GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

70. The Kidnappings of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus

Obviously in cases where4 someone goes missing for a long time there seem to be two ways that the story can go in the vast majority.  Either the person that disappeared had decided that they would move on to a new place and an entirely new life and wipe the slate clean or the worst is eventually confirmed, and those searching find out that their loved one has passed away in one form or fashion or another.  However, here on this podcast I always try to spread hope and the belief that it doesn’t always have to be that way.  In this week’s case we are going to look at the disappearances of not one, but three people who were missing for quite some time and although they went through hell, eventually, even after most hope was lost, they were returned to the people who were searching for answers. 
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69. The Disappearance of Lauren Spierer

There are many times in a child’s life that a parent feels are very important points in time.  Learning to speak, learning to walk, starting school, the venture into teenaged life and so many others.  For any parent, that moment when you watch your son or daughter venture off to post-secondary school for the first time, that is an incredibly important and proud moment.  When one particular young woman was dropped off  for her freshman year at Indiana University her parents had no idea that they would be sending her off on a series of events that would lead to her eventual disappearance rather than a path towards a bright and promising future.  Now, nearing 12 years later there are still no answers as to what happened, where she went, who she was taken by or whether she is alive or dead today. 
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68. The Murder of Blair Adams

Mystery is one of the things that we see incredibly often within the true crime world.  Even when we find answers to stories, there are often even more questions presented that never get answered.  That is what makes it appealing to so many people I believe.  If you want a mystery, you can find one in most true crime stories and if you want a case that you can chase and hypothesize about forever, true crime also routinely gives you that.  This week we are going to talk about a man that went from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada all the way to Knoxville, Tennessee in the United States and wound up dead.  This case is one that baffles everyone to this very day.  There are almost NO answers to why this man left Canada, went to the United States or did any of the things that he did up until his death.  His murder brings even more mystery as there are seemingly no answers as to why someone wanted him dead and how things ended up as they did. 
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67. Paul Bernardo Part 3

Each time that we get to this point in a series on a killer, it is my favourite part.  It is hard to read and research about the crimes that people committed and the lives that people ruined.  With Paul Bernardo the list is extensive.  He raped so many young women.  He at least took part in the murders of three women and think of the mental torment that he has caused for families of his victims and even the torment that he has caused for police officers and investigators that he alluded for such a long time because of his charm and his narcissism.  Thankfully though, his reign or terror would and did come to an end.  In episode one, we talked about his young life and his crimes as The Scarborough Rapist.  In episode 2 we covered the three murders as he became The Schooolgirl Killer.  This week, we cover the fall of the monster. 
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66. Paul Bernardo Part 2

Last week we started our in depth look at the life and crimes of Paul Bernardo.  Paul is one of the most known serial killers in Canadian history and his crimes are crimes that stick in the minds of anyone who was alive at the time that he was committing them.  Last week, in episode 65 we talked about Paul’s childhood and we talked about Paul’s crimes that he committed as The Scarborough Rapist.  This week we will move on to the crimes that Paul committed as his lusts and his deviancy grew, devolved and became even worse than they were before. 
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65. Paul Bernardo Part 1

It is almost like within the true crime world there are categories for the men and women that are found guilty of being serial killers.  We have the serial killers that are given more publicity, we have serial killers that are largely unknown and unheard of and then we also have some serial killers that just seem to grab the attention of the public at large.  It could be fascination, it could be interest in learning more and it could also be attributed to when a serial killer is active and when they are caught, or not caught.  This week we are going to start a series on one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers.  He has been known as The Scarborough Rapist, he has been known as The Schoolgirl Killer and he has been known as the Ken in the Ken and Barbie Killers.  His story is one of a man who had all the looks in the world and all of the charm in the world and he used it to ruin so many lives around him for a long period of time. 
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64. The Theresa Knorr Story

Often times as we are growing up people tell us things like “it could always be worse” or they tell us that we are exaggerating our situations, but the reality is that sometimes there are stories going on like the one that we are going to talk about today.  In the past we have talked about people in positions of power of people who have jobs that we entrust our children to, but this week we are going to talk about one of the worsts of the worst as far as crimes go in my mind.  We are going to talk about a woman who was convicted of torturing and killing two of her six children while also using and abusing her other children to help and hide her crimes. 
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63. Anti-Hero Jason Vukovich

True Crime gives us many examples of the anti-hero.  The character that we find ourselves possibly rooting for, even though they do not possess or show the traits that are common in a hero. The anti-hero is not idealistic and certainly often works outside the boundaries of morality.  Many of us think of people like Gary Plauché who killed his son’s kidnapper and molester in 1984.  This week we are going to cover another person who was in that same vein.  This man, in 2016 would track down a number of sex offenders by getting their information from the nation’s public registry on the matter.  He would attack at least three men who had previously been convicted of sexual crimes and after being dubbed The Alaskan Avenger, he would eventually wind up behind bars.
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62. The Disappearance of Angela Hammond

On April 4th of 1991 a young, 20-year-old woman was stopping at a payphone to call her fiancee to let him know that she was too tired to meet up for their plans and that she was instead going to head home for the night to rest and sleep.  While she was still on the phone with her boyfriend she would be grabbed and kidnapped.  This case had some interesting turns along the way and is still technically unsolved even though in 2021 a new theory came about. 
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61. The Bystander Effect - Kitty Genovese

If you have ever taken a psychology class or really, if you are a fan of true crime, at some point in your life you have probably come across The Bystander Effect.  The Bystander Effect is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim of a crime when there are other people present.  They believe instead that someone else must have called authorities or someone else will help.  This theory is actually largely based on the murder of Kitty Genovese and we are going to change a lot of what you may know or may have been taught about that case here today.  Lost in all of the controversy that has surrounded that over the years, is a story of a woman that was brutally murdered, regardless of the circumstances that surrounded that murder. 
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