COLT HAYNES' BROTHER JESSE HAYNES CONTINUES TO HIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE PODCAST REVEALING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS OR DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT HIS BROTHER'S DISAPPEARANCE AND MORE THAN LIKELY, DEATH. JESSE ALSO GOES INTO FURTHER DETAIL ON HOW JACKIE BATES, A RESERVE OFFICER FOR THE RINGLING POLICE DEPARTMENT, TRIED TO MANIPULATE HIM INTO SAYING THAT HE KILLED HIS BROTHER. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas...
Mar 06, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 48
SAN QUENTIN IS CLOSING DEATH ROW AND MOVING SERIAL KILLERS TO OTHER PRISONS. LAURA BRAND HAS BEEN UP THERE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK TO HAVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE SERIAL KILLERS BEFORE THEY ARE MOVED. SHE IS WORKING ON COLD CASES FOR HOMICIDE DEPARTMENTS TO HELP FIND MISSING VICTIMS. THIS WEEK WE CATCH UP WITH HER AFTER SHE JUST MET WITH NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER CHARLES NG WHO HAS BEEN THREATENING TO LAURA BECAUSE SHE WAS REFUSING TO GET IN THE CAGE WITH NG FOR HIS I...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 19
IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE RELEASED AN EPISODE OF THE PODCAST ON WHAT HAPPENED TO MOLLY MILLER AND COLT HAYNES. IN THAT TIME WE HAVE EXPLORED MANY OF THE THEORIES SURROUNDING THIS CASE. RIGHT BEFORE WE TOOK A BREAK ANOTHER THEORY WAS INTRODUCED TO US POINTING THE FINGER AT COLT'S BROTHER, JESSE HAYNES, AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT. WE LOOKED INTO THAT THEORY AS WELL AS SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS. SO WE WENT TO THE SOURCE AND ON TODAY'S PODCAST...
Feb 27, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 47
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LAURA ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT LISTENERS HAVE SENT IN ABOUT LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS. #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N . https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 18
THE SADISTIC KILLING SPREE OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS ENDED WITH THE TRAGIC MURDER OF 16-YEAR-OLD LYNETTE LEDFORD ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1979. TODAY WE WILL TALK TO A CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF LYNETTE LEDFORD WHO HAS THE SAME FIRST NAME. LYNETTE SHIRER WAS AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO LOOKED UP TO LYNETTE LEDFORD AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH HER A YEAR BEFORE SHE WAS MURDERED. SHE REVEALS WHAT AN AMAZING YOUNG WOMAN LYNETTE WAS AND TO THIS DAY SHE CRIES AT THE THOUGHT OF HER BRUTAL DEMISE. https://partn...
Feb 16, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 17
ROB DICK IS A BOUNTY HUNTER WITH OVER 30 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE. ROB HAS BECOME PASSIONATE ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS AND HE IS DOING WORK THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT LAURA BRAND DOES. ROB HAS AN IMPRESSIVE RESUME WORKING ON HIGH PROFILE CASE SUCH AS THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE AND THE SPEED FREAK KILLERS WESLEY SHERMANTINE AND LOREN HERZOG. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2 . https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 16
TODAY WE ARE REPORTING LIVE FROM SAN QUENTIN DEATH ROW. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING BECAUSE WE ARE WITNESSING THE DISMANTLING OF THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST DEATH ROW POPULATION. BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2024 DEATH ROW WILL BE NO MORE AND THE INMATES WHO ARE SERVING DEATH ROW SENTENCES WILL BE DISPERSED TO OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. TODAY WE WILL ALSO BE TALKING TO JAMES MARLOW "THE WOLF OF FOLSOM" WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 5 MURDERS IN 1986. HE WAS CONVICTED ALONG SIDE HIS GIRLFRIEND ...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 15
KITTI MCDOWELL VANDAHLEN WAS JUST A TEENAGER WHEN HER DEAR FRIEND JACKIE GILLIAM WAS MURDERED BY LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS IN THE LATE 1970'S. KITTI STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBERS WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY PERSON JACKIE WAS JUST LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. KITTI SHARES HER THOUGHTS ON THE TRAGIC EVENT THAT EFFECTED HER LIFE. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2 https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jan 26, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 14
IN PART 1 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS REVEALED HIS INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TOOLBOX KILLER LAWRENCE BITTAKER WHILE BEEN LOCKED UP IN THE SAME TIER INSIDE LA COUNTY JAIL. IT WAS THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT LED TO CARLO TESTIFYING AGAINST BITTAKER IN OPEN COURT TO SECURE HIS DEATH SENTENCE. IN PART 2 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO, HE REVEALS TO LAURA SOME OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE BITTAKER BRAGGED ABOUT DUMPING SOME OF HIS VICTIM’S REMAINS THAT THE POLICE HAVE NEVER SEARCH FOR. DUE TO THE SE...
Jan 19, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 13
THIS WEEK WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS WHO WAS THE KEY WITNESS IN THE TRIAL AGAINST BITTAKER AND NORRIS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS THAT HE'S SPEAKING PUBLICLY ABOUT HIS TESTIMONY. CARLO WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER. AFTER HIS CONVICTION HE WAS HOUSED IN LA COUNTY JAIL'S HIGH POWER WING NEXT TO LAWRENCE BITTAKER. BITTAKER, BEFRIENDED THE YOUNG MAN AND BRAGGED TO CARLO ABOUT ALL OF THE MURDERS AND THE GORY DETAILS. CARLO DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM UNTIL TH...
Jan 12, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 12
FOR THE PAST DECADE, LAURA HAS BEEN INTERACTING WITH THE SERIAL OFFENDERS ON SAN QUENTINS DEATH ROW AND OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO INTERVIEW THEM, STUDY THEM, BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM SO THEY TRUST HER ENOUGH TO GIVE HER INFORMATION ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS WHO LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO RELEASE AN AUDIO RECORDING OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER IN THE DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH TO ILLUSTRATE LAURA'S METHODOLOGY. WE WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS RECORDING: ...
Jan 05, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 11
IN 1979, 16-YEAR-OLD CYNDE AND 17-YEAR-OLD JINA WERE BEST FRIENDS LIVING IN BURBANK, CA... THEY DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER. THEY LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM THE SCOTT MOTEL AND EVERYDAY THEY WALKED TO SCHOOL TOGETHER PAST THE MOTEL. WHAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT THE TOOLBOX KILLERS, LAURENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS WERE LIVING AT THE SCOTT MOTEL STALKING YOUNG WOMEN TRYING TO DECIDE WHO WAS GOING TO BE THEIR NEXT VICTIM. CYNDE AND JINA WERE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT THE MEN WHO WERE HARASSING THEM WERE...
Dec 29, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 10
ANDY KAHAN IS THE DIRECTOR OF VICTIM SERVICES AND ADVOCACY AT CRIMESTOPPERS HOUSTON AND HE IS A BOARD MEMBER OF TEXAS EQUUSEARCH A NON-PROFIT THAT ASSISTS IN FINDING VICTIMS REMAINS THAT WERE A RESULT OF VIOLENT CRIMES. ANDY AND LAURA BRAND MET AT CRIMECON AND QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER IN THEIR QUESTS TO BRING SOME CLOSURE TO VICTIMS FAMILIES. CINDY SCHAEFER AND ANDREA HALL WERE TWO YOUNG GIRLS WHO WERE ABDUCTED AND MURDERED BY THE TOOLBOX KILLERS IN 1979. ACCORDING TO EXT...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 9
IN THE 1970’S AND 1980’S LOS ANGELES WAS A HUNTING GROUND FOR SERIAL KILLERS, THE NIGHTSTALKER, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER AND THE TOOL BOX KIILLERS. THERE WERE NO CELLPHONES, PEOPLE OFTEN HITCHIKED ALONG THE CALIFORNIA ROADS AND THE AREAS AROUND LOS ANGELES WERE NOT AS POPULATED AS THEY ARE NOW. LAURA’S WORK WITH THE TOOL BOX KILLER HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON GETTING INFORMATION FROM BITTAKER ABOUT OTHER VICTIMS WHO MIGHT STILL BE MISSING SO SHE CAN HELP RETRIEVE THOSE VICTIMS AND BRING THEM HOME TO THE F...
Dec 15, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
IN THE 10 YEARS OF LAURA BRAND’S RESEARCH SHE HAS DISCOVERED MOUNTAINS OF INFORMATION ON SERIAL KILLERS CASES THAT REVEAL ADDITIONAL VICTIMS, WITNESSES, AND EVIDENCE TO WHERE MISSING REMAINS COULD BE FOUND. THREE YEARS AGO, LAURA STUMBLED ON SOMEONE WHO LAURENCE BITTAKER SHARED DETAILS OF HIS BRUTAL MURDERS TO WHILE INCARCERATED IN LA COUNTY JAIL AFTER HIS ARREST. IN THE LATE 70’S ANTHONY CONJEJO, WAS A 26 YEAR OLD WHO WAS HOUSED WITH BITTAKER IN LA COUNTY JAIL FOR BANK ROBBERY AND MURDER. THE I...
Dec 08, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 7
TODAY’S EPISODE WE WILL BE TALKING TO LINDA HOLTZ WHO WAS A FRIEND AND CLASSMATE OF LYNETTE LEDFORD WHO WAS ONE OF LAURENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS’ VICTIMS. ON HALLOWEEN IN 1979 LYNETTE LADFORD WAS DROPPED OFF BY FRIENDS AT A GAS STATION NOT FAR FROM HER HOUSE IN SHADOW HILLS, CALIFORNIA. SHE WAS THEN PICKED UP BY BITTAKER AND NORRIS. THE NEXT MORNING, SHE WAS FOUND WITHOUT CLOTHES BRUTALLY MURDERED IN SOMEONE’S IVY BED IN THEIR FRONT YARD. ACCORDING TO LAURA, BITTAKER NEVER DISPUTED WHAT HE AN...
Dec 01, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 6
WHEN LAURA BRAND FIRST EMBARKED ON THE JOURNEY TO GET INSIDE OF THE MINDS OF SERIAL KILLERS TO HELP FIND THE REMAINS OF THEIR VICTIMS, SHE REACHED OUT TO OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD FOR GUIDANCE. ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WAS DR. ALLAN PASS. DR. PASS HAS A WELL DOCUMENTED HISTORY IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH AS WELL BEING AN EXPERT WITNESS FOR BOTH DEFENSE ATTORNEYS AND THE PROSECUTION SINCE 1973. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 5
KRISTIN MESSINGER WAS A FUN LOVING TEENAGER LIVING IN A BEACH COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHEN SHE DECIDED TO GET INTO A CAR WITH ROY NORRIS (ONE OF THE TOOLBOX KILLERS). WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGED HER FOREVER. LAURA, REVEALS TO KRISTIN WHAT THE KILLERS TOLD HER ABOUT THAT DAY SHE GOT AWAY AND HOW HER LIFE WAS IMPACTED BY THIS INCREDIBLE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Nov 17, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 4
DOUGLAS CLARK WAS AN AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER AND NECROPHILE. CLARK AND HIS ACCOMPLICE, CAROL BUNDY WERE KNOWN AS THE SUNSET SLAYERS AND WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE ALTHOUGH OFFICIALS AND LAURA BRAND BELIEVES THERE ARE MORE. LAURA HAS HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH CLARK DURING HER STUDY AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED ON OCTOBER 11, 2023 HE RELEASE ALL OF HIS CASE FILES TO LAURA AND ADMITTED HIS PART IN THE MURDERS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 3
WHEN LAURA BRAND STARTED TO GET FULL COOPERATION FROM LAURENCE BITTAKER INSIDE SAN QUENTIN'S DEATH ROW HE GAVE HER FULL ACCESS TO HIS DISCOVERY CASE FILES. IN THOSE FILES, LAURA STARTED TO DISCOVER OTHER PEOPLE WHO CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE TOOLBOX KILLERS, BUT WEREN'T BRUTALLY MURDERED... BUT WHY DID THEY KILL SOME AND NOT OTHERS. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT. DENA MOODY WAS A TEENAGER WHO WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO MANAGED TO SURVIVE THE TOOLBOX KILLERS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Nov 03, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 2
10 years ago, criminologist and private detective, Laura Brand embarked on a journey to study the most notorious serial killers in the United States by sitting face to face with them inside a cage. Her goal was to not only learn what made them kill, but to also find the remaining victims that were not part of their convictions... And there are still many out there. Over 50 serial killers participated in her study and continue to do so, but it all started with Laurence Bittaker "The Tool Box Kill...
Oct 27, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 1
THIS SATURDAY JULY 8TH, 2023 MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOLLY MILLER AND COLT HAYNES' DISAPPEARANCE. BOTH THE FAMILIES, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AS WELL AS US BELIEVE THAT MOLLY AND COLT ARE DEAD. ALL INDICATIONS POINT TO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE MURDERED. TO CELEBRATE THEIR LIVES PAULA FIELDER WILL BE HOLDING AN EVENT AT THE LOVE COUNTY COURT HOUSE TO HONOR THEIR MEMORY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jul 07, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 46
A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE LAUNCHED THE PODCAST ALMOST A YEAR AGO AND THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT ON THE CASE IN THAT TIME. SOME OF IT GOOD, SOME OF IT BAD, AND SOME OF IT JUST COMPLETELY CONFUSING…. BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE… PAULA, MISTY, CINDY AND I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP TO FIND ANSWERS TO WHAT WE BELIEVE IS A HORRIBLE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST MOLLY AND COLT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 07, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 45
LOOKING BACK ON DAVID BERKOWITZ’S LIFE AS SON OF SAM IT IS STILL HARD TO BELIEVE A MAN OF THAT STATURE TURNED INTO SERIAL KILLER, BUT IT ALL STARTS WITH THE MIND. IT'S ONLY BEEN SINCE THE LATE 70’S THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT STARTED TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE BECOME SERIAL KILLERS AND WHAT MAKE THEM TICK. TODAY WE ARE TODAY WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE BACK ON THE PODCAST MARK OLSHAKER, CO-AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER TO HELP US GET INSIDE THE MIND OF SON OF SAM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
May 04, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 14
ONCE THE NYPD SAW THAT THEY HAD A SERIAL KILLER ON THER HANDS, THEY QUICKLY FORMED THE OMEGA TASK FORCE. THE TASK FORCE WAS MADE UP OF THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE NYPD. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A FEW DOZEN QUICKLY SWELLED INTO THE 50’S AND THEN EVENTUALLY UP TO A 100 OFFICERS WORKING FULLTIME ON THE SON OF SAM MURDERS. TODAY WE ARE EXCITED TO SPEAK TO ONE OF THOSE TASK FORCE MEMBERS, MARLIN HOPKINS. MARLIN SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER IN THE NYPD, MOSTLY AS A DETECTIVE. IN 1977 HE WALKED RIGHT INTO THE TR...
Apr 28, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 13
LEGENDARY CRIME REPORTER AND JOURNALIST JEFF KAMEN JOINS DOC BONN TO SHARE HIS FIRST HAND EXPERIENCES DURING THE SUMMER OF SAM IN 1977. JEFF WAS A REPORTER FOR WPIX IN NYC AND FOUND HIMSELF IN THE RIGHT PLACE IN THE RIGHT TIME TO CAPTURE THE CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 19, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 12
DOC BONN DIVES DEEPER INTO THE WORLD OF THE SON OF SAM KILLER DAVID BERKOWITZ AND DEBUNKS SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE NOTORIOUS KILLER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 13, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 11
DOC BONN SPENT TIME WRITING AND MEETING WITH DAVID BERKOWITZ, THE SON OF SAM KILLER, WHO TERRORIZED NYC IN THE 70'S. TODAY HE WILL SHARE HIS UNIQUE EXPERIENCE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH BERKOWITZ AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED TO HEAR HIS ANALYSIS ON SON OF SAM'S SANITY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 05, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 10
TODAY WE HAVE JODI BARTH AGAIN ON THE PODCAST TO HELP US DISCUSS SOME INFORMATION THAT WAS RELEASED ONLINE THIS WEEK THAT POINTS TO A POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN THE CASE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 31, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 44
DOC BONN IS EMBARKING ON A LIVE SHOW TOUR STARTING IN MAY IN SELECTED CITIES THAT WILL FOCUS ON BRINGING ALL OF HIS RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCES SURROUNDING SERIAL KILLERS AND WHY PEOPLE ARE CAPTIVATED BY THEM - TO A LIVE AUDIENCE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 29, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 9
