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I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.
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Welcome to Living a Conscious Life: The Podcast, where we explore and discuss the importance of finding more peace, wholeness, and freedom in our lives. I’m Don Johnson, your host, an American living in Scotland. Being conscious means being awake, being present. When we’re present, we can pay attention to what’s happening within us and around us. We can make better choices and be more effective at whatever we’re doing. Living a Conscious Life is about bringing more self-awareness into our li ...
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Send us a text Marcia Thompson shot her husband at least six times while he lay on the couch in his underwear in their Florida home. Prosecutors said it was murder, but she claimed it was self-defense. A U.S. Customs Agent, Marcia was getting ready to leave the house for work. That morning was no different than many others before it. Terry Thompson…
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Send us a text The truth hurts, but it killed 69-year-old Jeff German, an investigative reporter in Las Vegas. The well-known reporter had spent more than four decades covering government and organized crime for Las Vegas’ two leading newspapers and was infamous for his fearless truth telling and confronting the powerful on behalf of the powerless.…
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Send us a text Unconscious, exposed in every way. People are incredibly vulnerable when they go under in order to undergo surgery. They can’t argue, push back, or move out of the way once they’re on the operating table and under the knife. Thinking of that helplessness breaks Beverly Bryan’s heart. Her tall, strong, and strapping husband was a forc…
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Send us a text Daniel and Stephanie Menard were well known and well liked in their small, close-knit community - Olive Dell Ranch, a family-friendly nudist resort in Colton, California. The elderly couple loved the naturist lifestyle, their church and their little Shih Tzu, Cuddles, and they looked out for each other. Daniel Menard, 79, was a diabe…
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Send us a text Dr. Ben Brown, the Florida plastic surgeon arrested for the untimely death of his young wife, has legal battles on several fronts these days. Brown has a pre-trial conference in Santa Rosa Count court next week on his negligent homicide charge. His attorney filed a motion to waive his appearance, but just two days ago Brown filed a m…
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Chris Alder, Senior Partner at Evolution, has been coaching Executives and their teams for over 12 years now. He grounds his work in Integral Theory and was trained by and is now on the faculty for Integral Coaching Canada, one of the world's leading coaching schools teaching a deeply spiritual and intellectually rigorous approach to human developm…
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Send us a text Fashion to die for. Shopping and combing the racks for clothes is supposed to be fun, even necessary at times, but not deadly. The ladies in these next two cases went shopping for all the same reasons many of us do, to buy a new outfit for a special occasion, to pick up a gift for a friend, or to just kill time. Instead, they were ki…
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Send us a text You’d have to be insane to kill your mother, but can you become un-insane? According to Florida State Hospital you can. Several psychologists say Brandon Aydelott, who at 17 stabbed, slashed, beat and stomped his mother, Sharon Hill Aydelott, to death on Christmas Eve 2013 because she put him in rehab two weeks before he killed her, …
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Send us a text Kendrick Johnson was known for being a talented athlete, so how did the strong, healthy 17-year-old basketball player end up dying upside down, head-first in a rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym? Three autopsies, two exhumations, six tennis shoes, and lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages later there are still m…
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Send us a text Shot in the face. Sonya Massey called 9-1-1 over a suspected prowler, not imagining the police would take aim at her when she was in her own house. Illinois deputy Sean Grayson, who had a history of policing at five other police departments in 3 years, as well as allegations of misconduct in the military and other issues, was one of …
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Mark Baugh started life rooted in a mining community in Derbyshire, with the fallout out of gambling, alcoholism and domestic violence. He experienced a transformative life crisis at 36 during his career in learning and development for a large UK-based retail bank. He left the corporate world in 2005 and retrained in well-being practices including …
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Send us a text Darrell Brooks plowed through the Waukesha Christmas Parade like he was in the fast lane driving home from work in rush hour traffic. He drove around barriers in his race through the Wisconsin town, rarely hitting the brakes and only honking at the performers and parade goers who lined the street for the small town’s annual, holiday …
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Send us a text Sandra Birchmore had nothing but respect and admiration for the police. So much so, that at 13-years-old she joined a police explorer’s program in her hometown in Stoughton, Massachusetts. She had lost members of her own family, including her mother, and the close-knit department helped fill a void in her life. However, several offic…
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Send us a text Avery Pickle was a young man who looked out for others. The 17-year-old Elberta High School student was a valued member of the football team, as well as a competitive wrestler, and super likable. He was kind and the kind of guy everybody wanted to be around, thanks to his quick wit, and charm, and easy-going personality. He made frie…
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Send us a text Aubreigh Wyatt loved making tik toks, four-wheeling, and her family. The 13-year-old Ocean Springs, Mississippi middle schooler was a lot like any all American-girl her age, she liked to laugh, have fun, and still get good grades and make it to Sunday school. Sadly, like a lot of other children her age, finding the right friend group…
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Sylvana Rochet is an executive coach. She teaches those who are building a better world to lead with clarity and confidence. She's the Host of the Life by Intention podcast, a mother, and an excellent ratatouille maker. Her greatest accomplishment in life is having freed herself from unhealthy and unconscious generational patterns to create a life …
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Send us a text After being an absent father, Christopher Gregor waltzed into his 6-year-old son’s life expecting everyone to fall in line. He ran little Corey Micciollo and the boy’s mother like a drill sergeant. Corey was the result of an unfortunate tryst between his parents, and he never knew his father until his mom applied for financial assist…
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Send us a text 8 is enough - lawyers that is! A judge finally put his foot down and has had it with Sarah Boone, the Orlando area woman who is accused of killing her boyfriend by zipping him up in a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Boone was charged with second degree murder for the homicide of Jorge Torres Jr. whose suffocation dea…
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Michael Thompson grew up painfully shy and with a debilitating stutter. Despite still being shy and, at times, still stuttering, today he’s a career coach, leadership lecturer for master's students in Barcelona, Spain, and strategic communication advisor to top business leaders around the globe. Michael is the author of Shy by Design: 12 Timeless P…
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Send us a text Dr. Ben Brown or someone claiming to be him had a lot to say on the doctor’s Facebook page. Restore Plastic Surgery, this week. The Gulf Breeze plastic surgeon is charged with negligent homicide in the death of his wife Hillary, who died after her heart stopped during procedures he was performing on her in his office. He has denied a…
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Send us a text Have you been catfished? Lawd, I’m not even sure what that means, but when I think of a catfish, I see a big, ugly, opportunistic bottom dweller with spiky whiskers. It’s not much different with people who use “catfishing” to lure and deceive someone. It’s ugly enough when a stranger puts on a false persona, but what if it’s your own…
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Kristin Swanson is a coach and consultant who helps service-based entrepreneurs create consistent revenue by expanding their reach. She teaches clients how to execute their “someday when” projects with ease, turning procrastinated initiatives into profit. As a breast cancer survivor, Kristin learned the importance of getting out of one’s own way an…
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Send us a text Florida plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown, has been arrested for the untimely death of his young wife, Hillary Brown. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office charged Brown with Second Degree Felony Homicide: Manslaughter by Culpable Negligence. Investigators say he not only failed to immediately call for help when 33-year-old Hillary wen…
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David Gerken is a writer based in Newport Beach, California. He played college tennis at Princeton University and graduated with a BA in History. After completing his MBA at Georgetown University, he worked as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. After moving to Los Angeles, David was hired by Aaron Sorkin to serve on the writing staff of “The …
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Send us a text Alabama politician Stephen Nodine seemed to have it all and then some. The Mobile County Commissioner was well-known for his charm and charisma which served him well in his successful political career, but became a stumbling block in his personal life. The middle-aged married man and father met the young and beautiful Angel Downs in …
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Claudia van Zuiden is the CEO and Founder of Solution Ways and Co-Founder of Conscious World Agents, solution focused organization's for holistic & sustainable excellence performance. She is an international speaker about a variety of topics such as Compassionate Leadership, The Feminine Aspect of Leadership and the Power of Purpose. Claudia believ…
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Send us a text The bomb that killed millionaire real estate developer Gary Triano caused an explosion so big, it sent pieces of his car crashing around the country club where it happened. In the mid-1990s, Triano was a well-known businessman who rubbed elbows with the likes of Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples. He lost big on some failed …
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Send us a text Conrad Roy was no quitter. If anything, the 18-year-old marine salvage captain with an endearing smile put a lot of pressure on himself to work hard and succeed. Maybe a little too much pressure. Sometimes his depression took a dark turn and he wanted to follow through on ending his pain, permanently. Most of the time he didn’t give …
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Sean Brawley has dedicated over thirty years to helping people in sports and business elevate their performance and unlock their potential by teaching them how to win the “Inner Game”. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on accelerated learning, innovative coaching, and sustainable high performance. He was the primary mental performance coach…
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Send us a text Frances Hall’s husband and business partner of more than 30 years was cheating, and he didn’t bother to hide it. Adding insult to injury, the trucking tycoon’s girlfriend flaunted their affair in France’s face. The scorned wife couldn’t put the brakes on her fury when she saw her husband’s mistress driving the Hall’s Range Rover and …
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Send us a text A relaxing day on the river turned into a deadly moment of terror and horror for a group of young people and a middle-aged man they had surrounded. Video of the deadly encounter shows 54-year-old Nicolae Miu looking for a friend’s lost cell phone when a group of intoxicated teens and young adults began taunting and teasing him over u…
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Send us a text Urban legends are nothing new, but tweenagers attempting to murder a friend at a sleepover in order to appease an ominous one certainly is. In 2014, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in sacrifice to the fictional character Slender Man. The …
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Send us a text The Florida Department of Health has issued an emergency order immediately restricting the medical license of Dr. Ben Brown, the Gulf Breeze plastic surgeon whose wife, Hillary Brown, died after he performed several procedures on her after hours in his office last November. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo said Brown’s “ina…
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Send us a text Alex King, one of two brothers who made headlines worldwide in 2001 when they confessed to beating their unsuspecting father to death with a baseball bat in Pensacola, Florida, when they were just 12 and 13 years old, has died. Now 35, Alex died of a drug overdose according to family. It's a demon he has been battling for years and h…
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Send us a text Eric Smith was only 13 years old when he murdered a child. Smith, a red-headed, freckle-faced boy with thick glasses, was something of a loner and said he was often targeted by bullies. When he saw four-year-old Derrick Robie walking alone to a summer day camp at the park, in 1993, he became the bully. Smith lured the happy, blonde h…
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Send us a text A popular Florida teacher happily opened the door of her home to her son when he came to visit, but her gladness turned to fear and horror when the young man pulled a knife and started stabbing his mother until she lay dead on the floor. Sound familiar? This is not the case of popular middle school teacher Sharon Aydelott who was sta…
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Send us a text Cheesecake, poison, and a Russian dominatrix – what a recipe! A Russian born woman is now serving time in prison for trying to steal the identify of her look-a-like aesthetician by killing her with a piece of poisoned cheesecake. It turns out it was just the latest act in an international crime spree. Join us for this episode of Gulf…
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Send us a text Jealousy can kill a friendship in a heartbeat. Just ask Annette Harvey. Harvey’s best friend since childhood, Robin Leonard, took in the struggling mother’s children after Harvey had a mental breakdown in 2021. Leonard, a college professor and mother herself, was glad to help her friend while she recovered and got back on her feet. H…
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Send us a text Dr. Charles Stamitoles is only a few months into his two-year prison sentence for lying to an Escambia County judge. The Pensacola dentist accused of inappropriately touching patients and employees wouldn’t be spending as much time behind bars if he hadn’t. Stamitoles was convicted of multiple battery charges including cornering a yo…
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Send us a text Mothers are naturally expected to love and protect their children, not torture and torment them. Ruby Franke claimed to be a loving mother. In fact, the young, passionate mom amassed a billion views and millions of dollars from her YouTube-famous show, “8 Passengers,” which followed the daily lives of Franke, her husband, and their s…
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Send us a text Confessed mommy killer Brandon Aydelott has a status hearing coming up, Tuesday, March 26, to determine where he should go now that the Department of Children and Families says he no longer meets the criteria for placement at Florida State Hospital, for the criminally insane. Aydelott’s aunt and the victim’s sister, Pam Hill, sat dow…
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Send us a text Death is the last thing on the minds of most college students when they go off to school. It’s supposed to be a time of new beginnings, not tragic endings. For three young women and their families, dreams and lives were cut short all because they unknowingly crossed paths with a predator. Just last month, 22-year-old Laken Riley was …
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Send us a text Kouri Richins was well-known in her hometown as a busy mom, wife, and realtor. In all her family and work photos the pretty brunette flashed the same sparkling, white-toothed smile, giving the appearance of a picture-perfect life. However, behind her killer grin was someone police say friends and neighbors didn’t know – a cold, calcu…
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Send us a text Hillary Brown’s cause of death is still pending, but answers are slowly coming out. Besides Major Crimes with the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Health is also investigating Dr. Ben Brown, who was performing procedures on his young wife at his Gulf Breeze office when she went into cardiac arrest. Although the …
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Send us a text Armed with a steel mallet, a BB gun, a knife and pepper spray, astronaut, and married mother of three, Lisa Nowak, set out on a mission in 2007, to get rid of the new girlfriend her astronaut boyfriend was seeing. To save time on her cross-country mission, police said Nowak wore a diaper so she wouldn’t have to stop on her way from H…
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Send us a text School shooter mom, Jennifer Crumbley, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for missing or ignoring red flags prior to her son, Ethan, opening fire at his high school and killing four teenagers. Crumbley faces at least 15 years in prison when she’s scheduled to be sentenced April 9, in a landmark case about parental responsibili…
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Send us a text Murder by yoga instructor took the life of a young, professional cyclist. All Moriah “Mo” Wilson did to make herself a target was date Kaitlyn Armstrong’s boyfriend when the two had taken a break. Kaitlyn stalked the pro cyclist to a friend’s house, gunned Mo down, and then ran from police when evidence of the crime led them to her d…
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Send us a text Can cannabis make someone a killer? During this month of love on the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, we’re catching up on cases of romance-gone-wrong. In this episode, a young woman took two hits of marijuana from her boyfriend’s bong and then took him out. The attack was so vicious, there was a hole in his chest where his heart use…
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Send us a text Death was Dr. Bill Sybers' business. The Panama City medical examiner was the one who investigated when someone died, especially when it was unexplained. When his own wife, Kay, passed suddenly in 1991, Sybers insisted she died of natural causes. He didn’t even order an autopsy and went straight to embalming her body. Why wouldn’t pe…
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Send us a text Dr. Connor and Betty Bowman had a picture-perfect relationship. They both worked for Mayo Clinic, he was a poison specialist, and she was a pharmacist. They had an open relationship, but despite a few kinks and concerns, it all seemed to be going smoothly until the day Connor Bowman allegedly poisoned his wife’s smoothie. It wasn’t l…
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