CRIMEandSTUFF

Episode 75: Louise’s Chaput’s short hike to death

Posted on May 4, 2020 by maureenmilliken

Louise Chaput planned to spend a November long weekend hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. She’d barely gotten out of her car when she was dead, brutally murdered in the woods off a lonely trail. Nearly two decades later, the crime is still unsolved.

We also update Jans Soering (belatedly), from Episode 48; Dan Gellers, from Episode 41; and the Negative Nellies rate “How to Fix a Drug Scandal,” which was also the topic of our most. updated. episode. ever. Episode 29 (wicked bad chemistry!)

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Episode 74: Homicide and the other Jack & Jackie

Posted on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 by maureenmilliken

No one in their Maine town was very fond of Jack, but they liked his wife, Jackie, who owned a popular waterfront restaurant in the beautiful coastal town. Then Jack was killed. And Jackie did it…

We also give a brief update to the case of Nancy Crampton Brophy [Episode 55] and inflict our NNW rating on the book “If You Tell,”

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Episode 73: The Unsolved Murder of Michael Francke

Posted on February 2, 2020 by maureenmilliken

Our special guest Dr. Elizabeth Milliken (aka sister Liz) explores one of Oregon’s enduring unsolved crimes.

Sourcing and other information will be available at crimeandstuffonline.com as of Feb. 4.

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Episode 72: Cocoanut Grove and beyond, once burned…

Posted on January 2, 2020 by maureenmilliken

On Nov. 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston killed 492 people. Those deaths were preventable. You’d think people would learn, right? But flash forward to Warwick, R.I., February 2003…

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Episode 71: Third anniversary special with Maine murders & more

Posted on December 1, 2019 by maureenmilliken

For our third anniversary episode we dip into the Maine well and come up with … well, you can probably guess.

Can you believe it’s been three years?

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Episode 70: If she died in the tub, wave the red flag

Posted on October 19, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Shele Danishefsky was fed up with her unemployed (except for those professional backgammon tournaments), abusive husband. Unfortunately, two days before she was going to make sure he didn’t get access to her $5 million in assets in their divorce, she had an accident in the bathtub…

Funny how many women with bad husbands that happens to.

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Episode 69: Catching murder with honey

Posted on September 13, 2019 by maureenmilliken

It could probably only happen in Maine: a couple beekeepers, a couple lobstermen, a family feud, a $6,000 load of honey, and someone ends up dead.

Was Leon Kelley’s murder in self defense? We discuss.

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Episode 68: Serial killer Roy Melanson, say hello to DNA

Posted on August 14, 2019 by maureenmilliken

It’s a little scary, isn’t it, how many guys would’ve gotten way with how many murders if DNA testing hadn’t come along. Roy Melanson is one of them.

Also, on our Negative Nellies Watching ratings, we take a big step back and say “Whoa, we were wrong!” I know!

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Episode 67: What’s the deal with all that stuff?

Posted on June 26, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Updates, we have updates. Wondering about Todd Koehlhepp, Ayla, murders on the Appalachian Trail, Maine’s domestic violence murders, bad bad Uber drivers, little Frankie the dog, the romance writer turned murder suspect, and more?

We’ve got it all for you right here.

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Episode 66: The sad sad story of Constance Fisher

Posted on May 20, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Constance Fisher, a young Waterville, Maine, mother, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after she killed her three children in 1954. Eventually she was well enough to go home to her husband, Carl, where they started a new family…

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Episode 65: Helen Bailey’s fatal final chapter

Posted on April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Helen Bailey was a successful author, but suffering from the sudden death of her husband. Then Ian Stewart came along, and thing started looking up. Until Helen, and her little dog Boris, disappeared…

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Episode 64: Bonny Lee Bakley’s long fatal con

Posted on April 7, 2019April 7, 2019 by maureenmilliken

In Part II of our loosely related celebrity slaying series, we look at the life and death of Bonny Lee Bakley, whose final of her many marriages, to actor Robert Blake, turned out to be the one that killed her.

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Episode 63: Death in the House of Brando

Posted on March 16, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Our latest episode is Part 1 of a two-part look at two loosely connected celebrity homicides. In this one, we discuss the shooting death of Dag Drollet by Christian Brando, Marlon Brando’s son. It’s a sad story of celebrity privilege, some really bad handling of mental health issues and more.

Sorry we’re so late with this by the way — the good news is it’s mostly because we’re trying out new software that makes us sound better. Or rather, the sound quality is better. We’re not altering our voices. 🙂 We want to thank our Patreon supporters who have helped us make the leap from free software to something more professional.

Enjoy.

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Episode 62: Albert Cochran How many murders can you get away with?

Posted on February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Janet Baxter was killed on a cold November night in Maine in 1976 during a quick trip to the A&P to get some cold medicine. When her murder was finally solved 22 years later, the man who did it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. It turns out Baxter was just one of five people he was convicted of or suspected of killing.

Serial killer? Family annihilator? Or just a hot-head? We discuss.

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Episode 61: What if everyone hated you, then you disappeared?

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of American Atheists, pissed a lot of people off. And when she, her son John and her grandaughter Robin disappeared from San Antonio, Texas, in 1995, no one made a big effort to find them.

When small-time crook Danny Frye vanished around the same time, no one bothered to look for him, either.

Maybe someone should’ve.

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Episode 60: The long road of an Oregon serial killer

Posted on January 13, 2019January 13, 2019 by maureenmilliken

Our special Oregon correspondent, our sister Liz, joins us once again, this time to talk about Oregon serial killer John Ackroyd, who fatally stalked Route 20 for decades. The topic is inspired by The Oregonian’s comprehensive coverage of the case, The Ghosts of Highway 20.

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Episode 59: A Maine murder and manhunt

Posted on December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 by maureenmilliken

When Stephanie Ginn Gebo was found dead on her bedroom floor by her 13-year-old daughter in June 2015, her former boyfriend Robert Burton was already in the Maine woods, where he stayed, eluding police for 68 days.

[Photo is Robert Burton caught on surveillance camera in July 2015 during his 68 days on the run, courtesy of Maine State Police]

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A very special 2018 Groovy Christmas episode

Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 by maureenmilliken

F-sake Rudolph, you freak, get the f@#%ing nose away from me.

In our annual holiday tradition, we’re merging our podcasts Groovy Tube and Crime & Stuff, this year in an interactive Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer-watching extravaganza. Ok, it’s not an extravaganza, but break out the DVD and watch with us anyway.

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Episode 58: Part II Negative Nellies Watch Making a Murderer

Posted on December 8, 2018December 8, 2018 by maureenmilliken

We continue our in depth discussion, including our NNW rating, of both the Netflix documentary and the case it’s based on.

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Episode 57: Part 1 Negative Nellies Watch Making a Murderer

Posted on November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 by maureenmilliken

The Negative Nellies watch and rate the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. Both seasons! And this may be hard to believe, but we have so much to say, we’re splitting it into two episodes.

We knew you’d like that.

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Episode 56: When the Ouija board spells MURDER

Posted on November 1, 2018 by maureenmilliken

Sometimes the whole thing’s just the Ouija board’s fault, as murders and other bad decisions from coast to coast and across the pond show.

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Episode 55: How to murder your husband, she wrote

Posted on October 7, 2018October 8, 2018 by maureenmilliken

In 2011, romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy wrote a blog post on “How to murder your husband.” It turned out to be an unfortunate topic: her husband, Dan Brophy, was murdered in June, shot dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute, were he worked. And in September, Nancy was arrested and charged with his murder.

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Episode 54: Albert Flick, never too old to be a killer

Posted on September 21, 2018 by maureenmilliken

Albert Flick was convicted of killing his wife in 1979. After he got out of prison, he continued to assault women, a knife his weapon of choice. After his third conviction, Flick got a relatively short prison sentence — the judge said Flick would “age out” of attacking women. Unfortunately for Kim Dobbie, he didn’t.

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Episode 53: The Hart family, not what they seemed

Posted on September 4, 2018 by maureenmilliken

When two apparently loving moms and their six kids plunged off a California cliff to their deaths, the pattern of abuse and control that lead up to it made many wonder how the red flags weren’t seen earlier.

A discussion with our special guest host, our sister Liz the college professor.

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Episode 52: It’s Drega, and he’s got a gun

Posted on August 20, 2018 by maureenmilliken

Carl Drega didn’t just have a beef with his northern New Hampshire town, he had a lot of beefs. He also had an AR-15 assault rifle and one August day in 1997 he decided to settle things once and for all.

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