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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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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...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

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...

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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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37:52

Battered Spouse or Murderer? The Marcia Thompson case

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/09/24

Send us a textMarcia Thompson shot her husband at least six times while he lay on the couch in his underwear in their Florida home. Prosecutors said it was murder, but she claimed it was self-defense. A U.S. Customs Agent, Marcia was getting ready to leave the house for work. That morning was no different than many others before it. Terry Thompson fired a barrage of insults and death threats toward her and their children. But this time, Marcia Thompson had enough. She took her servi...

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36:54

Dirty politics, a toxic boss, and a murdered...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/09/17

Send us a textThe truth hurts, but it killed 69-year-old Jeff German, an investigative reporter in Las Vegas. The well-known reporter had spent more than four decades covering government and organized crime for Las Vegas’ two leading newspapers and was infamous for his fearless truth telling and confronting the powerful on behalf of the powerless. Nothing daunted German, not even when a mobster once punched him in the face over one his articles. He took it as a badge of honor. ...

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Death on the Operating Table: Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/09/11

Send us a textUnconscious, exposed in every way. People are incredibly vulnerable when they go under in order to undergo surgery. They can’t argue, push back, or move out of the way once they’re on the operating table and under the knife.Thinking of that helplessness breaks Beverly Bryan’s heart. Her tall, strong, and strapping husband was a force to be reckoned with when he was standing on his own two feet. Not that Bill Bryan normally needed to be tough. The retired boilermaker’s famil...

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21:37

The Menards Vanish: Did doomsday prepper murder...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/09/03

Send us a textDaniel and Stephanie Menard were well known and well liked in their small, close-knit community - Olive Dell Ranch, a family-friendly nudist resort in Colton, California. The elderly couple loved the naturist lifestyle, their church and their little Shih Tzu, Cuddles, and they looked out for each other. Daniel Menard, 79, was a diabetic with dementia and 73-year-old Stephanie Menard, who walked with a cane.The elderly couple had some good friends at the ranch, but the...

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18:28

Beauty Buyer Beware VII: Dr. Ben Brown

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/08/30

Send us a textDr. Ben Brown, the Florida plastic surgeon arrested for the untimely death of his young wife, has legal battles on several fronts these days. Brown has a pre-trial conference in Santa Rosa Count court next week on his negligent homicide charge. His attorney filed a motion to waive his appearance, but just two days ago Brown filed a motion asking to appear telephonically or virtual at the Sept. 3 hearing.Also next week, Brown's office in Gulf Breeze, the place where he was p...

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37:51

Lululemon and Lane Bryant Murders – Retail Can Kill Ya!

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/08/27

Send us a Text Message.Fashion to die for. Shopping and combing the racks for clothes is supposed to be fun, even necessary at times, but not deadly. The ladies in these next two cases went shopping for all the same reasons many of us do, to buy a new outfit for a special occasion, to pick up a gift for a friend, or to just kill time. Instead, they were killed. Police are still looking for the man who gunned down four customers, a part-time employee and the store manager at a Lane B...

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52:05

Mommy Killer III: Brandon Aydelott, Moving Through...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/08/22

Send us a Text Message.You’d have to be insane to kill your mother, but can you become un-insane? According to Florida State Hospital you can. Several psychologists say Brandon Aydelott, who at 17 stabbed, slashed, beat and stomped his mother, Sharon Hill Aydelott, to death on Christmas Eve 2013 because she put him in rehab two weeks before he killed her, say he no longer meets the criteria for commitment at their facility for the criminally insane. The 28-year-old Gulf Breez...

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Wrapped in the mat: Kendrick Johnson’s family still...

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows ·

2024/08/14

Send us a Text Message.Kendrick Johnson was known for being a talented athlete, so how did the strong, healthy 17-year-old basketball player end up dying upside down, head-first in a rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym? Three autopsies, two exhumations, six tennis shoes, and lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages later there are still more questions than answers. Kendrick’s parents are not backing down from their belief that their son was killed by another studen...

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