#231 The Villisca Ax Murders

O.J. Simpson was a former NFL football player and convicted armed robber and kidnapper known for being acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. ...duh, gah! do you even True Crime? This episode brought to you by: Songfinch.com/creeper True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   sources: http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/suspect/bio/index.html   https://apnews.com/article/oj-simpson-things-to-remember-559b420b8a0e4b0889b0c1af08f4ce8d   https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/us/o-j-simpson-fast-facts/index.html     Overview: https://www.britannica.com/biography/O-J-Simpson   http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/suspect/childhood.years/index.html   https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/o-j-simpson-through-the-years-his-life-and-controversies/     Early Life / Career highlights:    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-football-career-highlights/73290477007/   https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2722754-oj-simpsons-complicated-buffalo-bills-legacy   https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-19-sp-793-story.html   https://medium.com/@anne_branigin/oj-simpson-made-in-america-the-stains-that-wont-out-3e61a261ac7f       Tonight show appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1JWngZGudg   https://web.archive.org/web/20130224041605/http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016472.html   https://books.google.com/books?id=SEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA72-IA6#v=onepage&q&f=false

On April 2, 1990, 23-year-old Mariko Iguchi, a fourth-year college student, decided to take a vacation to Taiwan, where her Taxi driver took more than a liking to her. Her brutal murder has been the subject of many movies and books, and the haunting afterwards...well that's a whole other story.   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com

In this Weeks Headlines & Shenanigans, we talked about the accusations around P-Diddy and his alleged affiliation with human trafficking and then on a much lighter note, we talk about the 30 million dollar Easter heist, in which the criminals are still at large!    True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com  

In February 2021, teenager Brian Cohee attacked, murdered and dismembered 69-year-old Warren Barnes, a homeless man who was sleeping under a bridge in Grand Junction, Colorado.   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com     Sources:   When Parents Discover Teen Son's Horrifying Secret | Brian Cohee Confession   Parents Discover Teen Son's Horrifying Secret   Brian Cohee ENHANCED AUDIO   https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/moment-us-police-arrest-teen-who-hid-head-of-homeless-man-he-murdered-in-closet-5353873   https://www.westernslopenow.com/news/the-people-v-brian-cohee-sentencing-hearing/   https://www.comingsoon.net/true-crime/news/1623617-who-is-brian-cohee-and-what-did-he-do

Way back in 1849 Bermondsey, London, a Swiss-French woman named Maria Manning and her husband Frederick, murdered her wealthy lover, Patrick O’connor, robbed him, then hid his body under their kitchen floor. Oh, then Maria double crosses her husband and dips with the money. It's a crazy love triangle that just went bad at every corner….   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Book: Chrisp's True Crime Miscellany https://u.osu.edu/kneffler2research/2019/06/15/the-bermondsey-horror/   The Bermondsey Horror - Murder Maps S01E01 - True Crime   https://alexabaczak.medium.com/the-bermondsey-horror-of-1849-maria-and-frederick-manning-e20ef645a9c6   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+bermondsey+horror   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcHXgDYQa70   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAgI7QTEtM

Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer, AKA the "Candy Man", he and two accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, tortured and killed at least 28 boys spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, were considered the worst example of serial murder in American history, at that time.   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Sources:   https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/corll/man_3.html   https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/corll-dean.htm   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll#:~:text=of%20his%20death.-,Murders,neighborhood%20northwest%20of%20downtown%20Houston.   https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Dean_Corll   https://allthatsinteresting.com/dean-corll-candy-man-killer   https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/candy-man-killer-dean-corll-085614977.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKDD_c03dsSASFC0B5-YS7Hz7lrDzXCus8KU0O-1kKDwX6EVvPtJx2Igam8Kcj7wVw7yAGFV4EHkOKg3vWwMP_fFMNxD2Dj26Z0hU2LAd7KgHTbrXuhoOMW7uss8XDkdzm8FxPUM2wAoneAXrUAo-TkMcGFGfLJLTP-6jRwxoRn-   https://www.ranker.com/list/what-dean-corll-did/jacob-shelton   https://www.thoughtco.com/dean-corll-and-the-houston-mass-murders-973163

We finally know for sure who murdered Jam Master Jay 20 years ago, and we also know what will happen if you promise people a Willy Wonka Experience at $44 a ticket, only to have guests show up at a warehouse with cardboard popups and candy corn...its not gonna end well, but it sure is funny!   Links referenced in episode: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/glasgow-willy-wonka-experience-slammed-as-farce-as-tickets-refunded   https://willyschocolateexperience.com/index.html   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com  

On the evening of March 24 2014, police responded to a call about a shooting at a residence in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. Little did they know they were walking into the home of a family so obsessed with zombies that they were actually preparing for the zombie apocalypse! What police found inside the house was more horrific and bizarre than anyone could have ever imagined, and people imagined they were paranoid Zombie hunters…so…brace yourself. We also cover the tragic disappearance of a 4 year old girl, who was found in a dumpster near her home! Sequoia Samuels.   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com      

It was November 2012, and Brooklyn, New York was on edge, as three local shopkeepers were murdered over the course of five months. The killer was a 64-year-old traveling salesman named Salvatore Perrone. Perrone was eventually arrested and convicted for these brutal crimes, and would later be dubbed the “Son of Sal” by media outlets. But…why tho?   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   sources: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/serial-killers-245006/episodes/son-of-sal-salvatore-perrone-176275958   https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/perrone-salvatore.htm   https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppx4qg/how-an-aspiring-new-york-fashion-mogul-became-a-serial-killer   https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/nyregion/man-convicted-of-killing-3-brooklyn-merchants-in-2012.html   https://mindhunter.org/portrait-of-a-predator-serial-killer-salvatore-perrone-3dae6a690054?gi=af44b5ece8ba  

Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or persons entered a home in Villisca, Iowa, and bludgeoned to death eight people sleeping there, including two adults and six children aged 5 through 12. (Violence towards children warning) The killings became known as the “Villisca Axe Murders,” and are easily the most notorious murders in Iowa history. The murders spawned nearly ten years of investigations, repeated jury hearings, a slander suit and murder trial, and numerous other litigations and trials. This crime made and broke political careers. Did we mention its unsolved?   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources:   https://www.annmarieackermann.com/german-ax-murderer-in-america/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders   https://medium.com/mel-magazine/the-father-daughter-duo-who-found-the-truth-behind-a-string-of-century-old-murders-8f4725322e01   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ax-murderer-who-got-away-117037374/   https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/12/08/villisca-axe-murders-iowa-bill-james-rachel-mccarthy-james-paul-mueller-man-train-book/934910001/   The Villisca Ax Murders | That Chapter Podcast   Beth H. Klingensmith. “The 1910s Ax Murders: An Overview of the McClaughry Theory.” Emporia State University Research Seminar, July 2006; Nick Kowalczyk. “Blood, Gore, Tourism: The Ax Murderer Who Saved a Small Town.” Salon.com, April 29, 2012; Roy Marshall. Villisca: The True Account of the Unsolved Mass Murder That Stunned The Nation. Chula Vista : Aventine Press, 2003; Omaha World-Herald, June 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1912; December 27, 1913; June 10, 2012.