Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

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.

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July 22, 2025 39 mins

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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June 10, 2025 31 mins

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Jeannine Jaramillo, of Albuquerque, who was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal car crash in 2022.

Jaramillo made a frenzied 911 call claiming to have been kidnapped, leading to a police chase on I-25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

During the pursuit, Jaramillo sped the wrong way on the interstate, causing a head-on collision that killed Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and retired fi...

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We all want special attention from time to time, but would you fake your own kidnapping?

Would you spin a tale that puts you as a hero for possibly saving a half-dressed toddler from the busy I-459 Birmingham traffic in the dark of the night?

Would your tale include leaving your bright red luxury car still running on the side of the road with all your belongings still inside?

Well, this is only a small part of Ms. Carlet...

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“I was addicted to speed,” 18-year-old Chase Jones told the Judge at his sentencing. He pled guilty to Four counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of 38-year-old Andrea S. Hudson, 12-year-old Boyd "Buster" Brown, 13-year-old Matilda Wilcoxson, and 12-year-old Eloise Wilcoxson.

Jones was also charged with Two counts of vehicular assault for the injuries to Hudson’s children, Nolan and Charlotte. 

The crash...

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Pace Pharmacy is the target of a multi-agency bust that accuses the pharmacist-in-charge of running his business like a traveling medicine show in the Wild West: Step right up and order your own customized version of a bottle of Dr. Feelgood from the head man in charge!

Pharmacist Stephen Burklow’s arrest report paints a picture of a man accused of slinging drugs just for the buck and not for your health. 

People were t...

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As a pioneer of Robotic Surgery, brilliant and likeable Dr. Ingolf Harry Tuerk was used to things going his way. 

Tall, smart, good looking, and buff he was living his best life!  

Perhaps his great life could be even better when he decided to check out a dating app. That’s where he met the beautiful and fun, 45-year-old single mom of three, Kathleen McLean.

 After a few years of dating, a wedding at a tacky Drive Thru C...

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Alexa Bartell was simply driving home from work late one Wednesday night. Something almost everybody does every day. 

She was especially happy that evening on April 19, 2023. The 20-year-old woman loved her family, she loved her job at a flooring company where she worked with her mom, and she loved her new girlfriend who she was going to see that night. 

Life was going great – until three teenagers in another car hurled...

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An All-American young man was enjoying the best time of his life in college when he was arrested for the murder of Kent Heitholt, a popular sports editor in their hometown of Columbia, Missouri. 

The tall and strapping Heitholt was found beaten and strangled in the newspaper parking lot after getting off late from work on Halloween night 2001. 

The case went cold quickly, and police had no leads until Charles ‘Chuck’ Er...

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Is your mouth a murder weapon? Can a bully cry self-defense? And what's up with Kanye West and Nitrous Oxide?

We're talking about three cases in this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential.

The first is Penelope McGee. If someone is arguing with you, is it your responsibility to make sure they don't die?

Socialite Penelope McGee was arguing with her ex-husband, Andrew Savitz, when...

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Dr. David Diffine made himself famous on Instagram as “Naked Dr. Dave.” Now many more agencies are on to him since he sauntered naked through his Arkansas doctor’s office. 

He did don a ball cap, but that’s all he had on when he walked into the reception area and exposed himself to several women who worked with him, including one who was also a patient. 

Office surveillance video of Dr. Diffine casually strolling throug...

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Lawd hammercy, if you like drama, trauma, and incredulous cases, don’t look any further than Florida!

From one end of the Gulf Coast to another, we’re swimming in sass, sorrow, and the worst kind of decision making.  

In Wauchula, Tracy Nix learned she would be spending years in prison for forgetting her 9-month-old granddaughter and leaving her to die in a hot car. 

Tracy took the stand for the first time in her emotion...

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Tracy Nix was enjoying her retirement years…until two of her young grandchildren died on her watch. 

Up until the back-to-the-back tragedies she had no time clock, no boss, no worries and the freedom to pursue her hobbies and passions, like playing the piano. 

In fact, she was practicing piano for several hours when she forgot that her 7-month-old granddaughter was strapped into a car seat in the back of her 2019 red Le...

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 Crime over a slip ‘n slide. Jordan Henning lied and lied. Ashley Henning was shot and died, Murder, justified? You decide. 

Ashley Henning, Sgt. 1st Class in the U.S. Army, was shot to death on her 37th birthday. 

Her death was no accident or crime committed at the hands of a stranger. 

She was gunned by her soldier husband, 34-year-old Jordan Henning, who was angry her 8-year-old son couldn’t remove the water hose from...

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Sweet Joanna Otto gone, missing, but never forgotten since 1992! I didn't know you, but I have met the people who did and still mourn you. 

What can happen in 30 years? 

We’ve had technological changes, political shifts, global changes, disasters, and even a virus that affected the whole world  

We’ve broadened this thing known as the Internet. You can get all up in someone’s private business with websites called Fa...

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 Susan Smith has been called a lot of names: evil, egocentric, seductress, and murderer. One name she doesn’t deserve is mother. 

In 1994, the then 23-year-old young woman claimed a man carjacked her and took off with her children who were in the backseat. 

A community-wide search in Union, South Carolina went nationwide as the shocking and tragic story of the missing 3-year-old and 14-month-old boys made headlines when...

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