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The story of the Kissel brothers, two wealthy siblings murdered on opposite sides of the world within three years of each other. Robert Kissel, a Merrill Lynch executive in Hong Kong, was killed by his wife Nancy in November 2003 in a case that became known internationally as the Milkshake Murder. Less than three years later, his older brother Andrew, a Greenwich, Connecticut real estate developer facing federal fraud charges, was found stabbed to death in his own home. This episode covers both cases in full: the collapse of Robert and Nancy's marriage inside Hong Kong's expatriate finance world, Nancy's two trials and her conviction, overturned conviction, and second conviction, and the murder-for-hire investigation into who killed Andrew, including the eventual pleas, verdicts, and the question of who actually held the knife. The episode closes with where the case stands today and where to watch more, including Dateline NBC, 48 Hours Mystery, American Greed, and the 2008 Lifetime movie The Two Mr. Kissels starring John Stamos. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John "Jack" and Irene Bryant had been married for 58 years. In those years, the 80-year-old couple had hiked and kayaked from coast to coast. The outdoors were their home. Unfortunately, they were also Gary Hilton's hunting grounds. When he laid eyes on the elderly couple, he didn't see two people who had lived a beautiful life: He saw a meal ticket and a way to quell the dark cravings that had been simmering in him since childhood. What followed was the unraveling of not just a murderer, but a serial killer. An unraveling that still has us asking today: Just how many victims does he have?  - Sources:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eTYeCoYyxm58DXXdoFbHQyWHlWbcH9iKGIefFcQToW4/edit?tab=t.y2yayotxnlcb Listen to our new show, "THE CONSPIRACY FILES"!: -Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5IY9nWD2MYDzlSYP48nRPl -Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/id1752719844 -Amazon/Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ab1ade99-740c-46ae-8028-b2cf41eabf58/the-conspiracy-files -Pandora - https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/PC:1001089101 -iHeart - https://iheart.com/podcast/186907423/ -PocketCast - https://pca.st/dpdyrcca -CastBox - https://castbox.fm/channel/id6193084?country=us - Stay Connected: Join the Murder in America fam in our free Facebook Community for a behind-the-scenes look, more insights and current events in the true crime world: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4365229996855701 If you want even more Murder in America bonus content, including ad-free episodes, come join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderinamerica Instagram: http://instagram.com/murderinamerica/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Murder-in-America-Podcast/100086268848682/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderInAmerica TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theparanormalfiles and https://www.tiktok.com/@courtneybrowen Feeling spooky? Follow Colin as he travels state to state (and even country to country!) investigating claims of extreme paranormal activity and visiting famous haunted locations on The Paranormal Files Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParanormalFilesOfficialChannel - (c) BLOOD IN THE SINK PRODUCTIONS 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Part 2 of 2] We continue revisiting significant recent developments and updates from some of the biggest stories we've covered, with some of Kristi's behind-the-scenes reflections.Cases covered in this episode with approximate timestamps:Please give or take a few minutes to allow for ads.2:00 Hockey Canada Trial - high level recap of the case and our conclusions20:00 Newly-reported text exchange involving McLeod24:00 Where the players are now29:00 Personal update from Kristi (Mental toll of the Hockey Canada trial)38:00 Murder of Ronald Platt (Albert Johnson Walker update)45:00 Jacob Hoggard update47:00 Murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French (Paul Bernardo update)58:00 Murder of Kimberly Proctor (Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffatt update)1:01:00 Murders of Lyle and Marie McCann (Travis Vader update)1:03:00 Murder of Yvonne Rouleau / Nozzles Gas Bar (Terry Kennedy parole update)1:06:00 Kevin O'Leary updateFurther reading:Read our Hockey Canada Case Study [PDF download]Read My Life As a True Crime Spectacle by Heather Jane, Toronto LifeListen ad-free and early on CTC premium feeds available on Amazon Music (included with Prime), Apple Podcasts, and Patreon.Full list of resources, information sources, credits and music credits: www.canadiantruecrime.ca/episodes/219 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Lindsay Clancy case is now in the hands of the jury, with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, and lack of criminal responsibility all potentially in play. Police Off the Cuff breaks down the judge's instructions, the evidence jurors must weigh, and whether the prosecution proved Lindsay Clancy knew right from wrong. We also assess the most likely verdict and what a guilty or insanity finding would mean next. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York is caught answering an undercover prostitution ad, showing up at an Ohio mobile-home park with cash and a wedding ring still on his finger. Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling tearfully pleads guilty after her infant son is found wrapped in a towel inside a trash bag in her closet. In Livingston Parish, a local bakery is cooking up more than cakes. Counselor Karen Solomon—co-founder of a first-responder mental-health group—vanishes after her officer husband is found dead; days later her body is discovered with a gun nearby in what police call a tragic murder-suicide. A woman who sued Kenny Chesney for $300,000 loses her appeal. Iryna Zarutska's family files a lawsuit. Then we rewind to August 2003 and the Pizza Bomber case: Brian Wells walks into an Erie, Pennsylvania bank with an explosive collar around his neck, follows a scavenger-hunt note, and dies on live television when the device detonates before the bomb squad arrives. Ex-cop Sean Grayson dies in prison. A man is charged after a crane grapple takes a co-worker's head. Five people are shot in Washington. In overtime: a killer uses DoorDash to get the murder weapon, a husband tells police his wife died of postpartum depression, a mom helps her son clean up a murder scene, and a Penn State fraternity is caught forcing pledges to cut up cocaine. From NFL boardrooms to a Louisiana bakery to one of the FBI's strangest unsolved-feeling plots that actually got solved—this is the week that refused to stay quiet.Timestamps05:00 49'ers Owner Jed York Arrested in Prostitution Sting.09:00 Laken Snelling Pleads Guilty. 16:00 Dolly Parton Contest22:00 Livingston Parish Bakery Cooking Up More Than Cakes.26:39 Counselor Karen Solomon, Wanted For Husband's Murder, Found Dead. 30:22 Woman Who Sued Kenny Chesney For 300k Loses Appeal.35:11 Iryna Zarutska's Family Files Lawsuit.41:44 “The Pizza Bomber” TRUE CRIME TIME MACHINE45:45 Ex-Cop Sean Grayson Dies In Prison.50:13 Man Charged After Causing Co-Workers Head With Crane Grapple.54:00 Quintuple Shooting in Washington.OVERTIME59:00 Man Uses Doordash To Obtain Murder Weapon1:02:00 Man Charged After Claiming To Police Wife Died Due To Postpartum Depression.1:07:00 Mom Helps Son Clean Up Murder Scene.1:11:00 Man Uses Doordash To Obtain Murder Weapon1:14:00 Penn State Frat's Caught Forcing Pledges to Cut Up Cocaine.VIDEO VERSION OF CRIME WIRE WEEKLY ON PATREON can be found via either link below: Exposed PatreonUnspeakable Patreon Casey Frankoski Memorial Fundhttps://caseyfrankoskimemorialfund.org

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The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. Today, we will cover stories out of Ireland, Indiana, Montana, and Wisconsin. RTÉ's report on the documentary on the death of Kelly Marie Lynch: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0706/1582041-behind-the-story-what-happened-to-kelly-marie-lynch/RTÉ's report on the death of Kelly Marie Lynch: https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0416/1568664-independent-pathologist-questions-findings-in-kelly-lynch-death/CBS News's report on the murders of the Smith, Ireland, and Ghekiere families: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montana-family-killed-girl-hero-details-emerge/Fox 6 Now's report on an elderly woman's inadvertent foiling of scammers: https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-woman-stops-gift-card-scammersCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the days after the November 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, investigators were examining a series of phone calls made by Goncalves and Mogen shortly before they were killed. The two women had repeatedly called a man named Jack, later identified as Goncalves' former boyfriend, Jack DuCoeur, with roughly 10 calls placed between the two phones during the early-morning hours. The calls quickly attracted public attention because they occurred so close to the estimated time of the murders, but Goncalves' family strongly defended DuCoeur and said they did not believe he had anything to do with the killings. They explained that Goncalves and DuCoeur had remained close despite recently ending their long-term relationship and said the calls were not unusual in the context of their relationship.At that stage of the investigation, authorities had not identified a suspect, recovered the murder weapon or publicly explained exactly what had happened inside the King Road house, leaving a vacuum that was rapidly filled by speculation. Police said they were aware of the calls and were looking into everyone connected to the victims, but they ultimately said they did not believe DuCoeur was involved. The intense focus on him illustrated how quickly friends, acquaintances and former partners of the victims became subjects of public suspicion while investigators were still working through evidence and interviews. With no arrest yet made and few concrete answers available, the case remained highly fluid, and details such as the late-night calls took on outsized significance even though they did not ultimately establish DuCoeur as a suspect in the murders.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11447075/Two-female-Idaho-students-four-killed-phoned-mystery-man-called-Jack-ten-times.html

Six weeks after the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, Kaylee's former boyfriend, Jack DuCoeur, was described by relatives as devastated by her death and overwhelmed by the suspicion that had been directed toward him in the immediate aftermath. DuCoeur and Goncalves had dated for roughly five years before breaking up only weeks before the murders, though family members said the split had been amicable and that the two remained close. Because Goncalves and Mogen had repeatedly called DuCoeur in the hours before they were killed, he quickly became a focus of public speculation, particularly online. Police, however, investigated him and said they did not believe he was involved in the murders. His family said the accusations had compounded his grief, leaving him to mourn someone he had loved while strangers continued to question whether he had played some role in her death despite authorities clearing him.DuCoeur's family also said he was struggling with the idea of returning to the University of Idaho because so much of his life in Moscow had been connected to Goncalves. At that point in December 2022, the murders remained unsolved, the weapon had not been recovered and police had not publicly identified a suspect, creating an atmosphere in which rumors and amateur theories flourished online. Goncalves' family continued pressing for answers and raising money to potentially hire private investigators and obtain additional legal assistance as frustration grew over the lack of an arrest. The uncertainty surrounding the investigation left the families and the Moscow community in an agonizing state of limbo, while people such as DuCoeur found themselves dealing not only with enormous personal loss but also with the consequences of intense public speculation during the earliest and most chaotic stage of the case.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonnmail.comhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/idaho-college-murders-reddit-murder-house-moscow-b2250369.html

In August 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall boarded a homemade submarine in Copenhagen to interview its inventor, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen, for a story. It was supposed to be a routine assignment, the kind of work she had done all over the world. She never came back. When the submarine sank the next day and Madsen was rescued alone, he claimed he had dropped Wall off safely on shore the night before. But his story kept changing, her body was found dismembered in the waters off Copenhagen, and the investigation that followed exposed a calculated and deeply disturbing crime. In this episode of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy examines the death of Kim Wall, a talented young reporter whose curiosity took her into a killer's confined world, the shifting lies her murderer told to cover his tracks, and the chilling portrait of ego and control that emerged once the truth came to light.Head over to our YouTube channel to WATCH our video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@crimehousestudios If you're new here, don't forget to follow Murder: True Crime Stories to never miss a case! Want all 2 parts of every case all at once? Join Crime House+ and get both parts of each case dropped at once ad-free. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show's page. Murder: True Crime Stories is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios.

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York is caught answering an undercover prostitution ad, showing up at an Ohio mobile-home park with cash and a wedding ring still on his finger. Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling tearfully pleads guilty after her infant son is found wrapped in a towel inside a trash bag in her closet. In Livingston Parish, a local bakery is cooking up more than cakes. Counselor Karen Solomon—co-founder of a first-responder mental-health group—vanishes after her officer husband is found dead; days later her body is discovered with a gun nearby in what police call a tragic murder-suicide. A woman who sued Kenny Chesney for $300,000 loses her appeal. Iryna Zarutska's family files a lawsuit. Then we rewind to August 2003 and the Pizza Bomber case: Brian Wells walks into an Erie, Pennsylvania bank with an explosive collar around his neck, follows a scavenger-hunt note, and dies on live television when the device detonates before the bomb squad arrives. Ex-cop Sean Grayson dies in prison. A man is charged after a crane grapple takes a co-worker's head. Five people are shot in Washington. In overtime: a killer uses DoorDash to get the murder weapon, a husband tells police his wife died of postpartum depression, a mom helps her son clean up a murder scene, and a Penn State fraternity is caught forcing pledges to cut up cocaine. From NFL boardrooms to a Louisiana bakery to one of the FBI's strangest unsolved-feeling plots that actually got solved—this is the week that refused to stay quiet.Timestamps05:00 49'ers Owner Jed York Arrested in Prostitution Sting.09:00 Laken Snelling Pleads Guilty. 16:00 Dolly Parton Contest22:00 Livingston Parish Bakery Cooking Up More Than Cakes.26:39 Counselor Karen Solomon, Wanted For Husband's Murder, Found Dead. 30:22 Woman Who Sued Kenny Chesney For 300k Loses Appeal.35:11 Iryna Zarutska's Family Files Lawsuit.41:44 “The Pizza Bomber” TRUE CRIME TIME MACHINE45:45 Ex-Cop Sean Grayson Dies In Prison.50:13 Man Charged After Causing Co-Workers Head With Crane Grapple.54:00 Quintuple Shooting in Washington.OVERTIME59:00 Man Uses Doordash To Obtain Murder Weapon1:02:00 Man Charged After Claiming To Police Wife Died Due To Postpartum Depression.1:07:00 Mom Helps Son Clean Up Murder Scene.1:11:00 Man Uses Doordash To Obtain Murder Weapon1:14:00 Penn State Frat's Caught Forcing Pledges to Cut Up Cocaine.VIDEO VERSION OF CRIME WIRE WEEKLY ON PATREON can be found via either link below: Exposed PatreonUnspeakable Patreon Casey Frankoski Memorial Fundhttps://caseyfrankoskimemorialfund.orgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/exposed-scandalous-files-of-the-elite--6073723/support.

This week, in Naples, Florida, we go behind the curtain of a rich family, with some grown children who just seem to want to waste the whole fortune. But when this family are victims of a massive explosion, that causes carnage & chaos, there are a lot of theories. Maybe someone was mad at the drug addict, fast car racing son? Maybe they were targeted by jealous people? Maybe it was someone with a lot to gain from these people being blown to bits. A wild mystery!!   Along the way, we find out that apparently someone once thought Florida was nicer than Italy, that no matter how rich you are, you still want your children to have some direction, and that when millions of dollars are involved, no one is as trustworthy as they may seem!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!! Check us out on VIDEO Wednesday and Friday evenings on Netflix! www.netflix.com/smalltownmurder Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

In November 2014, 22-year-old nursing assistant Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was abducted while walking home in Philadelphia. She fought back during the attack and deliberately left behind her phone and glasses, hoping someone would realize she was in danger. A witness saw the abduction, called 911 twice, and provided police with crucial information. Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Carlesha Freeland-Gaither. Authorities eventually identified her abductor through DNA evidence linking him to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in Virginia. On November 5, 2014, the FBI located him at a Maryland shopping center and rescued Carlesha, who was injured but alive. You can help support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetimeVisit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation informationAn Emash Digital productionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the 1970s and early 80s, in the grittier part of Hollywood, where the money, drugs, and body hair were flowing freely, one porn star got himself enmeshed in a world of drugs and violence, a world in which no one would escape.Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.comFollow us on InstagramEpisode Sponsors:Alloy. Your sex life doesn't have to change just because your hormones did. Visit myalloy.com and usecode STRANGE for $20 off your first order!

At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia when he noticed a black BMW parked behind him. Little did the Ranger know this routine encounter was about to open the door to an investigation involving multiple missing women, a deteriorating house in North Philadelphia that has been described by the media as a house of horrors, tens of thousands of videos that depicted at least two dead women , hundreds of thousands of images, vats of chemicals, fake federal credentials and questions police are still nowhere close to answering. If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. // IG: @hellandgonepodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In December 2022, the dismembered remains of an unidentified woman were discovered by hunters in a remote area of Georgia. It would take five months and the help of genetic genealogy to finally give her a name, 40-year-old Mindi Kassotis. Mindi's husband Nicholas was arrested for her murder. But his explanation for what had happened would lead to one of the most bizarre murder trials imaginable, involving false identities, a life on the run, and a mysterious man with alleged ties to the FBI.This episode is sponsored by:Ladder: If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/TCKR and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join.Wayfair: Join Wayfair Rewards today to get 5% back on every purchase and start saving on your next home upgrade. Head to wayfair.com. Fabletics: Shop now at fabletics.com/TCKR to get 70-80% off everything when you sign up as a new VIP.Check out my foundation: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/Watch my documentaries:530 Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUWkmOjNLkApartment 801: https://bit.ly/2RJ9XXr True Crime with Kendall Rae podcast:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rks84oSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3jC66prShop my Merch! https://kendallrae.shopCheck out my other podcasts:Mile Higher (True Crime) @milehigherpodYouTube: https://bit.ly/2ROzJcwInstagram: http://instagram.com/milehigherpodThe Sesh (Current events, a little true crime, pop culture, and commentary) https://bit.ly/3Mtoz4X @the_seshpodcastInstagram: https://bit.ly/3a9t6Xr*Follow My Social!* @KendallRaeOnytInstagram: http://instagram.com/kendallraeonytFacebook: https://bit.ly/3kar4NKTrue Crime TikTok: https://bit.ly/3VDbc77Personal TikTok: https://bit.ly/41hmRKgREQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://zfrmz.com/yg9cuiWjUe2QY3hSC2V0Form for people directly related/close to the victim: https://zfrmz.com/HGu2hZso42aHxARt1i67Join my discord to chat with other viewers about this video, it's free! https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCNC O N T A C T:For Business Inquiries - kendallrae@night.coSend me mail: Kendall Rae 8547 E Arapahoe Rd Ste J #233 Greenwood Village, CO 80112

In this week's episode your fave death divas are back to talk about a shocking funeral home scandal! But first, listen in as Madison tells us some incredible survivor stories. We've got an obituary for a loopy guy, one for an American icon and so much more! Including….drum roll please….some DUMB ASS CRIMINALLLLLLLLLLLLLS! LET'S GO!   Please rate and review wherever you listen!   Watch us on YouTube: Youtube.com/@obitchuarypodcast   Buy our book: prh.com/obitchuary   Come see us live on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com   Join our Patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter   Follow along online: @obitchuarypod on Twitter & Instagram @obitchuarypodcast on TikTok   Check out Spencer's other podcast Cult Liter wherever you're listening!   Sources: https://nypost.com/2026/07/30/us-news/heavily-intoxicated-cruise-passenger-accused-of-beating-up-kids-playing-tag/ https://www.butlermemorials.com/obituaries/vander-june-huffman https://www.wbko.com/2026/01/15/metcalfe-county-couple-found-dead-after-shooting-ksp-says/ https://www.facebook.com/EricHorngABC7/videos/woman-who-held-mothers-homegoing-at-funeral-home-where-decomposing-bodies-found-/1573637084398036/ https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/south-side-funeral-homes-license-suspended-over-decomposing-bodies-and-deplorable-conditions/ https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bodies-found-decomposing-chicago-funeral-home-families/ https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/south-chicago-chapel-bodies-found-investigation-state-regulators/ https://abc7chicago.com/post/lawsuit-filed-south-chicago-chapel-funeral-home-95th-street-accused-mishandling-dozens-bodies-human-remains/19669605/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/jackie-bald-eagle-california-dead.html https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/peter-porco-s-death-detailed-580264.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Peter_Porco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pc8B9PQ0To https://www.academia.edu/59335906/Evaluation_of_survival_time_and_acting_capability_after_fatal_injuries_based_on_the_type_and_extent_of_injuries https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379073813004039 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-12649555 https://www.newspapers.com/image/915900769/?match=3&terms=peter%20porco&search-id=ba1f5f7f-0ad0-4291-b5d5-4b7baf591d06&search-rank=3 https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/man-did-his-daily-chores-until-his-last-breath-porco-case-man-died-325962-2016-05-27 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1114479/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Petry https://www.fox13news.com/news/video-florida-man-accused-driving-110-mph-claimed-he-was-speeding-catch-his-cheating-girlfriend       Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train, leaving behind a dead young man with no ticket, no labels in his clothing, and six American watches in his pockets.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Cabinet of the Unsolved” (July 27, 1978) ***WD00:45:18.840 = Suspense, “Palmer Method” (April 20, 1944)01:14:52.189 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD01:46:39.153 = The Creaking Door, “Anna” (December 21, 1964) ***WD02:13:31.289 = The Saint, “Old Man's Car” (August 14, 1949)02:37:57.359 = Theater 1030, “The Sandman” (October 31, 1954) ***WD(LQ)03:04:57.439 = Two Thousand Plus, “Brooklyn Brain” (June 21, 1950) ***WD03:33:38.132 = The Unexpected, “Mercy Killing” (1947-1948)03:48:21.926 = Nick Carter Master Detective, “Death After Dark” (February 19, 1944) ***WD04:17:37.622 = Dark Venture, “Chase” (August 03, 1946) ***WD(LQ)04:45:57.158 = Beyond The Green Door, “Eddie Fox – Hobo In Oakdale” (1966)04:49:48.810 = Tales From The Tomb, “Comfort Lies In The Dark” (1960s)04:54:06.864 = Incredible But True, “The Man Who Saw Everything” (1950-1951)04:57:22.155 = Strange Adventure, “John Friday Talks Fast” (1945) ***WD05:00:37.595 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0756

This week on Headline Highlights: The Siders case takes a darker turn as Gary Jr. and Elizabeth face new felony charges tied to an alleged conduct involving a minor. Laken Snelling has pleaded guilty to all charges and admitted in court that she intentionally deprived her newborn baby of oxygen. A woman's death initially reported as self-inflicted is now being investigated as a staged homicide, with her husband charged with murder and investigators uncovering a shocking affair. A college freshman's murder takes a disturbing turn as her boyfriend claims “demons” told him to kill her, while his mother faces charges for allegedly helping cover it up..If you're new here, don't forget to follow the show for weekly deep dives into the darkest true crime cases! To watch the video version of this episode, head over to youtube.com/@annieelise. .

After listening to 85 witnesses over the past five weeks, it appears Lindsay Clancy’s fate will be in the hands of the jury by mid-day, in a trial that has captivated the country. This morning, we will hear closing arguments from both the defense and prosecution and then jurors will be able to choose one of five verdicts, including manslaughter. Testimony concluded on Wednesday with an FBI forensic psychiatrist who testified Clancy is criminally responsible for the strangling deaths of her three young children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My conversation with Derek Sherwood, author of Nittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938–1940 and the Panic at Penn State, continues. He shares a story about trying to find the location of Faye Gates's murder, talks about another possible suspect in the Rachel Taylor case, and recounts his long, frustrating attempts to get the Taylor case files from the Pennsylvania State Police. The author's publisher page: ⁠https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/nittany-nightmare/⁠ The author's YouTube channel: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@truth_revealed2k⁠ More on his Amazon author page, including a link to his book "Who Killed Betsy? Uncovering Penn State University's Most Notorious Unsolved Crime." https://www.amazon.com/stores/Derek-Sherwood/author/B005E0586W Free shipping and 365-day returns with Quince! Refresh your wardrobe here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.quince.com/notorious⁠

In this remastered episode, Laura continues to interview Nichole Schmidt, Gabby's mum.  Laura and Nichole discuss the lawsuits and why new coercive control laws and training are important.  In honour of Gabby, listen to the conversation and share the episodes with family and friends. It might just save a life. If you want more in-depth conversations and to join the Ringleader Happy Hour with Nichole, join the Crime Analyst Squad: www.patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst  Wyoming Crime Scene Visit:  Laura recently recorded an exclusive episode based in Wyoming where she retraces Gabby Petito's final footsteps, shares new crime scene observations and behavioural analysis, and compares Brian Laundrie's so-called confession letter with what most likely happened in Gabby's final days. Join the Crime Analyst Squad and Listen here.   #GabbyPetito #DomesticAbuse #CoerciveControl #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #Prevention #Education #Awareness #SavingLives #MaleViolence #BrianLaundrie #GabbyPetitoFoundation #HerNameWasGabbyPetito  Clips     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQft-lvLIE  Sources   https://www.gabbypetitofoundation.org/  Policing Domestic Violence Book https://www.dashriskchecklist.com/resources/books  Gabby Petito Facebook Virtual Run/walk page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Virtual-RunWalk-to-Change-the-World/61563612151243/  Sign the Petition to Criminalize Coercive Control in America and Complete the Victim's Voice Survey:  https://www.laurarichards.co.uk/dv-law-reform/  Links to Episodes about Mica Francis  Mica Francis separated from John Paul Miller. She was desperate for help.. Mica Francis: Have you heard the term coercive control?  Ep 303: Mica Francis: Analyzing the Federal Charges Against John Paul Miller with Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell Mica Francis: Breaking Down the Federal Charges Against JP Miller with Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell Huge News in Mica Francis' Case. John Paul Miller Has Been Indicted Finally…  Thank You to the Crime Analyst Sponsor Who Make the Show Possible. Support The Show Through the Sponsors:    Amplify your fall look with Thrive Causemetics. Go to thrivecausemetics.com/ANALYSTS for an exclusive offer of 20% off your first order.  Find the fall pieces you'll reach for most at Quince. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to Quince.com/CRIMEANALYST. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, too.   Ready to reach your goals? Visit forhers.com/crime to get personalized, affordable care that gets you.  2026 Masterclasses and Crime Analyst Resources and Community         For more insight and knowledge, advocacy and professional development join The Crime Analyst Squad. It's a growing and dynamic community offering expert insight, in-depth conversations, exclusive episodes and videos, and live events: www.Patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst       www.dashriskchecklist.com   www.thelaurarichards.com         Subscribe to Crime Analyst YouTube: @crimeanalyst         Facebook: Crime Analyst Podcast         Instagram: @crimeanalyst, @laurarichards999         Threads: @crimeanalyst         X (Twitter): @thecrimeanalyst, @laurarichards999         TikTok: @crimeanalystpod         Website: www.crime-analyst.com         If you found this episode valuable, please consider leaving a five star review wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After listening to 85 witnesses over the past five weeks, it appears Lindsay Clancy’s fate will be in the hands of the jury by mid-day, in a trial that has captivated the country. This morning, we will hear closing arguments from both the defense and prosecution and then jurors will be able to choose one of five verdicts, including manslaughter. Testimony concluded on Wednesday with an FBI forensic psychiatrist who testified Clancy is criminally responsible for the strangling deaths of her three young children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Day 21. The last day of evidence in Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy.Judge William Sullivan opened with a line from Henry V. Four hours later, defense attorney Kevin Reddington was reading the prosecution's own opening statement out loud to the prosecution's own final witness and asking him if he agreed with it. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and senior psychiatrist for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, said the statement minimizes what Lindsay Clancy was going through.That is the state's closer telling a jury the state's theory is too small.He also gave prosecutors the cleanest planning testimony of the trial. Both things happened the same day, from the same witness, under oath.This episode walks Day 21 in chronological order, start to finish.This episode contains discussion of child death, suicide, and psychiatric crisis.If you are struggling: call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. For postpartum mood disorders, the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is free, confidential and available 24/7 at 1-833-TLC-MAMA.We Saw the Devil publishes three times a week.Website and full archive: wesawthedevil.com Patreon: We Saw the Devil Twitter: @wesawthedevil Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: @wesawthedevilpolitics Facebook: wesawthedevil Robin on Instagram: @robin_wstdBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilRobin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstdTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedevilpolitics

Kelsey Smith was 18 years old in June 2007 when an innocent trip to Target would turn in to her worst nightmare. Original air date: 7/8/2021 Listen Ad Free And Get Access to Exclusive Journal Entries Episodes: Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HEzJSwElA7MkbYYie9Jin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/themurderdiariespod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Apple: Hit subscribe/ 1 week free trail available ⁠Resources: See No Evil on ID Discovery, Season 1, Episode 1 (2015) YouTube video (summary of case and contains some surveillance footage): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kr3LiOBT9U⁠ CNN (Nancy Grace) Transcripts: ⁠http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/06/ng.01.html⁠ Article: ⁠https://web.archive.org/web/20150517121217/http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kelseys-law-helps-reunite-lenexa-parents-with-kidnapped-5-month-old-baby-in-record-time ⁠Article: ⁠https://web.archive.org/web/20080726165757/http://www.kctv5.com/news/16966786/detail.html ⁠Article: ⁠https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3249158 ⁠Article: ⁠https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19107235 ⁠Article: ⁠https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article10539872.html ⁠Article: ⁠https://medium.com/chameleon/abducted-from-a-target-parking-lot-murdered-now-she-saves-lives-6baa1117adb3 ⁠Article: ⁠https://thecinemaholic.com/where-are-kelsey-smiths-parents-now/ ⁠Blog: ⁠https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19751202/kelsey-ann-smith ⁠Wiki: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelsey_Smith#cite_note-disappeared-3⁠ Music Used: Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne Link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ License: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our Links: Link Hub: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://msha.ke/themurderdiaries⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/themurderdiariespod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.landispodcastediting.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Original Air Date: January 13, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Challenge of the YukonPhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• Paul Sutton (Sgt. Preston) Writer:• Fran Striker Producer:• George W. Trendle Director:• Fred Flowerday For more great shows check out our site: https://www.otrwesterns.comExit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK

April 9, 2025, a two-day pretrial hearing for Bryan Kohberger commenced at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time in Boise, Idaho. Kohberger, a former criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University, is accused of the November 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students: Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves. This hearing aims to address several pivotal motions that will shape the forthcoming trial, scheduled to begin on August 11, 2025.Key topics to be discussed include the admissibility of specific evidence, such as Kohberger's Amazon purchase history, which reportedly shows he bought a Ka-Bar knife months before the murders. The defense seeks to exclude this evidence, arguing it could be misinterpreted and unfairly prejudice the jury. Additionally, the court will consider the relevance of Kohberger's autism spectrum disorder diagnosis concerning death penalty eligibility. Judge Steven Hippler will preside over the proceedings and may issue rulings during the hearing or in subsequent written decisions.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Momentous evidentiary hearings await Bryan Kohberger ahead of Idaho student murder trial

At a recent motions hearing for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the University of Idaho student murders, both sides clashed over critical pieces of evidence and the defense's attempts to challenge the prosecution's case. The judge denied several of the defense's motions, including a bid to dismiss the indictment due to grand jury irregularities. Kohberger's team had argued that the grand jury was misled by an unreliable FBI genetic genealogy analysis and that it violated proper legal standards, but the court found the indictment sufficient to move forward. The defense also tried to suppress certain pieces of evidence, such as cell tower data and body cam footage, claiming they were improperly obtained or prejudicial—efforts that mostly failed.However, not everything went the prosecution's way. The judge did grant the defense more time to scrutinize some of the state's key evidence, particularly DNA and cellphone data that tie Kohberger to the crime scene. These materials were initially withheld or delayed, and the court acknowledged the defense's right to fully analyze them. The ruling opens the door for further challenges to the state's forensic evidence in the future. While the case remains on track for trial, the hearing showed that the defense still has leeway to poke holes in the prosecution's foundation, especially on the scientific evidence front.The question  is, will they be successful?to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:What happened at Bryan Kohberger's hearing? | Fox News

Paulette Sutton was one of the prosecution's forensic experts in the case against Bryan Kohberger, and her specialty was crime-scene reconstruction and bloodstain-pattern analysis. Sutton reviewed the blood evidence documented inside 1122 King Road, including the location, distribution and characteristics of stains throughout the house, in an effort to help reconstruct what happened during the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Her analysis dealt with issues such as transfer stains, drip patterns, the movement of blood through the scene and what the absence of certain expected patterns might mean. Sutton originally issued her report in August 2024 and later revised it in February 2025 after receiving additional materials, including reports prepared by defense experts.Sutton's role became especially important because the defense retained its own crime-scene reconstruction experts, including Matthew Noedel and Dr. Brent Turvey, who challenged portions of the prosecution's interpretation of the physical evidence. Her revised report therefore did more than simply describe the blood evidence; it also responded to those competing defense theories and explained why she believed certain features of the scene supported her conclusions. Had Kohberger's case gone to trial, Sutton was expected to help prosecutors walk jurors through the bloodstain evidence and explain what it suggested about movement, contact and activity inside the house during and after the attacks. In that sense, she would have been one of the State's key witnesses for translating the chaotic physical scene into a forensic reconstruction of how prosecutors believed the murders unfolded.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource: 030326+REDACTED+Exhibits+S-1+through+S-13+to+States+Amended+Supp+Resp+to+Rqst+for+Disc+RE+Expert+Testimony.pdf

The students were assembled outside their school building, waiting for another school day to begin. Until tragedy struck this small village school and community. A teacher was found murdered inside her own classroom. So, who would want to murder her and why?APPLE FOR THE TEACHER tells true crime stories relating to schools.Hosted by Ana Thomas, a teacher from Australia.Disclaimer - Tyler Allen at the Minds ofMadness Podcast - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mindsofmadnesspodcast.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Send voice mail - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/applefortheteacherpod/message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠applefortheteacherpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/AppleforTeacher⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/apple_for_the_teacher_podcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/applefortheteacherpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the heart-wrenching case of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy. In February of 2018, Marissa was found dead in her Stockton Springs, Maine home after it was discovered that she had been horribly abused for months. Following her death, DHHS reports became available and it was clear that many attempts had been made by teachers, healthcare providers and neighbors for the little girl to get help, but she was failed every time. Tune in to hear the crushing details of the last few months of Marissa's life and the devastating result of abuse at the hands of her parents.

With closing arguments on the horizon in the Lindsay Clancy trial, Roberts examines Clancy's successful innocence fraud campaign and explains why Clancy shouldn't get off easy from murderering her three children but may get off with a slap on the wrists. Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murder of her three children- Cora (age 5), Dawson (age 3) and Callan (age eight months). The prosecution alleges Clancy planned and murdered her children in a methodical and calculated manner. The defense alleges Clancy murdered her children during a postpartum psychosis or bipolar episode.Show Notes:Court TV “Devastating Moment Patrick Clancy Found the Kids Dead” - https://youtu.be/XCbH9A3MyA4?is=a68rdPk0BDnmzpAEUS News “Lindsay Clancy is Not Safe” - https://youtu.be/ZkEPwAzKeEo?is=h3KsiF5WyiQqU5wB Court TV “Lindsay Clancy Lawyer..” - https://youtu.be/Q0yBhs3d9uk?is=N5YnVhUNZ2a_ElHd WCVB “Karen Read Supporters..” - https://youtube.com/shorts/j7J8UgyIrb0?is=CmyPKmCAQ5hk4RaUTrue Crimes Podcast “Lindsay Clancy Trial Unpopular Opinions” - https://youtu.be/KVCSQIe_-BY?is=ndckOgUKEnbgMZshRead the court documents here- https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/clancy-search-warrant-applications-6538020282ac9.pdfLindsay Clancy Arraignment- https://youtu.be/3ueFBcu-uW8?is=H9WuPSDc_iB7YNMoInnocence Fraud Watch “Why Did Kevin Reddington Choose to Kiss Butt of Aidan Kearney..” - https://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2024/08/10/killer-karen-read-retrial-why-did-lawyer-kevin-reddington-praise-aidan-turtleboy-kearney-on-his-rolling-rally-witness-intimidation-stunt-which-targetted-his-then-client-jennifer-m/True Crimes Podcasts "13 Reasons Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Seems Suspicious" -https://youtu.be/l89et2IOGR4?si=5xtpN8dr_limhuEuTrue Crimes Podcasts "Commonwealth 911 Call" -https://youtu.be/l89et2IOGR4?si=GiEy4tQv_OlhfEK3Get access to exclusive content & support the podcast by a Patron today! https://patreon.com/robertaglasstruecrimereportThrow a tip in the tip jar! https://buymeacoffee.com/robertaglassSupport Roberta by sending a donation via Venmo. https://venmo.com/robertaglassBecome a chanel member for custom Emojis, first looks and exclusive streams here: https://youtube.com/@robertaglass/joinThank you Patrons!Beth, Shelley Safford, Carol Mumumeci, Therese Tunks, JC, Lizzy D, Elizabeth Drake, Texas Mimi, Barb, Deborah Shults, Ratliff, Stephanie Lamberson, Maryellen Sudol, Mona, Karen Pacini, Jen Buell, Marie Horton, ER, Rosie Grace, B. Rabbit, Sally Merrick, Amanda D, Mary B, Mrs Jones, Amy Gill, Eileen, Wesley Loves Octoberfest, Erin (Kitties1993), Anna Quint, Cici Guteriez, Sandra Loves GatsbyHannna, Christy, Jen Buell, Elle Solari, Carol Cardella, Jennifer Harmon, DoxieMama65, Carol Holderman, Joan Mahon, Marcie Denton, Rosanne Aponte, Johnny Jay, Jude Barnes, JenTheRN, Victoria Devenish, Jeri Falk, Kimberly Lovelace, Penni Miller, Jil, Janet Gardner, Jayne Wallace (JaynesWhirled), Pat Brooks, Jennifer Klearman, Judy Brown, Linda Lazzaro, Suzanne Kniffin, Susan Hicks, Jeff Meadors, D Samlam, Pat Brooks, Cythnia, Bonnie Schoeneman-Dilley, Diane Larsen, Mary, Kimberly Philipson, Cat Stewart, Cindy Pochesci, Kevin Crecy, Renee Chavez, Melba Pourteau, Julie K Thomas, Mia Wallace, Stark Stuff, Kayce Taylor, Alice, Dean, GiGi5, Jennifer Crum, Dana Natale, Bewildered Beauty, Pepper, Joan Chakonas, Blythe, Pat Dell, Lorraine Reid, T.B., Melissa, Victoria Gray Bross, Toni Woodland, Danbrit and Toni Natalie.

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This week we get into 1989's Gleaming the Cube. Christian Slater. Tony Hawk. Rodney Mullen pulling stunt duty. Pizza hut. Murder. Skating. Espionage? What the fuck is a cube gleam? There's so much to talk about, so let's get right on to it, shall we? Rambunctious rapscallions ripping the road with reckless rage, rampantly remediating ‘rruption and ripping like renegades while ramping for revenge! Pizza Hut chases in the Terminator tunnel! Major Asian vibes! Super hose water cuts! Christian Slater, Anger Skater! Kevin Bacon angrily dancing! Rummaging through daddy's desk! Gleamin' in the streets, cubin' in the sheets! Car chase cop sandwich thing?! www.theworstmovieevermade.com

After listening to 85 witnesses over the past five weeks, it appears Lindsay Clancy’s fate will be in the hands of the jury by mid-day, in a trial that has captivated the country. This morning, we will hear closing arguments from both the defense and prosecution and then jurors will be able to choose one of five verdicts, including manslaughter. Testimony concluded on Wednesday with an FBI forensic psychiatrist who testified Clancy is criminally responsible for the strangling deaths of her three young children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the mid-1960s, McDonald's sued a tiny Mobile, Alabama fast-food chain called Colonel Dixie — over golden arches, green sidewalks, red and white trash cans, and a stolen operations manual. Colonel Dixie won on the trademark claim and went on to become a beloved local institution, famous for the Dixie Dog. But the brand still carries a whiff of scandal, because in 1983 its co-founder, Paul Leverett, was convicted of hiring a hitman to murder his wife.Elizabeth "Liz" Leverett was killed while her husband drove their children around Mobile in a carefully constructed alibi. She had decided that week to file for divorce. The case went cold — until a burglary across town led investigators to a pawn shop owner, a stolen diamond hidden in a necktie, and an x-ray taken years earlier. Lagniappe journalist Kevin Lee tells us how it unraveled.Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠ Connect with Jed Lipinski:⁠https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/

Between November 1938 and May 1940, Margaret Martin, Rachel Taylor and Faye Gates were abducted and sexually assaulted, their bodies dumped within 50 miles of Penn State College. My guest is Derek J. Sherwood, author of Nittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938–1940 and the Panic at Penn State. He discusses the murders and investigators' attempts to determine whether a serial killer was responsible, all set against the backdrop of the college. The author's publisher page: https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/nittany-nightmare/ The author's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@truth_revealed2k Free shipping and 365-day returns with Quince! Refresh your wardrobe here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.quince.com/notorious⁠

True crime has always been entertainment, but social media has turned tragedies like the Lindsay Clancy trial into monocultural moments. It's not enough to read the news, many people who are especially tuned-in are also spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories as part of participating in the larger fandom. On today's episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Leah Carroll, a true crime writer and author of the book Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder, to discuss the impact of social media's obsession, and how Leah's own experience with family tragedy informs her perspective on true crime. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode is a triple threat of truth!Our first episode is taking a deep look at the 1995 study performed by Elizabeth Loftus called the lost in the mall study. This study has been used to justify the existence of “false memories“. We are going to show the truth behind this scientific study that has been used to silence, the voice of millions of abuse survivors. Effectively disproving Elizabeth Loftus, the existence of false memories, and therefore the existence of the false memory syndrome foundation.Then we have a discussion on operation GCD all about the murder of Kurt Cobain and the truth that nobody has been told since 1994.Lastly, is a deep dive into MK ultra and a lot of aspects that never get covered by other content creators or other researchers. There are many aspects to MK ultra that never get discussed and we are going to discuss them here today!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cult-of-conspiracy--5700337/support.

How can the Fast Drafting method help you finally finish your novel? And how do you make progress when you only have 30 minutes a day to write? Jessica Brody shares her tips for finishing first drafts after 20 years as an author. In the intro, Clive Barker's Kickstarter, The Amazon Tax [Seth Godin]; Trad publisher announces “human-originated, AI-facilitated” book, The Everything Code [PanMacmillan; AI policy; CHAPTR]; Holy relics, churches, and memento mori in Bruges and Brussels. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Jessica Brody is the best-selling author of over 20 novels across different genres and age groups, as well as writing for Disney Publishing. She's also the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and other books and courses for writers at the Writing Mastery Academy. Her latest book is Page One to Done: Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method. You can pre-order with bonus extras at JessicaBrody.com/preorder You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why a small advance can set you up for long-term success Why 97% of first drafts are never finished How to finish a novel writing 30 minutes a day Why drafting and revising are two different jobs How a pre-writing ritual primes your brain for flow Writing a meta murder mystery after 20 years of teaching plot You can find Jessica at JessicaBrody.com and WritingMastery.com. Transcript of the interview with Jessica Brody Jo: Jessica Brody is the best-selling author of over 20 novels across different genres and age groups, as well as writing for Disney Publishing. She's also the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and other books and courses for writers at the Writing Mastery Academy. Her latest book is Page One to Done: Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method. So welcome to the show, Jessica. Jessica: Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm so honoured to be here. My writing community speaks so highly of this podcast, so I'm excited. Jo: Oh, well, thank you, and you were requested, so this is going to be a good one. First up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Jessica: Well, I started writing when I was seven. I like to put in air quotes, I wrote my first, quote, “novel” when I was seven. It was about three pages long. I got the bug very early. I didn't realise it was an actual career choice that you could take seriously until way later in life, after I'd already graduated college with a degree in economics and I was working as a financial analyst, and I was just writing on the side for fun. Then, as luck would have it, I got laid off from my job, and I ended up trying to take writing a little bit more seriously in that time. That's when I found the Save the Cat method, which absolutely changed everything for me. Before that, I had loads of rejection letters, and I eventually sold my first novel to St. Martin's Press, and I've been writing and publishing ever since. That was 20 years ago now. Jo: 20 years, wow. It's so interesting. So you were in economics, you were a financial analyst, and you got into writing. Did you have any pushback from either your own brain that was like, “I cannot make money this way,” or your family? Or how did you make that leap? Because we just hear that it's not a career, financially, really. Jessica: I know, and I think I went into it very blindly, using television as my resource of this is how much money I can make writing. Like Sex and the City, she was selling books for lots of money. So I was like, oh, I just have to sell one book, and then I'll be set. That was not the case. My first advance was so much lower than I expected, and what happened, though, was kind of interesting. I sold my first book, way lower advance than I was hoping for. I wasn't making any money anywhere else, so I was taking on all these odd jobs that I could do in my own time. I was doing transcription work, and I was working at a school half the time. I mean, I just had so many really weird jobs. I think what happened was, because I didn't have another financial net to help me, it just pushed me really hard. So once I sold one book, I was like, well, I need to sell another one and another one, and I ended up in this 20-year cycle, which I've slowed down thankfully, since, but of writing so obsessively, I should say. I just kept selling books and selling books. My advances got higher and higher, and eventually I was able to support myself with my writing, but it was not instant at all. Jo: Actually, that's a really good note there, because we often hear so much of these debuts that get paid a ton of money, and then they disappear, and they almost spiral down. Whereas what you've done is spiral up. Which is almost a better way to do it perhaps, with your reputation with traditional publishing. Jessica: It's funny, I tell this story a lot to writers who are looking to get published, that the big advance is not necessarily the end-all be-all. Because I have heard that story before, someone gets a very big advance, and then it doesn't earn out, and they can't sell another book because the publisher's lost money. I had the opposite experience. My advance was so low, and my publisher got worldwide rights. They bought worldwide rights. So they started selling foreign rights of my first book really early on, and I earned out before the book even came out, with just a few foreign sales. That ended up setting me up for success, because I was making money for the publisher from day one, and I was able to sell more books, and so I sort of worked my way up. I really do credit a lot of that to how long I've been able to stay in this game. Jo: No, it's a good way of thinking about it, because people forget the publisher isn't a charity. The publisher has to make money from your book. So it's nice that you make money, but they have to make money, or they're not going to bother, right? Jessica: Yes, exactly. Jo: So let's come back to Save the Cat, because you mentioned that the original method really changed how you write, and then of course you did Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. So I've got that. I imagine a lot of people listening have got that. Tell us a bit about why that methodology made such a difference to you, and why you think it's so useful. Jessica: Well, you'll sense a theme here. I went into this business, like I said, without knowing a lot, and I went into it the way I think a lot of writers do, which is, I had an idea, I sat down, and I tried to write it. I had no guidance, no map, no structure, and I just wrote. I actually finished something, which is surprising, but then I started to get all these rejection letters that basically said similar things, which was, “You're a good writer, you have a good voice, but there's no story here.” I just didn't understand that feedback, because I had finished something. I could print it out and stack it on my desk. Wasn't that a story? Apparently it was not. Then a screenwriter friend of mine that I was talking to about how I was getting all of these rejection letters with the same note said, “You should read this book that recently came out. It's called Save the Cat, and it's for screenwriters, but I think it could work for novels because it just seems to be all about structure and storytelling.” So I read the book cover to cover so quickly, because if anyone's read the original, it's just so readable, and everything started clicking in my mind. I realised, wow, I really don't know how to tell a story. I could plot out everything I had done wrong, and I went back to my book and I started rewriting it from page one with this new structure in mind. When I finished that, I ended up getting an agent for that book, and the agent sold that book. I've been using the method ever since. It just made so much sense to my brain. What I tell writers is, “Use the method that makes sense to your brain.” All storytelling structure methods are basically telling the same story, just with different words, sliced and diced a little bit differently, but structure is structure, and a story is a story. It has to have a beginning, middle, and end. It has to have conflict, it has to have a middle twist, and things like that. So this one worked for my brain, and I started to teach it to other novelists, because at the time there was still just the screenwriting guide. So I started to teach how I was using it to other novelists, and that turned into the book, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. Then I wrote a young adult version of it as well. And I still use it to this day. It's just something that's always made sense to me. Jo: So were you hired by the estate? Blake Snyder died, right? So were you hired to write that, or is that something you arranged? Jessica: It was kind of something that was arranged. I think Blake Snyder Enterprises is the name of the company. Blake Snyder died in 2009, sadly. When I started using the method, I was blogging about it on my blog, and I would share some of my beat sheets of the novels I was writing. The people who had taken over his estate reached out to me and said, “Hey, can you blog for us? Because we don't have a lot of novel content on our blog. We just do screenplay stuff.” And I said, “Of course.” I had a fangirl moment. Oh my gosh, they've reached out to me and this is so exciting. So I started blogging for them, and then that turned into the workshops that I started doing with them. Then we partnered up on the book. I think it was one of those things that felt inevitable, like we were just working toward it. I was living in LA at the time. They're based in LA. And I remember having breakfast with them, and we all just looked at each other and said, “So we need to write a book, right? There has to be a book.” So we ended up sharing the copyright, and, as you see from the title, it says based on the books by Blake Snyder. It's very much his method. Then I brought some of my novel flair and some of my own little tips and tricks that I had picked up over the years and applied it to his method. Jo: I love that. We are going to come to your other book for writers in a minute, but just on that intellectual property sharing, writing in other markets, you also write for Disney Publishing. This is so fascinating to me. Now, there are lots of people who do write for other properties. So how did that come about writing for other properties, and how does that fit into your portfolio of the things that you do? Jessica: Yes, writing for other properties is really fun. It's probably not for everyone. You have to know what you're getting into before you pursue it, because it's very much not your IP. You're writing under someone else's brand, you're in their canon, and there are certain rules you have to follow. So you have guidelines. I found it to be really fun and kind of a break from some of my own stuff, because I didn't have to come up with everything. I didn't have to invent all the new worlds and all the new characters. A lot of them were just given to me, and I could play within the boundaries of that sandbox, and I really found that inspiring. So what happened actually is I was on a writing retreat with a bunch of other writers, and there was a writer at the retreat who already wrote for Disney Press and was supposed to write this new series for them, based on their Descendants series. She said to me, “I really can't do it, but I'd love to recommend someone else to them.” I think we had been talking about how big of a fan I was of Disney or something, and she said, “Do you want me to recommend you?” And I said, “Yes, absolutely.” Another big fangirl moment. So the editor of that series reached out to my agent. They talked to me. They got writing samples from me through my agent, and then before I knew it, I was hired to write, I think the first contract was maybe for two or three of the books, and then we renewed for a few more. It was just really fun. Then I formed a relationship with that editor. We ended up working on another series for younger kids, based on the Disney Princess LEGO series, which was much younger and new for me. It had illustrations. That was a whole new challenge, but I found it really fun. As I said, it was a nice break from writing my own things, because I could write them fairly quickly. They did have very fast turnarounds at the publisher too, but I could use my skills for structure and storytelling and apply it to a world that already existed, and it was a nice pairing. Jo: I love this. So much of what you've done seems to have come from relationships or just putting yourself out there in the world. Jessica: Yes, good observation. I hadn't thought of that. Jo: Whereas I think a lot of people think that it's all about cold pitching. It's not so much, from what you're saying. Jessica: Yes, and I did another IP project with Simon & Schuster called Boys of Summer, which was a young adult novel. That one specifically came from my agent. So a lot of times publishers will reach out to agents and say, “Here's what we're doing. Do you have authors who would fit?” And my agent will often reach out to me and say, “Here's the pitch I got from a publisher. Are you interested in submitting yourself for this?” That's what happened with Boys of Summer. They actually sent out an outline to a bunch of writers who were interested, and I had to write sample chapters to the outline, or I think it was the first couple of chapters or something. I was very gratefully selected to write it. That came about from having an agent, and a lot of times having an agent is a way into IP work. And then those connections can help too. Jo: Fascinating. Right. Well, let's get into your book Page One to Done, which as I said, one of my listeners actually requested to have you on the show to talk about this book, because she said it was absolutely fantastic and helped her finish her book. So why finishing? What is the problem? Why write a book on actually finishing? What are some of the common issues that people have? Jessica: Well, thank you to that listener. I really appreciate it, and here I am because of you. Connections once again. So Page One to Done came out of my own struggle with finishing, and not just finishing, but finishing efficiently and maintaining joy throughout the process of writing a novel. As I said, I was writing very fast and furiously, and my deadlines were piling up, and I started to feel like writing a novel stopped being fun. It started to become a very frustrating process, and I realised that was a lot about how I was approaching the first draft, which, as most writers know, the first draft is very hard. When I started to look further into it, I found this statistic online that's widely accepted in the writing community, which is that 97% of first drafts are not finished. Which is, wow, mind-blowing, but also not that hard to believe once you think about the challenges of writing a first draft. Taking an idea from a seed, developing it into a full plot with character development and arcs and subplots and side characters and themes and all the things that you think a story should have, getting that all onto the page and actually reaching the end. It's very, very difficult, and I never lie about how difficult it is. So I was struggling to finish things quickly, to enjoy the process, and I noticed that other writers were too. I felt like, well, I have this plotting guide that I love, this structure guide, Save the Cat! Shouldn't this be easier once I have an outline? And it wasn't. And that, I think, is because we forget that there's another part of the process. It's not just about developing a compelling character. It's not just about having a well-paced plot. You have to be able to get ideas out of your head and onto the page in a way that doesn't make you want to quit. I think one of the problems with the first draft is most of us write something down, it does not match what's in our head, and we start to get more and more frustrated. The process becomes overwhelming. We're holding too much of the story in our head. We're going back to page one to revise with every new idea we have, so it starts to slow down. The farther we get into the book, the longer that back to page one process takes, and things start to spiral out of control. I think that's essentially what happens to this 97% of first drafts. The writer quits because it's not good enough. It doesn't match what's in their mind, and there's too much to hold, and it starts to become overwhelming. So this is what was happening to me. Even though I was finishing things, the process was still very overwhelming, and I started to experiment with different things. Different mindset shifts that I could make, different ways I could change my writing routine to really enhance the process, to get into flow faster, to stay in flow for longer, things like that. It took me about five years, and I developed this collection of mindset shifts and strategies and routines that I could not only apply to myself, but I turned it into a system that was repeatable, and I started teaching it in my Writing Mastery Academy. I called it the Fast Drafting method, and it's all about letting go of this idea that our first draft has to be perfect or even that good, and just focusing on getting ideas down as quickly as possible, even if that creates a big mess. It's this freeing process of doing that in a way that we don't get in our own way. So I started teaching it to other writers. People were finishing things who had never finished things before. Writers who had taken two years to write a first draft were writing first drafts in weeks. The biggest comment I was getting was, “This is so freeing. This is so liberating. This is so fun.” And it gave people the motivation that they needed to actually sit down and revise the book. Before, either they never finished, so they never got to the revision process, or they were so overwhelmed and bogged down by the two years it took for them to write one draft, they didn't have the energy to revise and get it to the next level. So anyway, all of this is to say it was working for me, it was working for other writers. I turned it into a book called Page One to Done, and it's my three-phase process, mindset, preparation, and drafting, which I equate to running a marathon. You wouldn't run a marathon without proper training and proper nutrition and the right mindset, just like you wouldn't write a novel without the right mindset, the right preparation, and the right skills you need to get to the end. Jo: That's fantastic. You mentioned training there and some of the routine changes. So I hear new writers say, “Oh, I can't write unless I maybe have two hours or three hours to write down stuff, and I never have three hours at a time, so I never have time to write.” I hear that a lot. So what would you say to those people? What is a routine and a mindset shift that might help those people? Jessica: That's great, and I hear that all the time too. I interviewed a handful of authors for this book who had gone through the fast drafting method with me, and I would say the majority of them wrote for 30 minutes to one hour a day and were able to finish their books in a matter of weeks to maybe two months. That's because what I teach in the book is not about the amount of time you have. It's about how you use that time. When you really structure your day and your writing time with intentionality, you do whatever you can to block out distractions, get into flow, stay in flow. I'll give you one amazing tip that basically solves all of these things in a second. But when you really bring intentionality to those 30 minutes, you can write more in 30 minutes than you can in three hours without bringing these kinds of intentional choices. So that's one of the things I teach. You don't need more time. You actually just need to approach the time you have with the right mindsets and the right intentions. So one of the biggest shifts I tell people is just don't write and revise at the same time. For one, it pulls your brain in two different directions and creates the requirement of context switching, because essentially drafting and revising are two different jobs. Drafting is getting ideas out of your head and onto the page. Revising is polishing those ideas. They require very different headspaces and very different skills. So when we try to do both of them at once, we're pulled in two different directions. We're essentially trying to polish something we haven't even figured out yet, so we're polishing in the dark, if you will. It causes our brain to snap back and forth so many times. The term context switching is very big in the zeitgeist today, and that's because it's eating up our brain capacity. So if you spend 30 minutes just getting ideas down without judging them as they're coming out, without trying to revise them as they're coming out, you will get a lot of words down. A lot of that has to do with just what do you expect out of those 30 minutes? If you expect to write a chapter of absolutely brilliant polished prose, you're probably not going to do it, and you're going to feel like you wasted three hours. Then the next time you have three hours, you're like, “Well, no, I'm not going to do that. It's too frustrating, and I don't have three hours to begin with.” But if you sit down with the idea of, “I'm going to get all my ideas down. I'm going to just enjoy this process and live in my story for these 30 minutes,” you will be amazed at how much will come out onto the page. And you can absolutely finish a book that way. So intentionality is how you set up your workspace. Making sure that your phone is on do not disturb, making sure there are no pop-ups on your screen, making sure there are not even windows open behind your document. Every time your mind thinks about something else, you have to bring it back, and that eats brain power. So it's things like that. I have a whole chapter on how to set up a writing routine. One of the biggest tips I give people is to do what I call a pre-writing ritual. This is based in neuroscience, and there are all of these studies that back this up, that our brain does something where it associates an activity with another activity. So let's say right before we sit down to write, every time we do that, we do 10 jumping jacks, just as an example. But we only do 10 jumping jacks before we write. We don't do 10 jumping jacks before we sit down to do our taxes or answer emails. It's just before we write. Your brain starts to create this associative link with jumping jacks and writing. These are ways that we can prime our brain to get into the writing mode, and after doing that a handful of times, you do your jumping jacks, and your brain is literally already in your story before you sit down. It starts to soften that resistance that happens when we think, “Oh, I have to go write now,” or, “I've got to go write a certain amount of words,” or, “I have to work with my story.” It softens that, where it just becomes, “Oh, this is what I'm doing now.” Setting up these pre-writing rituals, which could include jumping jacks, could include something else, a lot of examples we can explore if you want, creates that associative link and allows us to get into the writing zone even faster. So by the time we sit down, we're already primed to go. We're not wasting a lot of that time going, “Oh, should I do it now? Should I do it later? I've got to open my document. Oh, my coffee's a little low.” All the things that we do to delay writing. They start to fall away. Jo: Yes, I mean, I always tell people, you and I turned up on time. We arranged this. We respect each other. We turn up, and we're doing this within a time slot. So I always say to people, “Look, make a calendar entry for your writing,” and do you respect your writing enough to turn up on time and do the work? We had a few minutes of saying hi or whatever, and then we got on with our work, which was this interview. So if you've arranged to start writing for that half an hour, then it is work still, right? You need to turn up and honour that. Jessica: Yes, and actually I have the same tip in the book. I say put it on your calendar, block it off. For the reasons you said, it creates in your brain the idea that this is a serious thing. It's not just a, “Oh, I'll get to it when I get to it,” like folding the laundry. It's like, no, this is what I've decided to do, I'm serious about it, I respect it. Just like any other appointment that you would respect, like lunch with a friend or an important business meeting, you show up for it. You don't go, “I think I'll show up to that business meeting in a few hours when I feel like it.” Also it keeps the routine consistent, because one of the tips I give is to always write at the same time every day if you can, because again, that associative link created in your brain, that habitual routine. So if you put it in your calendar for the days that you're going to write, you won't schedule over it by accident, which is just another logistical thing. I say something similar to what you just said, Joanna, in the book, which is basically, if you booked a massage for an hour, you would stay for the hour, right? Because you paid for this massage. Jo: Hell yes. Jessica: It's important to you. You're not going to get up in the middle and start texting your friends. You want your massage. If you treat your writing like any other thing that's important to you and show up for it consistently, it will show up for you, too. Jo: Yes, and I think the other misconception is that, okay, so that person has made it, and they're at the desk. I listen to rain and thunderstorms in my headphones. That's kind of, I guess, my routine. But that doesn't mean that I can just stream something wonderful. You talked about separating the writing and the editing, but sometimes it really is pretty basic, right? Morgan walked into the room. That will often be my thing, and then I'll be like, “Okay, well, why?” And what was the room like? Or was it even a room? So sometimes you just have to start writing something rather than wait for a perfect sentence. Jessica: Oh, yes, absolutely. Waiting for the perfect sentence, you'll be waiting for a long time. I say waiting for inspiration, you'll be waiting for a long time. My joke is, if I waited to write only when I felt inspired, I'd finish a book about every 20 years, if that. I think that's very important, and I teach a lot of tips and tricks in the book on how to get past that resistance, because of course, we don't want to just sit down and write something that we don't like. We don't want to just write down, “Oh, she stared at her computer for 10 minutes.” But sometimes we have to write that down to get to the next sentence or the next plot point or whatever barrier is in our mind. So one tip I'll tell people is put things you don't like in brackets, the square brackets. It's a really simple tip, and it's one of the tips I share in the book. Just put it in brackets and move on. What the brackets do, at least for people who use it, is it's like scaffolding. It's a reminder to your brain, this isn't permanent. This isn't going to stay. I'm going to come back to this later and fix it once I figure out what the story is and what she's actually doing in the room at this moment. For now, it's there. It's on the page. I can move past it. For me at least, the brackets are just this really nice reminder of the scaffolding. Nope, nope, nope, not perfect, not permanent, moving on. Then you can come back later and flesh it all out. I share a lot of anecdotes from my 20 years of writing novels, and one that I particularly like is I was working on a novel, and I had this scene that was just so awful, where all of my characters were sitting in a room. I had no idea what room it was or what it looked like, and they were talking about their feelings. It was just so awful and boring, but I had to get through this scene because I had to establish certain things that came later. I was complaining and complaining about this scene. I was on a writing retreat at the time, and my writer friends were like, “Let's just do a writing sprint, and we'll all write really fast, and we'll all get through our bad scenes, and we'll move on.” So I did that. I moved past the boring scene. It was still boring all the way to the end, but here's the thing, I couldn't figure out what happened in that scene until I'd figured out the whole story. So I wrote the bad version, and then in the next draft I came back and I was like, “Oh, this scene should take place on this bridge that I wrote in the finale that I didn't even know I needed, and it's this very symbolic bridge, and they can be standing on the bridge, and then they should be talking about this because that's going to pay off in the third act,” and I hadn't even thought of that yet. So all the things were coming together, but I could never have come up with that at the time. If I had just sat there and tried and tried, I probably would have gotten stuck at that scene and quit. So I had to just write the bad version, move past it, and come back later. Jo: Yes, and I think maybe because you're famous for structure, people think that maybe you wouldn't have to do that, because you already came up with that in the plotting. It sounds like you're also putting in those elements and foreshadowing and deepening things in the edit. So that's quite comforting for me as a discovery writer, because I end up doing so much more of that kind of thing in the edits. Jessica: Well, something I like to say is that we're all discovery writers, just different degrees. Because the writing process, no matter how much you plot in advance, is always going to be a discovery process. There are always going to be things you didn't think of. There's always going to be a way to tie things together that you never could have thought of before you started writing. So much of the story evolves and gets processed on the page and in your mind as it's coming out onto the page, and it's delusional to think you can think of all that before you start engaging with the characters. You can come close. I've known writers who have come very close, but almost all writers will discover something that they didn't know in the outline. I would argue that that's actually the fun part of writing. It's not the days when writing goes exactly to plan. They're nice, but they're not necessarily the fun parts. The fun parts are when you sit down to write the scene you thought was going to be the scene, and suddenly this new detail appears, and you go, “Oh my gosh, this totally unlocks everything, and I never even thought of it.” It could be in a text message. It could be on a billboard. It could be something the character just blurts out that you weren't expecting, and suddenly your whole story comes together in that moment, or maybe just the scene comes together. It's those moments, I think, that we write for. So even just expecting the book to come out exactly as you plotted is one of those mindset shifts. If you shift it and think, “This is really fun. I get to discover new things about my story that I wasn't expecting,” that, again, just makes the process a little more fun. So instead of, “Oh, this isn't what I thought it was going to be,” or, “This isn't what I outlined,” which is focusing on what's wrong with the book, it becomes, “Oh, wow, this is teaching me something I never expected about my story, and that's pretty cool.” Jo: Yes, I think that moment, Carl Jung called it, I guess, synchronicity, the moment when these things come together and it feels just incredible, that's the moment we all look for. It does seem to happen on every book. Everything clicks into place, and I look forward to that moment with every book. I did want to ask you about a novel that you have coming out soon as we record this, called How to Write a Murder. Now, this is a new genre for you, and it's quite meta because it's about writers as well. So talk about writing a brand new genre now at this point in your career. What are the challenges of trying to reach a new audience? Why do this book now? Jessica: Wow, great question. I love challenging myself to do something new. I wrote contemporary for many years and then thought, “I'm going to try a sci-fi.” Or, “I'm going to try middle grade now.” I think I go where the story wants, where I'm inspired to go when it comes to story ideas. However, with mystery, it's been one of those things that's always been on the back of my mind, like a wish list, a bucket list. I want to write a murder mystery. I just never had the right idea. Or I never had the time, or I never had the space. Then I finished my last novel contract, and I took a break, because I had been writing on deadlines for years. I took a very, very much needed break from deadlines. For the first time in I think 15 years, I did not have a book deadline. I just asked myself, “Jessica, what do you want to write?” As opposed to, what's the next book that's due? And the answer was very clear. I want to write that murder mystery. I toyed with a few ideas, and then I started to think about, okay, so I wrote this book on plot that a lot of people know and use. What if someone used that book to plot a literal murder? What would that look like? This meta explosion came to mind, which is that I wanted to write a murder mystery that's structured like a plotting guide for murder mysteries. The characters in the book are all writers who are familiar with this plotting guide, and the events of the story are unfolding like the plot of a murder mystery according to this book. You have no idea which one of them is actually using the book to plot the murder, because they all know the book. So one of the taglines is, “One dead body, seven mystery writers, and they all know how to get away with murder.” It was sort of my culmination of everything I'd done in my career. All the plotting workshops I'd taught, all the revision courses I'd taught, and of course this plotting structure method I'd been teaching for years, and I put it into this book. It's a fictional version of Save the Cat! It's called The Bestseller Formula. The premise of this book is that someone is using a murder mystery plotting guide to plot a literal murder. So the reader is learning how to write a murder as they're reading about the murder on the page. Jo: I love it. I know lots of people are going to want that. It does bring the business side of things into more difficulty, because of course you have readers, like you mentioned middle grade, you've got YA books, and obviously, I guess, the writers that you teach will be interested. How is this going to work for your book marketing and your business? Because it also sounds like this might be a standalone. Jessica: It is a standalone as of now. I have some sequel ideas, but we're not pursuing them yet. It is a different market for me, for sure, and that's become a challenge as I'm marketing, because I'm not in the thriller mystery space yet. I haven't written a novel for adults since the very, very beginning of my career. I've been mostly writing for teens and middle grade. The good news is most of my teen readers are now adults, because it's been so long since I wrote for teens. So there's that. I think the book will appeal to mystery readers just because it's a fun mystery, and there's a fun meta element to it. I think it's going to appeal to writers as well. So I'm very much leaning on that, at least for the launch. I hope my writer community will get behind this book, because it's very much an ode to storytelling. It's an ode to writers. I dedicated it to writers. As a writer, you will understand this book on a level that a reader never will. You will get so many of the little inside jokes that a reader might just skim past. So I did very much write it for writers, with the hope that readers will also enjoy it. I had the most fun writing it I've had, I think, of writing any book. Partly I think that was because I wasn't writing it under deadline. I was just writing it for me, but also just because it felt like the book I'd been destined to write for so long. Jo: Fantastic. So we're out of time. So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? Jessica: How is that possible? I feel like we just started. JessicaBrody.com is the best place to find everything. If you're interested in my writing courses, you can check out WritingMastery.com as well. Jo: Well, thanks so much for your time, Jessica. That was brilliant. Jessica: Thank you, Joanna. I had so much fun.The post From Page One To Done: Fast Drafting Your Novel With Jessica Brody first appeared on The Creative Penn.

***Due to time constants, this episode is unedited. Day 20 was the last full day of evidence in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and it was the strangest day of the whole five weeks.The morning belonged to Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, the forensic psychologist the Commonwealth hired to explain postpartum psychosis to a jury. On cross examination, Kevin Reddington established that Heilbrun last treated a patient with postpartum psychosis in 1982, has never published a word on it, wrote his only article on psychosis in 1977, and has been paid roughly $54,000 at $300 an hour.That same witness told jurors Lindsay Clancy committed what he called altruistic filicide. That she killed her three children out of love, so they would not be left behind or suffer without her after she took her own life. The prosecution has argued for five weeks that this was planned and methodical. Their own expert just told the jury it was despair.The afternoon belonged to Dr. Gregory Saathoff, forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and a senior psychiatrist for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. He gave that jury something no witness had given them in five weeks: a moment by moment account of how Cora, Dawson and Callan died, sourced entirely to Lindsay Clancy's own words. The refrigerator. The chicken nuggets. The 5:34 phone call. The voice. The order. And then he spent the rest of the day taking it apart.We go through the whole day in order, gavel to gavel, because the order is the argument.In this episode:The Monday mistrial motion, and why "mortal sin" has now been put in front of this jury twice.Heilbrun's direct: bipolar two, peritraumatic dissociation, and the eighteen minute problem. "Why the basement. Who among the children goes first. What do you say to the kids to keep them from panicking."The cross: 1982, the $54,000, the "beast" question, the day program in Rhode Island that would not take her, and Reddington standing behind Lindsay Clancy's wheelchair.Saathoff's five attacks on the voice, including the line that is going to end up in closing arguments: "Committing the act is not curative of the voice. I've not ever seen that."Why the chicken nuggets are contested evidence and not a poignant detail.The circus outside the courthouse, the livestream, and the TikToker the defense actually tried to put on the stand.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilRobin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstdTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedevilpolitics

Part Two of Two Part Series In January 2022, a welfare check at a quiet apartment on 11th Street NW in Canton, Ohio, uncovered a brutal scene. 26-year-old Tiara Janae Burch was found unresponsive on the floor of her home. She had been stabbed multiple times. What began as a routine call quickly became a homicide investigation that would expose a calculated break-in, robbery, and killing.Timestamps04:37 Yellow Car Leads Police13:55 Vincent at the Funeral22:59 Asia Emerges as Suspect30:13 Strange Alibi Story40:42 Jealousy and Old Threats49:26 Arrests and Guilty Pleas#unspeakable #podcast #crime #truecrime #TiaraBurch  

True crime has always been entertainment, but social media has turned tragedies like the Lindsay Clancy trial into monocultural moments. It's not enough to read the news, many people who are especially tuned-in are also spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories as part of participating in the larger fandom. On today's episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Leah Carroll, a true crime writer and author of the book Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder, to discuss the impact of social media's obsession, and how Leah's own experience with family tragedy informs her perspective on true crime. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

True crime has always been entertainment, but social media has turned tragedies like the Lindsay Clancy trial into monocultural moments. It's not enough to read the news, many people who are especially tuned-in are also spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories as part of participating in the larger fandom. On today's episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Leah Carroll, a true crime writer and author of the book Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder, to discuss the impact of social media's obsession, and how Leah's own experience with family tragedy informs her perspective on true crime. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**Pre-recorded for Patreon**We're back in the sex fight saddle (you'll get it) and ready to rock!This month, Zee, Danielle and Randall recount GnH's 4th episode, Six Yeet Under, where the gals covered the cases of Blanche Monnier and Room 1046.And as always...shit gets a lil banoons.Stalk us here!Merch - ghosts-n-heauxsTwitter - ghostsnheauxsInstagram - ghosts_n_heauxsFacebook - GhostsnHeauxsPodcastAnd don't forget to send your stories to ghostsnheauxs@gmail.com

On the night of August 1, 1986, 21-year-old Diane Sindall was making her way home across Birkenhead after finishing a shift at the Wellington Hotel. When her van ran out of petrol, Diane continued on foot along Borough Road. She was seen walking with a man shortly before she disappeared, and within hours, her body was discovered nearby. What followed was one of the most horrific murder investigations in Merseyside's history.Diane's murder triggered a huge police investigation and a desperate search for the man responsible. But as detectives worked to identify their suspect, the investigation took a devastating turn. Peter Sullivan, a vulnerable 29-year-old local man, was arrested and eventually convicted of Diane's murder. He would spend 38 years in prison maintaining his innocence, while the forensic evidence that could potentially identify the real killer remained beyond the capabilities of the technology available at the time.In this episode of British Murders with Stuart Blues, I examine the murder of Diane Sindall, the investigation that followed, the conviction of Peter Sullivan and the extraordinary miscarriage of justice that robbed an innocent man of almost four decades of his life. We explore Diane's final movements, the hunt for her killer, the controversial police interrogation and evidence used against Sullivan, and the forensic breakthrough that finally changed everything. Above all, we remember Diane, a 21-year-old woman with a wedding to plan and dreams of opening her own florist shop, while examining the question that has haunted Merseyside for almost 40 years. Who really killed Diane Sindall?If you know something that could lead to the arrest of Diane's killer, please contact Merseyside Police by calling 101, or pass information on anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.Exclusive content:Patreon - Ad Free, Early Access, Exclusive EpisodesFollow the show:British Murders with Stuart BluesDisclaimer:The case discussed in this podcast episode is real and represents the worst day in many people's lives. I aim to cover such stories with a victim-focused approach, using information from publicly available sources. While I strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised. Thank you for your understanding and support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The deadliest marine disaster on the west coast of North America occurred in Lynn Canal on October 24, 1918, but few people have ever heard of it. Approximately 345 people died when the SS Princess Sophia slid off Vanderbilt Reef and sank. Did the captain's recklessness cause the disaster, and did his poor decision-making doom the passengers and crew of the Princess Sophia? Sources SS Princess Sophia Expedition. Available at: http://www.princesssophia.org/history Sullivan, Toby.  12/12/2018. The Sinking of the Princess Sophia. Kodiak Daily Mirror 10-10-2018. The Sinking of the S.S. Princess Sophia. The Juneau Empire. ______________ Now Available More Stories of Murder and Mystery in Alaska ________________ Join the Last Frontier Club’s Free Tier and receive updates, bonus episodes, and more. ______ Robin Barefield lives in the wilderness on Kodiak Island, where she and her husband own a remote lodge. She has a master's degree in fish and wildlife biology and is a wildlife-viewing and fishing guide. Robin has published six novels: Big Game, Murder Over Kodiak, The Fisherman's Daughter, Karluk Bones, Massacre at Bear Creek Lodge, and The Ultimate Hunt. She has also published two non-fiction books: Kodiak Island Wildlife and Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier. She draws on her love and appreciation of the Alaska wilderness as well as her scientific background when writing. Subscribe to Robin’s free, monthly Murder and Mystery Newsletter for more stories about true crime and mystery from Alaska. Join her on: Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Visit her website at http://robinbarefield.com Check out her books at Amazon Send me an email: robinbarefield76@gmail.com ___________________________________________ Would you like to support Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier? Become a patron and join The Last Frontier Club. Each month, Robin will provide one or more of the following to club members. · An extra episode of Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier is available only for club members. Behind-the-scenes glimpses of life and wildlife in the Kodiak wilderness. · Breaking news about ongoing murder cases and new crimes in Alaska _______________________________________________________________ Merchandise! Visit the Store                        

Stars Bar Murders ////// 951 Part 1 of 1   www.TrueCrimeGarage.com This week, we step into the Garage to look at a double homicide from 2023. Shortly after closing time, Jessyca Hohn, along with her coworker and best friend, Katie Dunke, were both shot and killed just steps outside of the Stars Bar & Grill. On May 21, 2023, a physical altercation occurred in the parking lot of the bar at which both women worked. This was just one of the events that led up to the double homicide.    Beer of the Week - Mexican Lager with Lime by Great Lakes Brewing Company Garage Grade - 3 and a half bottle caps out of 5    More True Crime Garage can be found on Patreon and Apple subscriptions with our show - Off The Record.  Catch dozens of episodes of Off The Record plus a couple of Bonus episodes and our first 50 when you sign up today.    True Crime Garage merchandise is available on our website's store page.     Follow the show on X and Insta @TrueCrimeGarage / Follow Nic on X @TCGNIC / Follow The Captain on X @TCGCaptain    Thanks for listening and thanks for telling a friend.  Be good, be kind, and don't litter!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.