Crime Raven
Retired after a 20-year law enforcement career in one of the most dangerous cities in America, Detective Sergeant Mark Rein brings his perspective to crimes you know and crimes you have never heard of. For years he worked nights in the roughest areas of Anchorage, Alaska. Later, he was a detective in property crimes, then went undercover in Vice. As a Sergeant, he led the Special Victims, Drug, and Investigative Support Units. Listen to his inside perspective and expand your understanding of true crime.Disclaimer: This podcast discusses crimes researched using publicly available information or personal recollections. Content may be graphic, disturbing, or violent and may be upsetting to some. Listener discretion is advised. Suspects are considered innocent until found guilty in a court of law.
Episodes
The serpent planned her satanic, drug-fueled date night, and a Green Bay family will never be the same.
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If you betray all those to blame for your problems, who is left in the end?
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The Cascades provide the endless backdrop for this Oregon serial killer. Back and forth on US Highway 20, the Watcher spends decades looking for trouble. He finds it over and over again until the search for a young girl brings it to a halt.
Sources:
https://projects.oregonlive.com/ghostsofhighway20/melissasheila/
When a taillight leads to a hostage recovery, and mom notices the DIY graveyard, it all starts to come apart for the urban creeper.
Sources:
https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/stewart-weldon-accused-serial-killer-expected-to-plead-guilty/
https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/09/springfield-serial-killer-stewart-weld...
The Wizard travels the world and ends up in West St. Louis. But it took too long to expose the seemingly powerful as a murderous fraud.
Sources:
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/earl-cox-plea-angie-housman-case/63-eaab6669-ec18-4af4-945c-312eba311d3e
When your failures are never your fault, time and distance can’t cool the need for revenge. When your mind continues to tally Shakespearian wounds, naturally, murder follows.
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How does catfishing lead to murder? How much is a friendship worth? A line of depravities leads to brutality and betrayal for $9 million.
Thunderbird Falls video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20JTSgku_qY
Sources
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/catfished-killer-takes-plea-deal-in-2019-death-of-best-friend-murdered-in-exchange-for-9m-from-fake-millionaire/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-woman-pleads-gu...
An adventurous, self-reliant girl moves to Anchorage to start the next stage of her life. Less than a week later, she's gone. It took years and a brother's betrayal for the killer to receive his due.
Sources:
Klinkhart, G. (2014) Finding Bethany (https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Bethany-Glen-Klinkhart/dp/0985351136/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FM84542VSFVI&keywords=finding+bethany&qid=1678999306&sprefix=finding...
When murder becomes a family business and girls go missing, always look under the concrete slab.
Sources
https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/2014/02/ward_weaver_iii_like_his_fathe.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/2014/02/francis_weavers_father_grandfa.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/step-by-step-in-oregon-killer-case/
http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/news03.txt
Scorpions of the Memphis Police Department pulled over a vehicle driven by Tyre Nichols. Three days later, Tyre was dead.
Sources
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-03/sixth-memphis-officer-fired-after-death-of-tyre-nichols#:~:text=In%20body%2Dcamera%20video%20from,police%20said%20in%20a%20statement.
The Warwick Slasher cut class for vicious attacks two years apart.
Sources
In one ordinary evening, a spree killer roamed Kalamazoo, taking six lives and injuring two. Did the app make him do it, or was he just an angry man who couldn’t handle a customer service job?
Sources:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-driver-shooting-rampage-victim-17-discusses-long/story?id=61149198
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2016/03/police_believe_jason_dalton_us.html
He raped and murdered throughout the Midwest while the system let him loose over and over…until DNA helped trip the snare one final time.
Sources:
Echols, P. (2011). In Cold Pursuit: My Hunt for Timothy Krajcir – The Notorious Serial Killer. New Horizon Press.
https://archive.vn/20070813105326/http://www.lincolncourier.com/story.asp?SID=21954&SEC=8
4 murdered. 3 injured. 2 kidnapped. 1 theft victim. A disgraced want-to-be police officer with a death wish declares war on southern California law enforcement. The result? He flamed out and hurt a lot of innocent people in the process.
Sources:
https://graphics.latimes.com/christopher-dorner-manhunt/#chapter-one
https://www.npr.org/2013/02/15/172102686/why-do-people-sympathize-with-christopher-dorner
This is a re-release where we reworked some pieces and combined two episodes into one.
In November 2015, the bodies of neighbors Pam Phillips and Ed Dansereau were found in a burned-out vehicle. Later the body of Calvin Phillips was found in his cellar. Who was the target, and who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time on Main Street in Pembroke, Kentucky?
Resources:
Trial footage: https://www.courttv.com/trials/ky-v-martin-2...
An Anchorage narcissist thought he could dress the stage to cover murder and fool the cops.
Sources:
https://www.legalmomentum.org/history-vawa
https://casetext.com/case/bailey-v-state-809
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Laying his trap on social media, this young serial killer thought he could stalk the dark cordiners of the web. Until Tiffany Taylor turned his snare against him and proved she would not go quietly into the night.
Sources
https://www.northjersey.com/in-depth/news/2020/02/03/tiffany-taylor-victim-victor-and-star-witness-serial-killer-trial/4454134002/
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/essex/2022/10/26/nj-serial-killer-kh...
He hid in Oklahoma caves and secreted around Camp Scott until the night the Girl Scouts came. Then this cave troll spirited three little girls out of their tents and to their deaths.
Sources:
http://www.girlscoutmurders.com/Complete_Cherokee_Advocate_article.pdf
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/i/dna-points-to-longtime-prim...
Full of unrealized potential, this snake let his anger and envy take over. Slithering through Anchorage’s trails, the serial killer murdered five people and seriously injured another before he was stopped.
Resources and Sources
Dashcam video: https://youtu.be/o46Oq08s8no
In the middle of spring break revelry, a mother’s premonition comes true - the beginning of an enduring mystery.
Sources
Merchant, E. (2017). Lost and Found https://amzn.to/3BWhcjc
https://www.eonline.com/news/1331722/inside-the-13-year-search-for-brittanee-drexel-a-familys-nightmare-grim-twists-and-a-suspect-charged
https://fox28media.com/news/local/timeline-disappearance-of-brittanee-drexel-wciv
https://www.syracuse.com/stat...
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