...my brother and sister and I would be enlisted to go out into the paddock and whole thistles it was hot dry horrible work and I'd protest by lying in the front seat of the you with my legs sticking out of the window singing along with the Bay City Rollers I love watching American Imports like Bewitched and mash and I'd fight to stay up past my bedtime so I could absorb their accents and the wholesome story by far my favorite was The Brady Bunch I resonated so strongly with Marcia and Jan's boy troubles and since I was tall and lanky and forced to have my hair cut into a boyish crop I even felt a resemblance to Greg and he's gangly awkwardness it seemed like such an idyllic life and lovely lady who is busy with three lovely girls managed to meet a man named Brady who had three boys of his own the sweetness and he's of the Brady's family life was mirrored in my own my parents rarely fought we were middle class and surrounded only by people in our town that were the same I never saw any hardship poverty or loss I was never exposed to any other and we never traveled far from home I remember when I was eight or nine I heard about an uncle of mine who was getting divorced it was a totally New Concept to me since nobody in our town have been divorced I was fascinated by the idea especially since it was discussed in such secretive and scandalized homes just like the sheltered world's I saw on TV my imagination could only extend as far as what I was able to see The Brady Bunch gave me my earliest inkling that divorce did not have to mean the end of happiness she divorced my father when I was less year old filed for custody and was granted at by default when he didn't turn up to the custody hearing their marriage was short and he'd appeared to get a new mean and violent personality as soon as they were husband and wife I was born very soon after they married and it was clear that my mom was much happier about it than he was the final straw came when she left him alone with me as a baby because she had to go to work and when I had been crying for longer than he could handle he swung my best in it so hard that I fill out before punching a hole in the wall I'd married him so young and was a mother by the age of 23 so I was in for a rude awakening when all of a sudden I had to take care of myself and my daughter I decided that I needed a stable job so I went back to University to become a school teacher I worked in bars to make ends meet and I remember taking my daughter with me to lectures breastfeeding her in the back row and...

...after letting her down with the flight her scam has sweet-talked her into forgiving him and they continue to communicate Renee was starting to question things in more depth he kept making excuses for not being able to video chat with her and he continued with the love-bombing he manipulated her at every turn but she started to realize that she may not be talking to the person in the photo Renee began to research scammers but continued to give him the benefit of the doubt they're still in contact and she's still coming to terms with the fact that the man she fell in love with has been lying to her in the next episode the cracks start to get too big to ignore Truman is manipulating her and gaslighting her so intensely that she even does it to herself make sure you listen to the next episode of drown valley crimes...

...Leaving on a Jet Plane here's the last email my mom wrote before getting on the flight to Manchester hey Truman I'm on my way I'm going to dinner with my daughter and her boyfriend then off to the airport the flight is leaving on time all systems go I'm a bit nervous really excited to see you I assume you'll be meeting me at the airport if not let me know and I will get a cab to the hotel either way is fine I will forward you my ticket just in case I'll text you from Heathrow to let you know if the connecting flight is on time or if I have to hitchhike to you kidding I'll see if you're on Skype later when I get to the airport see you tomorrow how freaky that will meet tomorrow cheers Ruth what do you think now reading this email I'll just can't help but cringe I noticed that I was using a sweet new nickname for him true man I boarded the plane without receiving response from him he'd mentioned that he was feeling unwell in a few of our conversations leading up to this point and I was giving him an easy out for meeting me at the airport was this because I didn't want to seem demanding I was in for a shock when I arrived chapter 2 the police report the following is taken from the initial statement that my mum provided to the UK police she has changed some names and added some details but the events are retold from a record put down only days after it actually happened I was headed to Manchester flying in from Hong Kong when I arrived there was a text saying Truman was really sick and asking if I could get a cab to the hotel in the city center and he would meet me there I waited in the hotel until midday I'd arrived at 7:30 a.m. on Monday the 27th of December and then finally I called him to see where he was he said he'd been asleep after throwing up all night Truman called a cab down to the hotel and asked me to meet him in the lobby when I first laid eyes on him he was leaning nonchalantly up against a countertop in the foyer and was smiling warmly as I approach I was pleased to see that he matched his photos and was well dressed and very handsome we hugged and he seemed enthusiastic friendly and very happy to see me I was nervous but excited to finally meet him he said he needed to run some errands so he got back in the cab which is waiting outside and went to pick up a sign for his phone shop it turned out that we could not pick up the sign because it was a public holiday so we came back to the hotel when we arrived back in the hotel he said he'd forgotten his wallet and asked if I could pay for the cab I was irritated and suspicious but I paid the cab I later realized that getting me to go in the cab to get the sign was a ploy to get me to go with him as he didn't have any money to pay for it he would have known damn well that it was a public holiday and that the store would have been closed trim and later commented on how I reacted when he asked for this money and linked my response to my...

losing everything was devastating petrol was able to get his real details and images with the help of an advocate against romance scams and discovered he was living in South Africa but the South African police wouldn't help her Petra hopes that she can find a way to repair the relationships with her children in the next episode The Situation gets a whole lot worse and she starts to finally see what she's gotten herself into there's a moment of Terror and a rude awakening in a hotel room when the penny drops and she can momentarily see through the fog what isn't clear though is whether the fog will stay lifted by this point she's wound tightly around Truman's finger he has a strong grip on her and he's been carefully honing his manipulation tactics to try to scam her even further make sure you listen to the next episode of Drown Valley Crimes

...him telling her that he would be treating them to beautiful expensive accommodations she was deep in the process of investing in their imaginary future and this meant that she was becoming less able or think clearly by the day Little Red Riding Hood was told by her mother to bring a basket of food to her sick grandmother her mother warns her that the woods are dangerous and tells her to make sure she stays on the path she knows along the way Little Red Riding Hood comes across a wolf having never seen a wolf before she doesn't know to be careful since wolves are known to be untrustworthy the charms her into trusting him and she tells her about her Mission the wolf suggest that her grandmother might love some flowers and tells her about some beautiful ones just off the trail when Red Riding Hood goes off to find the flowers

sponsor but from Scan watch feel it to things like spelling and grammar mistakes inconsistencies in their stories and other signs that it's a scam like their camera never working if you want to Skype each other there had been so many inconsistencies already he kept basically refusing to get a webcam although not in so many words if you agree to meet a prospective partner in person tell family and friends where you are going scam watch strongly recommends you do not travel overseas to meet someone you have never met before so whoops I booked my flights and was going in all guns blazing be wary of requests for money never send money or give credit card details online account details for copies of important personal documents to anyone you don't know or trust if only I'd seen this website before I left it wasn't long before Truman would be working every angle to Swindle me out of my money it's been a long process for my mom to be able to look back on this with a maturity of hindsight and to see where exactly she was missing the signs it's obvious that there were a series of moments moments which one-by-one dug her steadily deeper into a hole that she was becoming less and less to be able to get a self out of in the next episode you'll see her act on what was possibly the decision that put her in the most danger she got on a plane to go to another country to meet a man she'd met online make sure you listen to the next episode of Drown valley crimes

my mother is a person who normally comes across as pretty together you'd meet her and probably be struck by her warm personality her slightly loud voice and Australian and a sense of humor to match she's known for her skills and problem-solving and managing people and his sensitivity to the plight of others has led her to be willing to lay down her own needs and help pretty much anyone who crosses her path together we left Australia when I was 11 years old so we could make a new life in Asia she'd been a single parent ever since she left my dad before I was a year old but I always felt provided for if a little lonely as the only child of a hard-working mother she was a high school teacher in Adelaide a coastal city in South Australia when she decided to relocate us to Hong Kong where she had been offered a job that paid well enough to make our lives look completely different we'd always struggled to make ends meet and I was up for the adventure I have a memory from as I was growing

but this story doesn't quite hold up to scrutiny code a saltwater fish and catfish are freshwater people with experience in the fishing industry don't believe there has ever been a market for fresh Cod usually processed before it gets chipped so it seems a little fishy that this could be the only explanation of the term most people think of catfish as bottom feeders and even though not all of them are it might be what gave the term its meaning despite what science says to the contrary the common understanding is that catfish are opportunistic eaters they're said to live in the muck water at the bottom of rivers lakes and streams where they scavenge for what they can find it's pretty obvious how this relates to my mom's story she was in the process of falling Hook Line and Sinker for genuine catfishing scam funny enough both of these definitions work for what happened she was being nipped at and kept uncertain and guessing she kept asking

catfishing is a term that's been around for decades but which came into use in popular culture around 2010 a documentary came out which was about the use of fake online identities to trick or scam other users later a reality TV series took the concept even further following people who had been conned by fake online identities catfishing is often done in romantic contexts and can definitely be for financial gain there's a moment in the original documentary when we're told about Sailors who used to ship live cod fish from Alaska to China according to this story The Fish would turn to mush in their crates having hardly moved while in transit one day someone had the idea to put catfish in the Cod crates to nip at their fins and keep them agile during the trip we're told that in life some people are catfish they keep things Lively by keeping us in a state of uncertainty

today's story takes us to narborough a village on the outskirts of Leicester in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom it was a quiet Suburban almost rural setting the perfect place to raise a family it was safe friendly but everyone knew each other and people could leave their doors unlocked and let their children play outside freely Linda man was a 15 year old school girl she was bright loved school fashion and makeup and she had a lot of friends she used to babysit for local families as a way to earn pocket money to buy records and makeup on the 21st of November 1983 Linda left home to babysit one of the local families

family Annihilation and spree killing you just said family Annihilation I did so couple definitions here so family and I Elation is like when multiple close family members are killed in one like one location in a short period of time and then spree killing so you have like serial killings which are like multiple victims multiple murder victims but there's like a cool-off period in between like it's like a course of time yeah and it's multiple locations okay this there's like mass murder which is like multiple murders in like one location and then for this case it's a spree killing so it's multiple murders multiple locations but it's a short period of time if that helps yeah yeah I mean I'm just more into the first one you said kind of caught my interest yeah please you're

"...you're listening to a Touch of Madness based on the Trial of Lizzie Borden by Kate Lavender your full name is Lizzie Andrew Borden is it Lizzie or Elizabeth Lizzie you were so Chris I was so Christened what is your age please 32 your mother is not living no sir when did she die she died when I was two and a half years old you do not remember her then no sir what was your father's age he was 70 next month what was his whole name Andrew Jackson Borden and your stepmother what was her whole name Abby Durfee Borden how long has your father been married to your stepmother I think about 27 years how much of that time if they lived in the house on Second Street I think I'm not sure but I think about 20 years last may always occupy the whole house yes sir somebody told me it was once fitted up for to tenements when we ..."

lutely mired in history and Scenic Beauty it's a small town of roughly 14,500 people so as you can imagine there's not a lot of violent crime here I looked up crime rates in 2008 and it said it was slightly higher than the national average but like literally by 1% and murder rates were like non-existent so it's an incredible place it holds a pretty much a huge significance I'm not going to tell you why for myself and my husband we've had some great times there including at a location featured in this case the st. Augustine Amphitheatre enough about the underrated city of St Augustine let's get back to the case Deborah Maynard a former st. Johns County Sheriff's Office Deputy was on the scene immediately after the 911 call was placed Deborah was having coffee when she got the call that shots were fired which is the signal 18 and she rushed to the address as she entered the house she saw a pair of feet in the doorway

"...you murdered 11 people I feel like this guy's just not right duh so at this point Charles and Carol are now you said that she turned herself in crying saying that he killed someone so it's done you think she's playing the victim well we'll discuss you're jumping the gun a little bit they're both interested so Charles was brought up on one charge of first-degree murder for the murder of Robert Jensen the teen who tried to help him after he drove into a ditch I could not for the life of me find why they didn't try him for the other murders like they just I mean I guess the Robert Jensen one his car was at the scene so they could like to link him to it Robert Johnson's girlfriend Carol King was at the scene as well so like why couldn't they at least I mean so it really doesn't matter but it just I don't know it bugs me that I not find that anywhere so Charles this is another Karma situation I love it Charles willingly chooses to be extradited from Wyoming to Nebraska so that means that he was going to he was picked up in Wyoming so he's going to get tried to Wyoming but he was like no I can be tried in Nebraska strictly because the governor of Nebraska at the time was vocally against however funny thing is that Governor made an exception for Charles yes so Charles during the trial kind of kept changing his story so he initially said that Carol wasn't even present for the murder of Robert Jensen then once he found out that she was kind of like placing all the blame on him he claimed that she was a willing participant his lawyers were even wishy-washy and bounce back and forth between him committing the murder due to insanity and him being completely innocent and like pick one right like you can't just play Both Sides right field you gotta pick one and commit to it the jury though wasn't having any of it and Charles Starkweather was convicted of murder and sentenced to death oh Carol Fugate maintained her innocence through her whole trial even to this day she still does she claim she was a hostage and he just threatened to kill her entire family if she didn't follow him supposedly unaware that he had already killed her family the judge declares that she had multiple opportunities to run away and so then on November 21st 1958 Carol Fugate was given a life sentence and became the youngest person in American history to be tried for and convicted of first-degree murder..."

you murdered 11 people I feel like I feel like this guy's just not right duh so at this point Charles and Carol are now you said that she turned herself in crying saying that he killed someone so it's do you think she's playing the victim well we'll discuss you're jumping the gun a little bit they're both interested so Charles was brought up on one charge of first-degree murder for the murder of Robert Jensen the teen who tried to help him after he drove into a ditch I could not for the life of me find why they didn't try him for the other murders like they just I mean I guess the Robert Jensen one his car was at the scene so they could like link him to it Robert Johnson's girlfriend Carol King was at the scene as well so like why couldn't they at least I mean so it really doesn't matter but it just I don't know it bugs me that I

"...what you are about to hear may include disturbing descriptions of sexual or physical abuse or may contain coarse language listener discretion is advised they called themselves the students of light we used to call him the veggies or the vegetarians the vegetarian Mafia extremely manipulative a secret and insular spiritual sect United by their common search for enlightenment forgive yourself for your suppressed anger forgive yourself for scattering your Consciousness you felt pure clear happy like drugs at the drugs it really was to some the students of light were a divinely inspired spiritual School whose founder a man named John Haynes possessed Supernatural knowledge and abilities what I felt coming from that man could not have come from a normal person never ever ever...

here's Professor Loren Dawson sociologist at the University of Waterloo and an expert on new religious movements the Heyday of new religious movements and on public concerned about them the so-called Great American Cults care which really spread all over the world primarily started in the States was definitely late 70s early 80s in responding to groups it mainly came into being at the end of the 60s and into the 70s and you know there seemed to be a sudden surge of hundreds if not thousands of groups at the time it was thought to be so urgent because it was that all this is something totally new and an affront to mainstream culture and if we don't immediately grab hold of us like a disease is going to take over our youth like Many religious groups of this period the students of Light have themselves been called a secretive cult with their leader John heinous accused of controlling and subjugating others in

this week we will be diving into the possible players that could have been involved in the assassination who could have done it who could have planned it out who could have set the gears in motion who could have pulled the trigger whodunit there are some key groups that we have found out were part of this or could have been part of this we will go over all of them and we will start with one of the biggest in Notorious groups that could have been behind this assassination Ian and that is La Cosa Nostra the mafia so to understand how the mafia plays a possible part in the assassination of JFK we have to look at all the things prior to 1963 as well documented that the mafia and the CIA had a professional relationship they teamed up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs the casino operations of the mafia had taken a hit resulting in millions lost and in operation Mongoose the mafia would a

"...this week we will be diving into the possible players that could have been involved in the assassination who could have done it who could have planned it out who could have set the gears in motion who could have pulled the trigger whodunit there are some key groups that we have found out were part of this or could have been part of this we will go over all of them and we will start with one of the biggest in Notorious groups that could have been behind this assassination Ian and that is La Cosa Nostra the mafia so to understand how the mafia plays a possible part in the assassination of JFK we have to look at all the things prior to 1963 as well documented that the mafia and the CIA had a professional relationship they teamed up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs the casino operations of the mafia had taken a hit resulting in millions lost and in operation Mongoose the mafia would a the CIA by having one of the mafia Associates who worked in the kitchen of Castro attempt to poison him the reaches of the mafia even extended to the FBI as it said operation Mongoose was a secret program aimed against Cuba to remove communism from its power so right off the bat we have to look at the mafia as a very viable threat when it came to JFK it's no secret that JFK had quite a few enemies at the time of his assassination which makes the conspiracy ever-growing Lee Harvey Oswald it was later found out through investigation kind of had ties to the mafia was peripherally attached to them but Jack Ruby the man who ended up killing Lee Harvey Oswald definitely had ties to the mafia

"...Emmitt Lewis Teal was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of a fennec a white woman in her family's grocery store the brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew the attention of the long history of violence persecuted against African Americans in the United States and he started Emmett Till was born in 1941 in Chicago he was the son of Mamie carthon and Louis to Emmett was largely raised by made me tear with the help of her mother she and Louis teal separated in 1942 after she discovered that he was being unfaithful maybe accused Louis to you of choking her Consciousness when he has violated orders to stay away from Amy the judge in 1943 forced Lewis Till's to choose between jail and enlisting in the United States Army in 1945 only weeks after his son's fourth birthday"

some sheets your son alive when Emmet arrived in Money Mississippi in August 21st 1955 since Moses write with a sharecropper Emmett spent most of his days helping with the cotton Harvest on August 24th Emmett and a group of teens went to the local grocery store after a day of working in the fields accounts of what transpired varies because there were no Witnesses in the store some witnesses state that one of the boys Derek immaterial to talk to the stores cassia curl Bryant a white woman it was reported that he either oh that her touched her hand flirting with the woman as he was leaving the store Moses right later stated the kidnapper is only mentioned

so far in our investigation we've discussed for victims and the night each of them vanished from Southwest Fort Worth Katherine Davis was last seen alive in late September of 1984 Cindy Heller was abducted not quite a month later and Sarah Costco was taken in late December those three women's bodies were all found the first month of 1985 Angie Ebert also disappeared in December of 1984 and was still missing when we left off her purse was found not far from where Cindy Heller's car was discovered abandoned with its interior burned if you haven't listened to the first three episodes go ahead and push pause here and go back to listen and get caught up although we didn't directly call them out some important Clues show up as we

so far in our investigation we've discussed for victims and the night each of them vanished from Southwest Fort Worth Katherine Davis was last seen alive in late September of 1984 Cindy Heller was abducted not quite a month later and Sarah Costco was taken in late December those three women's bodies were all found the first month of 1985 Angie Ebert also disappeared in December of 1984 and was still missing when we left off her purse was found not far from where Cindy Heller's car was discovered abandoned with its interior burned if you haven't listened to the first three episodes go ahead and push pause here and go back to listen and get caught up although we didn't directly call them out some important Clues show up as we

could one person have killed all these women searching for that answer feels like jumping into the Vortex of a tornado and trying to pick out the truth as mere coincidence is mix with the relevant similarities and fax swirling around you so you wait until the dust settles and the air is still as you plot the details of each case on paper you can clearly see the damage left by a terrible storm that swept through the lives of the victims families and friends more than 35 years later they're still waiting for answers still waiting for justice still waiting for peace at the end of 1984 the southwest side of Fort Worth Texas was the epicenter of this storm but it's tendrils stretched over months and across

today we're going to be learning about the murder of Susan Galvin Susan Galvin was born in Bedford Massachusetts on December thirty first nineteen forty six the parents Helen and Lorimer Galvin Susan was the eldest of seven children and would regularly help take care of the kids while her parents were at work so it seems younger brother Larry says that Susan was kind of like a second mom to the younger kid at some point during her early childhood the family relocated to Spokane Washington Susan continued to help her parents run the family while she attended school at North Central High School once you graduated she decided to move out of her parents house and start her own independent Life by all accounts Susan was a really caring and responsible woman so I don't get the feeling that she minded taking care of her siblings