Send us a text In Anchorage, Alaska on February 22, 2024, 53-year-old South African immigrant Brian Steven Smith was convicted in 14 charges including first and second-degree murder, sexual assault, tampering with physical evidence and misconduct involving a corpse for the murders of 52-year-old Veronica Abouchuk and 30-year-old Kathleen Jo Henry. Both women were from small villages in western Alaska and had experienced homelessness and addiction. Smith was connected to the murders in September ...
Apr 08, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Send us a text The most infamous serial killer in the history of North Carolina is that of Henry Lewis Wallace, also known as “The Charolette Strangler or “The Taco Bell Killer. During the early-90’s Wallace murdered nearly a dozen black women, who almost all had one thing in common, they knew him. For several years he remained at large, causing hysteria in the city of Charolette, especially amongst the minority community where a large number of the murders had taken place. A lack of adequate po...
Apr 01, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Send us a text For most of us when we think of Easter, we think of church services, the Easter bunny, dyed eggs, family gatherings, and Easter egg hunts. However, for one country their most common Easter tradition is something altogether more sinister. References: Easter Traditions in Norway - Life in Norway Easter crime: Norwegian Easter equals brutal murders | The Norwegian phenomenon påskekrim (visitnorway.com) Norway’s Weird 100-Year-Old Easter Tradition Of Crime Fiction (forbes.com) How did...
Mar 31, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Send us a text A small English community in Cornwall, England would be shaken to its core when in 1952 the battered bodies of a wealthy and well-respected married couple were discovered on Porthpean Beach near St Austell, England. The investigation of the double murder would lead authorities to the couple’s only living son, Miles William Giffard, who was eventually found guilty of murdering his parents and hung to death in 1953. So, what caused Miles Giffard to kill his parents and were their ot...
Mar 25, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Send us a text In December of 2010, along a remote stretch of sand on the South Shore of Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, a police officer and his dog would discover human remains while searching for a missing woman. Just a few days later, the police would find the remains of three other women. Like the first victim, they were petite, in their 20s and worked as escorts. In the following weeks, six other bodies were discovered, including that of a man and a 2-year-old girl who have never ide...
Mar 18, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Send us a text Irish newlyweds Colin Whelan and Mary Gough had been married just six months when on March 1, 2001, Colin called for an ambulance claiming that his wife had fallen down the stairs of their home in Balbriggan Co Dublin and wasn’t breathing. Mary was pronounced dead at the hospital but when her autopsy examination revealed she died of asphyxiation, a murder investigation quickly ensued. Police would soon learn that Colin had been planning his wife’s brutal murder for almost a year. ...
Mar 17, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Send us a text Welsh serial killer John Cooper, a diagnosed psychopath committed two double murders, one in 1985 and the other in 1989 in the Pembrokeshire area of Wales. The murders became known as the "Pembrokeshire Murders" or the "Coastal Murders" with Cooper earning the name the "Bullseye Killer" after his appearance on a game show that would eventually help led to his arrest. Now these were not Cooper's only sinister misdoings, he had a long history of vi...
Mar 11, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Send us a text In August of 2004, in the small coastal town of Jenner, California 22-year-old Lindsay Cutshall and her fiancé 26-year-old Jason Allen, where found shot to death in their sleeping bags on Fish Head Beach with little evidence being left at the crime scene. The couple’s murder investigation would span over 13 years with countless conspiracy theories spurred before their killer was identified. In 2017, self-proclaimed survivalist Shaun Michael Gallon was arrested for the murder of hi...
Mar 04, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Send us a text The first public arrest through genetic genealogy was the April 2018 identification of the suspected "Golden State Killer." Since then, genetic genealogy has helped identify more than three dozen suspects in violent crimes, with one of those being the murder of Pamela Cahanes. In August of 1984, Orlando Navy recruit 25-year-old Pamela Cahanes was found beaten and strangled to death in Sanford, Florida. Almost 40 years later DNA and genetic genealogy would link Thomas Lew...
Feb 26, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Send us a text On October 4, 1978, two electric company workers found the remains of a young woman near the campus of Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled; at the time police called her injuries "extreme trauma". The young woman was soon identified as 16-year-old Krisann Baxter who had been reported to police as a runaway just a few days earlier. The case soon turned cold, but her clothing and other evidence was preserved d...
Feb 19, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Send us a text Just last month, on January 24, 2024, 37-year-old Sarah Scheffer, a part-time art and design teacher at the Christian Calvary Lutheran High School in Jefferson City, Missouri was charged with the attempted murder of her husband by continuous poisoning. Over a six-week period, Sarah’s husband had grown suspicious of his wife after becoming severely ill from ingesting several meals and beverages made by her. Her husband then set up a hidden camera in their kitchen. After capturing h...
Feb 14, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Send us a text In late September of 1981 23-year-old Laura Kempton’s body was discovered in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire apartment by police. Laura had last been seen alive in the early morning hours before her murder, entering her apartment alone after a night out with a friend. Over the next four decades, investigators pursued hundreds of leads and potential suspects, but were unable to identify the perpetrator. That was until 2022, when the Portsmouth Police Department, working in conjunctio...
Feb 12, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Send us a text Between1986 and 1989 on or near a scenic drive that connects Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown in southeastern Virginia, two double homicides occurred with a third believing to have taken place, but those bodies have never been found. The killings were suspected to be the workings of a serial killer. Sadly, investigators were unable to apprehend the culprit and the slayings now known as the "Colonial Parkway Murders” went cold. Between those years, in the 1987, 20-year-ol...
Feb 05, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Send us a text Located in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia at the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Cedarbrook, there is a headstone that reads “America’s Unknown Child.” The child who lies beneath the headstone, is a boy who was found in a cardboard box beaten to death some 65 years ago in 1957. The death of the young boy is one of Philadelphia’s most famous unsolved murders with the case having become known as the “Boy in the Box.” For decades this cold case has baffled Philadelphia police who over the years hav...
Jan 29, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Send us a text The two cases that we will be diving into today are our last Texas cold cases we will be looking at this month. Both these cases have had more details made public than any other Texas cold case we have covered but have yet to find a resolution for the victims’ families. However, a new theory has emerged for one that does not include foul play, while police have three suspects for the other with no arrest being made so far. References: Details - Unsolved Homicide (texas.gov) Missin...
Jan 22, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Send us a text We are still paying it forward this month and once again are looking at cold cases in our home state of Texas. Just like before, few details have been released to the public since they are still ongoing investigations. If you have any information regarding the cold cases we cover, please come forward and help give closure to the victims’ families. · If any of you have any information about these unsolved cases you can submit a tip through the Texas Rangers’ Cold Case website http:...
Jan 15, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Send us a text As part of us paying it forward for the month of January we decided to try to renew interest in some cold cases in our home state of Texas. Since Texas does not have a statute of limitations when it comes to murder, these cold cases are still considered active investigations, with few details pertaining to the crimes and suspects having been released. Our hope is that this coverage will spark a memory or bring someone forward who has information about the crimes or perpetrators. A...
Jan 08, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Send us a text We have been fortunate to have other podcasts such as Into the Looking Glass, Darkly to help promote our show when we first launched Sinister Crimes and Cocktails . For our New Years Bonus Episode this year, Kori and I wanted to pay it forward by promoting the new podcast Slaycation , that has a truly fascinating twist on true crime podcasts. Slaycation , which will be launched on January 9th, is a gripping and darkly comedic podcast that delves into the chilling world of murders ...
Jan 01, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Send us a text On July 23, 2016, inside the Ellenville, NY, apartment of 27-year-old Sarra Gilbert a murder in the most horrific fashion occurred. Sarra stabbed her 52-year-old mother, Mari Gilbert more than 200 hundred times and then bludgeoned her head with a fire extinguisher until she was certain her mother was dead. Sarra had a long history of mental illness staring at a young age, with her defense attorney arguing that on the day of the murder, she had been suffering from hallucinations an...
Dec 25, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Send us a text Regardless of whether you take part in the Christmas traditions or not, most everyone in the world is familiar with the plump jolly guy dressed in a velvet red suit, fashioned with a big shiny belt buckle and clunky black boots as the face of Christmas. Sorry, Jesus, but it’s kind of true. As part of our Christmas traditions, we sing carols of praise as well as those embedded with Santa himself. One such popular Christmas carol, sung by Americans is Santa Claus is Coming to Town ,...
Dec 24, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Send us a text On the evening of September 23, 1995, in Sollies-Pont, France, 16-year-old high school student Éric Borel, murdered his entire family with his stepfather’s .22-caliber rifle. Afterwards, he walked several miles to the Village of Cuers, where the next morning he strolled through the streets and continued his shooting spree. Éric took the lives of 13 people, including his family, and injured four more during his deadly rampage. What had caused such a heinous act of violence remains ...
Dec 18, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Send us a text In January of 1999, thirteen-year-old Catherine Jones and her twelve-year-old brother Curtis Jones fatally shot their father’s live-in girlfriend, Sonya Speights at their Port St. John, Florida home. On several occasions prior to committing the murder, the young siblings had cried out for help about the sexual abuse they were enduring at the hands of another male relative who was living in the home. But when those cries for help fell on deaf ears, with their father nor his girlfri...
Dec 11, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Send us a text On the late summer afternoon of July 16, 2011, 54-year-old Blake Hadley and his wife 47-year-old Mary-Jo Hadley, were bludgeoned to death in their Port St. Lucie, Florida home. Their killer was their 17-year-old troubled son, Tyler Hadley. After murdering his parents, Tyler hid their bodies in the master bedroom, attempted to clean up the evidence and then later that night, threw a ragger of a party at their home. A couple of weeks prior to the double murders, Tyler had allegedly ...
Dec 04, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Send us a text On December 15, 2011, in the beautiful seemingly small town of Bridgeport, Connecticut , 35 -year-old Tyree Smith hacked a homeless Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez, to death with an ax in an abandoned apartment building. He then removed part of Gonzalez’s brain and one of his eyes, placing the organs safely in his backpack and walked to a nearby cemetery. While Tyree stood over one of his family members’ graves, he snacked on pieces of brain and the lone eyeball he had brought ...
Nov 27, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Send us a text According to U.S. News & World Report , those delivered with the dreaded verdict of capital punishment are often afforded the right to a final meal of their choosing, and as long as the demands aren't unreasonable, they are generally granted their edible wish. Even the most sinister of serial killers are not denied this luxury. For our Thanksgiving Day Bonus this year we thought it would be fun to give you a tasty little treat of some of the final meals of the death row c...
Nov 23, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Send us a text In 2012, Brazilian cannibals Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Pires(pie-res), and his mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva were arrested, for the murders of two women and a teenage girl whom they dismembered and ate. Not only did they dine upon their victims but also stuffed the flesh of the females they killed into savory pastries selling them to neighbors and other locals. The sinister three were dubbed as the “cannibals of Garanhaus” (gar-an-house) bei...
Nov 20, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Send us a text American serial killer and cannibal Joe Metheny aka “The Cannibal” claimed to have killed up to 10 female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland during the 1990’s. Joe dismembered his victims’ bodies, saved pieces of their meat in his freezer, and discarded the rest of their remains in a nearby river or buried them. The 41-year-old serial killer who had an addiction to drugs and alcohol, admitted to eating the remains of some of his victims, combining the human meat with pork and beef...
Nov 13, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Send us a text Albert Fish is known by many monikers such as the “The Vampire of Brooklyn”, “Moon Manic” or “The Grey Man” and is one of America’s most disturbed cannibal serial killers who was obsessed with sadomasochism. Many Americans during the Roaring Twenties spent their time at flashy parties, but Fish who suffered from deadly hallucinations spent his time developing at taste for human flesh. Authorities believed that Fish murdered as many as 10 children, luring them into abandoned homes ...
Nov 06, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Send us a text Lawerence Bittaker and Roy Norris were two American serial killers, who over a 5-month period from June of 1979 to Halloween of that year, killed five teenage girls. The sinister pair used a modified torture van they ghoulishly nicknamed “Murder Mack, to drive along their hunting grounds on the lonely backroads of southern California. Lawerence and Roy hunted for teenage girls to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder, using ordinary tools like ice picks, pliers, and screw drivers as t...
Oct 31, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Send us a text Sixteen-year-old American killer Roderrick Justin Ferrell founded a teenage cult in Murray, Kentucky known as the “Vampire Clan”. The cult teens believed they were vampires with Roderrick claiming he was a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago, a character he created for himself after becoming obsessed with a role-playing video game. Roderrick along with three other teenage cult members of the “Vampire Clan” traveled from Kentucky to Florida to pick 15-year-old Heather Wendorf, who wa...
Oct 30, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 68
