Melanin Mayhem Podcast

Listen, fam — you can only push somebody so far before they show you better than they can tell you. Emanuel Burl Patterson wasn’t a career criminal, wasn’t out here terrorizing folks… until one morning in Huntsville when an argument over a CD player turned into a mass shooting. This ain’t your typical “snapped” story — this is a cautionary tale about what can happen when you clown the wrong one. Noir Nation, buckle up. FAFO is in full effect.Tickets for the live BTCC show:⁠⁠⁠https://btcc-presents-crime-cocktails-canvases.cheddarup.com⁠

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This week we are headed to Dayton to tell the story of a man with a rap sheet a mile long who received a second chance to do the right thing but instead he walks right back into the same story he already wrote in blood. This episode tracks Nicole “Nico” Cunigan. We unpack the red flags, the parole piece, and how the system looked away while a mother, her unborn child, and a teenager paid the ultimate price because of his shenanigans.

Come for the receipts, stay for the conversation: how do we keep “love” from turning lethal—and what accountability actually looks like when warnings were loud the first time.

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Picture it, Memphis, September 2022. A teen with a long paper trail of criminality since he was knee high to a butterfly hits “go live” and turns a regular Wednesday into a citywide nightmare—random shootings, carjackings, and panic streaming in real time. In this episode, we trace Ezekiel Kelly’s path from early charges and second chances to the hours-long rampage that shut the city down and left families forever changed. This YN was a domestic terrorist and I'm spilling all the tea on how it all went down.

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Kimberly McCarthy had the kind of smile that could disarm you — and a hustle that could leave you dead. Once an occupational therapist, she fell deep into the streets, trading scrubs for a crack pipe and a dangerous game of survival. But when a sweet-talking “visit” to her elderbun neighbors house turned into a savage murder, Texas was ready to make an example out of her. Then all hell broke loose during sentencing and put Kim on a whole 'nother level of mayhem, Kimberly wasn’t just in the headlines — she was making death row history.

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When love walks into a prison and never walks back out…
Two women. Two “family visits.” Same California prison. Same deadly ending. In less than five months, 47-year-old Tania Thomas and 62-year-old Stephanie Brinson each stepped into Mule Creek State Prison to spend private time with their husbands — one serving life for attempted murder, the other serving four life terms for a quadruple homicide. Neither woman made it out alive. In this episode, your favorite country girl pulls back the sheets on the twisted mix of loyalty, danger, and state-sanctioned fuckery that let two convicted killers strike again… with the Department of Corrections holding the door wide open.

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When a charming smile hides a bloodstained truth, how many warnings get ignored before the mayhem boils over? This week on Melanin Mayhem, we head to New York to dissect the chilling case of Nathaniel White—a convicted killer who stalked the Hudson Valley in the early '90s, leaving behind a trail of brutalized Black women. Despite a prior conviction and multiple red flags, White managed to stay under the radar long enough to earn the title of one of New York’s most prolific serial killers. How did he slip through the cracks? And what does his story say about whose lives are prioritized in the pursuit of justice?

Tap in as we unravel a case filled with missed chances, overlooked victims, and cold-blooded murder.

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Today we are taking the way back machine to 1902 to learn about the story of how one black man with one rifle held off a mob that was determined to get to him by any means necessary. This week we’re digging into the story of a man whose trigger finger made history, even if most folks have never heard his name. Lock in as we unravel the chaos, the carnage, and the calculated aim of one of the South’s deadliest forgotten shooters- William Reynolds.

Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem brings you the firey tale of a neighborhood vigilante whose warped sense of righteousness led to the death of nine innocent people in Akron, Ohio. In this scorcher of an episode, we’re striking the match on Stanley Ford — the Akron man who turned petty neighbor beef into a deadly firestorm. Stanley appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, anyone he thought wasn't living by the good book, was dealt with, permanently.

She played in everybody's face as the grieving widow when all the while she was playing them like poker chips. This week, we dive into the twisted tale of Josephine Gray — a woman whose lovers had a nasty habit of ending up communing with the Lord. But while the bodies dropped, her bank account grew, getting fat off life insurance payouts. With voodoo, manipulation, and a cold heart, Josephine managed to stay steps ahead of the law — that is until the law figured out how to out slick a slickster. Tap in as we unravel the deadly game of one of Maryland’s most chilling femmes fatales.

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This week on Melanin Mayhem, we’re shining a spotlight on William Jennings Choyce — a wolf in sheep's clothing. He wasn’t just living a double life; he was living a deadly one. William Choyce terrorized California’s streets for years, slipping through the cracks and leaving bodies in his wake. How did he keep up the double life for so long? And what finally brought him to justice? Tap in as we dive into one of the most sinister predators you’ve probably never heard of.