This week we are in the bluegrass state of Kentucky and we decided to start this episode off with a pizza ranking! Don't ask why just enjoy! Then listen to Amber share about an increasing epidemic of domestic violence and how Louisville is trying to a make a change with its Domestic Violence Prevention Coordinating Council. This council was formed …

Join us this week as we travel to the country music capital, Tennessee! First, Amber shares the story of a country music legend Stringbean Akeman. After playing at the Grand Ole Opry, he and his wife make their way back to their small cabin and are surprised to find their front door open and two murderers inside. Then listen as Celina shares about …

This week we have traveled to the southern state of Alabama. First, Amber shares about Shae Graham and how her murder shocked the whole town, as the person they least suspected was found guilty of orchestrating her murder. Then hear Celina share the horrifying story of the Tuskegee Experiments, a 40 year “medical” study that was focused specificall…

Happy Labor Day from State of Murder! In honor of the holiday this week we are not in any specific state, instead we are celebrating the resiliency of the American worker. This episode is all about the crime and murder that haunted the beginnings of the labor movement. First hear Amber tell about how the mafia in Chicago has always had a hand in th…

We've made it halfway through the USA! This week we are in Mississippi, does anyone else sing a song to make sure they spell this state name right? No? Just us? Awesome. First listen to Amber talk about the Jackson family. In 1990, Regina was home with her two daughters and 4 nieces and nephews, when there was a knock on the door. When she went to …

This week we are in the state of Illinois the land of Lincoln or as Celina and Amber like to call it the wonderful state that created Michelle Obama. In Chicago in the 70's and 80's one police precinct was getting a lot of confessions from their prisoners. This area was in the south side of Chicago and specifically Area 2. When one prisoner stated …

This week we are in the dairy state of Wisconsin, where butter is king. Amber shares with us about the Sikh Temple Murders and how the bass player of a White Power heavy metal band, went from being stationed at Fort Bragg to murdering people at a Sikh Temple. Halloween is such a fun time of year for children. It’s a time for trick or treating and h…

This week we are traveling to the land of a thousand lakes, Minnesota. It seems that cold cases are in the news more and more. Amber shares about the murder of Nancy Daughetry, who was murdered in 1986 and her killer was just found thanks to our old friend: familial DNA. Then hear Celina tell us about the tragic events of July 15th 2017. Justine Da…

On November 17, 1973 Sandra Cheskey and her boyfriend Roger Essem, went with a group of friends to go camp out at Iowa's Gitchie Manitou nature preserve. They wanted to sing around the campfire and smoke a little pot. They had just arrived when three brothers who had been out poaching, noticed their campsite. Deciding that they would pretend to be …

For over forty years the small town of Skidmore, Missouri was terrorized by one man. Everyone knew to stay away from him, for if he ever thought you did him wrong he would harass your whole family. This one man was Ken McElroy. Over the course of 40 years, he would rape young girls, steal from farmers and just plain bully the towns people. On July …

The 1980's in Arkansas was an interesting time. Cowboy discos were all the rage and rumor has it the Mafia was making its way to Little Rock. After Ron Orsini is found dead under mysterious circumstances, attention turns to his wife Mary Lee, who insists that the Mafia must have done it. Mary Lee hires William "Bill" McArthur, a well liked lawyer i…

In 1998, pizza delivery man Jarvis Griffin was robbed and murdered. Witnesses pointed the finger at 3 young men but they pointed the finger at 16 year old Corey Williams. With a DA and a prosecutor out for blood, Williams didn't stand a chance. Hear Amber tell all about the two victims of this Caddo Parish murder. 2006 was a dark year for New Orlea…

We are traveling to the Lone Star State and this week Amber and Celina are sharing two crimes that happened decades ago but seem like they could be ripped straight from news articles today. Amber shares about the 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr. a black man who was picked up by three white man while walking home from his parents house early one morn…

We made it to Kansas! Amber tells about Decoration Day in 1925, when Florence Knoblock was found murdered in her home in Coffey County Kansas. Her husband John was quick to point the finger at a black man whom he knew helped around town. John stated that whomever murdered her surely couldn't have been a white man because it was too horrible. Howeve…

Surprise! It is Celina’s birthday today and we decided to shake things up! Due to current events, we are in Oklahoma this week not Kansas! Sorry Kansas but 1921 was a rough year in Oklahoma. First hear Amber tell about the Osage Indian Murders, where surprise surprise, some white men created a loophole to steal some land. Follow Amber as she tells …

This week we are traveling to Amber's home state of Nebraska, where she is sharing with us the first story that got her interested in true crime. In 1957 Charles Starkweather would begin his murder spree. Starkweather would hold a whole state in terror while he went across Nebraska killing 11 people along the way. Celina shares about Randy Reeves, …

Amber's story this week takes place in Pierre, South Dakota, when a woman named Tami Reay decides to leave her husband. When Tami goes missing her family frantically searches for her but the mystery doesn't end when they find Tami's body. Follow the twists and turns of this case as it uncovers secret love affairs, strange set ups, and way too detai…

One hundred years ago in a small town in North Dakota, eight people were murdered on their family farm. The community was up in arms about who could murder almost an entire family. The town wanted to know if it was one of their own that had done it. The sheriff of the county began to suspect one man, whose odd behavior put the spot light right on h…

26 percent of the homicides in Montana are of Native Americans despite them only making up 7 percent of the population. This week Amber tells the story of two Native American women who were unjustly murdered. Lonette was a friendly, hardworking woman who never called out sick a day in her life who was tragically taken when two white supremacists wa…

What would you do if a friend or even your own mother shared with you that she had killed her husband? Amber’s shares this week that for Alice Uden’s friends and family this was a question they had to find the answer to. It would take 40 years with over 15 years of investigation to finally arrest her for the murder. The story didn’t end there for t…

The summer of 1998 William Lee Neal or as he would later call himself Wild Bill Cody would brutally murder 3 women with an axe. The bizarre actions of this man both before and after the murders will leave your head spinning. Have you ever felt like someone is watching you even though there is no one else around? Well for the Peters' in Denver Color…

Amber's story this week heads close to home as she used to work at a Hollywood Video in the 90's! In March of 1996 the events that would take place at Albuquerque's Hollywood Video would leave the town in shock. It would take the community raising $100,000 and an ex-boyfriend to find out what had happened that night. Celina's story takes place on a…

In May 2009, Raul and his wife Gina were asleep when suddenly they were awoken by a knock at the door. The three strangers they encountered would forever change their lives. In November 1966, Robert Benjamin Smith entered the Rose Mar beauty school looking to make a name for himself. Armed with a pistol he took the lives of 5 people one of which wa…

In 1859, prostitute Julia Bulette was beloved by the town of Virginia City Nevada. She was a charitable woman who donated money to the firefighters for new equipment and supplies and also worked as a seamstress. But on January 20th, 1867, Julia would be brutally murdered leaving the town in mourning and begging the question: Who would kill this fol…

In December of 1990, the Tiede family heads up to the mountains of Utah to stay in their cabin for the Christmas Holiday. What was waiting at the cabin for them, however, would forever change their lives. In April of 1974, 6 men arrived at the Hi-Fi Shop in Ogden, Utah to rob it. The events that took place during this robbery would be one of the mo…

In September 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart was house sitting for her aunt and uncle when she was brutally murdered by two teenage boys she called friends. Their motivation? Wes Craven's meta-horror franchise, Scream. In June 1996, college student Angie Dodge was raped and murdered in her new apartment. After a confession from suspect Christopher Tapp wa…

On March 24, 2006 a group of friends living in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill headed out to rave, where they wanted to have fun dance and just have a good time. Once there the guys would ended up inviting people back to their house for an after party. One of the people they would end up inviting was Kyle Huff. This meeting would lead to o…

Join Amber and Celina as they travel up to Oregon with two new stories to tell and a lot of fun facts about Oregon! In May of 1983, Diane Downs arrived at a hospital claiming her and her children were the victims of an attempted car jacking in which they had all been shot. Hospital workers and the police had their doubts about her story and she soo…

On March 12, 2004, police dispatch would receive a call requesting assistance in what they believed to be a child custody issue. What the police would encounter is Marcus Wesson and his family. The events that would unfold that day would leave nine people dead and Marcus Wesson sitting on death row.When police started to investigate the deaths of S…