HeyJaredMelanin Mayhem Podcast
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.
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Killer Kinfolk (opens the original)
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Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Two men. Two families. Two devastating killing sprees separated by more than 40 years. In this episode of Melanin Mayhem, we examine the cases of Romeo Nance, the 23-year-old Illinois man linked to the 2024 Joliet mass shooting, and King Edward Bell, an Indianapolis father whose 1981 family massacre became one of the city’s most disturbing crimes. Both cases involve men who turned violence toward the people closest to them, but the circumstances,
Strange Fruit (opens the original)
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Subscribe: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com There are some things Black folks just know we don’t do. Except… sometimes we do. This week on Melanin Mayhem , Your Favorite Country Girl is calling an audible and tackling one of the most uncomfortable myths in the Black community: Black people don’t die by suicide by hanging. Our history gives us very good reason to question a Black person found hanging from a tree. But when does healthy skepticism become an unwillingness to accept evidence? And o
The Devil You Know (opens the original)
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Subscribe at: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week on Melanin Mayhem , we’re heading to Maryland for the unbelievable story of Lawrence Banks Sr., later known as Malik Samartaney —a man whose violent history stretched across decades, jurisdictions, relationships, and more trips through the criminal justice system than anybody with his track record should have been allowed. Banks could work, charm, marry, build relationships and blend right back into society. But behind that smooth-talkin
Hubert Geralds Jr. (opens the original)
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Subscribe today: melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com This week, Your Favorite Country Girl is headed to 1990s Chicago, where the Englewood neighborhood had more than enough mayhem to go around. Hubert Geralds Jr. had been in and out of trouble since his teenage years, but petty crime was only the beginning. After landing in Chicago and making himself comfortable at his sister’s house, Geralds graduated from neighborhood nuisance to something far more sinister. When a horrifying discovery in a bac
Same Name, Different Killer (opens the original)
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Subscribe at: https://melaninmayhempodcast.supercast.com Two spree killers. One last name. No relation... at least I certainly hope not. This week on Melanin Mayhem, we're diving into the chilling cases of Arthur James Davis and Leon Davis Jr.—two melanated spree killers separated by four decades, hundreds of miles, and completely different motives, yet forever connected by a name they happen to share with your favorite country girl. In 1966, one man's obsession and domestic violence left an ent
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