165. The Eyes Have It: Charles Albright

We are venturing to the college town of College Station, Texas home of Texas A&M.They like simple things like studying, partying and football. They also like getting to meet new people who share similar interests, especially if that interest is Aggie Football. Kerry Kujawa is a 20-year-old engineering major at the university and just like a lot of other students, he has a 21-year-old girlfriend name, Kelly McCauley. They were just like any other college student couple: cute, carefree, and working hard to get grades and graduate while having a little fun in between. They were, however, unlike most couples in one aspect: the two had never actually met. They haven’t even talked on the phone. They had only communicated in the chat room. Kerry had asked over and over to meet up with Kelly but the timing just didn’t seem to work out. It seems Kelly was not being completely honest with Kerry. What could have been a deceitful lie turned into murder. Join Jen and Cam as we discuss The Pretender: Kenny Wayne Lockwood on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast.Today’s promo is by our friend at @PodcastRiddleOur listener discretion is by the incredible Edward October from @octoberpodVHS.Our music, as well as our executive producer, is the remarkable Nico @wetalkofdreams.Sources:https://texags.com/forums/12/topics/250410https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyberdating-site-unseen/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/news-of-the-weird/Content?oid=904400https://www.irishtimes.com/news/when-the-net-closes-in-1.282385https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4012856/https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/04/28/Murder-suspect-allegedly-used-Internet/4685956894400/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30641997.pdfhttps://www.bailbondshq.com/texas/hays-inmate-Lockwood/20001540https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/texas/sanmarcos-jail/Lockwood_Kenny/20001540 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Jan 202141min

Well, it the very final episode of 2020 and day 12 of our Nightmare Before Christmas series. So far we have traveled back in time and to other countries, like the UK, Australia, and Japan. In this last episode, we are going into our own backyard. A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter opens an anonymous letter sent to him from someone praising him for a recent story he wrote about a murdered sex worker. However, this was not the normal fan mail as it included a map with an ‘X’ pointing to where the next dead sex worker would be found dead. Authorities go to the site in West Alton unsure of what they would find. Sadly, ‘X’ did mark the spot but this was just the beginning of a sadistic serial killer who wouldn’t stop until he made a mistake on his home computer.****edit*** A man by the name of Donald Younge Jr was charged with the murders of 3 of the women found in East St Louis in garbage bags. There names are Seriece Johnson, 33; Ramona Sidney, 31, and Tracy Williams, 38. Younge was stabbed and killed in prison before he could be tried. Jen and Cam would like to thank our very own wise men: Edward October from @octoberpodVHS who does our listener discretion and Nico @wetalkofdreams who does our music and produces us. Love to you both for helping us put another year in the books.Sources:https://www.newspapers.com/image/141225425/https://www.newspapers.com/image/141225498/https://www.newspapers.com/image/142073343/?terms=maury%20travis%20video%20tapes&match=1https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/from-the-archives-st-louis-serial-killer-victims-were-less-than-human-to-him-police/article_6d10868c-b3ef-5e32-81ab-bd450eb85268.amp.htmlhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-found-serial-killer-lived-home-watching-tv/story?id=24467447https://www.vice.com/en/article/znwq79/this-lady-signed-a-lease-she-found-out-she-was-stuck-in-a-murder-house-709https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2019-04-26/was-a-serial-killer-responsible-for-the-murder-of-six-women-in-east-st-louis-this-expert-thinks-sohttps://www.newspapers.com/image/142839867/https://www.newspapers.com/image/142825821/?terms=mary%20shields&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/142825907/https://www.newspapers.com/image/142858026/?terms=teresa%20wilson&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/142858029https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095694/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Dec 20201h

Health care workers are angels walking on this earth. In the last nine months, these angels have been pulling double duty saving the lives of our loved ones and caring for them when they are sick all while trying to take care of themselves. They often hold life and death in their hands and work so hard to save lives. That is what they do...most of them ...but not all. In 1992, there was a nurse in Texas who would prey on the helpless and most innocent of all: babies. Join Jen and Cam on Day 11 of the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas as we discuss ‘On the Death Ward: Genene Jones.’Our holiday listener discretion is by the very ornamental @octoberpodVHS. Edward is the present we never knew we needed. All of our music is by the never naughty Nico @wetalkofdreams. This awesome little bell is also our executive producer. Jen and Cam wish you a very merry holiday season. Love ya, Cam and JenSources:https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-baby-killer-pleads-guilty-to-a-new-murderhttps://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-death-shift-2/https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Child-killer-Genene-Jones-is-expected-to-take-a-14977763.phphttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/Genene-serial-baby-killer-early-release_n_828023.htmlhttp://www.thecrimemag.com/explaining-wicked-phenomenon-angels-death/http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/us/texas-nurse-baby-death-indictment/index.htmlhttps://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Killer-nurse-Genene-Jones-sentenced-to-life-14980862.phphttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/17/texas-killer-nurse-genene-jones-guilty-infant-death/4499258002/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/26/angel-of-death-nurse-charged-with-killing-another-baby-suspected-in-up-to-60-other-slayings/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/us/texas-nurse-children.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Dec 202048min

On the 10th day of the 12 Nightmare Before Christmas series, Cam and Jen talk about Clifford Bartholomew.Clifford Bartholomew lived until the ripe old age of 72 and had lived a wonderful life with his wife of twenty-two years and his seven adopted children. When the beloved father and grandfather died, the family knew they would miss him terribly and things would never be the same. What they did not yet know, was the man they loved had a secret and that secret was that he was responsible for one of the worst incidences of a mass family killing in Australia.Sources:A huge Thank You to Alan Sharpe. His book was used as my top research for this episodeCrime and Punishment; 50 Crimes that Shocked Australia by Alan Sharpehttps://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13991047612&searchurl=an%3Dalan%2Bsharpe%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dcrime%2Bpunishment%2Bcrimes%2Bshocked&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5775957/The-secret-life-one-Australias-worst-mass-murderers.htmlhttps://www.thatslife.com.au/cliff-palmer-family-secrethttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19710907&id=srVSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fH8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5789,1358515&hl=dehttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19710904&id=eJdhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WFIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=945,4083367https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bvdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-eQDAAAAIBAJ&dq=bartholomew%20killed&hl=de&pg=2879%2C8642186https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G8NUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u5ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6660%2C1444966https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5775957/The-secret-life-one-Australias-worst-mass-murderers.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Dec 202035min

Day Nine and we are taking a plane flight to Zama City, Japan which is a suburb of Toyko and also home to the United States' Camp Zama Army base. The story begins with two investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department's Personal Safety-related Case Comprehensive Countermeasures Headquarters and Takao Station. This unit, which usuallt dealt with stalking, had a much different case on this day in October of 2017. A report had been made about a missing woman who was supposed to met a man she had been speaking to on Twitter and had not been seen since departing to meet him. Police approach the apartment, and, after a knock on the door, a young man answered. When asked if he knew where the missing woman may be, he replied that he did not know. An astute investigator looked beyond the man and noticed a woman’s purse in his apartment. The investigators didn’t have to pressure him for long about the whereabouts of the missing 23 year old. Minutes later he calmly pointed to a freezer and simply said, ‘in there.” What the investigators could not yet know what just how many bodies they would soon discover. Join Jen and Cam on day 9 of Our True Crime Podcast’s the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas as we discuss ‘Twitter Killer: Takahiro Shiraishi.’That snappy holiday jingle that warns you not to listen if you have a weak heart, that is our very own reindeer Edward October from @octoberpodVHS.All music is from St. Nico of @wetalkofdreams. He is such a saint to deal with us, we made him our executive producer too. Sources: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946625736/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death-in-killing-of-9https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-deathhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/national/crime-legal/zama-mass-murder-suspect-says-interviews-nine-victims-objects-desire/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/national/crime-legal/zama-mass-murder-suspect-says-interviews-nine-victims-objects-desire/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-the-mind-of-a-serial-killerhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54366806https://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/181028/afr1810280015-n1.htmlhttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-japan-s-suspected-serial-killer-went-from-quiet-child-to-sex-trade-scouthttps://www.firstpost.com/world/japans-takahiro-shiraishi-dubbed-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death-for-dismembering-nine-people-9113991.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/world/asia/japan-serial-killer-takahiro-shiraishi.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Dec 202035min

On August 17, 1991, 33-year-old Wade Frankum wakes for the day. He gets dressed in casual clothes with a beanie on his head and a duffle bag in his hand. Frankum went to the train station to buy a ticket to Strathfield but gave the rail worker, whom he knew, a strange command: "you'd better go home." Frankum then walked away to catch the train to Strathmore, after all, Frankum was on a mission of murder. What would happen later this day would leave a trail of victims and a hero who would rise to the top. Join Jen and Cam on day 8 of the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas as we discuss 'The Strathfield Massacre: Wade Frankum' on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast. Holly Jolly Edward October from @octoberpodVHS does our listener discretion.Noel Nico @wetalkofdreams does all our music and also is our executive producer. Sources:A huge Thank You to Alan Sharpe. His book was used as my top research for this episodeCrime and Punishment: 50 Crimes that Shocked Australia by Alan Sharpehttps://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13991047612&searchurl=an%3Dalan%2Bsharpe%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dcrime%2Bpunishment%2Bcrimes%2Bshocked&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/crime/display/108075-strathfield-massacre-memorialhttps://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/12/6/365http://www.global-logic.net/issue.htmhttps://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/frankum-wade.htmhttps://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/reliving-an-australian-massacre-only-a-few-people-seem-to-remember/news-story/646bc84c1c317654209d116eb7664ba7https://www.9news.com.au/national/sex-worker-sydney-news-adapts-changing-world-of-oldest-profession/6819e8e6-37af-4bb2-b562-e1a52d8388a1https://web.archive.org/web/20080216044406/https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/28/ch4.pdfhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthurhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryanthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathfield_massacre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Dec 202034min

On August 19 in 1979 Edda Kane went for a hike in a scenic park that overlooked the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Usually Edda would enjoy these hikes with a friend or two but on this particular day, no one wanted to go with her. When Edda did not return home at the time she was expected, her husband called police. Worried that perhaps she fell and hurt herself, the police put together a search team but sadly, they could not locate her. Her body was found the next day, she had been murdered. What authorities did not yet know was this vicious predator was just getting started his stalking in California’s parks. Join Jen and Cam on Day 7 of the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas as we discuss ‘Trailside Killer: David Carpenter’ on this Our True Crime Podcast. Listener Discretion is by our favorite Frosty the Snowman Edward Octoberpod from @octoberpodVHS.Our music is from our bestest snowman ever Nico @wetalkofdreams. Nico also executive produces the podcast.Sources:Graysmith, Robert (April 3, 1991), The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate, Onyx, ISBN 978-0451402554http://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/4th/21/1016.htmlhttp://travel.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/travel/echoes-of-the-savage-and-sublime-on-mount-tamalpais.htmlhttps://www.aetv.com/real-crime/david-carpenter-serial-killer-trailside-killer-californiahttp://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/david_carpenter/12.htmlhttps://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carpenter-david-joseph.htmhttps://listverse.com/2019/08/06/10-awful-facts-about-the-trailside-killer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Dec 20201h 9min

On the 6th day of the 12 Nightmares Before Christmas series, Cam and Jen talk about Leo Held.Massacres in the workplace have become all too familiar in today’s society, but crimes like these were fairly unheard of in 1967. Sadly that would change one chilly fall morning when Leo Held woke up, got ready for work, kissed his wife goodbye, dropped his children off at school, and then went to his workplace where he unleashed a rampage. The slaughter would not end there as he was not done killing. After all, he was still upset with a few people.Join Can and Jen as we discuss In a Fit of Rage: Leo HeldListener discretion by the supremely talented Edward October of OctoberpodVHSmake sure to check him out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQk-oAsjZNG18y8bX24c6wAll music, editing, and sound are done by the multitalented and super handsome Nico Vetesse.https://wetalkofdreams.com/Sources:SourcesBig thanks to Don Sarvey. He wrote the book Day of Rage: Model citizen turns cold-blooded killer in a Pennsylvania small town.He compiled all the news articles from that horrible day and then interviewed many of the survivors in 2011. Most of the quotes I’ve used today were taken from his hard work, Blood sweat and tears go into writing a book and I want to get sure he gets all the credit.Day of Rage: Model Citizen Turns Cold-Blooded Killer in a Pennsylvania Small Town Don Sarveyhttps://www.amazon.com/s?k=Day+of+Rage%3A+Model+Citizen+Turns+Cold-Blooded+Killer+in+a+Pennsylvania+Small+Town+Kindle+Edition&i=digital-text&ref=nb_sb_nosshttps://www.lockhaven.com/news/community/2017/10/the-fury-of-leo-held/https://www.uslawbooks.com/news/held.htmhttps://www.uslawbooks.com/news/held.htmhttps://www.wnep.com/amp/article/news/local/clinton-county/50-years-since-mass-shooting-in-clinton-county/523-3e5ba9cb-8dd2-41f9-bf52-c9e0f0e395cfhttps://apnews.com/article/90117a56d5b861313b6721c3c25d42a5https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/active-shooter-used-to-refer-to-sportsmen-now-you-cringe-when-you-hear-it/2017/06/16/f281209c-5216-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.htmlhttps://www.lockhaven.com/news/community/2017/10/the-fury-of-leo-held/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Dec 202037min