Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at over 90 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic and his friend Davion, who was along for the ride and had nothing to do with any of it. We'll walk through the relationship between Mackenzie and Dominic, the prior incidents people around them quietly noted, and the investigation that eventually reclassified the deaths as homicides and landed Mackenzie in front of a judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as wrap up our series on Kenneth McDuff! Last week we covered the Broomstick Murders and the series of decisions that put him back on the street in 1989. Tonight we follow what happened next. We'll walk through the early 1990s killing spree that included the abduction of Melissa Northrup from a Waco convenience store and the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash, the investigators who refused to let the cases go cold, and how a fugitive warrant and an appearance on America's Most Wanted finally brought McDuff down working as a garbage truck driver in Kansas City. Then we'll cover the trials, the 1998 execution, and the legislative fallout that followed — because the McDuff case didn't just end with a lethal injection. It blew up the Texas parole system and changed the way the state handles violent offenders to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, after 51 years, Utah County authorities have officially closed the book on the 1974 Halloween night murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, with DNA technology finally confirming what Ted Bundy confessed to before his execution but never got charged for. Then, a massive update in the Texas Killing Fields: prime suspect Clyde Hedrick died by suicide in a Houston hospital on March 21st by removing his own breathing tube, just days before prosecutors were set to seek four murder indictments against him, and his longtime friend James Elmore has since been indicted for his alleged role in the deaths of Laura Miller and Audrey Cook. And finally, we lost Nick Pope on April 6th, the former UK Ministry of Defence official who ran Britain's government UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and spent the decades after that pushing UAP disclosure into the mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our Kenneth McDuff series by going back to the beginning! We'll cover McDuff's early life in Rosebud, Texas, the family dynamics that shaped him, and his juvenile record that should have been a flashing warning sign for anyone paying attention. Then we'll follow him into adulthood and walk through the night of August 6th, 1966 — when Kenneth and accomplice Roy Dale Green abducted three teenagers from a car wash outside of Everman, killed the two boys, and murdered sixteen-year-old Edna Sullivan in a field. We'll cover the investigation, the arrest, and how McDuff ended up on death row in Huntsville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll get into a string of recent sightings in the northeastern part of Ohio. Then, Afroman took the cops who raided his house to court after they sued him for putting raid footage in his music videos, and he won - we'll get into how and why. And finally, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland - the former commander of the research lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a man named in Tom DeLonge's leaked emails as a key advisor on UAP disclosure, who walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27th and hasn't been seen since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a single person — and we'll get into why that appears to have been entirely by design. What makes this case genuinely fascinating is how it ended: not through detective work, but through a criminal psychologist named James Brussel who studied the case files and produced a profile so precise it named the suspect's suit style. We'll break down how a workplace grudge against Consolidated Edison curdled into a sixteen-year obsession, how the newspapers that spent years mocking the police ultimately handed them their man, and how Brussel's work on this case laid the foundation for modern criminal profiling as we know it today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the case of Lisl Auman — the only person in Colorado history convicted of murder while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car. In 1997, a 21-year-old woman brought some guys along to retrieve her stuff from an ex-boyfriend's place in the mountains. What followed was a high-speed chase, a standoff at a Denver apartment complex, and the shooting death of Officer Bruce VanderJagt — a murder committed by her associate Matthaeus Jaehnig, who then turned the gun on himself. Lisl never fired a shot. She was already under arrest when it happened. She got life without parole anyway. We'll break down the felony murder rule that made it possible, the two cops who suspiciously revised their reports two days after the fact using nearly identical language, and how a dying Hunter S. Thompson threw the full weight of his gonzo legacy behind getting her out — rallying everyone from Warren Zevon to Johnny Depp to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers along the way. It took eight years, but the Colorado Supreme Court finally agreed something had gone very wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the folklore of Trinidad! We're diving into six figures from one of the most culturally mixed islands in the Caribbean — the Soucouyant, a skin-shedding vampire who flies through the night as a ball of fire; the Douens, faceless spirits of unbaptized children with backwards feet; La Diablesse, a beautiful woman with a cow's hoof hidden under her dress who lures men into the forest; Gang Gang Sara, a woman who flew across the Atlantic from Africa and lost her power; the Duppy Baby, a roadside spirit that grows heavier the longer you hold it; and the silk cotton tree that connects all of them. West African tradition, French Catholic structure, and centuries of survival all compressed into the stories people in Trinidad still tell their kids today. https://www.necrnomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice — by the same man — while her parents stood by and did nothing. In this episode of Necronomipod, we cover the true crime case behind the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight: how Robert Berchtold groomed Jan Broberg over years, manipulated her entire family, and carried out not one but two abductions. We break down how Berchtold gained the family's trust, the psychological manipulation and control he built over Jan, how the first kidnapping unfolded, and how he managed to insert himself back into their lives for a second abduction. We also cover the FBI investigation, the eventual reckoning, and where Jan Broberg is today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we get into the disappearance and murder of Misty Morse! We’ll go through Misty’s last known movements, the search, and how investigators focused on her boyfriend, Brent Huck - including the key evidence and the details that prosecutors said tied him to the case. Then we get into the trial, the defense arguments, and how the verdict landed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices