Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

A true-crime podcast highlighting stories that sent a shiver through the sunbelt.

True Crime
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Episode 26: Hammer-Time for a Horrific Murder...
A Port St. Lucie teenager, Tyler Hadley, kills both parents by beating them over the head with the claw of a hammer. He then holds a killer party with his parents' bodies hidden in the bedroom. Find out the sentence "Bamm-Bamm"...
32 min
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Episode 25: Accused Face-eating Double Murdere...
The double murder trial of Austin Harrouff is set to begin November 28th in Martin County. The FSU frat is accused of attacking a Tequesta couple in their garage, beating and stabbing them to death. When police arrived they found him...
32 min
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Episode 24: Most Prolific US Serial Killer Sta...
A convicted murderer is "the most prolific serial killer" in U.S. history, according to the FBI. Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders including several here in South Florida and law enforcement has confirmed 50.
28 min
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Episode 23: Jupiter Cold Case plus Five Ways t...
The rape and murder of 14-year old Rachel Hurley in a popular Jupiter oceanside park is still unsolved after three decades. Plus, Karen and Lexi uncover the hiding place for a legless Florida fugitive.
21 min
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Episode 22: Who Really Kidnapped and Decapitat...
Hollywood police took three decades to reveal the true killer of Adam Walsh, the son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh. Blood evidence on carpet from the back of a car where Adam was decapitated was lost along with...
23 min
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Episode 21: DNA Genealogy Match Nabs Another S...
Another suspected serial killer is under arrest in Florida thanks to a DNA match with a genealogy website.
22 min
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Episode 20: "Deranged Deputy Rapes, Hangs Victi...
Gerard Schaefer obtained his victims easily in the early 70's, as he was a Martin County deputy who tied a noose around the necks of his young female victims and hung them from the "Devil Tree."  He also bound and raped...
28 min
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Mini Episode: Update on Digging for Little Chr...
Palm Beach County Sheriff's office received a tip on a 35 year-old cold case of an 8 year old girl who went missing just yards away from her house. A new tip lead to an excavation of the ground around the home. Bones were found, but...
7 min
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Episode 19: "Serial Killer of Older Gay Men Su...
A Florida serial killer has just been put to death 25 years after committing his first murder. Gary Ray Bowles, nicknamed the I-95 killer, "suddenly snapped" and murdered six older gay men from Daytona Beach to Maryland over an...
33 min
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Episode 18: "DNA Evidence, the Silent Witness"
In this episode Karen and Jen talk about the origins of DNA, the silent witness, at trial. DNA was first used to convict a rapist in Tampa, Florida in 1987. Since then, DNA has been used to convict and exonerate defendants. But ins some...
30 min
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Episode 17: "Barahona Toxic Truck Twin Tragedy"
Karen and Jen explore the hellish case of 10-year-old South Florida twins who were terrorized in foster care. They tied up, confined to a bathtub, beaten, and starved . The case cast a harsh spotlight on the Department of Children and Families,...
29 min
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Episode 16: "Digging for Little Christy Luna"
On this episode Karen and Jen are talking about a 35 year old cold case that might have just been cracked. The the Palm Beach County sheriff's office is digging for the remains of an 8-year old girl in Greenacres, Florida near where...
28 min
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Episode 15: "Angel Dies Praying, Devil Faces De...
A Miami high school couple on a date is abducted by five men at gunpoint from South Beach. After a terrorizing ride up I-95, the beautiful girl, "Angel," is gang raped and murdered. Her boyfriend is left for dead. Now the killer,...
24 min
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Episode 14: "Creepy Florida Unsolved Mystery, ...
In this episode Karen and Lexi look into the strange disappearance of a 5-month old Tampa infant from her crib in the middle of the night. Baby Sabrina has never been found and would be 21 today if she is still alive. Also, a special...
23 min
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Episode 13 "Killer Clown Shoots Wellington Hous...
On this episode Karen and cub reporter Lexi Behr talk about the Wellington Killer Clown cold case that just broke open with an arrest. The wife of a widower is charged with shooting his then wife in the face 27 years ago while dressed...
26 min
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Episode 12 "Delray Beach Babysitter Slaughter"
In this episode, Karen and Jen relive the terrifying last moments of a 14-year-old babysitter in Delray Beach who was stabbed and raped by an intruder while the children slept in the other room. And they try to figure out why the perpetrator...
32 min
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Episode 11 "A Mother's Hell, Raped in Front of...
Julie Weil is a south Florida rape survivor. She was carjacked with her two toddlers in her minivan while picking them up from a church daycare and raped in the Everglades. She was able to put her rapist behind bars and help other victims...
26 min
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Episode 10 "Boca Mall Murder Mysteries"
Boca Raton Police and the FBI are still trying to find the killer who murdered a mother and daughter at the Boca Town Center Mall at Christmas in 2007. Another mother and her young son were also carjacked months earlier, but she survived...
25 min
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Episode 9 "From Old Sparky to the Spike”
In this episode, Karen and Jen talk about the death penalty specifically in Florida. The state sanctioned murder has evolved in the sunshine state from "Old Sparky" the electric chair to lethal injection and perhaps an even more...
33 min
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Episode 8 "Turning the Tables on a Serial Kille...
A Tampa teen is snatched off her bike by a serial killer, rapist and lives through 26 hours of hell to eventually put him on death row. By letting his victim live, he saved her own life in more ways than one. And, a whodunit...who burned...
32 min
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Episode 7 "The Day Fashion Died on South Beach"
The true crime story of the execution-style murder of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace on the front steps of his South Beach mansion in broad daylight.
29 min
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Episode 6 “A Crazy Astronaut is Trying to Murd...
The NASA Shuttle program based in Florida had several serious setbacks before it was shut down in 2011. In addition to the explosion of the Shuttle Challenger and the disintegration of the Shuttle Columbia upon re-entry, there was another...
31 min
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Episode 5 "My Dentist Gave Me HIV/AIDS"
Going to the dentist is terrifying enough, without the fear of contracting a deadly illness. On this episode Karen and Jen are talking about the first person in the world to contract HIV/AIDS from a health care professional. In this case...
27 min
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Episode 4 "A Gator Ate My Husband"
North Florida law enforcement believed an alligator ate a Gainesville woman's husband after he fell out of a boat duck hunting 17 years ago...then the case was cracked wide open, like a gator's mouth, when a love triangle was revealed...
25 min
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Episode 3 "101 Ways to Get Rid of a Body"
In this episode Karen and Jen talk about how difficult it is to get rid of a body, especially the blood at a crime scene. There are numerous ways killers dispose of corpses in South Florida. The episode is not meant to give anyone ideas,...
29 min