Invisible Choir

46-year-old Houston native George Floyd’s tragic death at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers galvanized a worldwide movement to end police brutality against Black men and communities of color. His frantic last moments were captured by a passing 17-year-old high school student, and were subsequently broadcast around the entire world. Former MPD Officer Derek Chauvin delicately balanced his knee upon George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 horrifying seconds, until his heart stopped beating. Floyd’s murder has confronted every American with a vitally important and timely question: Do Black lives really matter?    

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• A timeline of events leading to George Floyd's death as outlined in charging documents
• George Floyd Protests: A Timeline
• How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody | Visual Investigations
• Watch in full: George Floyd memorial held in Minneapolis for family and friends
• Mpls. Mayor Jacob Frey Defends Decision To Abandon MPD 3rd Precinct
• Protesters Breach Minneapolis Police's 3rd Precinct, Set Fires Inside
• Owner Of Store Where Police First Made Contact With George Floyd Is Speaking Out
• RAW VIDEO: Police Fire Flash Grenades At George Floyd Protesters
• Darnella Frazier Facebook (Full Witness Video) 
• George Floyd was killed on May 25th
• George Floyd shares an inspirational message #GeorgeFLoyd
• MN Trial Court Public Access (MPA) - Criminal/Traffic/Petty
• Witness who was in George Floyd's car says his friend did not resist arrest
• Inside the Store That Called Police on George Floyd
• Cup Foods co-owner explains why police were called on George Floyd.
• Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After ‘Tragic’ Death of George Floyd: Police Chief
• Minneapolis Banned Warrior-Style Police Training. Its Police Union Kept Offering It Anyway.
• Minneapolis police rendered 44 people unconscious with neck restraints in five years
• Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Talks Early Days
• 18 complaints in 19 years, and a murder charge: What we know about ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
• State of MN vs Tou Thao
• Who is Tou Thao, the Hmong American charged in George Floyd’s death?
• 2 of the police officers charged over George Floyd's deadly arrest had been less than 4 days into the job, their lawyers say
• 'Make it stop': George Floyd's brother calls on Congress to act over police violence
• Medical Examiner's Autopsy Reveals George Floyd Had Positive Test For Coronavirus

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Solitary Summer” by Dylann Sitts
• Closing Track: “Let Us Overcome” by Tayler Watts

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29-year-old Kelsey Berreth fell in love with a Colorado Rancher through an online Christian dating site. After giving up on her dreams in Washington and moving to rural Teller County, CO to be nearer Patrick Frazee, the two quickly became parents after an unplanned pregnancy. But no matter how much Kelsey longed for love and a future with Patrick - he had other women and refused to commit. On Thanksgiving Day of 2018, Kelsey mysteriously vanished after a trip to a local grocery store… but the story was infinitely more complex than police were prepared for, until the Teller County District Attorney made a proverbial deal with the devil that blew the case wide open.  

Written by:  Stephanie Moore (Executive Producer:  Michael Ojibway)

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• Raw: Witness Krystal Lee Kenny explains clean up after Kelsey Berreth’s Murder
• RAW: Krystal Lee shows investigators where she said Frazee burned Berreth’s body
• El Paso/Teller County DA Speaks following guilty verdict in Patrick Frazee Murder trial
• Extended Interview: The investigators who helped crack the Kelsey Berreth Murder case
• DA Discusses Patrick Frazee Preliminary Hearing
• Kelsey Berreth murder case: Updates from Patrick Frazee’s trial in Colorado
• Timeline for the disappearance of Kelsey Berreth
• Fiancé accused of killing Kelsey Berreth finally gets to see his arrest warrant affidavit
• Kelsey Berreth murder case: Patrick Frazee guilty of murder in Colorado
• Kelsey Berreth Murder Case: Application and Affidavit for Arrest Warrant
• Application and Affidavit for Arrest Warrant
• Application and Affidavit for Arrest Warrant 2
• Search Warrant
• Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Complaint
• New court documents released in Patrick Frazee case
• PATRICK FRAZEE FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING MISSING FIANCEE KELSEY BERRETH
• 19-01 Search Warrant
• Kelsey Berreth murder case: Patrick Frazee’s mistress sentenced to 3 years in prison in connection to killing
• Placement Consideration of Krystal Kenney for Community Corrections
• Krystal Lee recounts Kelsey Berreth's alleged last words and her complicated relationship with the murder suspect

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “One Night (Good Life) (Instrumental Version)” by BLAEKER  
• Closing Track: “Ride With Me” by Chaxti

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

67-year old retired Santa Fe Librarian Elvira Segura’s car is found abandoned in a pecan orchard 300 miles South of her home in Las Cruces, NM. After a police welfare check turns up her badly decomposed body, the hunt is on for her now missing live-in handyman, Robert Mondrian-Powell. In what initially seemed an open and shut case, complications quickly arose in one of New Mexico’s most bizarre and controversial murder cases. 

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• New Mexico State Police Public Data Request
• Lawyers didn’t know accused killer died while case on appeal
• Judge upholds dismissal in Mondrian-Powell case, details prosecution missteps
• Judge drops murder case, citing speedy trial violation
• One More Try - Prosecutor asks judge to rethink murder-case dismissal
• State wants second chance in Nambé murder case judge tossed
• Video: Robert Mondrian-Powell’s full confession in a 2016 Nambe murder
• Confession of a dead man
• Criminal Complaint
• Turnover not an excuse in murder case
• Judge upholds dismissal of murder charge in librarian’s death
• Man accused in Nambe woman’s murder asks for preliminary hearing
• Key witness in 2016 murder case may not testify

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Cataclysm” by Dream Cave
• Closing Track: “South is That Way” by Lofive

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wayne Williams was convicted of the murders of two young adults in 1982, supposedly bringing an end to the reign of terror of the “Atlanta Monster.” But the cases of at least 27 other missing or murdered African American children were abruptly closed in the aftermath of his conviction, leaving the surviving families with little peace, and no semblance of closure. We spoke with three of the Directors of HBO’s new series, “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children” - about their experience creating the new groundbreaking series, and what new light they hope to shed on the now 40-year-old cases. Their investigation uncovered shocking details of evidence tampering, perjury, and widespread cover-up at the highest levels of government and law enforcement. 

Special thanks to award-winning Directors Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, and Joshua Bennett for participating in this episode. 

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• Wayne Williams 1980s Footage
• Did Wayne Williams kill anyone?
• Fiber evidence leads to arrest
• Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered Children
• HBO - Timeline of Events
• Convicted killer Wayne Williams discusses the Atlanta children murders
• Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children Press Conference
• A powerful explosion blew out part of a daycare...
• Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “No Sleep for Old Bones” by These Old Bones
• Closing Track: “The Vanished” by John Barzetti

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

48-year old Dana Wilkes mysteriously vanished from Chattanooga, Tennessee the evening of Friday, November 9th - 2012.  A concerned family friend who was the last person to see her alive, turned out to have a dark past, and was hiding an even darker secret. A secret that police wouldn’t piece together until Dana’s badly mutilated body turned up two weeks later, in a spot eerily reminiscent of an unsolved 2002 homicide. 

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• Autopsy Shows Dana Wilkes' Head Still Missing
• Tony Bigoms re trial Witness saw Bigoms meet up with Dana Wilkes before murder
• Bigoms Sentenced for Abuse of a Corpse
• Gruesome Testimony in Bigoms Murder Trial
• Prosecutors lay out timeline in Day 2 of Tony Bigoms' retrial
• UPDATE: Tony Bigoms found guilty of murder in retrial sentenced to life in prison
• STATE v. BIGOMS
• Jailhouse Interview, Man Mourns His Wife
• Body ID
• Missing woman's husband believes she's dead
• Police, Family Mum About Body Found Off Youngstown Road
• Tony Bigoms trial
• Family of missing woman: "She can't go this long without her insulin"
• Missing Chattanooga Woman
• Bigoms Found Guilty Found Guilty of Murder
• Tony Bigoms Retrial
• Convicted Chattanooga Murderer Back In Court
• Biggoms sentenced
• Autopsy today for partial human remains found near Youngstown Rd.
• Chattanooga: Family awaits identification on body found Sunday
• Partial remains of body found in Chattanooga awaits ID
• Husband of missing woman speaks out from a jail cell
• Man thinks missing wife is dead, friend may be responsible (with video)
• Bigoms Gets 8-Year Sentence In Attempted Rape
• Dana Wilkes expressed fear towards Bigoms days before murder
• Tony Bigoms guilty of first-degree murder, corpse abuse in 2012 killing of Dana Wilkes
• UPDATE: New trial date for Tony Bigoms
• STATE OF TENNESSEE V. TONY EDWARD BIGOMS

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Come Together” by Ooyy
• Closing Track: “7 Magnets” by Luwaks

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 1:  Felony Friday - Guilty Until Proven Innocent

A family grows concerned when an 18-year old man misses a family Christmas gathering near Desert Springs, Arizona in 2006. After an early morning police welfare check reveals a bloodied body in his apartment, he becomes the prime suspect in his girlfriend’s tragic murder. But as the investigation unfolds - we learn just how tragically an outcome is possible when police presume the prime suspect is guilty, until proven innocent

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• Ryan Waller Interrogation
• Murderer behind Heather’s Law found guilty
• Appeals court rules wife can be forced to testify against husband
• Ryan Waller Interrogated With Bullets In His Brain
• STATE v. CARVER
• Arizona Prison (DOC) Arrest Records for Inmate CARVER L RICHIE
• State v. Carver, 258 P.3d 256 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2011)
• Arizona Prison (DOC) Arrest Records for Inmate CARVER L LARRY
• Heather Marie Quan
• Ryan Thomas Waller

Ep 2:  Felony Friday - Unmotherly Love

A 6-year old boy is viciously attacked by his mother on a warm October afternoon in Henderson, NV. He phones 911, crying out, “help 911! My mother is trying to kill me!” Upon arriving, police are forced to intervene with lethal force - leaving a community stunned in the aftermath of a truly horrendous and unexplained crime.  

Written/Audio Sources: 

• HPD 10.21.19 4th OIS Body Worn Camera
• Disturbing body camera video released of officer-involved shooting in Henderson
• Chilling 911 Call Shows Nevada Boy Stabbed 25 Times Tearfully Pleaded With Mom: ‘Please Don’t Hurt Me’
• Henderson police video shows woman who stabbed son, was fatally shot
• Claudia Nadia Rodriguez, age 37
• Coroner ID's Henderson mom shot by police after she allegedly stabbed son
• Henderson Police Department identifies officers involved in fatal shooting
• UPDATE: Woman who stabbed her 7-year old son and was shot and killed by Henderson Police has been identified
• Henderson Police Shoot, Kill Mother Who Was Stabbing 7-Year-Old Boy
• Henderson mom shot dead by police had history of domestic violence
• The Equestrian on Eastern
• Henderson mother stabs her young son, dies after confrontation with officers

Music & Sound Effect Sources

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected] 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23-year old Kaylee Sawyer mysteriously disappeared late one Saturday evening in Bend, Oregon in 2016 after attending a bachelorette party with friends. The trail quickly goes cold, until a Central Oregon Community College Security Officer embarks on a 72 hour, two state crime spree. What he claimed was all a tragic accident - quickly proves one of Oregon’s most gruesome murders. One that would change the legislative landscape of the state... forever.  

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• Edwin Lara Interrogation
• Isabel Ponce-Lara turns her husband in for killing Kaylee Sawyer
• Edwin Lara confesses to the murder of Kaylee Sawyer
• Edwin Lara's Facebook live during crime spree
• 911 call made after Edwin Lara shot a man at a California motel
• Edwin Lara in court
• Edwin Lara admits killing Kaylee Sawyer
• Urge to Kill Episode 4: The Chase
• KAYLEE REMEMBER
• Teen returns home after kidnapping by Bend murder suspect
• Kaylee Sawyer's boyfriend calls 911 to report her missing
• Bend DA summarizes Kaylee Sawyer murder case
• Stepmother explains need for 'Kaylee's Law'
• HER MURDER LED TO A CHANGE IN STATE LAW. CAN A PODCAST HELP SPUR NATIONAL ACTION?
• Kaylee Sawyer's body found in canyon west of Redmond
• Urge To Kill Episode 6: 18700
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
• Federal judge issues 2nd life sentence for Edwin Lara, a campus security officer turned killer, armed kidnapper
• Timeline: Kaylee Sawyer’s death, suspect’s arrest
• Kaylee's Law Passes Unanimously 
• Hearings provide new details in killing of Oregon woman
• Forensic Expert Describes Bloody Crime Scene
• Edwin Lara gets life in prison for murder of Kaylee Sawyer
• Court docs: Suspect in Bend womans killing hit her with car, disposed of body
• Man facing murder charge in Oregon woman's death
• Edwin Lara sentenced to life without parole for 2016 murder of Bend woman
• Family: Salem woman was abducted by suspect in Bend murder
• Oregon governor signs Kaylee’s law, spurred by Bend murder by campus security officer

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Backweight” by Jay Varton
• Closing Track: “Humdrum Days” by Franz Gordon

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A suicide is frantically called into 911 from a rural trailer in Flintstone, Georgia in October of 2016. 27-year old Donald “DJ” Fickey, Jr. is dead, the result of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. But as DJ’s immediate family begins piecing together the last moments of his life - they quickly realize his death was no suicide. A Private Investigator soon joins their quest for justice, and his investigation quickly reveals a tangled web of systemic negligence, bias, and a coordinated cover up among the primary witnesses. The key to cracking the case wide open remains untested and locked away in a police evidence room to this day. 

A special thank you to DJ's older sister Amanda Shirley and Private Investigator Eric Echols (TFP Company, LLC) for their participation and contributions to this episode. 

Investigation Expense Fundraising Accounts

• (Paypal):  https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8g3BiJ9fcM 
• (GoFundMe):  https://www.gofundme.com/f/wwqw3-justice-for-dj  

Justice for DJ Links: 

• Change.Org Petition Demanding GBI Reopen DJ’s Death Investigation

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

• Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir 
• Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/ 
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/

Written/Audio Sources: 

• All sources were documents/media provided by Amanda Shirley and Private Investigator Eric Echols - obtained directly from Walker County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. All materials were used with express permission from DJ’s family. 

Music & Sound Effect Sources

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Invisible Choir Host Michael Ojibway shares a few important announcements and highlights big changes coming for the show in 2020. We also explore 2 cases from the Invisible Choir Premium library at patreon.com/invisiblechoir. 

Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

All Written, Audio, and Sound Effect sources are available at www.invisiblechoir.com.    ©2019 Reach Freaks, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Henderson phones 911 to request assistance in dealing with his wife Sarah’s increasingly bizarre behavior in rural Mabank, TX. Police arrive 15 minutes later only to find the couple calm - implying that everything is now fine.  They leave… until Jacob Henderson calls 911 again three hours later, this time - to report of one Eastern Texas’ most tragic family massacres.      

 Visit Invisible Choir on the web: 

 All Written, Audio, and Sound Effect sources are available at www.invisiblechoir.com.    ©2019 Reach Freaks, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices