"Mind Over Murder" presented a live podcast recording session on developments in the Colonial Parkway Murders at the Yorktown Library in Yorktown, Virginia on Monday, May 13, 2024. Here we discuss what to expect at our next "Mind Over Murder Live." Tickets for May 13 event: https://allevents.in/yorktown/live-podcast-mind-over-murder/200026399718622 Won't you help the Mind Over Murder podcast increase our visibility and shine the spotlight on the "Colonial Parkway Murders" and other unsolved case...
May 06, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 367
Longtime Boston Globe reporter Stephen Kurkjian joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to talk about his book, "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist." This is Part 2 of our discussion with Steve about the 1990 theft of 13 masterworks taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, still not recovered after 34 years. Master Thieves The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist https://www.hachettebookgroup.c...
May 02, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 366
Longtime Boston Globe reporter Stephen Kurkjian joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to talk about his book, "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist." This is Part 1 of our discussion with Steve about the 1990 theft of 13 masterworks taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, still not recovered after 34 years. Master Thieves The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist https://www.hachettebookgroup.c...
Apr 29, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 365
"Mind Over Murder" presented a live podcast recording session on developments in the Colonial Parkway Murders at the Yorktown Library in Yorktown, Virginia on April 15, 2024. The session featured special guest Joyce Call Canada, sister of Keith Call. This is part two, a one hour Q&A session with the live audience. "Mind Over Murder Live" will return to the Yorktown Library on Monday, May 13, 2024. WTVR CBS News: Colonial Parkway murders victims' families keep hope cases will be solved: https...
Apr 25, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 364
"Mind Over Murder" presented a live podcast recording session on developments in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Yorktown, Virginia on April 15, 2024. The session featured special guest Joyce Call Canada, sister of Keith Call, and was our first podcast recorded before a live audience. This is part one of the evening; part two was a one hour live Q&A session and launching on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Mind Over Murder Live will return to the Yorktown Library on Monday, May 13, 2024. WTVR CBS N...
Apr 22, 2024•56 min•Season 4Ep. 363
Kathy Kleiner Rubin, who survived a brutal attack by serial killer Ted Bundy while she was college student at Florida State University, joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss her inspiring new book, "A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy," written with Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi. This bonus episode of Mind Over Murder originally ran on October 30, 2023. Goodreads: A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Apr 18, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 362
"The Serial Killer's Apprentice: The True Story of How Houston's Deadliest Murderer Turned a Kid Into a Killing Machine" is the new book by authors Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman. The authors join us for a fascinating discussion of killers Dean Corll, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley worked together as victims and perpetrators. The Serial Killer's Apprentice Hardcover – April 16, 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killers-Apprentice-Katherine-Ramsland/dp/1613164955/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M3OJB...
Apr 15, 2024•57 min•Season 5Ep. 361
Author and attorney Kerrie Dorban talks with "Mind Over Murder" podcast hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley about the new book that she so-wrote with Dr. Lynne Fenton, "Aurora The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story." The book tells the behind the scenes story of the Aurora, Colorado movie theater mass killing, the trial that followed and the powerful ripple effect for the members of the Aurora community in the wake of mass murder. This bonus episode of Mind Over M...
Apr 11, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 360
M William Phelps, the prolific true crime author of 45 true crime books and host of numerous television series including "Dark Minds," joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to talk about his two highly successful podcasts "Paper Ghosts" and "Crossing the Line." Latest series of Paper Ghosts podcast "The Ozarks" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-paper-ghosts-the-ozarks-70977237/ Crossing the Line podcast with M William Phelps https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-crossing-...
Apr 08, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 359
Joyce Call Canada, sister of longtime missing person Richard "Keith" Call, joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss the 35th anniversary of her younger brother's disappearance together with Cassandra "Sandy" Hailey as part of the still unsolved Colonial Parkway Murders. Joyce fills us in on the status of the FBI and Virginia State Police investigation, as well as plans underway to add a memorial to Keith at his parent's grave in Gloucester, Virginia. The Keith Cal...
Apr 04, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 358
"Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the Karen Read case in Boston, where an blogger who goes by the nickname "Turtleboy" has aggressively inserted himself in the murder investigation in the death of Karen Read's boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe. The case has highlighted many concerns about unethical behavior by defendant Karen Read, her legal defense team and blogger/podcaster Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney. Boston Globe: How blogger Aidan Kearney — a.k.a. ‘Turtle...
Apr 01, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 357
In this bonus episode, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley explore both the unsolved killings which are considered part of the Route 29 Stalker case in Virginia, as well as cases which have since been solved and are not part of the Route 29 Stalker series. Can this longstanding murder mystery be solved? This episode originally ran on May 2, 2022 and is part 2 of 2 parts. Northern Virginia Daily: Police continue to search for Alicia Reynolds' killer: https://www.nvdaily.com...
Mar 28, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 356
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley offer a status update on the Colonial Parkway Murders case. We also announce live podcast recording sessions to be held in front of a live audience on Monday, April 15 and Monday, May 13, 2024 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Yorktown Library in Yorktown, Virginia. Join us for a recording session and live audience Q&A. Monday,...
Mar 25, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 355
In this bonus episode, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley explore both the unsolved killings which are considered part of the Route 29 Stalker case in Virginia, as well as cases which have since been solved and are not part of the Route 29 Stalker series. Can this longstanding murder mystery be solved? This episode originally ran on April 25, 2022 and is part 1 of 2 parts. Northern Virginia Daily: Police continue to search for Alicia Reynolds' killer: https://www.nvdaily....
Mar 21, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 354
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley take on a new episode of "Ask Us Anything in the Colonial Parkway Murders." Questions for this episode were provided by "Mind Over Murder" listeners. This is Part 3 of 3 new "Ask Us Anything" episodes. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Septemb...
Mar 18, 2024•49 min•Season 5Ep. 353
In this Bonus episode from 2021, Mind Over Murder co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the second of the Colonial Parkway Murders, the 1987 double homicide of Robin Edwards and David Knobling. On Monday, January 8, 2024, the Virginia State Police, FBI Norfolk and the Hampton, Virginia Police Department announced that the Edwards/Knobling case had been solved as a result of a DNA match and a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) rape kit test. This part 2 of 2 episodes on Robin Edwards ...
Mar 14, 2024•39 min•Season 5Ep. 352
Dr. Mike Aamodt, the founder of the Serial Killer Database joins "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss how the database came into existence, how it helps academics, students and law enforcement investigators understand the lives and minds of serial killer, including Colonial Parkway Murders serial killer Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. Wilmer was publicly identified as the murderer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling (1987 Colonial Parkway Murders) as well as 1989 Hampton V...
Mar 11, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 351
In this Bonus episode from 2021, Mind Over Murder co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the second of the Colonial Parkway Murders, the 1987 double homicide of Robin Edwards and David Knobling. On Monday, January 8, 2024, the Virginia State Police, FBI Norfolk and the Hampton, Virginia Police Department announced that the Edwards/Knobling case had been solved as a result of a DNA match and a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) rape kit test. This part 1 of 2 episodes on Robin Edwards ...
Mar 07, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 350
Ashley Spence, the head of the DNA Justice Project and a survivor of sexual assault herself, joins "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss her personal story of survival, how the CODIS system works to help solve cases including sexual assault and murder, and how the DNA Justice Project is working with legislators around the country to eliminate loopholes in the CODIS system, both to bring offenders to justice and free the innocent. DNA Justice Project: https://www.d...
Mar 04, 2024•52 min•Season 5Ep. 349
Mind Over Murder co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley are joined by Judy Knobling, mother of murder victim David Knobling as they discuss the second of the Colonial Parkway Murders, the 1987 double homicide of Robin Edwards and David Knobling. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders in September 1987, as well as the murderer of Teresa Howell in June 1989. He has also been linked to the April 1988 disappearance and l...
Feb 29, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 348
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss whether same sex couples were targeted in the Colonial Parkway Murders. Several of the sites of murders in this series were commited at locations where there was a lot of gay cruising, and even serial killer Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. said odd things that seemed to reference this fact. Was Wilmer targeting gay and lesbian cou...
Feb 26, 2024•37 min•Season 5Ep. 347
With FBI Norfolk informing that Colonial Parkway Murders families at a meeting on January 6, 2024, that they are short $300,000 in order to test DNA and other forensic evidence in the Colonial Parkway Murders, we thought we might revisit earlier discussion of the FBI testing budget available in the Parkway case. Given how many miillion dollars the FBI and Virginia State Police have spent on the Colonial Parkway Murders investigation, we are outraged that $300,000 stands in the way of proper fore...
Feb 22, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 346
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley take on a new episode of "Ask Us Anything in the Colonial Parkway Murders." Questions for this episode and the next episode were provided by longtime "Mind Over Murder" listener Robert Grey. This is Part 2 of 3 new "Ask Us Anything" episodes. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling i...
Feb 19, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 345
In this bonus episode, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley explore the 1988 murders of Brian Pettinger and Laurie Ann Powell. These two separate incidents are often linked to the unsolved Colonial Parkway Murders. Are they related? What is status of the investigation? Is the fact that Brian and Laurie both worked at Liberty Security with New Zealander Ron Little related to their murders? Does new information received about Ron Little represent a potential key to these Virg...
Feb 15, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 344
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley take on a new episode of "Ask Us Anything in the Colonial Parkway Murders." Questions for this episode and the next episode were provided by longtime "Mind Over Murder" listener Robert Grey. This is Part 1 of 3 new "Ask Us Anything" episodes. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling i...
Feb 12, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 343
New York Times bestselling author Blaine Pardoe joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to answer listener questions in the Colonial Parkway Murders case. Now that confirmed serial killer Alan Wade Wilmer Sr has been named in the 1987 rape/murder of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders as well as that of Teresa Howell in Hampton, VA in June 1989, where does the FBI and Virginia State Police investigation go from here? Does Wilmer being named "Sus...
Feb 08, 2024•53 min•Season 5Ep. 342
New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss his new book "A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime." The book tells the true crime story of how movie star Lana Turner got involved with mobster Johnny Stompanato, an enforcer for Los Angeles mob boss Mickey Cohen. Lana Turner's attempt to break off her relationship with the highly dangerous Stompanato in order to to protect herself, her ...
Feb 05, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 341
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the how Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. would be profiled with former FBI Profilers James Fitzgerald and Dr. Raymond Carr. This is Part 2 of 2 parts with Fitz and Ray. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders in September 1987, as well as the murderer of T...
Feb 01, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 340
With a confirmed serial killer, Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. being named in the Colonial Parkway Murders in Virginia, "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the how Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. would be profiled with former FBI Profilers James Fitzgerald and Dr. Raymond Carr. This is Part 1 of 2 parts with Fitz and Ray. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders in September 1987, as well as the murderer of T...
Jan 29, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 339
Andrea Lankford, former National Park Service Ranger joins "Mind Over Murder" hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss her new book "Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Paficic Crest Trail." Goodreads: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/64000414 Hachette Books: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Mis...
Jan 25, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 338
