GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

107. The Murder of Dylan Redwine

I think that most of us know of stories of families that have split up and we are aware that even in the most amicable of situations those setups can certainly be difficult on our children.  This week we are going to look at a case where in hindsight it seems that the system that we put into place to protect our children may have had a hand in forcing an issue that led to the death of a very young boy who had his entire life ahead of him.  Perhaps even worse yet were the lengths that were taken by the guilty party in this case to avoid being caught which in turn caused even more stress and concern for the family of the young boy who was murdered.  This story, like far too many of them, comes with twists and turns and an end result that could not have possibly been more horrifying. 
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106. Canada’s First Suicide Bomber: The Story of The Kenora Bomber

Many times in the past we have covered cases of missing people and we have covered cases of victims who were not identified after years had gone by.  This week we are going to cover something a little bit different.  One of Canada’s longest standing mysteries encircles the case of Canada’s first ever suicide bomber in Kenora, Ontario.  The man entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with the intent to rob the bank and a series of circumstances led to a sudden death when the bomb detonated and the entire thing was witnessed by many people who had arrived at the scene to watch the action.  Who was the man that robbed the bank that day and lost his life in the streets of Kenora?  Fifty years later nobody knows. 
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105. The Murder of Lisa Knoefel

On November 16th, 2012 a dispatcher would pick up a 911 emergency call in Lake County, Ohio and everything that happened after that call was picked up would take everyone that came into contact with the case by surprise.  On the other end of the line was a young girl who was in hysterics as she screamed into the phone and tried to express what was going on in her home.  Finally, the dispatcher was able to deduct that the young girl on the phone was telling her that someone was killing her mom.  As the case unravelled there would be surprise after surprise and heartbreak after heartbreak.  One of the worst things in the world that we can look at in the realm of true crime is cases like this one when a parent succumbs to a child.  This murder was gruesome and the details continued to come out long after the crime and scene were dealt with. 
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104. The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson

One thing that is common across true crime stories, especially those that have to do with missing people, is that there are often complaints about how the police took charge of a case and even how they treated the people reporting their loved one as missing.  It is a sad reality, as we have covered here on the podcast, that certain things like race, class and gender can make a difference on how a missing person’s case is looked at and how much manpower is put into the investigation.  This week we are going to talk about a case that showed the alleged ineptitude of the police when an adult male was reported missing and the way that that family stepped up in a big way to push for legislative changes so that others would not have to go through what they had been put through. Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher MusicSocial Media for GBNF:GBNF on FacebookGBNF on TwitterGBNF on InstagramGBNF on TikTokGBNF on YoutubeGBNF on Patreon

103. The Murder of Yancy Noll by Dinh Bowman

I think that we have covered on this podcast very well that criminals come in all shapes and sizes.  One thing that does seem to come up fairly often, especially when it comes to killers, is the fact that many of them have higher than average IQ’s.  This week we are going to look at a man who had a good life, had a heck of a lot of brains and then seemingly after what appears to be years of researching and learning about murder he randomly pulled up alongside a perfect stranger and took his life.  What’s more is that the world that was unravelled by investigators was weird and elaborate.  This was a man who seemingly had planned to kill for a long time even though he seemingly did not plan out the circumstances nor the victim.
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102. The Issei Sagawa Story

Two of the arguments that I think that I have presented both sides of and felt both sides of over the life of this podcast are the argument over whether a criminal deserves a second chance at life and the argument over whether mental health patients should serve time within mental health facilities or prisons.  This episode is going to focus on both of those questions in a very different way and add in a layer of what can happen when a criminal is deported back to their home country.  This episode, in research, made me feel a lot of things and then when I took the time to watch the documentary that was made WITH the man we are about to talk about, I felt a whole new series of things.  Hopefully this case is as interesting to you as it is to me. 
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101. The Alphabet Murders (New York)

It is a certain fact that I could continue to write and record episodes of GBNF forever and I would quite  literally never run out of stories to tell or horrors to relay.  Perhaps the saddest part is that there are so many stories that nobody is able to tell because of the complete lack of information and reporting and there are also so many crimes that remain open because of the inability to find guilty parties, lay charges and receive convictions.  This week we are going to talk about a story that is fairly well known and that is one of those cases that just has not ever come to a resolution.  This week we look at the murders of three very young girls that may or may not be connected and the murderer or murderers has never been found. 
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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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