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
The bright lights of showbiz faded into a dim New York outpatient clinic on August 28, 2014, when comedy icon Joan Rivers walked in for a routine throat procedure and never spoke again.
What was supposed to be a brief examination of her vocal cords instead unraveled into a chaotic display of gross medical malpractice, where star-struck doctors reportedly suffered from "VIP syndrome" and prioritized cell phone s...
Did FWC cut some slack to three Santa Rosa County men accused of illegally capturing and killing an alligator with a power drill?
They say “No,” but folks in our community still have a lot of questions.
“Allie” the 8.5-foot-long alligator wasn’t bothering a single soul. She lived safely inside a locked, fenced in retention pond in the Garcon Point area of Milton, Florida for about ten yea...
Put your seatbelt on, we didn’t know some of these cases could get any wilder but apparently, they can.
From doctors behaving badly to a tragic story of child abuse, we’re running down some cases you’ve probably heard of and some you haven’t.
The worst medical malpractices cases in the state are piling up in North Florida and stretching to the Panhandle.
Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky i...
Did Hillary Brown die from an overdose of Lidocaine poisoning?
Her husband, embattled plastic surgeon Ben Brown who was administering the local anesthetic when she went into cardiac arrest in his office, says she didn’t.
However, Medical Examiner, Dr. Deanna Oleske found that the 33-year-old mother of three did die from complications of lidocaine toxicity after she ruled out every possible cause of d...
Louisiana Pastor Tony Spell doesn’t hold back.
He first made national news in 2020 when he continued to hold massive in-person services at Life Tabernacle Church in Central, a city north of Baton Rouge, despite health restrictions.
Now he’s back in the headlines after a video went viral of him sprinting across four lanes of highway to confront his neighbor’s son after the young man allege...
What is it about pickleball that it sometimes turns into pickle-BRAWL?!
For some, the fastest growing sport in America is just a game, but for others it’s almost a total obsession.
In this week’s episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, we’re talking about the community, the weird terminology, and why a lot of folks are suddenly spending their Saturdays fighting over court time and some are fi...
Thank goodness most of us feel safe in our own homes.
Botham Jean thought he was safe when he was sitting on the couch in his apartment enjoying a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
Afterall, he lived only a couple of blocks from the Dallas Police Department Headquarters.
However on September 6, 2018, that turned out to be a downside when his downstairs neighbor, police woman Amber Guyger, was so busy sexting her married...
Have you ever seen a grown man cry, whoop, and hyperventilate for a solid seven minutes? That’s what Miami real estate broker George Pino did while his own attorney was giving opening statements during his manslaughter trial which just got started this month.
He’s accused of killing one of his daughter’s friends and leaving another severely injured after crashing his boat into a steel channel marker...
This week our Podcast is a lil different.
We're talking about more than half a dozen cases we're following and it’s a little bit of everything:
*Nicolette Keough the lady that urinates on items in Airbnb here along the Gulf Coast and then posts her photos of said activity on an Adult Internet Site.
We'll have more on how her latest court hearing went.
*Updates on Dr. Ben Brown and Dr. Thomas Sha...
Mean girls rule by fear – the gossip, the condescension, the ostracizing – it’s all designed to keep them at the top of the food chain and others around them so scared that no one holds them accountable for their cruelty and corruption.
Some people take whatever mean girls dish out – no matter what – because they’re afraid of becoming the next target of bullying or rumors.&nb...
What happens when a medical error takes your loved one's life, but the state of Florida says you have no right to answers?
In this powerful personal documentary, we follow the family and friends of 33-year-old Cameron Perritt as they fight against Florida Statute § 768.21(8)—better known as the "Free Kill" law.
Because Cameron was over 25 and unmarried, his surviving family members are barred from se...
Mackenzie Shirilla never hit the brakes when she crashed her car into a brick building speeding at 100 mph. Two passengers in her car were killed: her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan.
Her friends and family claim it was an accident, but the judge disagreed calling Mackenzie “hell on wheels.”
Mean Girl Regina George Wannabe Mackenzie Shirilla was sentenced to 15 years to li...
Dean Faiello looked the part of a doctor. The handsome charmer wore the white coat well and spoke as if he knew what he was doing.
No one who came to his New York City officer for skincare and beauty services had any idea the so-called dermatologist didn't even have a medical license.
But behind the scenes he was cutting corners along with people’s bodies.
Faiello was busted for buying the numbi...
If Pensacola’s Judy Buenoano was the most infamous “Black Widow” serial killer, then Anniston, Alabama’s Audrey Marie Hilley was the original.
Like Judy, Hilley used poison to kill, or in several cases try to kill, her husband and one of her children. When she got caught in her murderous web, Hilley ran and took on other identities, even another husband to hide from her past, but also like Jud...
Nurses often choose their career because they care. They’d have to be dedicated to give as much time, compassion, and professionalism as so many do every minute of every day to their jobs.
So, when allegations arose that some nurses were violating not just patients’ privacy, but also their dignity at Jay Hospital, just 44 miles north of Pensacola, many people were outraged.
According to the Florida Agency ...
Bill Bryan’s wife said they never dreamed he wouldn’t come back from surgery alive, but how he died is especially hard for her to take.
According to Beverly Bryan, Bill went into to have his spleen removed, but bled to death on the operating table when Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky surgically removed his liver instead.
It’s a case that by all accounts shocked the operating room staff, the public, and c...
A lot of folks talk about their aggravation with mother-in-laws, but has your's ever hired a hitman to take somebody out?!
Well Ann Trexler, ex mother-in-law of Ron Stovall, did just that‼️
Ann had just moved from Virginia to Panama City, Florida to be near her beloved granddaughter, when Ron, a U.S. Navy vet and delivery driver, filed for full custody of his daughter and Ann's only grandchild with plans to move...
You’re never too old for love or a love triangle, it turns out.
Judy Church was in a love triangle with her younger boyfriend, 55-year-old Leroy Fowler, who was also dating an easy-going woman who enjoyed hanging out with him despite his relationship with his Sugar-Mama.
Judy Church was the cool girlfriend. She bought her man a motorcycle, a Dodge Ram truck, and a house for them to live together in ...
Chris Coleman fancied himself to be a tough guy, and for good reason. He was a former U.S. Marine who worked out all the time and headed up security for internationally renowned televangelist and Bible teacher Joyce Meyer, working for years as her personal bodyguard.
The son of two devout, evangelical preachers, Coleman's parents helped him secure his good-paying job of $100,000 a year to support his new wife, ...
Joseph Duggar is back on camera accused of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child while on vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Dr. Gerhardt Konig in Hawaii is on trial for trying to push his wife off a cliff.
Kouri Richins’ trial just ended for poisoning her husband with fentanyl.
Wisconsin man and Board of Education President, Joe Bragger, is facing charges for threatening pharmacy and medical...
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