Fatal Females

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Vera Renczi may be the exception, for everyone seemed to proclaim her beauty. A childhood and upbringing shrouded in mystery, not much is known about this Romanian looker except her appetite for jealous murder. Vera was a passionate lover and seduced many suitors into her home and affections. She was even more passionate that they should never touch another woman but her ever again. Sip on a plum wine spritzer this week and snack on some grape leaves as Chelsea embarks on a journey to Romania to find the truth about this beautiful murderess. Don’t accept her drinks. Don’t eat her dinner and whatever you do don’t play in the basement.

Let’s Get Ready to Rumblllllleeeee!!!!!!! Come on down to Mexico City for a wrestling event you’ll never forget. Juana Barazza started this crazy life as an abused child from a tormented mother. Never knowing familial love, never learning to read or write, she grew to be a well-adjusted young woman...or so we thought. Juana entered the wrestling world selling concessions to the masses only to be discovered as having a true talent for the wrestling spectacle. From lowly caterpillar, Juana emerged into the fight a pink and gold fierce butterfly known as La Dama del Silencio. Pop your ear buds in this week and sip some Mezcal as Pamela unravels the heinous truth behind The Lady of Silence and her dark secrets.

Listen, it’s a holiday week. We get it. Offices are closed, the beach and booze are calling, and the sun is blazing. Hamburgers are turning juicy on the grill and you don’t have time to listen to entire hour of murder right now since your friends and family are sitting right next to you. So here’s 27 minutes of a murder obsessed lady we know very little about. Maria Swanenburg proudly murdered over 100 people including her own parents. So grab an ice cold beer and listen to Chelsea give all the facts about this illusive lady with little info.

This week just drink straight from the bottle. Naturally, Pamela will bring you a sordid tale that ends even worse than it begins. Prepare for a story of a woman that starts in abuse and ends in her returning the favors she suffered throughout her entire childhood. You may have heard of the Sunset Strip Killers, but not like this. Taken mostly from Carol M. Bundy’s point of view, the hour goes by quickly as the details of this deadly duo are revealed. Hold onto your kids and don’t let them out of your sight - the Sunset Strip Killers take heads in the night.

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When we think of grandmothers, we can literally smell homemade cookies baking. We can smell the Chanel perfume and see the pearls in their ears. The skin on their hands is withered and thin, but so soft it seems it could break open at the lightest tap. We think of hot soup and caring nurturing words. Call us old fashioned, but we don’t typically think of an arsenic slinging, man killing, mom murdering, elderly slaying grandma. Then came Velma Barfield. Pick your poison this week as Chelsea peaks your interest with a woman who some say was cursed and followed by death, but only because Granny was the Reaper.

Music shout out: "Velma" Performed by Jonathon Byrd and The Wildflowers

We all dread getting older. Our bodies slowly wrinkling and dimpling, joints curl in on themselves and eyes glaze over with milky cataracts. Our memories will start to dwindle and fade with murky recollections appearing like rippled images in a pond. But through all this we know there are establishments in place where we can rest out our remaining days under the careful care of a nurse. And this is exactly the place where Jane Toppan became one. A nurse yes, but more of the Angel of Death-type one. If you enjoy excruciating stomach pain and paralysis, book a room at the hospital where she works, for she delights in making the elder suffer before death. Pour a drink - but check for poison - as Pamela tells unspeakable tales of a good nurse gone bad.

The beginning will sound familiar: young girl grows up in a tumultuous and abusive house hold and is placed in a different home. Even the middle will have a familiar ring to it: the girl grows into a woman and has a child. She marries multiple times throughout her life and opens up a successful nail salon. She has friends and regular clients and a good life. The end should come as no shock then: the woman grows old and goes to meet her maker by electric chair as an inmate on Florida’s death row... that’s right, did you forget who you were listening to? Judy Buenoano was surrounded by death as soon as she was a marriageable age. And no wonder when she’s the one pouring the arsenic. Don’t lose sight of your drink this week and tune in as Chelsea reveals the darkest workings of a greedy woman, whose own son can’t stand in her way.

From 1933 to 1945, 17 million people were captured, tortured, tormented, and slaughtered, dragged away from families never to be whole again, under Adolf Hitler’s rule in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. 17 million people in concentration camps. Madison Square Garden in New York City holds 20,000 people. The Colosseum in Ancient Rome held 50,000. How do we wrap our minds around 17 million people put to death? One of the most notorious camps, Auschwitz, bred some of the worst and most atrocious behavior from Nazi guards and this weeks lady is no exception. The Hyena of Auschwitz, they called her and her presence in the camp made blood run cold and bodies shrink from the doors. Pour straight alcohol this week and take a deep breath as Pamela dives into the monstrosities of Nazi Guard Irma Ida Grese, and what it takes to be a “Beautiful Beast”.

September of 2006 Travis Alexander threw on a suit, and strolled through the warm Las Vegas air into a banquet for his job at prepaid legal services. A faithful member of the Mormon church, and a motivational speaker, Travis was a catch. However, it was Jodi Arias that was caught. Blonde hair, blue eyed and fiery, Jodi took Travis’s breath away...and two years later she took his last breath. Tune in this week with a light beverage and listen as Chelsea outlines their passionate turned deadly love affair and exactly what makes Jodi Arias “feel dirty."

Her eyes are blue and startling; they hold within them the years of abuse and torment, brought by a mother who never wanted her. Her town is rubble. Poor and impoverished, houses derelict and crumbing, few play grounds, kids in the streets, parents absent at work to scrounge every penny they can. This is Mary Bell’s world. Cold. Unsupervised. Troubled. Tune in this week with a stronger beverage than usual to hear Pammie tell the tragic tale of a young girl gone bad and if evil is something within all of us, or a condition some are taught.