Paranoid Sisters Podcast

In 1955, Jack Gilbert Graham shocked the nation by planting a bomb in his mother’s suitcase, blowing up United Airlines Flight 629 and killing all 44 people on board. Fueled by greed and a bitter family history, Graham’s crime became the first known case of airplane sabotage in U.S. history—and changed aviation security forever.

Editing; Oliver Seibert

On June 9, 1973, Elizabeth Frye was found murdered in her garage—face down in blood, a massive head wound. Her husband Herbert claimed he’d been in Boulder all day. But inconsistencies, a suspicious timeline, and a stopped watch raised questions that would echo for decades. With a $150,000 life insurance policy, a suspiciously quiet husband, and three unplugged clocks frozen in time, this case went cold.

What started as a night of celebration in 1998 quickly spiraled into a tragic mystery involving jealousy, blood evidence, and a suspect who fled to Mexico. Decades later, DNA testing confirmed Bonny’s fate, and after years on the run, Crespin Nene-Perez was finally caught. 

In 1988, 24-year-old Mary Lynn vanished after a late-night walk in Colorado Springs. Hours later, she was found behind Rogers Bar—raped, stabbed, and brutally beaten. Despite early leads and a relentless investigation by Officer Joe Kenda, the case went cold until a breakthrough in 2018.

Joe Michael Ervin—a murderer who evaded justice for over a decade. From a deadly shooting in Texas to a brutal killing spree in Denver, Ervin’s crimes slipped through the cracks due to clerical errors and a flawed system. Hear how DNA technology finally uncovered the truth and closed four cold cases after more than 40 years.

In 2017, 17-year-old Maggie Long was brutally attacked and burned alive after walking in on a burglary at her family’s home in Bailey, Colorado. Despite an ongoing investigation and a $75,000 reward, her killers remain unidentified. Was it a random crime or something more sinister?

On January 1, 2025, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, resulting in the death of its driver, 37-year-old Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, and causing minor injuries to seven others. Authorities determined that Livelsberger died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound just before the explosion, which was caused by a combination of fireworks and fuel canisters inside the vehicle.

In March 2023, Englewood, Colorado, was rocked when 81-year-old Reginald MacLaren, a chaplain, was arrested for the brutal murders of his wife and daughter. Driven by financial despair, he killed and dismembered them, later claiming he wanted to spare them from homelessness. Sentenced to two life terms, his case remains one of Englewood’s most shocking crimes.

The haunting discovery of Amanda Leariel Overstreet, a Colorado teenager who vanished in 2005 without a trace—or even a missing person's report. Earlier this year, her head and hands were shockingly found inside a freezer, left behind in a home recently sold by her own biological family. The rest of Amanda's remains are still missing, raising dark questions about what happened inside that Grand Junction house.

Robert Charles Browne, a man who claims to have killed up to 48 people across the U.S. and confessed to nine murders in Colorado. Browne, who was convicted for the 1991 murder of 13-year-old Heather Dawn Church, has provided detailed confessions and information that match evidence in multiple unsolved cases.

In January 1982, these two young women disappeared on the same night in Breckenridge, Colorado, only for their bodies to be discovered miles apart, months later. The episode explores the baffling connection between the victims, the long road to justice, and the shocking breakthrough that finally led to the arrest of their killer, Alan Lee Phillips, nearly 40 years after the crime.

Idaho Nurse Helps Clean Up a Grisly Crime Scene After Her Lover Brutally Murders His Fiancée. When Patrick Frazee failed to convince his girlfriend Krystal Kenney to kill his fiancée, Kelsey Berreth, he took matters into his own hands on Thanksgiving Day 2018.

Thomas Edward Luther had a troubled background that led to a series of brutal crimes in Colorado during the 1980s and 1990s. Luther targeted vulnerable women, including hitchhikers, whom he viciously assaulted and murdered. Despite multiple convictions, his violent actions left a haunting legacy, with his most notorious crime being the murder of Cher Elder.