The Abduction of Frank Sinatra Jr. | MURDERISH Ep. 069

We’re bringing back a very special episode featuring none other than True Crime Legend, Josh Mankiewicz of Dateline NBC. My good friend, Kari Martin of White Wine True Crime podcast, and I got together with Manks and recorded this episode. We talked about murder, relationships, Dateline episodes, Scott Peterson, childhood …and Eminem even came up during our convo. At the end of the episode, you’re going to hear a little ditty that Kari and I wrote and performed for Josh. Once this episode airs, any dignity and self-respect Kari and I had will have been flushed down the toilet. But I have to say, it was welllllll worth it.  Sponsor: NomNom - For 50% off your no-risk two-week trial head to trynom.com/murderish Let’s get social: Follow MURDERISH on Instagram & TikTok @MurderishPodcast. We’re also on Facebook. Visit murderish.com to learn more about Jami and the podcast. You can also buy merch & sign up to become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic Patreon member and get access to exclusive perks.  Listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer, it just means you’re murder …ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Joulu 20221h 19min

Kelsey Turner was the kind of woman who drew people in without trying. Her bleach-blonde hair and hourglass figure made her a natural model. In a sea of beautiful California women, though, modeling gigs weren’t plentiful enough to support her expensive tastes. Like many young women nowadays, she turned to online sites to sell amateur photos.  By doing so, Kelsey caught the attention of many admirers. Among them was prominent psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Burchard. Despite pushing 70, he was infatuated with 25-year-old Kelsey and offered her ample financial perks to keep her happy.  But the doctor’s attraction for Kelsey began to seriously cloud his judgment. It turned out his giving, sympathetic nature only made him more vulnerable to dangerous predators. Ultimately, that vulnerability led to the doctor’s demise.   Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member and get access to bonus episodes, ad-free episodes and many other exclusive perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up. Visit Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.  Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, and Facebook.  Sponsors -  Wondery: Listen to the Amazon Music exclusive podcast, COLD, in the Amazon Music App.  BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/MURDERISH and get 10% off your first month. Rocket Money: Visit RocketMoney.com/murderish to cancel unwanted subscriptions & save money. MasterClass: Visit MasterClass.com/murderish for an annual membership PLUS get one free. Shopify: Visit shopify.com/murderish (all lowercase) for a free trial & to start selling online today. Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092 Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram & TikTok @DirtyMoneyMoves.  Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH or Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.  Research & Writing: Alison Schwartz. Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Joulu 202241min

We’re bringing back to the surface some of our favorite episodes of MURDERISH, beginning with the one that started it all. Jami was 18 years old and about to graduate from high school, when an innocent trip to the grocery store turned into a night she would never forget. She came home to find a stranger in her bedroom. Timing was everything that night. This story will make the hair on your arms stand up!  Let’s get social: Follow MURDERISH on Instagram & TikTok @MurderishPodcast. We’re also on Facebook. Visit murderish.com to learn more about Jami and the podcast. You can also buy merch & sign up to become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic Patreon member and get access to exclusive perks.  Listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer, it just means you’re murder …ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Joulu 202233min

Clothing brand Von Dutch defined mid-2000s style, capping every celebrity they could with their signature trucker hats and motorcycle culture prints. But behind the low-rise flaming eyeballs and perfect pinstripes, disputes about ownership and management kept co-founder Bobby Vaughn on edge. In February of 2005, a homicide was linked to Bobby sending Von Dutch into a downward spiral and the victim’s family on a quest for justice. The victim turned out to be Bobby’s best friend and business partner, Mark Rivas. Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member and get access to bonus episodes, ad-free episodes and many other exclusive perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up.   Visit Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.   Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, and Facebook.   Sponsors:   BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/MURDERISH and get 10% off your first month. Function of Beauty: Visit FunctionofBeauty.com/MURDERISH to save 20% off your first order. Stamps: Visit Stamps.com, click the microphone at the top of the page & enter code MURDERISH. Everlywell: Visit Everlywell.com/murderish for 20% off of an at-home lab test. FirstLeaf: Visit FirstLeaf.com/murderish to get your first 6 bottles for $39.95 plus free shipping.   Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092   Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram & TikTok @DirtyMoneyMoves.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH or Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.   Sound design: Justin Hellstrom.   Music: Some of the music featured in this podcast was composed by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.   Research & Writing: Melanie Griffin.   Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Joulu 202250min

What would you be willing to do for your best friend? Tell a lie? Keep their darkest secret? Commit a crime? What if your best friend asked you to take their life? What would you do then?   Trevor Bartlett and Mario Mills were best friends. On cold Wyoming nights, the pair would escape to Mills’ garage to drink, smoke and play cards until they could barely stand. Most times, the worst damage was some vomit and a splitting hangover. But on the evening of March 25, 2020, the result was far different. An early morning 911 call drew police to the nondescript home in a quiet residential neighborhood. Inside the garage cops found 37-year-old Trevor Bartlett, a loving father and loyal friend, shot through the head, dead on the cold concrete floor.   Was it a suicide? Murder? Or something else?   Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member and get access to bonus episodes, ad-free episodes and many other exclusive perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up.   Visit Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.   Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, and Facebook.   Sponsors: BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/MURDERISH and get 10% off your first month. MasterClass: Visit MasterClass.com/MURDERISH to give one annual membership and get one free. Rocket Money: Visit RocketMoney.com/murderish - it could save you hundreds per year. Everlywell: Visit Everlywell.com/murderish for 20% off of an at-home lab test. Shopify: Visit Shopify.com/murderish (all lowercase) to sign up for a free trial and start selling today.   Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092   Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram & TikTok @DirtyMoneyMoves.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH or Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.   Sound design: Justin Hellstrom.   Music: Some of the music featured in this podcast was composed by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.   Research & Writing: K. Brant.   Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Marras 202248min

When a 25 year old Jessica McCormack and her three young daughters disappeared suddenly in July of 2019, Jessica’s closest friends thought she was taking time away to decompress. They had conversations with her on Facebook while she was gone, but it soon became clear that the person on Facebook was just an imposter who’d hacked into Jessica’s account. Several weeks later, Jessica’s body was found on a highway in the Ozarks after apparently falling out of a suitcase that she’d been stuffed into. The shocking discovery prompted a search for Jessica’s three daughters. This would mark the beginning of an ongoing fight to find answers: who killed Jessica McCormack?   To report information regarding the murder of Jessica McCormack, please contact the McDonald County Sheriff’s Office at (417) 223-4319, or try calling the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI. To contribute to Jessica’s GoFundMe, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/JUSTICEFORJESSICAMCCORMACK?qid=e56944f9e6e128883db7ab671be0e9ff.   Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member and get access to Patreon-only episodes, ad-free episodes and many other great perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up.   Check out Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.   Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, and Facebook.   BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/MURDERISH and get 10% off your first month. Function of Beauty: Visit FunctionofBeauty.com/MURDERISH for 20% off your first order. Stamps.com: Visit Stamps.com, click the microphone at the top of the page, and enter code MURDERISH for a 4-week trial, plus free postage, and a free digital scale. Firstleaf: Visit TryFirstleaf.com/MURDERISH to get your first 6 bottles for $39.95 plus free shipping. Ethos: Visit EthosLife.com/MURDERISH to get your FREE life insurance quote today.   Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! New episodes drop every Thursday. Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092   Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram, TikTok & Twitter @DirtyMoneyMoves.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.   Sound design: Justin Hellstrom.   Music: Some of the music featured in this podcast was composed by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.   Research & Writing: Gina Mazzolini.   Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Marras 202250min

When heading out to run errands, you fully expect to make it home safely. In June of 2007, 18-year-old Kelsey Smith went to the store, but she never made it home. No one could’ve predicted that less than two weeks after high school graduation, Kelsey’s life would come to a violent end. Outside a Target store less than 10 minutes from her childhood home, Kelsey was forced into her car and abducted. As Johnson County detectives frantically searched for the missing teen, the community struggled to understand how something like this could’ve happened in broad daylight.   The Kelsey Smith Foundation: KelseysArmy.org   Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member. Members can get access to exclusive, ad-free episodes & many other great perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up.   Check out Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.   Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, @MurderishPod on Twitter, search “Murderish podcast” on Facebook.   Advertisers:   Function of Beauty: Visit FunctionofBeauty.com/MURDERISH for 20% off your first order. Rocket Money: Visit RocketMoney.com/murderish …it could save you hundreds of dollars per year. Firstleaf: Visit TryFirstleaf.com/MURDERISH to get your first 6 bottles for $39.95 plus free shipping. Shopify: Visit Shopify.com/murderish (all lowercase) for a free trial and to start selling online today.   Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! New episodes drop every Thursday. Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092   Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram, TikTok & Twitter @DirtyMoneyMoves.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.   Sound design: Justin Hellstrom.   Music: Some of the music featured in this podcast was composed by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.   Research & Writing: Alison Schwartz.   Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Loka 202242min

Entering the spring of 1986, Margo McKee’s story could’ve been ripped from a Hallmark movie. Despite losing her mother and father to cancer when she was 12, she’d blossomed into a straight-A student who attended church and volunteered around town. Her foster parents, Ross and Wyona Sterling, were satisfied they’d delivered on the promise they made to Margo’s dying parents five years earlier ..that they would raise the brown-eyed girl as their own. But by summer’s end, Margo would be dead ..her beaten and battered body buried in a shallow grave beneath a foot of sand, driftwood and dirt. Gone, too, was the baby inside her womb. How does such a promising young life take such a dramatic and dark turn?   Become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic member. Members can get access to exclusive, ad-free episodes & many other great perks. Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to sign up.   Check out Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami.   Follow us @MurderishPodcast on Instagram & TikTok, @MurderishPod on Twitter, search “Murderish podcast” on Facebook.   Advertisers:   Stamps.com: Visit Stamps.com, click the microphone at the top of the page, and enter code MURDERISH for a 4-week trial, free postage and a digital scale.   Ethos: Visit EthosLife.com/MURDERISH to get a free personalized life insurance quote today.   Subscribe to Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime in your favorite podcast app! New episodes drop every Thursday. Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092   Follow Dirty Money Moves on Instagram, TikTok & Twitter @DirtyMoneyMoves.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 | iHeartRadio to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, send an email to Sahiba Krieger mailto:sahiba@cloud10.fm with a copy to mailto:jami@murderish.com.   Sound design: Justin Hellstrom.   Music: Some of the music featured in this podcast was composed by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.   Research & Writing: K. Brant.   Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer - it just means you’re murder...ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Loka 202241min