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Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast

Kori and Courtney

Do you love everything true crime and cocktails? Then this is the show for you. Listen every week, as Sinister Crimes and Cocktails takes a deep dive into true crime stories from around world exploring sinister minds, their menacing crimes and the mistakes left behind all while enjoying a cocktail masterminded by us for each episode... Believe us you will need it!

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Episode 120: A Sex Fetish Killing

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2024/09/02

Send us a textAt just twenty-five-years-old, Taylor Schabusiness murdered her lover, twenty-four-year-old Shad Thyrion, inside his mother’s Green Bay, Wisconsin home in February of 2022. According to investigators, Taylor cut off Shad’s head, sexually assaulted him, then dismembered the rest of his body, leaving his head in a bucket for his mother to find. So, what could have caused Taylor to commit such a sinister act of killing along with the sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse?Refere...

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Episode 119: Torture, Kill, Dismember

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2024/08/26

Send us a textOver the course of three days in August of 2009, Angela Simpson, one of the most notorious killers in Arizona history, tortured, strangled, and dismembered Terry Neely, a disabled man, because she suspected that he might be a police informant. Angela’s remorseless confession was so bone-chilling that it helped inspire the fictional psychopathic hitwoman Villanelle in the thriller series Killing Eve. So, what led Angela to believe that Terry was a snitch for law enforcement that ...

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Episode 118: A Killer Plus Deadly Siblings

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2024/08/20

Send us a Text Message.In 1993, California siblings Curtis and Shanna Culver along with friend Brian Hawkins, stabbed and killed 19-year-old Frank McAlister. Frank’s murder case would go cold for over 25 years, until one of his guilt-stricken killers confessed on a local news program. So, why was Frank McAlister killed and why did his case go cold for so long?References:Siblings Plead Guilty To 1993 Murder After Accomplice Confesses On TV (allthatsinteresting.com)Curtis, Shanna Culver Sentenc...

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Episode 117: A Killer Talk Show

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2024/08/12

Send us a Text Message.During the 90’s, daytime tv was infiltrated by talk shows that were filled with the drama of paternity tests, couples cheating and secret crushes. One such talk show would lead to one of their guests committing murder. In 1995, Michigan native Jonathan Schmitz killed an acquaintance of his Scott Amedure, just three days after Scott admitted to having a crush on Jonathan while on the popular daytime talk show “The Jenny Jones Show”. So, why did Jonathan feel the need to ...

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Episode 116: Two Deaths One House

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2024/08/05

Send us a Text Message.A Connecticut woman, 76-year-old Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, who was accused of killing her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi and hiding his body for months while collecting his paychecks, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Just hours before she was to receive a 13-year prison sentence, Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi was found dead in the same home she had killed her husband in. The Connecticut State Police said her death has been "categorized as an untimely death investigation" b...

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Episode 115: A Thirty-Year Run

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2024/07/29

Send us a Text Message.70-year-old Steven Craig Johnson, a convicted pedophile who escaped an Oregon prison three decades ago was finally captured this month in Macon, Georgia. Johnson who had been living in his Marco apartment since 2011, was described by Oregon authorities as a “pedophile” who “presented a high probability of victimizing teen boys”. So, how did Steven Craig Johnson manage to elude the police for thirty years?References:'Pedophile' Finally Caught After Escaping Prison 30 Yea...

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Episode 114: A Case of Stolen Body Parts

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2024/07/22

Send us a Text Message.Former mortuary worker of Little Rock, Arkansas, Candace Chapman Scott, has pleaded guilty to selling and transporting stolen body parts from medical school cadavers across state lines, as well as conspiring to commit mail fraud occurring in 2021. According to authorities, while Candace was working at the mortuary in October of 2021, she sold almost eleven thousand dollars of stolen body parts to a Pennsylvania man. She is just one of several being charged recently in w...

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Episode 113: A Killer frying Pan

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2024/07/15

Send us a Text Message.After almost a decade, California woman, Trista Ann Spicer will head to trail for the grisly murder of her boyfriend Eric Israel Mercado. Eric vanished without a trace in 2014 and it would not be until eight years later that his body would finally be discovered. In 2022, Trista’s new roommate alerted police to the possibility of Trista committing a murder and hiding the body on her property. Eric’s body would be found on her property in what the police called a "makeshi...

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Episode 112: For the Sake of Killing

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2024/07/11

Send us a Text Message.In 2019, Wade Wilson was arrested and charged with the murders of two women in Cape Coral, Florida, Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz that occurred just a few hours apart. According to Assistant State Attorney Andreas Gardiner, “This case was about killing for the sake of the killing". So, did Wade Wilson kill two women in cold blood just for the sake of killing?References:FL v. Wade Wilson: Strangled Women Murder Trial | Court TVWade Wilson found guilty on all count...

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Episode 111: The Children's Book Killer

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2024/07/01

Send us a Text Message.Utah mother of three, Kouri Richins wrote a children’s book about grief almost a year after her husband Eric Richins passed away in March of 2022. She wrote the book as she wanted to help kids struggling with the loss of a loved one like her own children had. However, a month after her book was published and receiving praise from the local media for helping children deal with their grief, Kouri’s story took a sinister turn, and she was charged with the murder of her hus...

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Episode 110: A Little Sweet Tea with Some Antifreeze

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2024/06/24

Send us a Text Message.In 2023, Ina Kenoyer, of Minot (mine-it), North Dakota was arrested and charged with the murder of her long-time boyfriend Steven Riley, Jr. Authorities believe that Ina fatally poisoned Steven with antifreeze in order to claim his newly acquired inheritance of thirty million dollars. So, could someone turn sinister enough to kill a person they love for a large sum of money?References:North Dakota woman arrested for allegedly killing boyfriend with poison; police cite "...

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Episode 109: A Killer Candian Pig Farm

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2024/06/17

Send us a Text Message.Former pig farmer Robert Pickton, also known as the “Pig Farm Killer” or “The Butcher “, is one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers. His case was the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history and unveiled a wider issue of missing and murdered female sex workers and Indigenous women. In 2001, Robert was charged with six counts murder occurring at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam (co-quilt-lem), Canada, but by 2005, he had been charged with the murder of ...

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Episode 108: Father Day Bonus Update-My Mother Joined...

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2024/06/16

Send us a Text Message.In Episode 7: My Mother Joined Cult and Nobody Knew we followed the case of Idaho Doomsday author and cult leader Chad Daybell and his new wife Lori Vallow Daybell, a mother of three. The newlyweds would soon find themselves as the prime suspects in four murders and one attempted murder. Chad Daybell has finally been found guilty and sentenced for his role in the deaths of siblings Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, the children of his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, and the d...

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Episode 107: The Lululemon Murder

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2024/06/10

Send us a Text Message.In March of 2011, Jayna Murray a part-time manager at a Bethesda, Maryland Lululemon store, which is high end sports brand clothing store known for their hundred-dollar yoga leggings, was killed in the most brutal of ways over a pair of them. Prosecutors theorized that Brittany Norwood, a colleague of Jayna’s, had killed her in attempt to keep Jayna from reporting that Brittany had stolen a pair of the luxury brand leggings during a shift at work. However, Brittany clai...

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Episode 106: The Deadly Night Nurse

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2024/06/03

Send us a Text Message.For three years from 2020 to 2023, in long-term health facilities across western Pennsylvania, 41-year-old registered nurse Heather Pressdee administered excessive amounts of insulin to 22 of her patients trying to kill them. Of the 22 patients that Heather tried to murder she was successful in killing 17. She would later claim she was performing mercy killings to end her patients’ suffering. To avoid the death penalty, Heather plead guilty to three counts of first-degr...

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Episode 105: The Kentucky Cannibal

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2024/05/27

Before the notorious serial killer Jeffery Dahmer ever appeared on the scene, there was Levi Boone Helm, the Kentucky Cannibal. Helm a mid-19th century American frontiersman from Kentucky, was a gunfighter who got his nickname for his “opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh”, usually in survival situations, though there are documented instances of him killing people unprovoked for their meat. By all accounts, Helm had been raised by a loving family but nevertheless...

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Episode 104: A Deadly Chance Encounter

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2024/05/20

In June of 2014, 37-year-old Gregory Scott Hale, was arrested in Coffee County, Tennessee, and charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He confessed to authorities of killing 36-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder before he dismembered her and then ate parts of her body less than a day after meeting her. So, what makes one commit murder and then eat their victim. References:CANNIBALIZED MURDER VICTIM FROM PIKEVILLE TENNESSEE | Crossville News First (crossvillenews1st.com)Gregory Scott Ha...

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Episode 103: The Human Flesh Obsession

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2024/05/13

In 1981, Japanese killer Issei Sagawa, also known as the “Kobe Cannibal,” murdered his friend Renée Hartevelt, a young Dutch student, and ate her remains. Nevertheless, he was never charged for his crime and lived as freeman after committing the murder. So, what makes one want to eat their friend.References:Japanese Cannibal, Who Was Never Punished for Eating Woman, Dies (thedailybeast.com)‘Kobe Cannibal’ Issei Sagawa, who killed and ate a Dutch student, dies at age 73 | The Straits TimesIsse...

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Episode 102: Mother's Day Bonus- Top 10 Ways of How...

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2024/05/12

Since the very beginning of our podcast, Kori and I have pointed out many mistakes that parents have made with their children or dire situations that young children have been privy to that has led to their sinister actions. So, for Mother’s Day we put together a Top 10 list of How Not to Raise a Killer. Support the Show.email- sinistercrimesandcocktails@gmail.comwebsite-https://www.sinistercrimesandcocktailspodcast.com/Facebook Page-https://www.facebook.com/sinistercrimesandcocktailsIns...

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Episode 101: A Killer Sexual Appetite

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2024/05/06

Andrei Chikatilo aka, “The Butcher of Rostov” or “The Red Ripper” was one of the most prolific killers in the Ukraine. Between 1978 to 1990 he murdered at least 53 young women and children who he lured into the woods, raping his victims before he ate their sexual organs, as well as removing other body parts like their nose and eyes. After twelve years of slipping through the authorities’ fingers on multiply occasions, Chikatilo was arrested in 1990 and executed for his crimes in 1994. S...

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