Murd Up Podcast

Wayne Nance was always a weird kid who only exhibited odd behaviors. By the time he was 17, most were on speaking terms with him but not actually friendly and the same year, 1974, the town of Missoula, Montana started to experience a small terror in the community, as several unsolved murders occur.

Eventually signs point to Wayne but there is never anything solid to tie him to the crimes.

Years later, after more and more bodies turn up, the authorities still believe it’s Wayne doing it, but are unable to hold him on anything.

It seems Wayne could do no wrong until one night when he entered the Wells house and came across more than he bargained for.

We are trying to keep busy during the COVID-19 situation, so we put out a Q&A. It’s a two-parter because we both like to talk. Thanks for the super fun questions and we appreciate every single person who has listened and supported the show!

We are trying to keep busy during the COVID-19 situation, so we put out a Q&A. It’s a two-parter because we both like to talk. Thanks for the super fun questions and we appreciate every single person who has listened and supported the show!

On the same day as Martin Luther King Jr’s infamous “I Have a Dream”, in Manhattan, NYC, three girls in their twenties stayed home instead of joining the rest of the city in DC for the speech live, so that they could work, while one moved out of the apartment they all shared. The 3rd floor apartment was located in a 9 story building on East 88th Street and had been a temporary home for Emily Hoffert, before she moved on to Long Island to began her teaching career.

Her roommates, Patricia Tolles worked at Time-Life and Janice Wylie worked at Newsweek, both working girls trying to be independent from their parents, though Janice’s lived around the block.

That morning was beautiful and Patricia left the house after securing the service door in the kitchen and saying goodbye to Emily & Janice. Around 1PM, Patricia received a troubling phone call from Janice’s father: no one had heard from her and she hadn’t reported to work. Further bad news came when Patricia spoke to a mutual friend who was to have lunch with Emily, who never showed.

Finally returning home, Patricia found that the service door in the kitchen was ajar and the house had looked like it had been ransacked. Max, Janice’s father showed up and found something worse: two bodies in one of the bedrooms.

Suddenly, all working women in America and their parents were worried, and Manhattan felt under attack as the murders went unsolved…for a time. Until out of nowhere, a confession is given and an arrest is made.

Dennis Rader lived in Kansas and had zero sense of humor growing up (or ever), didn’t have a great relationship with his parents, and he had a really weird thing for helpless & defenseless women. He spent his days in class daydreaming about binding and torturing females, eventually adding in killing them to the mix.

Those daydreams turned to reality one day is 1975 and from that point forward Dennis secretly terrorized a community for over 20 years, before disappearing. Only to resurface in 2005, though this time he wasn’t as successful as he had been in the past.

Dennis Rader lived in Kansas and had zero sense of humor growing up (or ever), didn’t have a great relationship with his parents, and he had a really weird thing for helpless & defenseless women. He spent his days in class daydreaming about binding and torturing females, eventually adding in killing them to the mix.

Those daydreams turned to reality one day is 1975 and from that point forward Dennis secretly terrorized a community for over 20 years, before disappearing. Only to resurface in 2005, though this time he wasn’t as successful as he had been in the past.

On December 23, 1927, four men set out to rob the First National Bank in Cisco, Texas. Three were unmasked, but the fourth was wearing a Santa Claus suit.

Since banks were robbed several times a day in Texas at that time, a large reward was issued for anyone who shot a bank robber during the act of a crime.

So when the four men entered the First National Bank that day, they knew they’d get out with a large sum of cash, but they were unaware just how many people they’d have to deal with to get away with the crime.

Soon, the four found out that the cops were the last of their worries.

Shelia and Jeremy Bamber were adopted by June and Nevill within the first six months of birth. June had always wanted to be a mother and the couple was well off and provided a loving and supporting home, despite the fact that both children said that they felt unattached and unconnected to the family after many years away at school.

As adults, both Jeremy and Shelia lived off of their parents good fortune, though Shelia was married for a short amount of time, though things ended after several miscarriages and one successful birth. Now the mother of two beautiful baby boys, Shelia was living in a flat owned by her parents, and worked mediocre jobs.

Jeremy did the same, though he lived in a cottage on his parents property, drove a car that they bought him and owned a small stake in the family's caravan site.

By 1985, it seemed that both Jeremy and Shelia would be assisted by their parents for the rest of theirs lives and Shelia had been through a couple of stints in a psychiatrist hospital, after experiencing fits and visions.

But that all changed on August 6, 1985 when the White House Farm was attacked.

Albert Abraham Davidoff, who would later be known as “Bummy Davis”, was an up-and-coming boxer in Brownsville, Brooklyn in the mid-1930s and he would eventually go on to be known for having one of the meanest left hooks in the business.

But Bummy never fully met his potential in fighting and by 1945, he was over it and ready to move on with life. At the age of 25, he retired from fighting and was ready to sell his bar and move the family to Florida, when four men entered his bar and attempted to rob Bummy.

Donald Neilson was a serviceman in the British Army when his wife got pregnant in 1960, so he quit the service and attempted to find work elsewhere. But quickly Donald found that no other job satisfied his physical and mental needs, so he started robbing businesses and homes in order to support his family. By 1972, Donald had escalated to robbing post offices, and within the next three years he started using weapons to get away with his crimes, killing three men in the process and beating a woman to near death.

But in 1972, Donald came across an article that detailed a widow’s lawsuit to get money from her husband’s estate, and came up with the greatest plan to date, in order to get the large payout he believed the widow was worth.

However, Donald may have thought things though too thoroughly, because a series of blunders and bad directions lead to a series of unfortunate events, which ended in the death of a young woman.