GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

100. The Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard (Gypsy Rose Blanchard)

When I was younger I attended a youth conference that was named “Reverse the Curse” and the underlying theme of the conference was that you do not have to be all of the things that happened to you and you don’t have to become the people who raised you.  One of the things that we see a lot when studying true crime is that often people are unable to reverse that curse and they either are doomed to repeat evil actions or they eventually act out against their abusers in ways that are shocking and sometimes, much as we true crime fanatics hate to admit it, they act out against their abusers in ways that some of us are willing to lend a pass to. 
 
This week we are going to look at a very rare case.  A case where a daughter struck back against her mother who had seemingly turned her into a victim of Munchausen by Proxy.  The daughter grew up believing, and having everyone else around her believing, that she was an incredibly sick young woman whose mom was a saint for taking care of her.  The truth however appears to have been very much the opposite.  
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99. The Murder of Brenda Powell

I once had someone say something that really stuck in my brain for one reason or another and that was you believe that you have done just about all that you can do when your child reaches the age of 18.  You figure that you have helped them navigate some of the worst things that will happen to them when they were very vulnerable.  We talk a lot about jobs that are underpaid and overworked and parenting is certainly at the top of that list.  When you are a parent you are the bad guy to the child or children in your care and you can do no right, then they grow up and they move off and live their own lives.  It’s such an important job, as we all know, in more ways than one being a parent.  Sadly today though, we are again going to talk about a child who committed the ultimate crime of murder against her own mother.
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98. The Story of Leslie Arnold/John Damon

We talk a lot about the things that make true crime attractive to it’s fans.  For some people it is the psychology, for some people it is the human interest but I think for each and every person that loves true crime it really comes down to at least one common denominator.  Each and every one of us love to listen to a good story.  This week I am going to serve you up a story that covers a whole lot of years and a whole lot of people.  Imagine living your life not knowing that your father or your husband was a killer.  The children and spouses in this story found out exactly that after the man that they knew passed away.  They found out that on a different continent their father had not only killed his parents but he had served time and then escaped from prison.  Does that sound like a story that you may want to listen to?  Well, you have come to the right place! 
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97. The Hinterkaifeck Murders

Here on the podcast we have covered many cases that are unsolved and many cases that seem as though they COULD get solved if the right information or the right evidence came to light.  Today we are going to climb into the way-back machine and head to 1920’s Germany though to take a look at what may be Germany’s most well-known unsolved murder.  This week’s case has six murders, strange circumstances and absolutely no resolution.  It has now been over one hundred years since this case took place so it’s obvious that the guilty parties, and anyone that knew who the guilty parties were first hand,  are no longer with us.  What we are left with is plenty of people of interest, plenty of people who believe that they know what happened and the hope that perhaps one day, someone will come forward with evidence that will at least let us know who was behind the horrifying story that wiped out an entire family. 
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96. The Disappearance of Tiffany Whitton

It feels like since the dawn of time we have, as a society, tried to find ways to make ourselves feel better than others or tried to find ways to make others look worse than us.  That shows itself in every kind of prejudice that we see around us in our every day lives.  Unfortunately, if you know much at all about true crime you also know that this systemic way of thinking seems to creep into every single level of law enforcement that exists today.  The reality is that much like most professions that exist today, law enforcement also is overworked and under paid.  There simply are not enough people to look into all of the crime that exists and as such you tend to get things like we are going to talk about today.  Certainly, there are more people at fault in this case than investigators but this case was picked up by Esquire Magazine in April 2016 for a reason.  This case was covered because reporter Tom Junod presented that this case was a case where the person at the centre of the story did not trigger what is often called “missing white woman syndrome”.  Instead, he attested that this case showed that even for young women that you would reckon would get a publicity storm around their cases, things like previous criminal records and things like drug addiction can turn the volume way down on a media storm.  Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher MusicSocial Media for GBNF:GBNF on FacebookGBNF on TwitterGBNF on InstagramGBNF on TikTokGBNF on YoutubeGBNF on Patreon

95. The Murder of Shad Thyrion by Taylor Schabusiness

One of the things that people complain about most within legal systems in their countries are the delays in the legal process that are brought on by endless paper-pushing, endless hurdles and what seems to amount to mindless defense in order to keep some of the worst criminals from the worst charges possible for the crimes that they have committed.  Two of the defenses that are very contentious depending who you ask are the defenses to try and keep criminals out of jail or on lighter sentences because of mental health issues or because of drug or alcohol abuse.  This week we are talking about a story where the culprit certainly had both in her past but the jury ruled that her past substance and mental health issues should not keep her from being held responsible for the disgusting acts that she committed against a man that she said that she loved. 
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94. The Disappearance of Luke Joly-Durocher

So many nights on the town end with stories of merriment, joy and good times and yet at the same time there are many nights on the town that wind up with the complete opposite kinds of stories.  When you add alcohol to a situation unfortunately the events of an evening can change at a moment’s notice.  Sadly, no matter how you look at this week’s story it is one of those stories on the awful side of that spectrum.  A group of friends heads out to the bar and one of those friends is never seen again.  To make matters worse, now over twelve years later that night out is still the subject of a missing person’s case that is widely believed to be a homicide investigation as well.  A case where it seems that a lot of people know what happened and yet no answers have been given to the family and no charges have been laid. 
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93. The Murders of Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow

Certainly one of the most baffling crimes that you can learn about are the cases where parents kill their own child or children.  It is hard enough to fathom that we live in a world where anyone believes that they can take a life, or lives, and they will get away with it or they simply do not care what the repercussions will be.  When someone takes that awfulness to an entirely new level and takes the lives of their own offspring it certainly can shake you to the core.  This week we are going to cover a story that has an incredible amount of awful, an incredible amount of weird and two people with a whole lot of death surrounding them. 
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92. The Death House Landlady: Dorothea Puente

As we have seen in the plethora of murder cases that we have covered on this podcast killers, and even serial killers, come in all shapes and sizes.  There is no defining characteristic that is seen across the board in the case of all, or even most, killers.  One of the things that  is certainly seen in more murderers than not though is a progression in crime and another maddening trait that we come across far too often is that career criminals still find ways to slip through the cracks.  Unfortunately this is not just new in cases that we see and hear today.  This week we are going to go back a little bit to the 1980s and 1990s and we are going to look at the life, crimes and death of a female serial killer who was active in California and making victims out of people who needed help when they came to her, not to be hurt. 
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91. The Turpin Family

Children are our most important commodity.  Full stop.  We live in a world where it seems that everyone forgets that and our children are not as protected or as cherished as they should be.  Far too often there are stories all over the news of children being beaten, kidnapped and killed and it seems that we have almost been desensitized to it on some level as a society.  Sometimes our minds don’t even register how old the person is that we are talking about when we hear a new story.  This week we are going to look at a story that covers MANY children and this story has everything.  A hero, villains, heartbreak, freedom and so much more.  Perhaps though, one of the worst parts of this story is the fact that even when you think that these children are out of harm’s way because they are freed from their captives…there are more to come.  Our own governments and agencies that have been put into place to protect our children still sometimes don’t and this is one of those cases where it becomes clear as day that there are problems in our world in terms of criminals but there are also problems in our world with how we deal with tragedies like this one.
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