Episode 226 - When Mom is Away...

Coming in at over 3 AND A HALF HOURS, the Op is joined by the two Aussie creators, JB and Chris, hosts of the "True Crime Tradies" podcast. Together, they sift through one of the Op's biggest cases yet and engage in an AMA vs. AMA throughout the entire episode. It's one for the books!We hope you enjoy the show. Make sure you follow True Crime Tradies Podcast wherever you listen!Op and the Tradies examine the swatting case involving Tyler Barriss, in which an argument between online gamers traveled hundreds of miles before reaching the front door of a man in Wichita, Kansas, who had nothing to do with it.From California, Barriss made a 911 call describing a violent hostage situation at an address supplied to him by people he had never met. Police responded believing lives were in immediate danger. Inside the house was Andrew Finch, unaware of the online dispute—or why armed officers were suddenly outside his home.One phone call had turned something happening behind computer screens into something very real.When emergency services become the weapon, who actually pulled the trigger?Hugs ❤️Want to support the show? No way.

⚠️🚨Watch Episode 226 first 🚨⚠️This is a BONUS: uncut bodycam footage from the early morning hours at Krystal Rose Farmer's house.You aren't prepared enough for what you're about to experience.Enjoy?Hugs ❤️

Op examines the case of Krystal Rose Farmer and the February 2026 welfare check that brought Flint Township police to a home where two children with special needs had been left alone.The call came from a concerned neighbor. What officers encountered inside immediately changed the nature of the response: no adult, little accessible food, and living conditions that suggested the children had been surviving on their own for far longer than anyone should have allowed.As investigators worked to determine where their mother had been and how the situation reached this point, one neighbor’s decision to make a phone call became increasingly consequential.How bad does something have to become before the person next door decides it can no longer be ignored?Hugs ❤️Dont...

🚨⚠️THIS IS PART 02 OF A SPECIAL 2-PART EPISODE 🚨⚠️2 hours. The 2 hours before the shooting changed everything.In this two-part episode, Op examines the 2023 shooting inside Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old first grader brought a handgun to school and shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in her classroom.But the shooting was only the beginning of the story.What followed pulled investigators, prosecutors, school administrators, and the child’s family into separate legal battles over how the gun became accessible, what adults knew beforehand, and whether warnings inside the school were ignored. Those questions eventually moved from classrooms and police reports into criminal court and a civil trial.When the person who pulls the trigger is only six years old, where does responsibility actually begin? And how does this end?Hugs ❤️I can't think of a single way that you could support the show. Even if you wanted to...

THIS IS PART 01 OF A SPECIAL 2-PART EPISODE2 hours. The 2 hours before the shooting changed everything.In this two-part episode, Op examines the 2023 shooting inside Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old first grader brought a handgun to school and shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in her classroom.But the shooting was only the beginning of the story.What followed pulled investigators, prosecutors, school administrators, and the child’s family into separate legal battles over how the gun became accessible, what adults knew beforehand, and whether warnings inside the school were ignored. Those questions eventually moved from classrooms and police reports into criminal court and a civil trial.When the person who pulls the trigger is only six years old, where does responsibility actually begin? And how does this end?Hugs ❤️You can't support the show. Don't even try.

🚨⚠️Soak up Lasterday News episode "Runaway Jet" before this bonus content. It'll make a LOT more sense. ⚠️🚨There's no way that you can support me... 😏

⁠Blah Blah BlahOn this misfit episode of Lasterday News...Op examines the extraordinary case of Marine Corps Colonel Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo and an F-35B flight over South Carolina that suddenly became anything but routine.Descending through bad weather toward Joint Base Charleston, Del Pizzo encountered a rapid series of cockpit failures that left critical displays and communications unreliable. Seconds mattered. He made the decision every fighter pilot hopes never to make—and soon found himself descending beneath a parachute into a stranger’s backyard.But his 911 call introduced a considerably stranger problem.Del Pizzo was on the ground.His jet wasn’t.How does one of the most sophisticated aircraft ever built simply keep going without its pilot—and where exactly does it go?Hugs ❤️

🚨⚠️Make sure to gobble up episode 223 before soaking in the circus of this interrogation⚠️🚨In his remastered interrogation, two investigators get Brianna Roush and Nicholas Lee to lay it all out on how, where, and how-in-the-fricken-heck their two young children could have possibly consumed fentanyl.There are lies, darn lies, and statistics in this one.Can you tell their lies from the truth?Enjoy?Hugs ❤️

Op examines the case of Brianna Roush and Nicholas Lee, whose two young children became critically ill after being exposed to fentanyl inside the family’s Circleville, Ohio, apartment.One child survived. Their 20-month-old son did not.As police began working backward from the hospital, the focus quickly shifted to what had been happening inside the home—and how something capable of killing in such a tiny amount had come within reach of two children. The answers would force investigators to look closely at the environment Roush and Lee had created around their family.When danger becomes part of everyday life, how long before the people least able to understand it pay the price?Hugs ❤️Support my research and writing + get ad-free episodes on Patreon.

Make sure to catch the uncut interrogation bonus episode after gobbling this episode up. I uploaded it before this episode, so go back in time to find it 😎Op examines the 2009 death of Jeremy Simko, who was found shot in his bed inside the rural Ohio home he shared with his wife, Julene.Julene’s frantic 911 call described an intruder, unexplained noises in the house, and the desperate discovery of her husband. But the Simkos lived behind layers of security, with dogs positioned around the property and firearms close at hand. The scene presented investigators with a basic problem: if someone had entered that house, how had they done it without leaving a clearer path behind them?Years would pass before authorities believed they finally understood what happened inside the Simko home that morning.When a house is built to keep danger out, what happens when the danger is already inside?Hugs ❤️