Tracy Nessl began a romantic relationship with her biological uncle, Tim McNamara, in 2012. To escape the criticism of their relationship, they fled to Belize to start a new life. On Christmas day of 2014, Tim would be found dead by a gunshot wound to his head. His death was originally reported as a suicide but was later deemed to be a murder. Tracy claims crooked Belizean cops tried to frame her. His family says she manipulated Tim into giving her everything he had and then she killed him. This...
Dec 30, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Lana and Chuck, both 35 years old, disappeared under what her family believes are mysterious circumstances. They were on a boating vacation in Lake Huron when their boat was found off course, tossing about in rough water with the engine in idle, music still playing on the stereo. No one was on the boat. Nearly 2 weeks later, Lana's body was found 7 miles from where her boat was found. She was naked except for her jewelry. There were no cuts or bruises. Chuck's body never surfaced. Ever since her...
Dec 16, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 83
An American couple quit their jobs to bike around the world in search of experiences they couldn't find behind their desks. After thousands of miles, through more than two dozen countries, Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan's trip came to horrific end on the side of a road in Tajikistan. They, along with 4 travel companions were plowed down and stabbed by terrorists in the Pamir Mountain Range. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-t...
Dec 09, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Geetha Angara's body was discovered in a water tank at a plant where she worked for over 12 years. The injuries she sustained. pointed to murder but there was very little evidence. The facility was well guarded and fenced in. This meant her killer had to be one of 50 coworkers, if there was a killer at all... This is a fascinating and confounding cold case. Sponsors: https://javahouse.com Discount code: Twisted10 DONATE TO THE SHOW: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Mo...
Dec 02, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 71
It was an uncomfortably hot and dry day in February of 2016, when two backpackers, one from Germany and one from Brazil, struck up a friendship and decided to head to Melbourne, Australia from Adelaide. They asked to share a ride with 59-year-old Roman Heinz. Little did they know, they had accepted a lift from a man who was planning a vile and terrifying attack. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Socia...
Dec 01, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 81
The boy was tired, dirty and hungry. He climbed up the side of the house using the window ledge to boost himself up to the roof. He’d been to this house before. His muddy bare feet barely left a mark on the metal roof. His tracks snaked along the roof line then disappeared near the window that, he knew, had been left unlocked. He quietly slipped inside. The house was currently unoccupied but he was quiet nonetheless. He crouched listening to the silence just to make sure. When he was reassured t...
Nov 23, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 79
While on vacation with his wife and son in Brazil, boxing legend, Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 37. His wife, Amanda reportedly woke up to discover her husband had been strangled but she repeatedly stated to police that she didn't do it. She was taken into custody because part of her purse had been used a the murder weapon and no one else had access to the room, but could she have done it? Two weeks later, she would be released and his asphyxiation was rul...
Nov 14, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 78
A Belgian honeymoon comes to a terrible end when a freak accident leads to a newlyweds death. The accident is questionable and the investigation leads police down a winding road of violence, deceit, and deaths. The Diabolical Lovers is the perfect nickname for this devious duo. The investigation culminates in an international manhunt for a calculating killer. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Social M...
Nov 03, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 77
On July 22nd, 2019 a Canadian officer was driving around on his normal patrol route when up ahead of him he saw a truck run a red light at an intersection. The officer quickly flashed his lights and signaled to the trucks driver to pullover. Inside were two young men who appeared to be in their late teens. They looked nervous and scared. He told them he’d watched them run a red light and that they needed to be more careful. The teens just nodded in agreement and apologized, still frightened. Won...
Oct 26, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 76
A pretty, blonde haired, young woman walked into a Caltex gas station in Mitchell, Australia. She was a 22 year old British backpacker who was visiting the country on a prolonged holiday. Video footage shows her walking in, wearing flip flops on her feet, a purple sundress and matching purple bruises on her face and body. She walks up to the cashier with tears rolling down her face and tells the woman that she doesn’t have any money to pay. She then walks out and drives off. The cashier calls th...
Oct 13, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 75
What if the person you have fallen in love with, whisks you off on a dream vacation. Once there, on a beautiful balcony overlooking the sea, you and your partner are feeling romantic and boozy. Then out of the blue your partner tells you that they plan to kill their ex? Truth is stranger than fiction in this case. Dr. Gregory Konrath, a former orthopedic surgeon, is currently in jail but not for attempted murder. This bizarre case begins in Puerto Rico with an attempted murder plot against his e...
Oct 06, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 74
On a foggy afternoon in Craig Alaska, a large fishing vessel named the Investor was engulfed in flames. The sleepy little town and visiting fisherman jumped into action and went to work to put out the raging fire. Once the fire had been put out, what had originally been thought to be a horrible accident was found to Alaska's largest mass murder. Myself, the wonderful ladies from Coffee and Cases Podcast and the author of "What Happened in Craig, Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder", discuss this...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 73
When they lovingly said I do, I don’t think they meant murder. Two seemingly stable, young people fell in love but the chemistry between them was toxic. It would lead to addiction, theft, violence and a gruesome thrill killing. This is tale of the unholy matrimony of Benjamin "BJ" and Erika Sifrit and the murder of Josh Ford and Martha "Geney" Crutchley. Sponsors: https://javahouse.com/ Discount Code: Twisted10 DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https:/...
Sep 23, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Natural disasters are always horrible but what is even worse is when opportunistic predators slither out into the open, looking to take from those who are already suffering. In Armero, Columbia tragedy in the form of a volcanic eruption, demolished the sleeping town. In the aftermath of the destruction, volunteers descended hoping to help in whatever way they could. Families tried to find their loved ones, children hoped to find their parents, but over time stories began to surface which led man...
Aug 31, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 71
When 13 year old Melonie Biddersingh, her little brother Dwayne and step brother Cleon went to Canada to live with their father, they had dreams just like many immigrants do. They hoped for a brighter future, better than the one they had growing up in a Jamaican slum. The reality was something they never expected and something that no one would ever want to live through. One of them would be witness to the suspicious and terrible deaths of two siblings. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?u...
Aug 16, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Genevieve Lewis and Steven Cornish were brutally murdered while walking on a beautiful beach on the island of St. Thomas. The murder by machete was brutal, gory and witnessed by many. Daniel St. Clair's defense was, of course, insanity. The prosecution disagreed stating that his belief in voodoo steered his choices that fateful day. It's a classic case of Voodoo Prosecution VS. The Insanity Defense. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/t...
Aug 01, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 67
72 year old Andre Bamberski seemed like an unlikely kidnapper. He was a mild mannered but tenacious accountant. The victim was a 74 year old physician and step father to Andre's children. These two men, who in many ways led parallel lives, also had one big difference between them. One was a serial rapist and murderer, the other a devoted father who wanted justice for his daughter and worked for 30 years towards that goal. Java House website: https://javahouse.com/ Code: Twisted10 DONATE: One tim...
Jul 18, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Have you ever known someone who drives you absolutely mad? The kind of person who makes your middle finger twitch? It's just itching to raise every time that person comes around? You only put up with them because you feel like you have to? That is how many people felt about Phillip Boudreau. He was a local scallywag, a pest that everyone had to deal with, until that is, he disappeared. His character, behavior in life and ultimately, his murder would divide his small community. DONATE: One time: ...
Jul 06, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Amber Peck and John Parker were looking for peace, quiet and to connect with nature and each other when they went camping in Ocala National Forest. Sullying the beauty of nature was another man, one with no good intentions. In fact, he entered the woods with one reason. The purpose of his trip was to kill someone in the forest but he didn't care who. How does someone make a decision like that? This case is one for the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate. DONATE: One time: https://venmo...
Jun 23, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Leaving his home and fiance to go to work was harder for Chris Lemons thank for most people. He was a saturation diver whose job was to make underwater repairs on oil rigs. This North Sea Diver faced death after a catastrophic computer failure caused his boat to drift away and his oxygen supply to cut off. Hear what he did with his last breath from his oxygen tanks. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support S...
Jun 09, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 63
A pregnant tourist named Sara Kuszak was abducted while out on a morning jog in Puerto Rico. She was stuffed into the trunk of a car and while trapped inside, she was able to make one last phone call to her fiance. An hour later she was found dead. Was she able to help lead police to her killer? Absolutely. Find out how this woman helped put away a suspected serial rapist and murderer. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-...
May 26, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 62
On November 9, 2016 in the coastal town of Tofo, Mozambique, Elly Warren's lifeless body was found face down in the sand with her bikini bottoms around her ankles. Fisherman found Elly‘s body near a toilet block which was the location of the small coastal towns only public freshwater taps. It’s there that the fisherman go each morning to get their boats ready for the day. A botched or non-existent police investigation and rumored cover ups pushed Elly’s father, Paul Warren, into making several t...
May 20, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 61
The crime scene was brutal. It was Friday the 13th of June 1980. Local officers entered Al and Betty Gores home to find it drenched in blood. Betty Gore, a 30 year old mother of two, had been hacked to death with an ax. One of her good friends, Candy Montgomery, was the last person to see her. Candy had a lot of secrets she was keeping from her friend Betty including an affair with Betty’s husband. Did a church going Southern lady like Candy, kill Betty? Did she get away with it? DONATE: One tim...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 60
18 years ago , A young woman named Carmen Greentree travelled to India in search of enlightenment and spirituality. But she ended up on a houseboat in Kashmir in north India where she was allegedly held captive for two months and raped repeatedly. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtravelandtruecrime https://www.instagram.com/twistedtravelandtrue_crim...
May 05, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 59
It was the Caribbean vacation Shelley Tyre had been looking forward to - sunning, sailing and scuba diving with her husband and friends in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. In March 1999, the vacation finally came. They had lots of fun activities planned but at the top of the list was plenty of SCUBA diving as it was a passion of theirs. On the fateful last dive, at a site called Twin Tugs, something went horribly and mysteriously wrong. Shelley was dead and the Tortola police wanted to talk to h...
Apr 26, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 58
A genius American stock trader and his exotic wife build a eco-mansion and animal refuge in the jungles of Costa Rica then appear to slowly, steadily lose their mental health. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut gems, abduction plots, and a bedroom decorated with hundreds of Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery: Did John Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream? DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3...
Apr 18, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 57
There maybe no justice for the death of Ruby Rose Barrameda, after her body was found cemented in a steel drum and thrown into the Pacific Ocean. The accused murderers seem to live above the law in a mafia style family. One of the confessed killers comes forward but then goes missing. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtravelandtruecrime https://www.i...
Mar 15, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 54
In the 1970's, a science project descended into violent chaos. The Acali raft, which sailed the Atlantic in 1973, was part of a social experiment devised by anthropologist Santiago Genovés. He set sail across the Atlantic Ocean on a raft with 10 attractive people. He didn’t foresee hurricanes, epiphanies and murderous scheming. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Social Media Links: https://www.facebook...
Mar 05, 2022•37 min
In August of 2012, police responded to a 911 call about a boat on fire. Once inside they found what appeared to be a burnt skeleton. The owners of the boat had been in dispute over ownership. This is a story of love, greed, and revenge. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtravelandtruecrime https://www.instagram.com/twistedtravelandtrue_crime https://w...
Feb 21, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This case is one that is well known in Australia because it scandalized the headlines in 2014. Some of which read "Chef killed, dismembered and cooked girlfriend in Teneriffe apartment". Some headlines were even worse, because the murder involved people with alternative lifestyles and the headlines were demeaning. This is the case of Markus Volke and Mayang Prasetyo. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: https://anchor.fm/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support ...
Feb 10, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 51
