GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

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 responsible, by wa...

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 the way i...

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 fire to th...

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 of The ...

"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 this ...

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 leading po...

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 there abou...

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 see...

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...

Here is episode 174 early and ad free for all of the patrons signed up to either tier. On July 12, 2015, just weeks sfter graduating high school in Mays Landing, New Jersey, Tiffany Valiante attended a graduation party across the street from her house at her uncle's home. Tiffany had already received a full scholarship at Mercy College in New York for Volleyball, a sport that she was VERY proficient at. That night after an arguemen...

On February 27, 2021 Warren Barnes, a homeless person living in Grand Junction, Colorado, was brutally murderer when he was sleeping under a bridge in town by a man named Brian Cohee. Brian, as it turned out, was a young man who had been contemplating and planning murder for over one year and looking for the right opportunity and the right person to commit a heinous attack on. In Warren Barnes he did not find the person that he was...

Dr. Norman Baker was not, in point of fact, a doctor at all.  What he was was a quack, a fraud and you could certainly argue that he was a Serial Killer as well. Norman used his skills as an inventor and a genius to build business, take advantage of people and he could talk his way into and out of any situation. His story spans two countries, two states and a lot of people who lost their lives because they believed in him and trust...

On September 11th, 2017 a female torso was found in the Oshawa harbour but the rest of the body could not be found.  It would be the end of December of 2017 when a family called for a plumber because their pipes were backing up due to a clog in their basement apartment, which was rented to 45-year-old Adam Strong. The plumbers would attend to the clog and would be absolutely apalled by what was causing the clog.  They would call 9...

This case covers a woman who appears to have been a serial killer although she was only ever found guilty of one murder. She was acquitted in a second murder and set to face a FOURTH trial in a third murder when she went to Mexico to commit the one murder that she was convicted of. She was imprisoned in Mexico but then escaped prison and fled, never to be found again. It was recently reported that she had moved to Canada and passed...

On November 13th, 2022 four students from The University of Idaho would go out for the night and into the wee hours of the morning.  One couple and two friends at different locations.  They would then all return home to the rooming house that two of the students lived in off campus.  That night an assailent would enter the home and stab all four of the setudents to death using a fixed-blade knife.   The assailant however did leave ...