I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast
I Said God Damn! is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by two besties, Stacey and Erin, with the occasional guest appearance from Erin’s dog, Karl. Listen every Sunday where they try to one up each other with the craziest true crime/mystery stories that make the world say, “GOD DAMN!”
Episodes
this week Stacey tells us about the death of Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower found dead by suicide in his San Francisco apartment in November 2024 after publicly condemning the company’s data practices, a ruling contested by his family who remain convinced foul play was involved.
Sources:
https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
This week Erin tells us about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who in 2011 carried out a bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting at a youth camp on Utøya Island, killing 77 people before being sentenced to 21 years in prison for terrorism and mass murder.
Sources:
This week Stacey tells us about how, in October 2006, University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted while walking home, sexually assaulted, and murdered by Brian Rooney, whose DNA linked him to the crime, resulting in his conviction and life sentence without parole.
Sources:
https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/vtlib/Documents/2008-470.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/15/slain-nva-student-loved-...
This week Erin tells us about the murder of Lauren Giddings, a Mercer Law graduate who was strangled and dismembered by her neighbor and classmate Stephen McDaniel in 2011, a crime for which McDaniel later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lauren_Giddings
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fi6ivv/sped_up_foot...
This week Stacey tells us about Matrice Richardson, who disappeared after midnight release from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 and was found dead nearly a year later, with questions about law enforcement’s actions still unresolved.
Sources:
https://iamjasmyne.com/15-years-later-why-we-still-demand-justice-for-mitrice-richardson/
This week Erin tells us about Elizabeth Olten, a 9-year-old girl from Missouri who was tragically murdered by her 15-year-old neighbor Alyssa Bustamante in 2009.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0XeAKIqqU (Alyssa’s interrogation / confession)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/elizabeth-olten
This week, Stacey tells us about Heather Elvis, who vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on December 18, 2013, and whose disappearance led to the convictions of Sidney and Tammy Moorer for kidnapping, although Heather has never been found.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng95TQ01sJU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Heather_Elvis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/south-carolina-love-triangle-womans-affair-married-man...
This week Erin tells us about Jennifer Teague, a Canadian teenager who disappeared while walking home in Ottawa in 2005, whose murder led to an intense community search, a high-profile police investigation, and ultimately the arrest and conviction of Kevin Davis.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jennifer_Teague
This week Stacey tells us about Angie Dodge, an 18-year-old Idaho Falls woman who was raped and murdered in her apartment in 1996, a case that led to a wrongful conviction and was only solved 23 years later when the real killer was finally identified.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/u5IdEAokvl/idaho-falls-murder-of-angie-dodge
This week Erin tells us about the abduction and murder of 17-year-old West Australian teenager Hayley Dodd in July 1999, and the eventual conviction and life imprisonment of Francis John Wark for the crime.
Sources:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3859852-Supreme-Court-Judgement-About-Trial-of-Francis/
This week Stacey tells us about how Chris Coleman, head of security for evangelist Joyce Meyer, murdered his wife Sheri and their two sons, Garett and Gavin, in 2009 to pursue an affair, staging threatening emails to cover up his crime.
Sources:
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ng/date/2009-06-10/segment/01?utm_source
This week Erin tells us about Azaria Chamberlain, a nine-week-old Australian baby taken by a dingo from a tent at Uluru on August 17, 1980, leading to decades of investigation until her parents were cleared in 2012.
God Damns Start: 8:32ish
Sources:
https://www.abc.net.au/archives/azaria
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/azaria-chamberlain-case
https://justice.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/171543/d0062_2012_azari...
This week Stacey tells us about the 2021 disappearance and death of Jelani Day, a graduate student from Illinois who vanished from Bloomington in August of that year and was later found in the Illinois River near Peru, IL.
God Damns end at: 10:17ish
Sources:
https://johnwfountain.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-death-of-jelani-day
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049377275/jelani-days-death-is-ruled-a-drowning-the-coroner-says
This week Erin tells us about Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect who became infamous after avenging the deaths of his wife and children in a 2002 plane crash by killing Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller he blamed for the tragedy.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision
This week Stacey tells us about Dennis Martin, a six-year-old boy who vanished on June 14, 1969, during a family camping trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, sparking one of the largest search efforts in the park's history.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Dennis_Martin
https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/1969_GRSM_DennisMartin_dissapearance_REDACTED.pdf
This week Erin tells us about Diane and Rachel Staudte, who poisoned family members with antifreeze between 2012 and 2013 in Springfield, Missouri.
Sources:
This week Stacey tells us about Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old whose life was tragically lost after she was found in a hotel freezer, with her passing ruled accidental.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kenneka_Jenkins
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/kenneka-jenkins-freezer-death-settlement/
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/13/1219048773/freezer-death-family-settlement-chicago
This week Erin tells us about Janet Chandler, a Michigan woman whose 1979 abduction and murder went unsolved for decades before the shocking truth finally came out.
Sources:
https://www.glamour.com/story/janet-chandler
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/o4rdsk/janet_chandler_22yearsold_michigan_woman_is/
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24792743
https://www.michbar.org/opinions/appeals/2009/073009/43383.pdf
This week Stacey tells us about the Hart family murder-suicide, where Jennifer and Sarah Hart deliberately drove their SUV off a California cliff in March 2018, killing themselves and their six adopted children after drugging the kids and fleeing from child welfare investigations.
Sources:
https://people.com/hart-family-murders-inside-shocking-case-8610367?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hart-family-crash-clak-county-washington-investig...
This week Erin tells us about how John David Terry, a Nashville pastor, murdered his church handyman and tried to fake his own death to escape prosecution.
Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/terry-john-david.htm
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tn-supreme-court/1257486.html
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