Fresh Hell Podcast

On Halloween night in 1957, Peter Fabiano was shot and killed at his front door in North Hollywood, California, after answering what he thought was another late-night trick-or-treater.

His lasts words: “Isn’t it a little late for this?”

The murder of Peter Fabiano would become known as the Trick-or-Treat Murder, or the Halloween Murder, and it involved broken friendship, jealousy, beauty salons, and a carefully planned murder disguised as a Halloween visit.

We are back on the Isle of Man for Part Two of Gef, the ridiculous little wall weasel.

This week, people try to figure out what the hell is going on at Cashen’s Gap. We have alleged Gef hair, footprints, photographs, zoologists, witnesses and investigators….spoiler alert: Gef is not impressed!

Welcome back to Spooky Fuckery Month. Let’s finish this fucking mongoose.

Spooky Fuckery Month is officially here!

And we’re kicking things off on the Isle of Man, where, in 1931, the Irving family began hearing strange noises coming from inside the walls of their isolated farmhouse.

Meet Gef, the talking, swearing, gossiping, possibly supernatural mongoose who lives behind the walls, spies on the neighbors, sings songs, makes deeply questionable claims about himself and has a LOT of opinions!

The plane had crashed. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper had been laid to rest. But the story of The Day the Music Died is far from over.

In the fourth and final part of our series, we look at everything that came after February 1959: the investigation into the crash, the questions that lingered, the families and loved ones left behind, and the strange rumors and theories that started to spread around one of the most infamous tragedies in music history.

This week Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper finally come together for the Winter Dance Party…the infamous tour that was badly planned, brutally cold, and exhausting almost from the moment it began.

We follow them as the ping-pong across the frozen Midwest in a bus that could barely keep them warm, through breakdowns, illness, and a schedule that made very little geographical sense….and that makes Johanna kind of stabby!

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February 3, 1959, would become known as “The Day the Music Died”In Part Two of The Day the Music Died, we continue with Buddy Holly’s story as his career takes off, and introduce the youngest musician who would eventually join him on the Winter Dance Party tour: Ritchie Valens.

By January 1959, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens were all headed for the same place: the Winter Dance Party, an exhausting and grueling tour through the frozen Midwest.

February 3, 1959, would become known as “The Day the Music Died”

But before we get to that frozen field, we need to know the people who ended up on that plane.

In Part One, we look at the lives and careers of Buddy Holly and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. We follow Buddy from Lubbock, Texas, to becoming one of the most influential figures in early rock and roll, and the Big Bopper from radio DJ and songwriter to larger-than-life performer.

Heinz Pohlmann has been acquitted, but Rosemarie Nitribitt’s murder is still unsolved. So in our final part, we look at Rosemarie’s famous notebook, the very real wealthy and powerful men in her life, the rumors of blackmail, missing files, a supposed murder tape, and theories ranging from jealous clients to industrial espionage.

It’ s been almost seventy years since the murder, and there are still plenty of theories about who killed Rosemarie Nitribitt. 

When Rosemarie Nitribitt’s body was discovered in her Frankfurt apartment, the investigation turned into one of the biggest murder mysteries in postwar Germany. In Part 2, we look at what investigators actually knew, what they only thought they knew, why Heinz Pohlmann became their prime suspect, and why this case remains to be a mix of fact, rumor, and conspiracy theories that continues to fascinate people today.