Murder Was The Case

Doc gives an update about where you can listen to MWTC going forward.

Author and attorney Kerrie Drogan drops into the divebar to talk about her book 'Aurora' and the conditions which give rise to the American mass murder epidemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doc and private investigator Jason Jensen decide to re-examine the murder of JonBenet Ramsey... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doc shares some thoughts on the Idaho student murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two and a half years after rioting in the USA and calls to defund the police, Doc and Rafael Mangual look at how crime rates in the USA and New York City have changed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We recap the most chilling, touching, grizzled, and funniest moments of 2022 along with heroic guests, best fight stories, academies, and dive bars. Join patreon.com/murderwasthecase to cast your vote! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 3. Lee talks with 'Criminal Perspective' podcaster Chris Duett about writing to murderers and rapists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 3. Lee talks with 'Criminal Perspective' podcaster Chris Duett about writing to murderers and rapists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 3. Lee talks with 'Criminal Perspective' podcaster Chris Duett about writing to murderers and rapists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 3. Dr. Peter Vronsky introduces us to Sonia Ruiz-McGraw, the granddaughter of homicide victim Lorraine Montalvo McGraw, who details her dealings with her traumatised family, the police, and an ageing serial killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 3. Dr. Peter Vronsky introduces us to Sonia Ruiz-McGraw, the granddaughter of homicide victim Lorraine Montalvo McGraw, who details her dealings with her traumatised family, the police, and an ageing serial killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 3. Dr. Peter Vronsky introduces us to Sonia Ruiz-McGraw, the granddaughter of homicide victim Lorraine Montalvo McGraw, who details her dealings with her traumatised family, the police, and an ageing serial killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lee meets MWTC favourite Dr. Oren Amitay in his Toronto office for a primer on the psychology of domestic abuse - physical, sexual, and mental. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lee reconvenes with Dr. Peter Vronsky, Nate Hendley, and Robert Hoshowsky in Toronto for the first time since 2019 to see what the boys are doing and meet Mexican author Lichita Valadez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 7 of 7. Lee and Blaine determine whether it was logistically possible for Robert Askins to be the 'Freeway Phantom' and turn their attentions to a cluster grave in Suitland, Maryland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 6. Blaine reveals the primary suspects in the Freeway Phantom murders from the horrific Green Vega Gang to unhinged chemist Robert Askins. But do they fit the profile and is there enough evidence to convict? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 5. Blaine responds to Lee's offender and geographic profiles. The revelations are intriguing.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a month of consideration, Lee formulates a 13-point offender profile of 'The Freeway Phantom'. Attached to this post you will find a map reflecting the geographic aspects of the profile and a photograph of Walter Fauntroy working for MICCO in Anacostia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After lying dormant for 10 months, the killer returns to reap a grim harvest in the fall of 1972. Author Blaine Pardoe reflects on the final known slayings of the elusive 'Freeway Phantom', as Lee prepares the evidence for an offender profile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Blaine Pardoe and Lee continue to explore the lust murders of young black females in Washington D.C. in 1971, focussing on victims #4 and #5: 'Nino' Yates and Brenda Denise Woodward. When a short but revealing letter is found on the body of Brenda Woodward, a portrait of the 'Freeway Phantom' begins to form...  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 7. Six black females are abducted from Washington D.C. and found raped and strangled at the side of major roads. The killer mocks and misleads the police. Has he escaped justice? Blaine Pardoe, author of 'Tantamount', joins Lee in the divebar to riff on the murders of Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, and Brenda Crockett at the hands of the 'Freeway Phantom'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you look at a crime scene and determine aspects of a perpetrator's personality? When profilers say an UNSUB has a military background, how do we arrive at that conclusion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On April 30, 2003, Avi Tabib stopped a mass murder... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Baum, security expert and managing director of Green Light Ltd, discusses profiling at airports, concerts, and other events. What are the utilities? Controversies? How was terrorist Salman Abedi able to murder 22 people at an Ariana Grande in 2017 even though he was deemed suspicious by security?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 2. What is the state of the British prison system? Is rehabilitation a right or a privilege? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 2. Former defense attorney Peter Lamb gives Lee an overview of organized crime and narcotics in the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doc lays out the origins of the mafia in Sicily, its importation to the New World, and evolution through Prohibition into Five Families and a formal hierarchical structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second instalment of Under the Hood, in which Doc compares suspects to his Zodiac profile, K appears to talk about the man who has been driving her nuts for over three years: convicted rapist Kevin Coe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 4 of 4. Slender Man Stabbers vs Jihadis. Charles Manson & MKUltra. Stephanie Coyle unsolved killing. Neurodevelopmental markers of sex offenders. Psychopathy in serial murder. Gary Ridgway. Jeffrey Dahmer. Dennis Rader. Dennis Nilsen. Paul Bernardo - classic psychopath. Flat vs Shallow Affect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 4. Zodiac. Jack the Ripper. Long Island Serial Killer. Israel Keyes. David Fuller. HH Holmes. Serial Killing: addiction vs compulsion. Body counts. David Parker Ray. Gallows humour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 4. Personality disorders: dimensional vs categorical. Biology and mental health. Insanity, IQ, and criminal responsibility. Reality and delusion. Rorschach. Malingering. Rosenhan experiment. Delusional disorder. Schizophrenia. QAnon. Pizzagate. Timothy McVeigh. UNABomber. Anders Breivik. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 4. Mafia. Terrorists. Jihadis. Cults. Nazis. Jihadis. Michael Franzese. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano. Richard Kuklinski.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forty-five years ago this summer, 18-year-old Laura Long disappeared and was found murdered in Claremore, Oklahoma. Doc speaks with filmmaker Cade Thomas, whose recent documentary 'Laura' explores the unsolved killing and those still haunted by it. You can watch the film on YouTube at: part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YCB7k3khT4 part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plMAMO5H5WU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Murder Was the Case is moving up in the world and Citizen Detective is rearing it's lovely head. Twenty minute update that has been a long time in the making Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Sweet T from the True Crime Film Festival in Athens, Georgia. Meet Tab Ballis - a social worker in Wilmington, North Carolina and director of the unforgettable 'Park View' about the 1990 murder of Talana Kreeger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

n the first of three conversations with true crime filmmakers in Marietta, Georgia, Doc goes over the suspicious 1997 conviction of Melvin Ortiz with his fiancee and the three students who made 'Needle in a Haystack'.   Watch 'Needle in a Haystack' here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFX9PWM9aQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweet T. Doc speaks with Cameron Munson, founder and director of the True Crime Film Fest in Marietta, Georgia.  This conversation is an introduction to three films we will be looking at in the month of May.   Link to leave Doc a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/murderwasthecase   Link to MWTC Youtube videos page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg1HBTX-thidDu5H1yuB3cw Films:  'Laura' (part 1 of 2): https://youtu.be/7YCB7k3khT4 'Needle in a Haystack': https://youtu.be/-RFX9PWM9aQ 'Mountain Time': https://youtu.be/8yq50nXrazI 'Park View': https://vimeo.com/ondemand/parkview 'Big Trouble in Little Quartzsite': https://legallyinsanefilms.com/films Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 3. Doc joins a cadre of Floridiots to talk about the legendary 'Florida Man', Bathsalts, and some of the most bizarre and brutal crimes in Floridian history. Warning: intoxicated masculinity discussing extremely graphic content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 3. Doc joins a cadre of Floridiots to talk about the legendary 'Florida Man', Bathsalts, and some of the most bizarre and brutal crimes in Floridian history. Warning: intoxicated masculinity discussing extremely graphic content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 3. Doc joins a cadre of Floridiots to talk about the legendary 'Florida Man', Bathsalts, and some of the most bizarre and brutal crimes in Floridian history. Warning: intoxicated masculinity discussing extremely graphic content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 4 of 4. Doc, Cloyd, and Suzanna descend on a Nashville hotel room to catch up in person for the first time since 2019. Final Tennessee episodes in the Murder Was the Case Sweet T southern tour! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 4. Doc, Cloyd, and Suzanna descend on a Nashville hotel room to catch up in person for the first time since 2019. Final Tennessee episodes in the Murder Was the Case Sweet T southern tour! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 4. Doc, Cloyd, and Suzanna descend on a Nashville hotel room to catch up in person for the first time since 2019. Final Tennessee episodes in the Murder Was the Case Sweet T southern tour! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 4. Doc, Cloyd, and Suzanna descend on a Nashville hotel room to catch up in person for the first time since 2019. Final Tennessee episodes in the Murder Was the Case Sweet T southern tour! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 3 of 3. After more than two years of pandemic-abetted Prohibition, Lee gets hammered in Nashville with author and criminologist Judith A. Yates and learns about "Fast Food Killer" Paul Dennis Reid and his victims before stumbling rat-arsed into West Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 3. After more than two years of pandemic-abetted Prohibition, Lee gets hammered in Nashville with author and criminologist Judith A. Yates and learns about "Fast Food Killer" Paul Dennis Reid and his victims before stumbling rat-arsed into West Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 3. After more than two years of pandemic-abetted Prohibition, Lee gets hammered in Nashville with author and criminologist Judith A. Yates and learns about "Fast Food Killer" Paul Dennis Reid and his victims before stumbling rat-arsed into West Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of 2. Doc sits down with Dr. Nancy Locklin-Sofer at Maryville College to learn about a 1920s east Tennessee serial killer she unearthed for her History of Murder class.  How did she stumble across The Night Marauder? Who was this mysterious fiend? Can we still solve this case today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of 2. Doc sits down with Dr. Nancy Locklin-Sofer at Maryville College to learn about a 1920s east Tennessee serial killer she unearthed for her History of Murder class.  How did she stumble across The Night Marauder? Who was this mysterious fiend? Can we still solve this case today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doc stops into the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to learn about Bundys, and Gacys, and bears, oh my! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2. Sweet T (Georgia). Landen Wilson describes his role as a death investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) until finding himself at the centre of a media scandal that cast him into a professional Land of Nod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices