In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Marleen Warren. On Saturday May 26, 1990, Marlene was finishing breakfast with her son and his friends when she heard a knock on their front door. Marleen wasn’t expecting anyone but answered the door anyway. She was greeted by someone wearing a clown costume and white face paint, clutching a flower arrangement and foil balloons. She was delighted at the cheerful sight. Then, suddenly, everything changed. Moments later the clown pulled out a gun, aimed it at her face, and pulled the trigger.

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http://www.feloniousflorida.com/killing-clown-part-one.html

http://www.feloniousflorida.com/killing-clown-part-two.html

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the murder of Gary Lee Grant, Jr.  On January 12, 1984. Atlantic City, New Jersey. Seven-year old Gary Grant Jr. leaves his home after telling his mother he is meeting someone for an appointment. Two days later, Gary’s body is discovered in a vacant lot after he has been bludgeoned to death with a pipe.

Thanks to Robin Warder from The Trail Went Cold Podcast who covered this case in Episode 55 for answering a few questions.

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https://www.trailwentcold.com/2018/01/17/the-trail-went-cold-episode-55-gary-grant-jr/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Gary_Grant_Jr.

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the shocking murder of Candace Hiltz. Candace was a seventeen year old single mother, a junior at Brigham Young University and a newly accepted student to be at Stanford Law School. She dreamed of becoming a Supreme Court Justice. The investigation was shoddy from the beginning: The crime scene wasn’t protected and sealed, evidence was left behind and the prime suspect was Candace’s brother, James. After he was apprehended, he was charged with for breaking into a home and stealing some items, but not the murder of his sister. Over the next ten years, no new leads were developed nor evidence discovered. The Hiltz family and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a rather public exchange of contradictory statements. Candace’s autopsy showed she had been shot by two to three different weapons and at least two assailants as several shots were projected into her front and back simultaneously. 

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https://soapboxie.com/government/The-shocking-murder-case-of-Candace-Hiltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sLQAb_zBo

 

 

August 2, 1993, marked a horrific day for small town Savona, New York, when local teenager Eric Smith murdered a 4-year-old boy, Derrick Robie, who lived across town. Early that morning, Smith, 13, had spotted the child walking alone to a summer camp at the park.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Smith_(murderer)

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/smith-eric-m.htm

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the disappearance of Brian Shaffer who went missing on the night of March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break; later he was separated from them and they assumed he had gone home. However, a security camera near the entrance to The Ugly Tuna Saloona bar recorded him briefly talking to two women just before 2 a.m., April 1, and then apparently re-entering the bar without any evidence of him leaving the area. Shaffer has not been seen or heard from since. The case has received national media attention.

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/brian-shaffer

https://charleyproject.org/case/brian-randall-shaffer

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale deliver an extra large murder case.  Mitchell Sims and Ruby Carolyn Padgett, both from West Columbia, South Carolina, declared war on Sims’ former employer, Domino’s Pizza, where Sims had been a manager, in December 1985. Their violence spanned the entire continental United States – from South Carolina to California.  

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In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale are joined again my Laura Riste (pronounced Rist E) and we are discussing David Clayton Warner who was last seen in Jefferson City, Tennessee on March 2, 1983. That day, he said he was going to a church function up the street from his home. He did go to the church, but did not go inside. Instead, he went to Druther's Restaurant for a hamburger, which was free because David had gotten an A on his report card. After eating, David went to a friend's home and they watched TV until 7:00 pm. David said he was going home then, to his house about 30 yards away. He has never been heard from again.

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https://soapboxie.com/government/Missing-David-Clayton-Warner

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale take a ride in the murder mobile and discuss William Devin Howell - The Sick Ripper who is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women in 2003. He is of the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history.

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https://portal.ct.gov/DCJ/Archives/Archived/William-Devin-Howell-Pleads-Guilty-to-Serial-Murders

 

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the disappearance of Thelma Pauline Melton (Polly) who was hiking on Deep Creek Trail in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park with two friends on September 25, 1981. She was last seen shortly after 4:00 p.m. that day, when Melton suddenly sped up her pace and walked ahead of her companions. They saw her walk over a hill on the trail and out of their view and was never seen again.

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https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/483dftn.html

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In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles, Donnie and Dale discuss the 1999 shooting of a young and pregnant Cherica Adams who has forever been etched into the memories of North Carolina’s residents. The investigation led to one of the most high-profile trials in the country, with a National Football League star Rae Carruth at the center of it all.

Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer reporter.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carruth/id1438370053

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