The Unlovely Truth

When a real-life vigilante takes down the town bully, was that man a hero - or a criminal just like the man he killed? If the criminal justice system can’t deal with a man who has dozens of felony arrests, should citizens take matters into their own hands, and impose the harshest sentence of all? Join my fascinating discussion with my special guest Aaron Hanbury. 

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A community and family are rocked by the deaths of three young siblings in what the children’s mother claims was a horrible accident. If that was the case, family members wondered why her boyfriend told her they needed to “get their stories straight.” Trials were held and verdicts were rendered, but was justice done?

Every year in the United States, over 600,000 people go missing according to the website namus.gov. Most are found very quickly, but tens of thousands will remain missing for a year or more.  “The sheer volume of missing and unidentified person cases poses one of the greatest challenges to agencies tasked with resolving these important cases.” This is the story of two of those people, missing now for nearly 14 years. 

For more information on this case, check out these resources:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2849120/

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/love-the-way-you-lie/videos/it-seemed-like-a-perfect-marraige-on-the-surface

 

If you have any information about this case please contact either of the following agencies:

Hardin County Sheriff: (731) 925-3377

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: 1-800-TBI-FIND

We’ve all heard stories about the dangers that can lurk on the internet, but have you heard about what’s on the Dark Web, a corner of cyberspace that needs a special browser to access? After today’s episode, the way you think about shopping online will never be the same.

For more information on this week’s case, check out these resources:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/silk-road-and-buying-drugs-online-a-q-and-a-with-nick-bilton.html

https://online.pointpark.edu/criminal-justice/silk-road-busts/

True crime content often focuses on the same cases over, and over, and over again. We hear about them on podcasts, see them on TV shows, and read about them in books. Until now, I’ve focused exclusively on cases that have been the subject of books. Today, I’m going to talk about a case where there should’ve been a book written about it. Then together we’ll decide if a book would’ve helped to solve the case.  

For more information on this case, check out these resources:

www.truecrimesociety.com

http://www.crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com

Social media is a wonderful tool to bring people together – but sometimes, it brings the wrong people together. How well do you think you know how to protect yourself and your loved ones from scammers, abusers, or even killers?

How did a 28 year old new mother, a former honor student from an upper middle class family, wind up dead in a dumpster in a seedy area of Las Vegas? Listen to my summary of this original Audible audio documentary that follows the attempts of Tess Henry to overcome her addiction to opioids to be the mother her son needed.

This is a story about love, according to author Natasha Alexenko. You may wonder how a story about a brutal rape, followed by a wait of over a decade to see the assailant brought to justice, can be about love. It’s because Natasha fought for years to make her experience become a catalyst to help other victims.

White Bear Lake, Minnesota, is a typical, all-American town perched on the edge of the lake that gave the town its name. Many professional hockey players got their starts there, including Olympian Steve Janaszak, goalie of the famed “Miracle on Ice” gold medal team of 1980. But the town may be best known as the home of three year Dennis Jurgens, who was killed by his adoptive mother Lois in 1965.  It took over 20 years and the perseverance of his birth mother Jerry Sherwood and the testimony of another adopted son, Robert, to get justice for Dennis. But why wasn’t the case prosecuted in 1965? Find out on this episode of The Unlovely Truth.

What true crime fan type are you?  Did you fit into either of last week’s types, the detective or the victim? If not, don’t miss this week’s episode to see if you might just identify with the defender…or the killer. Guest Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsessions is back with more fascinating stories of women who may be just like you.