Mysterious Mavens

This week Denae tells Kim about the badass vigilante mother, Miriam Rodriguez.

Sources:

All That’s Interesting Article by Kaleena Fraga: Miriam Rodríguez, The Mother Who Took Down Her Daughter's Killers

The New York Times article: She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One by Azam Ahmed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html

The official count of disappeared people in Mexico could be an underestimate, say UN and advocates | AP News

Missing Persons by State 2023

This week Kim tells Denae about the Southside Strangler, not to be confused with the Southside Rapist. 

Sources: 

Forensic Files Season 1, Episode 6

A Spotify Podcast: Serial Killers

Carolyn Jean Hamm's Obituary https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97142192/carolyn-jean-hamm

This week Denae tells Kim the very old story of the Lady of the Lake. 

Sources: 


18 Fucked Up Vintage Murder Cases you Probably Haven’t Heard of Unitl Now by Anna Kopsky


https://www.buzzfeed.com/annakopsky/the-fuck-word-murder-mystery-show



HistoryLink.org Lady of the Lake by Mavis Amundson


Lady of the Lake - HistoryLink.org


Blog: The Cowboy and The Vampire Collection with Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall 
The Lady of the Lake: A ghost story

This week Kim tells Denae the horrible story of Sydney Powell and her mother. 

Sources: 

YouTube Channel Killer Instinct with Savannah Brymer: Solved: Sydney Powell: Pleading Insanity in Mom's Murder 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJT7fCw--4

Akron Beacon Journal article Sydney Powell, convicted of killing her mother, argued insanity. Looking back at the case by Chad Murphy 
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2023/10/19/sydney-powell-convicted-stabbing-death-mother-brenda-powell-akron-ohio-insanity-plea/71238220007/

Business Insider article Husband says his wife wouldn't want a life sentence for the person who killed her by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert

https://www.insider.com/ohio-sydney-powell-life-sentence-stabbing-murder-mother-insanity-defense-2023-10?amp

This week Denae tells Kim the details of the Honolulu Phrogger. 

Sources: 

Phrogger:Hider in my House Lifetime series on HULU Season 1 Episode 1: Bump in the Night
 
New York Post article 'He Wanted To Play Doctor On Us': Terrifying Stranger Secretly Lived in Our Home by Dusica Sue Malesevic
'Phrogging: Hider in My House': Stranger secretly lived with us 

Spectrum News article 'Phrogger' sentenced to 40 years for burglary, prison killing by Michael Tsai

This week Kim tells Denae the case of Brianna Denison, a young woman from Reno, Nevada. 

Sources: 
Dateline NBC: The Night Brianna Vanished, Season 3 Episode 30

YouTube Channel, Unheard Of: The Case of Brianna Denison 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ntGRyBGgOU

Reno Gazette Journal article From February 2008: Obituary of Brianna Denison https://www.rgj.com/story/news/crime/2018/01/26/february-2008-obituary-brianna-denison/1067437001/#

This week Denae tells Kim the muti-layered story of Baby Holly and the Christ Family Cult. 
Sources:
'They knew too much': 'Baby Holly' breaks her silence 40 years after she was abducted - and says she believes religious cult that left her at Arizona church brutally murdered her parents because they 'wanted to get away' | Daily Mail Online by Alice Wright


'Baby Holly' found alive after missing for over 40 years after parents were murdered - ABC News

20/20 Season 46 episode 6 20/20 ‘Baby Holly Found’ Preview: A couple’s murder leads to 40-year search for missing baby

Cult Facts: What You Need To Know - Christ Family

Christ Family, Lightening Amen, Charles Franklin McHugh, murder investigation, Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doe_Network

Families Plea for Help Solving Cold Cases: Baby Holly's Family Honoring Dean and Tina Clouse by Fundraising for Doe Identifications and Helping Other Victims

This week Kim tells Denae the tragic tale of beauty queen, Irene Garza. 

Sources: 
Crime Watch Daily: Irene Garza case: Texas beauty queen goes missing after going to confession
Cold Case Files: Season 2, Episode 6

This week Denae tells Kim the backstory of her Dad's famous campfire tale, The Sickle Man. 

Sources: 

Media Life: Sickle slayer shattered peace of summer of 1971

UCR Center for Bilographical Studies and Research California Digital Newspaper Collection Desert Sun, Volume 44 Number 311 3 August 1971 “Survivor Certain Wrong Man Sought”
Link: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710803.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

PEOPLE v. SMITH (1973) | FindLaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lM37feLUY

Clarence Otis Smith and the Bear River Camp Murders - Curator #135.Curator #135 The Sickle Slasher and the Reverend Episode 59

RVer Safety: A case study – Murder on the Bear River - RV Travel

This week Kim tells Denae about the very mysterious case of Dorothy Scott. 

Sources:

Scary Mysteries 
The True Crime Database https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/dorothy-scott/
Bella Fiori