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315. Horror in St. Louis Hills: Ellen Dooling and Gary Consolino Jun 25, 2025

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The neighborhood of St. Louis Hills was quiet that evening in November 1980. The leaves were turning as winter was making its way in. John Dooling was suddenly jolted awake by a loud sound. Was it A scream? Or had he imagined it? He immediately thought of his 18-year-old daughter, Ellen. Ellen had gone on a date that night. She should have been home by now. John threw off the covers and moved to the window, peeling back the curtain. That’s when he saw a blue Oldsmobile Cutlass idling in front of the house. The car wasn’t moving. He grabbed his robe and stepped outside. Something was wrong. It was Ellen; she was slumped over in the car.John yanked the door open when he saw her face. He screamed so loudly that it would surely wake the neighbors in the 6200 block of Walsh Street. Ellen Dooling and her date, 20-year-old Gary Consolino, never left the car alive. They had been shot—executed—right there in front of her parents' home. There were no signs of a struggle. No shattered glass. There are no desperate claw marks on the door handles. The car hadn’t been ransacked. Their wallets and jewelry remained untouched.
This crime should have been solved so easily, but it was not.
Justice should have brought at least some comfort to both of their families, but it did not.
Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘Horror in St. Louis Hills: Ellen Dooling and Gary Consolino.’
Listener discretion by our bestie @octoberpodVHS
Music is by our other bestie who is also our editor @theinkypawprint
Sources:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/218-blame-it-on-the-game-mary-towey--55288137
https://muckrack.com/bob-cyphers/articles
https://www.firstalert4.com/video/2022/01/21/someone-knows-something-gary-consolino-ellen-dooling-cold-case-that-haunts-st-louis/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/31437268/the-murders-of-ellen-jean-dooling-and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/phcd5m/41_years_later_the_murders_of_gary_consolino_and/
https://twitter.com/kmov/status/1432374841693425667
https://www.firstalert4.com/2022/01/21/horror-st-louis-hills-gary-consolino-ellen-dooling-murders-that-shook-city/
https://www.firstalert4.com/news/st-louis-unsolved/
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/mother-of-murder-victim-makes-plea-for-help-in-cold-case/63-368399891
https://www.newspapers.com/article/30024498/ellen_dooling_and_gary_consolino/

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314. Double Jeopardy at the World's End: Scotland's Angus Sinclair Jun 18, 2025

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It was a brisk autumn night in October 1977 when two best friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, stepped into Edinburgh’s World’s End Pub for what should have been a carefree night of drinks and laughter. Just seventeen years old, they were out to blow off steam, pub-hop, and soak in the city’s energy. But as the night drew to a close, a chance encounter changed everything. On their way out, the girls struck up a casual conversation with two men—a chat that lasted no more than 25 minutes. Moments later, Christine and Helen disappeared into the night. They were never seen alive again. That ordinary pub, on that ordinary night, would be etched into Scotland’s darkest history—The World’s End Pub forever linked to their final steps. Like Whitechapel in the time of Jack the Ripper, or the Ford Theatre on the night Lincoln fell, The World’s End would become a place where tragedy and terror collide. What happened next would haunt a nation—and ignite one of Scotland’s most chilling manhunts.
Join Jen and Cam on this episode entitled 'Double Jeopardy at the World's End: Scotland's Angus Sinclair."
Listener discretion is by @octoberpodVHS
Researched and written by Lauretta Allen, as well as myself.
Executive Producers @theinkypawprint
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End_Murders
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-47524945
https://youtu.be/dNMTHwOrQK0?si=DbcL4bufbpxU60US
https://youtu.be/5WcrDOim1Rw?si=C7jsagwsgwOKHwd0
https://youtu.be/EoHghw36gpk?si=0n6DhReS29po3ZLK
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sinclair-angus.htm
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1047423638/?match=1&clipping_id=172210762
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1047422373/match=1&terms=%22Catherine%20Reehill
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1047422301/?match=1&clipping_id=172210941
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1047424653/?match=1&clipping_id=172211034
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048695564/?match=1&clipping_id=172211313
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048838948/?match=1&clipping_id=172211394
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048780956/?match=1

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313. The Devil's Daughter: Sharon Carr Jun 11, 2025

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On June 7, 1994, a 13-year-old Ann-Marie Clifford, a student at Collingwood College in Camberley, Surrey, was jumped. The attack was swift, unprovoked, and deeply disturbing. In the school’s bathroom, the student was stabbed in the back with a knife. The force of the blow punctured the lung. The attack was impulsive. But what made it even more horrifying was the lack of emotion on the face of the attacker.
Join Jen and Cam on this episode entitled ‘The Devil’s Daughter: Sharon Carr.
’Listener discretion by @octoberpodVHS
Music by our E.P. @theinkypawprint
Sources:
Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery. Never Too Young (Television documentary). Season 8, episode 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hbSPe5_jw
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/double-murderer-aged-15-girl-given-life-sentence-6511078.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/12/classroomviolence.pupilbehaviour
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/britain-youngest-female-murderer-parole-release-b2176083.html
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/britain%25E2%2580%2599s-youngest-female-killers
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-girl-who-killed-aged-12-1275008.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/i-was-born-to-be-a-killer-every-night-i-see-the-devil-in-my-dreams-1275032.html
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/katie-killer-set-fight-murder-4853422
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5e6f684d2c94e038e9f35f1e

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312. The Buried Secrets of Peter Tobin Jun 04, 2025

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In 1993, MTV aired a music video for the song “Runaway Train” by Soul Asylum. In the video, names and photographs of real missing people were featured. In that music video, the picture of fifteen-year-old Vicky Hamilton is displayed just long enough to burn the image of the girl with the short bob haircut into your mind. When the video was made, Vicky had been missing from her family in Scotland for two years. A little while later in the video, there is another photograph of a girl, Dinah McNicol, an 18-year-old from Essex, in the UK, who had just finished her A-level exams. When the Soul Asylum video was made, Dinah had also been missing for two years. Aside from the fact that both girls went missing six months apart in the same year, and aside from the fact that they both appeared in the same music video, two other things connected these girls. They had both been murdered by the same man. And they both shared the same grave.
Join Jen and Cam as we discuss the chilling case of Peter Tobin, one of the UK's most depraved serial killers. We explore how his unassuming life as a handyman masked a brutal reality, leading to the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton, and Dinah McNicol.
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Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico & Jesse of The Inky Pawprint
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPEOtOs4eBE&ab_channel=DocumentaryCentral
https://youtu.be/LcmcpdVbb4g?si=r_NusKUlIjzIXBet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFCe57LwYjY&t=51s&ab_channel=OldStuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOvqocYZHS0&ab_channel=OldStuff
https://stpatsanderston.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/3/7/12370892/st_pats_guide.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/04/ukcrime.estheraddley
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/01/ukcrime.scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tobin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approved_school
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/16/peter-tobin-profile-wild-child-killer

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311. Pope's Cafeteria Massacre May 28, 2025

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If you listen to the podcast, you know a thing or two about crime. You may like the following questions: Why did they do it? How did they do it? Why this victim and not someone else? No matter why you listen, I bet you can remember a case from childhood that left a mark, changed how you looked at humanity, or made you lose your innocence. For me, this is that story. I had just turned 11 years old and I still remember the look of shock on my mother’s face when she was talking about this.
The call came through just before dawn on Thursday, October 23, 1980. A dispatcher’s voice crackled over the radio, summoning officers and an ambulance to Pope’s Cafeteria at 12450 Manchester Road, inside West County Center in Des Peres, Missouri. If you are local, you may call it the White Dove, at least we did growing up. When officers arrived, they were met with a small crowd of employees, still in their uniforms, visibly shaken. Some clung to each other for support, their faces pale with shock as they pointed officers toward the inside of the restaurant. Whatever had happened, it was bad.
Join Jen and Cam of Our True Crime Podcast on this episode, “Pope's Cafeteria Massacre.”
Listener discretion by @octoberpodVHS
Music by @theinkypawprint
Sources:
Murder At Pope's Cafeteria by Ronald Martin.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-thomas-selvey-an/21186652/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-byrd-guilty-of-f/16608221/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-leader-and-press-byrd/80560580/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-byrd-1/80560921/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-dairy-queen-murd/17396419/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch/48854693/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-springfield-news-leader-maurice-osca/16349748/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-oscelious-green/20674092/
"Byrd". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 23, 1991 – via newspapers.com.
"Verdict". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 15, 1982 – via newspapers.com.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-shootings-recall/19116456/
"Suspect's wife tells of...

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310. Targeted: The École Polytechnique Massacre May 21, 2025

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On December 6th, 1989, a gunman walked into an engineering classroom in Montreal's École Polytechnique and opened fire. Within twenty minutes, fourteen women were dead. Killed only because they were women.
Join Jen and Cam as we discuss what happened in the twenty minutes of Canada's deadliest mass shooting.
***Jen tried her best to pronounce the victim's names correctly.
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Thank you to our team:
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Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/mass-shooting-1989-montreal-14-women-killed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18d2eocYP9Y&ab_channel=GeorgiaMarie
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/polytechnique-massacre-30-years-later-loreen-pindera-pov-1.5371032
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Because_They_Were_Women/aHwpEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT18&printsec=frontcover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyT4rXwbAc&ab_channel=100huntley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s4MAG-jOfc&ab_channel=100huntley
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Because_They_Were_Women/aHwpEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT18&printsec=frontcover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I&rco=1&ab_channel=CBCNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/

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309. Crossing the Thin Blue Line: Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek May 14, 2025

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Lawrencia Bembenek’s beauty was both a blessing and a curse. To some, it was a key that unlocked doors. But to others, it was the perfect tool for shaping a narrative—a narrative that framed her as a modern-day femme fatale. The press depicted her as “a former Playboy bunny,” yet Laurie had worked only three weeks as a waitress at the Lake Geneva Playboy Club and never posed for the magazine in her birthday suit. The closest she came to being a centerfold was fully clothed in a Schlitz beer calendar. This story was eaten up by the public and often distorted by the media. There were public rallies cheering her on with cries of “Run, Bambi, Run,” the name the press gave her and the name she hated. People could not get enough of this case, which brings me to the whole reason I decided to cover it today, as it may sound a bit familiar to another case in the headlines today. Take a listen and see what you think. Was Laurie set up?
Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast’s ‘Crossing the Thin Blue Line: Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek.’
Listener discretion is by @octoberpodVHS
Music is by our EP @theinkypawprintSources:https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/us/murderer-s-fiance-is-guilty-of-aiding-her-prison-escape.html
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrNPSRhBCVoQAIAlJRXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1748466018/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fLaurie_Bembenek/RK=2/RS=AkhxsqB51BnrkNSjGnQcq94GW4Y-
https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/laurie-bambi-bembenek-did-she-kill-or-was-she-framed-by-cops
https://www.milwaukeemag.com/archive-obsession-ira-robins-quest-justice-laurie-bembenek/
https://www.fox6now.com/news/attorney-seeks-pardon-for-laurie-bembenek-murder-conviction
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/shes-beautiful-shes-dangerous-and-shes-on-the-run-the-law_1/
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrFDyJPBiVonJgL5AcPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1747285712/RO=10/RU=
https%3a%2f%2fwww.upi.com%2fArchives%2f1993%2f05%2f13%2fBembenek-argues-with-juror-during-interview%2f5138737265600%2f/RK=2/RS=Ze19vMx_lPU62e0go3aMzzSnaC0-
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrFYG93BiVour8KgzoPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1747285752/RO=10/RU=
https%3a%2f%2fcrimelibrary.org%2fnotorious_murders%2fwomen%2fbambenek%2f8.html/RK=2/RS=flDMvoE.qGH2UUjOqCwK4J2noYU-

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308. Sweet Tea & A Southern Scandal: The Murder of Fern Cowen Rodgers May 07, 2025

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Fern Cowen Rodgers was a wealthy socialite living in the quiet town of Searcy, Arkansas. But in September 1974, her life came to a shocking end when she was found shot to death in her home.
The murder stunned the people of Arkansas. As police searched for answers, they uncovered a story full of secrets: a rocky marriage, past affairs, and a husband who had more to hide than anyone expected. Fern's murder rocked a small town and led to one of Arkansas’s most talked-about trials.
Join Cam and Jen as they discuss "Sweet Tea & A Southern Scandal."
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If there is enough interest, we can add Pompeii and Capri.
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Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint
Sources:
Book: A Murder in Searcy by Mike S. Allen , Deana Hamby Nall
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Searcy-Mike-S-Allen/dp/B099FMBZ9G/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14484920/fern-rodgers
https://www.centuriespod.com/post/episode-2-30-scandal-in-arkansas-the-murder-of-fern-rodgers
https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/rodgers-v-state-no-889185361
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rodgers_Sr._House
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10076263/porter_roland-rodgers
https://casetext.com/case/state-medical-board-v-rodgers
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1099835/?match=1&terms=%22Fern%20Rodgers%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/949767446/?match=1&terms=%22Fern%20Rodgers%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1095685/?match=1&terms=%22Fern%20Rodgers%22

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Special: ROGUE TRANSMISSIONS: Halfway to Halloween Hullabaloo May 04, 2025

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Somewhere the sun shines, somewhere the birds sing the glories of a new dawn. Somewhere … it's Spring again! But HERE … every day is Halloween! Rogue Transmissions, an uncanny anthology of exceptional indie podcasts, presents the Halfway to Halloween Hullabaloo! Your horror host Edward October is scanning the dial for lost broadcasts, campfire tales, and weird nostalgia to bring you a hell-raising halfway to Halloween party that will chase away the springtime blues.
First up: Vintage Halloween games and fortune-telling rituals, the secret of "The Ring Wraith Kid," and ghostly electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) recorded in a haunted apartment. Then: Green glowing footprints (do they belong to a ghost or an alien?), a startling steampunk re-imagining of The Tell-Tale Heart, a haunted pub, and a terrifying true missing persons case. Plus: The Tavern Haunting, and the true account of a haunted cabin in the woods.
Featuring Rogue Transmissions from: Karyn Raynor & Aubree Summers (Chick Lit podcast), Alecia Watson (Twisted & Uncorked and Truly Twisted), Amber & Maddie (Witches Talking Tarot), JT Hosack (Brew Crime), Emma & Becky (Spine Chillers & Serial Killers), Nikki Young (Serial Napper), Jen (Our True Crime Podcast), and Edward October (Octoberpod AM).
Tighten your screams, dust off your shrouds, and bring enough candy to feed a crowd ... because we're throwing a Halfway to Halloween party wild enough to wake the dead on this edition of Rogue Transmissions, the uncanny anthology of exceptional indie podcasts.

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307. Burning Betrayal: The Murders of Tim and Kelly Farrar Apr 30, 2025

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The night was bitter that October night, but then came the fire. An all-consuming inferno that lit up the quiet streets of Prairie Village. In minutes, the Farrar home — the suburban dream home belonging to two respected doctors, Michael Farrar and Deborah Green, and their three children, Timothy, Kate, and Kelly — was consumed by flames. The firefighters arrived and battled the blaze, but it was too little, too late. Two people made it out. The rest… didn’t. What was left behind wasn’t just a burned-out house — it was ground zero for a waking nightmare. As dawn broke and the smoke cleared, investigators searched what was left of the family's home. They were expecting tragedy. What they weren’t expecting was malice. Because beneath the ashes, something darker began to take shape—something deliberate.
This wasn’t an accident.
It was murder.
Join Cam and Jen on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast ‘Burning Betrayal: The Murders of Tim and Kelly Farrar.’
Listener discretion by @octoberpodVHS
All music by our EP @theinkypawprint
Sources:https://mail.murderpedia.org/female.G/g/green-debora.htm
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article278565144.html
https://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Harvest-Womans-Mothers-Sacrifice/dp/0684810476
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477435/
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ks-supreme-court/1285263.html
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/state/2014/12/21/mother-seeks-resentencing-deadly-arson-fire/16645032007/
https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2022/06/14/dr-debora-green-tennis-and-insanity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/1h03c63/female_family_annihilators/
https://loriajohnston.medium.com/the-unthinkable-crimes-of-dr-debora-green-2257a5dcd9a3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvb4qDE9Io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfnWaYbZQLk
http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2020/05/debora-green-serial-family-annihilator.html
https://ground.news/article/michael-farrar-whose-ex-wife-served-him-poison-and-killed-2-kids-in-95-fire-dies-at-68