Our killer kids theme continues this week! Today, Melissa will be telling Jackie about crimes inspired by the Freeman family murders. When Jeffrey Howorth saw the Freeman brothers crimes/arrests, he did not feel disgusted, but rather inspired. What could lead a quiet Boy Scout and church member to commit the ultimate betrayal? And will Jeffrey Howorth face the same punishment as the brothers who inspired him? Tune in to find out! 

https://apnews.com/article/283a52cab30bbb94fd8609cf5fd2201c

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/kids-who-kill-the-evolution-of-juvenile-justice-system/article_41da889e-74f0-551d-9884-ed4cad05825a.html

https://charleslaw.us/blog-jeffrey-howorth/

https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2006-11-14-3700253-story.html

Hey hey creepy cats, we are back for another week of Eww! That’s Creepy! This week, we will be discussing killer kids, specifically two family murders in Allentown, PA. First, Melissa will be sharing the gruesome details surrounding the Freeman family murders, discussing what led up to horrific events and what followed. This story is one wild ride, involving religions, Nazis, forehead tattoos, triple homicide.....need we say more?

*apologies if you can hear our dog snoring throughout*

https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-freeman-howorth-murders-anniversary-20150227-story.html

https://apnews.com/article/6c575df837444898ac6962847a9dd1ba

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/2016/04/new_sentencing_for_then-teenag.html

Killer Kids Season 3 Episode 4

What’s up creepy cats, we are back with another paranormal military experience! Today, Melissa will be telling Jackie about the reported UFO sightings at Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, UK. US Air Force members reported unexplained objects flying over their base on a late Christmas night in 1980. Was this event covered up by the US Air Force intentionally? Or are the allegations an elaborate hoax for publicity? Either way, we know it’s creepy!  

https://www.9news.com.au/world/rendlesham-forest-ufo-sighting-uk-roswell-investigation/ad10e726-d7ca-452f-9bec-321b54c1087b

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-51565054

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/britains-roswell-really-happened-rendlesham-forest-ufo-incident/

Hi creepy cats, welcome back! This weeks theme is paranormal military stories and in this first episode, Jackie talks about Observation Point Rock in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This spooky site has a very long history and has been used as a military base throughout the years by various countries. This story gets paranormal when a group of U.S. Marines spend 60 days at OP Rock... they never would have guessed that their lives would be changed forever when they left. Creepy!

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Eerie outpost unnerves US Marines with strange lights and whispers in the night, The Times, December 28, 2009, by Tom Coghlan. 

"An Ancient Hill and Forgotten Dead: Afghanistan’s Haunted Outpost”, NY Times, By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Taimoor Shahm, Published Oct. 31, 2020, Updated Nov. 12, 2020.

We hope you guys are ready to Forensic Files and chill! Today, Jackie will be telling Melissa about her favorite episode of Forensics; the infamous crimes of Stacey Castor. Stacey was a ruthless wife and mother, who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. After her first two husbands died of “mysterious illnesses”, investigators were stunned to hear that another of Stacey Castor’s close relatives were in the hospital. But in the end, all it took were some fingerprints and poor grammar to get to the bottom of Stacey’s decades old crimes...

Forensic Files episode "Freeze Frame", Season 14; Epi. 7 

Snapped episode "Stacey Castor", Season 7; Epi. 28

Get your mass spectrometers out, because the twins will be discussing their favorite Forensic Files episodes this week! Melissa is going to share the first story; a brutal attack on young, single mother Brenda Kaye Robinson in her own home. The attacker terrorized Brenda by knife point, leaving her unconscious with a bloody smiley face drawn onto her back. Will Brenda be able to survive the night and identify her attacker before he strikes again?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/25/ddhln.01.html

https://www.amazon.com/When-Death-Comes-Knocking-death-defying/dp/0615462715

Welcome back creepy cats! We are back with another wrongful conviction, discussing in this episode the conviction of Desmond Ricks. Desmond was a young, black man accused of murdering a friend outside of a fast food restaurant in 1992. The Detroit police department used a ballistics expert to convict Ricks, however, not even their own expert knew the truth behind this conviction, or the lengths police were willing to go...

https://www.michiganradio.org/term/desmond-ricks

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/04/08/judge-desmond-ricks-wrongly-convicted-cops-trial/5119522002/

https://www.michiganradio.org/post/expert-prevent-wrongful-convictions-crime-labs-need-independence-police-departments

Hi creepy cats, welcome back to another week of tales! To bring us into February, we wanted to tell two stories of black men who were wrongly convicted because of police misconduct. In this episode, Jackie talks about Termaine Joseph Hicks, who was wrongfully convicted of raping a woman who he was trying to help after she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted. PSA: this story will infuriate you but sadly it is not surprising and cases like this happen far too often in America, which is why we need to continue to tell these stories until things change. Make sure to go check out the Innocence Project's website and story on Termaine Hicks that includes links to his Amazon wish-list and fundraising page! 

https://innocenceproject.org/termaine-hicks-exonerated-pennsylvania-shot-by-police-wrongful-conviction/ (includes link to Amazon wishlist)

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Termainehicks  (to donate)

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-wrongful-conviction-exoneration-police-misconduct-tremaine-hicks-20201216.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

JOINT STIPULATIONS OF FACT OF PETITIONER JOSEPH TERMAINE HICKS AND RESPONDENT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA (innocence project website)

SECOND AMENDED PETITION FOR POST-CONVICTION RELIEF PURSUANT TO 42 Pa. C.S. § 9541 et seq (innocence project website)

Hello creepy cats, welcome back! In the second haunted restaurants episode, Melissa talks about the Mermaid Inn, located in the town of Rye, East Sussex, England. Dating back to 1156, this inn has centuries on centuries of history... and just as many ghosts. One things for sure...eww that hotel is creepy! 

https://www.mermaidinn.com/about-the-hotel/

https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/product/mermaid-inn-rye-east-sussex

https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/rye-inn-still-haunted-ghosts-its-past-2501971

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8001555/mermaid-inn-rye-sussex-haunted-ghost-smuggler-gang/

https://www.gloryofthesnow.com/haunted-hotel-uk-the-mermaid-inn/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwi

Welcome back to another week of creepiness! This weeks theme is: haunted restaurants.  In this episode, Jackie tells the history and ghost stories of the Shipwrecked Brew Pub in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. This restaurant not only offers amazing food and beer but also an eerie history involving American gangster Al Capone! We're not sure whats longer, the beer list or the list of ghosts that are alleged to still be lurking on the property... ooooo that's creepy!  

Haunted State, Season 1, Epi. 5 - Embers 

Shipwreckedmicrobrew.com

http://www.newparanormalinvestigators.com/shipwrecked-brew-pub.html

http://www.spirits66.com/haunted_sites_archives2.htm

https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Recovery-of-Shipwrecked-Brew-Pub-begins-after-massive-fire-441339853.html