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Hitched 2 Homicide

Kris Calvert and Rob Pottorf

189 episodes

5 days ago

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On June 25, 1906, New York City’s Gilded Age glitter cracked wide open on the Madison Square Garden rooftop theater—when millionaire heir Harry K. Thaw shot famed architect Stanford White during a performance of Mam’zelle Champagne. At the center of the scandal was Evelyn Nesbit, a teenage model and chorus girl whose fame, trauma, and private life were turned into public spectacle. In this episode, we unpack the true story behind one of America’s earliest cel...

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Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On June 25, 1906, New York City’s Gilded Age glitter cracked wide open on the Madison Square Garden rooftop theater—when millionaire heir Harry K. Thaw shot famed architect Stanford White during a performance of Mam’zelle Champagne. At the center of the scandal was Evelyn Nesbit, a teenage model and chorus girl whose fame, trauma, and private life were turned into public spectacle. In this episode, we unpack the true story behind one of America’s earliest cel...

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Hitched 2 Homicide

Evelyn Nesbit: The Red Velvet Swing, the Stanford White Murder & Harry K. Thaw’s “Trial of the Century”

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On June 25, 1906, New York City’s Gilded Age glitter cracked wide open on the Madison Square Garden rooftop theater—when millionaire heir Harry K. Thaw shot famed architect Stanford White during a performance of Mam’zelle Champagne. At the center of the scandal was Evelyn Nesbit, a teenage model and chorus girl whose fame, trauma, and private life were turned into public spectacle. In this episode, we unpack the true story behind one of America’s earliest cel...

6 days ago

1 hour 26 minutes

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The Sameena Imam Murder: Secret Affairs Chloroform Plots & the Cooper Brothers

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In this UK true crime episode, we tell the devastating story of Sameena Imam, a 34-year-old Costco marketing manager whose “secret” relationship with Roger Cooper ended in calculated violence. Investigators and prosecutors said Cooper wanted the affair kept hidden—and when the truth threatened to surface, he and his brother David Cooper carried out a plan that led to Sameena’s death. We follow the timeline from Christmas Eve 2014, when Sameena was last seen a...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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The Wimbledon Kidnapping: Where is Muriel McKay's Body?

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On a cold December night in 1969, a woman vanished from her comfortable Wimbledon home without a trace. Within hours, the phone rang: a man calling himself “M3” claimed she’d been taken by the mafia, demanded £1 million, and insisted she would die if the police were called. What he didn’t realize was that he’d kidnapped the wrong woman. This episode unravels the kidnapping and presumed murder of 55-year-old Muriel McKay—mistaken for Rupert Murdoch’s wife, tar...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 17 minutes

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The Unsolved Murder of Lena Whitmore: The Body in the Black Water

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On December 26, 1907, a teenage boatman walking along the Passaic River spotted two pale feet jutting from the black water of a swamp outside Harrison, New Jersey. Dragged from the muck, the woman had no clothes, no identification, and only a torn red coat and a homemade fur muff nearby to hint at who she’d been. Within days, the tabloids were calling it the Lampblack Swamp mystery—and when the victim was finally named as 35‑year‑old Brooklyn housewife Lena W...

1 month ago

1 hour 9 minutes

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LEFTOVERS: Omaima Nelson and the Thanksgiving Cannibal Murder.

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Thanksgiving weekend 1991, Costa Mesa, California—police respond to a tip and uncover one of the most shocking crime scenes in California history. Inside an apartment, 23-year-old Omaima Aree Nelson has killed her 56-year-old husband, William “Bill” Nelson. What makes this case unforgettable isn’t just the homicide—it’s what she did afterward: dismembering his body, attempting to dispose of it, and, according to prosecutors, cooking and even tasting parts of ...

1 month ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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D.B. Cooper: IntoThin Air. The 1971 Skyjacking America Never Solved

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On the night before Thanksgiving, November 24th, 1971, a man in a dark suit and a sensible tie took seat 18C on Northwest Orient Flight 305—a short hop from Portland to Seattle aboard a Boeing 727. He ordered bourbon and soda, smoked his Raleighs, and handed a folded note to the flight attendant. It wasn’t a phone number. It was a promise. Inside the briefcase, he said, was a bomb. What followed would become the only unsolved hijacking in American aviation hi...

1 month ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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The Murder of Influencer Alexis Sharkey: Marriage, Control, and a Fugitive Husband

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! *This episode of Hitched to Homicide discusses the subject of suicide, self-harm, and domestic/intimate partner violence. Viewer and listener discretion is advised. In November 2020, 26-year-old Houston influencer Alexis Sharkey was found nude along a roadside. At first, her death stunned social media—no visible injuries, no clear suspect, and a picture-perfect life on Instagram. But behind the filters was a marriage in trouble. In this episode, we break down...

1 month ago

59 minutes

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Marlene Warren: The Killer Clown Murder

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! May 26, 1990, Wellington, Florida. A doorbell rings, and wife and mother opens the front door to find a clown with an orange wig, white face, red nose and gloves, holding flowers and balloons. What she believed was a delivery and gesture of kindness, wasn’t. It was an ambush and a point-blank gunshot to her head. After firing, the clown turned and calmly walked away to a waiting car. But why murder this woman who seemed to have no enemies? Rumors of affairs s...

2 months ago

51 minutes

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The Disappearance of Liu Huijun and her Daughter: Two Red Coats and a Seventeen-Year Mystery in Taiwan

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In 2008, a mother and her little girl rode an elevator to the 11th floor of a building in Yuanlin, Taiwan—left two red coats and their shoes—and stepped into a stairwell. They were never seen again. This is the cold case of Liu Huijun (劉惠君) and her daughter—often called the “Taiwanese Elisa Lam,” but stranger. We reconstruct the final minutes inside the Yuanlin Finance/Economics Building (員林財經大樓): the elevator ride, the clothing left behind, and the turn into...

2 months ago

41 minutes

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The Skinwalker Defense: Sarah Saganisto's Murder and an Arizona Acquittal

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In 1987, Sarah L. Saganitso was found murdered behind Flagstaff Medical Center. At trial, the defense invoked a “Skinwalker Defense,” reframing odd scene details as Navajo witchcraft—and the jury acquitted George Abney. We examine evidence, cultural context, and how reasonable doubt was built. sources used for this podcast Support the show JOIN THE HITCHED 2 HOMICIDE IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS START KRIS CALVERT'S BOOKS TODAY FOR FREE H2H WEBSITE H2H on TWITTER H2...

2 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

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The “Devil Made Me Do It” Case: Demonic Possession, Arne Johnson, the Glatzel Family, and a Landmark Defense

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In 1981 Brookfield, Connecticut, an altercation ended with Alan Bono losing his life—and a courtroom battle followed that tried to introduce demonic possession as a legal defense. We trace the full timeline: 11-year-old David Glatzel’s reported afflictions, the involvement of Ed & Lorraine Warren and multiple clergy, Arne Cheyenne Johnson’s alleged transference challenge, and Judge Robert Callahan’s decision to bar possession evidence at trial. We also ex...

2 months ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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Marjorie Orbin: The Showgirl and the Salesman. Justice for Jay Orbin | Part 2 of 2

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From arrest to verdict. With Jay Orbin’s torso identified, police detain Marjorie and flip Larry Weisberg with immunity. After ten trial delays, the jury convicts her of first-degree murder; the judge orders life without parole. We unpack the evidence, the courtroom strategy, and what the case leaves behind. sources used for this podcast Support the show JOIN THE HITCHED 2 HOMICIDE IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS START KRIS CALVERT'S BOOKS TODAY FOR FREE H2H WEBSITE H2...

3 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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Marjorie Orbin: The Showgirl and the Death of a Salesman | Part 1 of 2

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Former Las Vegas showgirl Marjorie Orbin and Phoenix jeweler Jay Orbin looked like a desert power couple—until Jay vanished in September of 2004. In this episode, we trace their story from meeting and marriage to the birth of their son Noah, the mounting marital strain and alleged affairs, and the day Robert Ame found a Rubbermaid tub in the Arizona desert containing a torso. We stop at the discovery of the partial remains and unpack the timeline, key players...

3 months ago

1 hour 29 minutes

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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Inside America's Crime of the Century Part 2 of 2

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Timeline, Evidence, Theories—And the Aviator’s Secret Children The 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping changed U.S. law and still sparks debate. We walk through the timeline from the nursery note to the fatal discovery, examine the money trail and the famed forensic ladder analysis, and revisit the Bruno Richard Hauptmann verdict alongside competing theories (lone actor vs. accomplices, the Fische box explanation, and inside-help rumors). We ...

3 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Inside America's Crime of the Century Part 1 of 2

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On March 1st, 1932, 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., son of famed pilot Charles Lindbergh, was abducted from the crib of his second-floor bedroom of the Lindbergh's home in New Jersey. A ladder was left behind. There were ransom notes, voluntary liaisons, suicides, a nationwide search, and help from not only J. Edgar Hoover, but the President of the United States. When little Charlie's body was found two months later near the Lindbergh's home, the...

3 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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Marybeth Tinning: Eight Children Dead, One Conviction, and the Truth about Munchausen by Proxy

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Between 1972 and 1985, Marybeth Tinning and her husband Joe Tinning buried nine children in Schenectady, New York. At first, doctors called all but one of the deaths “crib death” or SIDS, but patterns emerged that couldn’t be ignored. Eventually, Marybeth confessed to smothering her 4-month-old daughter, Tami Lynne, and was convicted of second-degree murder in 1987. But why would a mother kill her children? Many experts believe Marybeth’s case reflects Muncha...

3 months ago

53 minutes

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The Wrong Man: Alex Algeri, Lee Ann Riedel & the Amityville Murder-for-Hire Plot

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On January 17, 2001, Alex “Al” Algeri was shot multiple times outside the Dolphin Fitness Club in Amityville, New York. At first, the killing appeared senseless—Al had no enemies, no debts, no criminal ties. But investigators quickly uncovered the truth: Al was murdered by mistake. The real target was his business partner, Paul Riedel. Behind the plot was Paul’s wife, Lee Ann Riedel, and her lover, Ralph “Rocco” Salierno. Together, they orchestrated a murder-...

4 months ago

1 hour

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The Legend of Pretty Boy Floyd: Hero, Outlaw...or Both?

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Step into the turbulent 1930s and discover the legend of Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd—an infamous bank robber, folk hero, and symbol of defiance during America’s Great Depression. From his humble beginnings in rural Georgia to high-speed getaways across the Midwest, Floyd’s story blurs the line between villain and hero. Was he a dangerous outlaw or a misunderstood man fighting against a system that failed its people? In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide...

4 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

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John Edward Robinson: The Internet's First Serial Killer

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Before online dating was common, before “catfishing” had a name—there was John Edward Robinson. A father. A conman. And the first known serial killer to use the internet to lure, torture, and murder his victims. In this episode, we break down the chilling timeline, the fake job offers, the BDSM chat rooms, and the terrifying true story of how one man turned the web into a trap… and bodies into secrets. ᠅ Victims include Lisa Stasi, Paula Godfrey, and Isabella...

5 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Midnight in Piedmont Park: The Unsolved Murder of Katie Janness and Bowie

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! On a warm summer night in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, Katie Janness and her beloved dog, Bowie, were savagely murdered just steps from their home. Four years later, the case remains unsolved. Who carved letters into Katie’s body? Why weren’t the park’s cameras working? And how does a killer vanish from one of the busiest corners of the city? In this episode, we walk you through that haunting night, the evidence, the heartbreak—and the desperate plea for justice....

5 months ago

53 minutes