GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

80. Carl Tanzler and Elena de Hoyos

When people find out that I am into true crime and likely when people find out that you are into true crime there are generally two reactions that are the most prevalent.  The first is happiness as they find someone else that is into learning about the dark and the macabre like ourselves.  The second is that look that many of us know that recognizes us from that point on as a bit of a freak.  True Crime interests, intrigues and enthralls many of us for many different reasons.  Perhaps you love a good mystery or perhaps you, like myself, are very interested in the psychology that encircles many of the cases that are out there for public consumption.  There certainly are people who get to entrenched in the stories and there are those that romanticize killers, criminals and stories as well.  We are going to look at one such case here on this episode.  We are going to talk about a man who believed that he was sent a vision of the perfect woman for him and then was lucky enough to meet that woman.  The lengths though that this man would go to in search of eternity with his true love were certainly different.  To many they were beyond acceptable and strange but still to some others, they view this as a story about a man who was an eccentric romantic.  
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79. The Christopher Watts Murders

When it comes to true crime there seem to be varying degrees of how a case will hit you as you do research and dive deeply into a case.  For some people missing person cases hit the hardest because there is just nothing to go on and there is just no answers to the plethora of questions that come up as you unpack the life story of someone who simply seems to have disappeared.  For me, the cases that hit the hardest are the cases where everything just appears, at least on the surface, to come from out of absolutely nowhere.  This week we are going to look at a case that hit me harder than nearly any case that I have ever researched before because it seems to include so many elements that just continue to make the case worse and worse.  We have the murder of an entire family, including three children, two very young and one unborn.  We have a man who in this day and age is caught on many videos being seemingly calmer, cooler and more collected than anyone should be after doing the horrendous things that he had done.  We have a motive that should never be a motive, a desire to leave one person and be with someone else.  Sadly, this is the world that we live in, infidelity and the mind of a monster can lead to the deaths of four innocent people just because that monster wants that family out of the way. 
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78. The Disappearance of Jake Just

There are so many things that nobody really thinks about when they think about missing person’s cases.  People will generally say things like “I’m so sorry” or “I can’t even imagine” and of course, those things are true.  Putting yourself into the shoes of someone who has lost a loved one, especially a child, is something that we hope that we never have to fully understand.  This week I want to talk about a case where a mother has been quite open about one of the hardest things to deal about when your love one is a part of an unsolved case.  Of course there is limitless grief, concern, worry, wonder and all of the emotions that circle non-stop through one’s mind when they don’t even know if their loved one is alive, let alone what happened to them.  The issue that most don’t think about is the calls that can come at any time from people of all walks of life who will claim to tell you that they know what happened in your story that doesn’t have a final chapter.  Debbie Just from Midland, Ontario has taken many of those calls and sadly does not know what happened to her son on devil’s night 1998 in Midland, Ontario, Canada. 
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77. The Toronto Van Attack

Thankfully, Canada has not been the site of too many mass casualty events.  Anyone that lives here knows that crime if not something that is dormant, but we can at least say that we do not find ourselves in situations like what happened on April 23rd, 2018 too often.  If you live anywhere near Toronto, Ontario, you likely remember where you were, what you were doing and how you heard about the tragic event that took the lives of 11 people and injured 15 more.  That was the day that a man who was mad at the world and part of the incel movement that is still gaining notoriety today took it upon himself to rent a van and drive through one of the busiest areas in Toronto mowing people down cold-heartedly and unmercilessly.
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76. The Murder of Tristyn Bailey

One of the most common sentiments that I think is seen in the world around us these days is that the world is becoming a scarier and scarier place regardless of what you look at and what you see in your direct circle of friends and family.  One thing that I believe is certain is that our children and our teens are growing up faster and growing up in a world that is much more rife with anger, mental health struggles and sometime a complete and utter lack of regard or awareness from parents.  Sadly, far too often those struggles lead to stories like the one that I am covering today.  This story is a recent one as the life sentence was just doled out on March 24th of 2023.  This case covers what appears from all angles to be a case of a young man who was completely lost without checks and balances and a young girl who lost her life for seemingly no other reason than that young man wanting to fulfill a fantasy of murder. 
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75. The West Mesa Murders

In this podcast and in true crime as a whole there is one certainty.  That certainty is that there are likely even more unsolved cases out there than there are solved cases that we can tell the stories of.  Perhaps the worst of the worst is when you have a case where there are multiple murders that could very well be a case of a serial killer.  This week we are going to talk about one of those cases.  11 women’s remains were found buried in 2009 in the desert on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico and it is unknown if those are all of the victims of whatever happened in that area.  These murders have been hypothesized to have either been the victims of a serial killer or the victims of a sex trafficking ring.  Either way, all 11 of these women had their lives taken from them way too soon and to this day they still have an err of mystery surrounding them and they have the indignity of not having the end of their story shared and the guilty party or parties named. 
 
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74. The Eleanor Williams Story

As a true crime podcast one thing is true of the vast majority of the cases that we cover.  There is generally someone within the story, whether solved or unsolved who was a criminal of one kind or another.  In this week’s case we are going to cover a case that looks at a criminal of a completely different kind than we have ever looked at on the podcast before.  In today’s society and with movements like me-too going on around us, let me be clear, we are all for bringing stories to light and getting justice in cases where people need to be punished.  However, sadly within that movement and within that environment there are people who lie, manipulate and try to villainize people who did not commit crimes simply out of some other desire, often spite.  This week we look at a woman who told her story to everyone that would listen and in the end she ruined an untold number of lives.  However, in the end she went from preaching the victim to becoming the criminal. 
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73. The Disappearance of Morgan Nick

When we are children we are warned of stranger danger.  We are told that we should not speak to strangers, should not approach vehicles of people that try to talk to us and we are trained to be aware and safe in our surroundings at all times.  As parents, our most pressing fear is that all it takes is a moment for one of our babies to be taken from us and perhaps never returned.  All it really takes is for an evil person to see a small opportunity to commit an awful act and then you are left with a lifetime of wondering what happened to your sweet child and you are left sleepless wondering whether that child is alive or has passed on.  That is what we are going to discuss this week.  We are going to discuss a tragic set of circumstances that led to a 6-year-old girl going missing and who is still missing to this day.  We are also going to discuss a mother who has gone above and beyond to help people like her. 
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72. Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

We have all heard the saying at one time or another, money does not buy happiness and regardless of who you are and how much money that you have, you likely have a knee jerk reaction to that statement in one way or another.  For one such heir to a family fortune however it would seem that all of the money that he had and had coming to him only caused him to believe that he was untouchable and perhaps led him to believe that he could do anything and get away with it.  After all, if money cant buy happiness, it sure can help one cover up a string of murders.  This particular playboy is back in the news with his co-killer again now in Canada as they glom up the legal system and try to appeal to their previous murder charges as they currently are in prison for 3 and 2 murders respectively. 
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71. The Murder of Kerrie Ann Brown

When tragedy strikes, we are taught from a very young age to call 911 or to call the local police and that they will help us out of trouble or help us solve a crime if one has been committed.  However, as I have covered on this podcast many times in the past, unfortunately that is not always the way and that is not always the answer.  We have covered multiple cases here on GBNF already that show that there are certainly times where the police decide that the easiest answer must be the right answer and then what happens turns out to be the opposite of what we expect from the authorities that are put in place to serve and protect.  This week, we are covering what I believe to be one of those cases.   Imagine the heartbreak of having your 15-year-old girl go missing, be found murdered and then watching as an arrest is made only to have the entire case thrown out for lack of evidence.  Now imagine what it would be like to have seemingly no more answers 37 years later.  Was the killer that smart or were the investigators that inept? 
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