Bent and Twisted

In 2008, Jennifer & Sarah Hart became proud adoptive parents to six beautiful, young children. A decade later, in 2018, they would all die horrifically at the bottom of a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway. Not all of them were victims, though.

The family first came to public attention in 2014 at the Portland, OR protest against the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO when an image of 12 year old Devonte Hart went viral. The image sparked a national debate over white parents raising Black children. The Harts, however, would reclaim their privacy. Four years later, the Harts would be dead and the truth about the family would spark another debate over what really happened in the Hart household to cause the implosion of a picture perfect family.

Join us by the fire for flower and brew as Khadijah tells us the tormented but tragically true tale of the Hart Family Killings.

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In October of 1994, the body of a three month old infant was recovered in a quiet section of Quebec. Believed to be the Antichrist, the child had been stabbed multiple times with a wooden stake in a ritualistic murder. The young woman who killed him believed she had immaculately conceived and birthed the second coming of the true Christ. She would turn up dead herself - as would more than fifty other men, women and children - all with one thing in common.

Join us by the fire as J takes us by the hand and leads us down the twisting path of the Order of the Solar Temple - the church of modern day miracles, madness, and murder.

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Allan Showery was arrested for mercilessly stabbing a 48 year-old woman to death in her apartment, pouring accelerant over her body and lighting her on fire in a botched attempt at concealing the crime. His accuser was the dead woman herself, speaking through the lips of a possessed woman with no previous history of clairvoyance.

And, no, this didn’t occur in England during the Dark Ages, it happened in Chicago in 1978 .

This incident is often framed as a bizarre case of probable possession that led to a murderer’s conviction. But is that what happened? If not, why did he confess? Is this a case of justice served or something more sinister?

Join us by the fire for cider, cannabis, and a crime spree in West Hell as JR unravels the tangled webs of The Talking Dead.
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In late 1970s Montreal, Canada, self-ordained voice of God, Roch Theriault, convinced about a dozen lost souls that the end of the world was nigh and their only hope of salvation was to follow their new messiah deep into the wilderness where they would live off-grid until the Rapture.

Unfortunately, those lost souls were outnumbered by the children they dragged along with them.

With a fridge full of the beer you can't refuse, JR and J snuggle down by the fire while Khadijah regales them the heartwarming story of Roch Theriault - or Moses as his unfortunate followers, the Ant Hill Kids, would come to call him - God's messenger on Earth, Interpreter of the Lord's Burnbook, Instrument of His Punishments.
A jealous god, indeed.

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In November of 1988 a 17 year-old Japanese high school student and factory worker named Junko Furuta would leave work for home and never make it. Her brief commute would become a nightmare lasting more than a month and would become notorious around the world - not only for the monstrous brutality of the crime - but for the shocking travesty of justice that followed.
Join the crew as J tells the story of Junko Furuta's 44 days of hell of Earth.
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In May of 2012, Luka Magnotta filmed himself committing a grisly murder and defiling his victim’s body in the most ghastly ways possible. This wasn’t just for his own viewing pleasure; he wanted to share this demented deed with the world…an unfortunate habit of his. In fact, his previous “short films” would propel this zero to number one - on Interpol’s Most Wanted list.

Join us by the fire for a pleasant hybrid cannabis and mediocre beer as JR tells us the true story of a bullied pockmarked & greasy-looking kid who grew into a pockmarked & greasy-looking perpetrator of miseries.
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We conclude our super twisted tale of self-professed Florida ghoul, Gerard John Schaefer Jr. - a putrescent stain of mediocrity who failed upward into positions of public trust.

Cloaked as an honorable civil servant of the common good, Schaefer viciously preyed upon the free spirits of Fort Lauderdale. And, just when you think his story is about to end, it grows new feet and runs around the barnyard a few more times.

Join JR, J and Khadijah over a fine imperial stout and quality Mendocino cannabis for an informative conversation in brutally bad taste.
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Gerard John Schaefer Jr. considered himself a “ghoul” and he wasn’t wrong. Considered by some to be the “first serial killer in Florida” and described by Colin Wilson as having “halitosis of the soul,” he was a vile, manipulative, disgusting monster capable of unimaginable crimes. He was also capable of presenting a facade that allowed him to attain positions of authority and unfettered access to his trusting victims.

Join JR, J and Kadijah for an illuminating, unserious, and very inappropriate conversation about Schaefer, a beast of privilege who was on intimate terms with the Everglades.
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Home is where the heart is…It’s also where the gun is kept.

In 1950s Indiana, newlywed Opal Collins isn’t exactly meshing with her new in-laws... Too bad they all live in the same house.

Two decades later, devout Christian, John List, will make the ultimate sacrifice for his family…or rather of his family.

JR, J and Kadijah explore the shadowy undersides of family togetherness, psychopathy, reload counts and Tiffany glass. Come, join us by the fire!
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In the late 16th century, a French child ate his parents out of house and home before taking his show on the road with a troupe of performers - his talent was eating everything set in front of him. It wasn’t an act, though. It was an overpowering & mysterious compulsion.
Tarrare became a medical curiosity & scientific enigma due to his ravenous and undiscerning palate.
His bizarre appetite would lead him from one incarnation to the next as he morphed from street performer, to soldier, to guinea pig, to spy before being accused of a truly heinous act.
Join Khadijah and JR as the ever astute J tells us all about the man, the myth, and the appetite that was Tarrare.
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