GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

"I was born with the devil in me.  I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." - H.H. Holmes H.H. Holmes is one of the more widely known serial killers in American history.  When he is thought of people often think first of The Murder Castle but the truth truly is much different than the stories that have been conflated over the years.  Bailey and I hypothesize on this ...

On Wednesday October 4th, 1978 a young man was laying wire for a telephone company in Lyon County, Iowa when he thought he saw a mannequin lying in amongst the weeds along Highway 182.  As he approached he quickly realized that it was actually human remains.  Those human remains belonged to a woman who would remain only known as Jane Doe for 26 1/2 years until a fingerprint finally told investigators that those remains had belonged...

On April 4, 2015 Amanda Taylor and Sean Ball would go to Amanda's father-in-law's home with one intention, to kill him. Amanda blamed Charles (her father in law) for the suicide of her husband because she says that he had caused her husband Rex to become an addict from a very early age. Amanda followed through on her plan for murder, took a selfie of herself with the murder weapon and Charles' dead body and then took off leading po...

This week's case is going to showcase what we do over on Patreon for our patrons signed up to either tier.  The ice storm in Ontario this past week caused us to go without power for a couple of days and we had quite the mess to clean up!  As such, we were a bit behind the 8-ball as far as dropping a BRAND NEW episode.  Please enjoy this patron-exclusive episode in lieu of that.

This heart breaking case covers the murder of Jennifer...

In 2014 Alexander Hernandez went on perhaps one of the quietest serial killer sprees in American History. He took the lives of 5 people and 11 people survived his random and unprovoked attacks. Victims were going about their lives, on their way to work, on their way to church and following traffic laws when they were attacked. Hernandez' case took a long time to go through the courts and honestly there is VERY little out there abou...

On October 3, 1984 a 9-year-old girl named Christine Jessop got off her bus and went home from school. By the time that her mom and her brother got home though Christine was gone. It was nearly three months that the family went without any answers and then Christine's body was found and it was evident that she had been murdered and sexually assaulted. What would ensue was frankly an absolute farce of an investigation that would see...

In July of 2008 Caylee Anthony would be reported missing after she had not been seen by her mother or her grandparents for just over one month and prior to the 911 calll made by Cindy Anthony (Caylee's grandmother) there was not any contact whatsoever with police. What unfolded from there is a long line of lies and seemingly covering up from many corners and ultimately to this day nobody knows what the true cause of death was for C...

Here is episode 174 early and ad free for all of the patrons signed up to either tier. On July 12, 2015, just weeks sfter graduating high school in Mays Landing, New Jersey, Tiffany Valiante attended a graduation party across the street from her house at her uncle's home. Tiffany had already received a full scholarship at Mercy College in New York for Volleyball, a sport that she was VERY proficient at. That night after an arguemen...

On February 27, 2021 Warren Barnes, a homeless person living in Grand Junction, Colorado, was brutally murderer when he was sleeping under a bridge in town by a man named Brian Cohee. Brian, as it turned out, was a young man who had been contemplating and planning murder for over one year and looking for the right opportunity and the right person to commit a heinous attack on. In Warren Barnes he did not find the person that he was...

Dr. Norman Baker was not, in point of fact, a doctor at all.  What he was was a quack, a fraud and you could certainly argue that he was a Serial Killer as well. Norman used his skills as an inventor and a genius to build business, take advantage of people and he could talk his way into and out of any situation. His story spans two countries, two states and a lot of people who lost their lives because they believed in him and trust...

On September 11th, 2017 a female torso was found in the Oshawa harbour but the rest of the body could not be found.  It would be the end of December of 2017 when a family called for a plumber because their pipes were backing up due to a clog in their basement apartment, which was rented to 45-year-old Adam Strong. The plumbers would attend to the clog and would be absolutely apalled by what was causing the clog.  They would call 9...

This case covers a woman who appears to have been a serial killer although she was only ever found guilty of one murder. She was acquitted in a second murder and set to face a FOURTH trial in a third murder when she went to Mexico to commit the one murder that she was convicted of. She was imprisoned in Mexico but then escaped prison and fled, never to be found again. It was recently reported that she had moved to Canada and passed...

On November 13th, 2022 four students from The University of Idaho would go out for the night and into the wee hours of the morning.  One couple and two friends at different locations.  They would then all return home to the rooming house that two of the students lived in off campus.  That night an assailent would enter the home and stab all four of the setudents to death using a fixed-blade knife.   The assailant however did leave ...

New Year's Day 2008 started with bright prospects for the year ahead for two young women who lived just six kilometres away from one another in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as they both started the day and the year with their families in their family home's.

Unfortunately though, one of those girls, Melissa Todorvic, had some serious issues with the other, Stefanie Rengel, based out of nothing more than jealousy and self doubt.  As a m...

Albert Guay had an extramarital affair with a seventeen year old girl which was rooted in lies, conceit and control. He lived his entire life as an entitled child, believing that he should always get whatever he wanted and everyone should bow down to his every whim. To try and force the girlfriend to stay with him he hatched a plan to kill his wife and killed many other innocent people alongside her. In the end he wound up losing h...

On March 4th, 2008 a young man in Australia named Julian Buchwald would ask permission of his girlfriend's family to take their 17-year-old daughter, and his long term girlfriend, for a hike and picnic on the immense property that was owned by his parents.  The two set out for a picnic and to check out a waterfall but that is not what happened.  The two were kidnappped from that area and drive for six hours to another remote area w...

After having guns and a television stolen from his home following a break-and-enter a man named Kevin Watkins felt that the police were not dealing with the crimes and so he took matters into his own hands including making threats to neighbourhood teens and even impersonating an officer. He told the teens that if his property was not returned, Christmas 2015 would be a bloodbath and when his property was not returned he followed t...

On June 15th, 2016 Erin McCleskey, who was a process server, would attempt to serve a man with legal papers just outside of Austin, Texas when she was attacked by dogs and she lost her life.  It was immediately ruled that the six adult dogs that were found on the property should be euthanized and charges were not laid against the man that owned the property.  For over a year the euthanization though would be held up in courts as th...

Between December 1977 and January 1978 serial killer Richard Chase would go on a rampage that not only was about murder but about mutilation, necrophilia and cannibalism as well.  Richard lived a life that wasn't just filled with red flags, his entire life was a gigantic red flag that was ignored by doctors, by his family, by neighbours and literally seemingly by every single person that ever knew him.  His progression of crimes is...