Jim brings back FBI Profiler colleague, Kathy Canning-Mello to interview Christina Fultz who had been recently reunited with her biological mother, only to have her murdered a few years later. This case has so many twists and turns, it will make your head spin. And Christina and her sister were so let down by the justice system, it will make your blood boil… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 01, 2024•25 min•Ep. 503
Jim has special guests Retired FBI Profiler, Kathy Canning-Mello and Former Federal and State Prosecutor, Francey Hakes on to discuss the Docu-Series “Quiet On The Set” which deals with the ordeal many child actors went through on shows run by Dan Schnieder on Nickelodeon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Apr 24, 2024•29 min•Ep. 502
Jim has special guests Retired FBI Profiler, Kathy Canning-Mello and Former Federal and State Prosecutor, Francey Hakes on to discuss the Docu-Series “Quiet On The Set” which deals with the ordeal many child actors went through on shows run by Dan Schnieder on Nickelodeon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Apr 18, 2024•26 min•Ep. 501
Our 500th episode! Thanks for coming with us on this incredible journey! We've platformed victims, changed laws, supported survivors, educated law enforcement and taken on the criminal justice system. But without our loyal listeners we could not have done any of that vital work. On today's show Jim weighs in on Josiah Hilderbrand's case. He shares his view as a former prosecutor on what he thinks the Yakima district attorney should and shouldn't have done. Lisa asks Laura what she makes of the r...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 500
We conclude our interview with Liz Hilderbrand. She explains trying to come to terms not only with her son Josiah’s murder but with the actions of the justice system to erase her son’s existence from a multiple homicide. Liz recalls going to the sentencing of James and Donovan Cloud, seeing the faces of the men who took Josiah’s life, and the cavalier almost jocular attitude of the courtroom. As Laura says, Josiah’s case was used as a bargaining chip for prosecutors to secure a plea deal for one...
Apr 03, 2024•46 min•Ep. 499
We continue our interview with Liz Hilderbrand who tells us what it was like waiting fourteen agonizing months to finally find her son Josiah. His remains were found off the side of a highway in rural eastern Washington state after he was murdered on his way to a concert. Liz describes the excruciating moment of seeing what was left of her child. She also talks about all the evidence that links Josiah’s murder to the offenders who murdered five other people in White Swan, a remote area on the Ya...
Mar 28, 2024•41 min•Ep. 498
25-year-old Josiah Hilderbrand had dreams of becoming a firefighter in the Northern California county where he lived. He loved animals and helping all kinds of people. Most of all, he loved his mom Liz. For his whole life it had just been the two of them. Like his mom, Josiah was a huge fan of the Grateful Dead and was excited to go to Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State to see Dead & Company. On Friday June 7th, 2019, Josiah and a friend were traveling along Highway 97 on their way to se...
Mar 20, 2024•40 min•Ep. 497
We continue discussing the killings of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, a young Australian couple who were allegedly murdered by a New South Wales police officer on February 19, 2024. As we review the timeline, Laura and Jim analyze the significance of the pre and post offence behavior of the alleged offender which include him making suspicious purchases, removing and moving the remains of Jesse and Luke, and possibly involving his friends and colleagues in his attempt to cover up the crime before t...
Mar 14, 2024•38 min•Ep. 496
26-year-old Jesse Baird, a vivacious Australian former television reporter, and 29-year-old Luke Davies, a beloved flight attendant for the Australian airline Qantas, were murdered in cold blood the morning of Monday 19th February. Their bodies were discovered by police in surfboard bags, covered with debris, on a remote property 126 miles south of Sydney on Tuesday 27th February. Jesse and Luke had been dating for just a few months and were full of excitement for the future when they were alleg...
Mar 07, 2024•42 min•Ep. 495
We continue our conversation with Antonia Unaqsiq Commack a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples advocate in Alaska. Antonia is Inupiaq from the Native Village of Shungnak and is a survivor herself of domestic abuse. Antonia is challenging the open letter to the community that the Kotzebue Chief of Police wrote addressing the suspicious deaths of Jennifer Kirk and Sue Sue Norton in Kotzebue, Alaska. The Chief’s letter tries to assure the public that the investigation into these cases has been...
Feb 29, 2024•40 min•Ep. 494
Who is killing the indigenous women of Alaska? Spoiler alert, it is not that hard to figure out if proper investigations had been done, yet time and time again, these victims’ deaths are ignored, suspects are not questioned, evidence is not collected, autopsy reports are glossed over, known repeat offenders are not prosecuted, and on the rare occasions when they are prosecuted, judges are letting them go with less than a slap on the wrist. Joining us to discuss two such cases is victims’ advocat...
Feb 22, 2024•36 min•Ep. 493
We conclude our coverage of “American Nightmare” the story of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn and the secondary trauma they suffered at the hands of law enforcement, the media and the general public at large who refused to believe their story about what happened to them when they were attacked by a sadistic and dangerous offender Matthew Muller. Why did the “Gone Girl” narrative – that Denise staged her own kidnapping -- take hold of everyone’s imaginations at the exclusion of the truth and the e...
Feb 14, 2024•37 min•Ep. 492
"Did you scream?" is the question Detective Mustard asked Denise Huskins when she described her kidnapping and repeated rapes at the hands of Matthew Muller, the man who terrorized her for two days in his remote cabin in the Lake Tahoe area. Laura and Jim tear apart the victim blaming at the heart of this question and the deeply held bias this detective seemed to have against women who have suffered sexual abuse. Join us as we continue discussing "American Nightmare" the three part docu-series n...
Feb 08, 2024•29 min•Ep. 491
You know them from the current #1 Netflix documentary “American Nightmare” about their harrowing experience after a stranger invaded their home and upended their lives, but before the show, there was their book “Victim F”. Real Crime Profile was one of the first podcasts to interview Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn. They sat down with us in 2021 to go over the many details of what they experienced. Much of their story did not make it into the Netflix series, so join us now for this encore episode...
Feb 03, 2024•37 min•Ep. 490
"American Nightmare" streaming now, has been the #1 show on Netflix for the past few weeks. It is a story the Real Crime Profile team knows well. We interviewed Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn in June 2021 and they shared their incredible and harrowing story of how a predatory serial stalker and rapist upended their world and how they fought back for justice and to reclaim their lives. In 2015, the couple were awakened in the middle of the night by lasers and a man wearing all black with a gun. A...
Feb 01, 2024•32 min•Ep. 489
We continue our discussion about Natalia Grace, her life as far as we know it and the case built against her by her adoptive parents Michael and Kristine Barnett who claimed Natalia was a manipulative, dangerous, sociopath posing as a child while actually being a full grown adult. Sounds like something out of a bad Hollywood movie, but it is a narrative that has followed Natalia throughout her trauma filled life and has had serious consequences. Laura and Jim analyze Natalia’s behavior as well a...
Jan 24, 2024•56 min•Ep. 488
From the very start of her life, Natalia Grace has been passed around like a human football and exploited. From the moment of her birth in Ukraine when doctors encouraged her mother Anna Volodymyrivna Gava to give her baby up due to her diagnosis of dwarfism, Natalia has been denied a stable, loving home and instead been placed with people who had no business caring for her and had no capacity for loving her. Today we examine Natalia’s complex and convoluted case, made only more confusing by the...
Jan 18, 2024•55 min•Ep. 487
We have a huge update on the killer just identified as responsible for at least two of the serial killings in the Colonial Parkway murders which occurred in the late 1980s in Virginia. Joining us to discuss the identification of fisherman Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. as the murderer of 20-year-old David Knobling and 14-year-old Robin Edwards are our good friends from Mind Over Murder podcast, Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley. Bill Thomas, whose sister Cathy Thomas’ murder is considered part of the Colonia...
Jan 15, 2024•56 min•Ep. 486
We continue our discussion of Amanda Knox’ upcoming retrial in Italy for slander against her former boss, Le Chic Bar owner Patrick Lumumba. When the police interrogated Amanda they told her to sign two police written statements, just hours apart. Amanda has always maintained she was not allowed an interpreter or to speak to a lawyer during that interrogation and that she was pressured to place Patrick Lumumba at the scene of the crime. There was a third statement Amanda wrote on her own, shortl...
Jan 13, 2024•37 min•Ep. 485
Amanda Knox is headed back to stand trial again in Italy. But this time not for the murder of her former college roommate Meredith Kercher, who she was wrongfully convicted of killing in 2009 and later acquitted in 2015. Now, Knox is facing a re-trial for slander against Patrick Lumumba, a local bar owner in Perugia who she worked for at the time of the murder. Italian police say Knox named him as the prime suspect back when she was in police custody in 2007. Knox has always claimed it was the p...
Jan 11, 2024•27 min•Ep. 484
Happy 2024. In our first episode of the year, we focus on the 23 year old Italian female victim who has come forward with allegations of rape and domestic abuse against convicted murderer Rudy Guede. Laura gives us an update on how this young woman has described her relationship with Guede and the red flag behavior that he displayed. Does the possibility that the man who raped and murdered Meredith Kercher, who was released before he completed his sentence, and who has never taken responsibility...
Jan 03, 2024•35 min•Ep. 483
We continue our discussion of Meredith Kercher's rape & murder by Rudy Guede, his recent parole and subsequent new allegations of rape and assault against him by an ex partner. Laura and Jim zero in on the errors, omissions and outright fabrications by Italian authorities who handled Meredith's case so badly, allowing Guede to get a fast-tracked trial and a reduced sentence (from 30 years to 16 years which was further whittled down to 13 years for good behavior). Laura updates us on other ca...
Dec 28, 2023•42 min•Ep. 482
In 2007, British college student Meredith Kercher was raped and brutally murdered (stabbed 47 times) by Rudy Guede in Perugia, Italy where she was studying on an exchange program. Though this case made international headlines, very few people recognize the name of the victim and even fewer know the name of her killer. Rudy Guede who received a shockingly reduced sentence for this horrific crime, was allowed lenient furloughs during his incarceration, and was paroled three years ago after only se...
Dec 20, 2023•37 min•Ep. 481
Happy Holidays from Laura, Jim and Lisa at Real Crime Profile. Today we each share our recs (books, shows) that we hope will make your holidays spent lounging with family and friends more enjoyable. We also shout out our listeners and thank them for another year of championing stories about victims and survivors. We wish you all a safe and lovely time and Happy New Year! #realcrimeprofile #podcast #peace #love #prosperity #gratitudeforlisteners See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...
Dec 15, 2023•28 min•Ep. 480
We continue discussing the upcoming parole of Oscar Pistorius who murdered Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 at his home in Pretoria, South Africa. Laura reads from some of their text messages leading up to the murder that expose the coercively controlling and abusive nature of their intimate relationship. Is it possible that Reeva had enough and was trying to break up with Oscar the night before Valentine’s day? Laura also shares some of the horrific things she experienced while working in South Africa c...
Dec 14, 2023•38 min•Ep. 479
Laura gives us an update on the murder of Gabby Petito. Gabby was killed in August 2021 while camping in Wyoming by her then boyfriend Brian Laundrie who took countermeasures to try to fool Gabby's parents back in New York into believing she was still alive. We now know Laundrie may have involved his parents shortly after murdering Gabby into helping him perpetuate this lie. Join us as we discuss the terrible details. Laura poses the question everyone wants to know - now we know Brian called his...
Dec 09, 2023•40 min•Ep. 478
Reeva Steenkamp, a 29 year old South African paralegal who graduated top of her class and also had a successful career as a model, was murdered in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, shot multiple times by her then partner Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius, who at the time was an internationally known professional sprinter and national hero, claimed it was an accident, that he thought he had been defending himself against an intruder breaking into his home. Pistorius was found guilty of culpabl...
Dec 06, 2023•57 min•Ep. 477
We continue our interview with Dr. Doug Kennedy and Tom Krumins who share their experiences of being sexually abused and sexually assaulted by offenders in the Boy Scouts of America. They explain why, even in light of the recent successful lawsuits by past victims, the Scouts remain unsafe for children. Doug and Tom express what needs to change in order to make the organization safer. #StopTheSilence #ListenToVictims #ProtectChildren #realcrimeprofile #TrueCrime #podcast #ExpertAnalysis #FBI #Ne...
Nov 29, 2023•37 min•Ep. 476
Doug Kennedy and Tom Krumins are two former Boy Scouts who were sexually abused and assaulted while under the watch of the Boy Scouts of America. Today Doug and Tom share their painful stories and explain the context of how these crimes were hidden for so long by those in charge. Both Doug and Tom are featured in the Netflix documentary “Scouts Honor” and both are working tirelessly to protect other children from harm. Trigger warning. Our episode contains descriptions of sexual assault that can...
Nov 22, 2023•41 min•Ep. 475
After decades of ignoring thousands of child sexual abuse reports going on under their watch, the Boy Scouts of American finally had a reckoning in 2010 when a brave former scout came forward to file a lawsuit and testify. Kerry Lewis was only 11 years old when he was repeatedly sexually abused by an assistant scoutmaster named Timur Dykes. Even though Dykes had previously confessed to his superior, another scouting leader, to sexually abusing 17 boys in their troup, Dykes was allowed to continu...
Nov 15, 2023•35 min•Ep. 474
