Jason Sweeney was a 16 year old from the Fishtown area of Philadelphia Pennsylvania who was brutally setup and murdered by his “girlfriend”, Justina Morely, and his friends, Edward Batzig, Dominec Coia, and Nicholas Coia.

*Warning violence against children and violent children”

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Intro Song: Fishtown by True Crime Guys (soon to be released on spotify)

Lyrics:

Verse 1

He was on his way to meet her

He didn’t know what to say

He wasn’t gonna mess this up

He just got paid

She was on her way to meet him

She knew  just    what to say

This wasn’t her first rodeo

And he just got paid.

Chorus:

With Friends like these

Its like placing bets

Welcome to Fishtown

Don’t get caught in the nets

With friends like these

You don’t get what you see

There’s sharks in Fishtown

 They just look like teen(s)(agers)

Verse 2:

They stalked him in the shadows

It had to be today

Just before the drugs wear off

Their conscience fades away

And everything that’s left

Is sure to find a way

To make this feeling last

Just one more day

Sources:

Show - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Coming of Rage" (S4E10)

Graphic Novel - Kevin Colden's wrote Fishtown, a 2008 graphic novel which was nominated for an Eisner Award, this dude writes graphic novels in a comic styling to tell you about crime cases

DocuSeries - Lifetime series called Killer Kids, "Foul Ball and Framed" detailed the murder, including actual footage from the crime scene, in the second segment of the episode called "Framed" from 2012

DocuSeries - Murder Among Friends, '"Friend Fatale,"  from 2016

News Article - Chicago Tribune

News Article - TulsaWorld

Video - Court Hearings & Trials 

DeOrr Kunz Jr. was a two year old child who went missing on July 10th in 2015, in a National Park in Idaho. Ten years later and this case is still unsolved and when you see the scarce evidence and the insanely different retellings by all those involved, its clear to see why. Was this an accident?

A homicide?

A kidnapping?

A FREAKING ANIMAL ATTACK??!!......WE DON'T KNOW!

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Sources:

Documentary - Investigation Discovery Now S1E6 DeOrr Kunz 

Documentary - Without a Trace: the DeOrr Kunz Mystery

Documentary - Horror at the Campground

Documentary - Where is Baby DeOrr

Documentary - Missing 411

Documentary - Little Man Lost: Gone Without a Trace

Private investigator Philip Klein shares his theory on what happened to missing toddler DeOrr Kunz

Nintendo explains that two of its most famous characters aren't what they seem, Charles Cheese is arrested while at his own establishment, one of the most heartbreaking deaths we've covered, and a Florida woman who attacked another person over a dead chicken.

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Cory Lovelace was found dead in her bed on Valentine’s Day, so naturally the local rumor mill started peddling the idea that her husband, Curtis, had killed her. The only problem is this case is full of plot holes that no one wanted/or cared enough to find the answers to. At least until 8 years later when a new detective decides to take another look at the case, but was Curtis still being wrongly accused? 

Curtis Lovelace, was eventually charged with the murder of his wife, Cory, and his first trial was labeled a mistrial. Curtis got another trial, and this time things were different… But what really happened?

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Sources:

https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/curtis-lovelace-wins-45m-lawsuit-against-adams-county-quincy-police 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cory-lovelace-curtis-lovelace-case-did-illinois-mother-die-from-alcohol-abuse-or-was-she-murdered/

https://investigatinginnocence.org/curt-lovelace

https://www.nprillinois.org/legal/2017-03-28/curtis-lovelace-life-after-a-not-guilty-verdict#stream/0

Lauren Giddings was a bright, outgoing law student focused on making a life for herself, we just wish that life never included Stephen McDaniel. Stephen was a peeping tom turned murderer who put the spot light on himself by doing news interviews about Lauren’s case. 

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Sources:

News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSK47WlZ6Ac 

News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk 

News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xb_JnXGeI 

Dateline NBC, S9E16, “The Watcher”

https://allthatsinteresting.com/lauren-giddings

https://wgxa.tv/news/local/the-girl-next-door-lauren-giddings-family-remembers-her-10-years-after-brutal-murder\

https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article271369827.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12695035/Law-student-torso-trash-strangled-death-college-classmate.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/stephen-mcdaniel

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/truly-evil/85-17ec0d7e-0e45-4ca4-878d-5a117061b614

https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTeresaGiddings/

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-loses-another-appeal/93-bff77d64-efce-43bf-b943-f2468623debc

https://wgxa.tv/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-lauren-giddings-mercer-law-school-student-murder-dismembered-macon-bibb-county-appeal-marc-treadwell-federal-court

Lou Pearlman was convicted of running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and potentially stealing over $300 million from banks and people alike. He also has some VERY close ties to boy bands in the 90’s including Backstreet Boys AND *NSYNC.

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Sources:

Documentary - The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (free on youtube) from 2019

Documentary - American Greed in the 2009 episode "Boy Band Mogul"

Documentary - 20/20 episode "The Hitman: From Pop to Prison" from December 13, 2019

Book - The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray (available on ebay, walmart website, and kindle)

In this one we talk about the happiest careers in the world (they might surprise you), a planned prison in the Florida everglades, and a man who set a brush fire just to open fire on firefighters as they arrived.

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Famous TikTok stars Rylee Goodrich and Anthony Barajas were murdered in 2021 while on their first date at a movie theatre. They were there to see "The Forever Purge".

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Sources:

https://www.instagram.com/ryleegoodrich/?hl=en

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-jimenez-insanity-plea-murders-anthony-barajas-rylee-goodrich-movie-theater/

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/sentence-corona-movie-theater-shooting-anthony-barajas-rylee-goodrich/3348322/

https://people.com/crime/anthony-barajas-dead-tiktok-movie-theater-shooting-the-forever-purge/

https://abc7.com/rylee-goodrich-corona-movie-theater-shooting-memorial-service-anthony-barajas/11015315/

Four students hatched a plan to steal some very rare books and it became known as the Transylvania University heist in 2004, or Transy Book Heist. The plan was to break into the school's Special Collection in the Rare Books Room, swipe the books and sell them for millions of dollars….easy peasy. But of course things didn't quite go all Oceans 11, but the heist did inspire its own docu-movie!

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csnx6likOPg. <<<<< American Animals Movie!

Book - American Animals: A True Crime Memoir Paperback by Eric Borsuk

Book - Mr. Pink The Inside Story of The Transylvania Book Heist by Chas Allen

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/15/inside-the-2004-6-million-transy-book-heist-and-how-they-got-caught.html 

https://www.transy.edu/1780/2020/09/transylvania-special-collections-librarian-retires-after-26-years-of-connecting-researchers-with-historical-treasures/ 

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article212180224.html 

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/transy-book-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7CCVxnBFhXtGw5xoWvCgeiaFK4NGOgcgm2i39Rj7rbkAHHrLu 

Today we’re talkin’ the story of Andrew Carter Thornton II and his drug smuggling shenanigans. How exactly this cop turned into a drug smuggler in the first place, and how the hell we’re gonna end up on “cocaine bear”, I have no idea. Let’s head back to the 80’s! Also this was made into a movie in 2023, just fyi.

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Sources:

Newspaper - The Knoxville News Sentinel

Newspaper - The New York Times

Documents - Georgia Bureau of Investigation Reports

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cocaine-bear-true-story-dangers-animal-drugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/arts/cocaine-bear-true-story.html

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/survival/survival-stories/cocaine-bear-true-story