Bloody Murder - A True Crime Podcast - Season 3 (2019)

The phenomenal Australian crime film "Animal Kingdom" is one of our favorites but did you know it came from a true story? Ruled by murderous matriarch Kath, the notorious Pettingill family dominated the Melbourne Underworld in the 1970's and 80's. They were drug dealers, armed robbers, rapists and murderers. Even police officers were not safe from their reign of terror. This is a tale of extreme drug-use, rampant violent crime and police corruption. But the most shocking thing in this case is that the truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's also much worse.

Realising she'd be better off financially as a widow than a divorcee, Mary Ellen Samuels orchestrated the murder of her husband, Hollywood camera operator Robert Samuels. Then to cover her tracks, she organized the murder of the man who she paid to have her husband killed, her daughter's fiancé Jim Bernstein. In 1941, 14 year old Eric Francis Bowles murdered his magician master "Davo the Magnificent." When Sydney Shelley and his wife Elva were found decapitated in their home in 1960, their heads were nowhere to be found and Eric was the prime suspect. Known as the "...

Just days before Christmas in 2002, recently paroled ex-cons John Wolfenbarger and Dennis Lincoln came with a scheme to rob jeweler Marco Pesce. Having no scruples whatsoever, their plan included Marco's mother Maria and his three young children Carlo, Sabrina and Melissa. For the Pesce family, there would be no Christmas. Boronika Hothnyang, a Sudanese woman with a horrific background, escaped her war torn country in her early teens only to go through a series of alcohol fuelled abusive relationships in Melbourne. In 2011 the 25 year old mother of three young ...

On July 24th, 1984, bearded brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, radicalized by extreme Mormon beliefs and convinced they were prophets from God, forced their way into a duplex in American Fork, Utah. Here they brutally killed their brother's wife Brenda Lafferty and infant daughter Erica, believing they had received a revelation from God in which they were told to "remove" them from the earth. These senseless murders were fuelled by religious fanaticism, delusions of grandeur, and a long history of family violence.

In the late 1990's Anthony Pignataro was a big-shot plastic surgeon in New York. He drove around in his red Lamborghini and gained international fame for inventing a "Snap on" hairpiece that connected to bolts he drilled into the skulls of bald men. His image was shattered in 1997, when Pignataro's long history of medical malpractice came to light after another death of a patient, and soon afterwards his wife Debbie was struck down by a mysterious illness. In 1906, in Stockton, California, Emma LaDoux was in a bigamous pickle. She had one too many husbands. How would ...

Futoshi Matsunaga is a Japanese con artist, rapist and serial killer. Between 1996 and 1998 he tortured and murdered at least seven people, including two children. His accomplice, was Junko Ogata, a woman he was in an abusive relationship with. Matsunaga's crimes were so heinous that most media in Japan were not willing to report the details. Axe murderer Jose Omonte-Extrada received one of South Australia's longest sentences for the horrific murders of Jasinta-Leigh Fullerton and Rebecca Wild in 2012.

Robert Spangler loved hiking in the Grand Canyon. He also loved being married. What he didn't like was the pesky financial burden of divorce. After the 1990 death of his third wife Donna, whilst hiking in the Grand Canyon, investigators were alarmed to discover his wives often came to grizzly ends that were never anything to do with him. Or were they? In 1972 , unemployed plasterers Edwin Eastwood and Robert Boland decided to kidnap school children and their teacher from Faraday Primary School for ransom money. Was this a stupid idea? It certainly was. Would Edwin go ...

In October 1993, 52-year-old hardware store owner Gerald Boggs was found murdered in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado home. Suspicion soon fell on his former wife, Jill Coit, a con artist and serial bigamist who had been married nearly a dozen times. Investigators would reveal Gerald wasn't the first of her husbands to be murdered. Volatile Mitchell Sims, liked pizza but hated Domino's, where he worked. An argument with his manager would send him on a cross country revenge spree that would end in the deaths of three Domino's employees.

Diagnosed as acutely delusional and sadistic, rabbit-loving Sheila LaBarre murdered at least two of her boyfriends, Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie, on her remote farm in Epping, New Hampshire. She said she had died of a drug overdose and was sent back to Earth as an angel with special powers here to seek vengeance on pedophiles. The problem was that her victims were not pedophiles. She would seduce slightly built, transient men, move them into her house and completely dominate their lives. Then she would torture them into confessing to being pedophiles on tape, ...

In 1980, Jean Harris, the headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, made national headlines after the murder of her lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, a wealthy cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Scarsdale Diet. Mary Channing liked to party, which was a frowned upon in Dorchester, England in the early 1700s. After being forced into an arranged marriage by her parents, Mary would go to murderous lengths to be free again.

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In 2009, motivational speaker and self-help author Jeffrey Locker was stabbed to death in his car in East Harlem. What initially seemed to be a robbery gone wrong turned out to be something far more complicated. Dino "The Sunshine Boy" Dibra was a violent thug by the age of 12, jailed by 19, a ruthless multiple killer at 23 and murdered by 25. He was described by his family as having a heart of gold. But others saw him as murderer, stand over man, drug dealer and kidnapper who wreaked havoc with the likes of Melbourne underworld figures Andrew "Benji" Venimen, Mark ...

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