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🎙 Episode 100: Megan Huntsman — “The Confession”
Part 2 of a multi-part series

February 2015. In a Utah courtroom, a mother admits to the unthinkable.
What began as a story of one stillborn child has unraveled into a confession of six murders.

In Part 2 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the interrogation room where eighteen years of silence collapsed into words, and into the courtroom where family voices, prosecution arguments, and judicial disbelief collided.

Through detectives’ testimony, letters from Huntsman’s daughters, and statements from her mother and sister, this episode examines how a community tried to reconcile the woman they thought they knew with the crimes she confessed to. And in the end, it considers the broader weight of neonaticide, hidden pregnancies, and the silence that thrives in places where appearances matter more than truth.

📍 Location: Pleasant Grove & Provo, Utah
📅 Key Dates: 1996–2006 (murders), April 2014 (discovery & arrest), February–April 2015 (plea and sentencing)
👥 Central Figures: Megan Huntsman, Detective Dan Beckstrom, Joyce Huntsman, Jamie Huntsman, Darren West, Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman, Judge Darold McDade
🧠 Themes: Secrecy, addiction, neonaticide, hidden pregnancies, the silence of community denial
📖 Next Episode Preview: A new case begins — one where secrecy takes another shape, and where the truth is hidden in plain sight.

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
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📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Official Sources Used:
– Utah v. Megan Huntsman, Utah County Court records (2014–2015) — guilty plea, sentencing, parole timeline
– Detective Dan Beckstrom testimony at sentencing (2015)
– KSL.com coverage: 6 life terms in prison for woman who killed newborns (2015)
– Associated Press reporting on guilty plea & sentencing (2014–2015)
– The Salt Lake Tribune coverage (2014–2015) — neighbor and community reactions
– Daily Mail contemporaneous reporting (2014) — discovery details and interviews
– Huffington Post: Questions Surround Case of Megan Huntsman (2014)
– Fox 13 Salt Lake City coverage (2014)
– New York Daily News reporting (2014)
– Public statements and letters from Joyce and Jamie Huntsman, and Huntsman’s daughters

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🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Belle Gunness

April 1908. A farmhouse in La Porte, Indiana burns to the ground. When investigators sift through the ashes, they find more than charred timbers. Buried on the property are bodies — dozens of them — each pointing to the same woman at the center of the mystery: Belle Gunness.

In this Murderess Replay, host Sidney and his old co-host, Jamie, revisit the story of America’s most infamous black widow. From her early life as a Norwegian immigrant to the trail of suitors who vanished after answering her personal ads, this episode explores how Belle lured men with promises of love and land, only for them to disappear into the soil of her farm.

It’s a case that blends legend and fact, leaving behind one question that still haunts true crime history: did Belle die in the fire, or escape to kill again?

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 99: Megan Huntsman — “The Garage of Secrets”
Part 1 of a multi-part series

April 2014. A quiet Utah neighborhood. A garage filled with boxes that look like ordinary storage. Inside one of them — a discovery that would unravel eighteen years of silence.

In Part 1 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the moment Pleasant Grove police opened box after box, finding six infants hidden in plain sight. Through the voices of detectives, neighbors, and family members, this episode examines the life of a woman described as “tiny, quiet, secretive,” and the decade-long pattern of secrecy and addiction that turned a suburban home into a mausoleum.

📍 Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
📅 Key Dates: 1996–2006 (murders), April 2014 (discovery & arrest)
👥 Central Figures: Megan Huntsman, Darren West, Detective Dan Beckstrom, Joyce Huntsman, Pleasant Grove community
🧠 Themes: Secrecy, addiction, infanticide, community denial, the hidden vs. the ordinary
📖 Next Episode Preview: Confession and sentencing. How Megan’s story collapsed in the interrogation room, and why the courtroom struggled to comprehend her crimes.

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadio

📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Official Sources Used:
– Utah County Court records & sentencing documents (2014–2015)
– Detective Dan Beckstrom testimony at sentencing (2015)
– KSL.com coverage: 6 life terms in prison for woman who killed newborns (2015)
– Associated Press reporting on guilty plea & sentencing (2014–2015)
– The Salt Lake Tribune coverage (2014–2015)
– New York Daily News & Daily Mail contemporaneous reporting (2014)
– Fox 13 Salt Lake City coverage (2014)
– Huffington Post & national wire service reports (2014)
– Interviews and public statements from Joyce and Jamie Huntsman, Darren West, and Pleasant Grove neighbors

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 98: Clara Harris — “Trial of a Wife”
Part 4 of a multi-part series

February 2003. A Houston courtroom holds its breath.
The prosecution plays the tape: a silver Mercedes circling, headlights sweeping across asphalt, a body lying still.
The defense pleads sudden passion — the collapse of a wife betrayed.

In Part 4 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the trial that transfixed the nation. From excluded evidence and expert testimony to the haunting words of Clara herself, this episode follows the courtroom battle that decided her fate.

Through witness accounts, legal rulings, and the powerful pull of the surveillance video, we examine how a jury balanced intent against passion — and why the verdict left the country debating who, and what, was truly on trial.

📍 Location: Houston, Texas
📅 Key Dates: February 2003 – trial and sentencing
👥 Central Figures: Clara Harris, David Harris, Gail Bridges, Lindsey Harris, Prosecutor Mia Magness, Defense Attorney George Parnham
🧠 Themes: Betrayal, sudden passion, media framing, the weight of evidence, the myth of the “perfect wife”
📖 Next Episode Preview: Aftermath. How Clara’s conviction shaped headlines, inspired television dramas, and followed her through prison, parole, and beyond.

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
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📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Official Sources Used:
– Clara L. Harris v. The State of Texas, Court of Appeals Opinion (2004) — trial rulings, exclusion of defense videos, sudden passion finding
– CNN trial and sentencing coverage (2003)
– Houston Chronicle prison interview with Clara Harris (2005)
– KTRK/ABC13 parole coverage (2018, 2023)
– Oprah television interview with Clara Harris (2005)
– Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly feature (2002)
– CBS television movie Suburban Madness (2003)
– Steven Long, Out of Control (2004)
– Snapped and Deadly Women series episodes on Clara Harris

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 97: Clara Harris — “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera”
Part 3 of a multi-part series

July 24, 2002. A warm Texas night.
In the parking lot of the Nassau Bay Hilton, a silver Mercedes-Benz circles under the glow of security lights. Inside, a marriage shatters in real time.

In Part 3 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the moment that transformed suspicion into tragedy. Using case files, witness statements, and the grainy surveillance footage captured by a team of private investigators, we examine what Clara claimed happened that night — and what the evidence says instead.

From tire mark analysis and autopsy findings to the now-infamous “three times around,” this episode follows the impact — both literal and emotional — that would dominate headlines and divide public opinion.

📍 Location: Nassau Bay, Texas
📅 Key Dates: July 24–25, 2002
👥 Central Figures: Clara Harris, David Harris, Gail Bridges, Lindsey Harris, Blue Moon Investigations
🧠 Themes: Rage, humiliation, intent, public perception, forensic reconstruction
📖 Next Episode Preview: The trial. Competing narratives collide in a Houston courtroom, as prosecutors push for intent and the defense leans on heat-of-the-moment passion.

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
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📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Official Sources Used:
– Nassau Bay Police Department incident reports and evidence logs
– Harris County District Attorney’s case files and trial transcripts
– Autopsy and forensic trajectory reports from Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office
– Blue Moon Investigations surveillance records and video
– Local and national media coverage (Houston Chronicle, ABC News, Court TV archives)
– Interviews and public statements from Lindsey Harris and other eyewitnesses

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 96: Clara Harris — “The Other Woman”
Part 2 of a multi-part series

She wore perfection like armor.
But beneath the surface, something had shifted.
Cologne. Late nights. A quiet phone call in the next room.

In Part 2 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith walks us deeper into the unraveling. As Clara’s suspicions grow, a hidden truth begins to surface—one that threatens everything she’s built. With a marriage on the line and dignity slipping through her fingers, Clara hires a private investigator. What they uncover at a Nassau Bay Hilton sets the stage for one of the most infamous moments in true crime history.

📍 Location: Friendswood, Texas → Nassau Bay, Texas
📅 Key Dates: Early 2002 → July 23, 2002
👥 Central Figures: Clara Harris, David Harris, Gail Bridges, Lindsey Harris
🧠 Themes: Betrayal, control, image, emotional unraveling, surveillance, confrontation
📖 Next Episode Preview: Part 3- "The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera"

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadio

📱 Follow Sidney on social:
Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter → @sidneysmithcre8tiv

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 95: Clara Harris — “Cracks in the Perfect Wife”
Part 1 of a multi-part series

Before the headlines…
Before the Mercedes…
Before the betrayal that would define her name—
Clara Harris built a life people envied.

In this first installment, host Sidney Smith takes us back to Bogotá, Colombia, where Clara’s story begins—with tradition, ambition, and a vision of the American dream. From top of her dental class to the polished image she curated in suburban Texas, this is the story of a woman determined to hold it all together. Until it started to fall apart.

📍 Location: Bogotá, Colombia → Friendswood, Texas
📅 Key Dates: 1968–1999
👥 Central Figures: Clara Harris, David Harris, Lindsey & Brian Harris
🧠 Themes: Identity, perfectionism, assimilation, family dynamics, emotional repression
📖 Next Episode Preview: Part 2 - "The Other Woman"

📚 Official Sources Used:
– Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of Clara Harris by Aimee Maddern
– Court transcripts and sentencing documents (Texas District Court Archives)
– Friendswood PD investigation files and arrest records
– Contemporary news coverage (Houston Chronicle, ABC13, and KHOU)
– National coverage and trial analysis (Dateline NBC, CourtTV, and CNN Archives)
– Retrospective profiles in Texas Monthly and People Magazine
– Oral interviews and background sources cited in Snapped (Oxygen Network)

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadio

📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

Here’s a sneak peek from our latest Murderess bonus episode on Patreon.

Hear the full epilogue, exclusive to Murderess supporters, now on Patreon.

Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

🎙 Episode 95: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Truth That Never Made Trial”
Part 5 of a multi-part series

For forty years, Winnie’s story was buried beneath headlines, half-truths, and courtroom omissions.
But journalist Jana Bommersbach wasn’t content with the official version.
In this final installment, host Sidney Smith guides us through the suppressed affidavits, silenced eyewitnesses, and political forces that kept Jack Halloran out of the courtroom—while Winnie stayed locked inside one.

From institutional records to late-life confessions, this isn’t just about a cover-up.
It’s about power, silence, and what happens when the truth shows up four decades late.

📍 Location: Phoenix, Arizona
📅 Key Dates: 1971 parole + 1933–1970 suppressed details
👥 Central Figures: Winnie Ruth Judd, Jack Halloran, Jana Bommersbach
🧠 Themes: Corruption, gendered justice, institutional complicity, media reframing
📖 Next Arc Preview: Stay tuned for our next case—a crime just as twisted, and just as forgotten.

Official Sources Used:
– The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd by Jana Bommersbach
– Trial transcripts from the Arizona State Archives
– Historical coverage from The Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, and True Crime Magazine
– Police reports and internal memos (Phoenix PD archives)
– Arizona Historical Society psychiatric records and oral histories
– Private correspondence, parole filings, and witness interviews (1933–1971)
– Coverage of her 1969 arrest and Halloran revelations via Arizona Highways and AP wire archives

🎧 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

🎧 Stream the show on your favorite platform:
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio

📱 Follow Sidney on social:
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Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next on Patreon.

While you wait for tomorrow’s next chapter in the Winnie Ruth Judd series, here’s something a little different. This 9-minute clip is from Running In Slow Motion, a podcast I host with my wife, Tamra. We talk life, love, and everyday chaos—with honesty and laughs along the way. In this short clip, we get into: Dutch Bros or Starbucks?

If you dig it, follow Running In Slow Motion wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Murderess returns Thursday morning with Part 5.