This Shit Really Happened

Happy 2023! To kick off the new year, we've brought you all two stories of two different bad bitches, who each faced an incredibly harrowing ordeal and came out on top, as survivors.

Sources:

(April Sykes)

https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/in-the-end-i-chose-life-woman-overcomes-brutal-assault-to-become-a-mum/news-story/7f91102fc39533073aaf0eb8c6f9dff7

https://www.parispi.net/news/local_news/article_40ca1857-545b-5038-901c-edeb0ad2e04a.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/raped-stabbed-burned-alive-now-9268340?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

“I Survived” - Season 3, Episode 3

(Kim Dejonge)

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/nation-world/2010/04/25/victim-shares-story-of-hope-after-attack/61255873007/

https://www.newspressnow.com/news/man-gets-life-for-assault/article_c42f4b2b-9143-5f41-aa04-00787a2eae8b.html

https://www.newspressnow.com/news/cave-pleads-guilty-to-robbery-assault/article_9c51ae5f-4279-5773-96e9-c111f1c59a68.html

https://mscnews.net/news/?nk=31758

“I Survived” Season 9, Episode 9

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Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Between 1981 and 1982, four women were brutally attacked, beaten over the head and stabbed with an ice pick or a screwdriver. Two of the women would survive their attacks, but unfortunately, the other two would not. While the methods used in the attacks on these women were similar in and of themselves, there was also another eerie characteristic that they shared - after each attack, a man - speaking in a high-pitched, weepy voice - made a call to the police department confessing his crimes.

In this episode, we discuss the crimes of the Weepy Voiced Killer, the phone calls he made, and the actions that finally got him caught.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Michael_Stephani

https://www.kttc.com/2021/11/08/notorious-weepy-voiced-killer/?outputType=amp

https://the-line-up.com/weepy-voiced-killer-paul-michael-stephani?amp=1

https://thesirenlppacs.com/2461/crime-corner/the-strange-case-of-the-weepy-voiced-killer/

https://youtu.be/G9tZewM5LlE

Mark of a Killer - Season 2, Episode 1 - “Killer Caller”

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Part 2 of 2

In part 2 of the case of Albert Fish, we dive into how the taunting letter Fish wrote to Grace Budd's grieving family ended up being the thing that lead to his arrest. We discussing Fish's trial and debate whether Albert Fish was well and truly insane, or just a psychopath incapable of remorse.

Sources:

Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

https://www.nydailynews.com/true-crime-justice-story/ny-true-crime-justice-story-albert-fish-grace-budd-20201227-cmdvb5fasvazvi7iyrxdj4ftly-story.html

Check out Next Stop Gypsy!

https://open.spotify.com/show/6f7sP4DAi32IPLCb7SecJj?si=396440a7662b45bf

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This episode covers the case of Albert Fish, a child rapist, murderer, and cannibal also known as The Grey Man, The Boogeyman, and the Werewolf of Wysteria who brutally murdered three children (and possibly more) between 1924 and 1928.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

https://www.ranker.com/list/albert-fish-facts/jacob-shelton

https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-fish-letter

Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

On April 22, 1973, two men entered the Hi Fi home audio store in Ogden, Utah with the intent of robbing it and killing anyone that they encountered alive. They took five people hostage in the basement of the store, where they brutally tortured them, shot them all, and left them all for dead. Hours later, the bodies - and two survivors - were discovered. Three men - active duty air force servicemen Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews, and Keith Leon Roberts - were soon arrested for their involvement in the murders.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders

https://www.ranker.com/list/ogden-hi-fi-facts/jessika-gilbert

http://www.morbidtourism.com/locations/id/6089e65e55fc2e6540fd634a

https://www.abc4.com/news/justice-files/the-justice-files-the-ogden-hi-fi-murders/amp/

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Between 1971 and 1973, three young girls were raped and murdered after being abducted in Rochester, New York. These tragic crimes were connected not only by the similar methods in which they were committed, but also by the strange coincidence that all three victims had first names that started with the same letter as their last name: Carmen Colon, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michelle Maenza.

In this episode, we'll deep dive into the murders of these three young girls and take a look into the police's prime suspects for this decades-old unsolved crime.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_murders

https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/unsolved-mysteries-the-alphabet-murders-83a13b310ac6

https://canalsidechronicles.com/2022/04/21/dna-sample-may-unmask-rochester-alphabet-killer/amp/

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/investigations/2009/03/01/double-initial-murders-remain-mystery-after-35-years-police-still/77384622/

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

On September 19, 1992, two bodies were discovered in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, Australia. They were the remains of two young backpackers, Joanna Walters and Caroline Clarke from Britain, who had gone missing just a few months prior. After the discovery of Joanne and Caroline, more and more bodies would be found, until police had identified a total of 7 victims who had all been brutally butchered, their remains disposed of under piles of sticks and leaves.

Police launched a massive investigation into finding the person behind these horrific crimes, and their efforts would lead them to one Ivan Milat, a career criminal with a propensity for violence and a disturbing obsession with guns and knives.

SOURCES

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/27/ivan-milat-chilling-serial-murders-haunt-australia-after-death

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacker_murders

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ivan-milat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Milat

Sins of the brother: The definitive story of Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders by Mark Whittaker (1998)

Intro and Outro Music:Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 2 of 2

In part two, we cover the final murder committed by Bittaker and Norris, that of 16 year old Shirley Lynette Ledford. We also dive into Bittaker's and Norris's subsequent arrests, Norris's confessions, and Bittaker's trial.

Sources:

https://www.parkaman.com/transcript-shirley-ledford-tape/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bittaker_and_Roy_Norris

“The Toolbox Killers: A Deadly Rape, Torture & Murder Duo” by Jack Rosewood and Rebecca Lo

Intro and Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Part 1 of 2

This episode will cover part one of the Tool Box Killers, a pair of sadistic serial killers that kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered six teenage girls from June to October of 1979. In part one we will delve into the backgrounds of the killers, and as well as the murders of their first four victims.

Sources:

https://www.parkaman.com/transcript-shirley-ledford-tape/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bittaker_and_Roy_Norris

“The Toolbox Killers: A Deadly Rape, Torture & Murder Duo” by Jack Rosewood and Rebecca Lo

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

It's officially spooky season everyone! To kick off the best time of the year, this episode covers two cases that took place on halloween: the case of Ronald Clarke O'Bryan a.k.a The Man Who Killed Halloween, and the Liske Family Halloween Massacre.

Sources:

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/8ge87v/halloween-killer-ronald-clark-o-bryan-candy-man

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-man-who-killed-halloween

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/candyman-poisoned-halloween-candy-pixie-stix

https://medium.com/@juliafay/teen-finds-his-family-murdered-on-halloween-night-61c844f31ba3

https://the-mystique.medium.com/a-murderous-halloween-the-liske-family-massacre-7253c5c45de

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-triple-murder-teen-thought-it-was-halloween-prank/

https://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/story/news/local/2015/04/07/man-killed-family-found-dead-prison-cell/25420415/

https://sanduskyregister.com/news/40338/tragic-timeline-details-surface-on-halloween-family-killings/

Intro & Outro Music:

Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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