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Gold Digger Killer



Gold Digger Killer

Multimillionaire, Steven Beard fell for the younger, attractive waitress who worked at his country club.   Soon he and Celeste were married. When Steve calls 911 and is discovered in his bedroom shot in the stomach, suspicion falls on Celeste’s friend, Tracey.  Months later Tracey implicates Celeste.

We will be going over the movie made about this case and then the true story behind it.

The movie is Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer. It’s a 2021 Lifetime Movie, Starring Julie Bentz, Eli Gabay and Roan Curtis.  It can be found on Lifetime and is available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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Sources for this episode:

Man is fatally shot while sleeping, at the request of his wife – Horror History .net

Betrayed By Her Own Children – CBS News

Twins, Lesbian Lover Unravel Texas Murder – ABC News (go.com)

Celeste Beard – Wikipedia

Celeste Beard | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers


The Pardon



Today’s episode is the story of Toni Jo Henry who had a horrible childhood, fought drug addiction, found true love and then was involved in a murder.  I am covering the movie made about her case and the True Story that the movie was based on.

The Pardon is a 2013 movie.  Starring:  Jaime King, Jason Lewis, John Hawkes and M.C. Gainey

The true story of Toni Jo Henry, a woman tried for the crime of murder in 1942 in the state of Louisiana.

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The sources for today’s episode:

Toni Jo Henry (1916-1942) – Find A Grave Memorial

Claude David “Cowboy” Henry (1913-1945) – Find A Grave Memorial

Toni Jo Henry (capitalpunishmentuk.org)

 

A Courthouse Ghost: Toni Jo Henry (anomalien.com)

tonijo (rowdiva.com)

Toni Jo Henry (en-academic.com)

 

Toni Jo Henry – Wikipedia

 

The Pardon – Wikipedia

The Pardon Movie


The Blackout Ripper (Bonus Epi)



Welcome back to Cherry Avenue True Crime Podcast!

I have a bonus mini-episode for you today about the Blackout Killer.

In my next upcoming episode:  The Last Hangman, I will be covering Albert Pierrepoint and the movie made about his career as executioner from 1931 to 1956. During his career he executed somewhere between 435 and 600 people. 200 of those were from war crimes that took place during WWII, such as the Beast of Belsen and Irma Grese.

 Pierrepoint executed many notable murderers in the UK, but one that was not featured in the movie, was Gordon Cummins, aka the Blackout Killer or the Blackout Ripper.

 So for this mini-episode we will go over one of the truly horrible men that Albert Pierrepoint had to encounter during his job as head executioner in 1942.

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Sources for this episode:

Serial Killer Blackout Ripper – Gordon Cummins (murderuk.com)

How the Blackout Ripper killed so horrifically | Daily Mail Online

Albert Pierrepoint – Wikipedia

Gordon Cummins – Wikipedia

Gordon Cummins | Criminal Minds Wiki | Fandom

 


Executioner’s Song



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Just a quick reminder that new episodes are out on the 15th and 30th of each month, with occasional bonus episodes, so be sure to hit subscribe so you don’t miss one.

This continues our series of Based on a True Story movies and the true crime cases behind them.  Let me tell you that doing the research for these movies for my podcast has become a little Rabbit Hole of it’s own.  While I was researching for this episode I found another movie, on this case, that I had never heard of.  Turned out to be really good and well worth the time, and worth featuring.  I have found many other movies while researching the cases, so I have a long list to cover….and to use as bonus movie names for you.

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Sources for this episode:

The movie Texas Killing Fields found on TubiTV

The movies The Executioner’s Song found on Amazon Prime and Shot in the Heart found on You tube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Executioner’s_Song_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore_(criminal)

Gary Gilmore: Facing the Firing Squad | Full Documentary | Biography – Bing video

Execution by firing squad – Wikipedia

Gary Gilmore (criminal) – Wikipedia

 


Merry Black Widows



Welcome back to Cherry Avenue True Crime Podcast.

 I have two new movies for you, in this continued series, Based on a True Story; a true crime story that is.  

Both are about black widows who chose poison.  Interestingly, they were both southern women and were operating around the same time period.  One in North Carolina and one in Alabama.

The Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)

and

Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991)

We cover the movies and go behind the movies for the true story it was based on.

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Sources for this episode:

Marie Hilley | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom

Audrey Marie Hilley – Wikipedia

27 Interesting And Strange Facts About Audrey Marie Hilley – Tons Of Facts

Marie Hilley murdered her husband and poisoned her daughter before escaping prison (monstersandcritics.com)

Blanche Taylor Moore – Wikipedia

Blanche Taylor Moore: Black Widow Killer is North Carolina’s oldest woman on death row – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

Blanche Taylor Moore: Black Widow Killer is North Carolina’s oldest woman on death row – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

Where is Blanche Taylor Moore Now? Is She Still in Jail Today? Is Blanche Taylor Moore Dead or Alive? (thecinemaholic.com)

Former prosecutor in Blanche Taylor Moore trial dies in Charlotte | Charlotte Observer

Blanche Taylor Moore Women On Death Row | My Crime Library

Preacher’s Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore: Schutze, Jim: 9780688119348: Amazon.com: Books  JIM SCHUTZE

 


Brutal Obsession: Based on a True Story series



Brutal Obsession:  Based on a True Story series

Welcome Back to Cherry Avenue True Crime Podcast

On this episode we are continuing on with the Based on a True Story series where I am covering a movie that is based on a true crime story and we’ll go over the movie as well as what really happened.  Also, stay tuned at the end of each episode as I will be giving some bonus movie names.  These are names of true crime movies that I’m not going to cover in this series but you can go and look up and watch on one of the streaming platforms.

The movie for this episode is: Stalking Laura and it is really well done.  It’s one of those that have stuck with me, and really makes you think.

 

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Bonus Movies:

  • A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story. (1992 Amazon Prime) Starring: Virginia Madsen and Chris Sarandon.
  • Murder on the Cape:  Christa Worthington Case. (Bonus Movie) (2017)  Based on the Christa Worthington case.

 

 

Sources:

Richard Farley – He Stalked Her Relentlessly Then He Opened Fire (wickedwe.com)

 

Profile of Richard Wade Farley, Mass Murderer (thoughtco.com)

 

Wikipedia

Richard Farley | Criminal Minds Wiki | Fandom

 

Montaldo, Charles. “Profile of Richard Wade Farley, Mass Murderer.” ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, thoughtco.com/mass-murderer-richard-wade-farley-973100.

Death Penalty Appeal Denied in Tech Company Killings – NBC Bay Area

SUDDEN DEATH IN SUNNYVALE – The Washington Post

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-18-mn-43514-story.html

Unwanted Suitor’s Fixation on Woman Led to Carnage – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)


More Unsolved Does



Welcome Back to Cherry Avenue True Crime Podcast

Today’s episode is dedicated to Unsolved Jane Doe murder cases.  These victims have not yet been identified and their murders not yet solved.  For each one covered here I will post pictures of their sketches and any items recovered with them if they are available.  I’ll post them on our social media.  For Twitter it is under @AvenueCrime and for Instagram it is under Cherry Avenue True Crime.  I’ll put the info in the show notes.

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Links:

Santa Ana detectives reopen 1988 cold case to identify ‘Jane Doe,’ find killer – ABC7 Los Angeles    

Doe Network: International Center For Missing and Unidentified Persons


Different Degrees of Murder



All New Ad-Free Episode!  Three cases, Three Different sets of murders.  One from 1900, one from 1926, and one from 1978-1993.  Marty Bergen, George Jefferson Hassell, and Robert Spangler.

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Marty Bergen – Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org)    Written by Brian McKenna

Marty Bergen (baseball) Wikipedia

Marty Bergen, Profile (razzball.com)  The Tragedy at Snowball Farm by Paulie Allnuts

George J. Hassell – Parmer County, Texas (genealogytrails.com)

The Case of George J. Hassell — Criminally Intrigued

Wikipedia

https://thisismonsters.com/robert-spangler/

Robert Spangler murdered five members of his own family: Devil Among Us investigates (monstersandcritics.com)

 

 


Halloween 2020 Special Episode



This is the annual Halloween special with a couple of bite size frights for you.  We have two short and sweet Halloween Treats that are True Stories of course!

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Helter Skelter Special Part 2



 

This is Part Two of a two part episode on Helter Skelter, The Manson Murders, the details on everyone involved, what led up to it and what happened afterward. If you haven’t listened to Part One go listen!

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Helter Skelter Special Part 1



This was a truly horrific murder spree.  Sometimes I think the humanity of the victims is really lost in all the Charles Manson craziness.  Humans are always looking to belong, looking for their “people”, looking for people like themselves, craving a connection of some kind.  Manson played into this at one of the easiest times in history to pull it off. He didn’t even know what type of world he was walking out into when he was released from prison in the 1967.  But he was good at adapting quickly, after years of having to survive abusive care from relatives and then people in the reform schools and boys homes he lived in and on into prison.  He came out with his pimp knowledge and his Dale Carnegies’ How to Make Friends and Influence People education along with his gift of being able to turn into (or seem like) what people wanted.  He didn’t change into what he wanted until they were well well ensnared.

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No Good Reason



Napa is located in Northern California and is known for it’s wine vineyards.    Halloween night in 2004 brought a horror movie scene to this picturesque town.

Roommates’, Leslie, Lauren and Adriane had a fun night of handing out candy and had retired to their separate bedrooms.

Lauren fell asleep but awoke to her dog growling.  Listening attentively she heard some unusual noises in the house and then screaming.  She looked out her door and saw a man run down the stairs and then jump out the front window.  She found her roommates had been attacked and she called 911.  Leslie Mazarra, 25,  was dead.  Adrien Insogna, 26, was rushed to hospital but died before arriving.  They had both been Stabbed repeatedly.

 

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Unearthed Bones



A Heavy Equipment Operator was working on the property of an old yellow house that had been falling into disrepair.  It had been empty for quite a while and he was starting the steps of demolishing the old farm house, when up comes a ragged black trash bag with bones and fabric in it.

Police were called of course.

It was eventually determined to be the bones of a human being.

 

 

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Unsolved Jane Doe Murders



This is a special episode about some unsolved murders involving Jane Does.  So not only have the murders never been caught, the victims identities are unknown.  If you are a regular listener, you know we usually go over solved cases, and discus the victim and perpetrator in detail.

Today, I decided to dedicate this episode to the unsolved jane does as I keep coming across more and more of them in my research.  These are some that particularly haunt me, but there are many more out there, sadly.

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Love Triangle Murders



Two Love Triangle Murders

On this episode we have two love triangle murder cases for you.

There is not much mystery as to Who perpetrated the murders, but there certainly is as to the Why?

When was it that two people decided that the other person had to die?

How did they decide that this was the only way to go?

Where did the madness set in?

And What created this culmination of sadness, madness and evil?

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https://www.oxygen.com/criminal-confessions/crime-time/detectives-recall-finding-body-mother-murdered There is a clip there of Josh trying to pretend he knows nothing about Heather’s disappearance.

Recommend:  To Love and To Kill by M. William Phelps  (about the Heather Strong murder) Deep dive into all involved.


When You Least Expect It



Ginger Rios disappeared after going into a little shop in a strip mall in Las Vegas. Her husband was sitting in the car waiting for her, but she never returned. After waiting quite a while, he went into the store that he had seen her go into and asked if she was still there. The owner of the store told him that she had bought a couple of books and left.
Her husband knew she had gone into the little store, called Spy Craft, to buy a book on how to clean up her credit. She had left her purse in the car and had just taken her wallet with her. He was bewildered as to where she had gone!

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The Sorceress and the Noblewoman



I have something a little bit different for you today.
I have two true crime stories that go way, way back.
One is about a supposed Sorceress from the 1300’s in Ireland, and another is an extremely cruel and evil noblewoman in 1700’s Russia. Catherine The Great makes an appearance today in one of these true crime stories. I wonder if you can guess which one.
I thought it might be nice to go way back in history and get a break from anything even close to current or present day. I hope you enjoy it.

 

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Cold Cases Close



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On this episode I have 3 Cold Cases that were solved in an unusual way.

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Talent Torn: Phil Hartman



May 28th,1998 a 911 call comes in that will shatter fans of the great comedian and actor, Phil Hartman.

 


HALLOWEEN SPECIAL



Halloween Special with some insane Halloween murders from present day, as well as a look back at some crazy scary holiday trends that got Halloween celebrators and Halloween pranksters shot. You’ll be glad to hear those things are generally a thing of the past.  No Tricks here, Just Sweet True Crime Treats.

Happy Halloween!

Sources not already mentioned in the podcast:

WOMAN FOUND DEAD HAD HAMMER INJURY, Arizona Daily Star, by Inger Sandal, Nov 4th, 1998

WOMAN GETS 16 YEARS FOR HAMMER KILLING, Arizona Daily Star, by Inger Sandal, Sep 18th, 1999

WOMAN CONVICTED IN HALLOWEEN SLAYING OF WOMAN INVOLVED WITH HER HUSBAND, Arizona Daily Star, by Ingel Sandal, August 19,1999


HALLOWEEN SPECIAL



Halloween Special with some insane Halloween murders from present day, and a look at some crazy scary holiday trends from way back that you will be glad are a thing of the past. No Tricks here.  Just sweet True Crime Treats.  Happy Halloween from my family to yours!

Sources:

WOMAN FOUND DEAD HAD HAMMER INJURY, Arizona Daily Star by Inger Sandal, Nov 4th, 1998,

WOMAN GETS 16 YERS FOR HAMMER KILLING,Arizona Daily Star by Ingel Sandal, Sep 18th, 1999

WIFE CONVICTED IN HALLOWEEN SLAYING OF WOMAN INVOLVED WITH HER HUSBAND, Arizona Daily Star by Ingel Sandal, Aug 19. 1999

https://listverse.com/2017/10/31/10-most-horrific-murders-committed-on-halloween/

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2014/10/13-brutal-halloween-murders-nsfw/

Newspapers.com Historical

 

 

 

 


Serious Stalkers



Serious Stalkers.  This episode is about three different stalkers with three completely different types of stalking.

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313 Carl Drive Pt3



This is Part 3 of the episode: 313 Carl Drive.  If you have not yet listened to Part One and Part Two please go back and listen to those. Part 3 will start right where we left off in Part 2.


313 Carl Drive PT 2



If you have not yet listened to Part One yet, please go back and listen.

This is Part 2 and we start where we left off in Part 1


313 CARL DRIVE -PART ONE



313 CARL DRIVE was the home of the Hendricks family.  David, Susan, and their three beautiful children.  One horrible night in November 1983, the entire family was brutally slain with an ax and a knife.  All, except for the sole survivor, David.  There are some twists and turns in this case.


No Option But Murder



No Option But Murder.  In the summer of 1998 a computer expert feels his marriage is not up to par and rather than getting a divorce, he dates women online.  In the meantime he does a little research to find other ways to get rid of her. But he is surprised when she comes to him and asks for a divorce.  Everything changes then.

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We also go over an incredibly similar case that took place five years before this one, with the body dump being in the same location.

 

 

 


Real Story of Mr. Goodbar Murder



The real story of the Mr. Goodbar Murder.  Rosann Quinn.  John Wayne Wilson.  There is so much more to the story.  The murder was the basis for the movie and book Looking for Mr. Goodbar.  Also for the book Closing Time.  The real story is very different from the movie. A Single Teacher in 1973 New York living on her own.  Her story was told as a cautionary tale.  He was a drifter.  There is so much more to both of their stories.

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Raynella Dossett Leath



Raynella Dossett Leath was accused of killing two husbands.  The first one was ruled an agricultural accident.  After the death of her second husband due to a gunshot wound to the head, they took a second look at the first husband’s death and she was eventually charged in that as well.  There are some fascinating developments and some jaw dropping surprises along the way.  After the main feature, there are historical newspaper clips read about other “Black Widows” from 1909 to 2003.

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Jealousy was the Motive



This episode involves a young couple, Andrew Saunders and Zoe Morgan, who had the whole world ahead of them.  They break up and Andrew can’t let go. When Zoe starts seeing another man, Lee Simmons, Andrew starts to make threats.  It ends in murder and three lives are destroyed, two of them forever.

Stay tuned after the main episode for some historical news clips of similar cases going back as far as 1901 and on thru to 1950.

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