My True Crime Obsession

This week we talk about bootlegging king, George Remus, and how he got away with the murder of his wife Imogene. 

It took on one hour for the jury to find James Patterson Smith guilty of murder and to sentence the man to death after hearing the horrific details of how he tortured this young girl for over a month, eventually leading to her death. 

This week we talk about Tamara Samsonova "The Granny Ripper" who has admitted in to boiling the severed head and hands of her friend and roommate after a disagreement over dishes. 

This week we talk about American murderer, Gary Heidnik, who kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women, killing two of them, while holding them prisoner in a pit in his basement. Gary is believed to be the inspiration for the fictional character Buffalo Bill from the classic movie Silence of the Lambs. 

Alton Coleman and Debra Brown carried out a two month killing spree that was so horrendous that the FBI added a special eleventh spot on their Ten Most Wanted List for Coleman. Tune in to hear about this dangerous duo!

With time running out before the scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, supporters are rallying in a growing effort to help clear his name. But who really murder 19 year old Stacey Stites and will she ever get justice? 

In 1927, just weeks before Christmas, the abduction and brutal murder of Marion Parker made headlines across the country. 

Tune in this week as we talk about Ronald Clark O'Bryan (the candy man) and the terrible crime he committed that forever changed Halloween. 

Edythe Klumpp plead guilty to first degree murder, a crime no-one believed she committed and then changed her story only after sentencing. Do you think this home ec teacher and mother of four was innocent or guilty of murder??

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders were a series of unsolved murders and other violent crimes that rocked the small town Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer known as the "Phantom Killer".