In this week’s episode of Voices of a Killer, we talk to Javier Evans, a man convicted of killing his childhood friend in a fight gone wrong. For most of his life, Javier has navigated a world of drug culture and gang politics that eventually led him to a fatal confrontation with his longtim friend. Today, revisit the night of Antonio Long’s untimely death and hear the full story of that fateful night that news articles didn’t publish. Where did the bad blood between them originate? Who pulled t...
Jun 24, 2024•17 min•Ep. 67
This episode of Voices of a Killer takes us to Bootheel, Missouri, where life might seem peaceful, but tensions simmer beneath the surface. Our guest, Samuel Howard, shares his story of one heated fight that left two men dead and many lives ruined. Samuel recounts the events of the crime, his strict Pentecostal upbringing, and the life-changing pact he made with his nephew. While he maintains that he acted in self-defense, Samuel now expresses his regrets from prison and the lessons he’s since l...
Jun 21, 2024•14 min•Ep. 66
This episode of Voices of a Killer takes us to Bootheel, Missouri, where life might seem peaceful, but tensions simmer beneath the surface. Our guest, Samuel Howard, shares his story of one heated fight that left two men dead and many lives ruined. Samuel recounts the events of the crime, his strict Pentecostal upbringing, and the life-changing pact he made with his nephew. While he maintains that he acted in self-defense, Samuel now expresses his regrets from prison and the lessons he’s since l...
Jun 19, 2024•15 min•Ep. 65
This episode of Voices of a Killer takes us to Bootheel, Missouri, where life might seem peaceful, but tensions simmer beneath the surface. Our guest, Samuel Howard, shares his story of one heated fight that left two men dead and many lives ruined. Samuel recounts the events of the crime, his strict Pentecostal upbringing, and the life-changing pact he made with his nephew. While he maintains that he acted in self-defense, Samuel now expresses his regrets from prison and the lessons he’s since l...
Jun 17, 2024•18 min•Ep. 64
On this week’s episode, we’re talking to Anthony Frenzel, an inmate of a maximum security prison in Potosi. In 2020, Anthony unintentionally killed an oncoming driver in a car accident – a mistake he deeply regrets. Anthony’s trial is still ongoing and his story is unresolved, yet through his case, we’ll explore how the law punishes vehicular-related deaths. How can we fairly hold irresponsible drivers accountable? And how do individuals like Anthony often receive the short end of the stick in c...
Jun 14, 2024•20 min•Ep. 63
On this week’s episode, we’re talking to Anthony Frenzel, an inmate of a maximum security prison in Potosi. In 2020, Anthony unintentionally killed an oncoming driver in a car accident – a mistake he deeply regrets. Anthony’s trial is still ongoing and his story is unresolved, yet through his case, we’ll explore how the law punishes vehicular-related deaths. How can we fairly hold irresponsible drivers accountable? And how do individuals like Anthony often receive the short end of the stick in c...
Jun 12, 2024•16 min•Ep. 62
On this week’s episode, we’re talking to Anthony Frenzel, an inmate of a maximum security prison in Potosi. In 2020, Anthony unintentionally killed an oncoming driver in a car accident – a mistake he deeply regrets. Anthony’s trial is still ongoing and his story is unresolved, yet through his case, we’ll explore how the law punishes vehicular-related deaths. How can we fairly hold irresponsible drivers accountable? And how do individuals like Anthony often receive the short end of the stick in c...
Jun 10, 2024•19 min•Ep. 61
On Thanksgiving eve 2020, the body of Amethyst Killian was found, stabbed to death in a local Missouri park. What followed was a brief investigation that led police to 27-year-old Damion Delgado. With no criminal record to his name, Damion’s actions were unexpected and left many questions unanswered. This week on Voices of a Killer, Damion bravely breaks his silence to tell us the truth about what happened to Amethyst. We’ll hear about the true nature of their relationship and the pivotal moment...
Jun 07, 2024•12 min•Ep. 60
On Thanksgiving eve 2020, the body of Amethyst Killian was found, stabbed to death in a local Missouri park. What followed was a brief investigation that led police to 27-year-old Damion Delgado. With no criminal record to his name, Damion’s actions were unexpected and left many questions unanswered. This week on Voices of a Killer, Damion bravely breaks his silence to tell us the truth about what happened to Amethyst. We’ll hear about the true nature of their relationship and the pivotal moment...
Jun 05, 2024•29 min•Ep. 59
On Thanksgiving eve 2020, the body of Amethyst Killian was found, stabbed to death in a local Missouri park. What followed was a brief investigation that led police to 27-year-old Damion Delgado. With no criminal record to his name, Damion’s actions were unexpected and left many questions unanswered. This week on Voices of a Killer, Damion bravely breaks his silence to tell us the truth about what happened to Amethyst. We’ll hear about the true nature of their relationship and the pivotal moment...
Jun 03, 2024•19 min•Ep. 58
We pick up Kristofer Warden’s story just days after Gaylen Terrill’s murder, as Kristofer races to cover his tracks and flee to Florida. On this week’s episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Kristofer’s fiancé, Maria, who has stuck by Kristofer’s side for the past 20 years. Now, she shares her candid insights into Kristofer’s crime and his character, shedding light on the man behind the crime. With Maria’s help, we seek closure to a tragic story and the answer to one burning question:...
May 27, 2024•57 min•Ep. 57
This week’s guest Kristofer Warden has one of the most traumatic backstories we’ve heard on this podcast so far. And after staying silent for many years, Kristofer is finally opening up on a public forum about the sexual abuse that has crippled his life and ultimately culminated in the 2003 death of a 57-year-old man. We’ll hear about Kristofer’s chaotic childhood and his early exposure to the prison system. At various points in this conversation, Kristofer reveals how several institutions faile...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 56
In this episode, we bring you a story of one man’s 10-year struggle with methamphetamine. In 2008, Ronald Wright murdered a 70-year-old war veteran while experiencing the psychotic effects of meth. Although Ronald, now sober, is horrified by his past actions, his defense that he was not in his right state of mind fell on deaf ears. As we’re about to hear, all information about drug-induced psychosis was excluded from Ronald’s trials, and news articles at the time painted him as a vicious monster...
May 13, 2024•55 min•Ep. 55
Hear about an ill-fated love story on this week’s episode of Voices of a Killer. To outward appearances, Darrell and Vanessa Isaiah were a match made in heaven, an ex-football quarterback and a beautiful wife, both young and happily in love. That was until their relationship took a dark and grisly turn. How did a passionate love affair go from flowers and late summer nights to heated arguments, spiteful acts, and, ultimately, raw violence? Today, Darrell Isaiah walks us through the volatile cour...
May 06, 2024•46 min•Ep. 54
In this episode, we talk to Christopher Sokolic, the man responsible for a bloody homicide that took place in a parked car in 2020. The crime was violent and the body disfigured, but is Christopher really the cool-headed killer the press made him out to be? In this episode, Christopher shares another side of himself that is absent from news coverage, detailing his 15-year-long battle with addiction that destroyed his life. We’ll hear about Christopher’s first, life-changing experience with meth ...
Apr 29, 2024•30 min•Ep. 53
We place our trust in the criminal justice system to carry out the law and bring about justice. But what happens if an agent of the law withholds key evidence and presents edited video footage to the jury to gain a wrongful conviction? Today, we talk to Kent Taylor who makes allegations such as these, claiming that the course of justice was perverted when he was convicted of first-degree murder back in 2011. To this day, Kent has fought to overturn his conviction and fought for his voice to be h...
Apr 22, 2024•37 min•Ep. 52
In the conclusion to this tragic and horrific crime committed by William Dyer (better known as Billy) we discover exactly what happened on that day and why Billy did it. Billy is confronted with the real impact of his actions as we question him about the impact he had on the Swift family and his encounter with the mother of two of the victims Joyce Swift. More information about this case: Article about the Swift Family | Not on her life will this killer go free | Tampa Bay Times Article about th...
Apr 15, 2024•49 min•Ep. 51
One rainy evening in 1977, Camden County police entered a lake cabin in the Ozarks, where they found what can only be described as a blood bath. Four young children lay slaughtered inside their family home, stabbed, shot, and beaten in various ways, and strewn across the house. But while police initially profiled the culprit as a young adult man, little did they know that the real killer, who lived a few doors down, was only a 14-year-old boy. Billy joins us to revisit the crime that rattled a q...
Apr 08, 2024•39 min•Ep. 50
In 1980, Randy Armbruster was a 19-year-old with a don’t-care attitude and a failed military career. Then, one August night on a De Soto street, Randy shot his longtime friend out of a fit of anger and, partly, because of a single lyric in a 1950s Johnny Cash song. Nearly 50 years on from that day, Randy revisit's this crime on this episode of Voices of a Killer. More information about this case: Information about Randy’s 1982 Appeal | State v. Armbruster | Justia US Law Access exclusive unseen ...
Apr 01, 2024•43 min•Ep. 49
This week’s episode takes us to a late-night shooting in the year 2000, when two young men lost their lives in the parking lot of a local bar. The killer, who vanished into the Kansas City night, was later identified as 23-year-old Michael Irby. Now, 24 years later, Michael invites us to revisit the day of this crime. Voices of a Killer is sponsored by BetterHelp : Visit BetterHelp.com/VOK today to get 10% off your first month 👈 Access exclusive unseen and unheard material via our Patreon: www....
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 48
On December 6th, 2008, an elderly Springfield man was found dead in the kitchen of his West Chicago Street home. The subsequent investigation identified 6 individuals who had orchestrated a complex murder-for-hire plot. Among them was 25-year-old William Reed. To this day, William has repeatedly maintained his innocence about the crime and claimed that he was unwittingly drawn into a murder scheme he knew nothing about. In this week’s episode, we investigate the facts of William’s case, giving h...
Mar 18, 2024•51 min•Ep. 47
On today’s episode, we meet William Benedict, a man whose life has been rocked by both meth and mental illness. This episode takes us back to the 2010s, when a thriving meth scene in Missouri was curtailed by the law. Around the same time as this crackdown, William Benedict found himself implicated in an operation that seriously threatened the safety of his family. Today, William walks us through the events that followed that eventually culminated in his incarceration in a Missouri jail. We’ll h...
Mar 11, 2024•58 min•Ep. 46
In this episode of Voices of a Killer, we’re looking at a prolonged case that unfolded over nearly a decade. We sit down with Justin Moyers to reflect on an incident for which he has spent the past 18 years of his life in prison. Still today, Justin vehemently maintains his innocence and has tried repeatedly to clear his name. He contends that investigators spun a false narrative that wrongly framed him as a killer. This case sheds light on some systemic flaws in the US criminal justice system, ...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 45
Last week our episode ended up with more questions than answers on how the tragic death of Christopher Younes occurred. Gabby Shields, the subject of these two episodes was involved in somewhat of a love triangle it turns out with both Younes and one of her codefendants Albert Romero. Well, at least this was the story told to us by Tim Murray - the other codefendant. On this episode we will delve further into the case with an exclusive interview with one of the detectives on the case, Mike Wells...
Feb 26, 2024•55 min•Ep. 44
In June 2014, Christopher Younes was murdered in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, a crime that implicated Gabriella Shields with two other accomplices, Albert Romero, and Timothy Murray. The trio was charged after investigations revealed their belief that Younes was informing police about their drug activities, leading them to conclude that he had to be "dealt with." The case unfolded with evidence from text messages, surveillance footage, and witness statements, detailing the chillin...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 43
In today’s episode, we revisit the threads of a story that spans decades, diving deep into a sequel to one of our most compelling and tragic tales - the case of James Love. In Episode 15, we heard from James Love himself, a man convicted of a horrific double murder of 2-year old Jeffery Berger and 14-year-old Sheila Curwright in 1974 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Today, we connect past to present, as new allegations surface and a family seeks long-overdue closure. Our journey begins with Gena Dunca...
Feb 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 42
In this week’s episode of Voices of a Killer, we bring you a story of an ill-fated friendship in the heart of Kansas City. Our interviewee, Tayelor Fitzpatrick found herself unwittingly entangled in a 2017 murder that took place in her home and that began with a click on an advert on Craigslist. In recent years, Craigslist has become a hotspot for a thriving sex industry. It has also – as we’ll hear about today – attracted a host of scammers. The unfortunate victim of this case, Michael Luckey, ...
Feb 05, 2024•55 min•Ep. 41
In this episode, we’re bringing you an exclusive interview with Jerry Asbell from Hannibal, Missouri. For the past two years, Jerry has maintained his silence about his crime but is now breaking that silence to tell the story in his own words and set the record straight. In our conversation, we’ll trace back Jerry’s long history in and out of the criminal justice system. The course of Jerry’s life has been marred by his run-ins with the police, and the destructive power of meth has catapulted hi...
Jan 29, 2024•45 min•Ep. 40
North of St. Louis, Missouri, the Chain of Rocks bridge connects Missouri and Illinois. Although once a bustling interstate route, the bridge was closed and abandoned in 1968. This historic bridge also carries a dark past. In 1991, it was the seat of a crime that shook the city of St. Louis when two women, Julie and Robin Kerry, were murdered. Today we’re talking to one of the four men linked to this crime, Reginald Clemons. After 25 years of denying any involvement in the crime, Reginald is fin...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 39
On this episode of Voices of a Killer, we talk to Kansas-born Marcus Spielman, a man convicted of murdering his long-time friend, Ronnie Engel. At just 25 years old, Marcus, who was born into a stable, middle-class family, now finds himself behind the bars of a prison cell. We’ll hear about the misguided choices Marcus made, the circumstances that led him to raise his gun at Ronnie, and the lessons he’s learned after the incident. This interview is a stark warning about the power of addiction to...
Jan 16, 2024•55 min•Ep. 38
