”Six Degrees of Segregation" is dedicated to sharing untold stories, amplifying unheard voices and showing that bias might just be closer than you think. The goal is to provide a platform for others to share their stories to an audience who might not otherwise hear them. It’s about listening deeply. It’s about learning, loving and empathizing. And acknowledging that the experiences people live can be very different based on how someone looks. Six Degrees of Segregation is about making strong ...
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Have you ever seen a dead body? People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds. In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella, and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on ...
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Ding Dong Ditch is a harmless prank that teenagers play. Ring the doorbell and run away. It was not so harmless, though, for a group of teens in Southern California in 2020, when the homeowner they pranked turned predator.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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In June, 2024, a woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake in central Indonesia. We look at some of the more bizarre deadly snake cases, as well as a man who tried to be swallowed alive by an anaconda.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Alvin Ridley was an eccentric, often combative TV repairman in the town of Ringgold, Georgia in the US, who became reclusive and paranoid after his business closed. Suspicious eyes fell upon him when he reported a woman - who he said was his wife - dead in his home. Lawyer McCracken Poston took on the job of defending him in a murder case that ever…
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Australia, has been abuzz with discussion about the deaths of three people in Victoria, apparently after eating poison mushrooms. In this episode we look at serial poisoner Velma Barfield, who in 1984 became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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29-year-old Katie Haley was bashed to death with a dumbbell by her vicious, jealous and controlling partner Shane Robertson, while their baby daughter slept in the room next door. Katie’s sad end serves as another reminder that we need to do more as a community to stamp out domestic violence.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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A new-age health and wellness workshop went horribly wrong in Quebec, Canada, in 2011, when 38-year-old Chantal Lavigne was literally boiled to death in a bizarre therapy session.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Babies sent to the neonatal intensive care unit are usually the most vulnerable, and in need of the greatest care. But instead of nursing them back to health, British nurse Lucy Letby was doing the unthinkable: attacking and killing them.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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In 2018 Lana Clayton found her husband Steve lying dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home in South Carolina. At first it was believed he’d had a heart attack, but when toxicology showed the presence of poison, police were led to something common in most household bathrooms.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Survivors of a plane crash in the Andes in 1972 had to use great ingenuity to stay alive in the blizzard conditions, with very little food, and as the days passed it seemed nobody was coming to rescue them.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Lawyer Garry Hoy fell to his death from a window on the 24th floor of a Toronto law firm in 1993. Was it suicide, was he pushed, or was there another reason behind his tragic death?By Dead Bodies Podcast
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In the UK in 2016, Ian Stewart’s fiancee Helen Bailey goes missing. The investigation into her disappearance leads police to take another look at the death of his first wife Diane. They fear they have hit a dead end when they discover that Diane’s body was cremated.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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The murder of pastry chef Renea Lau in Melbourne's Kings Domain has been described as one of the city's worst. Senior police were shocked by the brutality and duration of the attack and because of its random nature.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Ep 134 - Crash Test Dummies, and Where’s Kirsten?
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Worldwide, around 1.35 million people die in road accidents each year. Research to make road travel safer is constant, as new technology and design emerge. Crash Test Dummies are used for most of the testing. But that hasn’t always been the case.Kirsten is missing, and we welcome Simon Owens to the studio today in her place. Join our massive tantru…
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Ep 133 - Adrian Bayley: Part Two, and the cult of Thawee Nanra
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Sharnelle continues recounting covering the 2013 trial of Adrian Bayley who was convicted of the rape and murder of Gillian Maher in Melbourne. Thawee Nanra was the leader of a Taiwanese cult. His devotees promised his followers they could cure their ills by consuming his bodily fluids. And that’s not the worst of it …..…
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Ep 132 - Lake Mead, and Adrian Bayley: Part One
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Drought has seen Nevada’s Lake Mead drop to historic lows, exposing things which have remained underwater for years. In one case, a discovery on the lake bed brought closure to a family after years of heartache.Convicted rapist Adrian Bayley is responsible for the rape and murder of Gillian Meagher, in a case that brought the people of Melbourne to…
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Ep 131 - Lobster Boy, and Phoenix Netts
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Grady Stiles Jr. was not only a killer, but a murder victim. He became famous as Lobster Boy in a bizarre travelling sideshow. While most of the world was confined to their homes at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, UK police were called to investigate a car being driven erratically near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, leading to the uncovering …
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Ep 130 - Elmer McCurdy, and Stephen Searle
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Elmer McCurdy was a drunk and a train robber. It was decades after his death that his body was discovered at an amusement park in California. If you had committed a murder, would you consider yourself to be violent? Would you be chummy with the police when they arrived on your doorstep? Some killers behave differently, as evidenced by the odd behav…
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Ep 129 - The Brighton Murders and Joey’s priceless feedback
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Today, Brighton is one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs, but in 1853 it was the scene of two bizarre murders, with a bag of sugar left on the victim’s head.And we unpack some frank feedback from listener Joey.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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Ep 128 - Roger Dean, and The Messiest Execution
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Nurse Roger Dean was working in a Sydney nursing when he murdered 11 elderly residents by setting a fire to the facility as they slept on November 18, 2011.Allen Lee Davis was sent to the electric chair for brutally killing a mother and her two young daughters. His botched execution is known as Florida’s messiest ever.…
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Ep 127 - David Fuller, and Marvallous Keene
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In this special Christmas episode we cover the 1992 “Christmas killings” in Dayton, Ohio. Marvallos Keene was the head of a gang that murdered six people.Hospital worker David Fuller pleaded guilty to murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells back in 1987. And when police raided his home they found a stash of pornography describe…
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Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner who is believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history. On 31 January 2000, he was found guilty of the murder of 15 patients under his care; his total number of victims was approximately …
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Ep 125 - Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and Martin van Butchell
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The body of pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found in her home in Missouri in 2004. Her unborn foetus had been cut from her womb. The killer, Lisa Marie Montgomery, was put to death by lethal injection in January 2021.Martin van Butchell was an eccentric British dentist who put his dead wife on display. Was it for love, to attract customers, or beca…
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13 - Morgan D. Morris - Gymnastics is (not) Life
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Welcome to a special summer episode of Six Degrees of Segregation. (And a special shout to Danny Rojas and Ted Lasso for this week's episode title.) Today, we're talking with national champion gymnast and six-time All-American, Morgan Dennis Morris. Essence.com names her as one of the 13 Black Women Who Changed the Face of Gymnastics (https://www.e…
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Ep 124 - Candace Newmaker, and Sharnelle in Quarantine
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Ten-year-old Candace Newmaker was killed during a bizarre therapy session designed to help her bond with her adoptive mother. She was suffocated by so-called therapists who were trying to force her to be “reborn”. We find Sharnelle in hotel quarantine after her stint reporting from Japan. She shares what makes her embarrassed daily as her meals are…
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Ep 123 - Owen Pellow and Death on the Stairs
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How would you behave if your partner had just been stabbed multiple times, and the police came knocking on your door? We share the police bodycam footage that captured the odd behaviour of killer Owen Pellow. In a recent episode we looked at deaths on elevators and escalators. Now we’re making sure you never leave the ground floor, looking at death…
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12-year-old Tia Sharp went shopping in August 2012 in New Addington, London, England, and it was weeks before her body was found in the roof of her grandmother’s home. Suspicion fell upon the partner of Tia’s grandmother, Stuart Hazell. We share a story from listener Brooke who found her Uncle John’s dead body.…
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12- Leah McDaniel - Courageous Conversations
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We close out season 1 with Leah Stone McDaniel - Leah is a dynamic Brand Marketing professional focused on emerging marketing mediums. Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Leah attended The Ohio State University, graduating with a dual degree in Marketing and International Business and obtained an M.B.A. from Regis University. Throughout her Brand Manage…
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11 - LaToya White - Seeing Yourself So You Can See Others
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Latoya White, a Sales Manager from Richmond Texas, and I talk about George Floyd, the natural hair movement, diversity training, representation, colorism and so much more. Latoya's genetic makeup sparked her interest in biology and her pre-med focus in school. She’s a huge supporter for Diversity & Inclusion efforts and exercises them daily in her …
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“BTK” stands for “bind, torture, kill”: Dennis Lyn Rader gave himself the title. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes. It was 2005 before he was arrested and jailed for life. In this episode we hear excerpts from his p…
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10 - Tamia Stinson - Fashion, Fearlessness and Finding Yourself
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In this week’s episode we’re talking with Cincinnati mover and shaker, Tamia Stinson. (If you chime in on Instagram @SixDegreesofSegregation, give her a shout because she just got married! Congrats and best wishes!) Tamia is a Marketing Strategist who helps creative entrepreneurs build stylish brands through her company, The Style Sample. Often cal…
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09 - Marcus Matthews - Trauma, Teaching and The More You Know
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This week's guest is Dr. Marcus, L. Matthews from Memphis, Tenn., who a self-proclaimed "doctor from the hood." Marcus is the Executive Director of the Matthews-Fayne Foundation; a Professor at American College of Mental Health Education (ACMHE), and Assistant Principal at Nicholas Hobbs Academy. He's also the author of three books: "I Am Not the F…
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Sef Gonzales was found guilty of murdering his father Teodoro "Teddy" Gonzales, his mother Mary Loiva Gonzales, and his sister Clodine Gonzales, in Sydney, Australia, in 2001. He’s serving three concurrent life sentences, but continues to profess his innocence.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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08 - Gerald Cadogen - It's How You Play The Game
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Today my guest is Gerald Cadogan. Gerald was a HS football phenom from PM, OH who went on to letter and start at Penn State under Joe Paterno. In 2008, he was a candidate for college football's prestigious Draddy Trophy, presented annually to the nation's top college football student-athlete. During his senior season he was named a consensus first …
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Air Force veteran, creativity expert and change agent Duane Wilson takes us on a journey through his life and around the world as he shares with us his experience with racism and racial bias and the powerful concept of standing out of line. *** Follow Duane on online. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duane-wilson-783ab535/ Website: soarconsult…
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Ep 119 - Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson.
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In 1971, Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson went missing on their way to an end of school year party in South Dakota in the US. It was 42 years before the mystery of their disappearance was finally solved.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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06 - Latise Hairston - I See You, But Do You See Me?
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Tracing one's ancestry as a Black person in America can often be a short endeavor. But for Latise Hairston, she was able to go all the way back to West Africa. As a member of one of the largest families in America, the Hairston "property" ledger connected some dots and ancestry.com did the rest (#NotAnAd). From a Ghanaian name giving ceremony to fa…
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05 - Christina Wilson - Same Town, Different Experience
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Christina Wilson is an army veteran, mom, wife and currently works as a federal employee. We share a high school but not necessarily a high school experience. As classmates, teammates and friends, I didn't realize how vastly different our experiences were in the town we grew up in, or the classrooms we shared, until this conversation. Tina and I ta…
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Ep 118 - The Loch Ard, and the Kobe Bryant Law
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More than 50 passengers drowned when the Loch Ard ran aground in Victoria in 1978. But those weren’t the only deaths along the same rugged Port Campbell coastline. In 1970, four dead bodies were found in a car that had gone over the cliff. The tragic death of basketballer Kobe Bryant led to the introduction of a new law, banning photos of the dead …
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04 - Tiffany Hendrick - The Fierceness of a Mother's Love
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Tiffany and I are second degree connections turn fast-friends. She's a do-it-all kind of woman who puts her whole heart into everything she touches. As a Marketing + Communications Professional, Certified Mystic and Trauma-Informed Yoga & Meditation Teacher, the conversations we have hit on multiple levels. We talk what it's like to be in interraci…
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03 - Casanova Green - Apartheid, Protests and Prayer
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Cas goes deep right from the start. We talk all things from seeing the history of apartheid exposed while on a trip to South Africa, our shared place but very different college experiences, and the way white supremecy shows itself on the streets of his home. Follow Cas on social. Facebook: www.facebook.com/cgcreatellc Twitter and Instagram: @casano…
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Ep 117 - Herb Baumeister, and Hanged, Drawn and Quartered
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Herbert Baumeister seemed to his wife and children to be a regular businessman and they lived together on an 18-acre horse farm called Fox Hollow. But Herb had a secret, and had strangled several men and buried their dead bodies in the woods.You may have heard the expression “hanged, drawn and quartered”. But what is actually done to a person sente…
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02 - Hayward "Hay J" Thompson - Race is No Laughing Matter
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From policing, profiling, and arrests to the recording of stand-up specials, Cincinnati Comedian Hay J chats with Katie about life, laughs and how being a big black man has impacted both. Coincidence that this episode drops on 4/20? You'll just have to listen to find out. Follow Hay J on social. Instagram: hayj_thompson Facebook: Comedian Hayward J…
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01 - Ryan Garry - Love and Marriage: An interracial story
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Katie sits down with her husband, Ryan where they reflect on their relationship, parenting and the complexities that doing these things as an interracial couple can bring. **Waking up earlier this week to the news of yet another Black man killed by police in Minneapolis. While the Derek Chauvin trial continues. And a video of a member of active dut…
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00 - Trailer - Introducing Six Degrees of Segregation
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Introducing Six Degrees of Segregation - the podcast that shares untold stories, amplifies unheard voices and shows you that bias just might be closer than you think. Host Katie Garry shares the background for this podcast: the murder of George Floyd, her own multiracial family, and questions about race raised from her then freshly turned five-year…
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Richard Speck raped, tortured and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966. And he would have gotten away with it, were it not for the extraordinary bravery of Corazon Amurao who survived his brutality.Andre Daigle fell victim to two men who beat him to death with a hammer just to see if they could kill someone.…
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Ep 115 - Elevator and Escalator deaths, and Dead Uncle
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Everyone is talking about the footage of Elisa Lam in the elevator in the Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. We look into a number of deaths on escalators and elevatorsA listener shares a first-hand account of finding her dead uncle, weeks after his death, and the mammoth clean-up task after his body was removed.…
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We’re putting the dead bodies aside for this episode, as Sharnelle shares a deeply personal story from a recent event in her life.By Dead Bodies Podcast
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The 18-metre sailing ketch The Bluebelle was the scene of several brutal murders in November, 1961, off the Bahamas. The killer survived the sinking of the vessel, and he didn’t count on an 11-year-old witness coming forward to undo his vile scheme. Drag queen Dorian Corey died from AIDS-related complications in 1993, and a mummified body was disco…
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Ep 112 - The Philadelphia Cutters, and Elizabeth Bathory
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A wicked scheme where tissue and bone were stripped from corpses at funeral homes and then sold them for transplants - without the permission of the families - led to the arrest of former dental surgeon Michael Mastromarino.Elizabeth Bathory has been labelled the world’s most prolific female murderer, accused of torturing and killing hundreds of yo…
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Ep 111 - Thomas Easby’s skin, and Lavender Doe
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A tiny witness led to Thomas Easby being found guilty of the murder of his family. He was hanged, and trophies that exist to this day were taken from his dead body.An unidentified body was found in 2006 in Texas. Years later, Joseph Wayne Burnette confessed to her murder, and it was 2019 before the DNA Doe Project established her real identity.…
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