Socialite Crime Club

The truth will set you free…

On May 26th 2003, a 48 year old woman was sexually assaulted in the quiet suburb of Gilbert, Arizona.

Police began questioning their main suspect, 20 year old John Kenneth Watkins, implicating him with fingerprints they claimed were discovered at the scene, and with a failed voice stress test they claimed identified him as well.

The coerced confession they got from Watkins after 4 hours of interrogation...

It takes two to tango…

In April 2009, Patrick Calalang arrived home after a long day at his dentistry to find 37 year old Chuck Goff inside his bathroom armed to the teeth.

Chuck blindsided Patrick holding him hostage at the business end of a shotgun. After zip-tying Patrick’s hands and feet, Chuck made it clear that he was not happy that Patrick was seeing his ex-wife and that the 2 of them would wait for her to arrive to explain ...

Gone in the dead of night…

In the early morning hours of June 4th 2006, Lyndsey Nicole Miles was murdered in her sleep while having a sleepover at her best friend’s house, the daughter of Deborah Radnour.

Also staying at the home was a man named Michael Craig Lance, a childhood friend of Deborah’s who had fallen on hard times and was battling drug addiction.

Mitch’s demons couldn’t have taken control at a worse moment in time and L...

Sy Ray and Keri Ray reveal the confusing details that landed an Arizona school in the middle of the conspiracy of a lifetime.

In the spring of 1999, The Berkley SETI Research Center released a program to the public, known as SETI@home, allowing people to use their home computers to assist in data collection to prove the existence of, you guessed it, aliens. 

What they didn’t expect was one user using the program to defraud his work...

Bear poaching is still very much a thing in Florida despite it being illegal. Poaching these beasts involves intense animal maltreatment of both the bears AND the dogs that are trained to hunt them.

Florida Fish & Wildlife wanted to figure out how this was happening and what criminal underground group was responsible… so they set up hidden cameras and dug up cell phone records. 

What they wound up finding will disturb you to yo...

No matter how much Keri protests, she is taking the reigns of this show and being the star we know she truly is.

Welcome to Kickin’ It With Keri, Volume 1! We’ll call this case: “The Great Ice Cream Caper.”

Keri was a young cop patrolling sunny Gilbert, Arizona, when she witnessed a strange man run a red light. After pulling him over, she found the man holding a McDonald’s ice cream cone melting all over his hands, which she sugges...

15 year old Annie Kasprzak just found her forever foster home when everything fell apart. 

In 2012, she was beaten to death by her then boyfriend, Darwin Bagshaw, after revealing her pregnancy to him. The only issue was that Annie wasn’t actually pregnant… but Darwin didn’t know that and flew into a blind rage.

Believing he had just murdered his girlfriend and unborn child, the teen tossed the bodies into the Jordan River and elude...

Tami Joy Huntsman will die in prison for torturing and killing two children who were in her care in 2015. She pleaded guilty to the murders of a three-year-old and a six-year-old, who were found wrapped in plastic inside Rubbermaid bins in a storage facility in Redding, CA.

This came two years after a witness called the police to report a badly abused girl in a car outside of an apartment building in Quincy, CA, where Huntsman and ...

After a year of living in Gilbert, AZ, Chris and Sherri Loyd finally met the neighbor living in the house behind theirs. A meeting that would end with that neighbor, Steven Blair, in police handcuffs.

One night, after being woken up to the sound of glass breaking, the Loyds, came face to face with Blair screaming that the Loyds had killed his child. Soon after, Blair set fire to the Loyd family home and barricaded himself in his ow...

Janet Houdek was 60 years old, newly widowed, and living alone with her dog when she was shot twice, execution style, in the back of the head. The killers also shot her dog. No money or belongings were taken, and investigators were stumped.

Police soon learned that a camera had been set up across the street from Janet’s house to monitor her next-door neighbor’s potential drug activity…but it was recently taken down. Historical vide...

Kristin Blasie Lobato was 18 years old when she was wrongfully convicted for the murder of a homeless man on the west side of Las Vegas, NV. She was sentenced to life in prison.

On May 25, 2001, Kristin was leaving the Budget Suites Hoel on the east side of Vegas when a man grabbed her and threw her on the ground. He attempted to rape her, but Kristin pulled out a butterfly knife and slashed him on the penis.

Six weeks later, a hom...

When 18-year-old Zoe Hastings didn’t respond to calls and texts in October 2015, her parents knew something was up. After tracking her phone, they were led to White Rock Creek Trail… where police were already on the scene putting up crime scene tape.

Hastings was kidnapped while returning a Redbox rental by Antonio Cochran (36), who drove her mini-van to that very creek where he assaulted and murdered her.

Socialite Crime Club is a...

In February 2020, the body of a 27-year-old Mennonite Sunday school teacher from Farmington, NM, was found 400 miles away next to a camper outside of Arizona.

Her murderer was Mark Gooch, a seemingly normal Air Force mechanic with no personal connection to her. Gooch was raised in the Mennonite church and apparently harbored extreme resentment toward the community. He stalked the Farmington community that Krause was a part of befor...

If a friend asks you to borrow a 55-gallon barrel, they might be a murderer—just FYI.

Episode 16 dives into the tumultuous, on-again, off-again relationship of Cody Wayne Johnston and Nicole Waller…a relationship that resulted in her death.

In 2015, Johnston was charged with homicide and tampering with evidence in the death of Waller, after her car was found on the side of a highway. Their affair includes a barrel that Waller’s bod...

“She Was Really Pretty…”

Episode 15 uncovers the murderous plot of a seductress lurking adult dating websites. The woman targeted and attempted to murder married men stepping outside their marriages… by stabbing them while in bed under her spell. 

Socialite Crime Club is a new take on true crime, former investigators and cell phone tracking experts Sy and Keri Ray discuss their involvement in criminal cases from around the world an...

Some cops can’t seem to get enough of the job, even when they're off duty.

Episode 14 unravels the story of an officer-involved shooting by Officer B. Smalls in a Walmart parking lot. During the investigation, an external review board determined the officer was justified because he was in fear for his life, however, ethical and procedural concerns created a real disaster for the department.

This case uses fake names and locations t...

A burned body, a millionaire on the run, and a prosecutor hot in pursuit.

Episode 13 unravels the homicide of Camilo Salazar by Manuel Marin, El Presidente Supermarket tycoon. In 2011, Marin hired a bumbling crew of UFC fighters to kill his cheating wife’s lover in a murder plot straight from the pages of a Hollywood script. This is part 2 of our two part series on this case.

Socialite Crime Club is a new take on true crime, former...

Miami, Florida: Where the rich and famous live in the lap of luxury. But, when Miami’s wealthiest need love that money can’t buy, they look for it in all the wrong places…

Episode 12 reveals the fate of Manuel Marin, El Presidente Supermarket tycoon, who fled the country after orchestrating the murder of his wife’s lover, Camilo Salazar. In 2011, Marin hired a rag tag crew of Latin King gangsters and UFC MMA fighters to carry out t...

It can be easy to trust the wrong people, even your neighbors... 

This week’s episode reveals the sinister predatory crimes of Holcomb Gunn of Gilbert AZ. In 2003, Gunn befriended a 13 year old neighborhood girl using the false pretenses of helpful medical treatment to goad her into his sick plan to take advantage of her. When discovered, he attempted to flee the country but not before a mix of good ol’ fashioned police work and in...