 after getting called out for a delivery. Despite an initial promising lead, Sherry’s case went cold. A Dallas psychic's dramatic vision and an unknown serial killer are among the twists and turns in the story. Nonprofit of the week: Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue (PNW...
Jan 17, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 11
When young girls started disappearing throughout Belgium in the 1990s, police had every reason to suspect Marc Dutroux. Not only had his own mother reported to the police that he was keeping girls prisoner in one of his several Belgium homes, but he had already been convicted of kidnapping and raping multiple young women and girls in the 1980s before he was let out on parole in 1992. Still, it took a baffling amount of time for police to arrest Dutroux. And when they finally did, they learned he...
Jan 12, 2024•42 min
In 1976, Circleville, OH residents mysteriously began receiving threatening and sometimes sexual letters. All of them were postmarked from nearby Columbus, without a return address, by an anonymous writer who claimed to be watching them. One woman in particular peaked the author’s interest, and her family was watched and tormented for over a decade. This is the strange and horrifying story of Mary Gillispie. Thanks for supporting the show! Leave us a voicemail here: https://www.judgycrimegirls.c...
Jan 05, 2024•26 min
An Unlocked Episode of Judgy After Dark! The incredible story of 11 year old Terry Jo Duperrault. She was not only the sole survivor of her family's murder, but she spent four days alone on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean until she was rescued. Subscribe today to hear a case every Friday for just $3/mo and support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719111/supporters/new?fbclid=IwAR1a05Rn3a-fYKE5wEaab5j7Q9c-VIZLkgrm8k1HIObxgBVy_9BWghwmmro Support the show Thanks for listening! Follow us...
Jan 03, 2024•39 min•Season 5Ep. 10
The Doodler is one of San Francisco's most infamous cold-case serial killers — although not for lack of leads. The Doodler is believed to have killed at least six and up to fourteen men in San Francisco between Jan. 1974 and Sept. 1975. He targeted gay men, likely luring them into sexual encounters before killing them and leaving their bodies on beaches or in parks around the city. Three men were somehow able to escape the Doodler’s clutches and gave police a description of the man and a sketch ...
Dec 29, 2023•39 min
Mark Gerardo and Jennair Cox met in Fort Wayne, IN and fell for each other as young teenagers. The pair would go on to marry, but like many marriages, it was not without struggles. Shortly after relocating to Deleware in 2017, Mark started falling for his new boss Meredith Chapman. He went on to have a affair with her, all the while denying any wrong doing to Jennair. But Jennair was not naive, in fact she made it her life's mission to prove his intentions. And Mark's love triangle would end in ...
Dec 22, 2023•25 min
On August 8, 2017, Tanja Ebert, 23, mysteriously disappeared in Australia after her husband said they had an argument. Tanja, her husband and their two small kids lived on a remote outback property and supposedly Tanja just up and left without any of her belongings or HER CHILDREN after a day trip to Adelaide. She was reported missing two days after the last confirmed sighting of her. Police suspect Tanja’s body is somewhere on their 410sq km property but nothing has been found after multiple se...
Dec 20, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 9
