Cousins on Crime

It was late November in Granbury, Texas when 23-year-old Holly Palmer was found brutally beaten to death in the Greyhound/Trailways bus station that she owned and operated. Nearly 37 year have passed with no arrest and no justice for Holly and her family. 

If you know anything about the murder of Holly Palmer, please call the Granbury Police Department at 817-573-2648 or you can remain anonymous by calling Hood County Crime Stoppers at 817-573-8477.

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Sources:
Dolly Spinner YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaBw_mYOnk
https://www.newspapers.com/article/hood-county-news-holly-palmer-murder-g/40663200/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/59106423/?match=1&terms=holly%20palmer
https://www.newspapers.com/image/59234005/?match=1&terms=holly%20palmer
https://www.newspapers.com/image/59103986/?terms=holly%20palmer
https://www.newspapers.com/image/65459335/?terms=holly%20palmer
Homicide in the Hood, Kelli Martin, PhD
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126153242/holly-palmer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228107938/mary_elaine-hunter

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, was a selfish and sadistic man who lured women into his life only to steal from them and make them disappear. He used anyone and everyone he could to increase his wealth, even if that meant killing men, women, and even children, to get what he wanted.

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-7/a-serial-killer-is-hanged

https://youtu.be/Lpjg_Xhxds8?si=08Pp4knyc0CnKcsU

https://thewestendmuseum.org/history/era/immigrant-neighborhood/h-h-holmes/

https://www.biography.com/crime/hh-holmes

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-h-h-holmes

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/hh-holmes/

Book:  “Holmes: A Serial Killer in His Own Words”

The cousins are off this week but we wanted to revisit a story we covered back in May of 2023 because this case remains unsolved to this day. You will hear from Alayna will about two women were found shot to death inside a car parked in front of an abandoned home, in a small town in Oklahoma. Someone knows something - let's get these girls some justice.
If you have any information regarding the murders of Emily Morgan and Totinika Elix, please call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation at 800-522-8017 or email [email protected]

On a brisk April morning in 1992, the quiet town of Agawam, Massachusetts stirred awake like any other day. But just before 9 a.m., an unsettling discovery disrupted the usual mundane routine. A clerk at Brittany’s Card & Gift Shop was surprised to find her coworker Lisa Ziegert’s car sat in the parking lot, yet Lisa was nowhere to be found. Inside, the unease deepened: Lisa’s coat, wallet, and keys were left behind, and the back storeroom bore chilling signs of a struggle. Overcome with fear, the clerk bolted across the street to call the police—setting into motion a mystery that would haunt the town for decades to come.

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Sources:
Dateline The Music Box
https://unsolved.com/gallery/lisa-ziegert/
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/lisa-ziegerts-family-statements/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44066187/lisa_marie-ziegert
https://www.masslive.com/news/2017/10/late_ex-wife_of_accused_lisa_z.html

When 19-year-old, Pam Pitts', remains were found badly burned in a wooded area, her family desperately wanted to know what happened to her. Little did they know that it would take one more murder to capture a killer. 

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Sources
https://youtu.be/vTkwxoc0U-k?si=x2IE7Q7YvH3BggaS

https://apnews.com/article/nv-state-wire-1167f843532bcff7e15d4ccf26d77d90

When a former EastEnders actress, Gemma McCluskie, vanished without a trace in the dead of winter 2012, panic gripped her loved ones and community. Once a familiar face on the beloved British soap, she'd traded the spotlight for a quieter life working in nightclubs and bars—still vibrant, still full of life. It wouldn't be long before everyone learned her horrifying fate and that they'd all been rubbing shoulders with her killer the whole time.

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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22107964
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-21227557
https://horridhackney.com/f/body-of-murdered-eastenders-actress-found-in-regents-canal-2012
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/how-eastenders-star-gemma-mccluskie-31148356
https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2012/12/gemma-mccluskie-trial-brother-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter/
https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2012/09/police-find-severed-head-in-regents-canal/
https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/crime/20969893.man-claimed-kidnapped-eastenders-actress-gemma-mccluskie-jailed/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241080/Gemma-McCluskie-funeral-Hundreds-attend-funeral-EastEnders-star.html
https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/crime/22946090.man-claimed-kidnapped-eastenders-actress-gemma-mccluskie-demanded-ransom-family-sentenced/

It was after midnight in late May 2001 in quiet Surrey, England. Chris Donovan, his brother, and their friend met up at a local takeaway so they could walk home together - never knowing a chance encounter was about to up-end their lives and send shockwaves through the community. What followed was a painstaking investigation by two relentless detectives to prove culpability, and an extraordinary act of grace by grieving parents who would redefine the meaning of forgiveness.

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Sources:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34882067/ray-vi-donovan-murder-chris-killer-true-crime-netflix/

https://youtu.be/oBEMTIT9yQc?si=V30QF9wMOUs_JU-e

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/our-son-was-killed-for-singing-6327840.html

https://chrisdonovantrust.org/christophers-story

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2202316/Chris-Donovan-trust-We-hugged-thugs-kicked-son-death--job.html

When a woman goes missing in Sydney, Australia in 1982, all that could be heard was the cicadas buzzing in the trees. No one was looking for her; not her friends and not police. In Part Two of this two-part episode, we'll talk about what might have become of Lyn and how a renewed interest in the case would bring justice for Lyn's family.

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Sources:
The Teacher’s Pet Podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/30/chris-dawson-verdict-found-guilty-murder-former-wife-lynette-sydney-australia

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/how-chris-dawson-and-lynette-simms-life-together-unravelled/news-story/7a6e770c72415253b12b471ce3dec0dc
https://www.geni.com/people/Lynette-Dawson/6000000197427510824
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/police-believe-they-know-where-lynette-dawsons-body-is-buried-but-there-is-a-huge-catch/news-story/80a77b887b76daadb233b10aa143d24b
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/chris-dawson-loses-appeal-conviction-unlawful-sexual-activity/105384774
Interesting Twin Study https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/09/archives/twins-reared-apart-a-living-lab.html

Chequerboard Program footage of the Dawson twins
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/chequerboard-highlight/video/5447f2375cf741bb5f3f96e42a5e3368

When a woman goes missing in Sydney, Australia in 1982, all that could be heard was the cicadas buzzing in the trees. No one was looking for her; not her friends and not police. In Part One of this two-part episode, we'll talk about the beautiful life Lynette Dawson had grown accustomed to before it was all taken from her.

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Sources:
The Teacher’s Pet Podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/30/chris-dawson-verdict-found-guilty-murder-former-wife-lynette-sydney-australia

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/how-chris-dawson-and-lynette-simms-life-together-unravelled/news-story/7a6e770c72415253b12b471ce3dec0dc
https://www.geni.com/people/Lynette-Dawson/6000000197427510824
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/police-believe-they-know-where-lynette-dawsons-body-is-buried-but-there-is-a-huge-catch/news-story/80a77b887b76daadb233b10aa143d24b
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/chris-dawson-loses-appeal-conviction-unlawful-sexual-activity/105384774
Interesting Twin Study https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/09/archives/twins-reared-apart-a-living-lab.html

Chequerboard Program footage of the Dawson twins
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/chequerboard-highlight/video/5447f2375cf741bb5f3f96e42a5e3368

Sunday, June 29, 2025, an emergency call came in alerting officials that a fire was spreading on Canfield Mountain. Within minutes, firefighters suited up and raced toward the blaze, bracing for battle against the flames. But what awaited them wasn't just a wildfire—it was an ambush. 

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John Morrison Jr. Memorial Fund 
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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/idaho-firefighter-attack-gunman

https://people.com/suspect-identified-in-deadly-idaho-firefighter-shooting-11764029

https://www.khq.com/news/idaho_news/tunnel-to-towers-to-pay-off-mortgages-for-2-fallen-idaho-firefighters/article_87fcde7d-b472-4014-8806-1771296127ea.html

 https://www.kxly.com/news/he-loved-his-family-fellow-firefighters-remember-two-heroes-killed-in-coeur-dalene-ambush/article_a63af1e1-6183-40d2-b6d4-d9742bdc6d16.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_4_News_Now&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR67OA8lDznWON1cM4vyfF5Krv9KIeqtWyCu5HapbpEl0_p0aWCPqV0odROUtQ_aem_4vLg5k24zipnWaZIciy-SQ

https://www.firerescue1.com/violence-against-first-responders/idaho-firefighter-wounded-in-ambush-stable-after-third-surgery-faces-long-recovery?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4E6cEsI3Q0USlrZP-XTFnXCpXkq-1U3z3fmwI8YlahXDyBPryGEq2H9Ymzqw_aem_X9spJVBgAujm-a5wysKixg#

https://www.iaff.org/news/they-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-two-idaho-iaff-members-killed-one-injured-in-ambush-2/

https://youtu.be/gxGPwdqg1vA?si=fSn6T6Z79TV9iJt_

https://youtu.be/F1JBteQSZdo?si=dW5Cm7jDmJCQRILN

https://youtu.be/WyFdzTGEWfQ?si=g7hhZljxpKdvUcaD