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  • 'Heavenly Creatures' || The Murder of Honora Parker

    'Heavenly Creatures' || The Murder of Honora Parker
    2026/08/05
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    In 1954, two teenage best friends in Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, murdered Pauline's mother, Honora Parker, in Victoria Park, staging her death to look like an accident. The girls, whose intense and consuming friendship had alarmed both of their families, killed Honora after learning she opposed their plan to stay together once Juliet's family moved to South Africa. Both girls were convicted and served about five years in prison before being released under new identities. Juliet Hulme went on to become a bestselling mystery novelist under the name Anne Perry. Pauline Parker became a recluse who ran a small riding school in England. Their story later inspired the 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures, starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey.


    Links & Sources
    Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 23: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page23.asp
    NZ History, Pauline Parker: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/pauline-parker
    IMDb, Heavenly Creatures trivia: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005/
    Murderpedia, Juliet Hulme trial reports: https://murderpedia.org/female.H/images/hulme-juliet/juliet-hulme-trial-reports.pdf
    Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 24: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page24.asp
    Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 28: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page28.asp
    Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 27: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page27.asp
    NZ Herald, 'We were not lesbians,' says former Juliet Hulme: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/we-were-not-lesbians-says-former-juliet-hulme/V4WK54EI7YUVO6UMNKPOE7NRG4/
    Domus Aurea (archived), Hilary Nathan profile: https://web.archive.org/web/20060721114131/http://www.domusaurea.org/borovnia/hilary.html
    Anne Perry official site (archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20071019040936/http://www.anneperry.net/3.html
    Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/14377739776/
    Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/9096583535
    Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/9721709104
    Find a Grave, Honorah Mary Parker: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16907470/honorah-mary-parker
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  • The Prince of Fraud: The Many Lives of Anthony Gignac | WTF Wednesday

    The Prince of Fraud: The Many Lives of Anthony Gignac | WTF Wednesday
    2026/07/29
    For nearly thirty years, Anthony Gignac, born Jose Enrique Moreno on the streets of Colombia, posed as Saudi royalty to con hotels, department stores, a university, and eventually a group of ultra wealthy international investors out of millions of dollars. From a sixth grade Mercedes scam to a two hundred million dollar American Express card to an eight million dollar investment fraud scheme, Anthony's story is one of the boldest and strangest cons in recent memory, and it came at a real human cost. On today's WTF Wednesday, Gina and Amber trace the entire arc of the Prince of Fraud, from an orphaned five year old to a federal inmate with a release date in 2032.
    A big shout-out to Haley Gray for her research on this episode!
    Sources
    U.S. Department of Justice, press releases (usao-sdfl)
    CNBC, How a fake Saudi prince conned investors out of millions
    Los Angeles Times archives, 1991 coverage
    Vanity Fair, He actually believes he is Khalid: The odyssey of a counterfeit Saudi prince
    Vanity Fair, How the fake Saudi prince Anthony Gignac was exposed
    Forbes, Befriending the notorious fake sultan
    The New York Times, coverage of Anthony Gignac
    The Washington Post, coverage of Anthony Gignac
    The Spokesman-Review archives
    The Orlando Sentinel archives
    Vice, The insane saga of the fake Saudi prince who scammed Miami's rich and famous
    Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator
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    48 分
  • Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 3 of 3

    Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 3 of 3
    2026/07/22
    In the final episode of this series, Gina and Amber cover Leticia Stauch's murder trial, three years after Gannon's death. Leticia pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense arguing she suffered from dissociative identity disorder as a result of childhood trauma. Prosecutors pointed to her shifting statements to police, the deliberate steps she took to conceal what happened to Gannon, and a recorded interview in which she admitted to fatally shooting him. In May 2023, a jury convicted her of first-degree murder, and she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
    This episode also brings listeners fully up to date on the most recent development in the case. On April 2, 2026, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed Leticia Stauch's conviction, ruling that a biased juror, one whose son-in-law worked as a deputy district attorney in the same office that prosecuted the case, should have been dismissed and never should have deliberated. The reversal is not based on new evidence and does not change the facts of what happened to Gannon; it's centered entirely on a legal error known as structural error. The ruling was not unanimous, and one judge argued Leticia's own defense team could have removed the juror and failed to do so.
    As of this episode, Leticia Stauch remains in custody at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility while the case moves through appeal. In late June 2026, the Colorado Department of Law filed its own appeal with the Colorado Supreme Court, seeking to reinstate the original conviction. Gina and Amber close out the series by explaining what could happen next, a full retrial, or a Supreme Court ruling that restores the 2023 verdict, and promise to update listeners as soon as there's real movement in the case.
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    43 分
  • Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 2 of 3

    Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 2 of 3
    2026/07/22
    In part two, Gina and Amber cover the break that changed everything: the discovery of a piece of blood-stained particle board near the Stauch home, and the trail of evidence that led investigators over a thousand miles away to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where Leticia Stauch was ultimately arrested.
    This episode covers the forensic details that built the case against her, including Gannon's blood found on her shoe, her DNA recovered from a firearm connected to his death, and phone and travel records placing her in the Florida Panhandle in the days after Gannon went missing. Weeks later, searchers made the devastating discovery of Gannon's body in a suitcase beneath a bridge, confirming the worst fears of a family and a community that had spent weeks searching for him.
    Gina and Amber break down the timeline of the investigation, the mounting physical evidence, and how a search for a missing child turned into a homicide case almost overnight.
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    1 時間 25 分
  • Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 1 of 3

    Letecia Stauch & Gannon Stauch || The Case Revisited: Part 1 of 3
    2026/07/22
    On January 27, 2020, 11-year-old Gannon Stauch vanished from his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, sparking one of the most closely watched missing child cases in the state's history. His stepmother, Leticia Stauch, told police he had been picked up by a friend's family and never returned. Within days, that story began to unravel.
    In this episode, Gina and Amber walk through Gannon's disappearance hour by hour: the initial 911 call, the massive search effort that followed, and the early inconsistencies in Leticia's account that investigators couldn't ignore. They introduce Gannon as more than a headline, a bright, loving kid whose absence devastated his family and his community, and they break down why law enforcement so quickly began focusing on the woman who was supposed to be caring for him.
    This episode lays the foundation for everything that follows: the frantic search, the mounting suspicion, and the case that would eventually make national headlines.
    Sources
    El Paso County Sheriff's Office press releases Colorado Springs Gazette court coverage KRDO / KKTV / CBS Colorado news archives
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    1 時間 18 分
  • Murdered || The Harper Brothers & the Alabama Axe Murderess

    Murdered || The Harper Brothers & the Alabama Axe Murderess
    2026/07/15
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    In the summer of 1959, a farmer picking blackberries along U.S. Highway 11 in Etowah County, Alabama, made a discovery no one could have prepared for: a human torso. No arms. No legs. Face beaten past recognition. The next day, ten miles away, a second torso turned up along the same highway. Alabama had never seen anything like it — and the woman at the center of it all wasn't a gangster, a drifter, or a "madman." She was a 30-year-old farm girl named Viola Hyatt, and history would remember her as the Alabama Axe Murderess.
    This week, Amber and Gina dig into one of the strangest, most forgotten true crime cases in American history — the 1959 Torso Murders of Etowah County. Who were Lee and Emmett Harper? What drove Viola to pick up a 12-gauge shotgun and a double-sided ax? And why did she take the real reason to her grave in 2000, after a lifetime of refusing to say a single word more than she already had?
    Fair warning: this one will stay with you.
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    47 分
  • What Melissa Left || Episode 5: May 28th

    What Melissa Left || Episode 5: May 28th
    2026/07/08
    In Episode 5, Amber and Gina cover the discovery of Melissa Casias's remains in McGaffy Ridge, Carson National Forest on May 28th, 2026 — eleven months after she disappeared. They walk through what was found at the scene, the evidence concerns raised by the family's attorney, the forensic questions still being pursued, the suicide narrative and why the evidence pushes back on it, and the next steps in the civil investigation led by attorney David Adams of Parnall and Adams. Everything shared in this episode comes directly from official reports, documented evidence, and statements from Melissa's family and their legal team.

    If you have information about Melissa's case and have been unable to reach NMSP:
    Parnall & Adams
    New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771
    Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP or text ABQCS to 738477
    Links & Resources
    Justice for Melissa Facebook Page
    Parnall & Adams Facebook Page
    GoFundMe Reward Fund
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    24 分
  • What Melissa Left || Episode 4: The Call

    What Melissa Left || Episode 4: The Call
    2026/07/08
    In June 2025, Melissa Casias — a devoted mother, daughter, and sister — vanished from Taos, New Mexico, leaving everything she owned behind. Eleven months later, in May 2026, her remains were found in Carson National Forest. In this episode of Weird True Crime, hosts Amber and Gina reveal the new evidence that reframes everything: neighbors who reported Mark Casias asking about their security cameras in the days before Melissa disappeared, a woman's scream heard from the home at 1:45 p.m. on June 26th, the phone reset that happened within that same window, and presumptive-positive blood inside the house. You'll hear a recorded phone call in which Mark repeatedly insists he couldn't have hurt Melissa because he was at work — an alibi now called into question by a coworker who has formally told New Mexico State Police that Mark was not at work that day. Most disturbing of all is a witness account of a phone call allegedly placed by Mark on the day Melissa disappeared, and the questions surrounding a man named Ray Cortez. The episode also examines the documented failures in the NMSP investigation — turned-away federal help, ignored tip-line callers, and a family forced to do the investigative work themselves — and introduces the Mondragon family's new attorney, David Adams of Parnall & Adams. Every detail in this episode comes directly from official New Mexico State Police reports, documented evidence, recorded conversations, and statements from Melissa's family, their private investigator, and their attorney. If you have information about the disappearance and death of Melissa Casias in Taos, New Mexico, resources for coming forward are linked below.
    If you have information about Melissa's case and have been unable to reach NMSP:
    Parnall & Adams
    New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771
    Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP or text ABQCS to 738477
    Links & Resources
    Justice for Melissa Facebook Page
    Parnall & Adams Facebook Page
    GoFundMe Reward Fund
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    24 分