Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows
I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.
Episodes
Tuscumbia City Schools says it’s still investigating the incident that nearly took the life of 15-year-old August Borden, a Deshler High School football player who had to be intubated for two days in the hospital with severe head and brain trauma after a so-called “freak accident” after football practice that left him fighting for his life.
Many in the community, including his family, believe the answers authorities ...
There have been so many crimes, tragedies, and mysteries along the Gulf Coast. What is curious about the brutal shooting death of 25-year-old Tierra Binion is the senselessness of killing a woman and mother of two who was just out trying to enjoy herself like people often do.
Christian Ketchup and his girlfriend, Rachel DeRise, turned what is a routine, normal night out for many young people at the Pensacola bar Mugs...
Iryna Zarutska didn't seem much different from any of the other passengers when she boarded the late train leaving Scaleybark station a few miles outside of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22.
The pretty, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee wore khaki pants and a dark shirt and her long blonde hair was tucked under a hat from Zepeddie’s Pizzeria where she worked.
Like other nearby passengers, she had on ear...
Maybe we should throw it back to old school, it used to be real cool before Zero Tolerance made it easier for bullies to do their worst.
Now victims simply have to take it like sitting ducks or find themselves in the crosshairs of school punishment for trying to defend themselves.
More than half a dozen cases involving teenage boys in Alabama, Florida, the Southeast, and beyond have some parents and caretakers crying ...
Some women ain’t nothing but trouble. No one knows that better than Milton business owner and father, Sean Perdue.
In 2021, Perdue had a successful business and was a single dad to a young daughter he doted on, Lily. Divorced after 20 years, Perdue was looking for someone to build a life with and help him with his special needs child of whom he had custody.
He thought he found that special someone in Stephanie Linville...
This is quite the episode - we're packing in updates on two controversial cases we've been following! Before we dive into the latest on August Borden we have an update on embattled plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown.
Now to Tuscumbia, Alabama where the Deshler High School football team’s motto is "Nos Non Ego," which is Latin for "We Not Me."
That begs the question: Isn’t 15-year-old August Bo...
People lost their heads over praying mantis Lynn Turner, and some people lost their lives.
She poisoned her husband and her boyfriend with anti-freeze laced green Jello, and likely would have gotten away with it all of it, but for pushing her luck killing her second the lover who took to the first husband’s funeral.
When Lynn, 32, got caught in her own poisonous web, she took a third life with a dose of her own medici...
August Borden continues to recover at his home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the wake of an incident that has all but divided the town because it centers around Deshler High School's football program.
The 15-tyear-old football player suffered traumatic injuries to his head and face after football practice on Aug. 19 that sent him to the hospital, but there are conflicting accounts as to how it happened.
However, it&a...
Just three weeks into his freshman year of high school, 15-year-old football player August Borden should have been looking forward to Homecoming.
Instead, people in his hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, were praying that he would come home at all, after he was severely injured walking between the stadium and the fieldhouse with his teammates on Aug. 19.
Some claim he fell down a short flight of stairs. Others say another...
The Honorable Judge Traci Soderstrom was anything but honorable when it came to how she ran her courtroom, even during a murder trial.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court investigated her for misconduct after she was caught texting back and forth with her in-court bailiff over 500 times while she sat on the bench during the murder trial of a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler.
Soderstrom can be seen on camera in t...
Did Whitney Cheatham read the charges right or does she know something we don’t know? ‘Cause she’s smiling so big in her police mug shot it’s making some people wonder.
Police in Cullman, Alabama say the 33-year-old salon owner is facing 25 charges related to drug trafficking and practicing medicine without a license.
Her arrest comes following an investigation into forged prescriptions used at multiple local pharmaci...
Gulf Breeze parent Tara Kamm is speaking out in the wake of the arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney, who has plead not guilty to possessing, trading and sharing 23 counts of CSAM.
The incident has shaken the whole community and Kamm wants to see parents take the passion they feel over the Santa Rosa County School District’s handling of McChesney and put it into action and implement chan...
The arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney on 23 CSAM charges has set off a safety alarm for parents and the Santa Rosa County School District.
In part, because he was arrested the same month that 36-year-old Gulf Breeze High School hospitality teacher and a private team soccer coach Molly Mersereau, was arrested for grooming and having a sexual relationship with a minor student.
Both cases...
A poor teenager from Louisiana had few options when he was charged with the murder of a local, prominent pharmacist in St. Martinville in 1946.
In a town full of secrets, Willie Francis was the perfect scapegoat.
He couldn’t even afford the defense attorney who eventually took over his case and his dad paid with two sacks of potatoes.
Willie was convicted after a quick trial with little evidence, but executing him for...
Convicted killer Bernie Tiede is such a character that his true-crime case caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was featured in the film “Bernie,” who was portrayed by actor Jack Black.
In fact, the performer was so impressed with Bernie’s magnanimous personality Black would like to see him released from prison and the film’s producer and director, Richard Linklater, liked Bernie so much he let Bernie live with hi...
A beautiful, fresh-faced Carrollton, Georgia teen who openly grieved for her mother and stepdad on Tik Tok was arrested on July 8, 2025, and was accused of fatally shooting this past February.
Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with murder of her mom, Kristin Brock, 41, and her stepfather James Brock, 45. They were found dead in their home on Feb. 20th, “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.”
Their five-year-old d...
Right here in our little slice of Paradise is the home for fun, sun, fitness, beach, boating, swimming, surfing, dining on seafood...nothing could be more beautiful and wholesome.
It's the perfect backdrop for an enviable highlight reel for any Social Media Content Creator! So how would one know if this was Real or just an Illusion...
Well Tik Tok has never been a platform known for people holding their tongue and...
Jerry Odum was always trying to find a way out of commitments or promises that he made himself.
He would be the first to let you know he was the smartest person in the room and drop it in when he could that he was "a millionaire."
A non-stop pathological liar who would lie about any and every thing, even when it wasn’t necessary.
If Jerry had given Vickie Edge an ounce of the sympathy he gave himself, he migh...
What goes on in someone else’s mind is a mystery, unless they let you in on the secret.
Benjamin Elliott was a studious, intelligent teen who was “enamored” with his dad’s sword collection and a survival knife his dad gave him.
Pretty normal hobbies for a young man from Texas, but what was not normal was what he did with the knife.
He unsheathed it in the middle of the night, then walked across the hall to the bedroom...
Sexy, classy-looking men dancing for dollars and putting on a show for women.
The neveau concept revolutioned not only Indian immigrant Steve Banerjee's Los Angeles nightclub, that was barely getting by on disco and backgammon, but it also caught fire across the country, thanks in part to the cast of characters that helped Banerjee launch the dancers including former Playboy model Dorothy Stratten.
Women would line...
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