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Moms Who Murder (Arson) | Birdie Pruessner & Anne Muhoro Mar 14, 2024

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(12:45) Sarah Sweeney
(16:20) Lacey Overby
(29:51) Birdie Pruessner & Anne Muhoro

Birdie Pruessner had four beautiful children that seemed to be the center of her universe. She made many social media posts about how much she loved her children. In February 2024, Birdie posted many times in one day. One post read:
‘All my kids, peacefully sleeping in my bed. Curled up together. Knowing they are loved so fiercely that I’d do absolutely anything for them. This is my favorite moment.’
Soon after that post, a fire broke out in Birdie’s home. She passed away, along with her children and family pets. Many people started pointing fingers at Birdie’s ex-partners.
Police quickly determined that Birdie was the one to start the fire. It is thought she set a mattress in the home alight. She left a suicide note in her minivan. Birdie’s family have said that she got to an awful place, one that resulted in tragic consequences.
Anne Muhoro lived on the opposite side of the world to Birdie, in Canberra, Australia. Anne and her ex-partner George had a tumultuous relationship and had been fighting in court for years over the custody of their two children.
Early one February morning, Anne turned off the electricity to their home and removed the batteries from smoke detectors. She then set a series of fires in the home, killing herself and her two young children. Anne died from the effects of the fire, but investigators were not able to determine how the children died – did Anne murder them prior to the blaze?
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss two cases of Moms Who Murder – Birdie Pruessner and Anne Muhoro.
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In this episode, we also discuss two updates from previously covered cases. The cause of death for Sarah Sweeney has come back as an overdose of medication. And, Lacey Overby has given another update about her alleged abduction.
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Kids Who Kill | Mashenka Reid & Gavin Smith Mar 07, 2024

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(12:02) - Mashenka Reid/ Gavin Smit

Mashenka Reid’s mother left their family in late 2023. After that, Mashenka, at age 17, was asked by her father to stay home from school most days in order to care for her younger, disabled siblings. In February 2024, Mashenka asked her father to goto the store to get pizza ingredients. While he was gone, Mashenka got online and figured out how to use her father’s gun. When he returned home from the store, Mashenka allegedly shot both him and her little brother dead.
In the height of the Covid Lockdown in 2020, Gavin Smith’s family forbade him to see his girlfriend, Rebecca. Gavin was 16 at the time. Investigators would later find over 15,000 Facebook messages between the two. In December 2020, Gavin called Rebecca on FaceTime – he was holding a gun and a knife. Rebecca encouraged Gavin to kill his family so that the two could be together. Gavin murdered his mother, step-father and two younger brothers while on the call. After the murders, Gavin texted Rebecca and said “Ok baby, I’m a murderer.
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The Abduction & Murder of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham Feb 29, 2024

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(8:38) Harmony Montgomery Update
(13:12) Audrii Cunningham
(47:25) Charlotte Sena

On February 15, 2024, an Amber Alert was issued for missing 11 year-old Audrii Cunningham, in Livingston, Texas. Police initially said that Audrii had been dropped off to a bus stop earlier that morning and had never made it to school. The last person said to be seen with Audrii was Don ‘Steven’ McDougal.
Steven’s long rap sheet for unrelated crimes quickly became public and many pointed the finger at him. Steven began commenting on the True Crime Society Facebook page, protesting his innocence. “I was there and was questioned. I am not running or hiding,” he wrote before commenting again and saying, “I have done everything I can to help find her. I have done nothing wrong.”
Audrii’s tiny body was found in a river on Tuesday February 20, 2024. She had been weighed down before being dumped.
Steven McDougal has been charged with Audrii’s murder.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the abduction and murder of Audrii Cunningham.
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Abduction or Hoax? | Lacey Overby & Denise Huskins Feb 22, 2024

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(9:33) - Start

Texas nurse Lacey Lyn Overby allegedly decided to help a homeless man on February 1, 2024 by buying him some food. She alleges that as she opened her car window to hand the food to him, he reached in, opened the door to her vehicle and abducted her. She managed to send a text to her daughter with their code words ‘purple pancakes’, so her family knew she was in trouble. She also managed to text a description of her abductor.
This man allegedly forced Lacey to drive hours to the Mexican border. Just before they got there, he told her to drive over the border for 20 miles. He then got out of the car. Lacey was found by authorities, waiting alone in her car, in line to cross the border.
Since Lacey’s safe recovery, there have been no updates from police, leading many to speculate if this was a true abduction or not.
In 2015, Denise Huskins was in bed asleep with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn in California. They were awoken with lasers being pointed on their wall. The couple were bound and their eyes were covered with blacked out goggles. Aaron was warned that if he called police, there would be consequences. Denise was then abducted.
Two days later, Denise’s abductor released her outside of her family home. Police did not believe Aaron and Denise’s stories and accused them publicly of lying and wasting police resources. The couple eventually received a multi-million dollar settlement when their story was proven to be true and a man was arrested.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the possible abduction of Lacey Lyn Overby, as well as the abduction and recovery of Denise Huskins.
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The Disgraced Return to Nature Funeral Home Feb 15, 2024

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(10:58) - Crime updates - Jennifer Crumbley Update
(16:58) - Return to Nature Funeral Home
In October 2023, a complaint was made against the ‘Return to Nature’ Funeral Home in Colorado after a foul odor was reported coming from the building. The owner Jon Hallford, told authorities that the odor was caused by taxidermy that he had been practicing.
When authorities went to inspect the building, what they found was horrific and almost beyond description. 189 bodies had been left to rot, at room temperature in the funeral home. They had been stacked on top of each other, and some of the remains had been there for years.
An investigation showed that many families had been given cement dust instead of the cremains of their loved ones.
Jon Hallford and his wife Carie have been charged with 190 counts of abusing a corpse.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the horrific fall of Jon and Carie Hallford and the Return to Nature Funeral Home.
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Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of school shooter Ethan Crumbley, was recently convicted of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the case. We discuss this update in this episode also.
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The Strange Deaths of Grace Holland & Sarah Sweeney Feb 08, 2024

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(14:31) Crime updates - Andie Rosafort, Jennifer Crumbley Trial
(23:32) Grace Holland & Sarah Sweeney

TW – pregnancy loss and domestic abuse.
Missouri woman Grace Holland fell in love with Fire Captain Robert Daus and they began to make a life together. They were engaged and had blended their families together. Grace and Robert had just purchased a new home together in 2020 and were making preparations to move in.
Things were not what they appeared on the surface. Robert was allegedly verbally and emotionally abusive to Grace. Court documents show angry and abusive texts that Robert sent to her and he allegedly offered her money to abort their baby.
Nobody knows what happened in the hours leading up to July 22, 2020. That morning, Grace died from a gunshot wound to the head. It was eventually determined by authorities to have been self-inflicted, although her family have always thought otherwise.
Robert moved on after Grace’s death and he became involved with a successful doctor, Sarah Sweeney. In January 2024, Sarah was found dead in the home that Robert and Grace had previously purchased. Her cause of death is currently pending.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the deaths of Grace Holland and Sarah Sweeney. One man, two dead women – coincidence or more to the story?
Read our blog for these cases - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2024/02/06/one-man-two-dead-women-coincidence-or-more/
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The Death of Cayley Mandadi Feb 01, 2024

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(11:33) Cayley's story

TW – domestic violence and sexual assault.
Cayley Mandadi’s family say she had blossomed into a beautiful young woman, inside and out. They have also said that her life was joyful, full of love, beauty, compassion and intelligence.
Cayley was 19 in 2017. She was attending Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and she had recently started dating a man, Mark Howerton.
Mark was known to be abusive and violent. He had trashed Cayley’s dorm room at one point and her friends said they had seen bruises on Cayley.
Cayley and Mark went to a music festival in October 2017. Mark’s story was that the couple had left and sex in their car and that soon after, Cayley fell asleep. Mark continued driving to their destination and claims to have only noticed later that Cayley was not breathing.
He took Cayley to hospital where she died from blunt force trauma to the head, days later.
Mark went to trial twice for Cayley’s death. The prosecution argued that Mark had beaten Cayley brutally and caused injuries that caused her death.
In 2023, Mark was found guilty of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury in relation to Cayley’s death and he was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the brutal death of Cayley Mandadi. Was justice served?
Read our blog for this case - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2024/01/29/the-brutal-death-of-cayley-mandadi/
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Missing in Guatemala | Nancy Ng Jan 25, 2024

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(12:52) Gypsy Rose net worth/ Profiting off of crime
(17:04) Rex Heuermann Update
(23:00) Nancy Ng

Californian woman Nancy Ng loved traveling to Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. She attended a yoga retreat there in 2022 and planned another one for October 2023. Her sister Nicky said “She was saying it’s so beautiful. Last year, she woke up every morning just to spend some time there by herself without the group and this year was going to be more exciting because they had planned activities on the lake.”
When Nancy arrived in Guatemala, she sent a text to her family before putting her phone into airplane mode. “I’ll be safe, don’t worry about me,”
Nancy and the other retreat attendees went kayaking on Lake Atitlan on October 19. Nancy was seen smiling and waving in footage from that morning. What happened next is unclear, as there was only one other person kayaking with Nancy. That person is an attorney from California, named Christina Blazek. Christina said that Nancy wanted to swim in the lake and she jumped out of her kayak, despite warnings about the rough conditions from Christina. Nancy apparently disappeared under the water and did not resurface.
Christina made it to shore and a search started for Nancy. When Guatemalan authorities went to interview the retreat attendees the day after Nancy vanished, they were all said to have left the country.
In this episode of the True Crune Society Podcast, we discuss the disappearance of Nancy Ng. Accident or foul play?
As of January 2024, Nancy remains missing.
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Missing from Nebraska | Tyler Goodrich & Jake Clark Jan 18, 2024

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(1:00) Gypsy Rose Lifetime Recap
(14:18) Tyler Goodrich
(55:50) Jake Clark & David Schultz

Nebraska man Tyler Goodrich and his husband Marshall had been having marital problems. In November 2023, Marshall told Tyler that he wanted a divorce and their exchange became heated. Marshall called 911. When Tyler saw him make the call, he left their home running. He was allegedly seen on CCTV at this point. Marshall believed that Tyler would come home once he cooled down. When he hadn’t returned by the following day, a missing person report was filed. As of January 2024, Tyler remains missing.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the case of missing man Tyler Goodrich. We also discuss the cases of two other men who have gone missing in the same general vicinity – Jake Clark and David Schultz. Could the cases all be connected?
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Finally Free | The Story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard Jan 11, 2024

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born in July 1991. From the time she was an infant, her mother Dee Dee claimed that Gypsy was ill with conditions such as sleep apnea, leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
Gypsy lived her life in a wheelchair and endured many surgeries and rounds of medication.
Gypsy and Dee Dee were given a home in Springfield, Missouri after their home in Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. By this time, Gypsy was an adult and was trying to break free from her mother’s control.
Gypsy met a man named Nicholas Godejohn online. Gypsy would eventually pay for Nicholas to travel to Missouri where the two would carry out their plan to kill Dee Dee and to free Gypsy.
After the murder, it was discovered that Gypsy had never been sick. Dee Dee had manipulated her daughter and health care professionals into believing that Gypsy was seriously ill.
Gypsy has recently been freed from prison after serving eight years for her role in the murder of her mother.
In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss case of Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard.
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