Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Love a cozy yet dark vibe? Join Allison and Mike, a witty, married duo with over 20 years of banter under their belts, for Crime and Coffee Couple—your weekly true crime fix. Kick back with a cup of coffee as their funny, relatable chitchat eases you into the dark corners of lesser-known cases, uncovered through Allison’s meticulous research. Fans love the refreshing blend of sarcasm and heart, balancing chilling stories with respect for the victims. It’s like sitting with friends who just happen to unravel mysteries—never sensational, always honoring the victims. Ready to sip and solve? Dive in! Find us at https://crimeandcoffeecouple.com/

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December 28, 2025 55 mins

Skip the banter: 00:07:33

Josh Hilberling was trying to leave. At 6'5", the former Air Force serviceman didn’t fit the usual image of a domestic violence victim, but court records, hospital visits, and a dismissed protective order all pointed to a volatile and escalating pattern of abuse in his young marriage. On a sweltering afternoon in Tulsa, everything came to a violent end when Josh fell 17 stories from a high-rise apartment w...

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Yara Gambirasio never came home from the gym. Her murder would take years to solve, unraveling generations of family secrets in the process. Allison tells us the rest of this story, where DNA didn't just catch a killer. It blew apart a family.

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December 14, 2025 57 mins

Skip the banter: 00:07:45 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

Newlyweds Rick and Gail Brink were murdered in their home just days before Thanksgiving, with no clear suspect in sight. Twenty-five years later, a strange comment from Gail’s brother shifted everything. Allison tells us the rest of this story that hinges on a terrible secret kept for decades.

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December 7, 2025 53 mins

Skip the banter: 00:06:22 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

In 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar was a bright, tech-savvy teenager who loved gaming and coding with his friends online. When a charismatic older gamer named Lewis began appearing in their chat group, claiming to be a 17-year-old entrepreneur with his own company and connections to the U.S. government, Breck was fascinated by someone who seemed to share his passion ...

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November 30, 2025 66 mins

Skip the banter: 10:12

From the outside, the Reynolds family looked picture-perfect. A deeply religious couple raising their adopted daughter in sunny Coral Springs, Florida. But beneath the surface of baseball games, church choir practices, and shopping trips at the mall, something dark was brewing.

When 17-year-old Nikki Reynolds became obsessed with her high school boyfriend, her parents watched helplessly as their once-thriving...

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Skip the banter: 00:09:40

Claudia Lawrence was a beloved daughter, sister, and friend. What followed her disappearance was a long, painful search clouded by missed clues, shifting public opinion, and silence from people who might know more than they’ve said. Allison tells us the rest of this story that has one really dark twist.

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November 16, 2025 62 mins

Skip the banter: 10:00:00 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

When 34-year-old mother of four Susie Casey didn't come home after a night out in April 2008, her children knew something was terribly wrong. This is the heartbreaking case of a woman who simply wanted to start over, and the devastating price her family paid in the pursuit of justice.

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November 9, 2025 59 mins

Skip the banter: 00:10:20 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

A mother reports her 12-year-old daughter missing from a Sobeys parking lot as a winter storm rolls in. The community rallies, searches are launched, and tearful press conferences follow. But when Karissa Boudreau's body is found thirteen days later in a snowbank, the truth that emerges is far more chilling than the Nova Scotia winter—and it involves the one person ...

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Skip the banter: 00:06:52 (give or take a min or so depending on ads in beginning)

Heather West disappeared in 1987. Her parents’ story kept shifting—until one of her siblings repeated a sick family joke. Allison tells us the rest of the story of this terrible couple.

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October 26, 2025 66 mins

Skip the banter: 00:08:21 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

Jeanine Nicarico was home sick from school when someone kicked in the front door of her family’s quiet Naperville home. What followed was not just a horrific crime against a ten-year-old girl, but a decadeslong unraveling of truth, lies, and catastrophic failures within the justice system. Two young men (neither of whom matched the description of the killer) were se...

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October 19, 2025 66 mins

Skip the banter: 00:06:09 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

Rachel O’Reilly was a devoted mother, a trusted friend, and someone who did everything right. But on a clear October afternoon, her own mother found her battered and bloodied on the bedroom floor of her quiet home in rural Ireland. The crime scene looked like a break-in, but nothing important was missing, except Rachel.

Allison tells us the rest of this story, inclu...

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Here's a bonus Halloween-themed episode for our listeners.

On Halloween night, 1957, Peter Fabiano is gunned down by one final trick-or-treater. Or so it seems.
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October 12, 2025 60 mins

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On a quiet spring night in 2012, the Cipriano family’s home in Farmington Hills, Michigan became the site of a savage and senseless betrayal. Nineteen-year-old Tucker Cipriano, adopted as a newborn and raised with love, broke into his own house with a friend, armed with baseball bats and a plan for money that spiraled into bloodshed. His father never stood a chance. His m...

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It started with a young woman left for dead on the side of a road in Oklahoma, her blue high heel abandoned in the street. But the investigation into her so-called hit-and-run revealed a far more disturbing truth—this woman wasn't who anyone thought she was. What followed was a years-long unraveling of stolen identities, a child kidnapped from school at gunpoint, and a predato...

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When Kari Baker was found dead in her bed, her husband, a respected Baptist preacher, told police it was a suicide. A typed note, a bottle of sleeping pills, and a tragic history of loss all seemed to confirm his story. But Kari’s mother couldn’t shake the feeling that something was deeply wrong, and when she started digging, things didn’t add up. What began as quiet suspicion turned into a full investigat...

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September 21, 2025 54 mins

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When Iana Kasian moved to Los Angeles, she had dreams of a new life, one filled with family, safety, and stability. Instead, she crossed paths with Blake Leibel, a man born into wealth and obsessed with control. On paper, he was a Hollywood creative with a dark, surreal graphic novel to his name. But behind closed doors, his fantasies spilled into r...

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September 14, 2025 50 mins

Skip the banter: 00:08:13 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

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When 19-year-old Brian Cohee Jr. drove his car into the Colorado River, his parents thought it was just a mistake. But a day later, his mother made a chilling 911 call: she’d found something in his closet that no parent should ever see. As police began digging into Brian’s story, a missing person report came in—Warren Barnes, a kind and quiet ...

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September 7, 2025 54 mins

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In 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan boarded a dive boat in Australia expecting a day exploring the coral-covered depths of the Great Barrier Reef. Instead, they surfaced to find the ocean empty—no boat, no crew, no one. What followed was a string of errors, oversights, and assumptions that left the couple stranded at sea, invisible to the very people who were suppos...

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Skip the banter: 00:04:34 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

This case is especially close to us as Mike's sister was originally scheduled to work on the day of this massacre. We'll tell you all the details.

On a freezing February morning in 2008, five women were executed in the back room of a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois. A sixth survived by pretending to be dead. The man responsible walked in without a mask, s...

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August 24, 2025 61 mins

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On Mother’s Day 2020, Suzanne Morphew vanished from her mountain home in Colorado. Her daughters’ texts went unanswered. Her bike was found tossed in a ravine. As the truth unraveled, so did a marriage that had long been quietly unraveling. Allison tells us the rest of this story that ends in a shallow grave and one hell of a chemical twist.

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