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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May 5, 2026 76 mins

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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 for Health C...

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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 certainly Bill’s family ...

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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...

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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 Florida when she...

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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, ...

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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 staff with gun ...

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 Hannah Pettey was just 18 years old when she married Alabama chiropractor, Dr. Brian Mann. The beautiful, blonde, Birmingham area teen fell head over heels for the handsome, successful man ten years her senior. 

On the outside, their small and growing family looked perfectly happy and healthy, but behind closed doors Hannah said Brian could be controlling and there were fights when he got physical. 

She thought they’...

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Colin Gray gave his son, Colt, the AR-15-style rifle that his 14-year-old son used to kill two students and two teachers and injure nine others at Apalachee High School in Georgia, in September 2024. 

It was a Christmas present for the boy in 2023, just months after the FBI showed up at Colin’s house to question him and Colt regarding online threats made on Discord about "shooting up a middle school." 

No ar...

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Kendy Howard was found dead in her bathtub by her husband, Dan, a former Idaho State Police Trooper who told detectives his wife shot herself. 

He called 9-1-1 to report the "suicide" and when officers responded they had no reason to doubt how she died until they started noticing inconsistencies. 

Like why was Kendy's gun in the bathtub? Why wasn't there more blood if she died in the tub? And why w...

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Missing matriarch Nancy Guthrie, a relatively healthy, 84-year-old sharp-minded woman with only a few mobility issues, has been missing from her own home in Tucson, Arizona since Jan. 31.

With no known motive and no suspects identified, it’s the kind of situation that can make anyone feel vulnerable, and there are so many theories as to what could have happened. 

Was it a pre-planned kidnapping? A robbery gone wrong? ...

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Most any of us that have been on the Ole Miss Campus in the Gulf Coast state of Mississippi most likely fell in love with the sweet, syrupy, Southern charm of the campus and students. 

Bubbly and fun Ally Kostial fell in love  with everything about her first choice for college, from her classes in marketing and fashion, to enjoying golf, fitness, and her sorority. 

The 21-year-old rising senior was also in love with t...

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‘Kinky catfish’ arranged on a BDSM fetish site by an IRS Agent and his Au Pair - all to get rid of Brendan Banfield’s wife.

Nurse Christine Banfield had no idea that when their 25-year-old, Brazilian Au Pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, took her 4-year-old daughter to the zoo that she was opening the door to a diabolical plot. 

Little did she know that her husband, Brendan, had been having an affair with the Au Pair, and...

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 This week we have cases about people devaluing the lives of other human beings. Just wicked, corrupt, evil people. In other words, diabolical. 

The overly sexual Au Pair trying to help get rid of the lady of the house so she could be “the lady of the house” by implementing a Cat fishing scheme with the “man of the house” resulting in double murder. 

We’ve got the stories of two of the most heinous barbaric killers Br...

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Linda Duffey was such an animated character few questioned her wacky and wonky story about the sudden and violent death of her husband, Patrick, who was found dead on their living couch after Linda said she shot him twice in the head accidentally. 

In fact, police detectives were charmed, bamboozled, and "entertained" when she described how the tragic so-called mistake happened. She said she was showin’ off...

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Martin Luther King Jr., who we just remembered this week, was an advocate for justice. One of his many famous quote was, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

That is fitting for this week’s episode, “Justice cut short for Torrey King after convicted killer set to go free, ” the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast. 

Losing a loved one is a grief many people share. Losing a loved one to a viol...

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Convicted double murderer Ali Abulaban says he didn’t get a fair trial because it was televised and “everybody knew him as the Tik Tok Star murderer.”

It’s no surprise he’s still blaming others now that he has lost everything he wanted: freedom, a beautiful wife and family, and social media career. 

The former Tik Tok creator known as "JinnKid," had what most people would consider a charmed life. Good lookin...

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Who in their right mind would brag about being related to notorious, accused ax murderer and parent killer Lizzie Borden?! 

Well, convicted serial killer and nurse Kristen Gilbert not only bragged about it, she lied about it! 

But it turns out lying and manipulating is something Kristen has done well since at least high school and the more you dig into her past, the more grim details emerge about a woman who would bec...

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What goes up must come down - even if free falling from Cloud 9 without a parachute isn't part of the plan. 

That's what happened to two unsuspecting women who loved skydiving and the wrong men. 

Victoria Cilliers and Els Van Doren were both victims of high-altitude murder plots, tangled up love triangles, jealousy, sabotaged parachutes, and some really bizarro, messed up, so-called friends and lovers 🥴. 

Th...

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Two iconic fathers with adult, mentally health challenged sons. Movie director and actor Rob Reiner and renowned gospel, opera, and jazz singer Jubilant Sykes were both allegedly killed by their grown sons, a week apart, in the Los Angeles area. 

The tragedies are similar in that the suspects are the victims' own children. Both young men, in their 30s, have substance abuse, addiction and mental health issues, in...

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When did we start calling beat downs and assaults “hazing?” 

Hazing is the word you use when you’re pledging a fraternity or a sorority and now it’s being used interchangeably with locker room bullying and brawls as well as isolated attacks on individuals. 

Officially, hazing is strictly against the law when it’s part of abuse, but the word doesn’t hold a candle to the terror, anguish, and sometimes death victims expe...

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