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Hey y’all! We are a husband and wife team from Louisiana that discuss murder, mystery, and mayhem with a southern twist!We cover true crime throughout the South, so pull up a rocking chair, grab your mason jar full of sweet tea, and sit for a spell while we chit chat, and…
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A Little Less Mess: The Unsolved Murder of Lisa Pruett [Ohio] (opens the original)
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In this week's Monday minisode of A Little Less Mess , Cara travels outside the South to the upscale community of Shaker Heights, Ohio. In September 1990, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett left home to meet her boyfriend in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Minutes later, she was attacked and killed in a yard just steps from his house. A classmate, Kevin Young, was charged after two people said he confessed while in psychiatric treatment, but no physical evidence tied him to the crime. He was acquitted in 1993,
[Texas] The All-American Family — The Murder of Belinda Temple (opens the original)
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Grab your mason jar and pull up a rocking chair—this week on Bless This Mess , Cara and Stew are heading down to Katy, Texas. On a January evening in 1999, thirty-year-old special education teacher Belinda Temple—eight months pregnant with her second child—was found shot execution-style inside her master bedroom closet. Her husband, David Temple, a prominent local high school football coach and hometown gridiron star, claimed he was running errands with their young son during a staged home invas
A Little Less Mess: Stalked to Death or Staged - The Cindy James Mystery [Canada] (opens the original)
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In this week's Monday minisode of A Little Less Mess , Cara travels outside the South to the coastal city of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Over a seven-year span in the 1980s, 44 year old pediatric nurse Cindy James reported nearly 100 separate incidents of terror: sinister phone calls, slashed tires, dead cats hanging in her yard, arson, and violent physical assaults. But as months turned into years with no physical evidence left behind, police began to suspect Cindy was staging the entir
[Kentucky] Double Jeopardy & The Polaroid Confession of Mel Ignatow (opens the original)
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Grab your mason jar and pull up a rocking chair—this week on Bless This Mess, Cara and Stew are heading to Louisville, Kentucky! On a September morning in 1988, 36-year-old Brenda Sue Schaefer’s car was found abandoned on the shoulder of Interstate 64 with a flat tire. What initially looked like a random roadside breakdown soon unraveled into a calculated plot orchestrated by her wealthy ex-fiancé, Mel Ignatow, and an accomplice. But after a high-profile trial ended in a shocking “Not Guilty” ve
A Little Less Mess: The Watcher of 657 Boulevard [New Jersey] (opens the original)
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In this week's Monday minisode of A Little Less Mess , Cara travels outside the South to the picturesque suburb of Westfield, New Jersey. In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus purchased their dream 1.3-million-dollar historic home at 657 Boulevard. But just days after closing—before they even finished moving their three young children in—they found a chilling letter in the mailbox from an anonymous writer calling themselves "The Watcher." Demanding to know when the house would be filled with "y
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