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Today's episode is a super special episode- it's the podcast's 50TH EPISODE!! (It's kind of a big deal!)

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For today's episode we are taking a look back on not only my favorite episodes but also yours! The best way I could think of doing that was to separate episodes by categories that were chosen by the listeners!

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**WARNING** 

This Podcast features audio that some listeners might find disturbing. The audio is about 22 seconds in length at the very beginning of the episode. If you wish to skip it fast forward until around 23 seconds in. 

At 2:28 am on the morning of September 7th, 2015, Kareen McCabe received a phone call that would completely change her life forever.

On the other line her husband, Henry McCabe is screaming out, he screams he has been shot, he is writhing in pain. Words turn to noises, growls and gurgles.

It is the last anyone would hear from Henry McCabe, he would be found, weeks later, face down in a nearby lake. But what truly happened to Henry McCabe is still a mystery- how did he end up in the lake? How did Henry die? And possibly the most puzzling question of all- what was happening in that phone call?

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SOURCES:

The Trail Went Cold – Minisode 31 – Henry McCabe – The Trail Went Cold

Henry McCabe Death: How Did He Die? What Happened to Henry McCabe? Update (thecinemaholic.com)

'Disturbing' Voicemail Woman Got From Missing Husband's Phone May Hold Clues Into His Disappearance, Police Say - ABC News (audio source)

Body found in lake is missing Mounds View man Henry McCabe - StarTribune.com

Hacker For Hire Murders Online Radio | BlogTalkRadio (Gregory Evans Podcast explaining his theory that he thinks Kareen is responsible)

Photo Source:

Vanished without a trace: What really happened to Henry T. McCabe? (spokesman-recorder.com)

When Joe Cinque met Anu Singh in 1995, he was immediately smitten with her, and why wouldn't he be? Anu wasn't only pretty, but she was also smart, going to the Australian University for her law degree. And although Anu was dating someone else at the time of their meeting, she would begin an affair with Joe that would turn into an actual relationship.

Two years later however the relationship between Joe and Anu would begin to sour, and Anu would decide she needed to host a dinner party to say goodbye to her lover. But it wasn't a going away party, no, Anu had bigger plans for Joe- plans that included murder.

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Photo Source: Daily Mail

Sources:

Anu Singh's new boyfriend says she's served her time | Daily Mail Online

Death of Joe Cinque - Wikipedia

Anu Singh | Crimes That Shook Australia | S3E05 - YouTube

On the morning of June 2nd, 2018, as students at the Portland Oregon Culinary Institute filed in for their usual morning classes, they would make a tragic discovery. Beloved Culinary Instructor Daniel Brophy was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood, shot twice.

His death would be a mystery, almost like something his wife of 27 years Nancy Brophy would have written about in her suspenseful romance novels that she was known for writing.

But, UNLIKE her romance novels investigators would discover not everything in the Brophy home was lovey dovey.

Could the motive for Dan Brophy's murder really be summed up as financial hardships? Or is this case still a mystery that hasn't yet been solved?

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Sources:

‘How to Murder Your Husband’ writer on trial for allegedly killing husband - The Washington Post

Romance novelist who wrote 'The Wrong Husband' is on trial in her husband's killing - CNN

"How to Murder Your Husband" author Nancy Crampton Brophy goes on trial 4 years after chef spouse found dead in culinary school kitchen - CBS News

Romance Novelist Murder Trial: Defense Opening Statement Pt. 1 - Bing video

Photo Source:

nancy brophy murder trial - Bing images

Charles Holden was nervous when he saw the stranger lurking outside of his home on the evening on June 22, 1991. Fearing for not only his safety, but the safety of his mother- 70-year-old Dororthy Donovan, he rushed to the nearest payphone to call the police.

When an officer arrived at the residence, she accompanied Charles to check on Dorothy, who had lived in a farmhouse behind Charle's trailer.

It was there that the two would find Charles's elderly mother stabbed to death.

Charles would quickly tell police he knew who had murdered Dorothy- a man he had given a ride to earlier that evening- who had quickly gotten violent with him-, but police were not buying Charle's outlandish story of a nightmare hitchhiker and suspected Charles as their killer.

It would be another 15 years before DNA collected at the scene of the crime would finally reveal the shocking truth of who killed Dorothy Donovan.

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SOURCES:

CODIS description is via google

Dorothy Donovan | Forensic Files Wiki | Fandom 

Killer Hitchhiker: The Murder of Dorothy Donovan | by Verity Partington | Medium

Dorothy Donovan | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom

Medical Detectives (Forensic Files) in HD - Season 13, Episode 11 - Stranger in the Night - Bing video

PHOTO SOURCE:

Dorothy Donovan | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom

Amber Ashfaq was growing concerned for her co-worker Karen Navarra. Karren, who had worked with Amber as pharmacy technician at Reginal Medical Center in San Jose California hadn't been known for missing days for even being late in her last 27 years of employment.

And yet Amber hadn't heard from her friend despite both calling and texting her.

So, on September 13, 2018, Amber would decide she need to go and check on Karen to make sure everything was ok with the 67-year-old.

Instead, what Amber would walk into that afternoon was a horrific scene. Karen was dead.

Karen's murder did not make sense, Karen was a kind woman without any known enemies, who could have wanted to kill her?

The answer is one that would completely shock those working on this case- and like the case of Nicole Vanderheyden the answer would be found due to a Fitbit.

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Sources:

A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect | WIRED

Caught in the Net - S1 E1 Heart Rate & Time - ID GO (investigationdiscovery.com)

Photo Source:

Caught in the Net - S1 E1 Heart Rate & Time - ID GO (investigationdiscovery.com)

When a human torso is found sitting in a shopping cart in the middle of New York City detectives are immediately aware they have a situation on their hands. They don't know whose headless body it is or who could have possibly put it there. Days later, a few blocks away, a leg from the same body would be found.

The killer would quickly be identified, but who it was- was someone no one expected of such a heinous crime.

Since this is still a breaking case new information is still coming out about this crime.  I will continue to keep you up to date by posting any other information related to this case on the Facebook page.

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SOURCES:

Harvey Marcelin, 83, arrested in connection to woman's body parts found in Brooklyn, was previously convicted of killing 2 women - CBS New York (cbsnews.com)

Wheelchair no handicap for NYC serial killer Harvey Marcelin (nypost.com)

Harvey Marcelin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

She Killed Two Women. At 83, She Is Charged With Dismembering a Third. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

PHOTO OF SUSAN LEYDEN SOURCE:

Wheelchair no handicap for NYC serial killer Harvey Marcelin (nypost.com)

*WARNING* 

Today's episode is graphic in nature, listener discretion is advised. 

Taylor Schabusiness had several run-ins with law enforcement prior to February 2022. She also had an addiction, an addiction that would lead her to commit arguably one of the most horrific crimes in Wisconsin history since the 1990s.   

It's a case unlike any I have covered so far on the show, and despite the fact that I try to tell stories that aren't splattered all over news headlines this one was too crazy not to tell. 

Although I left some of the details out, I will tell you though, this one definitely was one of the most graphic cases I have researched so far. For that reason, listener discretion is highly advised.

If you would like to donate to the Thyrion family, they have set up a Go Fund Me page after the loss of Shad. Funds will go to funeral costs and other arrangements. If you can help, please do. What a terrible loss for this family.

Fundraiser for Tara Pakanich by Michelle Paulson : Living & Funeral expenses for Tara (gofundme.com)

Sources:

Taylor Schabusiness: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Taylor Schabusiness Allegedly Murdered Man In Drug-Related Sex Killing | Crime News (oxygen.com)

Woman accused of decapitating man after drug-fueled sex act (wisn.com)

This is the criminal complaint:

Taylor Denise Schabusiness - Criminal Complaint - DocumentCloud

Photo Source:

Shad Thyrion's Facebook page

When two family members die from natural causes and yet another one falls terribly ill it seems as though the Staudte family is under some sort of terrible curse.

But the truth in today's case is something far FAR more sinister.

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Sources:

Antifreeze Murders in Missouri: How a Mom and Daughter Planned to Kill Family | PEOPLE.com

Diane and Rachel Staudte: The Antifreeze Murderers | by DeLani R. Bartlette | Medium

'20/20' will feature Diane Staudte, Springfield woman who killed husband and son with antifreeze (yahoo.com)

20/20 A Family Plot | Mom & Daughter Poison Family [2020 FULL DOCUMENTARY] - YouTube

The family in happier times- Photo Source:

People Magazine

After the death of her first husband- teen author Helen Bailey struggled to deal. She found solace in a group aimed at helping people deal with their grief after the loss of loved ones.

It was while in this group that Helen would meet Ian, a man she would later write about and call the "gorgeous grey-haired widower."

Helen was certain she had finally found her happiness, but unfortunately, it was not to be.

What Helen didn't know was that Ian wasn't her picture-perfect man, in fact, Ian Stewart was anything but.

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Sources:

Helen Bailey - Wikipedia

Helen Bailey killer is found guilty of murdering his first wife in 2010 | Daily Mail Online

British killer jailed in the murder of author Helen Bailey also guilty in first wife's death (nypost.com)

999 call made by Helen Bailey's husband reporting her missing - Daily Mail - YouTube

Planet Grief (Helen's Blog)

A few videos of Helen I wanted to share:

When Bad Things Happen In Good Bikinis - Helen Bailey - YouTube

HELEN BAILEY 0n Sky News - YouTube

Photo Source:

The Times