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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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23:40

Bendadryl, Babysitter, and Breastmilk: What Happened...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/01/21

Send us a textDixie Denise Villa ran an unlicensed daycare on base in Hawaii. She had several children of her own and would often help other families with their kids because of a lack of childcare. In 2019, Anna Lobisch begged Dixie to watch her 7-month-old baby, Abi, because Anna needed to study for some classes and had other appointments. Despite having her hands full with her own children and some teenagers, Dixie agreed.Tragically, Abi was found dead the following morning at Villa’s ...

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28:44

Secret stache of nudes leads Jade Janks to kill her...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/01/14

Send us a textJade Janks was a hip and fashionable young woman who had a vibrant and wholesome style that made her a favorite with family and friends, and fueled her successful career as an interior decorator in California. Even though her mom had divorced her stepdad, Tom Merriman, Jade remained close with the co-founder of a butterfly farm and dutifully agreed to help take care of him as his health deteriorated. Merriman’s health issues left him an invalid and Jade lived next door...

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22:29

Moonshine, Murder, and Missing Men in the Mountains:...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/01/07

Send us a textAlabama’s oldest, active cold case is a wild, real-life tale of three cousins who disappeared one night in 1956 after heading off to a party in the moonshining, mountain country of northern Jefferson County, Alabama. Their family never saw them again.The theories as to what happened to Robert Earl Dye, Billy Howard, and Dan Brasher are believed to be part truth, part gossip, and part urban legend. Did they get caught stealing from a bootlegger? Were they thrown do...

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32:30

Reverse Robin Hood Jamey Noel: The Sheriff who Stole...

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2025/01/01

Send us a textMoney is no object, especially when it’s not yours. That seemed to be the philosophy of former Indiana Sheriff Jamey Nole who was also once the star of his own reality television show on prisons, “60 Days In.” Even though he was the highest paid public official in his county at just under $200,000 a year, he was living like he made $2 million a year because he was misappropriating money meant for the community like EMS ambulance service, and the fire department, as well as ...

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31:01

Sick to Death: Luigi Mangione guns down...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/12/24

Send us a textLuigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of assassinating the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare on the streets of New York, is being hailed as a hero by some who, like him, have experienced the pain, stress, and outrage over deteriorating health and stuck in a quagmire of what will and won’t be covered by insurance. Police and others say he’s a murdering menace - a calculating killer who ambushed 50-year-old Brian Thompson, a husband and father of two teenage sons...

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40:07

New to murder: Christian Ketchup accused of killing...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/12/18

Send us a textWhy Christian Ketchup was armed at a bar the night he ran into her sister, Tierra Binion, Diamond Jordan doesn’t know. What she does know is that she wants him to be held accountable for the murder he is accused of committing. Investigators say Christian gunned down the 25-year-old mother of twin boys in the parking lot of Mugs ‘n Jugs, a Pensacola bar popular with people around college-age. According to deputies, Tierra and Christian’s girlfriend, Rachel DeRise, had w...

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33:06

Coed Killed on Campus Couldn’t Outrun Evil: Why Laken...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/12/11

Send us a textThe morning that she died, Laken Riley did everything right. The University of Georgia nursing student let her friends and her mom know she was going for a run on campus. She even shared her location on her smartwatch and told her roommates where she would be. Despite making every effort to stay safe, the 22-year-old rule follower crossed paths with someone who broke every rule, including crossing the border illegally. Jose Ibarra wasn’t supposed to be in the United St...

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24:15

The Pig, the Pastor and the Music Director: Unholy...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/12/03

Send us a textPastor Jeff Brown was doing more than just preaching to the choir when he began a love triangle with church Choir Director Cindy Reese, and tragically for Cindy’s husband, Michael, he was on the losing end. What started as a small-town scandal escalated into a murder investigation and the trail of evidence lead from the local Piggly Wiggly grocery store and favorite burger joint to the church and eventually the Julia Tutwiler prison. The illicit lovers thought their af...

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35:18

Heartless Hollywood Murder Suicide: Phil and Brynn...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/11/26

Send us a textPhil Hartman was one of Hollywood’s leading funny men. There was no impression he couldn’t make, no character he couldn’t bring to life on screen, from appearances on The Simpsons to skits on Saturday Night Live and roles in dozens of movies. Hartman was popular and loved, on and off screen, by fans, friends, and family alike, for his easy-going ways and ability to make people laugh. But there was nothing funny about what happened to the comedian in 1998. His wife of ...

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28:23

Taylor Wright was Dead Wrong About Ashley McArthur:...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/11/19

Send us a textSome people can handle temptation, but apparently Ashley McArthur isn’t one of them. When her friend, police officer turned private investigator Taylor Wright, asked her to hold onto some cash, she did. Then Ashley refused to let it go.Taylor didn’t know at the time Ashley had a lying problem, and that men, money, and friendships were simply the cost of doing business.No matter how many times Taylor asked for her cash back, Ashley always had an excuse why she couldn’t get it to ...

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24:59

Whiny Toby Madden says he ‘didn’t mean’ to stab...

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2024/11/13

Send us a textToby Madden couldn’t commit to his longtime girlfriend when it comes to marriage, but when it comes to murder, he committed to stabbing her 55 times. Rachelle Brewsaugh was used to Toby Madden’s meltdowns. They had been a couple for nearly thirty years and even had a daughter together. Rachelle’s family testified that he regularly threatened her, telling her more than once he was going to “cut off her head and put it in her mother’s lap so the whole family would suffer...

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22:09

Doctor's Orders: How Psychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/11/07

Send us a textPsychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder knows how to mess with people’s heads. When she no longer wanted to split custody of the child she shared with her baby-daddy, psychiatrist Michael Weiss, she didn’t take him to court. Prosecutors say she made a plan to kill him. That plan included brainwashing and bamboozling her bi-polar younger cousin, Jacob Nolan. His family was delighted when the accomplished and seemingly kind and caring Buchbinder offered to let Jacob live with her and ...

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41:27

That’s the Effing Liver!’ Florida Investigates Doctor...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/11/04

Send us a textHere’s the shakedown and breakdown of the latest Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky wrong site surgery. The doctor is under investigation and has had his medical license suspended by the Florida Dept. of Health after he allegedly mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, two easily identifiable organs for a health care professional.The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration launched a ten-day investigation to better understand why he could allegedly make such a deadly, e...

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21:57

A murderous third grader, a deadly paramour, and a...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/30

Send us a textAn open marriage ended in a closed casket. Laurie and Michael Shaver were together, but seeing other people…because that always ends so well, even when you’re living in the shadow of the happiest place on earth, Disney World.But one day, Michael, who was a monorail mechanic at Disney, didn’t show up for work or anywhere for that matter. For all intents and purposes, the husband and father had all but disappeared except for a cryptic message sent to his boss, friends, and family ...

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33:39

Psycho teen caught vaping pot shoots mom in the face,...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/22

Send us a textMississippi 14-year-old Carly Gregg shot her mom three times in the face and saved three more bullets for her stepdad. She was upset her mom had caught her vaping pot and discovered that Carly had a secret life which included a boyfriend, burner phones, and other forbidden extracurricular activities. Security footage in the house shows that the day her mom, a school teacher, found out Carly was rebelling against the house rules, Carly walked into her room, took a gun hidde...

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29:16

Stink Over the Ink: Is a tattoo a sin? Kevin Sehmer...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/16

Send us a textKilling a man over his tattoos?! That’s what happened to Josh Davies, who was enjoying date night with his wife when they stopped at a popular watering hole to meet some friends. The 39-year-old was hanging out, relaxing, and minding his own business when 64-year-old Kevin Sehmer marched into the bar, already looking for a fight, prosecutors said. Although Josh was a complete stranger, Kevin zeroed in on the younger man’s tattoos, visible on his arms, and became incen...

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45:00

Southern Fried Crime: Updates, Deaths, and Sextortion

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/14

Send us a textWhew! There’s so much stuff happening we added an extra episode to touch on new cases and others that just aren’t going away anytime soon!Jury selection starts Monday in the case of “Suitcase Sarah Boone,” who is on her 9th attorney, and wouldn’t you just know it, he’s James Owens from Milton, Florida, and the former Public Defender for our area. He’s not without notoriety here in the Panhandle, with his connection to a woman and criminal suspect who died in a shootout with...

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28:17

"From That 70s Show to Prison: the Danny Masterson case"

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/08

Send us a text“That 70s Show” was one of the most popular TV shows in the1990s, taking people on a wholesome walk down memory lane down when long hair, bell bottoms, and hanging out was the norm. One of the stars of the show was anything but wholesome in real life, according to prosecutors. Actor Danny Masterson was convicted of raping two women and sentenced to thirty to years life. The victims said he drugged and repeatedly raped them and when they came forward with the accusation...

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40:06

Bossy, brassy Bree kills kind-hearted husband: the...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/04

Send us a textBree Kuhn seemed to want to win at all costs. The bossy, U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer had moods as fiery as her red hair and although she often accused her husband, Collin Turner, of physical violence, according to witnesses she was the one who would attack him.The night he died police were called to their Gulf Breeze, Florida home three times. First, Bree called insisting to officers he hurt her and demanding he be taken to jail. They refused and left when they found no s...

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58:58

Surgeon loses license after removing man’s liver...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/10/02

Send us a text“Migrating” organs, doctored reports, and pressuring operating room staff to cover for his “egregious” mistakes - the Florida Department of Health made no bones about the seriousness of Destin surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky’s treatment of two patients that left one person permanently injured, and cost another man his life. For now, the state of Florida has suspended the doctor’s license in the wake of the tragedy that killed 70-year-old Bill Bryan when Shaknovsky remo...

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