The Dark Side of Love

The Dark Side of Love

Hosted by suspense novelist, Bianca Sloane, The Dark Side of Love is a weekly true crime podcast dedicated to all the ways loved ones turn on each other, often with deadly results. Whether it's murderous husbands, women who kill, lethal boyfriends, dysfunctional families, or just a good old-fashioned WTF, look no further. From crimes that shook the world to cases you may not have ever heard of, the stories are suspenseful, emotional, and compelling.

Episodes

October 13, 2025 30 mins

Claudine Longet is a successful French pop singer and actress and the wife of mega singing and television star, Andy Williams. Freewheeling bachelor Spider Sabich is the Golden Boy of skiing, a beloved champion who competed in the 1968 Olympics and lives life to the fullest. When Claudine and Spider meet and fall in love, they decide to make Aspen, Colorado their home, a charming, hedonistic playgroundfor the wealthy and the wealth...

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College sweethearts Arnold and Tammi Cuyler are living aquiet life in Windsor, Connecticut with their two children and nephew. Always available to lend a helping hand is Tammi’s cousin, Chastity West, who cooks, cleans and babysits the kids. Chastity is also helping herself to eager participant, Arnold, who is having an affair with his wife’s cousin. The affair leads to an amicable divorce, with Arnold and Chastity continuing their...

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When David Birnie and Catherine Harrison meet as children,they are drawn together by their mutually chaotic and dysfunctional home lives. Through the years, the couple have an on and off relationship marked by a life of crime and insatiable sexual appetites, making it impossible to stay away from each other. However, for the pair that would ultimately be dubbed as the Most Violent Couple in Australia’s history, what ultimately keep...

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Previously on the Dark Side of Love, prominent Sacramento attorney, Larry McNabney, has fallen under the spell of the beautiful and mysterious, Elisa Redelsberger and against the advice of friends and family, he marries her. While the wealthy couple enjoys the high-life, Larry’s perturbed by his wife’s too-close-for-comfort friendship with college student Sarah Dutra, eventually demanding that Elisa get rid of her. Except, Sarah’s ...

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Oscar Pistorius, aka, The Blade Runner, is South Africa’s Golden Boy, a handsome and beloved Paralympian champion, seen as a role model and sterling example of grace, strength, and persistence. Blonde, beautiful Reeva Steenkamp, is a successful model whose star just keeps rising, though she ultimately has her sights set on a legal career so she can be a champion for those in need. When this glamorous pair meet and fall in love, the...

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After emigrating to the United States from Columbia in the late 1980s, Clara Harris climbed the ladder of success to achieve the American dream of a thriving career, a beautiful home, adorable children, and the perfect marriage. But David Harris is having an affair, and after confessing to his wife, he promises to call it quits with the other woman. Except, when David goes back on his promise, Clara confronts her husband and his mi...

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Elisa McNabney was smart, beautiful and yearning for more from life than her small Florida town could give her. Her ambitions pointed her West, where she eventually met successful attorney Larry McNabney. While Larry is smitten with the sexy and mysterious Elisa, she’s mesmerized by his big fat bank account. Against the advice of friends and family, Larry makes the enigmatic Elisa his bride. And it’s a decision he’ll live to regret...

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NBA player Lorenzen Wright was a beloved hometown hero to basketball fans in The Bluff City, aka, Memphis, Tennessee. Lorenzen and his wife, Sherra, seem to be living the dream, both of them taking full advantage of his multimillion dollar paychecks, resulting in an extremely lavish and envious lifestyle. However, over time, the marriage would collapse under the weight of dual infidelities and financial chaos. Andwhen Lorenzen disa...

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Padraic “Pad” Guffey and Kemberlee Hanson may have come from different worlds, but there was no denying their love connection. While their marriage starts off with love andpassion, over time, it descends into bitterness, jealousy and finally, pure, seething hatred. Until finally, it spills over into murder. ***Visit ⁠⁠www.thedarksideoflove.com⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and sources. Visit ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove⁠⁠ for ex...

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August 29, 2025 21 mins

High school sweethearts, Lisa Caldwell and Seth Techel, finally marry after seven years of dating in a beautiful old-fashioned church ceremony. Within months of getting married, they learnthey’re expecting a baby girl. But before Seth and Lisa can celebrate their one year anniversary or the birth of their baby, one of them will be dead. ***Visit ⁠⁠www.thedarksideoflove.com⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and sources. Visit ⁠⁠www.patreon....

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August 22, 2025 23 mins

Jamaican immigrants Andre and Andreen McDonald seemed like the ultimate power couple. He was a US Air Force Reserve major while she built a successful home healthcare business from the ground up, making them multimillionaires in the process. The couple lives in an exclusive gated community, have a beautiful little girl and seem as though they are deeply dedicated to each other. However, when Andreen goes missing, all eyes turn to h...

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August 15, 2025 31 mins

To their friends and neighbors, Sherri and Michael Dally seemed like a loving and devoted couple. However, when Sherri disappears from the parking lot of a local Target, Michael's more interested in his rampant womanizing, drug use, and the intense affair he’s having with a co-worker, than in helping with the investigation. And when the brutal truth about what happenedto Sherri is revealed, everyone is shaken to their core at just ...

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Previously: Wrestling superstar, Chris Benoit is at the top of his game. Until he’s rocked by the stunning and untimely death of his best friend, fellow wrestler, Eddie Guerrero. In part 2, Chris can’t cope with the loss and he spirals into deep and unrelenting grief. And he would take it out on the two people he loved the most. ***Visit ⁠www.thedarksideoflove.com⁠ for episode transcripts and sources. Visit ⁠www.patreon.com/thedark...

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Chris Benoit was a wrestling superstar while his wife, Nancy, was a pioneering presence in and out of the ring. And everyone agrees, they were crazy about each other. And once their son, Daniel, was born, the couple’s happiness seems complete. But what no one knows is that behind closed doors, Chris and Nancy Benoit are in the throes of a nightmare . . . leading to a horrific tragedy that no one can comprehend.***Visit ⁠www.thedark...

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Twenty-one year old Veronica Paz was smart, beautiful and used to getting any guy she wanted.

And when she meets “younger man,” seventeen year old Diego Gonzales, she has a chance to recapture the glory days of high school. But when Diego makes their relationship all about lust and not love, Veronica is determined to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget. **Visit ⁠www.thedarksideoflove.com⁠ for episode transcripts and sources. Visi...

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Jane Andrews has clawed her way out of a grim, poverty-stricken childhood and troubled adolescence to obtain a dream-come-true when she is chosen as a royal stylist for Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York. And when she meets the handsome, charismatic, and wealthy Tom Cressman, Jane believes she has met her own Prince Charming and desperately wishes for him to make her his Princess. However, the couple’s volatile relationship is hard...

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Lauren McCluskey was a standout track star at the University of Utah who was kind, smart and inexperienced with men. That all changed when she met a handsome, charismatic, and older part-time computer science student, who wooed her with an old-fashioned romance. It’s not long though before this seeming too-good-to be true guy is revealed to be not only a master manipulator, but a cold-blooded killer. **Visit ⁠www.thedarksideoflove....

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Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Dave Kroupa joins anonline dating site not looking for love, but for a little excitement and occasional companionship. Dave thinks he’s hit the jackpot when smart and easygoing Cari Farver enters the chat and says she doesn’t want anything serious with him and the two embark a fun, no-strings relationship. But then,after just two weeks of dating, out of nowhere, Cari says she wants more than j...

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Lisa Toney has a successful career in corporate America and a stable marriage to her devoted husband, Marcus. However, a nice quiet suburban life isn’t enough for the restless Lisa and she soon begins an affair with a charismatic younger man who showers her with a taste of the good life. And it’s not long before this hot and heavy affair ends in a brutal murder. *** Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and source...

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In January of 1982, Australian rugby star, Chris Dawson,told friends and family that his wife and mother of his two daughters, Lyn, had gone away for a few days because she needed some time to herself. Over the ensuing weeks, Chris told people that he would hear from Lyn on occasion, letting him know she was fine, and that she still needed some time, before the calls stopped altogether. Six weeks after Lyn was last seen, Chris fina...

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