Kocktails & Killers

On April 6, 1997, the Lillelid family was shot and killed by six young people. A chance meeting with six young people from Kentucky, ranging in age from 14 to 20, proved deadly in Greene County when they kidnapped the family, forced them to drive their van to a remote gravel road to steal, and lined them up along a ditch before gunning them down.

Juana Barraza is a Mexican serial killer and former professional wrestler dubbed La Mataviejitas "Little Old Lady Killer". She was sentenced to 759 years in prison for the killing of 16 elderly women, however, she is suspected of killing over 40. Join us as we talk about this hot mess of a story!

We're back!!! Come listen to the first episode of season 2 as we talk about Robert William "Willy" Pickton, a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer. He is suspected to be one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history, supposedly having killed 49 women.

April Millsap was a 14 year old girl from Armada, Michigan. On July 24, 2014, April went out to walk her dog Penny on a bike trail near her home. A husband and wife walking on the trail found Penny walking around by herself. Penny led the couple to a ravine, where April was found dead. Come listen in as we discuss this horrible crime and how it was solved!

In 2007, retirees James and Vivian Gray are found murdered in their Kentucky home. The police suspect their only son Anthony, and he eventually confesses to the murders. But the Grays are not who they seem, and neither is the investigation or Anthony's confession....grab a drink and sit with us for awhile as we discuss this murder investigation gone wrong.

Pee Wee Gaskins was a serial killer and convicted rapist from South Carolina. He was known to have stabbed, shot, drowned and poisoned more than a dozen people. Before he was convicted for murder, Pee Wee had a long history of criminal activities resulting in prison sentences for things such as assault, burglary, and statutory rape. Grab your drink and give this one a listen!

In June 1970, Nancy Dean Morgan, a 24-year-old federal VISTA volunteer working in the Shelton Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, was found dead – nude, hogtied and strangled in the back seat of her government car at the end of an old logging road in the Pisgah National Forest. Her murder was never solved. Grab a drink and have a listen as we discuss all the corruption that took place in this case and why it will likely never be solved.

This week we are talking about David Parker Ray, a sick and twisted kidnapper, torturer, rapist and suspected serial killer. He was accused by his accomplices of killing several women and suspected by the police to have murdered as many as 60 women from Arizona and New Mexico. Come listen in as we have some margaritas and talk about this abhorrent man and his horrible crimes.

This week we are talking about Lexington, Kentucky's oldest cold case: the murder of 19-year-old Betty Gail Brown. A sophomore at Transylvania University, she was found October 27th, 1961 strangled to death in her car on campus. Grab a drink and listen along as we discuss all the twists and turns this case takes.