Killer Babes

Known as the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost on Camera, Mr. Mumler went down in history when he met James Wallace Black, America’s first aerial cameraman. His ghostly photographs were marked in photography’s history. Were they real or were they fake?

What happened to Joan Risch? Her four year old daughter, Lillian told the neighbor, “Mommy is gone and the kitchen is covered with red paint.” On October 24, 1961, 30-year-old housewife and mother of two children disappeared from Lincoln, MA. To this day, there are no motives and no leads. Joan Risch is missing without a trace.

Charles Stuart and his pregnant wife Carol DiMaiti were shot on October 23rd, 1989, and Stuart pointed his finger at a black American causing national outrage and racial tension. The story was portrayed as an example of crime running rampant in the city and what could happen to the white, affluent people traveling through "bad neighborhoods,” but the real story was much more sinister.

This week we’re bringing you a story that has one foot in the true crime realm and one foot in the paranormal realm. We’re talking about the first documented murder in the history of Brookfield, CT. The death of Alan Bono was the first murder ever recorded in the town, and Arne Johnson was put on trial for first-degree manslaughter. This would also be the first time a possession defense was used in an American courtroom. The day this podcast airs marks the 40th anniversary of Alan Bono’s death.

Ep51 Part 2: This week we bring you the second half of the story of New England conman: Clark Rockefeller. This man was listed as one of 6 infamous imposters from History.com. Little did anyone know, Clark Rockefeller was masquerading across the US as heir to the Rockefeller fortune, a movie producer and a self proclaimed Wolf of Wall Street. This story we bring you is full of mystery, murder, an abduction and a missing persons case that is still active to this day.

Ep51 Part I: This week we bring you the New England conman: Clark Rockefeller. This man was listed as one of 6 infamous imposters from History.com. Little did anyone know, Clark Rockefeller was masquerading across the US as heir to the Rockefeller fortune, a movie producer and a self proclaimed Wolf of Wall Street. This story we bring you is full of mystery, murder, an abduction and a missing persons case that is still active to this day. It’s going to be a two part series because it’s so in depth so buckle in for Episode 51 and 52.

For our 50th episode we’re taking it back to the 1950’s. It was New Years Eve day of 1957, when Orville Gibson, a dairy farmer in the small town of Newbury, Vermont went out to milk his cows. He was never seen alive again. In what was known as "The Spilled Milk Murder," by the press of the late 1950's, Orville Gibson’s disappearance remains a mystery to this day that made global headlines. Now, more than over half a century later, there are still questions about that day. This story was magnified when LIFE Magazine covered the case twice, Southern writers called the case "A Northern Lynching", several writers used the details of this case as a their setting, and a song even came about from it!

This week we’re talking about the murder of 43 year old Angel aka “Tun Tun” Gonzalez in Bridgeport, CT. Gonzalez was murdered on December 15, 2011, by Tyree Lincoln Smith. Smith bludgeoned Gonzalez to death with an ax and later consumed several parts of the victim’s body parts. Because of this, Smith is often referred to as ‘The Connecticut Cannibal’.