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!
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166 episodes
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Episode 147: The Speed Freak Killers
Serial killer duo Loren Herzog and Wes Shermantine, collectively known as the “Speed Freak Killers”, due to their habitual methamphetamine abuse, are suspected of slaughtering as many ...
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Episode 146: A California Serial Killer
An imprisoned Bay Area killer, David Misch, was found guilty in January of 2025, for the 1986 murders of two young Northern California women, Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier, after a DNA match connected him to the crime. In 2003, while servin...
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Episode 145: A Deadly Way to End a Marriage
In August of 2022, Missouri woman 40-year-old Melanie Biggins claimed to 911 dispatch that an intruder had broken into her Kansas City home that she shared with her husband of nine years, 50-year-old Ettienne (et-ee-in) McEwan, and had shot him...
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Episode 144: A Bloody Testicle Snatching
In March of 2016, in the northeast part of Romania in Vasuli county, 40-year-old Marinela Benea, launched a vicious attack on her husband 39-year-old Ionel Popa. Marinela had ripped open her husband’s scrotum with her bare hands after he had fa...
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Episode 143: Valetine's Day Bonus- A Killer Wedding
Twenty-six-year-old Estrella Carrera was found dead inside the bathtub of her Burbank, Illinois apartment on May 13, 2012- less than forty-eight hours after she had married her husband, Arnoldo Jimenez. After, Estrella’s body was discovered an ...
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Episode 142: A Bloody Bite
In May of 2017, 43-year-old Nunzia Del Viscio, an Italian national who was working and living in Edinburgh, Scotland, claimed that she was acting in self-defense when she ripped out one of 44-year-old Italian national Marcello Palma’s testicles...
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Episode 141: A Sinister Killing in Burlington
In the early morning hours of October 7, 2006, 21-year-old college senior Michelle Garner-Quinn had been out with friends in Burlington, Vermont when she disappeared. At the time of her disappearance, Michelle had been on her way to meet up wit...
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Episode 141
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