True Crime in the 50

High –powered Hollywood agent Mackenzie Monroe has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend Nick Tenenbaum and they are planning what else? A Christmas wedding in the tiny town of Evergreen Ohio where they first met... oh and where they first solved two murders. After putting the perpetrators away for life, Mackenzie is looking forward to returning to Evergreen, seeing all of her friends and getting married to the love of her life. But of course, Evergreen and Christmas have other plans in store for her. 
Not long after Mackenzie gets back, someone winds up dead. And, almost before she can start to investigate that killing, another murder occurs. Mackenzie must once again solve the murders before her own Christmas wedding. Will she make it down the aisle or will she be next?  
The wildly popular series The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery is back with a third season. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 

The Evergreen Murders: Return to Evergreen premieres Tuesday, November 19th

On the night of February 22nd, 2002, a woman named Taylor Schabusiness picked up her boyfriend Shad Thyrion and a friend in her Town and Country minivan in Green Bay, Wisconsin to go buy drugs. The three friends did meth, marijuana and Trazadone until the friend left. Then, Taylor and Shad went into the basement of his mother's house to continue doing drugs and to have sex. They carried on until after midnight, using sex toys and other paraphanalia. Until something went horribly wrong. Shad's mother Tara came down in the wee hours of the morning to check on her son and made a horrific and gruesome discovery that would haunt the residents of Green Bay forever. 

Show Notes:

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2023/07/26/taylor-schabusiness-and-the-murder-of-shad-thyrion/

Danny Casolaro was a journalist on the verge of discovering something huge. A U.S. Intelligence military breach, lies, scandal, computer data hackings, killings and bribery that went up to the top of the government. The conspiracy even involved President Reagan himself. So when Danny Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia, many thought he was murdered, even though the death was ruled a suicide. 

Show Notes:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81168725

David Anderson and Alex Baranyi werhe best of friends. They were also murderers. Both boys had bad childhoods and were abused. But no one could have known that they would commit the ultimate sin. 

Show Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secrets-School-Crime-Killers/dp/038080087X

Michelle Castillo was 43 years old and lived in Ashburn, Virginia in a 10,000 square foot mansion with her four young children. Michelle had recently been estranged from her husband, Braulio Castillo and had obtained a restraining order against him. She was enjoying her newfound freedom, and had just found out she had acheieved a dream of hers: to participate in the Boston Marathon in 2014. 
But little did she know that Braulio, who had moved just a few doors down from Michelle, was tracking her every move and stalking her. And then he escalated. On the night of March 19, 2014, he snuck into the house where he used to live with his family and committed the most heinous of crimes, leaving his five children without a mother and a murderer for a father. 

Show Notes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15545452/

George Peacock, 76, and his wife, Catherine, 73 were creatures of habit. So much so, that when George did not show up at a local convenience store one morning in his hometown of Danbury, Vermont to get the paper, the clerk noticed. He also did not show up for his part time job at the Rutland Travel Lodge on Sunday, September 17, 1989. Friends of the couple were asked to go check their home. 
What they saw there shocked them. Both George and Catherine were dead, and both had been stabbed multiple times. There was no forced entry into the home so it must have been someone they knew. The couple's three daughters and their husbands were interviewed, and their middle daughter, Penny, had a husband named Michael Luis whose story kept changing for the day of the murders. It would take over 30 years and modern science to finally solve the case of the senseless killings.

Show Notes:

https://darkdowneast.com/georgecatherinepeacock/

Lauren McCluskey was an excellent 21-year-old athlete who competed on the track at field team at the University of Utah. At the beginning of Lauren's senior year there, in 2018, she met a man named Sean Fields while out at a club. Sean was 28 years old and went to the local community college. Sean and Lauren started dating for a few weeks in September and October and things were going great...or so Lauren thought.
It turned out that Sean Fields was actually 37-year-old Melvin Shawn Roland and he was a criminal. Roland had been arrested many times throughout his troubled life. Once Lauren found out about his past, and the fact that he had lied to her about his age and his name, she broke it off with him.
But Melvin was not done with her. He stalked, extorted, blackmailed and harrassed Lauren so much so that Lauren went to the campus police and the local police. But no one would listen and no one would take her claims seriously. Until one night, in October of 2018, the unthinkable happened.

Show Notes: 

https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2023/03/directors-statement-nicole-noren/

Mary Lou Morris and Mary McGinnis Morris were two middle-aged women with short, dark curly hair and brown eyes. Mary Lou Morris was a bank loan officer and lived in Baytown, Texas. Mary McGinnis Morris was a healthcare medical director and lived in Sugarland, Texas. Mary Lou Morris was murdered by being burned alive in her car on a country road on October 12, 2000. Mary McGinnis Morris was murdered by being shot in the head on October 16, 2000. The two women were killed in towns that were only 30 miles apart.
The Texas police considered the women's deaths to be coincidences, since the two did not know each other and had never met. But many believe that two women with the same name, same look and who lived in neighboring towns were killed because of a case of mistaken identity. But who wanted one or both of them dead?

Show Notes:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/death-x-southwest/double-trouble-the-murders-tKFoaXqphvO/

Please call The Harris County Sherrif's Department Homicide Hotline at 713-967-5810 with any information.

Correction: Tune in in two weeks on Monday, August 26th for another Crazy True Crime Episode from The Great State of Utah.