This week's episode is supported by the letter V! Join us as we talk about our favorite vampire-adjacent murders.

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Dani talks about Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke, who murdered Jasmine’s entire family in Alberta, Canada in 2006. Sarah covers one of history’s most prolific killers, the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory.

Book Recommendations:

• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas 
• Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose

Sources:

• NatGeo
• Syfy
• Bathory.org
• Britannica
• News.com.au
• All That’s Interesting
• Wikipedia
  

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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For our second episode of 2024, we are supported by the letter U. U is for…Unsolved! This week, Dani and Sarah focus on their favorite UNSOLVED stories, including a stats section on the history of Unsolved Mysteries. 

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Dani talks about a 1945 house fire on Christmas, and the deaths? disappearances? of nearly half the Sodder children. Sarah covers the mysterious death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in 2013.

Book Recommendations:

• The Cecil Hotel by Chris Swinney

• No Direct Evidence: The Story of the Missing Sodder Children by Bob Lane Bragg

Sources:

• Smithsonian Magazine
• Legends of America
• The New York Times
• All That’s Interesting
• BBC
• Daily Maverick

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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Happy 2024! We hope everyone has had a fresh start to the new year and are ready to hear about some crimes!

Join us for stories about murderers who are a bit younger than our usual suspects. This week, we are supported by the letter T and T is for Teen Killers! If you would like to donate to the Trystin Bailey Memorial Fund in support of one of the victims in our story tonight, please visit the Trystin Bailey Memorial Fund for more details.

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Dani talks about a pair of murders of local children in the 1870s by teenager, Jesse Pomeroy, “the Boston Boy Fiend.” Sarah covers the tragic Florida murder of Trystin Bailey by 14-year-old classmate, Aidan Fucci.

Book Recommendations:

• Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer by Phil Chalmers
• Making a Monster by Dawn Keetley

Sources:

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• People
• CNN
• NBC News
• AETV
• Criminal Minds

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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We're back!

This week is supported by the letter S. While S could have been for Santa, we decided to stay a little more on brand and went the stalking route.

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Dani talks about the 2016 stalking and murder of Shana Grice by an ex-boyfriend in the UK. Sarah covers the story of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, who was stalked and murdered by an obsessive fan in the late 1980s. 

Book Recommendations:

• Stalkers: True Stories of Deadly Obsessions by Eilleen Ormsby

• I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Journal of Erotomania, Stalking, and Obsessive Love by Dorren Orion, M.D.

Sources:

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• CDC
• SPARC
• The Cut
• Crime and Investigation
• BBC
• All That’s Interesting
• People
• Who (via PressReader)
• The Hollywood Reporter

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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Join us this week for some amazing rescue stories! 

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Dani talks about Alan Phillips, a man saved in the mountains of Colorado, with a wild plot twist! Sarah covers US Airways Flight 1549, which had to make an emergency landing in the middle of the Hudson River!

Book Recommendations:

• Miracle on the Hudson: The Extraordinary Real-Life Story Behind Flight 1549 by the Survivors of Flight 1549, William Prachnau and Laura Parker
• Monster by Steve Jackson

Sources:

• NOAA
• Wikipedia
• Simple Flying
• CNTraveler
• The Sun
• Summit Daily
• Frank Weber

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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Thank you for coming back after our holiday break! We are ROYALLY excited to share this week’s episode. Episode 17 is sponsored by the letter Q and Q is for Queen!

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Dani talks about Portugal’s 14th century love story between King Pedro and Queen Ines and the queen’s untimely demise. Sarah covers the story of Mary Tudor, Queen Mary I, who was known as “Bloody Mary” for her crimes against protestants in England in the 1500s.

Book Recommendations:

• In the Shadow of the Cypress by Thomas Steinbeck

• The Heretic Wind: The Life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England by Judith Arnopp

Sources:

• Wikipedia
• History Channel
• Royal Museum Greenwich
• Wonderslist
• Britannica
• ArtsandCulture
• CNN

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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Dani and Sarah will be back Sunday, December 3 with two stories supported by the letter Q!

True Crime ABCs wishes all of our American listeners a Happy Thanksgiving. See you next week!

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Welcome to another week of the True Crime ABCs podcast! We decided to extend the Halloween season for an extra week and stick with a spooky theme! This week, P is for Paranormal and we are talking about ghosties!

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Dani shares the story of Terasita Basa, whose ghost contacted a friend, which led to the arrest of her killer. Sarah shares an oldie-but-a-goodie with the Greenbrier Ghost, Zone Heaster Shue, whose ghost contacted her mother to share the story of her death. 

Book Recommendations:

• The Haunting of Zona Heaster Shue: The Greenbrier Ghost Chronicles by Nancy Richmond &, Misty Murray-Walkup
• Houses of Horror by Richard Winer

Sources:

• Ipsos
• Paranorms
• Google News
• Wikipedia
• West Virginia Haunts and Legends
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Paranorms 2
• Chicago Tribune

Intro Music: RobHunnsMusic.com or @syndicatemusicUK

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