This week's case is about a woman who has an unhealthy, incestuous relationship with one of her six children. When interviewed she does not claim four of her children. One passed away as a teenager and the other is her son...the golden child, the others were three girls and another son. What happened to them is unknown. She was married 10+ times to men of all ages, perhaps some of these men have custody of the other four kids? There is supportive and there is obsessive,  she holds his hand when he enters the courtroom as an adult attorney. When he wins his cases, she would stand and applaud him. She refused to share her son with another woman. When he falls in love and secretly marries his pregnant girlfriend, his mother is furious. The lengths this woman goes too to break up this happy couple would be comical if it didn't end in the murder of her daughter-in-law. Listen to today's case to hear about the insanity of Elizabeth Ann Duncan. 

Sources; 

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

https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/duncan-elizabeth.htm

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-then20jan20-story.html

https://ladailymirror.com/2009/03/30/ma-duncan/

Today's case is about a man who so obviously suffered from mental illness. He is definitely a strange man. He was sentenced to life in a mental hospital by the military. However, due to his ability to escape several times they decided trying to catch this man required too much effort and he was no longer crazy. They let him stay "escaped" and updated his file as no longer a threat. He would go on to brutally murder 20 women throughout the US. Once he ventures into Canada, he murders his final 2 victims before he is captured 5 miles from the US boarder. Our murderer of the week is Earle Leonard Nelson. 

Sources; 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/earle-nelson 

https://serialdispatches.com/alphabetical-list-of-serial-killers/list-of-serial-killers-n/nelson-earle-leonard/ 

https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-prolific-murders-of-earle-nelson-9bbaf3b79fbb 

https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nelson-earle.htm Syphilis - Greater Than AIDS Wandering Tendencies in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (upmc.com)

Today is a continuation of last Thursday's episode. We will discuss the horrors of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole as they go on a crime spree together. Competing to see who could be more cruel to their victims became a game to these two criminals. Eventually they branch off on their own individual crime sprees before being arrested.

May all of you have a happy, safe, crime-free New Year! 

Sources; 

https://www.ranker.com/list/henry-lee-lucas-ottis-toole/stefanie-hammond 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Toole 

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://listverse.com/2020/02/07/10-sinister-facts-about-killers-henry-lee-lucas-and-ottis-toole/ 

https://theconfessionkiller.weebly.com/childhood.html 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://allthingshorror.tripod.com/lucas.html 

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-henry-lee-lucas-facts/harrison-tenpas

This is part one of a case about a man who becomes known as the Confession Killer. Before we get into his murder spree and his many many confessions we will discuss his childhood abuse he endures at the hands of his mother and her pimp. We will talk about the struggles of this boy through his teen years and the loss of his father. After murdering his manipulative, violent mother he travels around the USA until he finds himself in a Florida soup kitchen line where he meets a man who eventually becomes his partner in crime. We will briefly discuss this second man's turbulent childhood, which is quite similar to the other man's childhood. They both suffered sexual abuse and physical violence at the hands of the people who should have protected them. The men we will be discussing today are Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.  Next week, we will discuss the violence that ensued once these two men pair up.  Give this episode a listen, see if you think these two men were born monsters or nurtured into monsters... 

Part 2 will air on New Year's Day!

Sources; 

https://www.ranker.com/list/henry-lee-lucas-ottis-toole/stefanie-hammond 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Toole 

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://listverse.com/2020/02/07/10-sinister-facts-about-killers-henry-lee-lucas-and-ottis-toole/ 

https://theconfessionkiller.weebly.com/childhood.html 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://allthingshorror.tripod.com/lucas.html 

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas 

https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-henry-lee-lucas-facts/harrison-tenpas

Today, Andi brings us a case about the cycle of domestic and substance abuse. In today's episode we will discuss the making of a murderer. In cases such as this one, we try to wrap our minds around the insane thought process of the murderer. We will discuss a very unstable upbringing through multiple generations, which eventually leads to an abusive father and husband. This man's neglect and abuse of his 5 young children he clams is part of his religious beliefs. We will get into the unfortunate details of how he had a short fuse which lead to the murdering and dismembering all five of the kids. The Jones children's ages at the time of being murdered by their father - Mera, 8, Elias, 7, Nahtahn, 6, Gabriel, 2, and Abigail, 1. This case is heart breaking.

The murderer we will be discussing is Timothy Jones Jr.

Sources;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Jones_Jr.#:~:text=(born%20December%2028%2C%201981),four%20children%20in%20a%20panic.

https://amp.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article255598316.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10186749/amp/South-Carolina-dad-murdered-FIVE-young-kids-seeking-challenge-death-sentence.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48625989.amp

This is a story about a woman who became addicted to prescription pills after being struck by a car as a pedestrian. She begins stealing, by forging checks, to pay for her habit. Aside from her addiction and thievery issues, she also seems to be surrounded by death. Everyone she steals from, mysteriously dies of a stomach bug. Listen in to today's episode as Claire tells us the life story of Velma Barfield. 

Sources: 

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/velma-barfield/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/velma-barfield 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/10/21/tears-might-have-eased-penalty/2dfae8cb-b1d1-477a-afba-c7d4ca62921b/ 

https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/capital-punishment/biographies/barfield https://allthatsinteresting.com/velma-barfield 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield?fbclid=IwAR0qFFJMDU75jM3d1MiTN3FkUgtdGtTx86vP0OPnCCZ9TGgQRpFeM3sCIIU 

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Barfield,%20Velma%20-%202005,%20Fall.pdf 

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/barfield029.htm https://medium.com/murder-mystery-and-mayhem-in-the-old-north-state/velma-barfield-the-death-row-granny-fe8a913d9437

Today, we bring you a case to welcome all the up and coming Winter Holidays! This case is about an 18-year old who becomes a serial killer. He murdered a kind off-duty police officer in 1978 and utilized homophobic lies about the officer in court. He was shockingly acquitted on the murder charges and set free upon the population. He goes on to murder his wife's adult nephew in 2007. He is eventually captured after he murders a man who was an entrepreneur. He also kills one of the man's adult sons, and an employee of the family owned Christmas Tree Farm in 2008. Our murderer of the week is Frederick "Freddie" Phillip Hammer.  

Sources;

https://thecinemaholic.com/ronald-and-frederick-hudler-murders-where-is-frederick-phillip-hammer-now/

https://skdb.fandom.com/wiki/HAMMER_Frederick_Philip

https://www.thetomahawk.com/news/local/missing-local-woman-could-be-linked-to-possible-serial-killer/article_f9cf7d3b-a46f-5355-a993-dc001a89fde9.html

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20090809_He_got_away_with_murder__then_kept_killing.html?outputType=amp

https://journalnow.com/man-held-in-triple-killing-is-arraigned-we-were-wrong/article_0717b115-ccde-5153-b102-76b887dd2818.html

Today, Claire has decided to bring us a case about an overweight, evil woman from Georgia. She marries a total of four times. She has four children with three different husbands. While married to husband number three she gives birth to her youngest two children. This crack-a-doodle woman and her husband would fight quite regularly. He would leave until cooler heads prevailed.  This unhinged woman, would take this time not to cool down, but to kill one of her children. The manner in which she murdered each of her babies is quite shocking. Her children each died over the course of several years. The children's ages were 3 months to 11 years old at the time of each of their deaths. Even more shocking was the lack of effort to determine a cause of death for each child by multiple coroners. The lack of effort almost let this plump woman waddle her way to freedom. However, thanks to an investigative reporter shedding light on the mysterious deaths of the four children, it lead the coroner to retract his previous cause of death and he said would now bet on a homicide after reading the reporter's article. Mind you this revelation comes years later and after the deaths of three more children. The murderous, monster of a mother we will be discussing is Martha Ann Johnson.

Give this episode a listen and let us know, do you think her punishment fit her crimes?

Sources:

https://papapps.pap.state.ga.us/paroleesearch/search/searchPage

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

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sudden-infant-death-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20352800

https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/johnson-martha-ann.htm

https://people.com/crime/ga-mom-in-prison-for-killing-daughter-11-and-suspected-in-deaths-of-3-more-kids-could-go-free/

https://www.fairview.org/Patient-Education/Articles/English/r/i/b/_/b/Rib_Belt_116479en

https://serialdispatches.com/alphabetical-list-of-serial-killers/list-of-serial-killers-j/johnson-martha-ann/ (PICTURES)