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Melanin Mayhem Podcast

Renee Davis - Host

A true crime podcast with a melanated leading cast. Melanin Mayhem shines a spotlight on some of the most intriguing and lesser-known criminal masterminds you"ve never heard of. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/renee-davis07 instagram.com/@MelaninMayhemPodcast facebook.com/melaninmayhempodcast twitter.com/MelaninMayhemPC youtube.com/@melaninmayhempodcast

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00:59:28

Penitentiary Ready

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/03/04

In this week’s episode we are diving into one of the most disturbing stories this podcast has ever covered.Joshua Anderson terrorized a North Tulsa neighborhood in the mid-2000s with a relentless, unforgiving pattern of violence—assaults, robberies, shootings, and intimidation that left residents too afraid to speak out and essentially prisoners in their own homes. The violence reached unimaginable levels and what followed was a series of acts so cruel and depraved it shocks the senses.This episode

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01:08:06

The Trash Bag Man

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/02/25

Three women. Nine months. One garage on Hayden Avenue.In the summer of 2013, a stretch of road in East Cleveland was engulfed in a smell nobody wanted to name. What started as whispers of missing women turned into trash bags, flies, and a predator hiding in plain sight.But this isn’t just a story about a serial killer. It’s about what happens when warning signs get ignored, when entire neighborhoods normalize the abnormal, and when certain victims don’t trigger urgency.This week in Noir Nation,

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01:04:02

The Most Protected Killer in History

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/02/18

In 1920 Kentucky, a brutal crime shocked a quiet ruralcommunity — but the crime itself isn’t what made history. What happened after did.When Will Lockett was accused of the murder of a 10-year-oldgirl, outrage spread fast. A lynch mob formed. Thousands gathered. The entire town braced for blood. But instead of turning him over… the government did something almost unheard of in American history.They protected him.A brutal crime, a furious mob, and a government willing touse deadly force to protect

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00:56:59

Bishop Bling Bling

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/02/11

This week we’re talking about faith, flash, and felonies.Meet Lamor Miller-Whitehead — the designer-dripped preacher who built a brand on prosperity, power circles, and pulpit performance… until the feds came knocking.From mortgage fraud to fake financial documents, political name-dropping, and a church robbery that had the internet in shambles — this is the story of a man who blurred the line between prophet and profit.Because not everybody standing behind a pulpit is preaching salvation.Some are

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00:56:42

Milwaukee North Side Strangler

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/02/04

For nearly 30 years, women were being found dead on Milwaukee’s north side — and nobody saw the monster standing right in front of them.This week we are dragging a career criminal who was in and out of jail, in and out of police files… and somehow still walking free while women kept turning up dead around his mama’s house.He was violent.He was reckless.He was a known problem.And still — he slipped through every crack.From corrupt halfway houses and snitch deals to botched DNA swabs and wrongful

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01:14:17

The Southside Strangler

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/01/28

In Virginia in the 80s, women were being attacked, little evidence was being left behind, and the wrong man was sitting in a prison cell.This week I bring you the unbelievable story of Timothy Wilson Spencer — a serial killer whose audacious crimes were eerily quiet, yet the impact was like a bomb going off in these bedroom communities of Arlington and Richmond. A story of investigatory missteps, false confessions, and new discoveries in science that finally blew the case wide open. This story has

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00:56:48

Robert Nixon AKA Brick Basher

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/01/21

Noir Nation… this one is WILD. We’re going back in time for a dusty and disgusting tale of brick-to-the-dome brutality, creepy break-ins, and press coverage so racist you’ll want to fight the newspaper. Robert Nixon was a young cat committing grown-man crimes—and the system wasted no time making sure he didn’t live long enough to become anything else.But here’s the twist: the deeper you dig, the uglier it gets. Add to that sensationalized press coverage, racist tropes, shaky evidence, and a system

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01:04:37

The Shotgun Stalker of DC

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/01/14

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we’re dragging James Edward Swann Jr., aka the “Shotgun Stalker.” In 1993, DC had a real-life nightmare rolling through two very different neighborhoods in the metro area and baby—this case is equal parts terrifying and infuriating. Random victims. A hunting ground that he never switched up. And a police response that’ll have you yelling at your speaker. Press play and let me tell you all about the shotgun shenanigans of it

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01:00:10

2025 Top 10 Countdown

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2026/01/07

It’s been a year of audacity, diabolical behavior, and pure mayhem — and now it’s time to run it back.In this 2025 Year-End Review, your favorite country girl counts down the Top 10 Melanin Mayhem Podcast episodes of the year, based on listener engagement and the sheer what-the-hell-did-I-just-listen-to factor.From serial offenders and scandalous lovers to insurance schemes, courtroom chaos, and crimes that left communities reeling, this episode revisits the cases that shook Noir Nation in 2025. And

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00:29:58

The End of the Road – Love Kills: Last Chapter

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/29

For the final episode of Love Kills, your favorite country girl is closing the series with a story that begins in love and ends in devastation. What starts as a young family building a life together slowly unravels after a husband returns home from war… changed.As isolation tightens, paranoia grows, and control replaces care, a once-happy home becomes something far more dangerous. When the road finally runs out, the consequences are irreversible — and the truth is impossible to ignore.This finale

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00:58:58

The Samuel Little Files Part 4: Quiet Carnage

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/24

This isn’t about glorifying a killer—this is about the women he tried to erase and the system that helped him do it. In Quiet Carnage, I'm closing out The Samuel Little Files by confronting the part America avoids: the deadliest violence is often the violence nobody treats like an emergency. We’re talking unchecked movement across state lines, cold cases that lost urgency the moment Sam died, and the reality that “Jane Doe” is somebody’s daughter whether the world respected her or not. This week

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00:57:18

The Samuel Little Files Part 3: Voices Lost

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/17

This chapter isn’t about Samuel Little. It’s about the women whose voices were stolen long before their lives were taken.In Part 3 of The Samuel Little Files, we shift the focus where it always should’ve been—on the victims the system ignored, dismissed, and failed to protect.Many of these women lived on the margins, and because of that, their disappearances didn’t raise alarms. Their names weren’t shouted from headlines. In many cases their names were never even known. Their cases weren’t pursued

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00:54:03

From the Womb to the Tomb

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/12

It’s New Year’s Eve… and there’s a man laid out dead on the floor.This wasn’t random — it was a setup. And once the body dropped, the heat came down fast looking for somebody to pay.One stupid ass decision cost one brother everything.So lock in, because this is a story about how sibling love can turn lethal. And nah — this ain’t Cain and Abel. This diabolical duo is giving Menendez-style brothers, real twisted, real tragic.And the wild part? The murder wasn’t even the biggest atrocity.The real

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01:00:55

The Samuel Little Files Part 2: Catching a Killer

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/10

America’s deadliest secret was exposed in 2012. It all started with a traffic stop in Kentucky which led to a cheek swab in California. This DNA sample would link what looked like an unassuming senior citizen to being a serial killer. They knew they were prosecuting a killer; they had no clue they would be uncovering the most prolific serial killer the US had ever seen.In Part 2 of The Samuel Little Files, I am going to walk you into the interrogation room where the man that had lived in the

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00:59:13

The Samuel Little Files Part 1- Born Bad

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/12/03

You've asked and now it is my pleasure to give yall what you want. Your favorite country girl is bringing you the story of the killing-est killer to ever kill- Samuel Little. In order to do it justice I am bringing you a four-part series on America's most prolific killer past or present. In this episode we go back to the beginning and learn how it this killer came to be. From the red clay of Georgia to the sunny skies of the city of angels. I am spilling all the tea on the most audacious one

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00:52:14

Flashback Friday *Replay* Holy Hell: The Cult of...

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/28

Happy Black Friday Noir Nation. Enjoy a replay of one of the top Love Kills episodes. I'll be back in 2 weeks with a brand-new episode for your listening pleasure. When religion turns to manipulation and devotion becomes deadly, what’s left is a twisted legacy soaked in blood. In this episode of Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem, I'm diving into the disturbing case of Marcus Wesson—a man who called himself a prophet, ruled his household like a cult leader, and shattered the lives of everyone under

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00:44:01

The Predator on Parole

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/26

This week we’re headed to St. Petersburg, Florida for a story that proves once again—that some people should never be given second chances. A teenager with a violent past grows into a full-blown menace the moment he hits the free world, leaving a trail of mayhem that went unnoticed for far too long. From vanished women to cold cases that refused to stay buried, this episode digs into how one man slipped through every crack in the system…and how many lives were destroyed because of it. Tap in, Noir

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00:45:48

The Axe Woman of Lafayette

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/19

In 1911, a family was slaughtered in their sleep in Lafayette, Louisiana. By 1912, a young woman named Clementine Barnabet had been branded the Voodoo Murderess — accused of killing at least fifteen people and a part of a blood stained cult called the Church of Sacrifice.But separating fact from fiction is tricky. Was Clementine the OG serial killer or was she caught up in the South’s obsession with fear, faith, and a Black woman they needed to see as a monster?For tickets to Season's

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00:34:08

Insured to Kill

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Love, money & murder — things that never mix well in Texas.In 1987, Frances Newton’s quiet Houston home became the scene of unthinkable tragedy: her husband and two children murdered. The police called it diabolical. The press called it cold-blooded. And the state of Texas called for justice. A life for a life. But was Frances really a calculating killer… or a woman caught telling the wrong story at the wrong time?In this week’s Love Kills, I am spilling the tea on the case that made Frances

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00:50:45

The Forces of Evil

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/12

In 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia was shooketh.Headlines screamed about a serial killer targeting the elderbuns and all the while another monster was hiding in plain sight a melanated baddie with delusions of grandeur. For months, our mayhem maker terrorized the city, murdering women near Fort Benning and sending letters to police pretending to be something he was not. His twisted deception played the city and the cops like a poker chip. Come take a ride with me as I break down the story of

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