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🎙 Episode 106: Erin Caffey — “The Door Was Unlocked”

This episode revisits a story that meant a great deal to someone who believed deeply in this show

March 1, 2008.
Emory, Texas.

Just after midnight, a fire erupts at a quiet brick home on a rural road.
Firefighters expect an accident.

Instead, they discover something unthinkable.

Inside the house:
A mother and two young boys, shot execution-style.
A father barely alive — burned, bleeding, whispering a truth no one expects.

Down the road, a teenage girl waits.
Uninjured.
Crying.
Telling police the same thing again and again:

“They shot my family.”

But this is not a story about strangers breaking into a home.

It’s a story about control, faith, adolescence — and a door that was unlocked on purpose.

In this episode of Murderess Podcast, Sidney Smith examines the case of Erin Caffey:
a deeply religious upbringing,
a forbidden relationship framed as rescue,
and a plan that turned obedience into annihilation.

This is not a Romeo-and-Juliet story.
It’s not a cautionary tale about rebellion.

It’s a study of agency, influence, and the devastating consequences of choice.

📍 Location: Emory, Texas
📅 Key Dates: 1990 birth → early 2000s escalating conflict → March 1, 2008 murders → 2009 conviction → post-2010 sentencing changes

👥 Central Figures: Erin Caffey, Charlie Wilkinson, Terry Caffey, Penny Caffey and Matthew & Tyler Caffey

🧠 Themes: Control vs. autonomy, Faith and obedience,Manipulation and agency,
Forgiveness without erasure and The difference between influence and responsibility

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
📅 New episodes every Thursday

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– Texas v. Erin Caffey (2009): trial records, sentencing documents, accomplice testimony
– Texas Monthly — “Flesh and Blood”: long-form investigative feature on the Caffey family murders
– Murderpedia: Erin Caffey case file, timeline, accomplice summaries
– Wikipedia: Caffey family murders overview (cross-verified with court and journalism sources)
– ABC News (2012): survivor interviews, Terry Caffey forgiveness statements
– KLTV News (East Texas): local reporting on trial, sentencing, and family advocacy
– Court transcripts & sentencing hearings: confession details, prosecution framing, defense arguments
– Contemporary juvenile justice reporting: post-conviction legal changes impacting sentencing

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What's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover  a drowning, a grieving mother and a child’s accusation that changed everything. In this special rerun, we revisit the Amanda Lewis case — a story built on memory, doubt, and the thin line between accident and intent.

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🎙 Episode 105: Omaima Nelson — “Thanksgiving in Blood”
A Murderess Podcast holiday special

Thanksgiving weekend, 1991.
Costa Mesa, California.

A 56-year-old man named Bill Nelson is supposed to introduce his new wife to his daughter over dinner. He never makes it.

Instead, neighbors hear a garbage disposal grinding through the night.
Police find body parts wrapped in newspaper and tinfoil.
Hands fried in oil.
A head boiled and stored in a freezer.
And a 23-year-old Egyptian-born woman named Omaima Nelson telling detectives it was all self-defense.

She says she was raped.
She says she was fighting for her life.
She says she dismembered her husband in a “trance.”

But prosecutors say something else:
A pattern of luring older men, tying them up, and robbing them — a pattern that escalated into murder.

Her trial becomes one of Orange County’s most notorious.
The evidence becomes unforgettable.
And the unanswered question — what happened to the missing 80 pounds? — still haunts investigators.

This Thanksgiving, we revisit the case that shocked a generation…
and a woman who went from abused child to model, to newlywed bride, to convicted killer — all in the span of a few extraordinary months.

📍 Location: Costa Mesa, California
📅 Key Dates: 1986 immigration → 1990 assault pattern → Nov 28, 1991 murder → Dec 2 arrest → 1993 conviction → 2006 & 2011 parole denials
👥 Central Figures: Omaima Aree Nelson, William “Bill” Nelson, Margaret Nelson (Bill’s daughter), Robert Hannson, Richard Gray
🧠 Themes: trauma vs manipulation, survival vs predation, gendered violence, courtroom mythmaking, the psychology of escalation

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
📅 New episodes every Thursday

🔗 Find past episodes, merch, and tour dates:
https://www.sidneysmithcre8tiv.com

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– Orange County Superior Court records (1991–1993): trial transcripts, verdict, sentencing documents
– Los Angeles Times archives (1991–2011): reporting by Larry Welborn, Diana Marcum, Lily Dizon, Rene Lynch
– OC Register archival reporting: Larry Welborn’s features on Nelson’s case and parole hearings
– AP News & ABC News reports (1991–2011): crime scene details, parole opposition, psychological testimony
– Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2020): Nelson v. Hill — habeas petition and legal posture
– Murderpedia: Omaima Nelson case summary, crime scene documentation, timeline
– Investigation Discovery – Deadly Women (Episode: “Murderesses”): psychological profile excerpts
– Contemporary forensic commentary: Dr. David Sheffner psychiatric testimony (PTSD, psychosis, cannibalism allegation)

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🎙 Episode 104: Sharon Kinne — “La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act”
Part 4 of a multi-part series

December 1969. A blackout sweeps through Iztapalapa Prison in Mexico City.
Within minutes, one of the world’s most elusive inmates — La Pistolera — is gone.
No gunfire. No alarms. No chase.

For years, rumors cross borders: sightings in Guatemala, whispers of new lovers, even claims of another murder.
But while the world chased her legend, Sharon Kinne quietly built a new identity in small-town Canada.
Under the name Diedra Glabus, she became a motel owner, real estate agent, church volunteer, wife, grandmother — a woman no one questioned, and no one truly knew.

It wasn’t luck that kept her free.
It was perception.
The same charm that disarmed jurors and detectives now blended her seamlessly into the rhythms of small-town life.

When she died in 2022, her obituary remembered a kind neighbor.
Three years later, in 2025, a fingerprint scan told the truth:
Diedra Glabus was Sharon Kinne — the longest-active fugitive in Missouri history.

From Missouri to Mexico to Manitoba, this is the final chapter of La Pistolera —
the woman who turned escape into an identity and lived half a century inside the myth she built.

📍 Locations: Independence, Missouri | Mexico City, Mexico | Manitoba, Canada
📅 Key Dates: 1969 prison escape → 1970 reinvention → 2022 death → 2025 fingerprint match
👥 Central Figures: Sharon Kinne / Diedra Glabus, Patricia Jones’s family, Francis Pugliese, Francisco Ordoñez, Missouri prosecutors, RCMP investigators
🧠 Themes: Reinvention, perception as survival, gender bias in justice, the mythology of escape, truth emerging through technology
📖 Series Conclusion Preview:
Every myth ends the same way — with fact.
Next week: a full postmortem episode tracing the case’s cultural footprint and how Sharon’s story reshaped the public’s idea of female killers who “don’t look like criminals.”

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
📅 New episodes every Thursday

🔗 Find past episodes, merch, and tour dates:
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Official Sources Used:
– State v. Sharon Kinne, Supreme Court of Missouri, 372 S.W.2d 62 (1963) — appellate ruling and procedural context
– Missouri State Highway Patrol & FBI case summaries (1960–1970) — fugitive documentation and warrant records
– Murderpedia: Sharon Kinne case file and international arrest timeline
– James Hays, I’m Just an Ordinary Girl: The Sharon Kinne Story — biographical reference
– The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1978) — case overview and myth analysis
– Canadian press archives (1970s–2020s): Manitoba obituaries and municipal records for “Diedra Glabus”
– Associated Press, Kansas City Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Globe and Mail — cross-border reporting (1969–2025)
– RCMP and FBI digital archival statements confirming 2025 fingerprint match
– Candice DeLong, forensic commentary on deception and gender bias in violent offenders (Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery)
– Susan Hatters Friedman & Michael H. Friedman,

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What's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover the murderess who took the life of a beloved musical star. It's  Yolanda Saldivar. 

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🎙 Episode 103: Sharon Kinne — “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico”
Part 3 of a multi-part series

January 1962. A packed courtroom in Independence, Missouri. The state charges Sharon with the first-degree murder of her husband, James Kinne. The trial hinges on the testimony of a teenager who says she offered him a thousand dollars to “get rid of” James. The jury believes him. Sharon is convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

But that verdict doesn’t hold.

Over the next two years, Missouri’s legal system fractures under the weight of its own procedures. The conviction is overturned on a jury selection technicality. A second trial collapses into mistrial. A third ends in a hung jury. And while the state prepares for a fourth attempt at justice, Sharon leaves the country.

Mexico City. September 1964. A hotel room. A gunshot. A man named Francisco Ordoñez dead, a hotel clerk wounded, and Sharon once again claiming self-defense — only this time, the court doesn’t buy it. She is convicted and sent to Iztapalapa Prison.

But in December 1969, during a sudden nighttime blackout, Sharon simply disappears.
No alarms.
No chase.
No recapture.

From Missouri defendant to Mexican inmate to international fugitive — this is the chapter where Sharon stops being a case file and becomes a rumor.

📍 Locations: Independence, Missouri & Mexico City, Mexico
📅 Key Dates: 1962 conviction → 1963 reversal → 1964 mistrial + hung jury → 1964 Mexico shooting → 1969 prison escape
👥 Central Figures: Sharon Kinne, John Boldizs, Francis Pugliese, Francisco Ordoñez
🧠 Themes: Legal collapse, charm as gravity, the cracks in procedural justice, identity as performance, disappearance as survival

📖 Next Episode Preview: A new name. A new life. Whispers in border towns. And decades later — a fingerprint that should not have existed anymore.

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
📅 New episodes every Thursday

🔗 Find BONUS CONTENT, past episodes, merch, and tour dates:
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Official Sources Used:

– State v. Sharon Kinne, Supreme Court of Missouri, 372 S.W.2d 62 (1963) — appellate reversal & procedural grounds
– Missouri District Court trial records (1962–1964): testimony, voir dire disputes, mistrial documentation
– Murderpedia: Sharon Kinne comprehensive case timeline
– James Hays, I’m Just an Ordinary Girl: The Sharon Kinne Story (biographical narrative)
– The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1978) — case summary & cultural context
– Contemporary Reporting: Kansas City Star, Associated Press, Mexico City press (1962–1970)
– Mexico judicial archives: Iztapalapa conviction records & sentencing modification notes
– Candice DeLong & forensic commentary on female-presenting violent offenders (Deadly Women / ID Network)
– Susan Hatters Friedman & Michael H. Friedman, Just as Deadly (2020) — criminological framing

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🎙 Episode 102: Sharon Kinne — “The Widow and the Lover’s Wife”
Part 2 of a multi-part series

May 1960. Independence, Missouri. Patricia Jones leaves work after a phone call, telling coworkers she’ll be right back. She never returns. Hours later, her car is found abandoned. Days later, her body is discovered in a lovers’ lane field—shot four times with a .22.

And in the background, a young widow named Sharon Kinne was already drawing whispers. Just two months earlier, she had buried her husband under suspicious circumstances. Now she was entangled with Patricia’s husband, Walter.

In Part 2 of Sharon Kinne’s story, host Sidney Smith takes you through the affair, the disappearance, and the first murder trial that stunned Missouri. From friends recalling Patricia’s devotion to her two daughters, to jurors so captivated by Sharon that one asked for her autograph, this episode explores how charm, bias, and missing evidence left a grieving family without justice.

📍 Location: Independence, Missouri
📅 Key Dates: March–June 1960 (James’s death, Patricia’s disappearance, Sharon’s arrest) | June 1961 (trial & acquittal)
👥 Central Figures: Sharon Kinne, James Kinne, Walter Jones, Patricia Jones, John Boldizs
🧠 Themes: Jealousy, gender bias in justice, charm as a weapon, community perception vs. evidence
📖 Next Episode Preview: Mexico. A new lover. And a gunshot in a hotel room that would make Sharon an international fugitive.

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
📅 New episodes every Thursday

🔗 Find past episodes, merch, and tour dates:
https://www.sidneysmithcre8tiv.com

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Official Sources Used:
– State v. Sharon Kinne, Supreme Court of Missouri, 372 S.W.2d 62 (1963) — trial records, testimony, jury instructions
– James Patrick Quinn & Martha Sperry Hickman, defense briefs (1960–63)
– Murderpedia: Sharon Kinne case file
– James Hays, I’m Just an Ordinary Girl: The Sharon Kinne Story
– The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1978)
– Candice DeLong, commentary on female psychopathy (Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery)
– Contemporary reporting: Kansas City Star, Associated Press (1960–1964)
– Local Independence oral histories and retrospective features (Missouri Historical Society collections)
– Susan Hatters Friedman & Michael H. Friedman, Just as Deadly (2020)

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