Crime With My Coffee

During the 2000s, Jamison Bachman used his knowledge of the tenancy laws to essentially become a squatter in the homes of several people. He would use his charm and education to gain their trust quickly, move in with them, and then make their lives miserable, before it all eventually came to a grinding halt with a heinous murder.

Sources for this episode:
Newspapers.com - Long-Standing Quarrel Ends In Youth’s Death
CengNews - Randell Vidrine’s Killing of Ken Gutzeit: What Was His Motive?
Intelligencer - Worst Roommate Ever
FindAGrave.com - Jamison Bachman, Harry Bachman
ScreenRant.com - Everything Worst Roommate Ever Leaves Out About Jamison Bachman
Worst Roommate Ever - Episodes 4 & 5, titled Roommate Wanted Part 1 and 2Support the show

In the fall of 1989, 11 year old Jacob Wetterling, his friend, and his little brother set out from the Wetterling home on their bikes to a local store to rent a movie to watch. On their way back home, they were confronted by a masked man with a gun, who let the friend and Jacob's little brother go, but kidnapped Jacob. Almost 30 years later, the Wetterling family finally gets the answers they've always wanted.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Long Prairie, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Minnesota, Paynesville, Minnesota, Murder of Jacob Wetterling, Federal Medical Center, Devens
APM Reports - Why law enforcement didn't see that Danny Heinrich killed Jacob Wetterling
Chicago Sun Times - Remains of 11-year-old boy kidnapped in 1989 identified in Minn.
Application for Search Warrant
Medium - How Did This Killer And Sex Offender Keep Getting Away With Murder?Support the show

Join us this week as we take a break from all the heavy crimes and chuckle a little with another Express-o Shot, where we discuss a few funnier lighthearted crimes.

Sources for this episode:
The Daily Mail - Teen talked out of robbing sex shop after being offered a job and putting his real name on application
ynaija.com - Man arrested during burglary after butt-dialing 911 TWICE by accident
The Daily Mail - Man 'fires gun over burrito price rise': Ricardo Jones' Taco Bell fast food rage
Metro - Police, help find my pot
News 8000 - Man charged after cooking own meal at Denny'sSupport the show

In November of 2016, wife and mother Sherri Papini was reported missing by her husband. For 22 days her family, friends, and law enforcement looked for her. Thanksgiving Day she was finally located about 150 miles south of her home and place of disappearance. She told authorities that she had been kidnapped, tortured, and held captive by two Hispanic women. A few years later, authorities were finally able to get a familial DNA match on DNA that had been found on her clothing. An arrest was made in this case March 3, 2022. Listen in to find out who and what and why!

Sources for this episode:
People - The Piece of Evidence That Broke Open the Sherri Papini Case
Trending News Buzz - Sherri Papini Husband: Things You Need to Know!
Wikipedia - Mountain Gate, California
Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint and Arrest WarrantSupport the show

In 1973, Paul Andrews was kidnapped and assaulted over more than a week by Richard "Pee-Wee" Ausley. June tells us how Paul was rescued and the aftermath of Ausley's capture. Also, she tells us about the strange disappearance of Henry McCabe, a Minnesota State Auditor.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Portsmouth, Virginia
Wikipedia - Paul Martin Andrews
WAVY - Man who was trapped in box, raped as a boy returns to scene of crime; upset over bill to end civil commitment of some Va. sex offenders
Washington Post - Pedophile Is Slain in Va. Prison
Washington Times - Child molester found strangled in prison cell
Wikipedia - Mounds View, Minnesota
NewsBreak article by CrimeNeverSleeps - Disturbing Final Voicemail Left Behind by Missing Father Henry McCabe
Ranker - Eerie Voice Mail Captures One Man's Last Moments On Earth - And It Might Be Supernatural In Origin
Twin Cities - In case of missing Mounds View man, friend's story questioned
Still A Mystery - Season 3, Episode 6, "Who Wanted Him Dead?"Support the show

In 1994, in Knoxville, Tennessee, 33 year old Rob Whedbee is attacked in the middle of the night in his home by a masked man with a knife. When the attacker spoke, Rob knew immediately who it was. Join us this week as we discuss how an award winning reporter turned attempted murderer.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Knoxville, Tennessee
The Washington Post - The Reporter Who Got More Than a Story
The Los Angeles Times - A Secret in Oak Ridge
Evil Women: Deadlier Than the Male by Charlotte GreigSupport the show

In November of 1981 actress Natalie Wood ventured out into the ocean off of the California Coast aboard the Splendour, her husband's yacht, accompanied by her husband, her current movie co-star, and the captain of the yacht. Sometime during the night, Natalie ended up overboard. Her body was found in the morning, and over the last 40 years her death has been debated as accidental or possibly something more sinister.

There are also three case updates to Episode 8, Episode 10, and Episode 54.

Sources for this episdode:
Wikipedia - Natalie Wood
Wikipedia - San Francisco
Los Angeles Times - 40 years later, the master over Natalie Wood's death endures
KOMO News - Cold case murder convictions surprisingly overturned after appeal
Go San Angelo - Remains of Brandon Lawson, missing since 2013, possibly found
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Teacher's wife gets probation for covering up North TX murdersSupport the show

Wanda Stopa was a young ambitious woman on the rise. She graduated law school at the top her her class in 1921. She was shortly after named the youngest and first woman Assistant United States District Attorney in Chicago, Ilinois. But she threw it all away to live the Flapper lifestyle. Married to a Russian Count, she falls for an American Advertising Executive, Y. Kenley Smith. When he refused to leave his wife and marry her, she accidentally shot his gardener, Henry Manning. She was found the next day, in Detroit, Michigan, at a hotel, poisoned.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Chicago
New York Daily News - Justice Story: Love made legal eagle lovesick and homicidal
Find A Grave - Wanda Elaine Stopa
Virginia Chronicle, Pages 1 and 22 - Dies By Poison Ends Life While Sought By Police
Chicago Tribune - Good girl gone badSupport the show

In 2010, Jeffrey Ryan, his son Jesse, and Jeffrey's friend, Jason DeHahn were found brutally murdered on Jeffrey's property. Investigators would follow a rather tangled web straight back to the murderer.

We also discuss the ritualistic murder of Leroy Carter, Jr. His decapitated body was found in Golden Gate Park in 1981. It is believed that his murder has connections to Palo Mayombe and his murder remains unsolved to this day.

Sources for this episode:
YouTube - Thayne Ormsby Interrogation
Town of Amity - Triple Murder Rocks Amity
Wikipedia - Amity, Maine
Murderpedia - Thayne M. Ormsby
Medium - The Worst Murder Case in the History of Maine
The Cinemaholic - Jeffrey Ryan Murder: Where is Thayne Ormsby Now?
Bangor Daily News - Former classmates call suspect in Amity slayings a "good guy" who changed
Wikipedia - Maine State Prison
Wikipedia - San Francisco
Pavement Pieces - The traditions of Palo Mayombe
U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs - Afro-Caribbean Religious Cults: Santeria and Palo Mayombe
SF Weekly - Yesterday's Crimes: Chicken Wings and Bloody Stumps in Golden Gate Park
Horror History - A headless body of a man, suspected to be killed during a ritual, is foundSupport the show

In 1893 Maria Barbella met Domenico Cataldo in New York City. Both of them were Italian immigrants. Domenico began to court Maria, who was excited for the prospect of marrying a man she believed was a good man. In 1895, things took a dramatic turn for the two young lovebirds. What followed next would not only cause one of them to die, but would have the other sentenced to death by the electric chair.

Sources for this episode:
Alchetron - Maria Barbella
Wikipedia - New York City
Murderpedia - Maria Barbella
Encyclopedia.com - Maria Barbella Trials: 1895-96
Deadly Women - Maria BarbellaSupport the show