GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

On January 11th, 1965 Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock would take Marianne's four youngest siblings to Wanda Beach for the day for an outting. The beach that day though was closed because of bad weather. Marianne and Christine left the children behind and went into the secluded dune-area of the beaah and tragically would never be seen again. This case is one of Australia's most gruesome unsolved murders, and now, 65 ...

For years, decades even, this case of missing and murdered women on Long Island in the Gilgo Beach area was hampered by a lack of evidence, a lack of knowledge and a lack of investigation by the people who were charged with serving and protecting citizens, including the ones that lost their lives that they deemed less important than others.
FINALLY an arrest has been made in this case but we are left wondering if the right man i...

On October 9th, 2020 Jamie Faith and his wife Jennifer left their home at 7:30am to walk their dog and the couple were attacked, seemingly unprovoked, by a masked and armed man. Jamie was murdered in his street, hit by seven bullets, and Jennifer was bound and assaulted. This case is like a roller coaster with MANY twists and turns.

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Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary. Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women from 1590 to 1610.

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On June 4th 2010 Kyron Horman would leave early for school with his stepmom Terri and his younger half-sister as it was the day of the school science fair and he had put together a project for it. However, after his stepmother allegedly left at 8:45am Kyron would be marked absent when he was not in class at all that day. It would be hours, until he didn't get off the school bus, before anyone realized that he had gone missing and a...

On May 25, 2025 Grant Hardin, a convicted murderer and rapist, escaped from prison in Arkansas and for twelve days he remained on the run. He would be found only one and a half miles from the prison, likely because law enforcement closed in tightly and quickly and also hindered by torrential rains.
In this week's episode we cover his life, his crimes, how he was convicted for sexual assault after many years, how he escaped and ...

On February 10th, 1990 two gunmen would enter the Las Cruces Bowling Alley, seemingly with the express goal of robbing the bowling alley. However, in the roughly twenty minutes that they were inside of the building they would steal $4000-$5000 and they would attempt to take the lives of the seven people that were inside the bowling alley preparing for open. Four people would lose their lives on that day at the hands of the two men ...

Giulia Tofana was an enigma and in point of fact many contend that she never even existed and that her story is one of lore and folk tales that kept growing more and more elaborate over time.  

Let;s imagine that the woman, who there is no discernible proof that she ever lived, was everything that we have been told that she was.  Giulia then was one of the most prolific killers of all time having reportedly been responsibl...

On April 3rd, 2022 a 911 call was placed by Courtney Clenney and she was frantic and saying that her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, had been stabbed. In the background Christian can be heard saying that he is dying.
It would take months before Courtney was arrested on 2nd-degree murder charges and we will talk about some of the believed reasons why.
This case is still in the courts and has seen many twists and turns along t...

On December 18, 2008 a divorce was finalized between Bruce Pardo and Sylvia Ortega and only six days after that Pardo would act on a plan that he had been formulating and planning for for many months.
Bruce dressed up as Santa Clause, went to the Ortega family's Christmas Eve Party and would take the lives of nine members of Sylvia's family, including Sylvia herself.
Bruce would then, with a makeshift air compressor, set fi...

On December 12, 2022 officers were sent to a property in Australia to look into a missing person's report that had been filed on one Nathaniel Train. Four officers, two from Tara and two from Chinchilla drove to the property, attempted to make contact with the home owners and then went to check ths home. They were met with an absolute ambush and all hell would break loose on the property in the end taking the lives of two officers,...

The Saints are a religious sect, or cult, based in Australia that was made up of a very exclusive group of people from three families.  
One of those families was the Struhs family.  At the time that this case took place, four of the five members of the Struhs family were considered "part" of The Saints.  Parents, Jason and Kerrie Struhs and two of their children, Zachary Struhs and Elizabeth Struhs.
One of the core beliefs...

"I was born with the devil in me.  I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." - H.H. Holmes

H.H. Holmes is one of the more widely known serial killers in American history.  When he is thought of people often think first of The Murder Castle but the truth truly is much different than the stories that have been conflated over the years.  Bailey and I hypothesize ...

On Wednesday October 4th, 1978 a young man was laying wire for a telephone company in Lyon County, Iowa when he thought he saw a mannequin lying in amongst the weeds along Highway 182.  As he approached he quickly realized that it was actually human remains.  Those human remains belonged to a woman who would remain only known as Jane Doe for 26 1/2 years until a fingerprint finally told investigators that those remains had belonged...

On April 4, 2015 Amanda Taylor and Sean Ball would go to Amanda's father-in-law's home with one intention, to kill him. Amanda blamed Charles (her father in law) for the suicide of her husband because she says that he had caused her husband Rex to become an addict from a very early age.
Amanda followed through on her plan for murder, took a selfie of herself with the murder weapon and Charles' dead body and then took off leadin...

This week's case is going to showcase what we do over on Patreon for our patrons signed up to either tier.  The ice storm in Ontario this past week caused us to go without power for a couple of days and we had quite the mess to clean up!  As such, we were a bit behind the 8-ball as far as dropping a BRAND NEW episode.  Please enjoy this patron-exclusive episode in lieu of that.

This heart breaking case covers the murder of Jennifer...

In 2014 Alexander Hernandez went on perhaps one of the quietest serial killer sprees in American History. He took the lives of 5 people and 11 people survived his random and unprovoked attacks.
Victims were going about their lives, on their way to work, on their way to church and following traffic laws when they were attacked.
Hernandez' case took a long time to go through the courts and honestly there is VERY little out th...

On October 3, 1984 a 9-year-old girl named Christine Jessop got off her bus and went home from school. By the time that her mom and her brother got home though Christine was gone. It was nearly three months that the family went without any answers and then Christine's body was found and it was evident that she had been murdered and sexually assaulted.
What would ensue was frankly an absolute farce of an investigation that would...

In July of 2008 Caylee Anthony would be reported missing after she had not been seen by her mother or her grandparents for just over one month and prior to the 911 calll made by Cindy Anthony (Caylee's grandmother) there was not any contact whatsoever with police. What unfolded from there is a long line of lies and seemingly covering up from many corners and ultimately to this day nobody knows what the true cause of death was for C...