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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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32:12

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

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

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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36:25

Forgetful Grandma Tracy Nix: Hot car baby death

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/04/01

Send us a text Tracy Nix was enjoying her retirement years…until two of her young grandchildren died on her watch. Up until the back-to-the-back tragedies she had no time clock, no boss, no worries and the freedom to pursue her hobbies and passions, like playing the piano. In fact, she was practicing piano for several hours when she forgot that her 7-month-old granddaughter was strapped into a car seat in the back of her 2019 red Lexus on a 90-degree day in Florida. Sadly, B...

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35:24

Don’t invite Jordan Henning to the party: Killer...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/03/25

Send us a text Crime over a slip ‘n slide. Jordan Henning lied and lied. Ashley Henning was shot and died, Murder, justified? You decide. Ashley Henning, Sgt. 1st Class in the U.S. Army, was shot to death on her 37th birthday. Her death was no accident or crime committed at the hands of a stranger. She was gunned by her soldier husband, 34-year-old Jordan Henning, who was angry her 8-year-old son couldn’t remove the water hose from a slip n’ slide they had set up in th...

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62:42

Missing, Foul Play Suspected: What Happened to...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/03/18

Send us a text Sweet Joanna Otto gone, missing, but never forgotten since 1992! I didn't know you, but I have met the people who did and still mourn you. What can happen in 30 years? We’ve had technological changes, political shifts, global changes, disasters, and even a virus that affected the whole world We’ve broadened this thing known as the Internet. You can get all up in someone’s private business with websites called Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tik-Tok. W...

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36:36

It’s Always the Susan Smith Show: Probation denied...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/03/11

Send us a text Susan Smith has been called a lot of names: evil, egocentric, seductress, and murderer. One name she doesn’t deserve is mother. In 1994, the then 23-year-old young woman claimed a man carjacked her and took off with her children who were in the backseat. A community-wide search in Union, South Carolina went nationwide as the shocking and tragic story of the missing 3-year-old and 14-month-old boys made headlines when Susan and her devastated husband and father...

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24:40

“Ole Miss Murder Mystery: Did strait-laced Tim...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/03/04

Send us a text Jimmie “Jay” Lee loved to shine. The 20-year-old Ole Miss Student was known for his love of flamboyant clothes, his Pomeranian ‘Lexie,’ and helping others. In fact, the day his disappearance was discovered the soon-to-be social worker had missed attending a baby-formula drive and his friends and family knew something was wrong. Jay Lee was last seen leaving his university-affiliated apartment early on the morning of Friday, July 8, 2022, wearing his gray slippers, s...

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24:25

“Blue Gatorade: Is it worth your life? Store owner...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/02/25

Send us a text Killing a customer for shoplifting seems callous and cruel, but 61-year-old Taz Zarka said he was “not a monster” for stabbing 27-year-old Mark Garrity Jr. to death on April 6, 2023. The young man was in Taz’s family-owned, neighborhood supermarket located at the City Bus Stop in Raleigh, North Carolina when the store owner thought Mark was stealing a blue Gatorade and some ice cream. Shoplifting was a constant problem for the businessman, he had them at least...

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39:55

Unnecessary Middle Men Force Patients to Pay More for...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/02/21

Send us a text It’s no secret that the Pharmacy Healthcare System is broken. Join Pam and me as we dive into the ugliness of one of the main reasons the Pharmacy Profession and Independent Pharmacies are being threatened, some pharmacists say. We invited Johnny Brooklere, Pharmacist/Owner of Brooklere Pharmacy 💊 in Birmingham, Alabama to share his expert opinion on one of the main culprits …PBM’s (Pharmacy Benefits Managers)‼️ As Brooklere points out, they have a v...

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58:08

Lawsuit over Dr. Shaknovsky’s wrong-site liver...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/02/18

Send us a text As unbelievable as it is that a surgeon could mistakenly remove a man’s liver instead of his spleen, the lawsuit filed over the alleged wrongful death of 70-year-old Bill Bryan says that his fatal operation is just the latest in a series of surgical errors by the same surgeon enabled by a system geared to protect doctors. According to the lawsuit filed by Beverly Bryan, Bill’s widow, what seems like a shocking, incredulous, and one-in-a million type of blunder that ...

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60:31

First on the scene: First responders suffer in silence

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/02/11

Send us a text Murder changes everyone. When lives are suddenly and horrifically cut short, the loss also shatters those who love them. But they aren’t the only ones who suffer. First responders who are first on the scene see it, too. Firefighters, paramedics, and police all witness the worst people can do to each other. It’s rewarding to help people who suffer, but it can take a terrible toll. They may not know those who died, but witnessing the aftermath can leave long-las...

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27:17

Boyfriend shot girlfriend’s jealous ex-boyfriend:...

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2025/02/04

Send us a text A man’s home is his castle and that was certainly the case for Brian Camp, when an unknown intruder broke into his home and attacked him while he, his girlfriend, and their children were sleeping. The intruder turned out to be Johnathan Letendre, his girlfriend’s jealous ex-boyfriend. Naked, unarmed, and asleep, Brian came up out of bed fighting for his life. He didn’t know who Johnathan was at the time or that he had brought a knife and pair of handcuffs when he broke in...

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30:22

Let the Good Times Roll: Terror truck attack too Easy...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2025/01/28

Send us a textFrom historic snowfall to an unprecendented terror attack early on New Year's Day, January 2025 has been one for the record books for New Orleans. The Big Easy is always a good time. It's a city open to celebration no matter what day of the week or month of the year, there's always good food, drink, dancing and debauchery. For folks in Northwest Florida, and all along the Gulf Coast, it's often the first place you think of for fun and the last place you'd imagine someo...

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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...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

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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