Women and Crime
Two Criminologists cover a new female-focused case each episode. You’ll hear the stories of these women, paired with the science that tells you where it all went wrong. We’ll explore the causes of female crime, victimology, the legal system, as well as celebrate heroines who have left their mark on the criminal justice system. Dr Meghan Sacks and Dr Amy Shlosberg are both Professors of Criminology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Both have years of first-hand experience working with offenders and professionals in the criminal justice system. They teach classes covering topics such as: Women & Crime, Race & Crime, Criminology, and Serial Killers.
Episodes
July 15, 2025 • 44 mins
Ep 258: Two women are murdered days apart in Harris County Texas, but over 20 years later their cases remain unsolved
This is the Mary McGinnis Morris and Mary Lou Henderson Morris story.
Sources for Today's Episode:
Unsolved Mysteries
Houston Chronicle
ABC News
Fox 26 Houston
Associated Press
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July 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Ep 257: Reconsidered: 18 - Shanda Sharer
Original Airdate: 05/26/20
In the backdrop of Teenage relationships and rivalry, the jealousy of one would be the impetuous for a shocking crime involving not one or two but 4 murderers and one innocent 12 year old girl. This is a case that will have us all asking: Is there such a thing as redemption?
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July 8, 2025 • 52 mins
Ep 256: A bombing rocks the home of a man with a dangerous past. But the real story begins blocks away—with a woman who refused to open her door.
This is the Dollree Mapp story
Sources for Today's Episode:
• The Marshall Project
• Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
• The Patriot Ledger
• The New York Times
• The LA Times
• Justia.com
• League of Women Voters of Muncie-Delaware County
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July 4, 2025 • 63 mins
Ep 255: Reconsidered: 16 - Cyntoia Brown
Original Airdate: 05/12/20
At just 16 years old Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of 43 year old Johnny Micahel Allen. After being tried as an adult Cyntoia was sentenced to life in prison. After years of advocacy and a tremendous outpouring of celebrity-driven public support, Brown was granted clemency and released from prison. Why would a young girl commit such an act and what led...
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July 1, 2025 • 46 mins
Ep 254: A woman’s death is ruled as accidental, but her family’s suspicions all point to her husband
This is the Shele Danishefsky Covlin story.
Sources for Today's Episode:
• ABC 7 NY
• Oxygen
• At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
• by Rebecca Rosenberg & Selim Algar
• NY Times
• NBC NY
• NY Post
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June 27, 2025 • 44 mins
Ep 253: Reconsidered: 15 - Crystal Gail Mangum
Original Airdate: 04/28/20
A domestic incident led to the stabbing of 46-year-old Reginald Day in the spring of 2011 by his live in girlfriend at the time but his attacker was more than your average citizen in this North Carolina city. His girlfriend was someone whose past was known by every person living in Durham, North Carolina. Would they hold her past against her in this case t...
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June 24, 2025 • 50 mins
Ep 252: A woman spends years searching for answers to her baby brother’s
death, but the reports will send her hunting for a deeper truth.
This is the Tracyraquel Burns story.
Sources for Today's Episode:
The Documentary “Burden of Guilt”
Sandlin v. State (2001) appeal transcript
Tampa Bay Times
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June 20, 2025 • 55 mins
Ep 251: Reconsidered: 14 - Natalee Holloway
Original Airdate: 04/21/20
In May 2005, shortly after graduating with honors, 18 Year old Natalee Holloway joined over 100 of her classmates on a senior class trip to Aruba. On the last night of the trip Natalee and several friends were out partying and Natalee left with a man she had met a few days prior. No one seemed concerned until Natalee missed her flight home and her passport and...
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June 17, 2025 • 82 mins
Ep 250: An 11 year old boy wakes up to find his mother missing. His search for evidence about where she went will lead the cops directly to his father…..
This is the Noreen Boyle story with special guest, Collier Landry
Learn more about Noreen's case and Collier's story in:
Finding Mom's Killer Podcast
A Murder in Mansfield Documentary
Sources for Today's Episode:
CNN
Mansfield News Journal
The podcast “Finding Mo...
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June 13, 2025 • 47 mins
Ep 249: Reconsidered: 13 - Amanda Lewis
Original Airdate: 04/14/20
On August 8, 2007, seven-year-old Adrianna Hutto drowned in her pool in what seemed like a clear accidental drowning, not uncommon in Florida, but a surprise witness would quickly come forward and accuse Adriana’s mother of her murder so is this a case of accident or was it murder?
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June 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Ep 248: A father relentlessly hunts for his missing daughter and uncovers a human trafficking ring in his own town
This is the Emmarae Gervase Story
Sources for Today's Episode:
The New York Post
People.com
Aol.com
The Long Island Press
An interview of Frank Gervasi on Dr. Phil
The Suffolk County News
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June 6, 2025 • 50 mins
Ep 247: Reconsidered: 12 - Sarah Stern
Original Airdate: 03/30/20
On the evening of December 3, 2016, police received a report of an abandoned vehicle on a bridge in Belmar, NJ. It didn’t take long for them to discover that the car belonged to 19 year old Sarah Stern. Air and water searches were conducted immediately, but turned up no sign of Sarah. The initial theory was that she had taken her own life, however we would come to ...
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June 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Ep 246: A minor traffic stop led to a tragic death and national outrage, but would anyone be held accountable?
This is the Sandra Bland story.
Sources for Today's Episode:
Chicago Tribune
ABC news
Wall Street Journal
Abc13.com
BBC
Huffington Post
Los Angeles Times
Initial autopsy report (July 14, 2015)
Waller County Sheriff's Office Committee Recommended Police & Jail Practices
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May 30, 2025 • 49 mins
Ep 245: Reconsidered: 11 - Melissa Huckaby
Original Airdate: 03/17/20
The brutal murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in 2009 would shock and devastate a small town in California but the revelation of her killer would be even more shocking and would leave everyone asking why. In this episode of Women and Crime, we investigate the true motives behind this senseless act of violence again an innocent child.
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May 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Ep 244: A teenage girl disappeared in 1989, but her mother’s relentless searching unearthed a 30-year-old buried secret
This is the Alexis Miranda Badger story
Sources for Today's Episode:
The Documentary “Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter
Today.com
People.com
A & E tv.com
The Holland Sentinel
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May 23, 2025 • 50 mins
Ep 243: Reconsidered: #10 - Erin Caffey
Original Airdate: 03/03/20
In the early morning hours of March 1, 2008, 2 young men burst into the Caffey home in the middle of the night and embarked on a killing spree that would leave two young children and their mother dead. Their father, Terry suffered multiple gunshot wounds but somehow managed to drag himself to a neighbor for help just before the house became engulfed in flames.
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May 21, 2025 • 13 mins
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May 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Ep 242: When one of the most famous Mexican-American entertainers of the 20th century was murdered, it shocked the world. But why was she killed? Was it jealously, obsession, or revenge?
This is the Selena Quintanilla-Pérez story.
Sources for Today's Episode:
Biography.com
NY times
People.com
NBC news
Associated Press
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May 16, 2025 • 71 mins
241: Recorded Live, Meghan and Amy discuss the recent developments in major court cases and hearings. In this installment they cover, The Menendez Brothers, Karen Read, Brian Kohberger, Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
Credits:
• Written and Hosted by Amy Shlosberg and Meghan Sacks
• Produced by James Varga
• Music by Dessert Media
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May 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Ep 240: A tragic death unraveled a complicated web of tangled relationships and sinister motives
This is the Kaitlyn Conley story
Sources for Today's Episode:
• The Observer Dispatch
• NBC News
• The Hulu documentary “Little Miss Perfect”
• People.com
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