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Lonnie David Franklin Jr., An American serial killer. Also, known as the South Side Slayer, preyed on the women of Los Angeles, California from 1985 to 2007. Franklin was also given the name, Grim Sleeper by L.A. Weekly reporter, Christine Pelisek.  She created this name for him because of the 14 yr. break that occurred between the murders.  Franklin was a husband, father and friend too many in his community. All while keeping a deadly secret. Franklin was living a double life.  He was a family man by day and murderer by night. On July 5, 2010, Detectives would get the big break, they had been needing for almost 30 years. A DNA match would get Lonnie Franklin Jr. convicted for killing at least 10 women and 1 attempt murder sentencing him to death row.

Hey Sippers!! We are back with season 2!! Vincent Brothers was an educated man, a vice principal of an elementary school and a well respected member of his community until one day he did the unthinkable. Listen to this week's episode to hear details of the horrific crime Vincent carried out and thought he got away with.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural funeral homes. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the ”public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934.

In the 1990's Pamela Smart would become both a national and international sensation.  The fame Smart would receive did not come from being a big celebrity in Hollywood.  She would become popular for coercing her teenage lover and three other students to commit murder. Pamela Smart wanted to avoid a divorce and losing everything.  On May 1, 1990, Pamela would come home from a school board meeting to find her home ransacked and her husband Gregory Smart murdered with a gunshot wound to the head. This story would spread like wildfire because Pamela Smart was more interested in her own popularity than the actual death of her husband.

Check out this week's True Crime episode where the ladies of SIP n UnWINE discuss the case of Samantha Joseph and Danny McLean. Samantha was so obsessed with Danny that she would do anything to get him back, including setting up her current boyfriend Shakilus Townsend for an unexpected, deadly attack. Our December theme is "true crime stories that became movies" and this week's true crime story was the inspiration behind the movies "My Murder" and "Honeytrap".

The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their leader Jim Jones. It took place at the so-called Jonestown settlement in the South American nation of Guyana.

On February 24, 1986, the body of Sherri Rasmussen was found in the apartment she shared with her husband, John Ruetten, in Van Nuys, California. She had been badly beaten and shot three times in the chest from a home invasion. The Los Angeles Police Department initially considered the home invasion a botched burglary. But with the new advanced technology of DNA would change that theory to murder.  After 23 years this cold case would be solved on June 5, 2009 and a murderer would get the justice, she deserves 27 years to life in prison.

Check out this week's True Crime episode where the ladies of SIP n UnWINE discuss the case of Dorice 'Dee Dee' Moore. Dee Dee was a master manipulator who conned Abraham Shakespeare out of his multi-million dollar lottery winnings. When Abraham went missing just a few short months after meeting Dee Dee, she would eventually become the primary suspect. What would first start off as a missing person's case, would later become a murder investigation.

For many decades, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor‘s office.

In recent years, the family has been closely connected to bloody tragedy. In 2018, the family nanny/housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, died at the Murdaugh residence. There was a fatal boating crash in 2019 that killed Mallory Beach. In 2021, son Paul Murdaugh and wife Maggie Murdaugh were killed in June. Shortly after that, Alex Murdaugh was shot and don‘t forget about the allegations of misappropriated funds and drug abuse. Listen to the full story....

Barbara Stager, a North Carolina native, had an eager appetite for both money and sex. These addictions she possessed led her into a world of debt and murder. Barbara led a life of lies and deceitfulness to everyone around her, including those closest to her. Stager was twice married, one husband's death is labeled accidental; while the second husband's death has been classified as "cold-blooded" murder.