Grim Tales from the Garden State

Grim Tales from the Garden State

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Grim Tales from the Garden State episodes

  • Ep 23: James Henry Hampton

    James Henry Hampton led a life of crime from a very early age. From reform school to jail cells, Hampton wreaked havoc across the midwest and pacific northwest. That was until August 1992 when he was all but encouraged to rob a woman and her fiancee in Missouri. He then proceeded to flee to Wantage, New Jersey and claim another life.

    30 min
  • Ep 22: Howard Unruh

    In 1949, Howard Unruh was a shy, quiet World War II veteran who had a serious chip on his shoulder. His insecurities, social awkwardness, and fear of being outed for his sexuality all coalesced into a violent walk down River Road in East Camden.

    Sources:

    • https://weirdnj.com/stories/howard-unruh/
    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
    • https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/090749nj-shoot.html
    • https://murderpedia.org/male.U/u/unruh-howard.htm
    • https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/camden-marks-milestones-in-policing-reforms-crime-reduction/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%202022%2C%20there%20were%203%2C000,Capella%2C%20Camden%20County%20Commission%20director.
    • https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/camden-camden-nj/
    • https://everytownresearch.org/issue/mass-shootings#by-the-numbers
    24 min
  • Ep 21: Kashif Parvaiz & Antoinette Stephen
    Kashif Parvaiz and Antoinette Stephen were architecture students at Harvard in 2011. When their illicit affair begins, the two must devise a way to free Kashif from his wife's arms and allow him to truly be with Antoinette, but that won't be without some bloodshed.
    23 min
  • Ep 20: Danny Burroughs
    In August of 2007, Danny Burroughs disappeared from his Mays Landing home without a trace. His second wife, Loretta Burroughs, claimed that he ran off with a much younger woman to Florida, but no one could comfortably believe that story.
    19 min
  • Ep 19: Charles Reddish
    Dede Rosenthal was a teacher for disabled children, and Rebecca Wertz was a loving mother. In 1991 and 1995 across two counties in South Jersey, these two women lost their lives at the hands of Charles Reddish, a shady maintenance man who had random compulsions to kill innocents.
    14 min
  • Ep 18: John List
    John List was a devoted Lutheran, accountant, husband and father living in Westfield, New Jersey. In 1971, he decided to take the morality and trajectory of his family into his own hands and become one of the most prolific fugitives in American criminal justice history.
    22 min
  • Ep 17: Carl Coppolino
    Carl Coppolino and his wife, Carmela, lived in affluent Middletown in the 1960s with their children. After an obvious affair and the sudden death of a neighbor, the Coppolinos move down to Florida, where another tragedy strikes with much different results.
    17 min
  • Ep 16: Patricia Monsell
    Patricia Monsell was a wife and co-owner of a ski shop in Green Book, New Jersey. In 2004, she and her two children found her husband, James, dead in their bedroom. As the story unravels, the Monsell family secrets come to light.
    19 min
  • Ep 15: Mary Frances Creighton
    Mary Frances Creighton was a hot-headed housewife from Rahway, Union County. She always had something mean to say about someone, and had no problem wiping her enemies off the face of this earth.
    32 min
  • Ep 14: Philip Seidle
    Philip Seidle was a respected police officer and father in Neptune Township. He had a big house, big family, but also big problems with his wife, Tamara. In June of 2015, everything would change for the Seidle family after a divorce pushes Philip over the edge.
    24 min

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The New Jersey true crime podcast that dives into the murders, scams, and scandals all in the confines of the Garden State

New episodes every other Friday!