GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

90. The Murder of Sierah Joughin

As our listeners who are in Canada would know, one of the things that is on the minds of many people who are into true crime, in this country especially lately, is the way that criminals are treated when in prison and the ways that they are sometimes seemingly lost in the system when they get out.  In Canada we have recently had Paul Bernardo, a convicted serial killer and serial rapist, moved from maximum security prison to medium security prison because it was deemed as the logical next step according to what the goals are of the prison system in this country.  We also have had the very recent case of a convicted sex offender and trafficker who was found to have been living on his wife’s property where she also ran a camp for children on the autism spectrum after he served his time and seemingly stopped facing as many checks and balances.  Heck, we even had Karla Homolka years ago found to be working with a daycare because she was given an assumed name and a new life.  This week we are going to look at the American equivalent, from within Ohio.  In 2016 a vibrant 20-year-old woman was murdered by someone who had previously served only three years of a sentence for a previous, and similar crime.  We are going to look at changes that happened far too late for the woman at the centre of our story and far too late to stop a monster from committing an eerily similar crime for a second time. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

89. The Murders of Jami and Mallory Evans

When we talk about killers there are always words and statements that seem to float around the killers themselves.  Things like psychopath, sociopath, abuse, escalation of crime, lack of emotion and so on and so forth.  But, if you are into the psychology of true crime you are very well aware of the fact that we barely know what makes a killer tick and we barely knows what causes something to one day change in their mind enough that they are capable of taking another life.  For every pattern there are outliers, for every diagnosis there are people who are undiagnosable.  We really do not know what it is within someone that makes them a) capable of being a killer and b) capable of killing.  This week we are going to look at a young man who made a 911 call after he murdered his mother and one of his sisters.  In that call he had no emotion.  He knew what he had done and seemingly knew where he was headed.  It is chilling to hear the voice of someone who had just taken the lives of two members of his family.  This case will chill you to your bones. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

88. The Murder of Grace Millane

If you are listening to this podcast I reckon that that means that you have taken in your fair share of true crime in your life.  You then know that nearly any podcast has taken the time to warn people against the pitfalls that can come in the world of online dating.  Sites like Tinder and every other dating site that has popped up essentially have turned dating and hookup culture into a game of window shopping and movies and shows like the ones on The Tinder Swindler have shown the world that there certainly can be and are fears out there.  This week we are going to cover another case that shows what can happen if you swipe and meet the wrong person online.  Sadly, not everyone is as innocent as they appear and scarier than that many people are very good at creating fake personas to get what they want.  Many of us have encountered our fair share of dirtbags in the dating world, whether online or offline, but sadly the gross comments and the disrespect for women is not the depths of the monsters that you can find if you aren’t extra careful.  Sad but true.  We live in a world where something as innocent as a date can turn into something as sinister as murder.
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

87. The Disappearance of Summer Wells

We have talked so many times in passing on the podcast about the fact that the advent of the internet and the passions behind true crime have caused many different positives and negatives over the years.  One of the worst aspects of course is the fact that especially in today’s day and age, many people online seem to think that because they have an unfiltered voice and an opinion that means that they are qualified to do jobs that they are not trained for, and even worse, a lot of those same people seem to think that they are more qualified than the professionally trained people in the fields that they are trying to claim as their own.  This week I want to look at a case that is still sadly ongoing and one that really causes a lot of debate every time that it comes up.  This case is about a young girl who went missing just over two years ago and has more chatter about it than most active cases ever see.  There are so many questions.  Do the investigators know more about the situation and the case than they have told the public?  Did the family have anything whatsoever to do with the disappearance of their daughter?  Is there prejudice against a family by the public who believe that they know best by looking at purely circumstantial evidence?  We will try to look at these questions and more this week. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

86. The Murders of Reagan Simmons Hancock and Braxlynn Sage Hancock

Let’s face it, we are living in a world where for a lot of us there seem to be fewer and fewer things that bring joy and fewer and fewer things that are capable of lifting our spirits.  Imagine though if you found yourself in a situation that brought you joy, expectation and so much love that it couldn’t do anything other than brighten your day.  Now imagine if you were to have that very thing quite literally taken away from you by someone that you knew and someone that you trusted.  For many people, one of the things that can bring that level of joy into your life is the birth of a new baby and for Reagan Simmons-Hancock her second pregnancy was exactly that, the center of her world and a source of great joy.  However, on the flip side of that coin there are many women who sadly cannot have children and that can be a source of massive heartbreak and many awful days.  Taylor Parker however took that sadness and that need to have a child about a million steps further than any normal or sane person would and the effect of those steps would destroy so many lives. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

85. The Bennington Triangle

There are so many stories when it comes to true crime.  You could literally tell stories that involve mystery, murder, solved or unsolved crimes and the like forever without running out of stories.  That is sad for sure because it goes to show that the world around us is always in some semblance of a shambles.  There are people doing things that are inherently wrong every single day.  This week we are going to look at a story that has long been a mystery and has long been unsolved.  The disappearances that we are going to talk about this week don’t even have a certain correlation between them aside from location which is crazy after so much has time has passed.  Stories like this one are amazing because you can read and listen to so many opinions and so many retellings of this story and your own creativity can take over.  When you are left with “what the hell happened” as your reaction to a true crime story that equally terrifying and intriguing I think. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

84. The Murder of Dorothy Scott

Many people experience varying degrees of what we all call a stalker in their lives and sadly situations like the one that we are going to discuss today occur more often within the lives of young women.  Those women, like this case, become the object of affection for a man who has been rejected or fears rejection and so instead that person becomes a stalker, possibly believing in their warped mind that they can force the object of their affection to fall for them because of some combination of sick perseverance and fear.  Many times we joke with the word stalker but the reality is that these types of situations can get scary and even deadly really quickly.  This week we are going to talk about a hard-working mom who was also a devout Christian and who unfortunately suffered the worst fate possible believably at the hands of a stalker.  Unfortunately though, to this day we don’t know for sure what happened to her or who did it. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

83. John Wayne Gacy - Part 3

When we do these multi-episode cases on serial killers there tend to be a mix of emotions along the way.  The first episode when we cover the killer’s younger life tends to give us pause as we see some of the things that may or may not have played a part in them becoming the monsters that they became.  The second episode usually leaves me with sadness and pause as we cover the people who wound up in the path of monsters and wound up dying an untimely death.  As we move onto the third episode it is usually my favourite to write and produce because we get to talk about the way that the monster gets captured and the sentences that they are handed.  This case is no different.  There is no denying that this man was one of the worst monsters that ever walked on this earth and thankfully as we are about to discuss, he was able to be captured after years of fooling everyone and he got what he deserved in the end.  Even though his life will never add up to all of the lives that he took, there is some sense of closure for friends and loved ones of those that were killed in knowing that there is one less monster around to cause this kind of destruction today. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

82. John Wayne Gacy - Part 2

As I have mentioned countless times in the past on the podcast, I do like to cover the psychology and the killers that commit the crimes that we talk about here because I do genuinely feel that studying people and what makes or made them tick can be helpful to help understand crime as a whole.  However, one thing that I feel that a lot of podcasts tend to forget is the victims of the crimes that are committed.  The people who are innocent at the center of the story and the people who are no longer with us.  That is what I also like to cover any time that we do a deep dive into killers.  This week we are going to talk about the timeline a little bit more and we are going to cover what we can about the people who lost their lives at the hands of one of the worst serial killers that the world has ever seen. 
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music

81. John Wayne Gacy - Part 1

If you have ever taken a deep look at a serial killer and their entire story before, you know that there are many things that people believe are parts of building a person who is capable of killing and becoming a serial killer.  The more that you study the psychology and the childhoods of these killers you really do start to see a lot of similarities across many stories.  One of those similarities is the fact that many serial killers have some sort of childhood trauma within their lives.  Many studies have led scientists to believe that during the formative years things like trauma can teach the brain to suppress empathy and emotional impulses.  Over the next few weeks we are going to cover a serial killer who had trauma in his past and the ability to fool everyone around him into believing that he was someone different than he truly was.  The question though in this story is whether the trauma was a pressure point or not for the murders that he committed.  This week we are going to cover the life of one of the worst serial killers of all time on our way through a series where we will talk about everything that is pertinent.  
GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music