Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Do you love everything true crime and cocktails? Then this is the show for you. Listen every week, as Sinister Crimes and Cocktails takes a deep dive into true crime stories from around world exploring sinister minds, their menacing crimes and the mistakes left behind all while enjoying a cocktail masterminded by us for each episode... Believe us you will need it!
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Between 1970 and 1973, serial killer and sex offender Dean Corll also known as the Candyman or Piped Piper, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least twenty-eight teenage boys and young men in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. This sinister crime spree would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders and only came to light after one of one the two teenage accomplices Dean Corll groomed turned on him. So, what lea...
In June of 2017, 25-year-old Jacob Stockdale, who’s conservative Christian family appeared on the ABC hit show “Wife Swap” nine years earlier, fatally shot his mother Kathryn and younger brother James at their family home in the rural township of Bethlehem, Ohio. He then turned the gun on himself, though he survived his head wound. So, what led to Jacob Stockdale to killing members of his immediate family and then try...
Shelly Knotek or “Crazy Shelly” is one of America’s most infamous serial killer mothers. She seemed to have a perfect life- a caring husband and raising her three daughters in a home in rural Raymond, Washington. Shelly and her husband David were known for their selflessness and invited struggling friends and relatives to live with them. But then, those guests began to disappear. In 2003, she was arrested after her da...
Between 1870 and 1873, a Kansas family now known as the “Bloody Benders” ran a small inn and store- the Bender Inn- for travelers along the Osage Mission Trail in Labette County, Kansas. The Bender family comprised of John Sr., his wife Elvira, their son John Jr., and daughter Kate, murdered travelers who stopped at their inn looking for rest before heading back out in their search for land. After abandoning their inn...
For our past three episodes we have been taking a deep dive into the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper who stalked the streets of London’s East End Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”, killing five female prostitutes known as the canonical five. Jack the Ripper, who was never captured, mutilated their bodies in an unusual manner, indicating that the killer had a knowledge of human anatomy. Al...
Now if you remember from our last two episodes, we began taking a deep dive into one of history’s most infamous serial killers Jack the Ripper, who stalked the streets of London’s East End Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”, killing female prostitutes who crossed his path. The Victorian serial killer who was never captured, killed at least five women known as the "canonical five", mutila...
Now if you remember from our last episode, we began taking a deep dive into one of history’s most infamous serial killers who stalked the streets of London’s Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”, Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper, who was never captured, killed at least five women known as the "canonical five", mutilating their bodies in an unusual manner, indicating that the killer had a s...
Jack the Ripper remains one of history’s most infamous serial killers, who stalked the streets of London’s Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”. The culprit who was never captured, killed at least five women, mutilating their bodies in an unusual manner, indicating that the killer had a substantial knowledge of human anatomy. Despite countless investigations and psychological profiles, the killer’s ...
In October of 2021, New Hampshire native, Joseph Ferlazzo, murdered and dismembered his wife Emily Jean Schwarz, while the two were vacationing in Vermont to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. During his trial, Joseph claimed that he killed his wife in self-defense, however, police discovered dismembered body parts of Emily in the couple’s vehicle. So, did Jospeh Ferlazzo kill Emily Jean Schwarz, his wife o...
In August of 2014, American heiress Heather Mack, a native of Chicago, Illinois killed her mother, Shelia von Wiese and stuffed her body in a suitcase during a luxury family vacation in Bali with the help of her boyfriend at the time Tommy Schaefer. During his trial in Indonesia, Tommy admitted to killing Shelia, stating that he had bludgeoned her to death with a metal fruit bowl. So, why did Heather Mack kill her mot...
In July of 2009, California school teacher Robert John McGill admitted to killing his wife Shirley McGill inside their cruise ship cabin during a five-day cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Medical examiners concluded that Shirley died of strangulation and blunt force injury to the head and torso. So, why do Robert McGill kill his wife on their vacation cruise?
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To kick off summer, today for our podcast episode we have a special guest with us that we are so excited to interview, author of Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide of New England, Dawn Barclay.
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Jameson Irish Whiskey is by far one of the most popular and well-known whiskeys, but did you know that there is a sinister history lurking behind the worldwide distributed liqueur? In the 1880’s James Jameson, the grandson of the founder of Jameson Irish Whiskey and heir to the vast fortune, bought a 10-year-old girl while on an expedition in the Congo just so he could sketch her being eaten by cannibals. James would ...
American serial killer Nannie Doss, a.k.a. the Giggling Granny, is thought to have taken the lives of eleven people between 1927 and 1954. It wasn’t until her fifth husband and the fourth to have passed away that Nannie finally confessed to her sinister misdeeds which entailed killing three other husbands. So, did Nannie Doss have a reason to commit murder or was there something more sinister at play?
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In the summer of 1971, twenty-four-year-old Rita Curran, a teacher in Burlington, Vermont, was discovered dead in her apartment by her roommates. Her murder would be one of Vermont’s most high-profile cold cases that remained unsolved for fifty years and only recently solved using new advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogy. So, who killed Rita Curran and why?
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Russian Soviet serial killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, also known as Metal Fang or Kolya the Maneater, took the lives of nine women, but possibly more, between 1979 and 1980. His killings terrorized the small villages in the Kazakh, Soviet Union region, now known as Uzynagash, Kazakhstan. Nickolai would lure female prostitutes that were working in local parks in dark secluded areas raping them and then hack them to death ...
During the 1920’s in California, Gordon Stewart Northcott a Canadian child rapist, child abductor and suspected serial killer, murdered four young boys though he is suspected of killing up to twenty. His killings known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders or the Wineville Chicken Murders, were a series of abductions and murders of young boys in Los Angles and Riverside County, California between the years of 1926 and...
In 2008, Shelia LaBarre was convicted of murdering two of her boyfriends after their remains were found on her 115-acre farm located in Epping, New Hampshire. She would admit to the murders claiming God had made her an “avenging angel” sent to Earth to punish pedophiles. However, there was no basis whatsoever to suggest that either of her victims were pedophiles, engaged in pedophilia or were child abusers. Shelia was...
In July of 2008, 40-year-old Vincent Li boarded a Canadian Greyhound bus in Erickson, Manitoba, Canada. Almost an hour and half after boarding the bus, Vince unprovoked, attacked 22-year-old Tim Mclean while he was asleep. Not only did Vincent stab Tim nearly 60 times, but also beheaded, dismembered and cannibalized him as helpless fellow passengers watched in horror. So, is Vincent Li a mentally unstable man or just ...
Serial killer duo Loren Herzog and Wes Shermantine, collectively known as the “Speed Freak Killers”, due to their habitual methamphetamine abuse, are suspected of slaughtering as many as 72 people in and around San Joaquin County, California in the 1980s and '90s. After the deadly due was arrested in March of 1999, they quickly turned on each other and gave detailed accounts of the sinister crimes that they had c...
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