61. The St Aubin Axe Murders

Benny Evangelist immigrated to the United States in 1904 from Naples.  The devout Catholic started going into trances where he claimed to have visions from God.

Soon, Benny was starting his own religion and writing his own Bible.

 
Benny then began to sell love potions, hexes, and amulets and would charge upwards of $10 a day for his services.  Within no time, Benny was seeing around 75 people a day.

wax and paper mache dolls found in Benny's house

wax and paper mache dolls found in Benny's house

On July 3, 1929 Benny's real estate agent came by to finish some paperwork on a farm Benny was purchasing.  What the man found would shock the community and become one of Detroit's most gruesome murders.

Crowd gathers as the Evangelist's bodies are taken to the morgue

The macabre funeral parade to the Evangelist's funeral

Evangelist house then and the land where it once stood.

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Executive Producer: Dick Vane

Sources:
https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders
http://benny.weirdlectures.com/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/98927628/?terms=benny%2Bevangelista
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49798712/?terms=benny%2Bevangelista
http://coldcaseshardcopy.blogspot.com/2011/07/divine-profetil-author-and-private.html
https://www.miamighostchronicles.com/stranger-than-fiction/the-detroit-ax-murder
http://www.evansmedia.org/mysteriyes/2017/7/20/evangelist-family-murders
https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2018/11/the-evangelist-murders.html
https://www.facebook.com/SaintAubinMovie/posts/the-year-is-1929-and-detroit-is-bursting-at-the-seams-immigrants-from-the-edges-/151727104991726/
https://99wfmk.com/benny-evangelist-murders/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97680862/?terms=benny%2Bevangelista\
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97391733/?terms=benny%2Bevangelista%2Bdetroit
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97676536/?terms=robert%2Bharris%2Bjames%2Bsmith
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97673720/?terms=robert%2Bharris%2Bjames%2Bsmith%2Bcult
http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/paranormal-state-the-hexes-and-hauntings-of-pennsylvania/
https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/oldest-history-of-the-world-ebook.html

60. Left For Dead

A daughter’s worst nightmare was about to become reality. After several unanswered phone calls to her mother, Katrina knew something was not right . As she pulled up to her parent's home, she noticed all the cars were still parked where they always were.  Katrina made her way around the back of the house and that is when her stomach dropped. The back door was clearly broken and was hanging slightly open. The gruesome sight inside would horrify a community but the killers were not finished yet. What they would do next, would be beyond comprehension.  Join Jen and Cam as we discuss Left for Dead on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast.

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Sources:https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1396226.html
https://www.wtvm.com/story/31258816/special-report-east-alabama-boys-gruesome-murder-remembered/
https://accesswdun.com/article/2004/2/177170https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/02/19/shocking-2002-dash-cam-video-shows-moment-cop-finds-butch-bowyer-with-his-throat-cut-after-he-and-his-son-were-left-for-dead-in-shallow-grave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0lM0xjxQlMhttps://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/DA/20040210/news/603217234/GT/

59. The Snuff Film Killers

About 30 miles southeast of Kansas City, Mo, a man comes across a freshly filled in hole close to his favorite place to fish.  Brushing away some of the loose dirt, the man discovers the nude body of Marsha Spicer.

Police have no leads until a women comes forward telling them of a man she had been with that had some sick and violent sexual fantasies.

Soon police find a trove of videos. Upon viewing the homemade tapes, the police are shocked and disgusted by what they find.

Join Cam and Jen as they discuss The Snuff Film Killers.

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Executive Producer is the Amazing Dick Vane

Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/True-Crime-Missouri-Notorious-Criminal/dp/0811707083/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=true+crime+missouri&qid=1570648429&sr=8-3
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/paraphilias
https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/sexuality,-gender-dysphoria,-and-paraphilias/sexual-sadism-disorder
https://www.newspapers.com/image/208400112/?terms=marsha%2Bspicer
https://www.newspapers.com/image/208421475/?terms=dena%2Briley%2Brichard%2Bdavis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/208391479/?terms=dena%2Briley%2Brichard%2Bdavis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/208217716/?terms=dena%2Briley%2Brichard%2Bdavis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/564110441/?terms=dena%2Briley%2Brichard%2Bdavis
https://www.kfvs12.com/story/4935203/fugitives-now-charged-with-murder-still-on-the-run/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/152027730/?terms=marsha%2BSpicer
https://www.foxnews.com/story/fbi-grisly-videotape-murder-couple-caught-with-5-year-old-child
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/kansascity/press-releases/2009/kc061509.htm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4895766/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2992938/?ref_=ttep_ep5
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195238/Michelle-Huff-Ricci-murder-Couple-plead-guilty-horrific-meth-fueled-sex-slayings-mother-four.html
https://www.missourinet.com/2016/04/05/appeals-denied-for-missouri-man-sentenced-to-death-after-videotaped-attacks-on-women/
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article307721/Couple-plead-guilty-in-2006-sex-slaying-in-Clay-County.html
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/fromwhisperstorfr/dena-riley-rape-murder-sodomy-marsha-spicer-tbd-t11912.html
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3191614/richard-d-davis-v-state-of-missouri/?type=o&q=author_id%3A4928+OR+panel_ids%3A4928
https://www.examiner.net/article/20080807/NEWS/308079778

58. Dead on the Water

Craig Alaska is a beautiful fishing town on the coast of Alaska located about 1000 miles south of Anchorage. The final fishing weekend has come to a close. The docks are full of the people turning in their last big catch so on September 5, 1982 when a fancy fishing boat named The Investor comes to the docks, it catches a lot of attention. It was not your ordinary working boat. It was a 58 foot fishing vessel with all the bells and whistles that would have cost over $800,000. It stood out among all the others.

 The following morning, people noticed the boat was not docked but floating aimlessly out at sea. What would happen next would shock onlookers and create more questions than answers … some of those questions remain unanswered to this day. Join Jen and Cam as we discuss Dead on the Water on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast.

Our True Crime Podcast is researched and written by hosts Cam and Jen. The show is produced and edited by Nico @wetalkofdreams.
Listener Discretion is recorded by the fabulous Edward October of @octoberpodVHS.
Promos from our friends at @suspiriapodcast and @DarkerSidePod


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https://www.villagebooks.com/event/litlive-leland-hale-031619
The book: if case you want to buy it: https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Craig-Alaskas-Unsolved/dp/1941890229

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/coulthurst-family-murders-148837/
https://people.com/crime/people-explains-investor-fishing-boat-murders-alaska/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7n5ymm/35_years_ago_a_family_of_4_and_4_deckhands_were/

https://www.adn.com/arts/books/2019/01/12/what-happened-in-craig-true-crime-novel-delves-into-unsolved-fishing-boat-murders/

https://people.com/crime/john-peel-interview-alaska-investor-fishing-boat-murders/

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/10/12/what-happened-in-craig-trying-to-piece-together-one-of-the-states-most-perplexing-murder-mysteries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig,_Alaska

57. Alone in the Dark: The Savage Murder of Peggy Reber

1968 is considered to be the most turbulent year in US history. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy. The Tet Offensive of the Vietnam war that killed hundreds US soldiers and wounded thousands more.  Riots and protests were happening not only in the US but all over the world.  And let's not forget the Zodial Killer took his first victims in December of that year.

But there's one violent death you won't find on Wikipedia-at least not to date.  The brutal murder of 14 year old Peggy Reber.
Her murderer is still out there.

Join Cam and Jen as we discuss the case of a young girl who was left alone for the weekend and savagely attacked in her own bedroom.

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And newly announced Producer of OTCP Nico of wetlkofdreams.com

Executive producer Dick Vane


Resources:

Justice DENIED The Unsolved Murder of Peggy Reber by Michelle Goodwin 

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/death-in-the-househttps://www.amazon.com/Justice-DENIED-Unsolved-Murder-Peggy-ebook/dp/B007X5HFTO/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2GJHHDUYC2US4&keywords=justice+denied&qid=1569433450&s=gateway&sprefix=justice+denied%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-4-of-broken-hearts/article_8066f634-1485-5c7b-872e-0e056e896239.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_sanitation_strike
https://www.afscme.org/union/history/mlk/1968-afscme-memphis-sanitation-workers-strike-chronology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/timeline-seismic-180967503/
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/death-in-the-house-of-broken-hearts/article_8066f634-1485-5c7b-872e-0e056e896239.html
https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2018/05/24/peggy-reber-murder-heres-what-happened/633047002/
https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2018/05/24/grieving-mother-faced-insults-blame-after-peggy-rebers-brutal-murder/632649002/
https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2018/05/24/50-years-later-unsolved-peggy-reber-murder-still-haunts-lebanon/623907002/
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/justice-is-curbed/article_5184821c-5b3b-554d-b790-a788b6dd0941.html
https://lebanoncounty.blogspot.com/2009/07/peggy-reber.html
https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2008/12/24/happy-new-year-peggy-reber/
https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2008/12/chris_knight_the_patriotnewsev.html

plus various articles found on Newspapers.com from the Lebanon Daily News from years 1968-1970

56. Carnage in the Canary Islands

 
The Alexanders were not your normal family.  In 1940s, Harald Alexander dove deep into the German religious sect of the Lorber Society. 

This sect deemed everyone outside the religion was "dirty" so the family slipped away from society, keeping only to themselves.

When his son Frank was born in 1954, Harald claimed he was the Messiah or Prophet of God.  Everyone in the family gave into each and every one of Frank's desires.

Rumors started circulating in Hamberg about the Alexanders and the police started coming to their house.  This prompted Harald to pack up the family and move to 37 Jesús Nazareno in the town of Santa Cruz on Tenerife.

Soon the Alexanders would be apart of a blood bath that would be known as the most horrific crime to occur on Tenerife.

Join Jen and Cam as they discuss Carnage in the Canary Islands

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Resources

https://www.tenerifeparanormal.es/2016/05/misterios-de-canarias-el-crimen-de-los.html
https://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/can-you-consent-to-your-own-murder-a-look-at-the-facts/
https://www.lavanguardia.com/sucesos/20190614/462856586476/familia-alexander-tenerife-harald-frank-crimenes-siglo-ritual-incesto-las-caras-del-mal.html
https://radioactivity-mistery.blogspot.com/2012/08/el-crimen-de-los-alemanes.html
https://esencia21.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/crimenes-esotericos-en-espana-almansa-y-tenerife/
https://talent.paperblog.com/los-crimenes-de-los-alexander-162055/
https://www.jakob-lorber-australia.net/about-lorber---a-modern-prophet.html
https://www.universal-path.org/Lorber_Books
https://www.jakob-lorber-australia.net/the-shortest-path-to-spiritual-rebirth.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Lorber
https://steemit.com/story/@sdd/the-alexander-family-is-the-most-insane-family-in-history
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=154718564932742&id=118409028563696

55. Bad Blood

Science has come a long way and has allowed humans to discover new diseases as well as cures for these diseases. Often it has often been, shall we say,  not so forthcoming with what or how it practiced but even worse, it lied. It lied to those who had already suffered so much in American History. This is the story of how ignorance and blatant racism affected an unknown amount of people all without them even realizing they were being used a medical guinea pigs who would pay with their life.
On this episode of Our True Crime Podcast, join Jen and Cam as we discuss 'Bad Blood."
Promos by Misery Loves Garlic Bread @MiseryBread and Piecing It Together Podcast @PiecingPod
Listening Discretion by the fabu Edward from @octoberpodVHS  Editing and music by the talented Nico @wetalkofdreams.  Executive Producer: Dick Vane 


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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/
Make sure to check out Miss Ever's Boys (HBO movie) as well as the Nova Documentary. https://www.pbs.org/genealogy-roadshow/blogs/extras/the-sad-truth-behind-the-tuskegee-experiment/

54. Jack the Stripper

 
 When someone says Whitechapel, London and 1880’s, most people know they are referring to none other than Jack the Ripper. Jack was one of the first serial killers to terrorize with no reason and to this day remains unsolved--although many think they know who it is, it has yet to be proven. His killings have been covered with countless books and movies and have lead to more than a few copycat killings but perhaps the biggest one is one you may have never heard about. This brutal murderer killed more victims than his famous namesake. He was known as Jack the Stripper and the murders would be known as the Hammersmith Nude Murders. 

Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast as we discuss “Jack the Stripper.”

  

 As always our listner discretion is brought to you from the amazing Edward from @octoberpodVHS.
The catchy theme song and all editing is courtesy of the ever so patient Nico @wetalkofdreams. 

Make sure to listen to our friends featured in the promos: 
@InvisibleChoir
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Sources: 
https://www.historicmysteries.com/jack-the-stripper/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-stripper
https://www.oxygen.com/blogs/jack-the-stripper-serial-killers-identity-may-finally-revealed-new-bbc-documentary-harold-jones
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1086050/Jack-the-Stripper-hammersmith-nudes-murders-killer-prostitutes
https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/jack-the-stripper/
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Hammersmith_nude_murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Profumo

53. The Wife In The Bedroom With The Picture Wire: Ruth Brown Snyder

Ruth Brown Snyder

Judd Gray

Albert Snyder

The Roaring 20's brought on a lot of changes in the United States.
 Most people saw a 22% growth in their paychecks.
 It was illegal to consume or make alcohol in the United States due to Prohibition.

 And with the passing of the 19th Amendment women were given the right to vote. 

This new era brought on a new type of woman called a  "flapper".
 She danced, drank, smoked and voted. 
She cut her hair, she tanned her skin, she wore make-up, and partied until dawn.
She was sexually liberated.  People started thinking that women 
were sexual beings with human impulses and desires, 
and restraining these impulses was self-destructive.

Ruth Brown Snyder let go of all her inhibitions but still managed to self destruct.

Join Jen and Cam as they discuss one of the most famous execution of a murderess
 you most likely have never heard of.

OTCP is proud to announce our new Executive Producer, the magnificent Dick Vane!
 
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Listener Discretion by the one and only Edward October of OctoberpodVHS
Music/editing and sound by the incredibly gifted Nico of  We Talk of Dreams

Judd Gray, trial lawyer, Ruth Brown Snyder

The murder weapons: Picture wire and sash weight

Tom Howard showing ankle camera

Ankle camera designed by Tom Howard

Ruth Brown Snyder in the process of being electrocuted.  by Tom Howard

Sources: 

Smith Denies Snyder Plea by Frank Dolan Daily News New York 1/11/28

She had to die by Ann Jones American Heritage

Snyder's life sad says mother Times Union 3/31/27

Gray testimony Muncie Evening Press 5/5/27

Various articles on front page of Mansfield News 1/13/28 

Ruth Brown Snyder Wiki 

Murderpedia 

Psychoanalyst new hope for her attorney Daily News New York 11/1/28/27

Murder plot of blonde siren led to doom by Winifred Van Duzer Philadelphia Enquirer 6/8/41 

 The Gray Space Between Life and Death James Mitchel 6/19

Encyclopedia.com 
Economic Boom of the 1920s

Roaring 20's

Roaring twenties

Roaring 20s 

Prohibition in the United States  

Prohibition Facts

Woman weeps and drops into chair Birmingham News 5/10/27

52. No Witness No Crime

To look at Skidmore, Missouri, you would see what many Americans would see. Kids playing in the front yards, men in their older pickups waving at everyone they pass and folks chatting with with each other as they gather in town.
With a population of only 440 people in 1981, everyone in this Missouri town knew each other many had grown up together. They protected each other and, most importantly, they knew when to keep a secret. The town people knew who the good people were, they knew who was a bit of trouble and they also knew that the devil was alive and well and living right there with them in Skidmore, Missouri.


Listener Discretion by the amazing Edward Octoberpod of OctoberpodVHS
Music, editing and sound by the talented Nico at We Talk of Dreams

 Sources:
In Broad Daylight by Harry L Maclean ISBN-10: 1482639874
"The Strange Killing of Ken Rex McElroy". BuzzFeed Unsolved. Season 3.

"Bully" by Phoebe Judge". Criminal Podcast. 2017-05-05

http://mentalfloss.com/article/574749/ken-mcelroy-murder-skidmore-missouri

Also check out the Documentary “No One Saw A Thing” on Sundance

51. Bad Man in Aviators

Newton Kansas sits in America’s heartland with fields of wheat and cornfields as far as the eye can see. The small town of 19,000 is big on family, God, and rarely, does anyone lock their front doors. They all know each other as many have grown up and grown old having never left their small hometown. It is a trusting community with a long line of families raising families but that trust was shattered in the spring of 1994 when a stranger knocked on Rhonda Krehbiel's front door.
Join Jen and Cam as we discuss "The Bad Man in Aviators" on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast.

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Listener Discretion by the soulful sounding Edward October from @octoberpodVHS
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Source:

Murder of Rhonda Krehbiel by Chester L. Higgenbotham featured on The Face of Evil By Angelica N. Sumter on the Monstersandcritics.com
Face of Evil-Discovery Channel
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ks-supreme-court/1364503.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31141611/rhonda-lou-krehbielT
he Murder of Rhonda Krehbiel - YouTube----https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-hpZkQrgBU
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23858479/the_manhattan_mercury/

 

50. Harry Moore and the Groveland Four

Harry and Harriette Moore and daughters

Samuel Shephard, Walter Irvins, Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee

On December 25, 1951, was a double celebration for Harry & Harriette Moore of Mims, Florida. Not only was it Christmas, but the couple were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. In those 25 years, the Moore’s had raised 2 daughters, taught countless children in segregated schools within Brevard County Florida, and founded the Brevard County chapter of the NAACP, just to name a few accomplishments.  It had become a tradition for the couple to cut their anniversary cake just as they had on their wedding day, arm in arm, hand in had.  As they sliced their cake that evening, they had no idea they would become the first assassinations of the civil rights movement.
Join Jen and Cam on this very special 1st anniversary Our True Crime Podcast episode as we discuss Harry Moore and the Groveland Four.

We have a brand new listener discretion from our buddy Edward Octoberpod @octoberpodVHS

Thurgood Marshall

Norma and Willie Padgett

Sheriff Willis McCall

We have a brand new listener discretion from our buddy Edward Octoberpod @octoberpodVHS

A giant thank you to all our listeners, especially those that helped commemorate this milestone with us and gave us a 'thank you'. It has been a heck of a year and we love you all for listening and letting us do what we love. Here is to many, many more. -Jen and Cam


Resources

The Zinn Education Project 
PBS
History Channel
Biography
PBS
PBS
 Orlando Sentinel
NYTimes 

49. The Chameleon Killer

Beverly McGowan

St. Lucie County Florida is a community located about 90 miles north of Miami and it is just what you would expect in sunny Florida-hot and humid. The area is a heavy on the wildlife with lots of swampy canals running throughout which empty into the famed Florida Everglades. For a killer, there is no better place to dump a body because if the weather doesn’t help decay the body fast, the critters will get it and within a short amount of time, there will be no evidence that a crime was ever committed. Or, at least, that is what a killer was hoping for but one July evening, fate was not on this killer’s side. A body was left behind and it would lead to years of trying to catch the infamous killer with lots of names. Join Jen and Cam as we discuss 'The Chameleon Killer' on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast. 
Listener Discretion by Edward October from @octoberpodVHS
All music and editing from Nico @wetalkofdreams

Elaine Parent










Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Parent
Tate, Tim (2002-04-21). "'Chameleon Killer' cheats the Florida police by ending her many-faced life". Telegraph.co.uk.
America’s Most Wanted
Unsolved Mysteries--https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Beverly_McGowan
Mastermind Murderer Escapes Capture For Decades While Taunting Police The Whole Time: https://boredomtherapy.com/the-chameleon-killer-mystery/