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Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Kori and Courtney
183 episodes
5 days ago
Send us a text In July of 1999, twenty-one-year-old Barry Winchell an infantry solider in the United States Army was murdered at the Fort Campbell Army base while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman. Barry’s murder brought to light the military’s homophobic policy of “don’t’ ask, don’t tell” which did not allow members of the U.S. military who were homosexual, bisexual, or transgender to be open about their sexual orientation. This i...
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Send us a text In July of 1999, twenty-one-year-old Barry Winchell an infantry solider in the United States Army was murdered at the Fort Campbell Army base while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman. Barry’s murder brought to light the military’s homophobic policy of “don’t’ ask, don’t tell” which did not allow members of the U.S. military who were homosexual, bisexual, or transgender to be open about their sexual orientation. This i...
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Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 182: Fort Campbell- A Hate Crime Killing
Send us a text In July of 1999, twenty-one-year-old Barry Winchell an infantry solider in the United States Army was murdered at the Fort Campbell Army base while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman. Barry’s murder brought to light the military’s homophobic policy of “don’t’ ask, don’t tell” which did not allow members of the U.S. military who were homosexual, bisexual, or transgender to be open about their sexual orientation. This i...
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5 days ago
31 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 181: A Righteous or Wrongful Execution
Send us a text In 1978, Georgia animus for its climate of racism during this time was in the middle of two separate killing sprees that intersected one another. One was that of the Stocking Strangler, believed to be a black man who targeted elderly white women and the other belonged to United States Army Specialist William Henry Hance who was stationed at Fort Benning on the Georgia-Alabama border. Between 1977 and 1978, Hance murdered three women near or at Fort Benning and sent taunting let...
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1 week ago
31 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 180: Vanishing from Fort Hood
Send us a text While stationed at Fort Hood Army Base located outside of Killeen, Texas, twenty-year-old United Stated Army Solider Vanessa Guillén disappeared while on duty in April 2020. Two months later some of her dismembered and burned remains were found buried along the Texas Leon River about 20 miles from the Army base. Before her disappearance, Vanessa’s mother claimed that Vanessa had informed her that she was being sexually “harassed” by a superior officer. So, who killed Vanessa Gu...
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2 weeks ago
43 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 179: The Monstrous Coach
Send us a text Before beloved retired Penn State University coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of numerous counts of child molestation, he had a long and impressive career as the university’s defensive coordinator. In 2011, following a two-year grand jury investigation, Sandusky was arrested and charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys occurring from 1991 until 2009. He met his victims through a program he started in 1977, The Second Mile, a non-profit serving Pennsylvania’s under...
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4 weeks ago
54 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 178: The Monster Within the Shaman
Send us a text Indonesian serial killer Ahmad Suradji, a dukun, which is a class of shaman reputed to possess supernatural powers, admitted to murdering 42 girls and women ranging in ages from eleven to thirty years old between 1986 to 1997. His victims were buried in the ground up to their waists in a sugarcane plantation near his home as part of a religious ritual. However, his unsuspecting victims would then be strangled to death with their heads turned facing his house, which he believed ...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 177: The Monster in Priest Clothing
Send us a text During the 1960’s Catholic priests were much more revered than they are today and certainly nobody would have suspected a man of the cloth to commit murder. So, in April of 1960 when schoolteacher and former beauty queen 25-year-old Irene Garza’s deceased body was discovered in a canal a few days after giving confession to Father John Feit, it was hard to believe that the young priest could have been responsible. Despite evidence against Father Feit, Irene’s murder went cold fo...
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1 month ago
38 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 176: The Monster Behind the Badge
Send us a text In February of 2021 23 -year-old Sandra Birchmore, a pregnant teacher’s aide at a Boston area elementary school, was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. However, Sandra’s family members and friends did not believe the findings and pushed for an investigation which resulted in the closed case suicide to be blown wide open and her death ruled a homicide a year later. Prosecutors now allege that Sandra was kill...
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1 month ago
38 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 175: Surviving the Grim Sleeper
Send us a text From 1984 to 2007, American serial killer Lonnie Fraklin Jr. murdered at least ten women in South Central Los Angeles, California. During the 1980’s, he evaded capture again and again, until one of his victims, Enietra Washington, survived being shot in the chest causing Franklin to take a fourteen-year hiatus, or so authorities initially believed, earning him the nickname the Grim Sleeper. So, how did Enietra Washington survive Lonnie Franklin’s Jr deadly shot? References: Lon...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 174: Making a Jump in Criminal Behavior
Send us a text In 1984 over an eight-month period, American serial rapist and killer Robert Jospeh Long, abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least eight women in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. However, one of victim’s seventeen-year-old Lisa McVey managed to escape after surviving 26 hours of being brutally raped and led police right to Long. This is the true harrowing tale of Lisa’s McVey’s newfound will to survive. References: Lisa McVey was abducted and attacked by serial killer ...
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2 months ago
40 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 173: The Butcher Baker
Send us a text In the 1970s and early 80s, American serial killer and baker, Robert Hansen, abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 young females most of whom were with prostitutes or exotic dancers, in and around Anchorage, Alaska. After abducting his victims, he would release many of them into the Alaskan wilderness and hunted them with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle as well as a hunting knife, which earned him the nickname “The Butcher Baker”. Almost a decade after Hansen’s sinister crime spree b...
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2 months ago
48 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 172: The Beauty Queen Killer
Send us a text In February of 1984, Australian- American serial rapist and killer, Christopher Wilder, embarked on a seven-week, cross-country killing spree, abducting and torturing at least twelve young women and girls who were aspiring to be models, and killing at least eight of them. Having previously committed numerous rapes and sexual assaults in both Australia and The United States dating back to 1963, Wilder had developed his methods for victimizing young attractive females by enticing...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 171: The Will to Survive
Send us a text Mary Vincent was just fifteen years old in September of 1978, hitchhiking her way to Los Angles, when she was brutally attacked by Lawrence Singleton, who raped her, severed her forearms with an axe and left her for dead in the California Desert. Miraculously, her determination to put her attacker behind bars gave her the strength to survive. This is the true harrowing tale of Mary Vincent’s all inspiring tenacity to survive and the resilience of the human spirit. Referen...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 170: Death of a Cheerleader
Send us a text Teens come with an array of emotions from happiness to anger, from excitement to anxiety and even jealousy and envy. But what happens when some of those emotions become too overwhelming for teens to handle on their own? Well, in the summer of 1984, in Orinda, California, sixteen-year-old Bernadette Protti, ruthlessly murdered her fifteen-year-old classmates Kirsten Costas, which was motivated by greed, envy and the desire to be more like Kirsten. So, what were the signs that we...
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3 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 169: The Pom-Pom Killer Mom
Send us a text What would you do to ensure that your child made their school’s athletic team? Well, in 1991, in Channelview, Texas, thirty-six- year-old mother of two, Wanda Holloway, was charged with solicitation of capital murder after she allegedly hired a hitman to try and kill the mother of her thirteen-year-old daughter’s cheerleading rival. However, her hire to murder plot would be ruined after police were informed of her plan. So, was Wanda Holloway a mentally unstable woman or was sh...
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3 months ago
40 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 168: The Acid Bath Vampire
Send us a text Long after Jack the Ripper terrorized the city streets of London, another English serial killer, John Haigh would also use the city as his killing playground. Commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer or Acid Bath Vampire, Haigh’s rose to infamy in the 1940’s after murdering six people and then dissolving their bodies in sulphuric acid purely for financial gain. He was eventually arrested and sentenced to death after human remains were found in a pile of rubble behind his worksh...
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3 months ago
43 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 167: Chicago: A True Sinister Musical
Send us a text One of America’s most famous plays in Broadway history is Chicago- a musical set in the windy city in the early 1920’s. What makes the musical so appealing is that although the events unfolding on stage occurred almost 100 years ago, they feel current with its themes of fame, corruption and the sensationalism of the media, making it a clever satire of celebrity culture, entertainment and our justice system. The audience is captured in the musical’s storyline that seems to be ri...
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3 months ago
36 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 166: A Texas Raised Serial Killer
Send us a text Between 1970 and 1973, serial killer and sex offender Dean Corll also known as the Candyman or Piped Piper, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least twenty-eight teenage boys and young men in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. This sinister crime spree would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders and only came to light after one of one the two teenage accomplices Dean Corll groomed turned on him. So, what lead to Dean Corll becoming a serial killer and why did two teen...
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3 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 165: The Wife Swap Murders
Send us a text In June of 2017, 25-year-old Jacob Stockdale, who’s conservative Christian family appeared on the ABC hit show “Wife Swap” nine years earlier, fatally shot his mother Kathryn and younger brother James at their family home in the rural township of Bethlehem, Ohio. He then turned the gun on himself, though he survived his head wound. So, what led to Jacob Stockdale to killing members of his immediate family and then trying to commit suicide? References: True Crime Society - The m...
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4 months ago
44 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 164: Living with Evil
Send us a text Shelly Knotek or “Crazy Shelly” is one of America’s most infamous serial killer mothers. She seemed to have a perfect life- a caring husband and raising her three daughters in a home in rural Raymond, Washington. Shelly and her husband David were known for their selflessness and invited struggling friends and relatives to live with them. But then, those guests began to disappear. In 2003, she was arrested after her daughters went to the authorities, revealing the truth about th...
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4 months ago
39 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Episode 163: The Bloody Benders
Send us a text Between 1870 and 1873, a Kansas family now known as the “Bloody Benders” ran a small inn and store- the Bender Inn- for travelers along the Osage Mission Trail in Labette County, Kansas. The Bender family comprised of John Sr., his wife Elvira, their son John Jr., and daughter Kate, murdered travelers who stopped at their inn looking for rest before heading back out in their search for land. After abandoning their inn suddenly in 1873, bodies of people who had gone missing, tur...
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4 months ago
29 minutes

Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Send us a text In July of 1999, twenty-one-year-old Barry Winchell an infantry solider in the United States Army was murdered at the Fort Campbell Army base while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman. Barry’s murder brought to light the military’s homophobic policy of “don’t’ ask, don’t tell” which did not allow members of the U.S. military who were homosexual, bisexual, or transgender to be open about their sexual orientation. This i...