True Crime BnB

True Crime BnB

Welcome to the True Crime BnB! I'm Beth, your host, and I started this podcast with my daughter Bailey, creating a format where one of us would tell a rough story about a case, and the other would end every episode with an inspiring story focused on strength and survival. We wanted to remember victims, and celebrate survivors. Now that I'm solo, some episodes are collaborations with podcaster friends who bring a case to share, and we continue the 'downer' and 'upper' format that Bailey and I created. Sometimes I release what I call Just One B episodes, where it's just me, telling true crime case stories that you've never heard before. I focus on cases that didn't get much publicity, because those people still deserve to be remembered. I will never glamourize the criminals. This place is for the victims and the survivors. This is the True Crime BnB.

Episodes

March 22, 2024 • 24 mins

Thank you for joining me to back at the True Crime BnB for Episode 89. Today I am taking you to Mexico City in 1958, and we are going to remember the murder of Harriet Ann Eckman Hicks. But there is a lot to remember about Harriet besides the way she was taken from her family.

Harriet was a woman who made her own life and lived outside the bounds of what society expected of her in the 1950's. She was a creative, an entrepreneur,...

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Thank you for joining me this week for Episode 88, as we head to San Francisco, California and the horrific case of Frank and Annette Carlson. This crime took place in 1974 and was so excessively violent that the perpetrator tried to pass himself off as one of the many serial killers that were in that area in the early 1970's.

Annette survived but has spent the last 50 years haunted by the events of that night. ...And it's been m...

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February 23, 2024 • 1 min

Background music is "Just Relax" by LesFM, uncopyrighted and legally obtained from Pixabay.com .

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February 16, 2024 • 24 mins

Howdy and welcome back to the True Crime BnB! Thanks for joining me for this Just One B, Episode 87!

Today's case is similar to some of the cases we have covered in the past, but with one unusual factor.

David Alexander was a nice Irishman living in Ontario, Canada. He was a good dad, a good husband, and carried the secret that his wife abused him. David still loved his wife Christine, but had come to the conclusion that he could...

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Hi guys, I'm sorry to have been MIA for the last month, but I finally made it back to this episode that we recorded at the beginning of December!

But let me tell you, Episode 86 is worth the wait!

This collaboration with MaryAnne from Social Detective is intense, and also longer than my normal episodes, see time stamps below.

MaryAnne brings us the infuriating (no joke--this will make you angry) case of the Fager Family murders in Wic...

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Hello, my dear Crime Family, apologies that I couldn't get this episode out before Christmas as planned. We had a death in my family and my only focus was family last week.

But for this episode I was lucky enough to collaborate again with my friend Lyndon from Murder at Bedtime with Lyndon and the Exiled Yellowbelly. Links to his channels and podcast are below.

Lyndon brought us a heartbreaking case out of Sheffield in 2012: the sens...

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Hello, welcome to Just One B week at the BnB! Today for Episode 84, I'm bringing you a story of a heroic mother who saved the lives of her large family when their home was consumed in a Christmas fire 62 years ago.

Rosemary Shayotovich Swiger Starry thought of nothing except the safety of her bedridden husband and her eight children when their Christmas tree caused a house fire in the early morning hours of December 26, 1961. Rosema...

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November 24, 2023 • 19 mins

Welcome to the November Just One B, so this week, there is no good guy. I know, rough, but this is just how it has to be sometimes at the BnB.

My case this week was a senseless, tragic, and random act of violence towards a young woman who was going to do great things in her life. Sharon Galligan was only weeks away from embarking on her semester abroad when she was a junior at the University of Massachusetts. Her life was extinguish...

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November 10, 2023 • 64 mins

Welcome back for Episode 82 here at the BnB! Thank you for joining me as I welcome Deb from Dying To Be Found podcast as this week's guest bad guy!

Deb went big with her case this week, in the tragic downfall, crimes, and untimely death of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. He did some terrible things over a number of years, but Deb shows us the double-edged sword of the life that made him both wealthy and reckless. She...

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Hello again, and welcome back to the True Crime BnB for Episode 81!

This week is a solo Just One B, episode, but I'm still bringing you two stories. But since this is a Halloween episode, neither case has a happy or uplifting ending. Apologies for breaching the format, but these two cases are important and I wanted to share them both.

The common themes of these two stories are that both took place on Halloween in the 1980's, both wer...

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Welcome back to Episode 80, my dear Crime Family! I've missed you!

This week I had the pleasure of working again with Andy from Picture the Scene Podcast, with whom we also collaborated on Episode 41. Rachael was unable to join us, but Andy brought us a case from the UK, detailing the horrible domestic violence murder of Dawn Walker. This murder was, unfortunately, predictable, but the circumstances are beyond tragic. Dawn was a won...

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Hello again, y'all, and thank you for being here for Episode 79!

This week I have brought in a guest host who is one of my oldest friends--we went to college together in 1821! Okay, it was a few years after that, but we've literally been friends since I was 18. That was even before I started the BnB!!

Buckeye Don bravely took on co-hosting duties today, and he brought us a hella interesting case. Don is sharing the story around the o...

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September 15, 2023 • 74 mins

Episode 78 is here, y'all!

This week, I was lucky enough to be able to finish editing my collaboration with Courtney and Patrick from Evil Pudding Podcast, These two put together an amazing, detail-packed podast, and if you're not listening to them, you should be.

I started off the episode with Installment #10 of Architect Mayhem. This week's Architect-gone-bad is a UK man who made his amazing Argentinian wife disappear, not only o...

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August 25, 2023 • 20 mins

Hi, Crime Family, thanks for being here this week for this Just One B episode, with solo Beth telling the rough story of the murder of Cammi Leigh Ostwald, who was a 16-year-old Michigander from Clinton Township, which is a suburb of Detroit.

She was a pretty typical teenager, but after a fight with her mom about an older boy, Cammi ran away. Cammi's family were frantic to find her and bring her home, but the 19-year-old her 'frien...

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Welcome, one and all, it's Episode 76 here at the True Crime BnB--where the doors are always open and we always have a comfy spot to sit and talk about victims and survivors.

This week, I was happy to be joined by Tiffany, half of the co-host duo from Cola City Crime, an amazing podcast out of South Carolina.

Tiffany generously offered to be our bad guy this week, and she brought one doozy of a story--Bobbie Sue Terrell, an Illinois ...

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Hello and welcome back, Crime Family!

Thank you for being here for this special episode with my dear friend Carmen from Live, Laugh, Murder Podcast!

Carmen has generously popped in to be the bad guy and tell us about the case of the horrible interrogation of Ryan Waller, who was arrested on suspicion of shooting his girlfriend Heather Quan in Arizona.

But the facts of this case are even more horrifying, and Carmen will explain it a...

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Episode 74 is a wild ride, y'all!

This week, Beth teamed up with Lyndon from "Murder at Bedtime with Lyndon" and the "Exiled Yellowbelly", and this episode is wild!

The trans-Atlantic recording was less than stellar, so the sound quality leaves something to be desired, but I hope you will try to bear with us because the episode is worth it!

Lyndon brilliantly covers the 2016 case of the so-called Twilight Killers, two 14-year-olds in ...

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June 30, 2023 • 19 mins

Welcome back, everybody, it's finally time to release Episode 73!

We've had a bit of a hiatus, and things are a little bit different around the BnB this week. Beth is solo, except, as you'll find at the very end, in the bloopers.

This week's episode covers a sad case I'm confident you've never heard before unless you're from the Schuylkill, PA area. Ruth Miller Coffey was in a loving, happy marriage with William Coffey, III. They t...

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We made it, y'all! It's Friday! And episode 72 has something to pique the curiosity of just about everyone.

Bailey takes us on a whirlwind trip up Interstate-75 starting in Daytona Beach, FL, through Atlanta, GA, and winding up in the woods of Wisconsin in an unsolved, mysterious disappearance. Timothy Michael Molnar was the kind of young man who had everything going for him, and his life seemed to be moving in a positive direction....

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Happy Friday, Crime Family! If your week has been anywhere near as hectic as ours, we will happily be your excuse to relax and pop open a cold one. In fact, we strongly encourage it! (You might need it after this one...)

First up this week is Beth; who will tell you a tragic story of obsession gone wrong, Although the circumstance of what happened to Amy Lynn Boyer was considered a first in the internet era, the underlying root of h...

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