Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast
Do you love everything true crime and cocktails? Then this is the show for you. Listen every week, as Sinister Crimes and Cocktails takes a deep dive into true crime stories from around world exploring sinister minds, their menacing crimes and the mistakes left behind all while enjoying a cocktail masterminded by us for each episode... Believe us you will need it!
Episodes
173 episodes
Episode 172: The Beauty Queen Killer
In February of 1984, Australian- American serial rapist and killer, Christopher Wilder, embarked on a seven-week, cross-country killing spree, abducting and torturing at least twelve young women and girls who were aspiring to be models, and kil...
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Episode 171: The Will to Survive
Mary Vincent was just fifteen years old in September of 1978, hitchhiking her way to Los Angles, when she was brutally attacked by Lawrence Singleton, who raped her, severed her forearms with an axe and left her for dead in the California Deser...
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Episode 171
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Episode 170: Death of a Cheerleader
Teens come with an array of emotions from happiness to anger, from excitement to anxiety and even jealousy and envy. But what happens when some of those emotions become too overwhelming for teens to handle on their own? Well, in the summer of 1...
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Episode 169: The Pom-Pom Killer Mom
What would you do to ensure that your child made their school’s athletic team? Well, in 1991, in Channelview, Texas, thirty-six- year-old mother of two, Wanda Holloway, was charged with solicitation of capital murder after she allegedly hired a...
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Episode 169
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Episode 168: The Acid Bath Vampire
Long after Jack the Ripper terrorized the city streets of London, another English serial killer, John Haigh would also use the city as his killing playground. Commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer or Acid Bath Vampire, Haigh’s rose to infamy...
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Episode 168
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Episode 167: Chicago: A True Sinister Musical
One of America’s most famous plays in Broadway history is Chicago- a musical set in the windy city in the early 1920’s. What makes the musical so appealing is that although the events unfolding on stage occurred almost 100 years ago, t...
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Episode 167
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Episode 166: A Texas Raised Serial Killer
Between 1970 and 1973, serial killer and sex offender Dean Corll also known as the Candyman or Piped Piper, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least twenty-eight teenage boys and young men in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. This sinister cr...
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Episode 165: The Wife Swap Murders
In June of 2017, 25-year-old Jacob Stockdale, who’s conservative Christian family appeared on the ABC hit show “Wife Swap” nine years earlier, fatally shot his mother Kathryn and younger brother James at their family home in the rural township ...
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Episode 165
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Episode 164: Living with Evil
Shelly Knotek or “Crazy Shelly” is one of America’s most infamous serial killer mothers. She seemed to have a perfect life- a caring husband and raising her three daughters in a home in rural Raymond, Washington. Shelly and her husband David we...
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Episode 163: The Bloody Benders
Between 1870 and 1873, a Kansas family now known as the “Bloody Benders” ran a small inn and store- the Bender Inn- for travelers along the Osage Mission Trail in Labette County, Kansas. The Bender family comprised of John Sr., his wife Elvira,...
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Episode 163
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Episode 162: Part 4 The Whitechapel Butcher- Jack the Ripper
For our past three episodes we have been taking a deep dive into the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper who stalked the streets of London’s East End Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”, killing five female prostitutes k...
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Episode 161: Part 3 The Whitechapel Butcher-Jack the Ripper
Now if you remember from our last two episodes, we began taking a deep dive into one of history’s most infamous serial killers Jack the Ripper, who stalked the streets of London’s East End Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”...
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Episode 161
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Episode 160: Part 2 The Whitechapel Butcher- Jack the Ripper
Now if you remember from our last episode, we began taking a deep dive into one of history’s most infamous serial killers who stalked the streets of London’s Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”, Jack the Ripper. Jack the Rip...
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Episode 160
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Episode 159: Part 1-The Whitechapel Butcher- Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper remains one of history’s most infamous serial killers, who stalked the streets of London’s Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror”. The culprit who was never captured, killed at least five women, mutilating their...
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Episode 159
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Episode 158: One Year to Murder
In October of 2021, New Hampshire native, Joseph Ferlazzo, murdered and dismembered his wife Emily Jean Schwarz, while the two were vacationing in Vermont to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. During his trial, Joseph claimed that he...
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Episode 158
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Episode 157: The Suite Case Killer
In August of 2014, American heiress Heather Mack, a native of Chicago, Illinois killed her mother, Shelia von Wiese and stuffed her body in a suitcase during a luxury family vacation in Bali with the help of her boyfriend at the time Tommy Scha...
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Episode 157
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Episode 156: A Cruise of Death
In July of 2009, California school teacher Robert John McGill admitted to killing his wife Shirley McGill inside their cruise ship cabin during a five-day cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Medical examiners concluded that Shirley died of strang...
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Episode 156
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Episode 155: Interview with Dawn M. Barclay author of Vacation Can Be Murder
To kick off summer, today for our podcast episode we have a special guest with us that we are so excited to interview, author of Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide of New England, Dawn Barclay.
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Episode 155
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Episode 154: The Sinister History Behind Jameson Irish Whiskey
Jameson Irish Whiskey is by far one of the most popular and well-known whiskeys, but did you know that there is a sinister history lurking behind the worldwide distributed liqueur? In the 1880’s James Jameson, the grandson of the founder of Jam...
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Episode 154
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Episode 153: The Giggling Granny Killer
American serial killer Nannie Doss, a.k.a. the Giggling Granny, is thought to have taken the lives of eleven people between 1927 and 1954. It wasn’t until her fifth husband and the fourt...
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Episode 153
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Episode 152: Silent Evidence
In the summer of 1971, twenty-four-year-old Rita Curran, a teacher in Burlington, Vermont, was discovered dead in her apartment by her roommates. Her murder would be one of Vermont’s most high-profile cold cases that remained unsolved for fifty...
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Episode 152
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Episode 151: The Metal Fang Killer
Russian Soviet serial killer Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, also known as Metal Fang or Kolya the Maneater, took the lives of nine women, but possibly more, between 1979 and 1980. His killings terrorized the small villages in the Kazakh, Soviet Union re...
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Episode 151
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Episode 150: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
During the 1920’s in California, Gordon Stewart Northcott a Canadian child rapist, child abductor and suspected serial killer, murdered four young boys though he is suspected of killing up to twenty. His killings known as the Wineville Chicken ...
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Episode 150
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Episode 149: To Be or Not to Be a Righteous Murder
In 2008, Shelia LaBarre was convicted of murdering two of her boyfriends after their remains were found on her 115-acre farm located in Epping, New Hampshire. She would admit to the murders claiming God had made her an “avenging angel” sent to ...
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Episode 149
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Episode 148: Deadly Travels
In July of 2008, 40-year-old Vincent Li boarded a Canadian Greyhound bus in Erickson, Manitoba, Canada. Almost an hour and half after boarding the bus, Vince unprovoked, attacked 22-year-old Tim Mclean while he was asleep. Not only did Vincent ...
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Episode 148
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