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Unforbidden Truth

Unforbidden Truth

Unforbidden Truth is hosted weekly by Andrew Dodge. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with convicted criminals/murderers for 14 years now. Unforbidden Truth will consist of exclusive interviews with convicted criminals/murderers, professionals in the fields of criminal justice and psychology and more. Andrew is not an expert in the field and will never claim to be. Andrew has been corresponding/visiting with prisoners for over a decade. Support this podcast: www.unforbiddentruth.comBecome a

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29:49

Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Keith...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/10/06

In January 2014, Julie Lane Kennedy Griffith (age 55) was found dead in her home in Reidland (near Paducah). Investigators later determined that she had been shot three times in the chest, and her house was then set on fire in what was believed to be a cover-up of the murder. Two dogs inside the residence also died in the blaze.Her husband, Keith Griffith, was later charged with her murder, arson, tampering with evidence, and animal cruelty, among other charges. In February 2015, the trial ended in

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18:26

Interview with former federal prisoner Steven Nigg...

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2025/09/29

Steven Nigg is a former federal inmate best known for his 2016 assault on notorious sex offender Larry Nassar’s fellow high-profile prisoner, former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle. While serving time for a firearms conviction at a low-security prison in Colorado, Nigg became enraged that Fogle was housed with other inmates in relative comfort despite his crimes against children. In January 2016, Nigg attacked Fogle in the prison yard, punching him repeatedly and leaving him with injuries to his face

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103:33

Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/09/23

Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was convicted of murdering two sheriff’s deputies in Sacramento, California, in 2014. Bracamontes, who had previously been deported multiple times, carried out a violent shooting spree that left Deputy Danny Oliver and Detective Michael Davis Jr. dead. During his 2018 trial, he showed no remorse, even boasting about the killings and threatening to kill more officers in the future. His violent past and repeated illegal reentries into the United

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96:14

Interview with convicted murderer Victor Gonzalez

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2025/09/15

In April 2006, 23-year-old Christopher Lampkin was murdered in a Salem apartment, shot execution-style, and dismembered by Leonardo Garcia Gonzalez and Victor Gonzalez. His remains were stuffed into a duffel bag and fed to pigs at a Yamhill County farm, where police later recovered partial remains in a feed barrel. The killers were ordered to pay Lampkin’s family $1 million, while charges against the farm owner and apartment complex were ultimately dismissed.https://linktr.ee/UnforbiddentruthBecome

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25:51

Jailhouse interview with convicted double murderer...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/09/08

Theresa Knorr is convicted of murdering 2 of her 6 children. Theresa has been married a total of 4 times. Her first husband, Clifford Sanders died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, inflicted by Theresa. Theresa was acquitted of his murder. Theresa was known to be physically, psychologically and verbally abusive to her children. She would abuse and torture her kids in different ways, including: throwing knives at them, burning them with cigarettes, beating them and force feeding them

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85:48

Jailhouse interview with 3 death row inmates Steven...

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2025/08/31

Please note the prisoners were on speaker phone, on a prison tablet, so that's why it is so loud/why the quality is the way it is. This was a live interview I conducted on tik tok, which i occasionally do on Tuesday's. @unforbiddentruthpodcast is my username.Donald Ray MiddlebrooksIn 1987, Donald Ray Middlebrooks, along with his then-teenage wife Tammy Middlebrooks and accomplice Robert Brewington, kidnapped and brutally tortured 14-year-old Kerrick Majors in East Nashville. The attack followed

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79:53

Jailhouse interview with convicted serial killer...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/08/26

Prentiss Williams, of Toledo, Ohio, ultimately pleaded guilty to four murders committed in the mid‑1990s—specifically those of Shelley Johnson, Robert Hendricks, Carmita Dickey, and Jonathan Booker—and was also implicated in a jail incident in which he obtained a weapon and fired shots (with no one injured) after a counselor smuggled contraband to him.https://linktr.ee/UnforbiddentruthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unforbidden-truth--4724561/support.

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56:14

A conversation with Christopher 'Life' Willars: Tik...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/08/11

Christopher “Life” Willars is a renowned motivational speaker, prison‑rights and mental‑health advocate, and successful social‑media content creator who, after spending 17 years incarcerated, emerged to co‑found and lead a cosmetology vocational school outside Atlanta called Lasting Layers of Beauty with his wife. He also founded The Life Unit, providing re‑entry support and coaching to those affected by the criminal justice system, helping countless individuals find resilience, purpose, and

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71:45

An inteview with historian, true crime author &...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/08/07

Peter Vronsky is a Canadian historian, true crime author, and filmmaker specializing in serial killers and criminal history. He has extensively interviewed serial killer Richard Cottingham, also known as the "Torso Killer," and has worked on uncovering Cottingham’s previously unknown crimes, contributing to cold-case investigations and appearing in related documentaries like Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer.https://linktr.ee/Unforbiddentruthhttps://www.petervronsky.org/Become a

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55:45

A conversation with Virginia prisoner Demetrius...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/27

On June 30, 2008, in the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Demetrius L. Neely was convicted on multiple drug‑ and firearm‑related counts. Those convictions included: possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (second offense), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance while in possession of a firearm, and possession of marijuana. For these crimes, he received a total sentence of 50 years and six months, with nine years

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32:30

A conversation with 'The Tiger King' Joe Exotic: Tik...

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2025/07/23

Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is an American former zoo operator and convicted felon who gained international fame as the eccentric, flamboyant star of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020). He owned and operated the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, where he bred and exhibited big cats and other exotic animals. Known for his wild personality, outlandish style, and outspoken behavior, Joe Exotic became infamous not only for

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56:03

A conversation with juvenile offender Victor Mercado:...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/23

In 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, 16-year-old Victor Mercado allegedly shot and killed a man named Anderson. Mercado was identified as a suspect based on eyewitness descriptions. Mercado was convicted and was facing life in prison but was sentenced to 18 years.https://linktr.ee/UnforbiddentruthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unforbidden-truth--4724561/support.

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42:13

Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Martha...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/21

Martha Ann Freeman is a Tennessee resident who, along with Rafael DeJesus Rocha‑Perez, was convicted by a Davidson County jury of first-degree, premeditated murder in the April 2005 slaying of her husband, Jeffrey Freeman. Neighbors reported that she behaved strangely, both were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole.Rafael DeJesus Rocha‑Perez, also convicted in the same case, was revealed to have been her boyfriend at the time, secretly living in the Freeman

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19:11

Jailhouse interview with convicted domestic terrorist...

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2025/07/15

Michael Curtis Reynolds is an American convicted of domestic terrorism after attempting to orchestrate a plot in 2005 to bomb U.S. energy infrastructure, including oil pipelines and refineries. Posing as a terrorist sympathizer online, Reynolds sought assistance from what he believed were al-Qaeda operatives—who were actually part of an FBI sting operation. He was arrested in Idaho while trying to collect $40,000 to fund the attacks and was later convicted on multiple charges, including attempting

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73:01

A conversation with Tennessee death row inmate Donald...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/14

Donald Ray Middlebrooks is a convicted murderer from Tennessee who was sentenced to death for the 1987 racially motivated killing of 14-year-old Kerrick Majors, a Black teenager. Along with two other white men, Middlebrooks participated in the brutal torture and murder of Majors, who was beaten, stabbed multiple times, and burned with cigarettes in a wooded area in Nashville. The crime was widely recognized as a hate crime, marked by extreme violence and racial hatred. Middlebrooks was identified as

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50:30

A conversation with comic book writer/publisher Hart...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/07

Hart D. Fisher is an American horror crime author, comic-book writer, and publisher best known for founding Boneyard Press and creating the controversial “Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer” comic in 1992 He’s also dubbed “the most dangerous man in comics” in the ’90s for pushing adult-themed horror/crime titles and later expanded into film, poetry, and a horror streaming channel called American

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39:52

A conversation with Victoria McDorman: Younger sister...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/07/04

Christopher Bennett is a native of Craigsville, Virginia, who made national headlines in 2003 when, at 18, he fatally shot his stepfather, Vincent McDorman. Bennett was subsequently convicted of capital murder as well as robbery and breaking and entering, accepting a plea deal that resulted in a sentence totaling 1,800 years—equivalent to three life terms under Virginia law.According to Bennett, he stumbled into the home after hearing his sister’s cries and confronted his stepfather as he was

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60:19

Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Donald...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/06/30

Kerrick Majors was a 14-year-old African American boy from Nashville, Tennessee, whose brutal, racially motivated murder in April 1987 became a symbol of both racial violence and justice in the American South. Described as a kind, respectful middle school student, Kerrick was abducted after a minor dispute over a broken vase with three white drifters—Donald and Tammy Middlebrooks and Robert Brewington—who falsely accused him of theft. They forced him into a wooded area where he was tortured over

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104:00

A conversation with criminologist James Sparks: Henry...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/06/29

James Sparks is a criminologist; he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Murray State University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from UAB. His academic focus and teaching responsibilities at UAB encompass specialized topics such as serial killers, serial killers in international contexts, and the juvenile justice system.Although primarily serving as an instructor, Sparks applies a criminological lens to the study of violent crime and the intersection of psychology and criminal justice. His

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34:00

Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Barbara...

Unforbidden Truth ·

2025/06/24

In June 1997, Uwe Durbin was brutally tortured and murdered in Riverside, California. Durbin, who had been staying with Lester “Woody” Wilson and his wife Barbara Phillips, was accused by Wilson of stealing electronics from their home. In retaliation, Wilson and Phillips abducted Durbin at gunpoint and brought him back to their house. Over several hours, Durbin was savagely beaten, shot in the knee, strangled, and tortured with objects including battery-filled gloves. The attackers also brought

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