Cousins on Crime

PART 1
Dianne Beasley wasn't looking for love when she met John Smith, but their shared interest in luxury cars and socializing, drew them to one another. It was a whirlwind romance, a short lived engagement, and a speedy marriage that thrust Dianne head over heels...into imminent danger. 

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Special Guest: Summer Hathaway
https://www.nj.com/mercer/2023/08/murder-case-dropped-in-1991-vanishing-victims-family-says-husband-admitted-dumping-wifes-body.html

Dateline: The Chameleon
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fran-smith-husband-murder-charges-dark-secrets-dateline-exclusive-rcna149097

This week, Candace tells a harrowing story of the victims and survivors of the Wedgwood Baptist Church Shooting in Fort Worth, Texas in September of 1999.

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Sources:
https://www.wedgwoodbc.org/wedgwood-shooting.html
https://fwtx.com/news/wedgwood-baptist-church-shooting-25-years/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23861536/kristi-kathleen-beckel
https://harold-hendrick.com/2009/03/16/browning-don/
https://mentalhealthconnection.org
https://fortworthreport.org/2024/08/21/born-out-of-tragedy-mental-health-connection-builds-on-25-year-legacy-in-tarrant-county/
https://discipleallnations.org/members/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NightofTragedyDawningofLight-1.pdf

In 2021, a contract job took a group of electricians from their chilly, northeastern fall, down to sunny Florida. When Shaun Runyon was called out by his team for slacking on the job, he stormed off the worksite and started driving north, towards home. The trouble was, with every mile he traveled, he became more and more enraged until he turned his truck around and went back for revenge.

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https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-accused-of-killing-3-coworkers-with-baseball-bat-knife-charged-with-murder/37867022

https://youtu.be/yrc5IQMdiiY?si=2KUcTPZYc4zOyMUs

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/family-remembers-monroe-county-dad-killed-in-florida/article_66a36d8e-260e-11ec-849f-d7343c7c5fcd.html

https://www.wmar2news.com/marylandmanoneofthreemurderedinflorida

https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2021/10/06/fund-set-up-family-pocono-man-killed-florida/6019325001/

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/family-remembers-monroe-county-dad-killed-in-florida/article_66a36d8e-260e-11ec-849f-d7343c7c5fcd.html

https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/none-of-them-deserved-it-niece-of-davenport-triple-murder-victim-says-death-has-shaken-family/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJwBDTdBy_o

This week, Alayna covers two separate cases where the most unexpected witnesses come in small, feathery packages.

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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/eighth-court-of-appeals/2004/62823.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/polly-caught-a-killer/

https://youtu.be/ll6vgXxAa-Y?si=GgXbwI_zPzTnJDCB

https://youtu.be/Hd_MMVq8Gwo?si=9BxB8OMTSLhrQt9w

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/kansas-woman-raising-awareness-partner-child-dead-drink-driving-crash-783864-20250102

https://youtu.be/E7NYJn4pbxw?si=iQcNl4ZmfOmla4Nx

https://youtu.be/-bpVZdm-nvk?si=RO0rfo20-940F1MO

When police were called out to a boat ramp in the wee hours of the morning, on February 27, 2021, they found 19-year-old Brian Cohee, Jr. standing on the bank, watching his car sink. What was thought to be a silly little accident took a sinister turn, when the rear bumper of the car revealed something quite concerning.

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Sources:
https://www.mesacounty.us/news/district-attorney/cohee-found-guilty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-oJEKjyUo
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/moment-us-police-arrest-teen-who-hid-head-of-homeless-man-he-murdered-in-closet-5353873

Elizabeth Dale was raised in privilege; getting everything she could have ever wanted. When her first husband died suddenly, she was left alone in the homestead they shared together. Though she found love again, she would go on to lose even more husbands over the years. Was she just unlucky or did she make her own luck?

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Sources:
https://historicmaurycounty.com/2021/09/10/the-black-widow-of-hazel-green/

https://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hhc/browse-person.php?a=person&pe=Rev.%20Samuel%20G.%20Gibbons

https://hvilleblast.com/who-is-the-black-widow-of-hazel-green/

https://louis.uah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=honors-101-fall22

http://okaylistenhere.blogspot.com/2010/10/dead-husbands-tell-no-tells.html

https://www.al.com/living/2015/06/readers_share_more_spooky_alab.htm

In 1965, Mary Ellen Denner, and her sister Brenda, went to the laundromat to complete a chore that they always did for their family. This night would turn into anything but routine when Mary Ellen went to make change but never came back. The monster that took her from her family was quickly caught, but her family and the community could have never anticipated what happened next.

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Sources:
https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/5t34sz01q

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/teen-murderer-lester-eubanks-escaped-police-in-1973-the-hunt-for-him-may-lead-to-detroit-area
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a34089861/where-is-lester-eubanks-now-unsolved-mysteries/
https://www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/fugitive-apprehension/15-most-wanted-fugitive/lester-eubanks
https://unsolved.com/gallery/death-row-fugitive/

The Mahmod family fled Iraq to pursue a better life in South London in the late 1990's, but a better life was not waiting there for the young girls in the family. The parents and other elders imposed strict, religious values onto Banaz Mahmod and her sisters; compromising everything they understood about right and wrong. When Banaz went missing in January of 2006, her boyfriend knew that her many warnings to police were, in fact, premonitions. 

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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/21/ukcrime.topstories3

https://youtu.be/VrSCNKF3FS8?si=6845q6_LsAtEdlLt

https://youtu.be/Qn-VhFHkUoY?si=HZ7FzzO-UeKuQiXD

https://youtu.be/ND5JscvbF3o?si=FiKMckO0DNrZKOd-

https://fuuse.net/banaz-a-love-story/

https://tedxlondon.com/topic/politics/a-survivors-plea-to-end-child-marriage-payzee-mahmod-tedxlondonwomen/

Annie Börjesson had been living in Edinburgh, Scotland and was eager to go home to visit her family and friends back in Sweden. She'd planned a trip to IKEA, a hair appointment, and packed two library books that she'd take back while she was in town, but she never got the chance because she was found dead on the beach on December 4, 2005. Police quickly ruled it a suicide, but was it really murder?

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Sources:
https://www.scotland.police.uk/access-to-information/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log/disclosure-log-2024/april/24-0830-investigation-death-of-annie-borjesson/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/a96984f3-a02f-442f-8347-bb52f55518d5
https://news.sky.com/story/what-happened-to-annie-inside-the-mystery-suicide-of-annie-borjesson-11862449
https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12761117.annies-secret/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12246107/Mystery-Swedish-woman-dead-Scottish-beach-18-years-ago-lingers.html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/annie-borjesson/id1490765201%3Fi%3D1000461143141&ved=2ahUKEwix2OWZvbCKAxXz48kDHbIOBr8QFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3CP3UEH-HPSHMV0rNJMiwL

In picturesque Horseshoe, Arkansas, a man settled to build a farm, family, and legacy. If he'd only known that having such a warm and giving family would lead to tragedy, he may have taken his dream somewhere else.

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Sources:
 https://vocal.media/criminal/woman-killed-by-same-man-who-killed-mother-20-years-earlier

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/03/25/martha-mckay-murder-travis-lewis-horseshoe-lake-arkansas/5085237002/

https://nypost.com/2020/03/27/paroled-murderer-kills-victims-daughter-near-same-crime-scene-24-years-later/

https://memphismagazine.com/habitats/lady-of-the-lake/

https://people.com/crime/inside-the-bizarre-case-of-a-killer-striking-twice-23-years-apart-murdering-a-mother-and-daughter/