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True Crime Couple

Join married couple Kay and John as they cover some of the lesser known true crime cases. In this bi-weekly podcast, Kay presents the case to both the audience and John at the same time, so they can react together. We pride ourselves on the research we conduct and the respect we show to victims. We hope you enjoy!

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Episode 212: Retha Stratton | The Cheerleader Stalker Aug 24, 2025

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In the sleepy Fort Worth enclave of River Oaks football, like in all Texas towns, was king. The energy surrounding Friday nights under the stadium lights was electric. Football wasn’t just a game, it was a way of life. The players were hometown heroes, the cheerleaders their shining counterparts, and together they stood at the center of the community’s pride. To many, they were untouchable teenage gods living out through their glory years. But when whispers of fear began to spread, that illusion of safety cracked. Someone out there was watching the cheerleaders. Hunting them. One by one, the girls who had once been celebrated as the town’s brightest stars would become targets in a chilling game of obsession that would end in blood. What seemed like the plot in the newest slasher film quickly became the reality for the students of Castleberry High School in 1981.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, Season 1 Episode 1
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/convict-to-return-to-prison-for-jailhouse-romance/285-342720631
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/second-court-of-appeals/2010/21828.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1410329.html
https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/485957-where-wesley-miller-today-retha-strattons-prison-sentence/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
Newspapers.com

Episode 211: Dan O'Connell and James Ellison | The Deaths at the Funeral Home Aug 10, 2025

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Hudson, Wisconsin is a sleepy, quiet community bordering the St. Croix river. In 2002, as the rest of the country adjusted to the growing crime rates of the 21st century Hudson locked itself away in its tight northwest corner of the state. Everyone truly knew everyone and daily interactions between the residents resembled episodes from Leave It to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show. That was why, when a beloved member of their community was murdered, the town was left reeling. It would be difficult, but, in order to catch the killer, the town would have to face their demons.
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Episode 210: The Murder of Katrina Smith Jul 27, 2025

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In late October of 2012 the sudden disappearance of Katrina Smith left an Illinois community reeling. As the days went on the search for her revealed troubling clues as to what had happened to her. Detectives in this case were confronted with many bizarre circumstances and possible suspects, but it would be the revelation of a shocking secret that would lead them straight to their killer.
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Sources:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hidden-past-led-katrina-smiths-killer/story?id=104055372
https://www.yahoo.com/news/katrina-smith-her-husband-thought-033832831.html
https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Resources/fd640f4a-f898-4ca4-9e9a-bb6ddcbf9afe/2170299_R23.pdf#:~:text=Trial%20court%20affirmed.,in%20the%20Department%20of%20Corrections.
Articles retrieved from the Chicago Tribune, The Times (Streator, Il), Northwest Herald, Southtown Star, and The Daily Republican-Register through Newspapers.com between the dates of 2012-2018
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Episode 209: The Murder of Barbara Jean Horn Jul 14, 2025

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In the late afternoon of July 12, 1988 the neighborhood search for four year old Barbara Jean Horn would end abruptly after the girl’s body was discovered completely washed and nude in a television box just over a quarter of a mile from her home. The hunt for the man that committed the horrific crime and the subsequent trials that would follow would expose other wrong doings and injustices in the city of Philadelphia.
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Sources:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/186267498/?match=1&terms=barbara%20jean%20horn
https://www.newspapers.com/image/169372109/?match=1&terms=barbara%20jean%20horn
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Barbara_Jean_Horn
https://northeasttimes.com/2020/04/09/barbara-jean-horns-mom-release-walter-ogrod-he-is-innocent/
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/barbara-jean-horn-murder-philadelphia-walter-ogrod/
https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2003/07/17/man-confesses-to-1987-rape/50978184007/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6825730-The-Snitch-Career-Thief-A-Master-at-Dropping-the/
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigations/former-philadelphia-police-detectives-frank-jastrzembski-manuel-santiago-martin-devlin-perjury-lying-trial-wrongfully-convicted-man-anthony-wright/4144229/
The Trials of Walter Ogrod by Thomas Lowenstein
Chicago Review Press

Episode 208: The Eastburn Family Murders | A Chance Encounter Jun 29, 2025

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In the second part of our two part series on the Eastburn family we will cover the suspect and the subsequent court hearings that will follow. Please be advised that this episode contains sexual assault and crimes against children.
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Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
Three trial for murder By Nicholas Schmidle
Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders by Scott Whisnant
Open Roads Media
https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf
https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/hennis-v-united-states/
https://5clpp.com/2020/02/10/the-relationship-between-dual-sovereignty-and-double-jeopardy-the-trials-of-tim-hennis/
https://www.stripes.com/news/soldier-on-death-row-will-ask-the-military-s-highest-court-to-overturn-his-conviction-1.603983
https://www.foxnews.com/us/25-years-later-widower-recalls-slain-family
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/3rd-trial-master-sgt-timothy-hennis-guilty-1985/story?id=10324918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/655987126/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/984728037/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/655994809/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/gary-jana-eastburns-nightmare-odyssey-convict-familys-killer/story?id=11644539
https://www.cityviewnc.com/stories/president-leaves-military-defendants-on-death-row-after-commuting-others/

Episode 207: The Eastburn Family Murders | Discovery Jun 15, 2025

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On Mother's Day 1985, a call came into the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department that neighbors had not seen a mother of three, nor her three children in days. When they had gone to check on the welfare of the family, they could hear the youngest of the daughters crying. When they had looked through her window, they saw the toddler alone, wailing, desperately seeking comfort. A deputy came to respond to the distressing call, but it would not be the condition of the poor child that would shock the city of Fayetteville, it would be the horrors that lay beyond her room.
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Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
Three trial for murder By Nicholas Schmidle
Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders by Scott Whisnant
Open Roads Media
https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf
https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/hennis-v-united-states/
https://5clpp.com/2020/02/10/the-relationship-between-dual-sovereignty-and-double-jeopardy-the-trials-of-tim-hennis/
https://www.stripes.com/news/soldier-on-death-row-will-ask-the-military-s-highest-court-to-overturn-his-conviction-1.603983
https://www.foxnews.com/us/25-years-later-widower-recalls-slain-family
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/3rd-trial-master-sgt-timothy-hennis-guilty-1985/story?id=10324918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/655987126/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/984728037/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://www.newspapers.com/image/655994809/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/gary-jana-eastburns-nightmare-odyssey-convict-familys-killer/story?id=11644539

Episode 206: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman | Solved Jun 01, 2025

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The history of Craig County Oklahoma is filled with stories of sadness and chaos.
Today we will be discussing another time that blood was spilled on the dirt of Craig County, but this time there was no massive conflict or war, this was an entirely different kind of modern tragedy for two families in late December of 1999. It was an exciting time, not only was it one of their 16th birthdays but they were on the precipice of new millennium, an exciting new year. To celebrate this the girls planned a sleepover. The night was supposed to be filled with whispered secrets, junk food and laughter, but instead it encompassed their final hours, which were marked by unimaginable terror.
Sources:
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/04/18/records-released-in-shooting-death/62098673007/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/662257052/?match=1&terms=shane%20freeman
https://www.newson6.com/story/67731da48a4b0cd5008f7dd9/25-years-later:-the-1999-disappearance-of-lauria-bible-and-ashley-freeman
https://unsolved.com/gallery/lauria-bible-ashley-freeman/
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/04/18/records-released-in-shooting-death/62098673007/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13038073/kathy-eleta-freeman
https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/more-than-12-people-kept-silent-after-oklahoma-girls-disappeared-in-1999-prosecutors-say/520-b2f75c47-9eea-48fa-b88f-31a7b5797532
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=PI002
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/lauria-bible-and-ashley-freeman-murder-mystery-dark-forces-at-work/2XAINSQXRXXVT4NKWFNS22R3OQ/
https://people.com/crime/people-magazine-investigates-overlooked-clue-broke-open-1999-murder-case/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180926224748/https://www.tulsaworld.com/specialreports/missingwelchgirls/
https://odcr.com/detail?court=018-&casekey=018-CF++1800056
https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20250312_5
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/phil-welch-mug/image_2e20efd4-f88a-11ef-8546-eb0aed0f10dc.html
https://kfor.com/news/local/25-years-later-families-continue-search-for-missing-oklahoma-teens/
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-welch-girls-cold-case-picher-ashley-freeman-lauria-bible/41759447
Hell in the Heartland Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls By Jax Miller

Episode 205: The Murder of Cindy Thompson May 18, 2025

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On a cold February night in Pontiac Michigan the dream an expecting mother would have to one day hold her son would be ripped from her when she was brutally murdered in her bedroom. The suspects would be plentiful because many had the opportunity, but this case would come down to who had the motive to murder.\
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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2009/20090825-c284096-63-284096-opn.html
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I007ebf67fee611d99439b076ef9ec4de/View/FullText.html?rank=0&docSource=8cf8e70f113a456abfe2b487d42da885&transitionType=Document&contextData=%28sc.Document%29
https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=235484
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-6th-circuit/1429205.html
https://www.courts.michigan.gov/siteassets/case-documents/uploads/Opinions/Final/COA/19960917_C173448(0049)_173448.OPN.PDF

Episode 204: The Murder of Kim Dorsey May 05, 2025

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In Jacksonville, FL a shocking discovery was made in the early morning hours of October 28, 2012. A husband returned home from work to find his wife dead in their bedroom. The crimes against her were brutal and the suspects were plentiful, including the husband himself.
Sources:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/jacksonville-fl/kim-dorsey-5292665
https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/first-district-court-of-appeal/2022/21-0683.html#:~:text=Kirkpatrick%20vs%20State%20of%20Florida,-Annotate%20this%20Case&text=2%20Kirkpatrick%20entered%20the%20victim's,testimony%20from%20the%20victim's%20husband.
In Cold Blood Dateline 4/9/2017
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/in-cold-blood-part-12-928230467821
https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/Forensics/News/Rape-and-murder-of-Kim-Dorsey-%E2%80%93-FDLE-did-DNA-testi
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2015/04/15/jury-deliberates-case-man-accused-killing-firefighters-wife/15658889007/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213046206/kim_marie-dorsey
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2015/04/08/jurors-hear-about-infidelities-firefighters-wifes-death/987163007/
Newspapers.com

Introducing: Clues with Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore May 01, 2025

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Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take you deep into the world of the most notorious crimes ever — where a single clue can crack a case wide open.
From shocking murders to serial killers, Clues dives into all the forensic details and brilliant sleuthing of the world's most infamous cases. CLUES is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow and listen now wherever you get your podcasts

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