Criminal Motives
Welcome to Criminal Motives, a true crime Youtube Channel where therapy meets investigation.I'm a therapist reacting to real life true crime events, analyzing not only the facts but also the human behavior behind them.
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The Pastor Everyone Warned Her About (opens the original)
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THIS EPISODE IS SUPPORTED BY BETTERHELPGet 15% off your first month here: http://betterhelp.com/mattphiferShe served her husband divorce papers on a Friday. Two days later, she was found dead in a North Carolina river.Micah Miller was 30 years old married to Pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a man she’d known since she was a teenager. Her death was ruled a suicide. But in the months before it, she’d called police at least eight times, described ye
Chris Watts Killed Four People Including His Unborn Son | Eight Years Later He's Getting Married (opens the original)
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The Photos And Videos Of Nolan Wells Are Going Viral — But Nobody Is Asking If They're Actually Real (opens the original)
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New photos and videos of Nolan Wells are going viral. But are they actually credible? And what are the people closest to Nolan his friends and his football coach actually saying about what happened on Horn Island on July 4th?In this episode Matt Phifer reacts to the latest footage and gives his full unfiltered breakdown including some serious concerns about the way Ben Crump is handling this investigation and why it could actually hurt Nolan's family in the long run.🔔 Subscribe so you never miss
27 Dead Children. 1 Conviction. The Case Atlanta Closed Without a Trial. (opens the original)
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Atlanta called itself "the city too busy to hate." Then, between 1979 and 1981, at least 29 Black children and young adults were murdered — and the city's response became almost as controversial as the killings themselves.This episode follows the case from the first bodies found off Niskey Lake Road, through the mothers who forced a reluctant city to act, the fiber evidence that built a case with no fingerprints and no murder weapon, the night on the James Jackson Parkway Bridge, and the trial o
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