This week, we’re meeting some of the residents of California’s Death Rows at San Quentin and Chowchilla State Prisons. While we don’t believe in the death penalty, California’s moratorium on these cases means these sentences are largely symbolic gestures, and likely won’t be carried out. However you feel about the death penalty, we can all agree that these are some of the worst of the worst crimes that have ever happened in our home state.



Cases Covered:
1.Angelina Rodriguez
2. Gerald Cruz, leader of “The Camp” cult

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https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2014-feb-20-la-me-ln-court-murder-20140220-story.html

Hello Dear Twisted Listeners! This week we are doing the cases of inmates currently on California's Death Row. This is a really interesting topic, mostly because California isn't big on handing out the death penalty, but even when they do, they rarely follow through on it (the last person put to death in California was in 2006, when the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was in office.

Because it takes a lot to get the death sentences in California, you can bet that these cases are extra heinous, horrible, and wild, so get ready for some, as Diva would say, advanced level cases. We have a lot of bad men, and at lest one bad woman on this list, so tune in and enjoy (and don't worry, if you are anti-death penalty like we are, you'll be happy to know that death row in California is, at least at this point, pretty meaningless).

Cases Covered:
1. Alejandro Avila
2. The Sweetheart Murders

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Valentine’s Day may be over, but love is still in the air because this week we’re covering the twistedly romantic topic of killer couples! These couples are true matches made in hell who killed together, but didn’t always stay together, as they often turned on one another to save themselves in the end. Featuring a teen couple copying the crime spree in a notorious horror movie, a couple who lured victims through lonely hearts ads, and a married couple that terrorized Sacramento in the golden age of serial killers. We hope all of your relationships are much healthier than these toxic dumpster fires, so that you can stay way, way off our lists!

Cases Covered:
1. Gerald and Charlene Gallego
2. Erika and Benjamin "BJ" Sifrit

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Happy Belated Valentine's Day, twisted listeners! We hope you all enjoyed the 'holiday' and celebrated with someone you love. More than that, we hope you did not celebrate you love like the people from this list. These couples truly believe that those who kill together, stay together, but as these killers get caught, we see just how quickly their love turns sour, and they turn on one another! Cindy does a sub-list within a list by covering two cases inspired by Natural Born Killers, while Diva takes a broader approach with two wild, and unique, cases. So tune in as we all feel collectively better about our relationships as we judge these ones, harshly, and with good reason!

Cases Covered:
1. Sarah Edmondson and Ben Darras
2. The Lonely Hearts Killers

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This week, we turn to the vaguely “romantic” (?) topic of husbands who DIDN’T do it! In the world of true crime where husbands very often kill their wives, cases like these are exceedingly rare - but they do happen. Featuring an array of frustrating, long-overdue exonerations, prosecutors hiding evidence, and the radically cool work of the Innocence Project. Get ready to get mad, twisted listeners, and rage along with us against the fucked up justice system that ensnares so many innocent people in its sinister maw. This week especially, we hope that you stay far away from the fucked up circumstances that befell the people on this list.

Cases Covered:
1. Terry and Roxanne Wood
2. Rodney “Patrick” McNeal

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https://innocencemarch.com/rodney-patrick-mcneal/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roxanne-wood-murder-timeline-48-hours/
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2022/11/48-hours-to-feature-34-year-old-southwest-michigan-murder-solved-in-2022.html

Happy Valentines Day, Twisted Listeners! This week, we're doing a vaguely 'romantic' topic - husbands who did not, in fact, kill their wives! These cases are all very sad, very wild, and VERY angering! There's nothing quite as troubling as hearing about a person who spent years of their lives in prison for a crime they clearly did not commit, and even in cases where the accused were lucky enough to stay out of prison, the toll the accusation takes can be life ruining, to say the least. Luckily, at least in most of these cases, there is a somewhat happy ending, though truly, how happy can you be that our justic system is so rigged that this can happen, over and over? Sometimes you truly have no control over your fate, but definitely try your best to stay off this list - on both sides of the story!

Cases Covered:
1. Michael Morton
2. Doug Dilosa

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http://forejustice.org/db/DiLosa--Douglas-.html
https://www.scribd.com/podcast/418991636/S1E9-The-Wrongful-Conviction-of-Douglas-DiLosa

This week, we turn to the downright strange topic of people who posted about their crimes on Facebook. For these killers it’s not enough to just simply murder their victims, they also want to post unhinged confessions, photos, and gruesome sale listings for all their friends to see! Featuring the murder of a wholesome car enthusiast, a family annihilator with a very petty motive, and a killer boyfriend with a very stupid story. If you’re on Facebook, we hope your feeds are free of such monstrous, murdery posts!



Cases Covered:
1. Stephen John Armitage

2. Randy and Emily Janzen

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Hey there Twisted Listeners! This week we're diving into a topic that has only existed in recent years, but is a reallyl weird phenomenon: murderers who post their confessions/murders/victims on social media, and specifically Facebook.
These murderers take oversharing to the next level by posting confessions, photos of their victims, and more on Facebook after doing their terrible deeds. From rumor revenger murders to a supposed mercy kill, these cases are all over the place, but one thing they have in common is they are all absolutely horrific.
Social media can be really fun, but it can also be really scary, and none more than when killers use it to broadcast their deeds. So please, enjoy your time online, but be careful out there, and do your best to tear your eyes away from your phone from time to time to enjoy life, and definitely make sure you stay off our lists! This one in particular!

Cases Covered:
1. Mark Bent and Nik Bird
2. Kenneth Alan Amyx


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https://localnews8.com/news/crime-tracker/2022/09/06/mark-bent-appears-in-court-tuesday/
https://www.facebook.com/ktla5/posts/kenneth-alan-amyx-allegedly-killed-his-girlfriend-then-stabbed-himself-multiple-/10154328415789614/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/us/kenneth-alan-amyx-girlfriend-body-facebook-murder.html

This week, we’re covering a listener-requested list topic - murders of Chicago! Join us as we tour through some of the wildest and most horrific murders to ever take place in the Windy City. Featuring the brutal murder of a famous singer’s family, an active serial killer who’s still out and about, and two massacres of entire families. Join us and rage along as we take a crime-filled tour of Chi-town, and let us know, twisted listeners - what countries, cities, and neighborhoods would you like to hear us cover in a future list?



Cases Covered:
1. The Gage Park Massacre
2. The Chicago Strangler


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https://abc7chicago.com/diego-uribe-chicago-gage-park-murders-jafeth-ramos/12532322/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/diego-uribe-family-murder-trial-gage-park-verdict/

Hello Twisted Listeners! Thanks as always for tuning in, and for sending in suggestions for cases and list topics. This week we're doing another list sent in by an amazing listener - murders of Chicago! These cases are all really horrible, but important to discuss as beyond the murders themselves, we dive into some of the history of Chicago and why these murders take place, why they do or don't get media coverage, and how they play into a larger narrative regarding class struggles and crime. We have more than one family annihilation/parricide story, way too many murders of children, and a connection to a very popular pop singer, whose life was forever changes for the worse right as she rose to stardom. So tune in and get mad and sad with us as we cover these horrific cases and give voices to their victims.

Cases Covered:
1. Patricia Columbo
2. William Balfour and the Donerson/Hudson/King Murders

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