True Crime Brewery

On a Saturday morning in June 1998, no one could find mother and daughter Vicki and Valessa Robinson. The night before, single mother Vicki had dined with her boyfriend while Valessa hung out with her boyfriend and another friend. Everyone was aware that Vicki had been having difficulty getting Valessa to follow her rules. Her […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Friends and housemates hadn’t heard from Travis Alexander for 5 days when they let themselves into his house to check on him. What they found was shocking. And they knew who was responsible: Travis’s ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. Petite and pretty, Jodi had a normal childhood by all accounts. But something went very wrong after she […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Life in the Aftermath of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ted Bundy moved from Seattle, Washington to the University of Utah in 1974 after committing a series of brutal murders of young women. Police weren’t yet aware that he was a serial killer. To those who knew him, he was a polite, handsome and well-educated young […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

A Discussion of Felony Murder Rule Cases Blake Layman made a very bad decision when he was 16. That decision set off a series of circumstances that culminated with his arrest and conviction for felony murder. But Blake didn’t kill anyone. He broke into a house unarmed. The homeowner, who was armed, shot him and […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

On a high, jagged cliff overlooking the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Green River, Wyoming, a young mother and her 5 year-old son plunged to their deaths, their bodies crashing from rock to rock until they landed splayed and bleeding in the dust. Bob Duke’s accounting of his family’s death was heartbreaking. He described a sudden […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

In the middle of the night, as thunderstorms engulfed the remote tents of Camp Scott in Locust Grove, Oklahoma, 3 girl scouts were snatched from their sleeping bags. Their ravaged young bodies wouldn’t be found until morning. The discovery was shocking, but there had been warnings: Warnings that were ignored by camp counselors and not […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Young and eager nurse Beverly Allitt was trusted by the parents of her young patients. But after a series of unexplained deaths on the children’s ward at Grantham Hospital, all eyes turned to her. Investigators wondered why Beverly was always the one at the bedside when a child took seriously ill. Could she be behind […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Young couple Frances and Darren Jenkinson of Glasgow, Scotland, were happy and attentive parents of 8 week-week old baby boy Aaron when tragedy struck. After 3 bouts of difficulty breathing, their baby boy had irreversible brain damage and was taken off life support. This loss was especially difficult for Frances who was only 18 years […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Hann and Bich Ha Pan had high expectations for their daughter Jennifer. She lived a sheltered life filled with piano lessons, figure-skating competitions, and several hours of studying each day. This type of parenting is commonly called “tiger parenting.” But as Jennifer approached adulthood, she began a life of deceit. Forging report cards and college […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

On October 5th, 2012, Sarah Ridgeway called 911 to report her 10 year-old daughter, Jessica, missing. Jessica had left her home at 8:25am that morning to walk to school. At 10:11am, the school left a message on Sarah Ridgeway’s cell phone to tell her that Jessica never arrived. But Sarah, who worked the overnight shift, […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

In the 1980s and 1990s, at least 70 women were killed in the Seattle and Tacoma Washington area by the Green River Killer. The victims were mainly prostitutes and runaways who were picked up along the Pacific Highway South. The women were strangled and most of their bodies dumped into wooded areas around the Green […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

This is the first True Crime Brewery commissioned podcast! Thank you to Todd Feitl—a listener so fascinated by true crime (and beer!) that he paid us to do a TCB episode on the Son of Sam murders. The Son of Sam shootings back in the 1970s terrorized the citizens of New York and its Burroughs. […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

To Dr. Bart Corbin, til death do us part meant murder. In 2004, Jenn Corbin’s 7 year-old son found her murdered in her bed. He knew his father was responsible. In fact, he told anyone who would listen that his Daddy killed his Mommy. After hearing of Jenn’s death, the family of Dolly Hearn came […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

29 year old Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day 2013. He would claim that he thought there was an intruder locked in his bathroom and he shot through the door 4 times out of fear. Prosecutors in South Africa didn’t find his story believable. There was evidence that […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub at home on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. In her 2002 trial, the district attorney in asked for the death penalty. She was ultimately found competent to stand trial and convicted of capital […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Mother of two Sara Tokars was just learning about her husband’s shady business dealings when she was killed: executed with a gunshot to the head in front of her young children. When the truth came out, everyone who knew the couple was shocked and devastated. Sara’s life was over and her children were left motherless. […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

27 year-old Laura Ackerson was last seen on July 13, 2011, after stopping by the home of her ex-partner Grant Hayes and his wife Amanda Hayes. She was reported missing two days later when she failed to show up for work. On July 20, Ackerson’s Ford Focus was found abandoned near the 5400 block of Summer Manor […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

On the evening of October 25th, 1994, a 23 year old woman frantically knocked on the door of the McCloud family in the small town of Union, South Carolina. Hysterically, she told a tale of a lone gunman who stole her car and sped off with her two children in the back seat. The people […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

A young mother who was well liked in her small Irish community, Rachel O’Reilly loved life. She loved her children, her home, her friends, and her husband Joe. As her marriage began to deteriorate, Rachel was determined to make it work. Joe not so much. Joe had fallen in love with another. Would he go so far as […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.

Baby Gabriel Johnson has not been seen since 2009. And the only person who knows what happened to him isn’t talking: His mother. Elizabeth Johnson took Gabriel out of state and away from his father when he was only 7 months old. She has confessed to killing him but has retracted her confessions and told […]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-brewery--4126935/support.