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In this episode of Coffee and Crime with Mom, Nicholle and Zalle take a deep dive into the disturbing rise of rage-bait livestream culture and the growing trend of creators using shock, humiliation, and racial controversy for views.

We examine the controversy surrounding ChudTheBuilder (Dalton Levi Eatherly), reported livestream incidents, public backlash, platform moderation, and the felony charges filed following the 2026 Tennessee courthouse shooting incident. We also explore the bigger picture: copycat creators, “edgelord” culture, online radicalization, and how social media algorithms can reward increasingly extreme behavior.

At what point does “it’s just a joke” stop being trolling and start becoming something more dangerous? When outrage becomes profitable, what are the real-world consequences?

Grab your coffee and join us as we unpack the psychology, history, and culture behind one of the internet’s darkest trends.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses racism, hate speech, violence, harassment, and criminal allegations involving ongoing legal matters.

In this episode of Coffee and Crime with Mom, Nicholle and Zalle take a deep dive into the disturbing rise of rage-bait livestream culture and the growing trend of creators using shock, humiliation, and racial controversy for views.

We examine the controversy surrounding ChudTheBuilder (Dalton Levi Eatherly), reported livestream incidents, public backlash, platform moderation, and the felony charges filed following the 2026 Tennessee courthouse shooting incident. We also explore the bigger picture: copycat creators, “edgelord” culture, online radicalization, and how social media algorithms can reward increasingly extreme behavior.

At what point does “it’s just a joke” stop being trolling and start becoming something more dangerous? When outrage becomes profitable, what are the real-world consequences?

Grab your coffee and join us as we unpack the psychology, history, and culture behind one of the internet’s darkest trends.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses racism, hate speech, violence, harassment, and criminal allegations involving ongoing legal matters.

What happened along the lonely stretch of shoreline known as Gilgo Beach? For years, missing women disappeared with few answers, until a horrifying discovery exposed one of the most disturbing unsolved mysteries in modern true crime history. Hidden among the dunes of Long Island were human remains, unanswered questions, and a case that would haunt investigators and families for more than a decade.

In this episode, Nicholle and Zalle dive into the timeline of the Gilgo Beach murders, the victims whose stories deserve to be remembered, the investigation, missed opportunities, and the developments that reignited public attention. They also explore behavioral patterns, offender theories, and the psychology behind a case that sparked fear, controversy, and endless speculation.

☕ Grab your coffee, crime fam, and join us as we unravel one of the most chilling mysteries in America—because sometimes the scariest things aren't hidden in the dark… they're hidden in plain sight.

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Bodies are continuing to surface in Houston’s bayous — and many people are asking the same unsettling question: is this really just coincidence?

In this disturbing episode of Coffee and Crime with Mom, Nicholle and Zalle investigate the growing number of bodies recovered from Houston-area waterways, including recent discoveries along Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou. While officials insist there is no evidence of a serial killer, online speculation and public concern continue to grow.

We break down the timeline of discoveries, statements from Houston police and investigators, forensic challenges involving water deaths, victim details, and the theories spreading across social media. We also examine criminal profiling concepts, possible behavioral patterns, and why some people believe there may be connections authorities are overlooking.

This episode explores true crime, psychology, unsolved deaths, Houston crime news, serial killer theories, and the complicated reality behind death investigations in water.

☕ Grab your coffee, crime fam… because this case is far from settled.

In the final episode of our Texas Killing Fields series, Nicholle and Zalle confront the systemic failures that allowed dozens of women to vanish along the I-45 corridor without anyone connecting the dots. From the vulnerability bias that delayed investigations to the lack of centralized databases that kept departments siloed, we break down exactly how the system failed—and who paid the price.

We honor the victims by saying their names and sharing what we know about their final moments. We examine what, if anything, has changed: from NamUs to genetic genealogy breakthroughs that identified two Jane Does after thirty-three years. And we close with where things stand now—James Elmore Jr. in custody, Clyde Hedrick dead before indictment, and Tim Miller still searching for answers forty years after his daughter walked to a payphone and never came home.

This is the reckoning. This is where we demand better.

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Content Warning

This episode discusses real-life crimes involving abduction, sexual violence, and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

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Sources

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (Netflix, 2022),

Gary Lavergne, Bad Boy from Rosebud (UT Press),

Skip Hollandsworth, "Free to Kill," Texas Monthly,

ABC13 Houston / WFAA Dallas (2025–2026 coverage),

Texas EquuSearch (texasequusearch.org),

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Credits

Music: "Wrath" by Soundridemusic

Production: Coffee and Crime with Mom

Coffee and Crime with Mom, Zalle takes the lead as we dive into one of the internet’s most controversial and confusing modern cases surrounding rising artist d4vd.

What started as online rumors quickly exploded into accusations, viral theories, and intense public debate. But what’s actually verified — and what was fueled by social media speculation?

In this episode, we break down the timeline of events, the people involved, the alleged victim information circulating online, investigative details, courtroom developments, and the psychological theories being discussed across the internet. We also examine how fandom culture, parasocial relationships, and viral misinformation can shape public perception before facts are fully known.

This is a deep dive into controversy, internet panic, and the dangerous line between allegation and truth in the digital age.

☕ Grab your coffee, crime fam… this one gets complicated fast.

They kept finding them… in the same place.

The Texas Killing Fields isn’t just one case—it’s a pattern that’s still hard to explain.

How does this happen for decades?

🎙️ Full episode out now

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Episode 1: "Nobody Sees Anything"

Skeletons are discovered in an overgrown field near League City, Texas — an area where women have been vanishing since the 1970s. As the body count rises, the community fears a serial killer is hunting along the I-45 corridor. This 3-part Netflix true crime docuseries dives into the murders of more than 30 women and girls between the '70s and '90s, and the grieving families who never stopped searching for answers. #TrueCrime #Netflix #Documentary #CrimeScene #TexasKillingFields #UnsolvedMysteries #SerialKiller #MissingPersons #ColdCase #TrueCrimeDocumentary #LeagueCityTexas #I45Corridor #TrueCrime2022 #CrimeSceneNetflix #TexasMurders

A stretch of land along the Texas Gulf Coast… where multiple women vanished—and many were later found.

In this episode of Coffee and Crime with Mom, Nicholle and Zalle explore the haunting history of the Texas Killing Fields—a location tied to decades of disappearances, unsolved cases, and unanswered questions. With victims spanning years and investigations that have left families searching for justice, this case remains one of the most chilling in Texas history.

They break down the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and the patterns that have led many to believe more than one predator may be responsible.

☕️ True crime. Real conversations. Honest reactions.

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This podcast episode delves into the mysterious case of Gareth Williams, a GCHQ codebreaker on assignment to MI6, found dead inside a padlocked North Face sports bag in his London bathtub in August 2010. With no signs of forced entry, no fingerprints anywhere, and experts calling the official "accident" theory a physical impossibility, this case has haunted investigators, intelligence agencies, and the Williams family for fourteen years.

We explore the timeline of his last known movements, the forensic contradictions that make this case almost impossible to solve, the competing official conclusions (coroner says murder; police say accident), and the institutional failures that compromised the investigation from day one. From MI6's seven-day delay in reporting him missing, to withheld evidence, to a forensic scientist's DNA being misidentified as crime scene evidence—this is a case where the system failed at every turn.

Was this a tragic accident? An espionage-related murder? A perfectly executed cover-up? Or something else entirely?

Join us as we say his name, honor his memory, and demand answers for a family that is still waiting.

This episode discusses real-life death, intelligence work, and unresolved circumstances. Listener discretion is advised. We discuss this case with the victim at the center of every conversation.