Sherri was a 29 year old nurse who was married to John Ruetten who was an engineer.  They lived in Van Nuys, California.  John had an ex-girlfriend who may have had a slight obsession with him.  Join us as we discuss a case of jealous rage and how this case went unsolved for many years due to lack of police investigation.

 Sources: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4o4SSfjnE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sherri_Rasmussen https://web.archive.org/web/20190103110456/http://forensictransmissions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Stephanie-Lazarus-.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSNPkf8RCU https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lapd-lazurus-murder-mystery-killer https://www.dailynews.com/2019/11/21/nbcs-dateline-to-air-special-on-murder-of-sherri-rasmussen-by-lapd-officer/ https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lazarus-stephanie.htm https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-matthew-mcgough-interview-20190503-story.html

Katherine Knight is known as Australia’s most gruesome and horrific female murderer. After a string of abusive and cruel relationships, she stabbed, decapitated, and skinned her lover, John “Pricey” Price, cooked his remains and attempted to serve them to his own children. Closet Sisters, it doesn’t get worse than this. No snacking allowed during this case. Join us in the closet this week for the terrible case of Katherine Knight.

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CRISTY!*

Sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10241673/Katherine-Knight-skinned-decapitated-lover-cooked-head-pot.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8544392/john-charles_thomas-price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Knight

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/katherine-knight-slaughterhouse-worker-who-skinned-cooked-her-boyfriend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXexxSrT1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BnMTP88m7w

Anita was a beautiful 18 year old girl.  She had just started college and had moved into her own apartment with a roommate.  She was working two jobs to support herself and was doing well in school.  One weekend, her parents had not heard from her which is unusual.  Her father went over to check on her and what he would find would shock everyone.   

Sources: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/arrest-made-2007-murder-anita-knutson-minot-north-dakota-n1292089

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/roommate-arrested-in-15-year-old-cold-case-murder-of-anita-knutson/

https://www.trace-evidence.com/anita-knutson 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/family-of-murdered-msu-student-anita-knutson-demand-answers_n_56098c91e4b0dd8503088fe0 

https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/public-safety/cold-cases 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/eight-years-later-sister-still-looking-answers-n343901 

https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/06/10-years-later/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39-xkaoGrg https://www.thedailybeast.com/anita-knutsons-murder-in-north-dakota-is-still-unsolved

https://www.thomasfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituary/anita-knutson

In this episode we go all the way to Australia.  We discuss the unsolved murders of Margaret Penny and Claire Acocks, two happily married women with grandchildren, they loved to spend time with.  These women were killed while Claire was doing Margaret's hair in the salon she worked part-time.  Who would kill these loving, innocent grandmothers?  We may never know for sure.

Sources:

https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2018-12/margaretpenny_claireacocks_144491_144591.pdf

https://www.basictrendy.com/margaret-penny-and-claire-acocks-murder-mystery-of-portland/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ck0sjh/the_portland_hair_salon_double_murder/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystQW1WDipw

https://www.standard.net.au/story/4764406/families-left-in-the-dark/

Patrice Endres was a beautiful business woman, running her own successful salon in the small town of Cumming, Georgia. On a bright spring afternoon, Patrice goes missing, without a trace, for 600 days. Her remains were found 10 miles away in a National Forest, and to this day, her case remains unsolved. Was it a crime of opportunity? A serial killer? Or someone closer to home? Join us in the close this week as we discuss the mysterious disappearance and murder of Patrice Endres.

Sources:

https://www.grunge.com/223375/the-untold-truth-of-patrice-endres-mysterious-disappearance/

https://screenrant.com/what-unsolved-mysteries-leaves-out-about-patrice-enderss-creepy-husband-rob/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13170315/patrice-endres

Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries, Season 1, Episode 2 “13 Minutes” July 2020

https://www.thoughtco.com/psychological-profile-jeremy-bryan-jones-973169

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hilton-gary-michael.htm

https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jones-jeremy.htm

Leah Roberts was a bright young woman with a bright future.  She suffered the loss of both her parents within a short amount of time, which caused her to view life very differently.  She drops out of college just before graduation and decides to take some time to re-evaluate her life.  She makes a strange decision one day that would leave everyone wondering, what happened to Leah?

Sources:

Disappeared Season 3 Episode 8

Unsolved Mysteries Season 11 Ep 6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Leah_Roberts

https://disappearedblog.com/leah-roberts/

https://www.whatcomcounty.us/292/Missing-Leah-Roberts

https://woman.forumdaily.com/en/poslednee-puteshestvie-lii-roberts-rassledovanie-propazhi-studentki-iz-severnoj-karoliny/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac

Jeffery Wolfe and Brook Weber were two young adults living in Texas. They traveled to Mississippi to see a friend, Gary Simmons, about some money he owed Jeffery. Gary, a butcher, killed and dismembered Jeffery with the help of a mutual friend, Tim, and kept Brook in a metal box, repeatedly assaulting her while holding her hostage. After a brave escape, Brook survived her assault and saw both men come to justice. Join us in the closet this week for The Butcher’s Box. The case of Jeffery and Brook.

Sources:

https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/gary-simmons-and-timothy-milano-murdered-jeffrey-wolfe-dumped-his-body-parts-for-the-alligators/

https://www.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/06/horrifying_murder_rape_case_re.html

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/simmons-gary-carl.htm

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102532204/jeffrey-lee-wolfe

Investigation Discovery, Shattered: The Box, Season 1, Episode 1, August 2017

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/10-most-haunting-true-crime-stories-2fd59dfe4347

Tamla was a loving mother and wife. She lived in a small town with major racial issues in its past and possibly present. Tamla goes to a party to celebrate her friend’s birthday, but she doesn’t survive the party. What happened to Tamla?

Sources:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tamla-horsford-death-georgia-1026889/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tamla-horsford-death-georgia-bureau-investigation-report-1231479/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tamla_Horsford

https://www.forsythnews.com/news/crime-courts/tragic-accident-gbi-concludes-investigation-tamla-horsfords-death/

https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article253090468.html

https://people.com/crime/tamla-horsford-death-mom-party-accidental-family-suspicious/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tamla-horsford-died-at-a-slumber-party-in-2018-her-family-still-wants-answers

https://justicefortam.org/

https://blackamericaweb.com/2019/02/26/what-happened-to-tamla-horsford/

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/the-suspicious-2018-death-of-tamla-horsford

Laura Ackerson was a 27 year old single mom. She was fighting hard for to be the best mother to her 2 boys, run a new company, and pursue an ugly and expensive legal battle for custody of her children with her ex, Grant. After, what she thought was an olive branch being extended to her by Grant, she goes missing. This story starts in North Carolina, travels to the Virgin Islands, and ends up in Texas. Join us in the closet for the shocking story of Laura Ackerson.

Sources:

Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, a Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price by Diane Fanning, January 2016

https://dianefanning.com/true-crime-books/bitter-remains-chapter-1

https://www.wral.com/amanda-grant-hayes-divorce/14074480/

https://www.wral.com/news/local/asset_gallery/9925558/

https://www.wral.com/court-denies-grant-hayes-bid-for-new-trial/14486871/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119874096/laura-jean-ackerson

https://defrostingcoldcases.com/laura-jean-ackerson-1984-2011-2/

https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/dismembered-and-dumped-in-a-creek-laura-ackerson-was-betrayed/

https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/laura-ackerson

Snapped: Killer Couples, Amanda and Grant Hayes Season 4, Episode 1, (2014)

Investigation Discovery’s Betrayed: Death by Design, Season 2, Episode 7 (2018)

https://www.swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-119

https://webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1113277&searchLastName=hayes&searchFirstName=grant&searchGender=M&searchRace=2&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

https://webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1336234&searchLastName=hayes&searchFirstName=amanda&searchGender=F&searchRace=1&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8114525/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

https://www.wral.com/hayes-jams-in-trial-while-song-blares-lyrics-about-killing-babies-momma-/12880556/