Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

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When Iana Kasian moved to Los Angeles, she had dreams of a new life, one filled with family, safety, and stability. Instead, she crossed paths with Blake Leibel, a man born into wealth and obsessed with control. On paper, he was a Hollywood creative with a dark, surreal graphic novel to his name. But behind closed doors, his fantasies spilled into r...

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Pumpkin pancake recipe

When 19-year-old Brian Cohee Jr. drove his car into the Colorado River, his parents thought it was just a mistake. But a day later, his mother made a chilling 911 call: she’d found something in his closet that no parent should ever see. As police began digging into Brian’s story, a missing person report came in—Warren Barnes, a kind and quiet ...

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In 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan boarded a dive boat in Australia expecting a day exploring the coral-covered depths of the Great Barrier Reef. Instead, they surfaced to find the ocean empty—no boat, no crew, no one. What followed was a string of errors, oversights, and assumptions that left the couple stranded at sea, invisible to the very people who were suppos...

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This case is especially close to us as Mike's sister was originally scheduled to work on the day of this massacre. We'll tell you all the details.

On a freezing February morning in 2008, five women were executed in the back room of a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois. A sixth survived by pretending to be dead. The man responsible walked in without a mask, s...

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On Mother’s Day 2020, Suzanne Morphew vanished from her mountain home in Colorado. Her daughters’ texts went unanswered. Her bike was found tossed in a ravine. As the truth unraveled, so did a marriage that had long been quietly unraveling. Allison tells us the rest of this story that ends in a shallow grave and one hell of a chemical twist.

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Ted Ammon built a fortune in private equity and a life most people only dream about. But one weekend, in the quiet luxury of his East Hampton mansion, that life ended violently. The timing couldn’t have been worse. He was finalizing a messy divorce, and someone close to him had just gained access to every corner of his home. Allison tells us the rest of the story, one where power and pro...

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Karen Buckley had just moved to Glasgow for graduate school, ready to explore her new city and meet new people. One Saturday night, she went out dancing with friends and stepped outside the club for what should have been a brief moment. Instead, she crossed paths with a stranger who would change everything. Within hours, police would find traces of her belongings miles away, and the last person seen with h...

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When 14-year-old Aundria Bowman vanished from her Michigan home in 1989, police treated it like a runaway. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, said she was troubled. Said she was unpredictable. Said she’d taken off before.

But Aundria had been confiding in friends about something else. Allison tells us the rest of the story.

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Christian Andreacchio was found dead in his apartment shortly after leaving his towboat job, with police ruling it a suicide following a 45-minute investigation. His family disagrees, pointing to gunshot residue on others, a cleaned bathroom, and a handgun with no fingerprints. Years later, they're still pushing for a proper investigation into what they believe wa...

Allison tells the incredibly sad story of the disappearance of 23-year old Amy Lynn Bradley while on a Royal Caribbean cruise. We go on cruises for memorable vacations, not to be kidnapped. Unreal what some people are capable of.

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Hannah Wilson had just finished her last college final at Indiana University and was out celebrating the end of an era. Her friends thought she’d made it home safely that night in April 2015. They even watched her get into a cab. But by morning, she was gone. Allison tells us the rest of her story.

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When a fire broke out inside a D.C. mansion just steps from the Vice President’s residence, first responders expected smoke, not a massacre. Inside, they found four people bound and tortured, including a 10-year-old boy, murdered after being held hostage for nearly 22 hours. A missing Porsche, a hard drive ripped from the wall, and a crust of leftover pizza left on the be...

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After losing two husbands in five years, Stacey Castor was seen by many as unlucky. Grief-stricken. Strong. But when her daughter was rushed to the hospital after a supposed suicide attempt, police started questioning the tragedies that seemed to follow Stacey everywhere. And once they dug into the past, they found a pattern no one wanted ...

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It was the Saturday before Thanksgiving when 22-year-old Dru Sjodin left work, walked through the mall, and called her boyfriend while heading to her car. Four minutes into the call, her voice shifted—distracted, tense. She said, “Okay, okay,” and the line went dead. He thought the call had dropped. By the time her abandoned car was found, night had fallen and the tra...

Here's a collaboration episode with our friends Kelsey and Emily from A Trial by Podcast. Check them out: https://linktr.ee/atrialbypodcast

There's 2 episodes here, one from Kelsey and a short one from us.

Kelsey covers Baron Li, while we talk about Alan Helmick.

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You ever hear something so strange it sounds like a made-up urban legend...until you realize it actually happened?

This week, we talk about Ruthie Mae McCoy, a woman trying to piece her life together in one of Chicago’s most dangerous housing projects. She’d finally started turning things around, getting treatment, going back to school, planning her ...

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In 2011, 20-year-old Madison Scott headed to a party at a remote campground in British Columbia, a place where the wilderness stretches as far as the eye can see. She was ready for a night of fun with friends, her tent pitched by Hogsback Lake. But by morning, Maddy was gone. Her truck was still parked, her rings left in the dirt, her phone and keys nowhere to be foun...

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In 2012, Ryan Poston was a rising star in Cincinnati’s legal scene, a 29-year-old attorney with big dreams and a bigger heart. But on a quiet fall night, a 911 call shattered everything. His 21-year-old girlfriend, Shayna Hubers, claimed she shot him in self-defense, painting a chaotic scene of violence. Yet her chilling words on the call, talking about firing extra s...

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A little girl with a name as gentle as Harmony should have had a life filled with bedtime stories, scraped knees, and warm arms to run into. Instead, Harmony Montgomery was handed off like paperwork between systems, disappearing into broken homes and blind spots.

She was five years old. She had an eye condition that needed care, a laugh that stuck with people, and...