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Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast

Do you love everything true crime and cocktails? Then this is the show for you. Listen every week, as Sinister Crimes and Cocktails takes a deep dive into true crime stories from around world exploring sinister minds, their menacing crimes and the mistakes left behind all while enjoying a cocktail masterminded by us for each episode... Believe us you will need it!

Episodes

Episode 37: A Wrongful or Rightful Acquittal

Send us a text Orenthal James Simpson, commonly known as O.J. or "The Juice," was an American football star, broadcaster, and actor, but perhaps best known for his murder trial for the deaths of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the evening of June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson 's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside of Nicole's Brentwood, California home. The specific details of whether O.J. was involved i...

Apr 24, 20231 hr 19 minSeason 1Ep. 37

Episode 36: An Italian Murder

Send us a text In November of 2007, the Italian city of Perugia would draw people’s attention from around the world with the gruesome murder and sexual assault of 21-year-old foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher from Surrey, England. She had been found dead in her Italian apartment on the floor of her locked bedroom. Meredith’s 20-year-old American roommate Amanda Knox who was also studying abroad and Amanda’s Italian citizen boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, would emerge as the primary suspect...

Apr 17, 202357 minSeason 1Ep. 36

Episode 35: The Harlem Six

Send us a text On April 20, 1989, shortly after 1 am the barely clinging to life Trish Meili (ma-lee), a young white woman, was discovered in New York City’s Manhattan Central Park. Trish would survive her severe injuries, waking from a coma with no memory of the violent and horrific assault leaving her with no memory of her attacker. Two days after Trish’s assault, five teenagers, four being Latino and one being black, ranging in ages from 14 to 16 and were from Harlem would implicate themselve...

Apr 10, 20231 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 35

Episode 34 Easter Bonus: The Crucifixion

Send us a text Since we are looking at wrongful convictions for the month of April, we decided to look at one of the most famous stories of wrongful convictions and executions known worldwide for our Easter Episode, The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We will be looking at the arrest, charges, and crucifixion of Jesus from the angle of the law of a wrongful conviction. Now, with saying that, we will looking at this case both from historical facts and stories from the New Testament as this is one of...

Apr 07, 20231 hrSeason 1Ep. 34

Episode 33: The Four Unfortunate Sailors

Send us a text In 1997 four United States Navy sailors 25-year-old Danial Williams, 27-year-old Derek Tice, 21- year-old Joseph Dick, Jr., and 21- year-old Eric Wilson collectively known as “The Norfolk Four,” confessed to the brutal rape and murder of 18-year-old Michelle Moore-Bosko, the wife of a U.S. Navy man, in Norfolk, Virginia. The four were sentenced based on their declared false confessions, as they were subjected to high-pressure interrogation tactics, including threats of death penal...

Apr 03, 20231 hr 20 minSeason 1Ep. 33

Episode 32: Two Brits and an Irish Pact

Send us a text Britons John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans would become known as Ireland’s first serial killers. The sinister duo first met while serving time together in an England prison during the 1970s and it is there the two career criminals concocted their sinister sick plot to abduct, torture, rape and murder a woman once a week. Once released from the English prison the deadly two would leave the UK and travel around Ireland committing burglaries for several years. In the long hot summer of 197...

Mar 27, 202349 minSeason 1Ep. 32

Episode 31: The Irish Sinister Sisters

Send us a text During 2005 in Dublin, Ireland, the murder of Farah Swaleh Noor shocked and appalled the country due to the horrific details surrounding his murder. After a long day and night fueled by drugs and alcohol consumed by 40-year-old Noor, his 58-year-old girlfriend Kathleen Mulhall and her two daughter’s 30-year-old Linda and 21-year-old Charlotte Mulhall, would end their night back at Kathleen’s flat. According to Kathleen and her two daughters at some point in the late-night hours No...

Mar 20, 202337 minSeason 1Ep. 31

Episode 30 Saint Patrick's Day Bonus: A Gun-Slinging and Thieving Leprechaun

Send us a text On St. Patrick's Day in 2010, First State Bank in the town of Gallatin, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee was robbed by a gun toting leprechaun, with hopes of having the luck of the Irish on his side while stealing someone else’s pot of gold. The armed leprechaun scored an undisclosed amount of cash before leaving the bank where he then joined another suspect in a car outside, where the two fled. As police gave chase with the leprechaun and his getaway driver, and a wild gunfi...

Mar 17, 202326 minSeason 1Ep. 30

Episode 29: A Fetish for Murder

Send us a text Elaine O'Hara went missing from her home in Blackrock, Ireland on August 22, 2012. Elaine having suffered from mental illness was initially reported missing by her family, who suspected she had taken her own life although her body could not be located. At first it was assumed she had disappeared while volunteering at the 2012 Tall Ships' Races . However, in 2013, more than a year after Elaine had gone missing a woman walking her dog on wooded land near Kilakee in the foo...

Mar 13, 202348 minSeason 1Ep. 29

Episode 28: The Dapper Irish Killer

Send us a text Murders are a relatively rare occurrence in Ireland, but when one does occur it typically shocks the country to its core. Malcom Macarthur an eccentric socialite is undoubtedly one Ireland’s most infamous murders. In the summer of 1982, after Malcom had depleted his hefty family inheritance, a family whom he had deep rooted issues of endured childhood abuse would devise a sinister plan of a series of unbelievable and bizarre robberies to continuing living the life of luxury, endin...

Mar 06, 202327 minSeason 1Ep. 28

Episode 27: A Murderous Appetite

Send us a text In the early '90s, an infamous couple from Manassas, Virginia would become headline news for weeks when in June of 1993 24-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Lorena Bobbitt became known as the woman who cut off her husband's penis with a carving knife. On the night of the shocking appendage dismemberment, Lorena claims her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, came home drunk and raped her, a charge he profusely denied and was acquitted of later. A jury would find Lorena not guilty du...

Feb 27, 202334 minSeason 1Ep. 27

Episode 26: A Deadly Hand Job

Send us a text On April 23, 2008, in Leeds, England, 36-year-old Anthony Marley, a professional sue chef, brutally killed his boyfriend 36-year-old Damian Oldfield, and would then go to carving, seasoning, frying, and chewing parts of Damian’s body. Anthony would state to authorities that Damian had sexually assaulted him and tried raping him. However, it would come to light that Anthony had struggled for years with his sexuality and had a history of violence. Anthony Marley would be found guilt...

Feb 20, 202337 minSeason 1Ep. 26

Episode 25 Valetine's Day Special: A Killer Valetine's Day Dinner

Send us a text After 24 years of marriage, On February 13th, 2021, 66-year-old retired accountant Penelope Jackson, stabbed her 78-year-old husband David Jackson, three times at their home in Somerset, England before telling a 999 operator: “I thought I’d get his heart, but he hasn’t got one.” Penelope claimed her husband, a retired lieutenant colonel, was coercive, controlling and physically violent towards her for decades, stating she lost control when he called her "pathetic". The c...

Feb 14, 202336 minSeason 1Ep. 25

Episode 24: I Fine Line Between Love and Murder

Send us a text In February 2005, 34-year-old Lisa Underwood who was seven months pregnant, along with her 7-year-old son, Jayden, were reported missing after she failed to show up at her baby shower. The investigation into their disappearance would reveal a brutal crime fueled by jealousy, passion, and fear of exposure. Lisa’s then-boyfriend, Stephen Barbee, would be arrested, tried, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. According to the New York Post, Stephen had initially confessed to th...

Feb 13, 202338 minSeason 1Ep. 24

Episode 23: A Killer for Hire

Send us a text In November of 1994,33-year-old Farah Fratta, a beloved mother of three was executed in her own driveway in Texas receiving shots to the head by an unidentified gunman. As the murder gained attention, suspicion would begin mounting on Robert Fratta, Farah’s estranged husband and the father of their children. The authorities would use phone records and witness testimony to uncover a sinister murder-for-hire plot that ended with Farah’s murder. Robert Fratta maintained his innocence...

Feb 06, 202346 minSeason 1Ep. 23

Episode 22: Part 2 The Car Hop Killer

Send us a text In part 1 we left on 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown being charged with first degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Johnny Allen, aggravated robbery, handgun possession and criminal impersonation. Pour yourself a cocktail and settle in for the second part of this sinister crime. Believe us you are going to need it! References: www.https://allthatsinteresting.com/cyntoia-brown www.htps://.refinery29.com › en-us › 2018/12/219015 www.https://npr.org › 2019/08/07 › 749025458 www.https:/...

Jan 30, 202354 minSeason 1Ep. 22

Episode 21: Part 1 The Car Hop Killer

Send us a text On August 6, 2004, 16- year- old Cyntoia Denise Brown had been walking the East side of Nashville, Tennessee and area well known where the ladies of the night work the streets looking for her next client. The young black teen would be picked up by a 43-year-old white man named Johnny Allen. The pair would end up back at Allen’s house. Several hours later, Cyntoia would end up shooting Allen in the back of the head killing him, claiming that she had believed that her life was in em...

Jan 30, 202356 minSeason 1Ep. 21

Episode 20: The Wrongful

Send us a text In 1986 Rhonda Morrison, a white woman was murdered working at a dry cleaner in Monroeville Alabama. Unable to identify Morrison’s murderer police would eventually focus their attention on an unlikely suspect, that of 45-year-old Walter McMillian. A self-employed black man, McMillian had done work for many of the community members in Monroeville having no criminal history or that of violence. What would pull Walter McMillian into the limelight was his affair with a married white w...

Jan 23, 20231 hr 13 minSeason 1Ep. 20

Episode 19: A Evil Runs Through It

Send us a text On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi , a young black teen, Emmett Till , 14-years-old, from Chicago , was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant four days earlier. Emmet’s assailants were Carolyn’s husband and his half-brother. An all-white jury would take less than hour to come back with a not guilty verdict allowing Emmet Till’s murders to walk free. The inflaming tensions around Till’s murder trial brought to ...

Jan 16, 202335 minSeason 1Ep. 19

Episode 18 Bonus: A Friday the 13th Slasher

Send us a text On October 24, 1988, in Greenfield, MA, 18-year-old Sharon Gregory’s slain body was found by Sharon’s twin sister Cheryl, in the bathtub of their home with multiply gashes to the head, chest and torso. The urban legend of a small-town killer inspired by the horror movies from the Friday the 13th film series , might have played a role in 19-year-old Mark Branch brutally killing Sharon Gregory. Police and the media quickly blamed the tragedy of Sharon’s murder on Branch’s obsession ...

Jan 13, 202336 minSeason 1Ep. 18

Episode 17: The Ghost of Jasper

Send us a text On June 7, 1998, in the small Texas town of Jasper, 49-year-old James Byrd Jr, a black man, accepted a ride from three white men with two of the men being avowed white supremacists who brutally lynched James Jr. chaining him to the back of their truck and dragged him to his death. His brutal murder that was racially motivated made national headlines and sparked legislative changes. In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention...

Jan 09, 202335 minSeason 1Ep. 17

Episode 16: New Year's Sinister Crime Battle Off

Send us a text Happy New Years to all you wonderfully strange and unusual creatures! Kori and I hope 2023 brings everyone one of you peace and happiness. For our New Year’s episode Kori and I have decided to change things up a bit and thought is it would be fun to have a sinister crime battle off. We have each picked and have no idea what case the other has chosen and will be hearing the details for the first time right along with you listeners. We need our listeners help in voting which case wa...

Jan 02, 202336 minSeason 1Ep. 16

Episode 15: A Silent Night Murder: Part 2

Send us a text JonBenét Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Her murder made national headlines, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey , a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants . JonBenét’s murder became one of the decade's most famous police investigations and to date, no one has ever been charged for JonBenét's death and the investiga...

Dec 28, 20221 hr 10 minSeason 1Ep. 15

Episode 14: A Silent Night Murder Part 1

Send us a text JonBenét Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Seven hours after JonBenet was reported missing her lifeless body would be found in the basement of her home. She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled. Her murder made national headlines, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey , a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét into a series of ch...

Dec 25, 20221 hr 23 minSeason 1Ep. 14

Episode 13: The Christmas Present

Send us a text 18-year-old Alexis Valdez, who had been living with his aunt and her 41-year-old boyfriend Silvestre Diaz-Hernandez, would return home from making a run to a local convenient store with Silvestre on Christmas eve 2013. Upon returning from the quick trip, Valdez would let Silvestre enter their apartment first and then savagely attacked Silvestre from behind with a hammer and brutally killed him. Valdez would leave a Christmas present on his aunt’s bed one that she would never forge...

Dec 19, 202230 min0

Episode 12: The Santa Slaying

Send us a text Twas the night before Christmas when all through the Ortega house, 25 people were partying when an unexpected visitor was announced. Who could it be, why it was Santa himself! That jolly old elf was carrying a large, wrapped package. What could it be a mower or blower? Nope, it was a homemade flamethrower and guns full of lead, leaving 9 people dead. Was this Santa simply unhinged or had he sought revenge? References: 1. Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, Killer Santa | The Scare Chamber 2. Bru...

Dec 12, 202240 minSeason 1Ep. 12

Episode 11: Once Upon a Christmas Murder

Send us a text In the late afternoon of Christmas day in 2016, Tricia McCauley a 46-year-old actress who worked in a series of short films and body double for leading ladies in Hollywood left her home in Washington D.C. to head to a friend’s Christmas dinner. As Tricia was getting in her car to head out, she would cross paths with 29-year-old Adrian Duane Johnson, a man who had a history of mental illness and criminal behavior. In the late-night hours of December 26, 2016, Tricia’s lifeless body...

Dec 05, 202237 minSeason 1Ep. 11

Episode 10: A Nightmare Before Christmas

Send us a text During the Christmas Holidays in 2010, 15-year-old- Kristy Bamu and four of his siblings would visit their 29-year-old- sister, Magalie and her 28-year-old boyfriend, Erik Bikubi, staying in the couple’s east London flat in Newham. Instead of basking in the holiday cheer, Kristy and his four siblings were subjected to a prolonged attack of unspeakable savagery lasting almost 4 days at the hands of Magalie and Erik, ridding the siblings from their evil spirits in the name of witchc...

Nov 28, 202241 minSeason 1Ep. 10

Episode 9: Thanksgiving Special -The Thanksgiving Butcher

Send us a text Omaima Aree Nelson, a 24-year-old Egyptian nanny and model would be compared to Jeffery Dahmer and the fictional character Hannibal Lector by authorities, after discovering that on Thanksgiving Day in 1991, Omaima had not cooked a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner of turkey and sides. Instead on the menu, Omaima had chopped up and cooked her husband of three weeks as a stomach-churning revenge for his alleged sexual attacks on her. So, was this a case of revenge killing or that of a...

Nov 21, 202242 minSeason 1Ep. 9

Episode 8: A Mind Made for Murder

Send us a text The family, friends and neighbors of Richard Kuklinski would describe him as a loving, devoted husband and father who was living the American dream in the suburbs of New Jersey. However, Kuklinski would be living a double life. To the criminal underworld and his victims, he was known a ruthless and brutal hitman for the mafia. Although law enforcement and organized crime experts have expressed skepticism about Kuklinski’s claiming to have ties with the Mafia. On May 25, 1988, Rich...

Nov 14, 202257 minSeason 1Ep. 8
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