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He was home. She was at the wrong door.

On September 6, 2018, Botham Jean was spending the evening in his Dallas apartment when off-duty police officer Amber Guyger entered and shot him. She said she believed the apartment was hers and that the man inside was an intruder.

But the questions went beyond how she reached the wrong floor.

What did she overlook before opening the door? Why did she enter instead of backing away? And what did her actions in the minutes after the shooting reveal about her priorities?

In this...

The rhyme made her infamous. The trial left her free.

In August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their Fall River home. Lizzie Borden was accused of the murders, but the jury that acquitted her never heard her inquest testimony or testimony about an alleged attempt to buy poison.

So what did the jury hear? And what might the familiar nursery rhyme have kept us from questioning?

In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, part of GBRLIFE Transmissions, Kaitlyn explores Lizzie’s childhood, the family’s fractured relationships, disputes over inheritance, and the...

For years, Angie Mock was a familiar face on the morning news. On Halloween morning in 2025, the former television anchor approached neighbors in Wichita, Kansas, and asked them to call 911. Her mother, Anita Avers, had been attacked in her bed.

Angie said she had acted to save herself. Later, she told detectives she believed her mother was the devil.

Her family described years of delusions, angry outbursts, a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, and a previous psychiatric hospitalization. Anita, an 80-year-old marriage and family therapist, had opened her home to a daughter who needed help.

For years, Danette Colbert approached visitors in the French Quarter. Men reported waking up without their money, watches, phones, or access to their accounts. Despite a growing criminal record, she kept returning to the streets where she had become known as the Bourbon Street Hustler.

During Super Bowl week in February 2025, she met Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old sports reporter covering the Kansas City Chiefs. Hotel cameras recorded Colbert entering his room and leaving alone. Adan was later found dead.

Adan was also a widowed father. His baby daughter had survived the crash that killed her...

Christa Pike was 18 years old when she told a friend at the Knoxville Job Corps Center that she planned to kill another student.

When asked why, she simply said she felt mean that day.

Less than two days later, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was found dead near an abandoned steam plant. Christa had lured her away under the pretense of making peace, but she arrived carrying a box cutter and a miniature meat cleaver.

Before leaving, Christa removed a fragment of Colleen’s skull and carried it back to the Job Corps Center. She sh...

 Frances Zaayer spent a year and a half terrorizing the family across the street, but the Scotts were not strangers. They were the same family who had taken her in as a teenager and welcomed her into their home again decades later.

What began as a property dispute became a campaign of surveillance, false accusations, repeated 911 calls, racist abuse, and staged injuries. Her accusations eventually worked. Shawna Scott was arrested, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault, and received probation.

Frances had already won.

On May 26, 2018, she crossed the street with a gun anyway. She s...

Carrie Phenix presented herself as an attorney who handled wills, trusts, and estates. In reality, her name was Caroline Herrling, she had no law license, and the legal authority she displayed existed almost entirely on forged paper.

Using fake identities, counterfeit wills, impostors, and practiced signatures, Carrie stole nearly $3.9 million from vulnerable people, including the elderly, the isolated, and the dead.

Then she and her accomplice allegedly found Charles Wilding dead inside his home. Instead of contacting authorities, they kept him alive on paper, took control of his estate, and disposed of his remains in...

Lisa Hayden-Johnson was praised as a devoted mother caring for her desperately ill son. But Matthew was healthy.

For years, Lisa convinced doctors that he had numerous serious conditions, resulting in a wheelchair, feeding tube, oxygen bottles, and more than 325 unnecessary medical procedures. She even added glucose to his urine samples to create false evidence of diabetes.

In this episode, we examine how Lisa deceived an entire medical system, what she gained from keeping Matthew sick, and why she still insists she was only putting her son first.

Read the companion blog post, “Sh...

Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza spent months convincing her husband and family that she was pregnant. She gained weight, altered medical documents, produced fake ultrasound images and celebrated at a baby shower for a child she knew she was not carrying.

But a fabricated pregnancy came with a very real deadline.

On June 17, 2009, Ale entered the maternity ward of Hospital General de México carrying an empty department-store bag. Hours later, she walked out with newborn Katia Valentina hidden inside it.

In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine the pr...

Donna Adelson had no direct connection to the men who murdered her former son-in-law, Dan Markel. What investigators found instead was a trail of phone calls, suspicious payments, family interference, handwritten scripts, and a 2014 day planner containing the license plate number of Dan’s car.

In this episode, we examine the Adelson family’s enmeshed dynamics, the custody dispute that prosecutors said created the motive, and how investigators spent 11 years climbing from the gunmen to the woman accused of helping set everything in motion.

This is the story of Donna Adelson, the family she spent a li...

A tire was deliberately placed in the middle of a dark road. When Jared Bridegan stopped to move it, he was shot while his two-year-old daughter waited inside his vehicle.

Four years later, his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, is preparing to stand trial for allegedly conspiring with her second husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, to have him killed. But the man prosecutors identified as the gunman has withdrawn his guilty plea and taken back his agreement to testify.

In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine the bitter custody battle, Shanna’s disturbing messages about her ex...

On the evening of January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy left his Duxbury, Massachusetts, home to pick up medicine and dinner. He was gone for less than 30 minutes.

When he returned, he found his wife, Lindsay, catastrophically injured outside their home. Inside the basement, he found their three young children.

There is no mystery about who caused their deaths. The question now before a Plymouth County jury is whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when it happened.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, Kaitlyn examines Lindsay’s documented psychiatric decline, the 13 medications she was pr...

In the early morning hours of February 22, 2022, a mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, walked into her basement looking for her son. What she found would become the center of one of the most disturbing criminal cases in the state’s history.

Twenty-four-year-old Taylor Schabusiness was arrested within hours and confessed to killing 25-year-old Shad Thyrion, someone she had known since high school. The facts of the crime were never seriously disputed. The real question became whether Taylor was legally responsible for what she had done.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, Ka...

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we examine the case of Ruby Franke, the former momfluencer behind 8 Passengers, and the journal that revealed how she justified abusing her own children.

After her 12-year-old son escaped from Jodi Hildebrandt’s home asking for water and help, investigators uncovered starvation, isolation, forced labor, and a belief system that framed cruelty as righteousness.

This episode looks at Ruby’s rise, her connection to Jodi Hildebrandt, family vlogging, coercive control, moral disengagement, and what happens when the image of the perfect family matters more...

 In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we examine the case of Jodi Hildebrandt, the licensed counselor behind Connexions whose “truth versus distortion” framework became a tool of control.

After a 12-year-old boy escaped from a home in Ivins, Utah, asking for water and help, investigators uncovered the abuse of two children and the disturbing belief system used to justify it. This episode looks beyond the headlines to explore Jodi’s background, her influence over Ruby Franke, the psychology of thought reform, religious trauma, moral absolutism, and what happens when obedience is treated...

On June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, a long-running neighborhood dispute ended in tragedy when Susan Lorincz fired a single shot through her locked front door, killing her neighbor, Ajike “AJ” Owens, while AJ’s young son stood beside her. 

In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine the Susan Lorincz case beyond the headline. This is not just a story about one fatal shot. It is a case about fear, racial bias, trauma, Florida’s Stand Your Ground debate, and what happens when the legal system has to decide whose fear is considered “reasonable.” 

Susan Lorinc...

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we cover the disturbing case of Taylor Parker, a Texas woman who spent months pretending to be pregnant while building an elaborate web of lies around the people closest to her.

Taylor told her boyfriend the baby was coming. But there was no baby. There was no pregnancy. And when the truth was close to coming out, her deception turned into one of the most horrifying crimes in modern Texas history.

This episode looks at what happened to Reagan Hancock and her baby, Braxton Sage, but it...

Kouri Richins presented herself as a grieving widow after her husband, Eric Richins, died from fentanyl poisoning. But behind the public image was a case involving debt, life insurance, alleged prior poisoning attempts, and a children’s book about grief that shocked everyone watching.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the Kouri Richins case and the psychology behind one of the coldest performances of grief in recent true crime.

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On July 31, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove a Toyota Camry into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at 100 miles per hour.

Inside the car were her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan. Both were killed. Mackenzie survived.

At first, it looked like a tragic accident. But the car’s event data told a different story: full acceleration, no brakes, and a deliberate steering movement toward the wall. Investigators would later uncover a disturbing pattern behind the crash, including a prior threat to wreck the car with Dominic inside, a volatile relationship, and 93,000 text messages.

Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was only six years old when he disappeared from Everman, Texas. For more than three years, his case remained a heartbreaking missing child investigation. Then, in May 2026, investigators confirmed that Noel’s remains had been found.

His mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, is accused of calling him “possessed,” mistreating him, lying about where he was, and fleeing the country with her other children. She was later arrested, extradited back to Texas, and charged with capital murder.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we look at the disturbing case of Cindy Rodriguez-Singh and Noel R...

What happens when a girl the world never protected finally fights back? In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we return to the life and crimes of Aileen Wuornos—not starting on a Florida highway, but with a four-year-old child no one came for.

We revisit Aileen’s story from the ground up: the abandonment at age four, the abuse inside the only home she had, pregnancy at eleven, and being forced to survive in the woods as a teenager using the only “skills” adults had ever exploited in her. This is not just a recounting of seven mu...

What really happened inside that Miami penthouse on April 3rd, 2022?

Courtney Clenney said it was self defense. Prosecutors say the physical evidence tells a different story. And in the middle of it all is a relationship that had already spiraled into violence long before Christian Obumseli died.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the full timeline of the Courtney Clenney case, including:

The toxic relationship dynamic between Courtney and Christian

The disturbing text messages Christian sent before his death

The elevator fo...

England. A quiet street. A normal house.
 And beneath it… bodies.

For nearly 20 years, inside 25 Cromwell Street, some of the most horrifying crimes imaginable were happening behind closed doors — hidden beneath the life of a woman who looked completely ordinary.

Rose West wasn’t just a participant.
 She was a mother. A neighbor. A woman raising children… while helping torture and murder young women in her own home.

So how does someone live two lives like that?

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down one of the...

How Did a Yoga Instructor Get Away With Murder for 43 Days? | Kaitlin Armstrong Case

Kaitlin Armstrong was a yoga instructor and real estate agent in Austin, Texas — composed, disciplined, and completely in control of how she appeared to the world. On May 11th, 2022, she shot professional cyclist Mo Wilson three times in a bathroom in East Austin. Then she sold her car for cash, flew to Costa Rica on her sister's passport, paid $6,000 for a nose job, and went surfing for 43 days. This is her case — and Mo Wilson's story.

She was a churchgoing mother. A wife. A friend.

Someone who blended into her community so well, no one would have ever expected what she was capable of.

And then she picked up an axe… and didn’t stop.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the case of Candy Montgomery — a woman whose life looked perfectly controlled on the outside, but underneath, something much darker was building. What makes this case so unsettling isn’t just the violence. It’s how ordinary everything seemed right up until it wasn’t.

Thi...

She had a Newport Beach mansion. A family name on a university building. Daughters at one of the most elite prep schools in California.

She ran a charitable foundation dedicated to closing the opportunity gap between wealthy kids and kids who had nothing.

And then she paid a fraudster $300,000 to rig her daughters’ test scores and buy them into USC through a fake athletic profile.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the case of Michelle Janavs — heiress to the Hot Pocket fortune, philanthropist, board m...

She buried two husbands. She cried at the right funerals. She made dinner every night.

And then she tried to frame her own daughter for murder.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the case of Stacey Castor — a Syracuse wife and mother who poisoned the men in her life with antifreeze, then turned on her own daughter when the investigation got too close. What makes this case so unsettling isn't the violence. It's the patience. The performance. The cold, quiet calculation of a woman who was never once suspected — because she was...

That’s what everyone believed.

In 1975, Marie Hilly was seen as the kind of woman people trusted without question… until the truth started to unravel. First, her husband died after a mysterious illness. Then, years later, her daughter became sick in the exact same way.

What followed wasn’t just a murder investigation… it was the exposure of something far more unsettling.

A woman who didn’t just lie — she became someone else entirely.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down the case of Marie Hilly — a story of poi...

A quiet children’s ward. A trusted nurse. And a pattern no one saw—until it was too late.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we explore the chilling case of Beverley Allitt, a pediatric nurse responsible for the deaths and harm of multiple children in her care over just 59 days.

But this isn’t just a story about what happened. It’s about why.

Diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Allitt’s case forces us to confront a deeply unsettling question:
 What happens when the need to be neede...

In the early 1900s, a quiet red-brick house on Prospect Street in Windsor, Connecticut appeared to be a place of compassion.

It was run by a devout churchgoing woman known in the community as “Sister Amy.”

Her mission seemed noble.
 She cared for the elderly and infirm, people whose families could no longer support them.

But behind the doors of that home, something disturbing was happening.

Between 1907 and 1916, as many as 60 residents died.

At first, no one questioned it.
 The residents were elderly. Many w...

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine one of the most disturbing medical crimes in modern history — the case of neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder several others while working in a neonatal unit in England.

Hospitals are built on trust. Parents leave their most fragile children in the hands of professionals who have dedicated their lives to saving them. But what happens when the person trusted with protecting life becomes the person responsible for taking it?

Lucy Letby appeared to be...

Power doesn’t always arrive screaming.
 Sometimes it laughs. Loud. Effortless. Confident.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine Ghislaine Maxwell… socialite, fixer, daughter of a media empire, and the woman who turned proximity into currency.

Before Jeffrey Epstein, there was Robert Maxwell.
 Before the grooming, there was conditioning.
 Before the crimes, there was a girl raised to believe that access to power was the same thing as power itself.

This is not a story about glamour.
 It’s a story about psychological inheritance.
 About narci...

Darkness doesn’t always arrive screaming.
 Sometimes it walks in carrying a clipboard.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine Nancy Salzman…therapist, co-founder of NXIVM, and the psychological architect behind one of the most disturbing cult organizations in modern history.

If last week’s episode on Allison Mack left you unsettled, this is the deeper layer. Because Allison Mack wasn’t the beginning — she was the outcome.

Nancy Salzman built the infrastructure.

She translated Keith Raniere’s grandiose ideology into therapeutic language.
 She professionalized manipulation.<...

This was not a story about fame gone wrong.
 It was a story about how the need to belong can be weaponized into obedience.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the complex and deeply unsettling case of Allison Mack, a former television star whose search for meaning and transformation led her into the inner circle of the NXIVM cult — and eventually into becoming a perpetrator of abuse herself.

Best known for her role on Smallville, Allison Mack appeared successful, intelligent, and self-assured. But benea...

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Lori Vallow Daybell: Belief, Control, and the ‘Chosen’ Identity

The children didn’t scream.
 There was no frantic 911 call.
 No chaos caught on tape.

There was silence.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the case of Lori Vallow Daybell...not through the lens of insanity, but through belief. This is a story about how a “chosen” identity can transform love into justification, faith into control, and children into obstacles.

This isn’t a case about snapping.
 It...

This was not a crime of desperation.

It was a crime of performance.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the deeply disturbing case of Sherri Papini, a woman whose fragile sense of identity and insatiable need for attention led her to stage her own kidnapping, deceive an entire nation, and ultimately commit federal fraud.

This is a story about how crisis becomes currency when attention equals survival.

It begins with a childhood pattern of seeking validation through distress, evolves through years of ide...

This was not a crime of sudden rage.
 It was a crime of control.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the deeply disturbing case of Letecia Stauch, a woman whose fragile identity and relentless need to control perception ultimately led to the murder of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch.

This is a story about how violence doesn’t begin with a weapon.
 It begins with narrative control, emotional rigidity, and a refusal to tolerate reality.

Through a detailed psychological analysis, we explore how...

Calamity Jane didn’t leave behind a trail of bodies... she left behind a reputation that history refused to question.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we step beyond the legend to examine the real woman behind the myth: Martha Jane Canary.
Through historical records, contemporary accounts, and psychological analysis, we explore how trauma, gender norms, and social labeling transformed a surviving frontier woman into a cautionary tale history never bothered to correct.

This is a story about:

Pamela Smart didn’t commit a crime of passion… she committed a crime of certainty.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the chilling case of Pamela Smart. 

A high school media coordinator who groomed a teenage student and manipulated him into believing murder was an act of love and loyalty. 

Through a deep psychological analysis, we explore how authority, entitlement, and narrative control allowed this crime to unfold long before a crime was committed.

This is a story about crimes that didn’t look violent, manipulation that didn’t feel for...

A luxury resort in Bali.  A suitcase left behind.
And a crime that forces us to confront the uncomfortable space between trauma and choice.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the case of Heather Mack, a young woman whose life unfolded under intense control, emotional volatility, and unresolved resentment — culminating in the brutal killing of her mother, Sheila Von Wiese Mack, inside a five-star hotel room.

What initially appeared to be a violent family argument spiraling out of control quickly revealed something more complex. This case is not just abo...