Stay ConnectedBeyond the Rainbow Podcast a.k.a. Rainbow Crimes is a show about crimes committed by and against the LGBTQ plus community. Join host C.J. for an array of true crime stories from all over the world, especially lesser known cases. Remember, it’s not a crime to be gay…unless you’re a murderer…
.
Copyright: ℗ & © 2019 Beyond The Rainbow - True Crimes of the LGBT
In Denton, Texas 2008, a gay man named Richard Hernandez would disappear from his apartment. When police showed up for a welfare check to his apartment, they were horrified to see all the blood on the floor, walls and couch. But there was no body. Where was Richard?
Our True Crime Quickie is from South Africa. The Grindr Gang 7.
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Promo for Love & Murder
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth239193/m1/6/
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth239193/m1/14/
https://dallasvoice.com/gay-dallas-man-murdered-dismembered/
https://dallasvoice.com/trial-set-gay-mans-2008-murder/
https://dallasvoice.com/gay-murder-victim-richard-hernandezs-friend-launch-website-documenting-delay-justice/
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/seth-winder-letter-to-judge-allegedly-dismembered-lover-is-still-alive-7139954/
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/breaking-mistrial-just-declared-in-trial-of-colony-man-accused-of-murdering-his-lover-7131015/
https://www.mambaonline.com/2026/02/04/joburg-grindr-gang-trial-lead-investigator-details-arrests-and-rescue-of-victim/
https://www.mambaonline.com/2026/02/10/johannesburg-grindr-gang-trial-lead-investigator-rejects-police-assault-claims/
https://www.africanhrc.org/single-post/grindr-gang-warning-student-lured-by-kidnappers-via-gay-dating-app-found-unconscious-bound
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/13/gang-jailed-after-using-grindr-dating-app-in-midlands-to-assault-and-rob-victims#:~:text=Police%20said%20those%20who%20were,together%20many%20strands%20of%20evidence.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/gang-grindr-dating-apps-rob-victims-birmingham-derby#:~:text=A%20gang%20that%20used%20dating,meeting%20up%20for%20a%20date.&text=They%20would%20hold%20the%20victims,MORE%20LIKE%20THIS:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04plk0lwy9o
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hey Warriors, I'm not feeling well at all this week, so I offer you one of my fave shows with hosts Kona and Ethan. I hope to be back to you soon! Hugs
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 year old Ryan Zimmerman had been looking into transitioning into a female while living with her parents in Kentucky. Ryan placed a Craigslist ad that read she would like to be in a relationship as a submissive female. A husband and wife in Columbus, Ohio answered Ryan's ad and invited Ryan to come live with them and their 27 year old trans female room mate in hopes to create a loving polyarmorous foursome.
True Crime Quickie is from Australia in 2025 & 2026.
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Promo for True Crime Connection
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://www.pghlesbian.com/2024/04/brutal-2015-murder-of-a-young-trans-woman-in-columbus/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/indiana-woman-sentenced-2015-murder-231314969.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAExV7Ggu3Pq3xkhMDZr0EluPb6QwkHxcPMjCKQ5IDEhRYm5Cax5xq7lIMOLG_e87Lc4WJbw8Kbbb-WxE13Mf3ywpTuYayuCFGW_V8O30A-GTK3yvTPuf-IAKJIbMuG8Vr0bsilfo6NzBHmWpREx_dovYxYFMoE_v_TL0vbf-flWN
https://www.whio.com/news/miami-valley-murder-mystery-details-revealed/HHHFBGDSH5D3RKEUFNWXTGPNN4/
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/sarah-buzzard-sentenced-in-brutal-murder-of-ryan-zimmerman
https://www.wane.com/news/crime/mercer-county-sheriff-to-share-substantial-update-on-ryan-zimmerman-homicide-case-thursday/
https://www.limaohio.com/archive/2021/10/22/death-penalty-looms-over-mercer-murder-case/
https://uk.infonasional.com/goulburn-woman-dead-lovers-triangle
https://www.facebook.com/AustralianFemicideMap/posts/%EF%B8%8Fthey-matter-shayne-cook%EF%B8%8Fdecember-30-2025-shayne-cook-was-allegedly-stabbed-to-d/1188816946571723/
https://region.com.au/two-charged-over-stabbing-murder-of-goulburn-woman/940197/
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/woman-charged-with-murdering-her-female-expartner/news-story/0dcb79ca0e0c273813c5704e2a2b4e0a
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1986, in Kentucky, two lovers would go on an evening killing spree that ended with 5 people being murdered in a most brutal way. Our True Crime Quickie is from Scotland in 2013.
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Promo for Wicked South Africa
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesillyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/supreme-court/1992/87-sc-356-mr-1.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/03/21/Jury-asks-death-for-female-killer-of-five/5872543301200/#:~:text=LEXINGTON%2C%20Ky.,without%20parole%20for%2025%20years.
https://www.wuky.org/local-regional-news/2011-04-25/notorious-murderer-denied-parole
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/25/us/2-held-as-5-are-run-over-by-car-or-burned-to-death-in-kentucky.html
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-kyed-5_06-cv-00032/pdf/USCOURTS-kyed-5_06-cv-00032-0.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23863389
https://www.the-gazette.co.uk/news/13966393.19-years-for-stabbing-erskine-dad-to-death/
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In April of 2013, 57 year old Dallas native Ronald Shumway quit his job and sold his home. His social media posts claimed he met a man and moved to Austin to be with him. But something wasn't quite right. No one had seen packing or moving out.
True Crime Quickie from Tempe, Arizona in 2016 involving a beloved teacher named Eileen Yellin.
Promo for Mythical True Crime
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/suspect-wanted-in-connection-to-oak-cliff-mans-murder-confesses/287-66665566
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2016/january/oak-cliff-corpse-mystery-ronnie-shumway/
https://thecinemaholic.com/ronald-shumway-murder-where-is-christopher-colbert-now/
https://dallasvoice.com/colbert-claims-self-defense-shumway-murder/
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/dallas-man-pleads-guilty-to-strangling-landlord-burying-in-yard/
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-who-posed-as-dead-neighbor-arrested-dallas-police/107907/
https://dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Dallas-Voice-03-04-16.pdf
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/07/28/phoenix-protection-order-eileen-yellin-cathy-baker/87587950/
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/police-2-women-found-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2016/07/29/celebration-life-event-planned-sunday-tempe-teacher-killed-murder-suicide/87708934/#:~:text=Known%20as%20%60%60Doc%2C''%20Yellin%20taught%20at%20Tempe,Alliance%20and%20student%2Dactivist%20group%20Stand%20and%20Serve.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jason Andrews was a bi-sexual porn actor and model living in Chicago. One day in 2009, he met sex worker/kink porn actress Amanda Logue and the two had a deep connection that began a romantic relationship between them. The couple moved to Florida and devised a plan together. They wanted to murder someone in a thrill kill for their own arousal. Dennis Scooter Abrahamsen called upon Amanda's sex worker services in May of 2010. He hired her to come and satisfy him and his two friends. After Amanda completed her work for Scooter, she still had business to take care of, and called in her boyfriend Jason.
Our True Crime quickie is from Gastonia, North Carolina in 2021.
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Promo for Murder in the PNW
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://abc7.com/archive/7559039/
https://www.local3news.com/former-adult-film-actor-arrested-in-chattanooga-for-sledgehammer-murder/article_071ae49f-50b0-50b5-ab0f-d5a054647db3.html
https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2012/5/21/porn_actress_takes_p?cid=rss
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/porn-actors-accused-of-killing-tattoo-artist/
https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/2021/09/03/new-port-richey-porn-star-murder-case-reexamined-on-cnns-sex-murder/
https://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/porn-actor-pleads-guilty-in-murder-of-new-port-richey-tattoo-parlor-owner/1212272/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147839/Amanda-Logue-porn-star-Sunny-Dae-pleads-guilty-killing-tattoo-shop-owner.html
https://www.oxygen.com/in-ice-cold-blood/crime-time/florida-biker-brutally-murdered-porn-star-couple-scooter-abrahamsen#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%20my%20career%2C%20I',could%20do%20such%20a%20thing.%E2%80%9D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjZOH9bgSdU
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/tahj-wall-guilty-first-degree-murder-2021-shooting-boyfriend/6C2EODVN7ZH6ZBSFMMNC7DMOYU/
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-shot-his-boyfriend-in-the-head-and-then-drove-around-with-dead-body-for-6-hours-to-show-people-the-corpse/
https://x.com/TrueCrimeUpdat/status/1944634660421804470
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2017, a young woman was driven to a hospital in Santiago, Chile, she was naked and already deceased. Her toxicology report came back with alcohol in her system but no drugs. Yet authorities painted the narrative the young woman DJ Anna Cook had died from a drug overdose due to her lifestyle of being a DJ and a lesbian. The second case is that of 26 year old Stephanie Mora who was dismembered in Costa Rica. Both cases are cold.
The start of this episode is an editorial about the lesbian Renee Good who was gunned down by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This story is given a lot of f*cks in spirit and verbally.
Promo for The Bell Witch Podcast
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
link to video of the killing of Renee Good: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/video-shows-ice-agents-queer-woman-dhs-calls-her-a-domestic/
Resources:
https://agenciapresentes.org/en/2020/08/02/tres-anos-de-la-muerte-de-la-artista-anna-cook-su-madre-denuncia-lesbicidio-y-activistas-exigen-justicia/
https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1ml2srt/qu%C3%A9_creen_que_realmente_pas%C3%B3_con_anna_cook/?tl=en
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/media/32273/ocr
https://www.uowoajournals.org/rdr/article/1494/galley/1450/view/
https://agenciapresentes.org/en/2018/11/16/costarica-investigan-el-brutal-crimen-de-una-joven-lesbiana/#:~:text=%23CostaRica%20Investigation%20underway%20into%20the,November%2016%2C%202018
https://news.co.cr/remains-found-in-escazu-costa-rica-correspond-to-a-26-year-old-woman/77232/
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/queer-mom-by-ice-is-part-of-a-sinister-left-wing-movement-white-house-says/?utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_edition=202601090700&utm_source=newsletter
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the first episode of season 19!!!
In the early 1990's a 19 year old man in Sunderland, England, loathed himself for being attracted to boys. But this didn't stop him from sexually assaulting and killing his victims. We start our new season off with a little known serial killer named Steven Grieveson. His victims were 14 year old Simon Martin, 18 year old Thomas Kelley, 15 year old David Hanson and 15 year old David Grieff.
Our True Crime Quickie is from 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona and the murder of Cynthia Lostracco.
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Hate the ads? Become a Patreon member for Ad Free, early release episodes!
Promo for Sinister Story Hour
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-24637209
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qg32v
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/14/steven-grieveson-admits-killing-boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kfgWhcCEoE
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/sunderland-strangler-britains-lesser-known-serial-killer#:~:text=Four%20years%20into%20Grieveson's%20sentence,term%20to%20serve%20in%20prison.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/secret-gay-killed-and-burned-three-boys-1326632.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-24637648
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/grieveson-steven.htm
https://law.justia.com/cases/arizona/court-of-appeals-division-one-unpublished/2013/1-ca-cr-12-0025.html
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azcentral/name/cynthia-lostracco-obituary?id=21997574
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/alleged-lesbian-love-affair-ends-in-murder-police-say-6655500/
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Been super busy this week buuuttt....and that's a big butt lol...I'm sending this minisode out!3 cases of LGBTQ murders during Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
Last episode for the year and next year we will start off with Season 19!
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimes
Resources:
https://windycitytimes.com/2021/12/08/remembering-courtney-eshay-key/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THeqntwJD8Y
https://avp.org/2020/12/30/ncavp-mourns-the-death-of-courtney-eshay-key-25-year-old-black-transgender-woman-chicago/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/funeral-held-for-courtney-eshay-key-transgender-woman-slain-on-christmas/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e960xly2go
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37696113/driver-killed-man-pavement-rampage/#:~:text=He%20drove%20at%20Mr%20Basbus,horror%20incidentCredit:%20Central%20News
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1pqqqo8/man_who_mowed_down_london_pedestrians_on/
https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-of-murdering-aiden-chapman-on-christmas-day-504632
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/19/man-who-mowed-down-london-pedestrians-on-christmas-day-convicted-murder#:~:text=Gilheaney%2C%20who%20is%20British%2C%20was,was%20knocked%20to%20the%20ground.
https://www.hrc.org/news/amber-minor-black-transgender-woman-tragically-killed-kansas-city
https://www.them.us/story/amber-minor-death-misgender-press-reports
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/amber-minor-trans-woman-killed-in-raytown-kansas-city-shooting-article-106650354
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
