Send us a text In July of 2009, California school teacher Robert John McGill admitted to killing his wife Shirley McGill inside their cruise ship cabin during a five-day cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Medical examiners concluded that Shirley died of strangulation and blunt force injury to the head and torso. So, why do Robert McGill kill his wife on their vacation cruise? References: FBI: Cruise Murder Suspect Killed Wife 'With His Bare Hands' | Fox News Husband Held in Wife's ...
May 12, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 156
Send us a text To kick off summer, today for our podcast episode we have a special guest with us that we are so excited to interview, author of Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide of New England , Dawn Barclay. Support the show email- [email protected] website-https://www.sinistercrimesandcocktailspodcast.com/ Facebook Page-https://www.facebook.com/sinistercrimesandcocktails Instagram Page-https://www.instagram.com/sinistercrimesandcocktails/ Cash App-...
May 05, 2025•37 min•Season 2Ep. 155
Send us a text Jameson Irish Whiskey is by far one of the most popular and well-known whiskeys, but did you know that there is a sinister history lurking behind the worldwide distributed liqueur? In the 1880’s James Jameson, the grandson of the founder of Jameson Irish Whiskey and heir to the vast fortune, bought a 10-year-old girl while on an expedition in the Congo just so he could sketch her being eaten by cannibals. James would later state that he had went along with it because he believed i...
Apr 28, 2025•24 min•Season 2Ep. 154
Send us a text American serial killer Nannie Doss, a.k.a. the Giggling Granny, is thought to have taken the lives of eleven people between 1927 and 1954. It wasn’t until her fifth husband and the fourth to have passed away that Nannie finally confessed to her sinister misdeeds which entailed killing three other husbands. So, did Nannie Doss have a reason to commit murder or was there something more sinister at play? References: The Story Of Nannie Doss, The 'Giggling Granny' Serial Kil...
Apr 22, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 153
Send us a text In the summer of 1971, twenty-four-year-old Rita Curran, a teacher in Burlington, Vermont, was discovered dead in her apartment by her roommates. Her murder would be one of Vermont’s most high-profile cold cases that remained unsolved for fifty years and only recently solved using new advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogy. So, who killed Rita Curran and why? References: William DeRoos killed Rita Curran in Vermont in 1971: Police After more than 50 years, Burlington pol...
Apr 14, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 152
Send us a text Russian Soviet serial killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, also known as Metal Fang or Kolya the Maneater, took the lives of nine women, but possibly more, between 1979 and 1980. His killings terrorized the small villages in the Kazakh, Soviet Union region, now known as Uzynagash, Kazakhstan. Nickolai would lure female prostitutes that were working in local parks in dark secluded areas raping them and then hack them to death with an ax or a knife that he always kept on him. Not only did h...
Apr 07, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 151
Send us a text During the 1920’s in California, Gordon Stewart Northcott a Canadian child rapist, child abductor and suspected serial killer, murdered four young boys though he is suspected of killing up to twenty. His killings known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders or the Wineville Chicken Murders, were a series of abductions and murders of young boys in Los Angles and Riverside County, California between the years of 1926 and1928. So, how did Gordon Stewart Northcott become such a siniste...
Mar 31, 2025•37 min•Season 2Ep. 150
Send us a text In 2008, Shelia LaBarre was convicted of murdering two of her boyfriends after their remains were found on her 115-acre farm located in Epping, New Hampshire. She would admit to the murders claiming God had made her an “avenging angel” sent to Earth to punish pedophiles. However, there was no basis whatsoever to suggest that either of her victims were pedophiles, engaged in pedophilia or were child abusers. Shelia was ultimately found sane to stand trial even though her lawyer ple...
Mar 24, 2025•37 min•Season 2Ep. 149
Send us a text In July of 2008, 40-year-old Vincent Li boarded a Canadian Greyhound bus in Erickson, Manitoba, Canada. Almost an hour and half after boarding the bus, Vince unprovoked, attacked 22-year-old Tim Mclean while he was asleep. Not only did Vincent stab Tim nearly 60 times, but also beheaded, dismembered and cannibalized him as helpless fellow passengers watched in horror. So, is Vincent Li a mentally unstable man or just one with a sinister mind? References: Vince Li Beheaded And Ate ...
Mar 17, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 148
Send us a text Serial killer duo Loren Herzog and Wes Shermantine, collectively known as the “Speed Freak Killers”, due to their habitual methamphetamine abuse, are suspected of slaughtering as many as 72 people in and around San Joaquin County, California in the 1980s and '90s. After the deadly due was arrested in March of 1999, they quickly turned on each other and gave detailed accounts of the sinister crimes that they had committed over the years. So, how does such a deadly pair of kill...
Mar 10, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 147
Send us a text An imprisoned Bay Area killer, David Misch, was found guilty in January of 2025, for the 1986 murders of two young Northern California women, Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier, after a DNA match connected him to the crime. In 2003, while serving a life sentence for another murder, David Misch told Fremont police that he had seen the two young women being kidnapped at gunpoint and tried to save them, which was his explanation for the presence of his DNA found on one of the victims....
Mar 03, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 146
Send us a text In August of 2022, Missouri woman 40-year-old Melanie Biggins claimed to 911 dispatch that an intruder had broken into her Kansas City home that she shared with her husband of nine years, 50-year-old Ettienne (et-ee-in) McEwan, and had shot him while they were both asleep in bed. However, Melanie’s story began to crumble when officers began asking her what had occurred and eventually, she admitted that she had killed her husband. So why did Melanie murder her husband to get out of...
Feb 24, 2025•24 min•Season 2Ep. 145
Send us a text In March of 2016, in the northeast part of Romania in Vasuli county, 40-year-old Marinela Benea, launched a vicious attack on her husband 39-year-old Ionel Popa. Marinela had ripped open her husband’s scrotum with her bare hands after he had failed to get her flowers on International Women’s Day and then later refused to help her with housework. So, was Marinela justified in her attack against her husband or is she a woman with a sinister mind? References: Ionel Popa Romanian husb...
Feb 17, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 144
Send us a text Twenty-six-year-old Estrella Carrera was found dead inside the bathtub of her Burbank, Illinois apartment on May 13, 2012- less than forty-eight hours after she had married her husband, Arnoldo Jimenez. After, Estrella’s body was discovered an arrest warrant for Arnoldo was issued, who managed to stay off police radar for 12 years before being captured in Mexico. So, why did Arnoldo murder his wife of less than forty-eight hours? References: Man on FBI's most wanted list arre...
Feb 14, 2025•24 min•Season 2Ep. 143
Send us a text In May of 2017, 43-year-old Nunzia Del Viscio, an Italian national who was working and living in Edinburgh, Scotland, claimed that she was acting in self-defense when she ripped out one of 44-year-old Italian national Marcello Palma’s testicles with her teeth. Nunzia, however, was convicted of assault when it was discovered that she had brutally attacked Marcello after he refused to have a threesome with her. So, was Nunzia Del Viscio acting out in self-defense or is she just a si...
Feb 10, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 142
Send us a text In the early morning hours of October 7, 2006, 21-year-old college senior Michelle Garner-Quinn had been out with friends in Burlington, Vermont when she disappeared. At the time of her disappearance, Michelle had been on her way to meet up with some other friends when her cell phone battery died. That’s when she asked a random man on the street 37-year-old Brain Rooney to borrow his cell phone. After not being able to reach her friends, Michelle was last seen on surveillance came...
Feb 03, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 141
Send us a text As we have discussed before, the holidays can be an especially stressful time of year and New Years Eve is certainly no different. On December 31, 2014, Florida authorities responded to a 911 call at Maria Suarez-Cassagne’s home. The caller was Mario Gomez, Maria’s eldest son, who told dispatch that his brother Christian Gomez had killed their mother and cut off her head. Christian attacked and murdered his mother after she asked him to move some boxes for several days. After Chri...
Jan 06, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 140
Send us a text On April 12, 2006, Oklahoma man Kevin Ray Underwood, lured his 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin to his Purcell apartment where he killed and then sexually assaulted the little girl as part of a sinister cannibalistic sexual fantasy, though he did not end up eating her. Just a few days later, Jamie Rose Bolin’s body was discovered inside a large plastic container in the closet of Underwood. So, was Kevin Ray Underwood just a sinister mind or one that was deeply mentally distur...
Dec 30, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 139
Send us a text Even with all the festive cheer that the Holidays bring, we all know that they can be a very stressful time of year. Gathering with family and friends can bring out the best in us as well as the worst in us. With emotions running high during the holiday season, it’s no wonder that so many crimes occur during this time of year. Certainly, that was the case of South Carolina woman Helen Ann Williams, who stabbed her husband with a ceramic squirrel in the early morning hours of Chris...
Dec 25, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 138
Send us a text In September of 2021, in a small suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, Jason Thornburg murdered, dismembered and burned the bodies of three people — and admitted to eating part of the remains of one victim. The killings that took place over the course of seven days in a hotel room, were committed because Thornburg believed his victims “needed to be sacrificed for religious reasons.” So, what leads one down the path to commit human sacrifices? References: Timeline, criminal history: What we...
Dec 23, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 137
Send us a text In 2001, 39-year-old cannibal Armin Meiwes, a German computer tech known as the “Rotenburg Cannibal”, found a ‘willing’ victim online. 43-year-old Bernd Brandes agreed to be dismembered and eaten for Armin’s sexual pleasure. Armin then stored the leftovers of Brandes in his freezer and for the next 10 months dinned upon them. So, what makes one want to dine upon human flesh and what makes one want to be dined upon? References: Top 10 Horrific True Crime Cases You Should Never Web ...
Dec 16, 2024•26 min•Season 2Ep. 136
Send us a text Richard Speck was one of the most sinister mass murderers in American history. In a single evening on July 13, 1966, Richard unleashed his terror on the city of Chicago by breaking into a building that functioned as dormitory for nursing students and tragically slayed eight women which captured the attention of the entire nation. So, how did Richard Speck become a cold-blooded killer? References: Richard Speck | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers The First Mass Murderer: R...
Dec 10, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Send us a text In Indiana in 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, and her fifteen-year-old sister Jenny were sent to the home of family friend, Gertrude Baniszewski, while their parents were traveling for work. However, Sylvia would not leave the house alive. Gertrude and her own children tortured Sylvia to death and even managed to involve an entire neighborhood of kids to help her commit the brutal murder. So, what caused Gertrude Baniszewski to enlist the help of children to torture and kill Sylv...
Dec 02, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 134
Send us a text In July of 2009, San Antonio, Texas mother Otty Sanchez, used a knife and two swords to decapitate her one-month-old son, then chewed off three of his toes and ate parts of his brain and nose. Otty told police that she did not mean to kill her only child, but the devil had made her do it. So, does Otty Sanchez have a sinister mind made for killing or is she a woman that is mentally unwell and did not receive the treatment that she needed? References: Gone Baby Gone - The Texas Obs...
Nov 28, 2024•24 min•Season 2Ep. 133
Send us a text The story of the NXIVM cult founded in 1998 by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman has remained in the media ever since details of Raniere’s abusive sex ring emerged. The cult operating as a wellness organization which provided seminars about human potential development , served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates. Members of the organization which included major Hollywood celebrities, were involved in the trafficking of women at Raniere&a...
Nov 25, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 132
Send us a text Following an anonymous tip in 1997, police entered a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide . Members of the cult known as “Heaven’s Gate” including their leader Marshall Herff Applewhite, left video diaries explaining their reasons for the mass suicide: Applewhite had convinced them in order to reach heaven, they must abandon their human forms and board an alien spacecraft that would trail behind the com...
Nov 18, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Send us a text David Koresh was an American Cult leader who was the head of the religious movement, Branch of Davidians. Koresh believed that he was the “final prophet” sent to bring the word of God to his followers by whatever means necessary, even if it meant pitting his followers against the US government in what would be the biggest gunfire on American soil since the Civil War. David Koresh’s central role in the 51-day siege occurring in Waco, Texas left four ATF agents dead as well as 82 cu...
Nov 11, 2024•41 min•Season 2Ep. 130
Send us a text Jim Jones was an American cult leader who proclaimed to be the messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Fransico based evangelist group. He promised his followers a utopia living in the Jungles of South America by way of an agricultural commune in Guyana known as Jonestown . Jones ultimately led his followers into a mass suicide on November 18, 1978, which left more than 900 dead and came to be known as the Jonestown Massacre . So, why did Jim Jones lead his flock to their untimely de...
Nov 04, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 129
Send us a text Edward Gein also known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” or “The Plainfield Goul”, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. He admitted to the murders of two women, Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, but was believed to be connected to several unsolved cases. Following Bernice Worden’s disappearance, police investigated Gein’s home and made a gruesome discovery. Inside his home police found he was keeping human organs inside of jars and had fas...
Oct 31, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Send us a text In 2007 actors Rider Strong and Sean Astin starred in Borerland, a film that centered around three friends who headed down to Mexico to celebrate their college graduation. Once in Mexico the group of friends stumble upon a cult that practices human sacrifices. The thriller is loosely based on American born cult leader and serial killer Adolfo Constanzo, who moved to Mexico City as an adult and began recruiting his lovers as his disciples to help him commit human sacrifices. So, ho...
Oct 28, 2024•41 min•Season 2Ep. 127
