Beyond the Rainbow Podcast

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In 2015, Houston millionaire, Jake Merendino would fall in love with a male sex worker he met in San Diego. This male sex worker, David Meza, was living a double life as he was engaged to a girl of 19 years old. Torn between his sugar daddy and his future wife, David made a choice and in his eyes, someone had to die.

True Crime Quickie from Bulgaria.

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/this-cop-was-inspired-to-help-others-after-being-victim-of-hate-crime/<...

In 2009, 15 year old Loren was a victim of one of the youngest serial killers in Canada's history, Cody Legebekoff. At 24, Cody was convicted of killing 4 women, including Loren, when he was only 19 years old. Loren is the only known victim of Cody's who was LGBTQ.

Our True Crime Quickie is from Staten Island, New York in 1990.

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

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Resources:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article...

24 year old Jamie Liang was young, vibrant and had just found a new girlfriend in 26 year old Jenny Li. Jenny's ex girlfriend, NY police officer Yvonne Wu was none too happy about Jenny and Jamie's relationship and ambushed the two women in Jenny's apartment. True Crime Quickie is from the Boystown area of Chicago, the murder of Brad Winters.

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Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources:

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-announces-guilty-plea-former-nypd-officer-manslaughter#:~:text=On%20October%2013%2C%202021%2C%20while,Li.
...

Hey there! This is a collaboration episode with Pat, co-host of Pod of Terror!  We both cover a case where the victim or victim's remains were found in suitcases. 

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Intro: Shire Girl by  David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources for my story:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/two-gay-men-murdered-their-bodies-shoved-in-suitcases-left-on-bridge/
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/crime/clifton-suitcase-bodies-bristol-yostin-mosquera-court-b2626582.html
https://people.com/man-charged-with-2-counts-murder-after-human-remains-found-in-suitcases-on-bridge-8677918
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13636019/suspected-killer-pictured-french-national-ex-remains-dumped-clifton-suspension-bridge.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29197144/shocking-footage-clifton-suspension-bridge-human-remains/

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Sorry to have not been able to put out an episode last week. Been struggling with sound quality. It's still not up to snuff but better than what I was getting the first 4-5 times I tried recording. I hope to have the issue resolved soon!

Still need more soundbites! Please record on your phone and email to Beyondtherainbowpod@gmail.com   "Darkcast Network, the best in indie podcasts. You can find all of the great Darkcast shows on darkcastnetwork.com.  Hi...I'm (your name) and you are listening to Rainbow Crimes with hopefully some unicorn justice!"

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And This episode is part of Podcastathon! My charity of choice is YPA - Youth Pride Association.  Fittingly in this episode I will be cover the murder of 15 year old Larry King, who struggled through his young life to find his truth. Many thought he was another gay teenager, but he was exploring his gender identity as well. 

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources:
https://vocal.media/criminal/the-murder-of-larry-king
https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/former-teacher-who-witnessed-shooting-of-gay-student-larry-king-speaks-out
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mcinerney-brandon.htm
https://ww...

The Wonderland Murders occured in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, where 5 members of a drug gang were savagedly murdered in a home on Wonderland Ave in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood. Drug Kingpin Eddie Nash and porn superstar John Holmes were the biggest suspects. 

True Crime Quickie from Columbus, Ohio.

Promo for And Then They Were Gone Podcast

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

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Resources:
https://www.michaelconnelly.com/wonderland-murders/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wonderland-murders
https://thecinemaholic.c...

Hey guys! Had to reach into my Patreon Vault and unlock an episode shared on there. I'm currently still working on a story for you that has many components to it, so it's taking me a bit longer than usual. Please enjoy this episode that ran as a Patreon Exculsive.

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This episode covers short true crime stories that are fairly recent, some without any resolution yet. Including the case of trans man Sam Nordquist who was tortured and murdered this month.

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Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Script for opening soundbite:
"Darkcast Network, the best in indie podcasts! Check out all of the great podcast shows at Darkcast.com. Hey there! I'm (your name) and you are listening to Rainbow Crimes with hopefully some Unicorn Justice."

Please send to...

Youtube and Tik Tok influencer Ruby Franke became a celebrity of sorts with her daily videos documenting her and her families lives. Ruby preached about the best way raise children to be obedient but found herself under fire as an abusive mother. Jodi Hildebrandt became Ruby's life coach and marriage therapist, inserting herself intimately into the Franke families lives.

True Crime Quickie is about a leader of The Young Republicans local chapter in Alabama.

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Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renta
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Last Epiode of Season 16

18 year old Nadine Esterhuizen of Cape Town, South Africa and her 20 year old girlfriend Corrine Jackson had known each other for 4 years before they began dating. Their relationship was tumultuous, it became violent and then deadly.

True Crime Quickie is from Atlanta, Georgia in 1984.

A bit of sunshine is from IDAHO not OHIO as I said during the episode. Sorry, sometimes my brain and mouth don't engage with each other correctly.

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Fenda

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20 year old Sean Kennedy was adorable with his big dimples and young Justin Beiber haircut. He left a bar one May night in 2007 only to be assault for his sexual identity. After the assault Sean would die 17 hours later. True Crime Quickie is from Jackson, Mississippi in 2024.

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Heartbeat by David Renton


Resources:
https://www.towleroad.com/2008/06/moller-gets-3-y/
https://www.towleroad.com/2007/06/hundreds_attend/
https://www.towleroad.com/2007/05/sc_hate_crime_m/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvgXJj9mTkY
https://www...

In 2003, Manchester, England, a 14 year old boy and a 16 year old boy would meet in a chat room. What conspired afterwards was criminal.True Crime Quickie is from Laguna Beach, California in the year 2021.

If you'd like to record a soundbite for future episodes...here's the script:

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Join hosts Courtney from The Book of the Dead and CJ from Rainbowcrimes for two chilling tales of Frenenemies. Courtney covers 17 year old Missy Avila from California and CJ tackles the well known case of 16 year old Skylar Neese. 

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Promo for: Murder and Mimosas

Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyn
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-practice/201304/the-3-types-frenemies
https://people.com/missy-avila-murder-teens-killed-friend-jealousy-8738378
https://issuu.com/santamonicaumc/docs/july-august-2023-sentinel-final_web/s/27340942
https://www.l...

A young Canadian man with schizophrenia goes on a killing spree in 2007.  Is he using his condition as an excuse for the murders?

True Crime Quickie is from Perry, Iowa in 2024

Intro: Shire Girl -David Fesliyan
Outro: Beating Heart - David Renda

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Taking new intro recordings now! No need for fancy recording equip just do it on your phone and email it to: Beyondtherainbowpod@gmail.com

Script:
Darkcast Network – the best in indie podcasts, check out all of the amazing Darkcast shows at...

In this final minisode of the year, we go to Houston, Texa where love and jealousy ends the life of a family.

Promo for Famous Last Words

Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

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Resources:
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/xavier-davis-no-bond-for-suspect-killed-couple-6-year-old-girl/285-df11c2af-d1cd-48b1-ae3d-0a7eb257478e
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/community-rallies-around-3-young-children-whose-parents-sister-were-murdered
https://abc13.com/xavier-davis-fondren-shooting-family-killed-6-year-old/10856611/
https://abc13.com/alexus-williams-charged-houston-family-murder-parents-and-6-year-old-killed-xavier-davis-accused-of-killing-couple-daughter/11617475/
https://therecenttimes.com/news...

19 year old trans woman, Lauryn Paige Fuller battled bullying most of her life. She dropped out of high school and rarely spent any time at her family's home. She mostly stayed with her best friend and on the streets. One night in January of 1999, her life would come to a screeching halt.

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Intro: Black Moon by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

Resources:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20643310/donald_scott-fuller
https://www.foto8.com/issue08/scottfuller1.html
https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/1999/01/09...

20 year old Shelley Nance was a student at The Art Institute of Dallas.  She had just started to date a fellow classmate who had a very jealous room mate.

Promo for: Love & Murder Podcast

Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

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Resources:

https://thecinemaholic.com/shelley-nance-murder-where-is-daniel-willyam-now/
https://dallasvoice.com/gay-navy-pastry-chef-guilty-murdering-roommates-girlfriend-dallas/
https://www.dailycrime.com/murder-of-shelley-nance-by-daniel-willyam-investigated-on-a-heated-defense-on-id/
https://www.dailycrime.com/samantha-shelly-nance-was-murdered-by-daniel-willyam-in-a-frenzied-attack/
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2011/11/02/jealousy-drove-suspect-to-kill-art-student-dallas-county-jury-is-told/

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For 10 years 25 year old Robert Van Hook was a serial robber of gay men. Then suddenly he snapped and murdered 25 year old David Self in Cincinatti, Ohio.

Promo for: Scottish Murders
Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

Resources:
https://www.boston.com/news/education/2024/12/03/a-new-mass-high-school-is-catering-specifically-to-lgbtq-students-heres-what-to-know/

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2018/07/17/execution-homosexual-panic-murderer-set-10-m/792535002/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-executes-robert-van-hook-who-strangled-and-stabbed-man-he-met-in-bar-2018-07-18/
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2018/07/18/killer-s-final-words-i/11452315007/
https://apnews.com/general-news-94be9c424e4843338d053ecdc3d59976
...

19 year old Steen Fenrich disappeared from Queens, NY in September of 1999. His 20th birthday passed, as did Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. All during that time, no one, including his parents, reported him missing. March of 2000, a man walking through a park in Queens found a faded plastic tote. Inside were human remains that someone had attempted to burn in acid. The skin and flesh were pulled away from the skull to reveal someone had taken a permanent marker and wrote the victims social security number on it, as well as a racial and gay slur.

2 Quickies, first...

OMG this has episode has been a beast to get right! First only 3 minutes uploaded and then I uploaded an unedited version apparently....sigh! Here's the one it should be! 

And I am not putting all the resources back in the show notes...just trust I didn't steal the material from another podcaster...

I'm sorry this particular episode has been a struggle to get out!

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54 year old Paul Taylor lived comfortably in Scotland with his wife. Paul, a military veteran also was a father to two adult children. No one knew he was using Grindr and living a double life by having sex with a 19 year old bi sexual man named Jack Crawley.

True Crime Quickie is from Washington DC in 2015. The Murder of David Messerschmitt.

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Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

Resources:
https://help.grindr.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009296922-How-Grindr-moderates-content-and-profiles#:~:text=We%20use%20...

The making of throuples has garnered popularity over the past years. When Aileen was invited to be part of one with an ex boyfriend, she jumped at the opportunity. After all being with her ex and his currently girlfriend, gave her a sense of being loved and cared about...at least at first.

True Crime Quickie from San Francisco, California. The Murder of Eriq Escalon.

Promo for: Ye Olde Crime

Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

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Stanley Everett Rice was a little known serial killer operating in Canada, Massachusetts, Ohio and Florida in the 60's. He preyed upon young boys.

Our True Crime Quickie is from Glasgow, Scotland in the 90's. The Murder of Michael Doran.

Promo for: Book of the Dead

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Soundbite script: Darkcast Network, out the shadows come the best in indie podcasts. I'm (your name) and you are listening to Beyond the Rainbow - True Crimes of the LGBTQ plus.

Please send your recording to beyondtherainbowpod@gmail.com

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Sorry Warriors, it just came to my attention that yet another of my episodes was cut short, but this one was cut WAAAAYYY short! For some reason when I load the episodes onto my platform Spreaker, they've been getting cut off. I usually try to catch it, but I missed this episode.


Seven gay men in five year would die between 2000 - 2005 in the Dallas area of Texas. Did the police have a serial killer of gay men on their hands?

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21 year old trans woman Lucille Hamilton of Little Rock, Arkansas was a beautiful bright light to many. Lucie as most young people had a lot of interests. She love animals and really enjoyed studying different religions. One religion she was fascinated with was Voudon (Vah Doon) or Vodou/VooDoo. She worked two jobs and budgeted her money to be able to afford a Voodoo mind cleansing (Lave Tet) with a well known VooDoo Priest named Papa Hector. During the Lave Tet Lucie would die.

Our True Crime Quickie is from England in 2021. 50 year old Roy was a Sri...

Ken was a well loved Jr. High School teacher in Des Moines, Iowa. He knew he was gay but went the route of marrying a woman, having children with this woman and not living his truth. But in the 80's Ken decided it was time to be who he really was. His life would come crashing down one fateful night in February of 1988. His teenaged daughter was a prime suspect at first.

Our True Crime Quickie is from Washington State. Two traveling nurses Josilyn and Brandy had gotten engaged to each other in 2022. In the summer of 2023 they...

To honor DV survivors and remember those lost to Domestic Violence, I bring you 4 cases of DV within the LGBTQ plus community.

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Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

Resources:
https://thelittlerebellion.com/index.php/2020/12/male-rape-survivor-speaks-out-against-sexual-and-domestic-violence/#:~:text=In%202014%20when%20author%20Patrick%20Dati%20released%20his,young%20men%20and%20buried%20them%20under%20his%20house.
https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/6/01/gay-man-breaks-silence-his-domestic-abuse-horror-story
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/domestic-violence-survivors-arent-getting-the-reduced-sentences-they-qualify-for
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/il-court-of-appeals/1038042.html
http://www.uupmi.org/in-the-media/march-03...

35 year old Kristin Snyder disappeared from her home of Anchorage, Alaska while attending NXIVM (Nexium) Cult classes, never to be seen again. It's been over two decades since she went missing. This is a collaboration episode with Sinister Steph of Sinister Story Hour. A big thank you to Ted and J.J. (Conspiring to Argue Podcast) for developing the NXIVM ad for us at the start of the show.

Intro: Black Moon by 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

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Resources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

https://www.thechatwithmisshollywood.com/post/transgender-starr-brown-shot-and-killed-in-memphisThe police thought they had a serial killer of gay men in the making in the U.K. But was William Beggs whose moniker was Limbs in the Loch Killer aka the Gay Slasher already a serial killer?  

True Crime Quickie from Memphis, Tennessee. The murder of black trans woman Starr Brown.

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Darkcast Network, out of the shadows come the best in indie podcasts. I’m (then your name) and you are listening to Beyond the Rainbow – True Crimes of the LGBTQ plus!
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Hey Warriors, it's the last episode of season 15!   While I was in Portland, I was contacted by the sister of a victim who's case I covered in Season 11. I covered the case of Timothy Ridpath as a True Crime Quickie because there was not a whole lot of information about it. After Timothy's sister Nicole contacted me, I found there was some misinformation in the newspaper articles that I did have to use for reference. With the help of Nicole, I hope to be setting the inaccuracies right. 

Our True Crime Quickie is from West Palm Beach Florida in...

https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2024/01/03/whats-next-after-south-florida-arrests-for-brutal-beating-of-lgbtq-women/
Listener requested WTF episode cuz it's been a while..

Promo: Autumn's Oddities

Intro: Black Moons by The 126ers
Outro: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS

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Resources;
https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/19/three-gay-men-hunted-men-knives-a-park-21068124/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDmuWIbhJI
https://www.advocate.com/politicians/2018/5/24/18-homophobic-leaders-who-turned-out-be-gay-or-bi#rebelltitem3
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/investigation-into-transgender-boy-attacked-gloucester-could-take-several-weeks-police-say/HFD7MLJJRVD6DCYKCFQQZ7B7XQ/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.aspx
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nearly-1-5-hate-crimes-motivated-anti-lgbtq-bias-fbi-n1080891
https://www...