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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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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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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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00:39:53

Paradise for a Predator

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Orlando in the 80s was all sunshine, theme parks, and vacation dreams… until it wasn’t. Tourists were flying in for fun in the sun, but someone waiting in the shadows turned paradise into panic. A teenage terrorist with a taste for mayhem was using a popular tourist strip as his personal hunting ground, and his crimes would leave Orlando shooketh. This week, we head to the Sunshine State to unravel the story of Isaac Green that the travel brochures never mentioned.

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00:29:39

Little House of Horrors

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/31

Behind the doors of a quiet Houston home, David Conley turned a family’s love into a chamber of terror. What started as control and manipulation ended with eight lives stolen in cold blood — eight futures wiped out in one night of pure evil. They say home is where the heart is, but inside this little house, horror reigned supreme.In this week’s Love Kills, your Favorite Country Girl breaks down the twisted tale of one of Texas’s darkest family massacres, as I introduce you to the monster who sent a

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00:57:54

Dopehead Demon of Death

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/29

This week I am headed to Springfield, Massachusetts to bring you the story of a disgusting doped up demon that was disconnecting black women like he worked for the power company. Alfred Gaynor was not only chasing a fix — he was chasing victims. Women overlooked and under investigated by police, all raped and killed by a dope smoking killer who thought his crimes would disappear like the crack smoke.You know how I bring it, and this story is a whole ass mess, so get comfortable and let's spill

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00:56:00

The Seminole Heights Killer

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/22

This week, Noir Nation, we’re headed to Tampa, Florida, where the Seminole Heights neighborhood was under siege in late 2017. For 51 days, residents were shooketh because of a serial killer whose random, unprovoked attacks left four people dead and an entire community terrified. The man behind the violence? Someone no one ever would have thought could or would be behind it all- a young man named Howell Emanuel Donaldson III.From the fear on the streets to the jailhouse drama, this case is a chilling

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00:38:16

DJ Dusty Dick

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/17

This week on Love Kills x Melanin Mayhem, we ain’t talking about some far-off case in another city—nah, this one hit me right in my backyard. I knew the people. I worked with them. And when the news broke, it shook me to my core.What happens when a dusty, trifling DJ decides he’d rather destroy his wife rather than let go? What happens when the trigger man shows up not only at the crime scene, but later as a pallbearer for the very woman he helped put in the casket?This isn’t just another story I

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00:50:46

The Busted Beer Bandit

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Noir Nation have you ever seen somebody get caught with their hand in the cookie jar… then burn down the whole damn kitchen? This week’s Melanin Mayhem maker turned a petty hustle into pure carnage and went from “caught slipping” to “counting bodies” in minutes. This week we're going to Connecticut, and I've got a crazy story of how one man made the leap from misdemeanor theft to felony murder to busting hell wide open. I’ll walk you through how it all went down to become one of the worst

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00:47:03

The Teatime Treachery

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/08

In the winter of 1857, a Mississippi plantation dinner ended with more than just indigestion — we got a dead body, a master and mistress poisoned, and all fingers pointing to the cook. Was she serving dinner with a side of revenge, or was she the perfect scapegoat in a house already boiling with jealousy, colorism, pettiness and lust?This story has everything: a master who couldn’t keep out of his slaves’ beds, a mistress burning with rage, house slaves pitted against field slaves, and one pot of

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00:33:04

The Devil You Know

Melanin Mayhem Podcast ·

2025/10/03

This week on Love Kills x Melanin Mayhem, it’s ugly, y’all. I can't even dress it up for you. I'm bringing you the story of a love triangle between a broke-down, ain’t-shit 21-year-old predator with a jealous ride-or-die dumb girlfriend, and a pregnant 14-year-old girl caught in the middle. One day in Richmond, all that toxic mess turned into a bloodbath — and got everybody paying the price.This ain’t just a crime of passion, it’s a coward with a Glock making a bad situation worse. You’ll

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