Clueless Crime

This week we discuss the case of Kathleen Peterson, who was found dead at the bottom of her stairs by her husband, Michael Peterson in a pool of her own blood. Straight away the police suspected Michael who claimed she fell down the stairs. Shortly after, Michael was charged with her murder. 

*Warning* This weeks episode contains descriptions of suicide which some listeners may find disturbing. It is intended from mature audiences, viewer discretion is advised. 

This week we discuss the infamous 'texting-suicide scandal' which is that of Michelle Carter playing a huge role in the suicide of her then boyfriend Conrad Roy. 

49 Year Old Melissa Caddick was living the high life, with fancy houses, cars and designers clothes and jewellery. On the morning of November the 12th 2020 Melissa left her home for her daily run following an ASIC raid on her home the previous day, her company was under investigation for operating as a ponzi scheme. Melissa has not been seen since, until February 2021 when her severed foot was found washed up on a beach 400 km from where she vanished. 

On the night of September the 28th 2000, David Camm returned home from basketball to find his whole family murdered in their garage. As a former state trooper David jumped into action. It would only take local police three days to charge David with the murder of his family, an ordeal that would stretch over thirteen years and 3 criminal trials before the truth is finally revealed. 

Known as Australia's largest cult, the family operated in Victoria, Australia in the 1970's and 80's, with the cult leader; Anne Hamilton-Byrne believing she was Jesus Christ reincarnated in the female form. Anne believed her mission was to adopt many children to save them from an upcoming apocalypse but instead inflicted physical, mental and emotional abuse on the children she stole. 

32 Year Old Hannah Upp was living in St Thomas in the U.S Virgin Islands, teaching at a local Montessori school. As the island was preparing for Hurricane Maria to hit the island in September 2017, Hannah simply vanished from the island just 8 days after surviving another Hurricane, Hurricane Irma. 

19 year old Tara Calico left for her usual bike ride on the morning of September 20th 1988 and has not been seen since. The case went cold fairly quickly, until June 1989, when a strange development swept the nation. A woman in Port St. Joe, Florida spotted a gruesome polaroid photo in the parking lot of a convenience store.

Reeva Steenkamp was a South African model and paralegal who was dating south Africa's hero, Oscar Pistorius. On Valentine's Day in 2013, Reeva was shot and killed by Pistorius after he claimed he thought Reeva was an intruder in his home. 

On May the 26th 1990, while cooking breakfast for her son and his friends, 40 year old Marlene Warren answered the door to her Florida home. This was person was dressed as a clown, and pulled out a gun and fatally shot her in the face. 

It took police 27 years to gather enough evidence to finally charge a person with her horrific murder.