Homebrew Murder Crew

Kristy brings the history and Meaghan brings the crime. Merry Christmas to all! And to all some good wine!!

Meaghan takes us through some dark history of the Chicago Projects that were a result of racism and segregation, before narrowing in on a terrifying murder of a beautiful 52 year old woman just trying to make it in Chicago despite her crippling paranoia and mental health diagnoses, in a city still plagued by racism in 1987.

In 1830 Salem Massachusetts, a wealthy retired merchant named Joseph White disinherited his great niece when he learns or her marrying the town gold digger, Joseph Knapp Jr. But Joseph is a cocky know-it-all, or so he THINKS, and his plan to overthrow his great uncle-in-law's will is soiled because his greed clouded his judgement.

Ronald Clark O’Bryan lived with his wife Daynene and two children, Timothy and Elizabeth, in Deer Park, Texas, a middle-class suburb of Houston. He worked as an optician and served as a deacon at a Baptist church, where he sang in the choir and oversaw the parochial bus program. Those who knew O’Bryan considered him a model citizen. One pastor described O’Bryan as “a good, Christian man and an above-average father.” He was a wolf in sheep's clothing...

David Randall Blythe is an American vocalist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of heavy metal band Lamb of God and Burn The Priest. He has also performed guest vocals for numerous other bands. At the end of June 2012, Blythe was arrested, charged and remanded in custody by the Czech authorities in connection with an incident that had happened during Lamb of God's previous concert in Prague two years earlier.

A 15 year old boy, desperate to win his brother's approval, fails to see the danger his brother's life choices have gotten him into. Convinced he is having the days-long party of a lifetime, Nick is unaware of the true evils the people his brother associates with are capable of.

The notorious Cecil Hotel grows in infamy when guest Elisa Lam vanishes. But what happened to her? Is it a case of mis-managed mental health, or something more nefarious?

Kristy gets a little extraterrestrial in this telling of an alien entity known as Indrid Cold, speaking extensively on Woodrow Derenberger's numerous encounters with the entity and even a trip to his home planet, Lanulos.