Trial By Wine

Episode 63 Barry Nummer Rader

Well, Swanny brings her A game, telling the story of Denis Rader AKA BTK and yet somehow manages to have the team in hysterics, even though this is a particularly dark and brutal case. 

Episode 62 Media Circus or Murder

Clarky puzzles the jury with no evidence, lots of opinions and a trial by media that continues to now.  Hear the story of Laci Peterson and her unborn son Connor - did Scott Peterson kill his wife and child, or is there much more to the story?

Episode 61 Christmas Carnage

The Jury wish you all a happy holiday season with this story about Christmas Crime.  Schmidty tells the gruesome story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the carnage that took place in Arkansas in 1987.  Maybe leave this one till Boxing Day.

Episode 60 Ming the Minger

Here is the story of Mary and Elizabeth Stauffer and Jason Wilkman, who were minding their own business when Ming Sen Shiue abducted them.  Swanny horrifies the team as she unravels the ordeal that Mary and her daughter suffered at the hands of a predator, and the murder of Jason, an innocent bystander.  

Episode 59 Seventh time’s a charm

Clarky shocks the jury with the tragic story of Zarah Baker, whose short life was plagued with illness and abuse. Did her step mother Elisa kill her and was her father Adam a pathalogical numnut?

Episode 58 Literary Monster

Clarky brings us the story of Jack Unterweger, a killer across continents who charmed the Literati into thinking that literal reform and moral reform were literally the same thing.

Episode 57 Lottery and lies

Schmidty delves into the sad story of Abraham Shakespeare, a man who had a little, then a lot, then nothing. Would you tell anyone if you won the lottery?

Episode 56 Mortician Murderer

In this story, Swanny delves into the murder of Marjorie Nugent by her musical theatre loving companion Bernie Tiede and highlights the risks involved when Austin Liberals campaign for justice.

Episode 55 Natural Weapon

If you have a fear of snakes, this one is not for you! Schmidty takes the team to Kerala for an exotic murder in God's Own Country. Hear how Suraj Kumar plotted to murder his wife Uthra and created a legal precedence in the process.

Episode 54 Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel

Clarky hangs the jury in this frankly weird story of Elisa Lam and the events that lead to her tragic death.  What really happened to Elisa and did the dark history of the Cecil Hotel have anything to do with it?