Military Murder

Military Murder

Do military true crime headlines leave you hungry for every detail? Dive into your next mystery with Military Murder. Every Monday, host Mama Margot - lawyer by day, storyteller by night - brings you in-depth accounts of infamous and underreported military crime cases. With over 15 years of active military service, Margot bridges the gap between the battlefield (or just basic military life) and the courtroom, so you won't have to hunt down details across countless sources - Margot does the digging for you. Since its debut in 2019, Military Murder has been the destination for 100s of gripping stories that illuminate the darker side of military service. On the show, you'll hear about cold cases, unsolved cases, and cases which received little, if any, media coverage. If you're passionate about true crime with a military twist, welcome home! Follow along and join a community of dedicated Military Murder listeners.

Episodes

March 1, 2026 45 mins
In 2012, Navy Seal Sniper Chris Kyle released his best selling book titled, “American Sniper.” After serving 10 years in the Navy, Chris began a new mission to help veterans in need.  On February 2, 2013, Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield were doing just that, helping a veteran in need, when they were gunned down by the very veteran they were trying to help. The Marine veteran was Eddie Ray Routh. The double murder m...
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These are 7 of the top headlines in military news. NOTE: All persons are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  Today I cover these 7 headlines:  -Navy Reservist Turned Fugitive David Varela - Possibly in Hong Kong? -North Carolina Valentine’s Day Double Homicide (Victims Matthew Wade and Kateryna Tovmash -Gorge Amphitheater shooting case will be prosecuted under UCMJ (Spc James Kelly) -COLD CASE SOLVED: Michael and...
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In November 2018, U.S. Air Force veteran Dominic Marino was found bound with duct tape and fatally shot inside his East Hartford, Connecticut home. His house had been ransacked, but valuables were left behind. His loyal German Shepherd was unharmed and neighbors said they never heard anything - not even a barking dog. Nearly seven years later, no one has been arrested. Was this a targeted attack? What were the intruders looki...
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This is a re-release with a major 2026 Update! Jennifer Evans was a rising pre-med senior at Emory University when she vanished in the summer of 1995.  As investigators backtracked Jennifer’s steps, they discovered she had been chatting with Dustin “Dusty” Turner.  When they found him, he appeared to be an upstanding citizen.  But…when his story kept changing, investigators dug deeper and what they discovered would send shockwaves...
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Jennifer Evans was murdered in the summer of 1995 while vacationing in Virginia. Two Navy Seal recruits were arrested and convicted of her murder. The men were Dustin Turner and Billy Brown. At the time, both men pointed the finger at each other as the man who killed Jennifer.  Dustin Turner was sentenced to 82 years. Billy Brown was sentenced to 72 years.  Years later, Billy admitted he was Jennifer’s killer. Since then, Tur...
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When Michael Ryan Burke posted an iPhone on Facebook Marketplace, he was just trying to find an honest buyer, maybe haggle, and move on. But instead, he became the target of a Facebook marketplace scam that began a few days earlier.  A buyer agreed to meet for the phone, and Ryan gave his home address. But when the buyer showed up, he came armed and with a posse. He intended to steal the iPhone, not pay for it. Within minutes, R...
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When Deputy Joshua Moyers set out on patrol on September 23, 2021, he had no idea it would be his last time. That night, a routine traffic stop turned volatile fast. Inside the vehicle were two occupants high on meth, and the driver had an active warrant. What happened next sparked a five-day manhunt that gripped the community and ended in an unexpected place: the bathroom of a local baseball park. The suspect, Patrick McDowell,...
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These are 6 of the top headlines in military news. NOTE: All persons are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  John Mwangi out of Fort Hood plead guilty to murdering his wife, Sgt Esther Gitau Veteran Tyler Linn charged with target parking lot murder of Matthew Traywick PO3 Taylor Lomax is charged with double homicide of sailors Noely Makenda and Jordyn Forrestier out of NAS Jacksonville Army Retiree Andrew...
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In the summer of 2024, an innocent sleepover turned violent when an intruder secretly entered the home in the middle of the night and ambushed a sleeping 11-year old girl. The man accused of this heinous crime was not a career criminal nor a drifter, but a Marine recruiter by the name of Ricardo Perez Castillo. What brought him to that house, and what happened inside, would become the focus of a criminal investigation that ended...
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Gerard Parvilus and his wife had been married for two years and shared a young son. Both were members of the U.S. Air Force and were stationed at Holloman AFB. But by 2007, their marriage was unraveling. The couple separated geographically, each taking short overseas tours. She went to Kuwait. He went to South Korea. During that separation, Gerard’s wife asked for a divorce. Then she admitted something else: while deployed, she ...
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This week, we’re joined by Tabitha from Housewives of True Crime for a special crossover episode. Tabitha breaks down the shocking 2024 scandal involving MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani and his longtime interpreter and close confidant, who is accused of stealing nearly $16 million—money prosecutors say was used to fuel a massive gambling addiction. There’s no military connection and no murder in this case, but it’s a jaw-dropping...
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Army veteran and young mother Caleigha Zangari survived Afghanistan, sexual trauma, and life under a sex trafficker, but in August 2024, one encounter on Dallas’s infamous “blade” would end in her disappearance. Eight days later, Caleigha’s body was found in rural East Texas.  Dig in with Margot as she takes you step by step through the work of a multi-agency investigation that unraveled a chilling trail of digital breadcrumb...
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In May 2020, 27-year-old Fort Hood soldier Brandon Scott Rosecrans was found shot to death on the side of a quiet road in Harker Heights, Texas. A few miles away, his bright orange Jeep Renegade was discovered engulfed in flames.  What looked like a random ambush quickly unraveled into a story of betrayal, greed, and a gun deal gone horribly wrong.  In this episode, Margot walks through the investigation that traced Brandon’...
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In Part Two, the investigation into the Andersen Air Force Base ambush closes in on its prime suspect: SrA Jose Simoy. As Simoy goes on the run, FBI, OSI, and Security Police search the island of Guam for a killer hiding behind wigs, aliases, and threats. What follows is a dramatic capture, a capital court-martial, and a landmark death sentence (the first on Guam in 44 years). But a death sentence doesn’t always mean death… M...
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On December 29, 1991, a routine night-deposit escort at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam turned into a deadly ambush. Cash clerk Peregrina Armour and Security Policeman Sergeant Stacy Levay were attacked outside the base bank by a group of masked men—one armed with a rifle, another with a lead pipe. Within minutes, one airman was fighting for his life… and another lay mortally wounded on his 29th birthday. In Part One, Margot bre...
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These are 7 of the top headlines in military news. NOTE: All persons are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  Today I cover these 7 headline cases:  -Death of Officer Lauren Craven (Sailor Antonio Alcantar charged) -OB/GYN Maj Blaine McGraw accused of secretly recording patients -Double Murder/Suicide out of Wright-Patterson AFB -4 Deaths in One Unit at FE Warren AFB -Whiteman AFB airman kills Good Samaritan ...
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On November 8, 2019, 24-year-old Morgan Patten traveled 13 hours to Jacksonville, North Carolina, to visit her fiancé. She made it to Jacksonville, but never made it to see her fiancé. Instead, she ended up in a truck with two Marines she didn’t know…and within hours, she was dead on a dark and desolate road.  Officials called it a drunk-driving accident. Morgan’s parents say the evidence tells a different story. In this e...
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In 1976, 35-year-old mother of two, Edwina Marter, was taken from her Mississippi home by a man demanding ransom. What began as a chilling kidnapping for money soon became one of the state’s longest-running death penalty cases. The man responsible was Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan. He would spend nearly five decades fighting his conviction, as the case wound through courts and appeals until it finally ended in the summer...
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Tiffany Hill lived in constant fear because she was a victim of domestic abuse. In November 2019, her estranged husband, Keland Hill, was released on bail—even though his risk of committing domestic violence homicide was alarmingly high. He was a walking red flag. Just five days later, he killed Tiffany and then took his own life. In this episode, we cover Tiffany’s story, the investigation, and how her tragic death inspired the...
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October 27, 2025 41 mins
In 2009, Chris and Sheri Coleman lived in a quiet community in Illinois with their 2 young sons, Garett and Gavin. Both veterans, they thought they had left danger behind when they left the service. But when Chris began receiving death threats because of his work as head of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries, life got scary and tense. The threats began in November 2008 and culminated in May 2009, when Sheri and her kids were mu...
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