The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

by Grip Tape

Ordinary people who do unthinkable things...The Minds of Madness is a True Crime Podcast that examines the most disturbing criminal minds and the impact violent crimes have on survivors of homicide.

Episodes

Episode 149 - Stranger In The Night - The Case Of John Stevens & Michelle Mishcon

46m · Published 06 Feb 00:00

August 15th, 2016 was a warm night in Tequesta, Florida. The perfect night to relax and enjoy some fresh air.

For a couple living on Southeast Kokomo Lane, their garage was the ideal spot to hang out on a couch with the garage door up, watching the world go by. Until an encounter with a stranger on the sidewalk shattered their family’s entire world in a few nightmarish moments.

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Research & Writing:
Matt Snell

Sources:
AP News: Judge to decide on Florida face-biter insanity plea
Dr. Phillip Resnick's report on Austin Harrouff
Forensic Psychological Evaluation Report by Gregory C. Landrum
Inside Edition: Frat Brother Found Eating Face of Victim After Random Fatal Double Stabbing: Cops
Law and Crime: Judge Accepts Austin Harrouff’s Insanity Plea on Morning His ‘Face Biter’ Murder Trial Was Set to Begin
Local 10 News: Face-eating suspect Austin Harrouff arranged to buy drugs before attack, texts show
Miami New Times: What You Should Know Ahead of Accused "Face-Eating Murderer" Austin Harrouff's Trial
NCSA College Recruiting: Austin Harrouff ‘15 Recruiting Profile
NY Post: Florida ‘cannibal’ killer Austin Harrouff could be free in six months through insanity plea deal
Palm Beach Post: Austin Harrouff internet searches: ‘I think I’m going crazy, am I?’
Palm Beach Post: Austin Harrouff thought he was 'half-dog, half-man' in double homicide
Palm Beach Post: Judge grants audio recording of Austin Harrouff psyche exam
People: Fla. Man Who Killed Couple, Then Tried to Eat Victim's Face Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
Specializedtraining.com (profile of Phillip Resnick, M.D.)
Talhassee Democrat: Inside Austin Harrouff's bizarre online persona
Tallahassee Democrat: Friends, FSU students shocked by slaying
TC Palm: Austin Harrouff: From Post 2018 archives - Victim's daughter said homicides still scar my family memories
TC Palm: From Post 2017 archives: On anniversary of Austin Harrouff slayings, father’s death haunts son
TC Palm: Neighbor to couple killed in face-eating attack tells of near-deadly encounter with Harrouff
TCPalm: Parents stand by son accused of brutal killing of Martin County couple
Video: Victims' Neighbor Recounts Encounter With Austin Harrouff
WBPF 25: Jail calls released: Austin Harrouff's father says gruesome murders "not necessarily your fault"
WPEC CBS 12: Who Is Austin Harrouff?
WPTV: Prosecutor seeks to change laws after Austin Harrouff found not guilty by reason of insanity
YouTube: 911 call from Mina Harrouff
YouTube: Deputy explains why he didn't shoot Harrouff
YouTube: Victim's Daughter to Austin Harrouff: I Hope You Burn in Hell
YouTube: You deserve to die': Sister of Michelle Mishcon makes passionate statement toward Austin Harrouff
Zuma Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo Tequesta, Florida, USA. 16th Aug, 2016. John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon (Photo of garage)

Episode 148 - A Mother Unravelled - The Crimes of Jody Herring

35m · Published 29 Jan 19:33

In a small town in Vermont, workers at the Department for Children and Families ended their work day and started thinking about what the weekend would hold for them.

Lara Sobel had plans to go home to her two spirited young daughters, to be joined later by her husband.

No one in the office could have predicted the bloodshed that lay ahead - a murderous rampage that had already begun hours earlier in a small country farmhouse

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Research & Writing:
Jeana Anderson

Featured Film:
Mantra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piF84vqzTaA

Sources:
VTdigger
VTdigger #2
VTdigger #3
VTdigger #4
VTdigger #5
VTdigger #6
VTdigger #7
VTdigger #8
CBS News
Burlington Press
Rutland Herald
Times Argus
Lara Sobel funeral draws hundreds of mourners
Hundreds gather for vigil honoring shooting victim
More defense witnesses testify at day 2 of Jody Herring sentencing
Bennington Banner
Burlington Press Timeline
VSEA
USA Today
NY Post
Daily Mail
MontPelier Bridge
WCAX
Sentencing
SevenDaysVT
VTCNG

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

3m · Published 24 Jan 15:16

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.

When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads — lots of frozen heads. From Wondery, comes a story about life, death, and what comes next.

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Episode 147 - The Disappearance of Brittany Tavar

34m · Published 16 Jan 00:00

It was a date Brittany Tavar had been preparing for, for over a year, July 7th, 2010. The day she planned to stand before a judge at the St. Augustine, Florida courthouse, to present evidence that would hopefully grant her request for a permanent restraining order against her nemesis. A neighbor and former friend.

Brittany told friends she’d been building the case against her neighbor out of fear, fear for her safety.

So when she never showed up at the courthouse that day, those who loved Brittany knew something was wrong.

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Research & Writing:
Emily McPhail

Featured Podcast:
Human Monsters - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/human-monsters/id1498722050

Sources:
Chillingcrimes.com
Actionnewsjax.com
Staugustine.com
Jacksonville.com
Jacksonville.com#2
News4jax.com
News4jax.com#2
Oregonlive.com
Wickedness.net
Youtube
Happyscribe.com
NBC.com
Oxygen.com
Thedailybeast.com
Oldcity.com
Trolleytours.com
Serenataclub.com

Episode 146 - Special Announcement! & Something From The Vault

32m · Published 11 Jan 03:22

Please join us for a 2022 recap, some teasers of what 2023 will bring, an exciting special announcement, and something fun from the vault!

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Where we stayed up north:
This place was AMAZING!
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The Luckiest Unluckiest Man
A Croatian man named Frane Selak has got to be either the luckiest man alive or the unluckiest. Whether you’re someone who sees the glass as being half full or half empty, Frane’s glass has definitely been filled with deadly misadventures.

Writing and Research:
Stephanie Moore

Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

6m · Published 09 Jan 09:00

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end.

Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came a troubling new question: Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? Was the man who couldn’t stop obsessing over Jonelle’s disappearance also the person who took her? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder.

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Episode 145 - The Nashville Bombing

55m · Published 19 Dec 00:00

Join us as we take a look at a terrifying event that shook the downtown core of Nashville Tennessee.

You’ll hear how what was supposed to be a peaceful and joyful day was interrupted by one of the most bizarre and eerie sets of events we’ve ever covered, with brave men and women in uniform risking their lives to prevent mass casualties. Leading some Nashville residents to call it a Christmas miracle.

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Special Thanks:
Brandon Hall - https://musiccity911.com
Mike Browne - https://darkpoutine.com

Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger

Sources:
MNPD Officers Recount Christmas Morning Bombing
Wikipedia
Tennessean Timeline
Nashville Street to Reopen One Year After
Heavy.com
First Coast News
Daily Mail #1
U.S. Sun
Daily Mail #2
Throckmorton 911 Call
Friend Remembers Anthony
New York Times
New York Times #2
FBI Report on Findings
Mysterious Packages Sent
Downtown Bombing After-Action Report MNPD
News Channel 5 Writings Reveal Belief in Aliens and Lizard People
Wikipedia
Pamela Perry Interview News 5

Episode 144 - Murder At The St. Regis - The Death of Sheila Mack

40m · Published 05 Dec 00:00

On August 12th, 2014 at a luxurious resort in Bali, Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Shaefer loaded a suitcase into the back of a waiting taxi.

They told the driver they’d be back shortly. They just needed to finish checking out. But after waiting two whole hours, they never returned.

When Hotel security popped the trunk of the cab to remove the suitcase, they noticed something smeared on the abandoned luggage...it appeared to be blood.

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Research & Writing:
Ellie Hayes

Sources:
CBS News
Daily Mail UK
NBC Chicago
ABC KHQA
Baltimore Sun
Chicago Tribune
Oak Park
NY Post
Confession

Episode 143 - The Disappearance of Jacob Millison

41m · Published 21 Nov 00:00

If you’ve ever watched shows like Yellowstone - you know that sometimes out west on a Ranch, there are secrets: secrets never supposed to leave the corral.

This was something a ranch hand would discover firsthand, in Gunnison, Colorado in 2017, after witnessing two other ranchers, uncover something horrific. While digging in the horse corral with a backhoe…they unearthed what appeared to be rib bones…human rib bones - poking out from a dirty white sheet of plastic.

It was at that moment the ranch hand was told: “You know you can’t ever leave now, right?”

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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger

Sources:
The Atlantic
Denver Post
Office of the District Attorney
Dateline: Trouble at the 7-11 Ranch
Oxygen
Crested Butte News
Mercury News
Daily Mail
Denver Post
Gunnison Country Times

Episode 142 - 7 Minutes

36m · Published 07 Nov 00:00

Monday, April 23rd, 2018 was a surprisingly warm day in Toronto, Ontario, causing residents to be out in droves, ditching their winter coats, eager to enjoy the sunshine.

Among those taking advantage of the warmer weather, was 68 year old Catherine Riddell, headed to the library off of Yonge Street, when a van suddenly struck her from behind.

The vehicle had hit Catherine with such force, it sent her body flying in the air, before crashing through a transit shelter.

The strange thing was, Catherine hadn’t been hit crossing the street. She’d been walking on the sidewalk.

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Research & Writing:
Dennis LM Lewis

Featured Podcast:
Strictly Stalking https://www.podcastone.com/pd/Strictly-Stalking

Sources:
Professor Michael Halpin’s full interviews with Mark Torrender can be viewed on the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel here:
“GENERATION INCEL – Inside the Mind of an Involuntary Celibate – with Sociologist MICHAEL HALPIN”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeB1C3Xllz0
“A Brief History of Incels – with Sociologist MICHAEL HALPIN”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zQnF9YKUA
Information about Talk Beliefs’ other work and interviews can be found on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/talkbeliefs/
Information about Professor Michael Halpin’s research can be found on his website:
http://www.michaelallanhalpin.com/
Toronto Life
Toronto Star
Magazine Civatis
Global News
Global News #2
CTV News
National Post
John Minassian - Full Police Interrogation
www.scribd.com/document/483840651/John-Minasssian-Trial
autismcanada.org/autism-canada-John-minassian-press-release/
ryersonian.ca/toronto-van-killer-lied-about-communicating-with-mass-murderers/
www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/11/i-was-like-how-did-he-get-a-van-inside-the-life-of-John-minassian-the-toronto-van-rampage-suspect-no-one-thought-capable-of-murder.html
www.michaeldyck.ca/blog/2022/6/28/does-canada-have-a-version-of-miranda-rights
www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/25/toronto-police-holding-presser-wednesday-on-const-ken-lam-arresting-officer-in-toronto-van-rampage.html.
www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rr03_la4-rr03_aj4/p4.html
www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rr06_1/p1.html
www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/19/forensic-psychiatrist-who-interviewed-alex-minassian-back-on-the-stand-thursday.html
www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/miranda-rights
www.scribd.com/document/496836379/Minassian-Full-Reasons-for-Judgement-002
www.youtube.com/watch?v=167e9q9RzXo
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/world/canada/toronto-van-alek-minassian.html

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories has 216 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 173:29:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 31st, 2024 07:10.