Send us a text In 1996 the teen slasher film Scream hit the big screen and would later become a mega franchise. But did you know that the highly popular movie was inspired by actual events? Screenwriter Kevin Williamson was inspired to write the movie script about a knife-wielding killer after he had watched a documentary about the Gainesville Murders , in which Danny Rolling a.k.a. the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five University of Florida students over the course of four days. The victims had...
Oct 21, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 126
Send us a text Hollywood has been terrifying audiences for decades with horror and thriller films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds to the 2013 paranormal movie The Conjuring . But what’s even more frightening than these Hollywood movies is that a variety of real-life crimes and events were the actual inspiration for many filmmakers and screenwriters of this genre. One such film was Bryan Bertino’s 2008 film The Strangers , which starred Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, that recounted a sto...
Oct 14, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 125
Send us a text In 1999, Englishman David Harker, known in the media as the “cannibal killer”, was convicted of brutally murdering, dismembering and eating Julie Paterson in his flat located in Darlington County, Durham, England about 70 miles north of Leeds. Julie, who was murdered in April of 1998, had just met David a few weeks prior. So, why would David kill a woman he just met? References: Why Darlington cannibal killer remains behind bars eight years after possible release revealed - Teessi...
Oct 07, 2024•24 min•Season 2Ep. 124
Send us a text In June of 2024, Mississippi jailer Ronnie Hunt was arrested and charged with helping inmate Joshua Zimmerman escape. Zimmerman, who fled to Chicago after his escape, was being held on attempted murder and robbery charges. So, what would cause a jailer to help a dangerous criminal escape and was there more than just one player in helping to facilitate it? References: Joshua Zimmerman: Mississippi inmate escaped, apparently found work at a Chicago restaurant and then barricaded him...
Sep 30, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 123
Send us a text 17- year-old Florida teen, Collin Griffith, was arrested on Sunday September 8, 2024, for fatally stabbing his mother, 39-year-old Catherine Griffith to death. 19 months prior to killing his mother, Collin was accused of killing his father in Oklahoma, however, the charges were dropped. So, why did Collin Griffith stab his mother to death, and should he have been prosecuted from his father’s death? References: Mom's haunting selfies before being murdered by son - a year after...
Sep 23, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 123
Send us a text Australian woman Katherin Knight was convicted of stabbing to death her partner John Charles Thomas Price in February of 2000. Not only did she murder Price, but he also skinned him, and then cooked his head with other parts of his body in a stew with the intention of feeding him to his own children. So, what was the catalyst to cause Katherine to cook her lover in a homemade stew and was she mentally unwell or just a sinister mind? References: The Twisted Story of Katherine Knigh...
Sep 17, 2024•26 min•Season 2Ep. 122
Send us a text One of Japan’s most disturbing and sinister killers was a man named Tsutomu Miyazaki, who earned the nickname "Human Dracula" because he was born with deformed fingers and hands, like that that of the fictional character. Between 1988 and 1989 Miyazaki terrorized the city of Tokyo by committing horrific crimes against four young girls which included kidnapping, assault, murder, mutilation, necrophile and cannibalism becoming known as "The Little Girl Murders." ...
Sep 10, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 121
Send us a text At just twenty-five-years-old, Taylor Schabusiness murdered her lover, twenty-four-year-old Shad Thyrion, inside his mother’s Green Bay, Wisconsin home in February of 2022. According to investigators, Taylor cut off Shad’s head, sexually assaulted him, then dismembered the rest of his body, leaving his head in a bucket for his mother to find. So, what could have caused Taylor to commit such a sinister act of killing along with the sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse? Referen...
Sep 02, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 120
Send us a text Over the course of three days in August of 2009, Angela Simpson, one of the most notorious killers in Arizona history, tortured, strangled, and dismembered Terry Neely, a disabled man, because she suspected that he might be a police informant. Angela’s remorseless confession was so bone-chilling that it helped inspire the fictional psychopathic hitwoman Villanelle in the thriller series Killing Eve . So, what led Angela to believe that Terry was a snitch for law enforcement that w...
Aug 26, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 119
Send us a text In 1993, California siblings Curtis and Shanna Culver along with friend Brian Hawkins, stabbed and killed 19-year-old Frank McAlister. Frank’s murder case would go cold for over 25 years, until one of his guilt-stricken killers confessed on a local news program. So, why was Frank McAlister killed and why did his case go cold for so long? References: Siblings Plead Guilty To 1993 Murder After Accomplice Confesses On TV (allthatsinteresting.com) Curtis, Shanna Culver Sentenced For F...
Aug 20, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 118
Send us a text During the 90’s, daytime tv was infiltrated by talk shows that were filled with the drama of paternity tests, couples cheating and secret crushes. One such talk show would lead to one of their guests committing murder. In 1995, Michigan native Jonathan Schmitz killed an acquaintance of his Scott Amedure, just three days after Scott admitted to having a crush on Jonathan while on the popular daytime talk show “The Jenny Jones Show”. So, why did Jonathan feel the need to kill Scott ...
Aug 12, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 117
Send us a text A Connecticut woman, 76-year-old Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, who was accused of killing her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi and hiding his body for months while collecting his paychecks, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Just hours before she was to receive a 13-year prison sentence, Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi was found dead in the same home she had killed her husband in. The Connecticut State Police said her death has been "categorized as an untimely death investigation" ba...
Aug 05, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 116
Send us a text 70-year-old Steven Craig Johnson, a convicted pedophile who escaped an Oregon prison three decades ago was finally captured this month in Macon, Georgia. Johnson who had been living in his Marco apartment since 2011, was described by Oregon authorities as a “pedophile” who “presented a high probability of victimizing teen boys”. So, how did Steven Craig Johnson manage to elude the police for thirty years? References: 'Pedophile' Finally Caught After Escaping Prison 30 Ye...
Jul 29, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 115
Send us a text Former mortuary worker of Little Rock, Arkansas, Candace Chapman Scott, has pleaded guilty to selling and transporting stolen body parts from medical school cadavers across state lines, as well as conspiring to commit mail fraud occurring in 2021. According to authorities, while Candace was working at the mortuary in October of 2021, she sold almost eleven thousand dollars of stolen body parts to a Pennsylvania man. She is just one of several being charged recently in what prosecu...
Jul 22, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 114
Send us a text After almost a decade, California woman, Trista Ann Spicer will head to trail for the grisly murder of her boyfriend Eric Israel Mercado. Eric vanished without a trace in 2014 and it would not be until eight years later that his body would finally be discovered. In 2022, Trista’s new roommate alerted police to the possibility of Trista committing a murder and hiding the body on her property. Eric’s body would be found on her property in what the police called a "makeshift tom...
Jul 15, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 113
Send us a text In 2019, Wade Wilson was arrested and charged with the murders of two women in Cape Coral, Florida, Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz that occurred just a few hours apart. According to Assistant State Attorney Andreas Gardiner, “This case was about killing for the sake of the killing". So, did Wade Wilson kill two women in cold blood just for the sake of killing? References: FL v. Wade Wilson: Strangled Women Murder Trial | Court TV Wade Wilson found guilty on all counts in the ...
Jul 11, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 112
Send us a text Utah mother of three, Kouri Richins wrote a children’s book about grief almost a year after her husband Eric Richins passed away in March of 2022. She wrote the book as she wanted to help kids struggling with the loss of a loved one like her own children had. However, a month after her book was published and receiving praise from the local media for helping children deal with their grief, Kouri’s story took a sinister turn, and she was charged with the murder of her husband by poi...
Jul 01, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 111
Send us a text In 2023, Ina Kenoyer, of Minot (mine-it), North Dakota was arrested and charged with the murder of her long-time boyfriend Steven Riley, Jr. Authorities believe that Ina fatally poisoned Steven with antifreeze in order to claim his newly acquired inheritance of thirty million dollars. So, could someone turn sinister enough to kill a person they love for a large sum of money? References: North Dakota woman arrested for allegedly killing boyfriend with poison; police cite "fina...
Jun 24, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 110
Send us a text Former pig farmer Robert Pickton, also known as the “Pig Farm Killer” or “The Butcher “, is one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers. His case was the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history and unveiled a wider issue of missing and murdered female sex workers and Indigenous women. In 2001, Robert was charged with six counts murder occurring at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam (co-quilt-lem), Canada, but by 2005, he had been charged with the murder of twenty-six ...
Jun 17, 2024•39 min•Season 2Ep. 109
Send us a text In Episode 7: My Mother Joined Cult and Nobody Knew we followed the case of Idaho Doomsday author and cult leader Chad Daybell and his new wife Lori Vallow Daybell, a mother of three. The newlyweds would soon find themselves as the prime suspects in four murders and one attempted murder. Chad Daybell has finally been found guilty and sentenced for his role in the deaths of siblings Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, the children of his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, and the death of his...
Jun 16, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 108
Send us a text In March of 2011, Jayna Murray a part-time manager at a Bethesda, Maryland Lululemon store, which is high end sports brand clothing store known for their hundred-dollar yoga leggings, was killed in the most brutal of ways over a pair of them. Prosecutors theorized that Brittany Norwood, a colleague of Jayna’s, had killed her in attempt to keep Jayna from reporting that Brittany had stolen a pair of the luxury brand leggings during a shift at work. However, Brittany claimed that bo...
Jun 10, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 107
Send us a text For three years from 2020 to 2023, in long-term health facilities across western Pennsylvania, 41-year-old registered nurse Heather Pressdee administered excessive amounts of insulin to 22 of her patients trying to kill them. Of the 22 patients that Heather tried to murder she was successful in killing 17. She would later claim she was performing mercy killings to end her patients’ suffering. To avoid the death penalty, Heather plead guilty to three counts of first-degree murder a...
Jun 03, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Send us a text Before the notorious serial killer Jeffery Dahmer ever appeared on the scene, there was Levi Boone Helm, the Kentucky Cannibal . Helm a mid-19th century American frontiersman from Kentucky, was a gunfighter who got his nickname for his “opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh”, usually in survival situations, though there are documented instances of him killing people unprovoked for their meat. By all accounts, Helm had been raised by a loving family but...
May 27, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 105
Send us a text In June of 2014, 37-year-old Gregory Scott Hale, was arrested in Coffee County, Tennessee, and charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He confessed to authorities of killing 36-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder before he dismembered her and then ate parts of her body less than a day after meeting her. So, what makes one commit murder and then eat their victim. References: CANNIBALIZED MURDER VICTIM FROM PIKEVILLE TENNESSEE | Crossville News First (crossvillenews1st.com) Gr...
May 20, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 104
Send us a text In 1981, Japanese killer Issei Sagawa, also known as the “Kobe Cannibal,” murdered his friend Renée Hartevelt, a young Dutch student, and ate her remains. Nevertheless, he was never charged for his crime and lived as freeman after committing the murder. So, what makes one want to eat their friend. References: Japanese Cannibal, Who Was Never Punished for Eating Woman, Dies (thedailybeast.com) ‘Kobe Cannibal’ Issei Sagawa, who killed and ate a Dutch student, dies at age 73 | The St...
May 13, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 103
Send us a text Since the very beginning of our podcast, Kori and I have pointed out many mistakes that parents have made with their children or dire situations that young children have been privy to that has led to their sinister actions. So, for Mother’s Day we put together a Top 10 list of How Not to Raise a Killer. Support the show email- [email protected] website-https://www.sinistercrimesandcocktailspodcast.com/ Facebook Page-https://www.facebook.com/sinistercrimesandcock...
May 12, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 102
Send us a text Andrei Chikatilo aka, “The Butcher of Rostov” or “The Red Ripper” was one of the most prolific killers in the Ukraine. Between 1978 to 1990 he murdered at least 53 young women and children who he lured into the woods, raping his victims before he ate their sexual organs, as well as removing other body parts like their nose and eyes. After twelve years of slipping through the authorities’ fingers on multiply occasions, Chikatilo was arrested in 1990 and executed for his crimes in 1...
May 06, 2024•41 min•Season 2Ep. 101
Send us a text Hilda Nilsson also known as “The Angel Maker on Bruks Street”, is in one of Sweden’s most notorious female serial killers. In 1917 she was imprisoned for murdering eight children that were under her care at her home and given a life sentence. So, what would make a woman caring for infants turn into such a sinister killer. References: Sweden's Most Deadly Baby Farmer Hilda Nilsson - Crimes Lab Swedish History - Hans Högman (hhogman.se) Hilda Nilsson | Murderpedia, the encyclop...
Apr 29, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Send us a text Some serial killers develop a kind of calling card throughout their rein of terror such the “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez leaving a bloody pentagram or the “Son of Sam” David Berkowitz leaving handwritten letters. Serial killer Charles Albright, a native Texan, left his own unique calling card as well. During the early 90’s in Dallas, Texas, Albright killed a string of female sex workers and removed his victims’ eyeballs with surgical precision. Throughout his life, Charles Albr...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 99
Send us a text From July of 1976 to July of 1977, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, David Berkowitz, better known by his moniker, The Son of Sam, swept panic through the streets and boroughs of New York City with a murder spree that captivated the nation and ignited a media frenzy. Over the course of that year, in three of the city’s boroughs, Berkowitz, using a.44 caliber Bulldog revolver randomly shot New York citizens, leaving six dead and seven wounded. He left handwritten lett...
Apr 15, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 98
