Murders & Minivans

Tali & Stephanie

Murders and Minivans explores the world of true crime through the lens of everyday motherhood. Each episode takes listeners deep into cases ranging from notorious murders to overlooked crimes, offering thorough research, thoughtful discussion, and fresh perspectives. Alongside these stories, the hosts reflect on the realities of parenting, family life, and the unique challenges of raising kids in today’s world.

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S2 · E6
Wednesday · 15 min
Bad News, Good News | Nidal Hasan’s execution date, The Richneck Bodycam + 3 Cold Case Breaks
newly released bodycam footage shows the moments after a six-year-old shot his teacher at richneck elementary. three men are found guilty in the murders of two australian brothers and their american friend on a surf trip in baja. and the fort hood shooter has an execution date. this is bad news good news from murders and minivans. tali covers the week’s crime news. stephanie brings the good news. in this episode: the richneck elementary bodycam, sealed for more than three years abby zwerner’s $10 million verdict and where she is now guilty verdicts in the baja killings of callum and jake robinson and carter rhoad nidal hasan’s firing squad execution, set for december 3 at fort hood stephanie’s good news: a discarded water bottle leads to an arrest in hillary hellewell’s 1985 murder in newport, rhode island. a grand jury indicts a suspect 20 years after chynna and blake dickus were killed in franklin, indiana. and a 16-year-old found in an oakland hotel in 1969 is identified as joann yvonne burdick. content note: this episode discusses murder, sexual assault, violence against children, a school shooting, a mass shooting, and capital punishment. all allegations are allegations. william morton and michael jerome james have been charged and are presumed innocent. taylor morris teaford has been named a potential suspect only. he has not been charged and his whereabouts are unknown. the three men convicted in ensenada have not yet been sentenced.
S2 · E5
Monday · 45 min
Denise Huskins & Sherri Papini | Two Truths & A Lie
In March 2015, Denise Huskins was taken from her boyfriend's home in Vallejo, California, held for two days, and assaulted. When she came home, police held a press conference calling it a hoax, and the media named her the real Gone Girl. The only reason anyone believed her was that her kidnapper attacked another family and left his phone behind. A year and a half later, a Redding mom named Sherri Papini vanished on a jog. She turned up on Thanksgiving morning, chained and branded, and said two Hispanic women had taken her. Law enforcement believed her for more than five years. The women never existed. This week, Tali puts the two cases side by side. We cover the interrogation that treated Aaron Quinn as a murderer, the kidnapper's emails begging police to clear Denise's name, and the FBI agent with a conflict of interest. Then there are the cold-case confessions that came out in 2024 and 2025, including a ladder found in a ravine nine years later and a victim who waited 32 years to be believed. And we follow Sherri Papini from the side of I-5 to a federal courtroom, and to the brand new version of events she's telling now.
S2 · E4
October 7 · 16 min
Bad News, Good News | Christa Pike, Mamta Bhatt, Ken Urker, The Plague & More
this week on bad news good news, tali brings the bad news and stephanie balances it out. caleb flynn has been sentenced. a jury convicted the former american idol contestant on all nine counts in the murder of his wife, ashley flynn. the judge ordered him to serve 16 years for firearm specifications and evidence tampering before his life sentence begins. statements from his two young daughters were read in court. ashley's father said the family forgives him and asked for the harshest sentence possible. flynn still says he's innocent. his attorney plans to appeal. the cornell 7 case has a new prosecutor. governor kathy hochul removed the local district attorney and appointed new york attorney general letitia james as special prosecutor. james says it's now an active criminal investigation. no one has been charged. ken urker, gypsy rose blanchard's partner and the father of her daughter aurora, was found dead in his louisiana home on his 34th birthday. the sheriff's office is investigating it as drug related. gypsy has said it was an overdose. officials say there's no evidence of foul play so far, and no official cause of death has been released. christa pike survived her execution. tennessee tried to put her to death on september 30 for the 1995 murder of her classmate colleen slemmer. after two doses of pentobarbital and more than two hours, she was still alive. she was hospitalized in critical condition. the governor has halted executions and ordered an outside review. a lab technician at a plague research institute in siberia has died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection. nearly 200 people are under observation. russia hasn't confirmed it was plague. naresh bhatt's murder trial has started in virginia. his wife, mamta kafle bhatt, a 28-year-old pediatric nurse and mother, disappeared in 2024. her body has never been found. he has pleaded not guilty. and simon andriesz, a british former banker who gave house oversight lawmakers emails between howard lutnick and jeffrey epstein, has died. his death was reported as a suicide. there is no evidence connecting it to his whistleblowing, lutnick, or epstein. then stephanie brings the good news. the scientists behind optogenetics won the 2026 nobel prize in medicine. they borrowed a light-sensitive protein from algae to switch brain cells on and off with light. lulingu, a gorilla rescued from traffickers as an 18-month-old orphan, was released into virunga national park in 2024. she has now given birth in the wild, to a baby her endangered grauer's gorilla group badly needed. and nicole and gary wordsworth have fostered 59 dogs for battersea over the past 15 years. learn more: grace gorillas sanctuary: https://gracegorillas.org/ gorilla doctors: https://www.gorilladoctors.org/ content note: this episode discusses death, overdose, and suicide. if you're struggling, call or text 988 in the us or canada, or reach out to your local crisis line. all allegations are allegations. naresh bhatt has pleaded not guilty. no one in the cornell case has been criminally charged. no official cause of death has been released for ken urker.
S2 · E3
October 5 · 42 min
Thomas Randolph | The Black Widower
On the evening of May 8th, 2008, Sharon Randolph and her husband went out for dinner and a movie. Mother's Day was that Sunday. She was forty-seven years old and she loved going to the theatre. Just after 9:30 that night, her husband called 911 and told the dispatcher that a masked intruder had shot his wife in the hallway of their home, and that he had shot the intruder five times. When Las Vegas Metro arrived, the scene read cleanly. A dead woman. A dead man in a ski mask with a bag of jewellery beside him. A husband who had reached his gun a moment too late. The dead man was not a stranger. He was the family handyman. This week we go through the case of Thomas Randolph, the man the press would eventually call the Black Widower. He was married six times. Four of those wives are dead. He has been convicted of killing exactly one of them and the story of how the law handled the other three is, in some ways, more interesting than the murder. In this episode: The 1986 death of Becky Gault in Utah, the half-million-dollar insurance payout, and the handyman who went to the police The felony Randolph pleaded guilty to while awaiting trial for her murder, and the acquittal he sealed afterwards Glen Morrison, who was asked to kill one of the wives and stage it as a robbery, and the reason he said no The forensic details that broke the 2008 story apart: the shell casings in the wrong place, the ski mask with no blood on it, and a neighbour who heard gunshots twenty minutes before anyone called The video walkthrough Randolph volunteered to make, and the sixteen years he has spent trying to take it back Why the Nevada Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence in 2020, and why we think that ruling was correct The 2023 retrial that convicted him anyway, on much less The appeal the court rejected this September Follow us on Patreon, Instagram & Facebook!
September 30 · 32 min
Bad News/Good News: Caleb Flynn, Cornell 7 & More
this week on good news bad news, tali brings the bad news and stephanie balances it out. first up is caleb flynn. the former american idol contestant and church worship leader is on trial in ohio for the murder of his wife, ashley flynn. he told 911 an intruder broke in. prosecutors say the evidence tells a different story. we cover the secret affair, the deleted messages, the missing gun, the step counter data, and the two dogs that never barked. closing arguments are done. now the jury decides. then the cornell 7. a former cornell student has filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven fraternity members in 2024. no one was criminally charged. now the tompkins county district attorney is sending the case to a grand jury. we talk about the lawsuit, the university's response, and why the internet got involved. and because we need it, stephanie closes out with the good news like ice cream cake, love hypothesis and a wedding! all allegations discussed are allegations. caleb flynn has pleaded not guilty. no one in the cornell case has been criminally charged. Follow us on Instagram, Youtube & Facebook!!
S2 · E2
September 28 · 1 hr 2 min
The Murders of Ella Bennett & Elizabeth Olten
On Super Bowl Sunday 2007, four-year-old Ella Bennett was killed in her bed in Abilene, Texas. The person responsible was her thirteen-year-old brother, Paris. He has said Ella wasn't his target. Their mother was. Two years later in St. Martins, Missouri, nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten walked to a friend's house and never came home. Fifteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante had dug a grave days earlier. She told investigators she wanted to know what killing felt like. In this episode, we look at both cases side by side. We cover: How Paris Bennett set up the night he killed his sister, and the 911 call that followed Why intelligence and empathy are not the same thing What researchers mean by psychopathic traits, and why that label is so hard to apply to children Nature versus nurture and the developing teenage brain Alyssa Bustamante's planning, her journal, and her guilty plea Sentencing, parole, and what rehabilitation means when the victim's family is still living with the crime Ella and Elizabeth, and who they were before their names became case files This episode discusses the murder of young children, including violence and self-harm. Please listen with care.
S2 · E1
September 21 · 1 hr 8 min
The Unabomber: What Harvard Actually Did To Ted Kaczynski
17 Years. 16 Bombs, 3 dead, $50 million dollars and 150 full time investigators, and at the end of it a 53 year old man in a 10x12 foot cabin with no electricity and a lot of books. everybody knows the outline. what most people know beyond it is a story about Harvard, a Psychologist, and the CIA. that story is about to get a Netflix film. so this week we went and did a deep dive... what we found is that the experiment was real, it was genuinely unethical, and the claim that it created the Unabomber is contested by nearly everyone who would know. including a man who sat in the same study. including Henry Murray's biographer, who spent 20 on him. including Ted Kaczynski, who had every reason in the world to take the excuse and turned it down. and underneath all of it there is a much quieter story about a boy who was ordinary until an iq test moved him up two grades, a father who would not listen to the teacher who tried to stop it, and a twenty four year old in a psychiatrist's waiting room in 1966 who lost his nerve and walked out into the street deciding somebody else was going to pay. in this episode the code name lawful, and what actually happened at 7 divinity avenue henry murray, the oss, and the stress interview the harvard study was descended from what alston chase got right, and the rebuttals the atlantic published three months later whether mkultra has anything to do with any of it, and why we cannot ever know boundary functions, and the prize winning mathematician who had already decided to leave 1978 to 1995, and the people who opened the packages forty thousand pages of journal, two homemade ciphers, and the word experiment the manifesto, linda patrik, david kaczynski, and stylometry the insanity defence he fought harder than he fought the prosecution gary wright, and the word kindling
S1 · E53
September 14 · 1 hr 29 min
The Shafia Murders: A Family Project
On June 30, 2009, a black Nissan Sentra was found submerged at the Kingston Mills locks on the Rideau Canal with four bodies inside: Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52. The family called Rona the girls' aunt. She was their father's first wife, in a polygamous marriage Canadian immigration knew nothing about. Within three weeks, Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their 18-year-old son Hamed were charged with four counts of first-degree murder. A jury convicted all three in fifteen hours. But the murders are not the hardest part of this case. The two years before them are. Teachers knew. Two separate child protection agencies were called. Police interviewed four terrified children on a street corner ten weeks before the drownings. An immigration lawyer was offered $10,000 to make one of the victims disappear from the country. A relative in Sweden was invited to help commit the crime. And three girls said out loud, repeatedly, to adults whose job it was to listen, that their father was going to kill them. Every single time, the file was closed. This episode traces the whole thing: Rona's diary, Zainab's Valentine's Day note, Sahar's plan to become a doctor, Geeti's request to be placed in foster care, the Google searches, the two scouting trips, the seven pieces of broken headlight that cracked the case, and the argument about what we should call these killings that is still going on today.
S1 · E52
September 7 · 1 hr 7 min
Mica Miller: Death of a Pastor's Wife
mica miller: the trial that isn't about her death mica miller was found dead on april 27, 2024, at lumber river state park in robeson county, north carolina, about seventy miles from her home in myrtle beach. she was 30. the robeson county sheriff's office determined she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the north carolina medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. investigators said there was no evidence her estranged husband was involved in it. that is where most cases end. this one didn't. on december 18, 2025, a federal grand jury in columbia indicted john-paul miller, 46, pastor of solid rock church in myrtle beach, on one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. the indictment alleges a pattern beginning in november 2022 and running until the day mica died. what the indictment alleges repeated unwanted communications, including more than fifty contacts in a single day tracking devices placed on her vehicle a nude photograph of her posted online without her consent interference with her finances and daily activities damage to her car tires prosecutors also say miller admitted hiring a private investigator to keep mica from buying a firearm. timeline november 2022: the alleged harassment begins, per the indictment april 27, 2024: mica miller is found dead at lumber river state park may 2, 2024: the death is first reported publicly may 6, 2024: the robeson county sheriff's office refers the matter to the u.s. attorney's office in south carolina 2024: mica's family settles a civil suit against john-paul miller june 1, 2025: john-paul miller remarries december 18, 2025: federal grand jury returns a two-count indictment january 12, 2026: arraignment in florence, south carolina. not guilty plea, released on $100,000 unsecured bond august 13, 2026: judge joseph dawson iii grants a continuance, moving the case to the october 2026 term where it stands john-paul miller has not been charged in connection with mica's death and has denied responsibility for it. he faces a maximum of five years on the cyberstalking count, two years on the false statements count, and a fine of up to $250,000. these are allegations. he is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. the case has been continued four times. that is not unusual in a federal prosecution with this much electronic evidence. why this case matters beyond itself the gap between "no evidence of involvement in her death" and a federal stalking indictment is the whole story. advocates in south carolina have used it to push for domestic violence law that recognizes coercive control, meaning patterns of surveillance, isolation, financial control, and intimidation that leave no bruises. sources u.s. attorney's office, district of south carolina, indictment and press release, december 18, 2025. robeson county sheriff's office. north carolina office of the chief medical examiner. federal court records, district of south carolina.
S1 · E51
August 31 · 49 min
The Freeway Phantom Murders
between april 1971 and september 1972, six young Black girls disappeared from southeast washington, d.c. they were ten to eighteen years old. they were walking home from the store. going to work. going to night class. coming home from a boyfriend's house. their bodies were found along highways in and around d.c. and maryland. Carol Spinks. Darlenia Johnson. Brenda Crockett. Nenomoshia Yates. Brenda Woodard. Diane Williams. at first the murders were not connected. different detectives worked different cases in a city overwhelmed by homicides. the media barely covered it. by the time investigators recognized the pattern, most of the girls were already dead. the killer named himself. a note torn from brenda woodard's own school notebook was signed "free-way phantom." handwriting analysis determined she had been forced to write it before she died. in this episode we go through all six cases. the phone calls made to the victims' families. the semen that was never tested. the reports of a body in the grass that police did not act on for a week. the missing shoes and shoelaces. and the two theories that were never closed: robert askins and the green vega gang. neither was ever charged. we also talk about Romaine Jenkins, the homicide investigator who built the largest private collection of records on this case, and the reinvestigation that found what the original one lost. the case is still open. the reward is $300,000. more than fifty years later, no one has been charged
S1 · E50
August 24 · 56 min
The Lizzie Borden Story
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ten months later, Andrew's daughter Lizzie was tried for both murders and acquitted in about ninety minutes. Nobody else was ever charged. Everyone knows the rhyme. Almost none of it is true. The weapon was a hatchet. Abby was Lizzie's stepmother. And the autopsy records eighteen wounds to Abby and ten to Andrew, not forty and forty-one. This episode isn't an attempt to solve it. The case can't be solved. The volume of the inquest transcript holding Lizzie's first day of testimony is lost, and Bridget Sullivan's inquest testimony is gone entirely. What we do instead is sort every claim into four buckets and say out loud which one we're standing in: primary documents, 1892 newspapers, modern scholarship, and folklore. Then we go through the house and its bolted doors, the poisoning fear two days before the murders, the refused prussic acid, the note nobody ever found, the barn loft dust, the burned dress, and the two rulings that decided the trial. We also follow Bridget Sullivan to Montana, and we test a 2025 book's claim to have solved the case against four people who testified under oath. For Source Info: murdersminivans@gmail.com
S1 · E49
August 17 · 1 hr
The Tylenol Murders
Seven people in Chicago died in three days in 1982 after taking Extra Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide. Nobody has ever been charged. Every seal on your medicine bottle comes from this case. On September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village named Mary Kellerman took a capsule for a sore throat before school. She was dead within hours. By the end of that week, six more people were dead across the Chicago suburbs, including three members of the same family who took capsules from the same bottle on the same afternoon. It took two off-duty firefighters comparing notes on a phone call to figure out what the deaths had in common. It took a nurse named Helen Jensen going back to a victim's house and counting the capsules to prove it. In this episode, we walk through all seven victims, the seventy-two hours it took anyone to connect them, the lot numbers that proved the bottles were poisoned after they reached store shelves, the extortion letter demanding a million dollars, and James Lewis, the man investigators spent forty years trying to charge and never could. We also get into what happened after. Thirty-one million bottles pulled. Tamper-evident packaging on every over-the-counter product in North America. A federal anti-tampering law. The case is still open. Victims: Mary Kellerman, Adam Janus, Stanley Janus, Theresa Janus, Mary McFarland, Mary Reiner, Paula Prince. Source Info: murdersminivans@gmail.com FOLLOW US! Instagram: @murdersandminivans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MurdersMinivans
S1 · E47
August 10 · 1 hr 11 min
The Husband Did It (A Love Story)
Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing from her modesto home on christmas eve 2002. four months later, her body and the body of her unborn son conner washed up in the san francisco bay, just miles from where her husband scott said he had been fishing alone that day. this episode walks through the full case. we cover the timeline of Laci's disappearance, scott's shifting story, his affair with amber frey, the wiretapped phone calls, and the evidence that led to his conviction. we also get into the 2020 ruling that overturned his death sentence and where the case stands now. in this episode: who Laci peterson was and the life she and scott were building the events of december 24, 2002 and scott's fishing alibi amber frey and the affair scott was hiding the search, the tips, and the media frenzy that followed the discovery in the bay and what the evidence showed the 2004 trial, the conviction, and the death sentence the 2020 sentence reversal and the ongoing appeals
S1 · E48
August 7 · 20 min
What Happened to Nolan Wells?
Nolan Xavier Wells was an 18 year old wide receiver from ocean springs, mississippi, preparing for his freshman season at southwest mississippi community college. on july 4, 2026, he traveled to horn island with a large group of friends on multiple boats. the boat he rode out on took on water from a failed bilge pump and turned back early. nolan was not on it. his body was found in the water on july 6. in this episode we walk through the full case in order: who nolan was, the geography and currents of horn island, the boat that took on water and the released sea tow distress call, the conflicting accounts of his final hours, and a 22 page timeline review that found a material gap in his last confirmed hours. we cover the multi agency search and the two competing explanations, what both autopsies found, the independent one that ruled cause and manner undetermined without excluding foul play, and the official state autopsy that is complete but sealed while prosecutors prepare a grand jury presentation. we also cover the unresolved details around his phone and keys, his clothing, and the tides, the family's legal team led by ben crump, support from tyler perry, colin kaepernick, and al sharpton, and the new two sided legal fight as three of the friends, publicly named, hire attorneys and assert their innocence while three strangers face charges for threatening people connected to the case. this is an open case. as of recording, no one has been charged in nolan's death, the cause and manner of death remain undetermined, and the friends have publicly stated they are innocent. we report only publicly available information.
S1 · E46
August 3 · 59 min
Amy Mihaljevic: The Phone Call Before the Crime
in october 1989, ten-year-old amy mihaljevic left her school in bay village, ohio to meet a man she had spoken to on the phone. he told her that her mom had gotten a promotion. he said he wanted her help picking out a gift. she was never seen alive again. her body was found four months later in a field in ashland county, more than fifty miles from home. what most people don't know is that amy wasn't the only girl who got a call. other girls in the area received the same kind of pitch around the same time. some said no. some hung up. one didn't. more than three decades later, the case is still open. the fbi still has the tip line. investigators still believe someone knows the voice on the other end of that phone. this episode covers the call, the abduction, the search, the discovery in the field, and the details that have kept this case alive for a generation. we talk about what made amy trust him, why the phone angle still matters, and the evidence that still hasn't been matched to a name.
S1 · E45
July 27 · 1 hr 2 min
Casey Anthony | What the Jury Never Saw
everyone remembers the verdict. almost nobody knows about the google search the jury never saw. on the last day Caylee Anthony was seen alive, someone in the anthony home searched "fool-proof suffocation" — and the state never found it, because investigators checked the wrong browser. this week: the full casey anthony case from the primary record. the 31 days, zanny the nanny, the deputy who wouldn't walk thirty yards, the chloroform number that collapsed mid-trial, and the two web sleuths who found what the state missed using free software. this isn't the story of a jury getting it wrong. it's the story of everything that never reached them. for source info contact us at murdersminivans@gmail.com. we're on YouTube! @MurdersMinivans follow us on Instagram!! @MurdersandMinivans
S1 · E44
July 20 · 1 hr 2 min
Framed by a U.S. Marshal | The True Story Behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story
She spent 88 days in jail for a crime that never happened. The person who framed her was her own ex-fiancé: a deputy U.S. Marshal. This is the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story (2026). In 2016, Michelle Hadley was a 29-year-old grad student with a marketing job at Disney when Anaheim police arrested her for stalking, criminal threats, and six counts of attempted rape. Her bail was set at $1 million. She was facing life in prison. The problem? She had never done any of it. Michelle's ex-fiancé, deputy U.S. Marshal Ian Diaz, and his new wife of four months, Angela, had spent months building a fake online version of Michelle. They used her real writing style, pulled from private emails only Ian had access to. They created the "Lilithistruth" alias. They posted Craigslist ads directing strangers to Angela's home. They staged a garage attack. And they weaponized a federal badge to make local police believe every word. The Orange County District Attorney would later call it "diabolical." In this episode: The whirlwind romance and the Rockefeller Center proposal The Anaheim condo dispute that started everything The real breakup emails that became the blueprint for the frame Angela's history of forged sonograms, fake cancer, and impersonating Ian's other exes The Craigslist "rape fantasy" ads and the plan to stage a real assault The 17-year-old who nearly became a victim 88 days in jail: the death threat, the letters home, the swagger coaching How Michelle's parents cracked the digital evidence at their kitchen table Michelle's exoneration and Angela's plea deal The $1.795 million civil settlement that finally exposed Ian The federal conviction that came the same day Michelle gave birth to her daughter Watch: A Toxic Love Story, directed by Alexandra Lacey, premieres on Netflix July 22, 2026.
S1 · E43
July 13 · 1 hr 15 min
The Billionaire Murders: Barry & Honey Sherman
on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days. barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in the country. together they gave away record amounts of money and made a very long list of enemies. in this episode we go deep. the empire and the orphaned cousins who sued him. the money, the trusts, and the foundations he used like a piggy bank. the billion dollars in debt he refused to pay. the botched murder-suicide theory and the second autopsy that blew it apart. the walking man. the mystery visitor. and the six theories that are still on the table. police are now down to one detective and an ai program, and the family says it lives in fear. we keep it direct and we keep it fair. no wild guessing, no naming names the reporting does not name. what we get into how a ten-year-old counting zippers became a billionaire with a phd from mit the four orphaned cousins, the voided option, and the lawsuit that ended days before the murders kerry, the cousin who fantasized about killing barry on camera and failed a polygraph apotex, 1,200 lawsuits, and a man who called his own company a legal firm that sold drugs on the side the frugal billionaire: four cars in a lifetime, a chrysler sebring, and frosted flakes the foundations that loaned 240 million dollars back to his own business the cash crunch, the billion in debt, and the wills that may have been getting rewritten in the final hours the scene, the belts, and the bodies possibly posed to match the basement sculptures the second autopsy, the missing ligatures, and why murder-suicide was impossible the walking man video and the 29-minute mystery visitor all six theories, laid out with the case for and the case against each the house, the demolition, the property saga, and the 35 million dollar reward where it stands now: one detective, an ai program, and a daughter living in fear We're on YouTube! @MurdersMinivans Follow us on Instagram: murdersandminivans
S1 · E42
July 6 · 44 min
Kouri Richins: The Children's Book, The Fentanyl, The Widow
This week we're covering Kouri Richins, the Utah mother, real estate investor, and children's book author who was convicted in March 2026 of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. We get into the debt, the fraud, the affair, the life insurance policies, the failed Valentine's Day attempt, the Moscow Mule, and the book that made this one of the most talked-about cases in recent true crime. IN THIS EPISODE Who Kouri and Eric Richins were, and how different their upbringings were The real estate empire built on a forged power of attorney, a stolen $250,000 home equity line, and falsified records More than two million dollars in debt, and the life insurance policies Eric never knew existed Kouri's secret relationship with Josh Grossman and the text messages that surfaced at trial The warning signs, including Eric telling people he thought his wife was trying to poison him The estate plan Eric secretly changed to cut Kouri out and protect his three sons The Valentine's Day poisoning that became a separate attempted murder conviction The night Eric died, the Moscow Mule, and the fentanyl found in his system The internet searches and the children's book "Are You With Me?" The trial, the "black widow" moment, and the defense that called no witnesses The guilty verdict and a sentence of life without parole, handed down on what would have been Eric's 44th birthday For comments, questions or source info please email murdersminivans@gmail.com
S1 · E41
June 29 · 1 hr 8 min
OJ Simpson: How a Guilty Man Walked Free
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside her condo on Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Nicole was nearly decapitated. Ron had defensive wounds on his hands. He was 25 and had just stopped by to return a pair of glasses. OJ Simpson was arrested five days later, but only after a slow-speed chase down the 405 in a white Ford Bronco that 95 million people watched live. He had a passport, a disguise, and $8,000 in cash in the car. The trial lasted nearly nine months. The prosecution had blood, DNA, a history of domestic violence, and a 911 call where Nicole said he was going to kill her. The defense had a glove that didn't fit, a detective who'd used racial slurs, and a jury that deliberated for four hours. Not guilty. Two years later a civil jury disagreed. They found him liable for both deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. He never paid most of it. In 2008 he was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas and sentenced to up to 33 years. He served nine. He died of cancer in April 2024, still insisting he was innocent. This is the case that taught America to watch a trial like a TV show. We get into all of it. In This Episode: The timeline of June 12 and what the evidence actually showed Nicole's documented history with OJ and the calls that went unanswered The Bronco chase and why he didn't run The Dream Team, Mark Fuhrman, and how the defense flipped the script The glove, the DNA, and what the jury didn't buy The verdict, the reaction, and the racial divide it exposed The civil case and the $33.5 million he never paid Las Vegas, prison, parole, and how it ended

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