Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast

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During the Christmas season of 1987 Ronald Gene Simmons committed one of the most sinister mass murders in American history, killing fourteen members of his immediate family, including his wife, children and grandchildren. Four days after massacring his family, Simmons went on a terrifying forty-five-minute rampage killing two of his former colleagues and wounding four others. In total, he claimed the lives of sixteen...

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In the early morning hours of Christmas Day in 1945 a devasting fire broke out at George and Jennie Sodder’s home located in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Four of the ten Sodder children survived, one had been away fighting in World War II, but the other five quite literally disappeared. It was first assumed that the five young children had perished in the fire, however, the children's remains were never discovere...

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On Christmas Eve in 1993, in Consett, County Durham, England, take away driver Paul Logan was found with fatal head wounds on farmland near Shotley Bridge. The previous evening, he had been making a food delivery but when he arrived at the secluded address was told by the owners that they had never placed an order for food and was sent away. It is believed that Paul had been lured there on the pretext of delivering a ...

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Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette V.S. Moore were pioneer activists and leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The Civil Rights power couple who founded a chapter of the NAACP in Brevard County, Florida became the first martyrs in the movement after a handmade explosive detonated under the couple’s bed on Christmas night in 1951 killing the two. So, who so sinisterly murdered Harry and Ha...

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In 2012, Gilberto Valle, a New York City Police Officer, dubbed “Cannibal Cop” by the media, was accused of plotting to kidnap, torture, rape, kill, cook and eat a least a hundred women, including his wife. He discussed his dark fantasies in fetish chat rooms online and in one instance, boasted he was going to have “girl meat” for Thanksgiving. Valle has since maintained that it was just fantasy, and he never intended...

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In July of 1999, twenty-one-year-old Barry Winchell an infantry solider in the United States Army was murdered at the Fort Campbell Army base while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman. Barry’s murder brought to light the military’s homophobic policy of “don’t’ ask, don’t tell” which did not allow members of the U.S. military who were homosexual, bisexual, or ...

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In 1978, Georgia animus for its climate of racism during this time was in the middle of two separate killing sprees that intersected one another. One was that of the Stocking Strangler, believed to be a black man who targeted elderly white women and the other belonged to United States Army Specialist William Henry Hance who was stationed at Fort Benning on the Georgia-Alabama border. Between 1977 and 1978, Hance murde...

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While stationed at Fort Hood Army Base located outside of Killeen, Texas, twenty-year-old United Stated Army Solider Vanessa Guillén disappeared while on duty in April 2020. Two months later some of her dismembered and burned remains were found buried along the Texas Leon River about 20 miles from the Army base. Before her disappearance, Vanessa’s mother claimed that Vanessa had informed her that she was being sexuall...

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Before beloved retired Penn State University coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of numerous counts of child molestation, he had a long and impressive career as the university’s defensive coordinator. In 2011, following a two-year grand jury investigation, Sandusky was arrested and charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys occurring from 1991 until 2009. He met his victims through a program he started in 197...

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Indonesian serial killer Ahmad Suradji, a dukun, which is a class of shaman reputed to possess supernatural powers, admitted to murdering 42 girls and women ranging in ages from eleven to thirty years old between 1986 to 1997. His victims were buried in the ground up to their waists in a sugarcane plantation near his home as part of a religious ritual. However, his unsuspecting victims would then be strangled to death...

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During the 1960’s Catholic priests were much more revered than they are today and certainly nobody would have suspected a man of the cloth to commit murder. So, in April of 1960 when schoolteacher and former beauty queen 25-year-old Irene Garza’s deceased body was discovered in a canal a few days after giving confession to Father John Feit, it was hard to believe that the young priest could have been responsible. Desp...

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In February of 2021 23 -year-old Sandra Birchmore, a pregnant teacher’s aide at a Boston area elementary school, was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. However, Sandra’s family members and friends did not believe the findings and pushed for an investigation which resulted in the closed case suicide to be blown wide open and her death ruled a homic...

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From 1984 to 2007, American serial killer Lonnie Fraklin Jr. murdered at least ten women in South Central Los Angeles, California. During the 1980’s, he evaded capture again and again, until one of his victims, Enietra Washington, survived being shot in the chest causing Franklin to take a fourteen-year hiatus, or so authorities initially believed, earning him the nickname the Grim Sleeper. So, how did Enietra Washing...

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In 1984 over an eight-month period, American serial rapist and killer Robert Jospeh Long, abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least eight women in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. However, one of victim’s seventeen-year-old Lisa McVey managed to escape after surviving 26 hours of being brutally raped and led police right to Long. This is the true harrowing tale of Lisa’s McVey’s newfound will to survive.
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In the 1970s and early 80s, American serial killer and baker, Robert Hansen, abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 young females most of whom were with prostitutes or exotic dancers, in and around Anchorage, Alaska. After abducting his victims, he would release many of them into the Alaskan wilderness and hunted them with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle as well as a hunting knife, which earned him the nickname “The Butcher ...

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In February of 1984, Australian- American serial rapist and killer, Christopher Wilder, embarked on a seven-week, cross-country killing spree, abducting and torturing at least twelve young women and girls who were aspiring to be models, and killing at least eight of them. Having previously committed numerous rapes and sexual assaults in both Australia and The United States dating back to 1963, Wilder had developed his...

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Mary Vincent was just fifteen years old in September of 1978, hitchhiking her way to Los Angles, when she was brutally attacked by Lawrence Singleton, who raped her, severed her forearms with an axe and left her for dead in the California Desert. Miraculously, her determination to put her attacker behind bars gave her the strength to survive. This is the true harrowing tale of Mary Vincent’s all inspiring tenacity to ...

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Teens come with an array of emotions from happiness to anger, from excitement to anxiety and even jealousy and envy. But what happens when some of those emotions become too overwhelming for teens to handle on their own? Well, in the summer of 1984, in Orinda, California, sixteen-year-old Bernadette Protti, ruthlessly murdered her fifteen-year-old classmates Kirsten Costas, which was motivated by greed, envy and the de...

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What would you do to ensure that your child made their school’s athletic team? Well, in 1991, in Channelview, Texas, thirty-six- year-old mother of two, Wanda Holloway, was charged with solicitation of capital murder after she allegedly hired a hitman to try and kill the mother of her thirteen-year-old daughter’s cheerleading rival. However, her hire to murder plot would be ruined after police were informed of her pla...