This week, Lauren and Amanda discuss the many lies and horrible crimes of Christian Michael Longo.

Sources:

• All That's Interesting: The Chilling Story of Christian Longo, The Man Who Killed His Family To Hide His Life of Lies by Jessica O'Connor
• KGW8: Victim's sister upset Oregon governor will commute death sentence of her family's killer: In 2003, a jury sentenced Christian Longo to death for killing his wife and their three children. Longo dumped their bodies off the Oregon coast and fled to Mexico. by Kyle Iboshi
• CBS News: 48 Hours: The Pretended: The case of Christian Longo Produced by Miguel Sancho, Gail Abbott Zimmerman, Chris Young Ritzen
• KVAL 13: Words of a Killer: Longo writes about family he killed by Anna Canzano 
• Crime Museum: Christian Longo
• The Crime Library: The Trials of Christian Longo by Elizabeth Engstrom
• Oregon Live: The Oregonian: Christian Longo, other killers now in general prison population as Oregon's death row clears out by Noelle Crombie
• Wikipedia

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This week, Lauren and Amanda discuss supposed "gentleman" bank robber, Leslie Ibsen Rogge. They also take some time at the beginning to recap their weekend at the True Crime and Paranormal Podcast Festival in Denver!

Sources:

• The Hustle: “The first fugitive caught by the internet” by Katherine Laidlaw
• CNN: “Internet helps FBI nab a ‘Most Wanted’ criminal” by CNN staff
• FBI: “430. Leslie Isben Rogge” (note the misspelling!)
• Publisher’s Weekly: “Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI’s Most Elusive Criminals review”
• America’s Most Wanted show: “Leslie Ibsen Rogge” (Leslie Ibsen Rogge on America's Most Wanted 1990)
• United States v. Rogge
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren discuss an American former professor at the University of Southern California, who in 2013, was arrested for a crime abroad. 

Sources:

• Los Angeles Times: "Ex-USC professor and FBI fugitive gets 5 years in prison for child sex" by Richard Winton and Kate Mather
• US Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs: "Former University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Engaging in Sexual Conduct with a Minor"
• Lambda Literary: "The Stranger Case of Walter Lee Williams: Renowned Gay Writer on FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Captured" by Victoria Brownworth
• Desert Sun: "Walter Lee Williams admits to federal sex offense" by Fred Shuster
• FBI 10 Most Wanted: "500. Walter Lee Williams"
• Wikipedia

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On this holiday week, Lauren and Amanda cover famed Hollywood director Roman Polanski, who has been a fugitive from American justice for almost 50 years.

Sources:

• The Los Angeles Times: “Roman Polanski and the woman he pleaded guilty to raping pose together 45 years later” by Nardine Saad
• AP News: “Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a minor” by Andrew Dalton
• AP News: “Timeline of Roman Polanski’s 45-year-old teen sex abuse case” by The Associated Press
• Variety: “Roman Polanski to Face LA Trial on Rape Lawsuit in 2025” by Gene Maddaus
• The New York Times: “Roman Polanski Did Not Defame British Actress, French Court Rules” by Aurelien Breeden
• Deadline: “Polanski’s Rape Victim Defends Director, Telling His Wife: ‘What Happened Was Never a Problem’” by Caroline Frost
• Deadline: “Roman Polanski Rape Trial Set for Next Year; Director Accused Again of Assaulting a Minor in 1970s, Oscar Winner Served at His Paris Home” by Dominic Patten
• Far Out: “The Dark Side of Hollywood: Tracing Roman Polanski’s abhorrent criminal acts” by Tom Leatham
• Who What Why: “If Roman Polanski’s Rape Victim Can Forgive Him, Why Can’t You” by JB Miller
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren cover the murder of Nicholas Markowitz at the hand of his half brother's ex-best friend, Jesse James Hollywood. 

Sources:

• All That’s Interesting: "The Disturbing Story Of Nicholas Markowitz, The Teenager Who Was Murdered Over His Brother’s Drug Debt" by Marco Margaritoff 
• Santa Barbara Independent: "Prosecutor Okayed for Jesse James Hollywood Trial" by Chris Meagher
• Santa Barbara Independent: "Hollywood Jury Deliberating" by Chris Meagher
• Santa Barbara Independent: "Verdict In: Hollywood Guilty of Murder and Kidnapping" by Chris Meagher
• Crime Library: "Jesse James Hollywood" by Julia Scheeres
• Los Angeles Times: "Jesse James Hollywood found guilty of murder" by Steve Chawkins
• Los Angeles Magazine: "The Last Ride of Jesse James Hollywood" by Jesse Katz
• Let’s Go To Court podcast: "Episode 53: Drug Dealer Jesse James Hollywood & Andrea Yates"
• Wikipedia

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Amanda and Lauren discuss updates in the Malka Leifer case, which was covered in Episode 30.

Sources:

• The Guardian: “Malka Leifer: former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal sentenced to 15 years for child sex abuse” by the Australian Associated Press
• The Conversation: “Dassi Erlich and her sisters were ‘easy pickings for predators.’ With their abuser Malka Leifer’s conviction - and a new book - they take control” by Joanna Mendelssohn
• ABC News (Australia): “Dassi Erlich on life since she and her sisters fought and won their case against abuser Malka Leifer” by Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Bec Zajac
• The Australian Women’s Weekly: “The real story behind the Malka Leifer case” by the Australian Women’s Weekly
• The BBC: “Malka Leifer: Israeli ex-principal jailed for sexually abusing Australian students” by Tiffanie Turnbull

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This week, Lauren and Amanda discuss Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, former counterculture leftist and current Midwest housewife.

Sources:

• The Washington Examiner: “The Terrorist Next Door” by Elliot Rothenberg
• History.com: “This Day in History: June 16, 1999 - SLA member captured after more than 20 years” by History.com Editors
• The Star Tribune (Minneapolis): “Convicted 1970s leftist militant Sara Jane Olson loses appeal for blocking I-94 in 2020 protest” by Kim Hyatt
• Bring Me the News: “What ever happened to Sara Jane? Post-prison, Olson finds a cause in cocaine laws” by BMTN Staff
• CNN: “‘70s radical Sara Jane Olson released from prison” by Eliott C. McLaughlin
• ACLU: “ACLU Condemns Judge’s Gag Order on Televising Trial of Sara Jane Olson” by ACLU of Southern California
• The Minnesota Daily: “Sara Jane Olson spends 1st full day back in Minn.” by no byline
• Twin Cities Pioneer Press: “After 7 years in California prison, Sara Jane Olson comes home to St. Paul” by Pioneer Press
• MPR News: “Sara Jane Olson back in custody; officials blame math error” by no byline
• State of Minnesota vs. Sara Jane Olson
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren cover a guy who was featured on both “The Hunt with John Walsh” and on the US Marshal’s 15 Most Wanted. Fun (?) Fact: He was identified by a missing toe!

Sources:

• CNN: "Texas murder suspect featured on ‘The Hunt’ caught in Mexico" by Nicole Chavez
• CNN: "The Hunt with John Walsh: Alleged killer on the run after half-naked, drunken rant" by Thom Patterson
• CBS News: "Missing toe helps ID fugitive homicide suspect on the run for 11 years" by Crimesider Staff
• The Charley Project: "Tammy Marie Esquivel"
• Beaumont Enterprise: "Fugitive known for naked arrest in South East Texas ID'd by missing toe"
• Chron: A Houston Texas news outlet: "Harris County murder suspect captured after decade-long manhunt" by Marialuisa Rincon
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Murder suspect featured on ‘The Hunt’ caught in Mexico" by Bob D’Angelo
• Click2Houston: "Tracking down suspects wanted for murder in Harris County" by Robert Arnold
• 48 Hours: "Texas mom's killer is captured after years on the run. Where did he bury her body?" by Peter Van Sant

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This week, Amanda, Lauren, and their special guest (their mom!) discuss Sarah Panitzke, fraudster and one-time most wanted woman in the United Kingdom.

Sources:

• The Independent: “One of UK’s most wanted tax fugitives has sentence doubled after failing to pay back stolen millions” by Jonathan Kanengoni
• BBC: “Sarah Panitzke: UK’s most wanted woman jailed over fraud” by BBC Staff
• BBC: “UK’s most wanted woman Sarah Panitzke arrested in Spain” by BBC Staff
• Aol: “UK’s ‘most wanted woman’ arrested in Spain after 9 years on the lam” by Joseph Wilkinson
• The Guardian: “Sarah Panitzke: UK’s ‘most wanted woman’ jailed over VAT fraud” by Harry Taylor
• York Press: “Most wanted tax fugitive Sarah Panitzke jailed for 17 years” by Megi Rychlikova
• Vice: “Britain’s Most Wanted Woman Laundered £1 Billion and Disappeared into Thin Air” by Lydia Spencer-Elliott
• Vice: “Britain’s Most Wanted Woman Caught After 9 Years on the Run” by Graham Keeley
• ITV: “Britain’s ‘most wanted woman’ Sarah Panitzke loses bid to stay in Spain” by Staff
• Cosmopolitan: “The UK’s ‘most wanted’ female scammer has been caught after nearly a decade on the run” by Jennifer Savin
• Gov.uk website: “How VAT works”
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren head back to the Most Notorious list, this time to talk about Delaware's only serial killer, Steven Brian Pennell.

Sources:

• All That’s Interesting: "The Disturbing Crimes Of Steven Brian Pennell, The Only Serial Killer In Delaware History" by Neil Patmore
• Delaware Today: "Route 40 Serial Killer Remains an Enigma After Convicted 30 Years Ago" by Delaware Today Editors
• WHYY NPR: "Steven Pennell: A mystery man 25 years later" by Nichelle Polston
• The True Crime Database: "#0092 Route 40 Killer: The Delaware Serial Murders" by Nucleus
• Murderpedia: "Steven Brian Pennell"
• Wikipedia

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