I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast
I Said God Damn! is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by best friends Stacey and Erin. Every Sunday they explore bizarre, shocking, and wild true crime stories with humor and commentary that will leave you saying, “GOD DAMN!”
Episodes
This week, Stacey examines the abuse allegations raised by former minor residents of youth reform homes, including Uta Haylee, and explores the role of its parent company, Rite of Passage, in the broader controversy surrounding the treatment of vulnerable youth.
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This week Erin tells us about Charles Whitman, the former U.S. Marine who carried out the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, killing 14 people and wounding 31 others before police shot him dead.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-Tower-shooting-of-1966/The-shooting
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/07/08/Mass-murderers-letter-revealed/1071521179200/
This week Stacey tells us about Joan Robinson Hill, a glamorous Houston socialite whose sudden 1969 death sparked a scandal filled mystery that led to accusations, a murder indictment, and years of revenge-fueled fallout.
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This week Erin tells us about how Cary Kerr was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Pamela Horton in a Fort Worth suburb, after a Texas jury found him guilty in 2003.
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http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/kerr1247.htm
http://www.skepticaljuror.com/2011/05/impending-wrongful-execution-of-cary.html
This week Stacey tells us about Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and Trump ally who has held UN diplomatic roles and served in Trump-era public partnership circles, and who moved in the same worlds as Jeffrey Epstein’s modeling network, including a failed bid to acquire Elite Model Management with Epstein and later ties to Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar Project, as well as allegations from his ex-wife Amanda Ungaro...
This week Erin tells us about Kristil Krug, a 43-year-old married mother of three from Broomfield, Colorado, who was harassed by stalking messages beginning on October 2, 2023, and was killed at her suburban Colorado home on December 14, 2023; her husband, Daniel Krug, was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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This week Stacey tells us about the tragic 2019 case of Samantha Josephson, the University of South Carolina student who mistakenly got into the wrong car in Columbia, South Carolina after a night out, leading to a case that shocked the country.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samantha_Josephson
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article252885083.html
https://time.com/5561773/south-carolina-college-student-suspe...
This week Erin tells us about Barbara Elaine Dalton, an American woman convicted in Georgia for kidnapping and the fatal shooting of Donna Sanders, for which she received a life sentence.
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This week Stacey tells us about Warriena Wright, a 26-year-old New Zealand tourist who fell 14 floors to her death after a violent Tinder date, Gable Tostee, in Australia.
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This week Erin tells us about the Mulhall Sisters, Charlotte and Linda, who on March 20, 2005, murdered their mother Kathleen's boyfriend Farah Swaleh Noor after he groped Linda, then dismembered and dumped his body in Dublin's Royal Canal.
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https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mulhall-sisters.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_Sisters_(convicted_killers)
This week Stacey tells us about the Franklin Scandal, a 1980s controversy in Omaha, Nebraska, involving allegations of a child prostitution ring tied to the failed Franklin Credit Union, where Paul Bonacci claimed to be a victim of abuse by Larry King Jr. and linked it to wider trafficking networks.
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https://news.isst-d.org/an-interview-with-nick-bryant-part-i-the-franklin-scandal/
This week Erin tells us about Ricky Rodriguez, son of Children of God cult leader David Berg, who murdered his former nanny Angela Smith in revenge for childhood abuse before dying by suicide in 2005.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Zerby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rodriguez
https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rodriguez-ricky.htm
This week Stacey tells us about the eerie disappearances and deaths of eight scientists since 2024: Frank Maiwald, Anthony Chavez, Monica Reza, Melissa Casias, William “Neil” McCasland, Jason Thomas, Carl Grillmair, and Nuno Loureiro, tied to sensitive NASA, JPL, Los Alamos, and defense research that's fueling wild media speculation and conspiracy theories.
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This week Erin tells us about Demontra Hatfield, a Benton, Arkansas man who in 2022 murdered his girlfriend Krystle Wilder in front of their 3-year-old daughter before killing a second victim, Larry Foster, during a subsequent car crash escape and receiving a life sentence plus 170 years in 2025.
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https://littlerock.gov/frontage-road-homicide/
https://www.kark.com/crime/family-and-friends-mourn-the-death-of-benton-grandfather-...
This week Stacey tells us about Matthew Mellon, the Mellon banking heir and early cryptocurrency investor known for his substantial stake in Ripple, whose life ended mysteriously on April 9, 2022, in a Cancun hotel room while traveling from his home in Florida to an experimental rehab treatment.
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This week Erin tells us about Jason James Mahn, who on April 1, 1993, in Pensacola murdered his father’s girlfriend, Debra Shanko, and her 14-year-old son, Anthony Shanko, in their home before fleeing the state and later being arrested in Oklahoma.
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https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ans.pdf
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1254367.html
This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
This week Erin tells us about 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, who vanished from Little Rock in October 2015 days after reporting a sexual assault and was found nearly three years later in a park drainage pipe, her death ruled a homicide that remains unsolved.
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https://aymag.com/a-ray-of-light-loved-ones-gain-new-allies-as-ebby-steppach-case-reaches-a-decade/
https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/new-information-reveals-where-ebby-st...
This week stacey tells us about Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher and beauty queen who mysteriously vanished from Ocilla on October 22–23, 2005, a disappearance that would haunt her community for years and later be thrust into the spotlight by the true crime podcast Up and Vanished.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Grinstead_murder_case
This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison.
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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html
https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the-murder-of-capt-marty-theer/
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