Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows
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.
Episodes
When Mackenzie Shirilla was sentenced to 15 years to life for intentionally driving her car into a brick wall at 100 miles per hour—killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend DaVon Flanigan—the world thought they had seen the worst of the case.
But a massive 31,000-page digital forensics dump released by the Strongsville Police Department has opened up a brand new, deeply unsettling chapter.
While the ...
We are kicking things off with the unbelievably sad and bizarre story of Allie the alligator before diving into a major true-crime double-feature.
First, we break down the case involving Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike and a botched lethal injection.
Then, we unpack the drama around American Idol contestant and music pastor Caleb Flynn. Yesterday, a judge sentenced him to life in prison without the...
This is Christa Pike’s last full day of life.
Governor Bill Lee denied her clemency request and declined to block the 50-year-old woman’s death sentence.
If carried out, she will be the first woman the state of Tennessee has executed in more than 200 years.
Pike is scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 30, 2026, for the cruel and brutal murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, ...
Ever been called an old hen? Well, we have.
This episode is chock full of folks showing their entire hiney.
Some do it at 30,000 feet, like Layne Lundeen, whose behavior was so offensive and rude on an airplane that other passengers duct-taped and zip tied him to his chair.
Other folks are doing their worst right here on the ground. Caleb Flynn, a former American Idol contestant/pastor, is now on trial for...
When "Allie" the alligator was taken from her Florida retention pond, hauled off in the back of a truck, and killed with a power drill at a former Navy SEAL’s home in Gulf Breeze, it sparked nationwide public outrage and a fierce battle over state wildlife enforcement.
The attorney for the men accused of illegally trapping and executing her with a power drill claim they were simply taking care of an activ...
Former Playboy model Kelsey Turner took being selfish and greedy to a whole new level.
The 29-year-old was known as "Badd Barbie" online - a persona police say she carried into her personal life when she manipulated and exploited her 71 year old “Sugar Daddy” Child Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Burchard like a professional fraudster.
Over the course of their less than two year relationship he spent an esti...
On August 14, 2026, a catastrophic medication mix-up occurred at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, where four routine joint-replacement surgery patients were accidentally injected in the spine with potassium phosphate instead of the intended local anesthetic, mepivacaine.
The severe error left at least one patient permanently paralyzed from the sternum down and sent others to inte...
Craig Heidt wanted everything his younger brother Carey had, a successful business, a pretty wife, and the respect of their father.
In a family synonymous with wealth, faith, and Southern charm, Craig was the self-proclaimed black sheep who never could get it right. He fell behind on child support, didn’t have steady work, and carried on a not-so-secret affair with his brother’s wife, Robin.
When con...
Attorney Jason Bohn didn’t just kill his girlfriend, he tortured her by repeatedly choking her, he humiliated her by leaving her bare body in an ice bath, and he even threatened to kill her dog.
He also had a degree from Columbia University, a law degree from the University of Florida, and a career on Wall Street.
But behind closed doors, Bohn was spinning out of control and seething with rage.
This week on...
Logan Tipton was a typical, outgoing, football loving preschooler who loved playing with his sisters and brother and watching Christmas movies with his family.
That’s what they were doing in early December of 2015 before they were all safely asleep in their beds – or so they thought.
In the middle of the night Ronald Exantus, an Indianapolis nurse who had been acting erratically all day, was driving ...
The bright lights of showbiz faded into a dim New York outpatient clinic on August 28, 2014, when comedy icon Joan Rivers walked in for a routine throat procedure and never spoke again.
What was supposed to be a brief examination of her vocal cords instead unraveled into a chaotic display of gross medical malpractice, where star-struck doctors reportedly suffered from "VIP syndrome" and prioritized cell phone s...
Did FWC cut some slack to three Santa Rosa County men accused of illegally capturing and killing an alligator with a power drill?
They say “No,” but folks in our community still have a lot of questions.
“Allie” the 8.5-foot-long alligator wasn’t bothering a single soul. She lived safely inside a locked, fenced in retention pond in the Garcon Point area of Milton, Florida for about ten yea...
Put your seatbelt on, we didn’t know some of these cases could get any wilder but apparently, they can.
From doctors behaving badly to a tragic story of child abuse, we’re running down some cases you’ve probably heard of and some you haven’t.
The worst medical malpractices cases in the state are piling up in North Florida and stretching to the Panhandle.
Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky i...
Did Hillary Brown die from an overdose of Lidocaine poisoning?
Her husband, embattled plastic surgeon Ben Brown who was administering the local anesthetic when she went into cardiac arrest in his office, says she didn’t.
However, Medical Examiner, Dr. Deanna Oleske found that the 33-year-old mother of three did die from complications of lidocaine toxicity after she ruled out every possible cause of d...
Louisiana Pastor Tony Spell doesn’t hold back.
He first made national news in 2020 when he continued to hold massive in-person services at Life Tabernacle Church in Central, a city north of Baton Rouge, despite health restrictions.
Now he’s back in the headlines after a video went viral of him sprinting across four lanes of highway to confront his neighbor’s son after the young man allege...
What is it about pickleball that it sometimes turns into pickle-BRAWL?!
For some, the fastest growing sport in America is just a game, but for others it’s almost a total obsession.
In this week’s episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, we’re talking about the community, the weird terminology, and why a lot of folks are suddenly spending their Saturdays fighting over court time and some are fi...
Thank goodness most of us feel safe in our own homes.
Botham Jean thought he was safe when he was sitting on the couch in his apartment enjoying a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
Afterall, he lived only a couple of blocks from the Dallas Police Department Headquarters.
However on September 6, 2018, that turned out to be a downside when his downstairs neighbor, police woman Amber Guyger, was so busy sexting her married...
Have you ever seen a grown man cry, whoop, and hyperventilate for a solid seven minutes? That’s what Miami real estate broker George Pino did while his own attorney was giving opening statements during his manslaughter trial which just got started this month.
He’s accused of killing one of his daughter’s friends and leaving another severely injured after crashing his boat into a steel channel marker...
This week our Podcast is a lil different.
We're talking about more than half a dozen cases we're following and it’s a little bit of everything:
*Nicolette Keough the lady that urinates on items in Airbnb here along the Gulf Coast and then posts her photos of said activity on an Adult Internet Site.
We'll have more on how her latest court hearing went.
*Updates on Dr. Ben Brown and Dr. Thomas Sha...
Mean girls rule by fear – the gossip, the condescension, the ostracizing – it’s all designed to keep them at the top of the food chain and others around them so scared that no one holds them accountable for their cruelty and corruption.
Some people take whatever mean girls dish out – no matter what – because they’re afraid of becoming the next target of bullying or rumors.&nb...
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