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Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.

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36:14

What in the cornbread hell is going on in Cullman,...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/08/19

Send us a text Did Whitney Cheatham read the charges right or does she know something we don’t know? ‘Cause she’s smiling so big in her police mug shot it’s making some people wonder. Police in Cullman, Alabama say the 33-year-old salon owner is facing 25 charges related to drug trafficking and practicing medicine without a license. Her arrest comes following an investigation into forged prescriptions used at multiple local pharmacies to obtain controlled narcotics, investigators ...

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69:47

Santa Rosa School District in Florida under fire over...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/08/12

Send us a text Gulf Breeze parent Tara Kamm is speaking out in the wake of the arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney, who has plead not guilty to possessing, trading and sharing 23 counts of CSAM. The incident has shaken the whole community and Kamm wants to see parents take the passion they feel over the Santa Rosa County School District’s handling of McChesney and put it into action and implement changes. Kamm is in a position to know. Unfortu...

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46:25

Gulf Breeze Grad Matt McChesney Busted for CSAM and...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/08/08

Send us a text The arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney on 23 CSAM charges has set off a safety alarm for parents and the Santa Rosa County School District. In part, because he was arrested the same month that 36-year-old Gulf Breeze High School hospitality teacher and a private team soccer coach Molly Mersereau, was arrested for grooming and having a sexual relationship with a minor student. Both cases grabbed national headlines and in both cases the susp...

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40:04

Twice Electrocuted, Once to Die: The Trial and...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/07/29

Send us a text A poor teenager from Louisiana had few options when he was charged with the murder of a local, prominent pharmacist in St. Martinville in 1946. In a town full of secrets, Willie Francis was the perfect scapegoat. He couldn’t even afford the defense attorney who eventually took over his case and his dad paid with two sacks of potatoes. Willie was convicted after a quick trial with little evidence, but executing him for the capital crime proved to be harder than...

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39:47

Good Ol’ Bernie Tiede – Mortician Extraordinaire –...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/07/22

Send us a text Convicted killer Bernie Tiede is such a character that his true-crime case caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was featured in the film “Bernie,” who was portrayed by actor Jack Black. In fact, the performer was so impressed with Bernie’s magnanimous personality Black would like to see him released from prison and the film’s producer and director, Richard Linklater, liked Bernie so much he let Bernie live with him between cases. Half the town of Carthage, Texas, wou...

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36:33

Wanna be Teen Tik Tok star Sarah Grace Patrick called...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/07/15

Send us a text A beautiful, fresh-faced Carrollton, Georgia teen who openly grieved for her mother and stepdad on Tik Tok was arrested on July 8, 2025, and was accused of fatally shooting this past February. Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with murder of her mom, Kristin Brock, 41, and her stepfather James Brock, 45. They were found dead in their home on Feb. 20th, “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.” Their five-year-old daughter was the one who found the Brocks de...

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30:02

’Absolutely I knew’: Gulf Coast Stapleton’s Brittani...

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2025/07/08

Send us a text Right here in our little slice of Paradise is the home for fun, sun, fitness, beach, boating, swimming, surfing, dining on seafood...nothing could be more beautiful and wholesome. It's the perfect backdrop for an enviable highlight reel for any Social Media Content Creator! So how would one know if this was Real or just an Illusion... Well Tik Tok has never been a platform known for people holding their tongue and creators and audiences alike serve up the tea, hot, cold, ...

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42:05

What in the murder and matrimony in Milton: The Jerry...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/07/01

Send us a text Jerry Odum was always trying to find a way out of commitments or promises that he made himself. He would be the first to let you know he was the smartest person in the room and drop it in when he could that he was "a millionaire." A non-stop pathological liar who would lie about any and every thing, even when it wasn’t necessary. If Jerry had given Vickie Edge an ounce of the sympathy he gave himself, he might not have killed her. But that's what he did in August of...

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65:57

Bloody Nightmare: Sleepwalking teen Benjamin Elliott...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/06/24

Send us a text What goes on in someone else’s mind is a mystery, unless they let you in on the secret. Benjamin Elliott was a studious, intelligent teen who was “enamored” with his dad’s sword collection and a survival knife his dad gave him. Pretty normal hobbies for a young man from Texas, but what was not normal was what he did with the knife. He unsheathed it in the middle of the night, then walked across the hall to the bedroom of his sleeping twin sister, Meaghan, wher...

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53:14

Jealousy, Greed, G-strings, and Gyrations: The...

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2025/06/17

Send us a text Sexy, classy-looking men dancing for dollars and putting on a show for women. The neveau concept revolutioned not only Indian immigrant Steve Banerjee's Los Angeles nightclub, that was barely getting by on disco and backgammon, but it also caught fire across the country, thanks in part to the cast of characters that helped Banerjee launch the dancers including former Playboy model Dorothy Stratten. Women would line up out the door to experience the for-women-only "fantasy" of t...

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31:47

Head on Killer: Jeannine Jaramillo

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2025/06/10

Send us a text Jeannine Jaramillo, of Albuquerque, who was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal car crash in 2022. Jaramillo made a frenzied 911 call claiming to have been kidnapped, leading to a police chase on I-25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the pursuit, Jaramillo sped the wrong way on the interstate, causing a head-on collision that killed Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and retired firefighter Frank Lovato. Investigators found out that Jarami...

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45:18

Carlee Russell kidnap hoax: 911’d an invisible toddler

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/06/03

Send us a text We all want special attention from time to time, but would you fake your own kidnapping? Would you spin a tale that puts you as a hero for possibly saving a half-dressed toddler from the busy I-459 Birmingham traffic in the dark of the night? Would your tale include leaving your bright red luxury car still running on the side of the road with all your belongings still inside? Well, this is only a small part of Ms. Carlethia "Carlee" Nichole Russell did as a cry for attention or...

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29:55

Teen Chase Jones Addicted to Speed Kills Four

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/05/27

Send us a text “I was addicted to speed,” 18-year-old Chase Jones told the Judge at his sentencing. He pled guilty to Four counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of 38-year-old Andrea S. Hudson, 12-year-old Boyd "Buster" Brown, 13-year-old Matilda Wilcoxson, and 12-year-old Eloise Wilcoxson. Jones was also charged with Two counts of vehicular assault for the injuries to Hudson’s children, Nolan and Charlotte. The crash happened in a community outside Seattle. Police say Jones was w...

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52:18

Pace Pharmacy: Accused of compounding a pill mill

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/05/20

Send us a text Pace Pharmacy is the target of a multi-agency bust that accuses the pharmacist-in-charge of running his business like a traveling medicine show in the Wild West: Step right up and order your own customized version of a bottle of Dr. Feelgood from the head man in charge! Pharmacist Stephen Burklow’s arrest report paints a picture of a man accused of slinging drugs just for the buck and not for your health. People were traveling from thirty and forty miles away to buy drugs...

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32:22

Dr. Ingolf Tuerk, renowned robotics surgeon, snapped...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/05/13

Send us a text As a pioneer of Robotic Surgery, brilliant and likeable Dr. Ingolf Harry Tuerk was used to things going his way. Tall, smart, good looking, and buff he was living his best life! Perhaps his great life could be even better when he decided to check out a dating app. That’s where he met the beautiful and fun, 45-year-old single mom of three, Kathleen McLean. After a few years of dating, a wedding at a tacky Drive Thru Chapel in Las Vegas, a prenup, a few spirite...

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36:11

Rock throwing Joseph Koenig and gang punished for...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/05/06

Send us a text Alexa Bartell was simply driving home from work late one Wednesday night. Something almost everybody does every day. She was especially happy that evening on April 19, 2023. The 20-year-old woman loved her family, she loved her job at a flooring company where she worked with her mom, and she loved her new girlfriend who she was going to see that night. Life was going great – until three teenagers in another car hurled a heavy rock at her windshield that hit with the...

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32:03

Chuck Erickson’s dream becomes Ryan Ferguson’s...

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2025/04/29

Send us a text An All-American young man was enjoying the best time of his life in college when he was arrested for the murder of Kent Heitholt, a popular sports editor in their hometown of Columbia, Missouri. The tall and strapping Heitholt was found beaten and strangled in the newspaper parking lot after getting off late from work on Halloween night 2001. The case went cold quickly, and police had no leads until Charles ‘Chuck’ Erickson said he had a dream after reading an artic...

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73:08

Three-Fer: Penelope McGee, Gerald Radford, and Kanye...

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2025/04/22

Send us a text Is your mouth a murder weapon? Can a bully cry self-defense? And what's up with Kanye West and Nitrous Oxide? We're talking about three cases in this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential. The first is Penelope McGee. If someone is arguing with you, is it your responsibility to make sure they don't die? Socialite Penelope McGee was arguing with her ex-husband, Andrew Savitz, when he died of a heart attack. The prosecution claimed she was the aggressor who knew his heart ...

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33:42

Arkansas Dr. David Diffine: The Naked Truth…and we...

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2025/04/15

Send us a text Dr. David Diffine made himself famous on Instagram as “Naked Dr. Dave.” Now many more agencies are on to him since he sauntered naked through his Arkansas doctor’s office. He did don a ball cap, but that’s all he had on when he walked into the reception area and exposed himself to several women who worked with him, including one who was also a patient. Office surveillance video of Dr. Diffine casually strolling through his office and performing a sex act in front of...

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32:12

Brock Horner and Tracy Nix: Everybody's talking about...

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2025/04/08

Send us a text Lawd hammercy, if you like drama, trauma, and incredulous cases, don’t look any further than Florida! From one end of the Gulf Coast to another, we’re swimming in sass, sorrow, and the worst kind of decision making. In Wauchula, Tracy Nix learned she would be spending years in prison for forgetting her 9-month-old granddaughter and leaving her to die in a hot car. Tracy took the stand for the first time in her emotional sentencing hearing, but her daughter was perh...

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