GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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.  
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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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