Murd Up Podcast

Brian Nichols was in Court for the rape of his ex-girlfriend in 2005, when the first trial ended in a hung jury. While awaiting his second trial to start, Brian decided that he had a better plan: escape.

David “String Bean” Akeman was a banjo player from Kentucky that made it big on the Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw, both American TV shows that featured “old-time” music. String Bean was a modest man, who had few indulgences and was known to keep his money hidden at his house, due to a distrust in banks due to the Great Depression. Once this became common knowledge around Nashville, Tennessee, String Bean and his wife became a target of robbery...which had a deadly ending.

We celebrated hitting our 100th episode and Daniel made a music mix to go along. Thank you to everyone who has supported the show!

We celebrated hitting our 100th episode and Daniel made a music mix to go along. Thank you to everyone who has supported the show!

Robert Greenlease was a successful Cadillac dealer, who was finally able to have his first biological son at the age of 65. Young Bobby was dotted on and given everything.

Until 1953 when a woman walked into Bobby’s school one day, claiming to be his aunt and quickly the kidnapping is discovered and a ransom of $600,000 was demanded for his safe return.

Reggie & Ronnie Kray were born and raised in London, twin sons of Charles & Violet. As they grew up, the boys were rough and violent with each other and eventually were drawn to boxing, with Ronnie having multiple head injuries leading to him declining mentally in comparison to his brother.

By the 1960s the brothers had a lucrative “protection” business and were well known to most people in the area, with many celebrities friends.

Eventually it got to the point where the brothers were running London... and though the authorities knew they were committing crimes, they couldn’t arrest them.

Until both brothers committed two very public murders.

Susan Daniels knew one way of life in Freeborn, Kentucky after being the daughter of an out-of-work coal miner: welfare and government support. So when she met Kenneth Smith, who’s drug-dealing live was very tempting, she ran with it.

Years later, she was right back where she started, except this time she had two children and was in an weird relationship with Kenneth who she wasn’t in a relationship with, but still lived together for the children.

That’s when she began informing to the FBI on the activities and plans of one of Kenneth’s friends, Cat Eyes, in exchange for money.

But then things went to the next level when Susan enters into a sexual relationship with the married FBI Agent she’s working with.

Francis Crowley was adopted at birth and ended up a temperamental child with small man syndrome. As a teenager he only got worse and started committing petty thefts and crimes around NYC with a man twice his age named Fats.

Then in 1931, Francis and Fats upped their game to include murder, leading to an all out war with the NYPD.

James Huberty was a sullen and crappy person who loved guns and hated people. After many different jobs, he finally moved his family to Mexico in 1984, but that didn’t go well with the family moving three months later to San Ysidro, California.

After losing yet another job in July of that year, James took his family to the San Diego Zoo and to McDonald’s for lunch. That evening he visited another McDonald’s but for a completely different purpose.

James Huberty was a sullen and crappy person who loved guns and hated people. After many different jobs, he finally moved his family to Mexico in 1984, but that didn’t go well with the family moving three months later to San Ysidro, California.

After losing yet another job in July of that year, James took his family to the San Diego Zoo and to McDonald’s for lunch. That evening he visited another McDonald’s but for a completely different purpose.