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Terrifyingly Typical True Crime

Calista and Theresa Whitney

Curious about true crime and want to understand the patterns that often pop up? Join antisocial and outspoken mother and daughter Theresa and Calista as they connect cases to dig into a specific type of crime or criminal. Dive into a new case every other week that explores common crimes and typical themes in true crime!

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00:56:50

Episode 40 - Colin Ireland: A New Year, A New Level...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2026/01/04

Having made a murderous New Year's resolution, Colin Ireland studied serial killers before putting his own plan into action. Then, in the spring of 1993, he tortured and killed five gay men: Peter Walker, Christopher Dunn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier, and Emanuel Spiteri. Posing as a BDSM practitioner at the Coleherne Arms pub in West London, Colin preyed on a vulnerable community who was often targeted rather than protected by the police. His need for recognition manifested in staged

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00:39:35

Episode 39 - Stephanie Kilhefner and Za’Zell Preston:...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/12/21

Because it’s that time of year again, in this episode, we’re covering two cases that happened on Christmas Eve:On December 24, 2014, Dustin Lee Klopp and Stephanie Kilhefner Klopp’s two children would be made orphans, just not all at once. Having driven them to his parents’ house for the usual festivities the following day, Dustin called the police to confess to his wife’s murder and turned himself in. Years after making it, he had finally followed through on his threat to kill her. Exactly three

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00:45:00

Episode 38 - Herb Baumeister: Morbid Mannequin Pool...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/12/07

Being gay in conventional Indianapolis in the ‘90s wasn’t easy. When members of the small gay community started disappearing and police chose to look the other way, one brave man would put himself in harm’s way to uncover the truth. It would take years, but when the horrifying truth of what transpired at Fox Hollow Farm came to light, no one could ignore that Herb Baumeister, the respectable, wealthy, family man, was hiding a secret so big he chose to end his life rather than face the consequences

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00:28:02

Episode 37 - Jay Thomas Johnson: There’s No “Aids...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/11/23

21-year-old Joel Larson was walking through a popular gay cruising spot in Minneapolis, Minnesota around 11:30 in the evening on July 31, 1991, when he was killed by a bullet to the back. Only ten days later, 19-year-old Cord Draszt and 48-year-old former Minnesota State Senator John Chenoweth were shot at another gay hangout spot. After a six-page letter from the fictitious AIDS Commission claimed responsibility for the hate crimes, authorities realized they had the wrong suspect and raced to track

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00:31:04

Episode 36 - Alison Firth: Empty of Empathy

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/11/16

Alice Grant lived at Aidan House, a care home in Gateshead in Northeastern England. Due to her dementia and past strokes, she was dependent on the nursing staff for all her needs and could become frustrated with her predicament. Enter Alison Firth, a nurse with 16 years’ experience and a less than stellar job history. Alison didn’t like Alice; she required a lot of care and, frankly, Alison couldn’t be bothered, so she did the unthinkable: She gave Alice an overdose of Heminevrin and was confident

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00:49:29

Episode 35 - Vickie Dawn Jackson: Nursing a Grudge

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/11/09

For almost twenty years, Vickie Dawn Jackson had been caring for the residents in the two-stoplight town of Nocona, Texas. But on December 11, 2000, 34-year-old Nurse Vickie filled a syringe with mivacurium chloride and picked the first of the many patients she would go on to kill. In a little over two months, Vickie administered fatal injections to at least 10 patients. Her classic small-town motive? Revenge. Vickie had had enough of difficult patients and their self-absorbed families, and she was

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00:29:13

Episode 34 - Megan Jean Haines: When It’s Never Your...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/11/02

Megan Jean Haines moved to Australia from her native South Africa searching for a better life, but instead of working hard to achieve that life, her bad attitude, unwillingness to do the required work, and contempt for her patients resulted in numerous misconduct charges and a license suspension. After her license was reinstated, her conduct didn’t change. When she was told that several patients had complained about herbehavior, she made the decision to use what she thought of as the “perfect

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00:51:28

Episode 33 - Ronald O'Bryan & Gerald Turner: The Real...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/10/26

In our Halloween Special, we’re covering two chilling cases:The community of Pasadena, Texas was shocked when news of 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan’s death broke late on the evening of October 31, 1974. Rumors ran rampant that a madman was poisoning children. What evil lurked behind closed doors? Shock turned to disbelief when the person arrested wasn’t a stranger, but someone close to Timothy. When 9-year-old Lisa Ann French’s best friend was grounded at the last minute, Lisa was left

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00:58:47

Episode 32 - Amelia Dyer Part 2: The River Reveals All

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/10/19

In the final part of our series on Amelia Dyer, we’ll see how the infamous baby farmer changed her business practices bytaking in both unwanted babies and older children, killing them via strangulation, and disposing of their bodies herself. Using a variety of aliases, Amelia may have killed hundreds of young victims. Although it was the discovery of Helena Fry’s body in 1896 that led to the police investigation that would finally bring Amelia to justice and end her decades-long career, it was the

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00:50:03

Episode 31 - Amelia Dyer Part One: The Barbaric,...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/10/12

With the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 having essentially lifted any financial obligation from the father, single mothers in Victorian England often turned to baby farmers. These agents would put their babies up for fostering or adoption for a fee. While some truly helped the children that came into their care, others realized that murder was the best way to maximize their profits. One such baby farmer was a nurse named Amelia Dyer. In part one, we’ll see how despite her short stints in prison and

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01:01:55

Episode 30 - Kristen Gilbert: If He Dies, Can I Leave...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/10/05

Nurse Kristen Gilbert was smart. After all, she graduated high school at 16. Kristen also liked control and being the center of attention. She liked the praise she received from co-workers. She really was the best nurse, just ask her. When Kristen started an affair with a co-worker, telling him how good she was at her job wasn’t enough, she needed to show him. This need would lead to at least four deaths, several attemptedmurders, and possibly, even more undetected crimes.Sources:

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00:42:54

Episode 29 - Jeanine Hannah: Caring Is Conning

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/09/21

We’re back with part two of our theme on female killer nurses with Jeanine Hannah, a.k.a. Jeannie Miata and Julie Kocian. With her many names, Jeanine managed to continue caring for elderly patients in spite of a restriction and a prior conviction of theft in the first degree. However, stealing from patients was far from her worst crime. After she absconded from Oregon, Jeanine faced charges of theft once more in Texas. This time, while she was awaiting a court appearance, Jeanine was arrested and

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00:36:48

Episode 28 - Christopher Gattis: Text Me Lies

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/09/14

* We’re back with improved audio quality! *After a burglar alarm was activated at the Gattis home around 11:30 PM on November 23, 2017, police found the bodies of two women inside the kitchen along with the body of a man in the front yard. All three had been shot to death by the sole person still alive on the property: Christopher Gattis. Christopher had just gunned down his wife, Jeanett Gattis, his stepdaughter, Candice Kunze, and her boyfriend, Andrew Buthorn. With a strange series of text

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00:52:03

Episode 27 - Stephen Allwine: Scammer Hitman vs....

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/09/07

* Just a note that the audio quality isn’t ideal in certain sections. We’re hoping to get a new piece of equipment for our next episode to fix the issue. Thanks for your understanding! *What do a church elder, Ashley Madison, and the dark web have to do with the murder of Amy Allwine, a well-loved dog trainer, active church member, and wife and mother in Cottage Grove, Minnesota? Well, it’s always the husband, and Stephen Allwine wanted his wife of nearly two decades dead. When hiring a hitman was a

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01:22:19

Episode 26 - Nick Hacheney: The Pastor and the...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/08/31

On the morning of December 26, 1997, Nick Hacheney left his home in Bremerton, Washington, to go on a duck hunting trip. Just after 7:00 that morning, one of the neighbors noticed smoke billowing from the nearby home. After firefighters made quick work of the blaze, the severely burned body of Nick’s wife, 28-year-old Dawn Hacheney, was discovered. The newly widowed Nick was the youth pastor of Christ Community Church, a congregation that believed in prophecies and messages from the man above, and

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00:44:00

Episode 25 - Anthony Hopkins: The Hopkins House of...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/08/24

In the early evening of July 29, 2008, officers with the Mobile County Police Department entered traveling preacher Anthony Hopkins’ home on Rylands Street through the unlocked back door. The house was quiet and exceptionally tidy. Officers made their way through the home until they stopped in front of a door leading to the utility room. They opened the door and were met with the unmistakable smell of decomposition. Officers went to the chest freezer, opened it, and found a large block of ice with a

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01:13:22

Episode 24 - Fred Neulander: A Good Hitman Is Hard to...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/08/17

Around 9:30 p.m. on November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander walked into the living room of his Cherry Hill, New Jersey home and discovered his wife, 52-year-old Carol Neulander, lying on the floor. She was badly injured, and the ground around her was covered with blood. Fred called 911, but the woman with whom he had three children wouldn’t live to celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary in only eight weeks’ time. Investigators soon found out about Fred’s long-standing affair, but it would take one

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00:41:11

Episode 23 - Tracy Burleson: Ungodly Greed

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/08/10

A distraught Tracy Burleson called 911 a little before 11 p.m. on May 18, 2010, crying and repeating, “Someone shot my wife.” Tracy had just returned from a quick trip to the convenience store and found his wife in the driveway of their home with a gunshot wound to the back of her head. Who would shoot Paulette Burleson, the 56-year-old wife of the pastor of one of the oldest churches in Houston? As the smoke cleared,investigators realized that things were not as they seemed, and not one, but three

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01:27:46

Episode 22 - Matt Baker: My Milkshake Brings All the...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/08/03

On April 8, 2006, Pastor Matt Baker called 911 after discovering his wife, Kari, lying unconscious in the couple’sbedroom. EMS providers and firefighters raced to her side, but Kari was already gone. Once police told a McLennan County Justice of the Peace about finding a container of the sleep aid Unisom beside a typed suicide note on the bedsidetable, he ruled Kari’s manner of death a suicide. However, when Kari’s family began to push back on that hasty ruling, an investigation was launched that

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00:33:55

Episode 21 - Michael Tabb: The Pastor’s Secret Life

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/07/27

Around 6 PM on August 5, 2002, Pastor Michael Tabb arrived home with his two-year-old. He noticed the front door was slightly open but entered anyway. He called out for his wife, Marla, but there was no answer. He found the badly bludgeoned body of his wife clad in pajamas on their bedroom floor. Police would later note that the crime did notseem to be a robbery gone horrifyingly wrong. Nothing was stolen. Who would kill the pastor’s wife? When the police finally decided to take a closer look at the

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