Crime With My Coffee

Dean Corll, also known as the "Candy Man," was a notorious American serial killer in the early 1970s. He, along with teenage accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Henley, committed a series of brutal murders in Houston, Texas. They lured young boys with promises of money or parties and was responsible for at least 28 known victims. His crimes shocked the nation, and the case highlights the dangers of charismatic predators who prey on the vulnerable.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wikipedia - Dean Corll
Wikipedia - Rheumatic fever
Wikipedia - Pasadena, Texas
Criminal Minds Fandom - The Houston Mass Murders
Missing Kids - Candy Man Victim: New Clues in Serial Killer Mystery
Texas Monthly - The Lost Boys

In 1980 in St. Polten, Austria, Werner Kniesek broke into the home of 55 year old Gertrude Altreiter and her adult children, Walter and Ingrid. Over the course of several hours, Kniesek would torture the family before ultimately strangling them to death. The next day, he would take their car, loaded with the bodies of his victims, with him while he ran his personal "errands." He would eventually confess his crimes, and his motive, to the police after his capture.

Sources for this episode:
Astro Databank - Kniesek, Werner
Academic - Werner Kniesek
Wikipedia - Werner Kniesek
Wikipedia - Sankt Pölten
IMDB - Angst

Diane Whipple was returning to her Pacific Heights apartment in San Francisco, California in 2001 when she was attacked by her neighbors' dog, a large Presa Canario. After her death, the owners, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, were charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, respectively.

Sources for this episode:
SF Gate - 'Dog of death': The horrific killing of Diane Whipple in San Francisco
Dog Bite Law - The Diane Whipple Case
ABC 7 News - Parole denied for Marjorie Knoller, convicted in San Francisco's notorious 2001 dog-mauling death of Diane Whipple
ABC News - Killer Dog's Owner Blames Victim
Daily Mail - San Francisco attorney whose dogs mauled her neighbor to death in 2001 is denied parole after being jailed for life for murder
Rolling Stone - Mad Dogs & Lawyers
SF IST - Woman Convicted in Notorious SF Dog-Mauling Murder Case Gets Denied Parole
Wikipedia - List of people from San Francisco
Wikipedia - San Francisco
FindAGrave - Diane Alexis Whipple

This week we talk about the Dallas Carter High School football robbery ring. Join us as we talk about the unexpected criminal activies of a high school football team, how their actions both on and off the field, led to a scandal that rocked the community. From winning the state championship to heists, we will reveal the hidden side of these young men and the consequences they faced.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Oak Cliff
Wikipedia - David W. Carter High School
Stateline Sports Network - Carter High...'it simply doesn't matter that you can run the football'
Dallas News - Former players on 1988 Dallas Carter football team tried to move on, but shaking past wasn't easy
Dallas News - From the Archives: arter High stripped of 1988 State Title After Win
WFAA - 'Best team ever assembled': As Dallas ISD prepares for its first championship since 1958, memories of Dallas Carter's 1988 season remain
Carter Boyz by Gary Edwards
Dallas News - Bad habit: Robbery spree involving 6 1988 Dallas Carter football players was 'just for kicks'
New York Times - 10 Texas Athletes Are Sentenced to Jail Terms for RobberiesSupport the show

This week we talk about the true story of Teresa Stamper and her relentless stalker, her ex-husband Paul Stamper. From their abusive marriage to attempted murders, this episode will uncover the nightmare that led to Paul's shocking disappearance. Will justice ever be served?

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Kingfisher, Oklahoma
The Oklahoman - Kingfisher Escapee Gets 30-Year Term
The Oklahoman - TV Crime Show Returns Fugitive To State Jail
Murfreesboro Pulse - The New Teresa Ringer: Her Story of Abuse, Homelessness and Survival
Unsolved Mysteries Fandom - Paul Stamper
The Oklahoman - Masked Gunman Frees Inmate at Kingfisher Jail
The Oklahoman - Trial Date Set In Kidnapping
The Oklahoman - TV Program Ends 5 Years of Freedom for Escapee
Oklahoma Offender SearchSupport the show

In Forest Park, Georgia in April 2010, 15 year old Candice Parchment went missing. Her remains were discovered 7 months later not far from her home. It would be another year after that before her family and the community would get the answers to their questions about what happened to her. Candice named Marshae Hickman and Jermaine Robinson as her attackers in a diary entry from a few months before she went missing and that was just the break the police needed to break her murder case wide open.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Forest Park, Georgia
The US Sun - Five most chilling Candice Parchment murder details revealed in documentary from dark diary entry to violent attack
ABC News - Georgia: Murdered Teen Girl's Diary Leads to Alleged Killer
WSB TV - Man ofund guilty of murdering teenage girl
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution - Authorities: Diary leads to alleged killer of missing teen
Hickman v. The State (2016)
The Cinemaholic - Candice Parchment Murder: Where are Marshae Hickman and Jermaine Robinson Now?Support the show

In the mid to late 1800s, John Humphrey Noyes became a believer in perfectionism. He would eventually found two different communities of his own, the most well-known being in Oneida, New York which became known as the Oneida Community. They would practice free love and male continence. They would start an eugenics experiment later on in their existence. They would eventually dissolve the cult community and become a manufacturing company most well known for their silverware.Sources for this episode:
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It was mid August of 1996 when Jeffrey Wolfe and his new girlfriend took off on a road trip that would start out as a business trip and turn into a mini vacation on their way back. They left the Houston, Texas area and drove towards Moss Point, Mississippi to meet Gary Simmons and Timothy Milano for this particular meeting. Not long after arriving at Simmons' home, however, Jeffrey would be dead and his girlfriend would be fighting for her life.

Sources for this episode:
Casetext - Simmons v. Epps
Murderpedia - Gary Carl Simmons
Gulf Live - Gruesome murder, rape case recalled: Gary 'The Butcher' Simmons scheduled to be executed June 20
Caselaw - Milano v. State
UPI - Texas man found dismembered in Miss.
Find A Grave - Jeffrey Lee Wolfe
Wikipedia - Moss Point, MississippiSupport the show

The evening of June 13, 2009 was the last time anyone saw Phyllis Phares alive at her Charelston, West Virginia home. When her daughter couldn't get a hold of the 82 year old widow, she went to check on her and found a gruesome crime scene. The Mallo family, who lived directly across the street, became suspects in the ensuing murder investigation after Thomas Mallo, the 14 year old son, told police about a man he had seen on the porch of Mrs. Phares the night she was killed. It wouldn't be long before nearly every member of the 8 person household would be behind bars for one reason or another.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Charleston, West Virginia
Find A Grave - Phyllis Jean Jones Phares
MetroNews - Murder Sentence Stays Same For Teenager
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Judge upholds 40-year sentence for teen convicted of murder
MetroNews - Convicted murderer sentenced for violent escape attempt
DreminDemon - The Mallos Are Seriously Effed Up - Murderers And Child Abusers (copies of no longer existing online news articles were copied and linked in this forum thread)
BadLawyerNYC - White Trash Horror Story
WV Mountain News - 14 year old boy and family remian in jail
Evil Kin - The Evil Inside, Season 1 Episode 4Support the show

Juan Cornoa was a Mexican-American serial killer whose heinous acts shocked the nation in the eary 1970s. He was convicted in 1973 of the murders of 25 men, mostely transient farm workers. He remains one of the most infamous instances of serial killing in American history.

Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Yuba City, California
Wikipedia - Autlán
Wikipedia - Sacramento Valley
Wikipedia - Juan Corona
NY Times - Corona, 85, Convicted as Killer of 25 Farm Workers, Dies
Criminal Minds Fandom - Juan Corona

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