GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

110. The Story of Steven Pladl

Have you ever hit that point in a case where you just go ick?  What is it about a case that makes you realize that this one hits a little bit differently than the other ones?  What is it that truly makes your skin crawl?  For Julie, I know that it’s cases when children get hurt, kidnapped or murdered.  That was a line in the sand for her.  For me, it’s cases like this one.  Grooming seems like such an insignificant thing when you talk about killers, when you talk about serial killers, when you talk about the things that I do on this podcast.  Grooming though truly gets to me.  When you hear of cases where it is evident that an adult grooms and takes advantage of a child those are the ones that really get to me.  This week’s case has a man at the centre of it that seemed as though he knew how to manipulate everyone but he groomed two very young women for sure within his lifetime.
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109. The Murder of Cody Johnson

As someone who was attended church for most of his life and someone that was indoctrinated with the beliefs and the rules that come along with being a Christian I have seen many a marriage over my years start, finish and face a lot of tumultuous times because two people starting a life together become completely inundated with information and guidelines by everyone from every corner.  You are told how to date, who to date, what to do and what not to do and you are constantly asked when the wedding is coming, even when the relationship is in it’s infancy.  This week we are going to look at a case where all of that certainly at least weighed in a little bit and we may never know just how much Christian beliefs and Christian doctrine may have gotten into a new wife’s head to cause the untimely, devastating death of her husband and the need to try to cover up everything that she had done. 
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108. Serial Killer Joanna Dennehy

We have done a few episodes now on serial killers and we have previously done one covering a female serial killer.  Today we are going to look at a case of a serial killer from The United Kingdom who is known now as “Britain’s Most Dangerous Female Prisoner”.  Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the United Kingdom to ever have been sentenced to a whole-life order, meaning that she will be behind bars for the rest of her life.  These are the most severe penalties that can be given in The U.K. and are dedicated to the worst of the worst of criminals.  Joanna is certainly an incredibly evil woman; she is in jail for killing three men, attempting to kill two other man and she shows no remorse for the things that she has done nor the lives that she has taken or altered. 
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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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