This Week in Murder with Sean K. Robb

The Murder of Inez Phillips The beloved, elderly widow of a Texas Oil Baron is murdered in her home with a butcher knife to the heart. It’s a real-life murder mystery that ends with a bad man on Death Row. But why did he do it? What did he hope to find? And who is Stormy Summers, the femme fatale at the heart of the tale?   The tragic, brutal murder of Inez Phillips shocked the community of Gladewater, Texas and the yearlong hunt for her killer captivated the attention of the public. Now, on a brand new episode of This Week in Murder, hear all the fascinating details and draw your own conclusion about what the word “justice” really means.   But wait, there’s more: Two stories of mystery, mayhem, and murder ripped from the headlines! A haunting cold case in Minnesota is finally solved, while a trio of Russian sisters go to trial for the murder of their father. You're not gonna wanna miss this one.    It’s This Week in Murder with Sean K. Robb.

Deverrie Schiller was a beautiful, ambitious young woman with her entire life ahead of her. She had nerve, spunk, dreams, ambition and a whole lot of love in her heart. And all of that was taken from her when she was strangled to death on a Saturday night in California City’s Central Park. Dev had fought back. She fought back hard. She'd always been a fighter. But that night, it wasn't enough. Now, four years later, the question remains: Who killed Deverrie Schiller... AND WHY?   Though multiple detectives have worked the case – all arriving at the same shocking conclusion – a lethal combination of politics, money and apathy has resulted in zero arrests being made in the case. Now, on a brand-new episode of This Week in Murder with Sean K. Robb, we talk to Dev’s mother Debi, as well as legendary L.A. County Homicide Detective Timothy O’Quinn (Ret.) to dive into this real-life murder mystery and get to the tragic truth.   It’s a heartbreaking story about a young life lost to senseless and terrible violence – and a community that has so far refused to do what must be done to catch her killer, who remains at large.  Hear the whole harrowing inside story and make up your own mind – it’s The Murder of Deverrie Schiller on This Week in Murder with Sean K. Robb.   MURDERS: KELLY ANN PROSSER, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 1982 ALLYSON WATTERSON, PORTLAND, OREGON, 2019 DEVERRIE SCHILLER, CALIFORNIA CITY, 2016 

In the summer of 1984, beautiful 15-year-old California high school cheerleader Kirsten Costas is murdered on the street where she lives by a mysterious, knife-wielding assailant – a killer who appears to be another teenage girl!   Why would anyone murder one of the most popular girls at school? How did the killer know when and where to target their prey? And who, among all the girls in town, could be the shadowy killer that murdered young Kirsten?   It’s a terrifying, heartbreaking high school murder mystery... And now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole shocking story, including details of the bizarre confession that closed the case and shocked the sunny suburb of Orinda.  ALSO – An argument in an alley between two women in Iowa leads to a deadly stabbing before the killer flees in a silver Cadillac – but why??? And down in Miami, a young woman is dead and so far, police don’t have any answers. Real-life murder, mayhem and mystery on America’s favorite new True Crime podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER. MURDERS: TRACY MONDABOUGH, PELLA, IOWA, 2020 AUBREY FIGG, MIAMI BEACH, 2020 KIRSTEN COSTAS, ORINDA, CALIFORNIA, 1984 

In the summer of 1970 and in the shadow of the Manson murders, a two-day Southern California crime spree leads to the horrific killing of two young Innocents. Jerry Carlin was about to be a dad. Florence Brown was a beautiful young mother and a teacher for children with special needs. Neither deserved their terrible fate at the hands of the deranged killers known as THE SONS OF SATAN.   A shocking story that’s been buried by the sands of time, the murders of the madman Steven Craig Hurd and his bloodthirsty followers offer a harrowing peek into the tragic descent of 1960s counterculture into an ORGY of drug fueled mayhem. Jerry and Flo had their lives snuffed out for little more than cheap thrills and a couple of bucks. Now, hear the sickening details of the whole sordid story.   PLUS – Two more BIZARRE tales! A young housewife storms out of the house in the middle of a fight, climbs into the car of a passing motorist and is never seen again! Then, a tragic story out of Florida about a missing child, whose mother has a terrifying story for the cops that… keeps… on… changing.   All this and more on America’s Favorite New True Crime Podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER! 

“Something terrible has happened…”   Early one Sunday morning, a young wife and mother from the Ozarks rises from her bed to help her husband get ready for work. That’s when she finds him on their living room floor, collapsed in a pool of blood – his skull shattered. Trapped in a living nightmare that she cannot understand, Belynda Goff is arrested, charged and convicted for the brutal but mysterious murder of her husband – a man who died with secrets that may yet explain his horrible fate. But there’s just one problem: She swears she didn’t do it. A real-life Arkansas murder mystery, THE MURDER OF STEPHEN GOFF is a shocking and moving story about violence, bad decisions and one woman's strength in the face of devastating adversity.    ALSO – All of the shocking details of the incredible MANHUNT of a HOMICIDAL MANIAC in the Northeast, as well as the heartbreaking story of a young woman from Omaha who went on Tinder swiped right on a PSYCHOPATH. Featuring an interview with legendary Arkansas journalist Mike Masterson, hear all the shocking details of this incredible true-crime story on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER! 

Just a small-town girl from Oregon, Illinois, Angela Crowley dreamed of escaping the midwest for the beaches and luxury of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. How was she to know that just four months into her Sunshine State adventure, a deranged killer would turn her dreams into a nightmare? Strangled on a riverbank with her own gym pants around her neck, Angie’s Memorial Day Weekend murder almost went unsolved. Now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole shocking story, including details of the bizarre confession that ended any mystery as to who killed the former cheerleader. ALSO – TWO MORE INCREDIBLE STORIES about justice delayed, but not denied. And what is Justice anyway? A child molester gets taken out by an unlikely avenger in Omaha, Nebraska; while a pair of haunting cold cases in Virginia and Michigan are tied together by the same finger of blame. Real-life murder, mayhem and mystery on America’s favorite new True Crime podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER. MURDERS: MATTIEO CONDOLUCI, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 2020 KATHLEEN DOYLE, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 1980 AUNDREA BOWMAN, HAMILTON, MICHIGAN, 1989 ANGELA CROWLEY, CRYSTAL RIVER, FLORIDA, 1986

Just a 14-year-old kid in Louisville, Kentucky, never hurt a soul… KILLED WITH A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER. One big swing to the head, that’s all it took. It’s a terrible, tragic murder that never had to happen – and to this day the killers can’t get their story straight! Was this homicide the work of a father & son tag-team, or did one man's guilt drive him to take the blame for the sins of his progeny? It's a modern murder mystery that screams to be unpacked. If that’s not enough, this week’s INCREDIBLE NEW EPISODE features two new stories RIPPED from the headlines: A CORONAVIRUS MURDER in the Sunshine State – Did she die from the Rona, or was her ESTRANGED husband to blame? Also – AMERICA’S NEWEST SERIAL KILLER DISCOVERED! Though his crimes were committed almost thirty years ago, today’s science proves his guilt only NOW! In the early 1990s, America’s interstate highways were a DEATHTRAP for young women -- THIS monster is one of the many reasons why! MURDERS: GRETCHEN ANTHONY, JUPITER, FLORIDA, 2020 PAMELA MCCALL, SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE, 1991 BITTER CREEK BETTY, BITTER CREEK, WYOMING, 1992 I-90 JANE DOE, WYOMING, 1992 TERRENCE ZWICKER, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 2011 

On April 7, 1986, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis, 19-year-old Trisha Meredith brings a basket full of dirty clothes to her apartment building’s laundry room.    But, when her boyfriend comes to find her thirty minutes later, Trisha is dead – stuffed into a supply closet with 23 stab wounds; her throat slashed.    Despite multiple suspects, to this day, the crime remains unsolved.   Now, on a TERRIFYING NEW episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER… Who are the suspects in this real-life murder mystery? Why have no arrests been made in the case? And what will it take for the Indianapolis police to find Trisha’s killer?    Featuring an interview with the ORIGINAL LEAD DETECTIVE  on the case and a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR who has spent almost a decade investigating the murder, this UNSOLVED MYSTERY caps one of the most fascinating, most frightening, most incredible episodes of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, yet. GUESTS:  CHIEF BILL REARDON, INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT POLICE AMY IRWIN P.I., INDIANAPOLIS MURDERS: DIOGO GONCALVES, ALGARVE, PORTUGAL, 2020 KATIE LEHAN, MIDDLETOWN, MARYLAND, 2020 TRISHA KAYE MEREDITH, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 1986

William “Junior” Pierce is America’s most forgotten serial killer. Convicted in the early 1970s of killing nine men and women in an eight-month long killing spree through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Pierce was sentenced to 880 years in prison.   We first met Pierce in episode #6, when we investigated the rape and murder of 13-year-old Peg Cuttino – a crime that Pierce was convicted of. What we learned, was that Pierce was a petty criminal who was tortured into confessing to a crime that he likely did not commit.   Now, for an even closer look at the facts behind this incredible southern gothic murder mystery, Sean interviews Kenneth Young Jr., a Sumter County lawyer who tried three times – in the ‘70s, the ‘80s and the ‘90s – to prove that Pierce was innocent of the crime. Is it possible that America’s Most Forgotten Serial Killer never killed at all? How many murders went unsolved in the haste to convict an innocent man? And how does maniacal serial killer Pee Wee Gaskins fit into this story? MURDERS: GABRIELLE “BRITNEY” UJLAKY, SPRING CREEK, NEVADA, 2020 ALEX DAVIES, PARBOLD HILL, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND, 2020 ANN GOODWIN, NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA,1970            JAMES L. SIRES, BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970            VIRGINIA CAROL MAINS, GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA, 1970         MARGARET ‘PEG’ CUTTINO, SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970      JOHN FLETCHER, VIDALIA, GEORGIA, 1970         KATHY JO ANDERSON, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970 LACY THIGPEN, SOPERTON, GEORGIA, 1971   HAZEL WILCOX, HAZELHURST, GEORGIA, 1971 VIVIAN MILES, BAXLEY, GEORGIA, 1971    

The week before Christmas, in 1971, thirteen-year-old Peg Cuttino was kidnapped and murdered in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. Her murder would go unsolved, for months, until the arrest of a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of eight other men and women during a seven-month killing spree. On a brand new, very special episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, we investigate the tragic deaths of Peg Cuttino and every other victim of the man we've dubbed America's Most Forgotten Serial Killer. But what if almost everything we do know about the case, is a lie? What if Peg Cuttino's real killer was never caught? And what if America's Most Forgotten Serial Killer never killed at all? MURDERS: ANN GOODWIN, NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA,1970            JAMES L. SIRES, BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970            VIRGINIA CAROL MAINS,  GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA, 1970         MARGARET ‘PEG’ CUTTINO, SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970      JOHN FLETCHER, VIDALIA, GEORGIA, 1970         KATHY JO ANDERSON, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1970 LACY THIGPEN, SOPERTON, GEORGIA, 1971   HAZEL WILCOX, HAZELHURST, GEORGIA, 1971          VIVIAN MILES, BAXLEY, GEORGIA, 1971         

A blockbuster episode that kicks off with an UPDATE on last week’s story about Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee – direct from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.   Then, after a wild story from Florida about a roommate from Hell, we cycle through a terrible trilogy of stories of love gone very, very wrong.   In our Main Event, we launch a deep dive into the 1989 murder of Helen Bass, uncovering a scandalous mystery deep in the heart of Texas. Was the wrong man executed for her murder? Do the killers of Helen Bass roam free? Did Odell Barnes Jr. die so that George W. Bush could be president?    MURDERS:  Anna Primavere, Titusville, Florida, 2020 Larry Isenberg, Lake Coeur D’Alene, 2018; Jorge Torres Jr, Orange County, Florida, 2020; Helen Dansie, Adelaide, Australia, 2017 Helen Bass, Witchita Falls, Texas, 1989; Odell Barnes Jr., Huntsville, Texas, 2000 

This week -- three stories, three murders, three bizarre mysteries…   A tourist from Florida, celebrating her birthday in Costa Rica never makes it home. Did her killer have help? And had he killed before, perhaps just weeks earlier?   A college professor cancels class, after summoning the police to her condo. What did she do – and why did she do it?   The body of a young woman is found floating beneath a bridge in Florida, in February 1971. Who is she? Who killed her? And what can be done today to finally bring her killer to justice?   MURDERS:  Carla Stefaniak, Costa Rica, 2018 Sung Woo Nam, West Des Moines, Iowa, 2020 Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee, 1971 

We start this week with two grisly and disturbing stories that will make you wonder if love is truly dead. Then, we step back in time to 1999, when the Yosemite Park Killer murdered two women and two teenage girls in the middle of one of America's most beloved national parks. We also talk to FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Rinek, the man who cuffed and then cajoled a confession out of the notorious serial killer. Rinek shares his memories and insights about the case and tells us about his book, IN THE NAME OF THE CHILDREN: AN FBI AGENT'S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE NATION'S WORST PREDATORS. MURDERS:  Catherine Walker, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2014 Ingrid Escamilla, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020 Carole Sund, Juli Sund, Silvina Pelosso, Joie Ruth Armstrong, Yosemite Park, California, 1999

Our second episode! Two brutal stories plucked from the headlines and a deep dive on a 56-year-old murder mystery... Did Rena Paquette kill herself by lighting her own body on fire in her barn -- or did the Manchester, New Hampshire police let her killer escape town to protect the reputation of the state's Attorney General? Guests include former Manchester Police Chief Louie Craig and author Richard Baron MURDERS:  Micki Davis, Wichita, Kansas 2017 Kristy Manzanares, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2017 Sandra Valade, 1960; Pamela Mason, 1964; Rena Paquette, 1964; Danny Paquette, 1985

Our first episode! Two heartbreaking stories out of California, followed by a deep dive into the murder of Peter J. Trainor -- and one woman's quest to prove that the wrong women were hanged for the crime.