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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 laugh some about this crazy world we live in. If you are ok with some banter and a few well placed f-bombs, you are in the right place and we are glad you are here! Now if banter and cussing are not for you and you just wa ...
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In Georgia, Richard was meeting his wife, Stacey, for Valentines Day when he was gunned down. When Stacey admits to secrets in their marriage, suspects are quickly identified and the hunt to find Richard's killer begins. Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Pa…
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Perhaps no American landscape is as iconic as the rainbow rocks of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Yet, as the geographer Yolonda Youngs argues, the Grand Canyon many people think they know is but one sliver of the story of the wider Grand Canyon as a historical and physical place. In Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon (U …
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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When Shannon disappeared on her birthday, her family was certain something had happened to her. Police search for answers and in the process, uncover a serial killer in the making. Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Patreon! Buy us a Coffee! - if you want to…
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Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite bei…
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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.…
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Welcome to the first official episode of True Crime Review with Cara & Stew! (logo coming soon).In the first episode we are watching Episode 1 of the Scott Peterson: Face to Face on Peacock. We went on so long we had to split this into two episodes. The first episode will be on all platforms. The second episode, releasing next week, will be Patreon…
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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If you don't like our chit chat or are an avid supporter of pit bulls (the dog, not Mr. Worldwide) then skip the first 12 minutes of the episode. Marlene Major was a young mother in a bad marriage, when she vanished one night, rumors ran wild implying she abandoned her family to start a new life. After decades of questions, they are finally answere…
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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When 16 year-old Tara goes missing from the parking lot of the Taco Bell where she worked, police believed initially she was just being a teenager. But when days go by with no sign of Tara, they realize something much more sinister has happened. Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access…
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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When Deborah McCormick is found murdered in her flower shop, police go on a wild hunt to find the killer before he kills again. Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Patreon! Buy us a Coffee - if you want to support the podcast with a one-time donation, buy us …
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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When a three suitcases wash up on Virginia shores containing body parts, police must work quickly to identify the victim. Once identified, the real forensic work begins to prove who the killer is and put them behind bars. While this crime did not completely happen in the South, it did happen in one of our favorite places: Jersey. Find us on the web…
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Welcome to A Little Less Mess, it's our companion episode to our main weekly releases. In ALLM, you will find just the facts, no opinions, no jokes, no banter, but do not fear! If you would like to hear our full thoughts on this case (and inappropriate jokes) check out the weekly regular episodes released on Thursdays (they're the numbered episodes…
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We are headed to our home state of Louisiana where we discuss the tragic death of 19 year old Sierra Bouzigard. When Sierra is found murdered, police must use new technology to finally break the case. Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Patreon! Buy us a Coff…
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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…
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When Bill Sparkman is found dead in a cemetery with the letters FED written across his chest, the police and media went into overdrive to find his killer but everything was not as it seemed... Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Patreon! Buy us a Coffee! - if…
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San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various attendant enterprises. This large population of men on the move made the new and booming city a hub of what "respectable" easterners considered vice: drinking, gambling, and sex work, among other activitie…
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In Amarillo, Robin Spielbauer is found murdered on the side of the road and police quickly put together a list of suspects, focusing in on Robin's former friend, Katie. Police work to build a solid case, depending on the FBI and forensic evidence. Fun Fact: Pliers are illegal in Texas, this has to do with an old cowboy law. It's illegal to carry th…
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Between the mid-19th century and the start of the twentieth century, the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin went from a self-sufficient tribe well-adapted to living on the harsh desert homelands, to a people singled out by the Native activist Henry Roe Cloud for their dire social and economic position. The story of how this happened is told …
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In 1990, Tammy Bowers was abducted while on a phone call with a friend outside of a convenience store in Geismar, Louisiana. Despite knowing the moment she was taken, the case would quickly go cold. It would take modern science to finally bring her killers to justice. Fun Fact: In Louisiana, it is illegal to eat more than three sandwiches at a fune…
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Hundreds of thousands of individuals perished in the epic conflict of the American Civil War. As battles raged and the specter of death and dying hung over the divided nation, the living worked not only to bury their dead but also to commemorate them. President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address perhaps best voiced the public yearning to memorial…
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Cyrus McCormick invented the revolutionary mechanical reaper in 1831...right? At least, that's how the story has been told for decades. In Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery (U Nebraska Press, 2023), National Park Service historian Daniel Ott argues that not only have textbooks and other sources of his…
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In 1974, in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, Carla Walker and her boyfriend were attacked in their car while in the bowling alley parking lot. Carla was dragged from the vehicle while her boyfriend was knocked unconscious. Her body was found just a few days later but it would take over four decades to solve her case using the most advanced DNA tec…
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Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavours. Their le…
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This episode is unhinged, if you hate small talk or our personalities, you might want to skip this one or at least the first 20 minutes...Johnia Berry was a 21 year old student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville when she was stabbed to death in her apartment. Her roommate and friend was the main suspect until police found DNA evidence pointin…
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Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a professional player at seventeen, embarking on an extended t…
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This week we are covering a serial killer out of Huntsville, Texas. Daniel Lee Corwin killed three women in the East Texas area and attempted to kill two others. He was finally caught when one of his victims survived and was determined to find her attacker. Fun Fact: The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville opened in 1849, one year after the stat…
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In Walterboro, South Carolina, 26 year old Elaine Fogle is brutally murdered in her own home. With very little evidence and no leads, the case quickly turns cold. It would take a new detective and modern science to finally solve the mystery. Fun Fact: In South Carolina, it is illegal to change clothes in a gas station bathroom. This isn't enforced,…
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Born in Yorba Linda and raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life, excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier's oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief tri…
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In this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Latter-day Saints from 1846 through 1917. In Cody's autobiography he claimed to have been a member of the U.S. Army wagon train that was burned by the Saints during the Utah Wa…
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We are headed to Texas this week where a double homicide went cold for 30 years until a call from several states away breaks the case wide open. Fun Fact: In some Texas cities, you need a permit to walk barefoot. It is required to purchase a $5 permit before walking around barefoot, in order to avoid the city’s code governing “sanitation and appear…
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We are back from our short hiatus and covering a double homicide out of Georgia. Two women were brutally murdered in the middle of the day at a real estate office. With an unclear motive, police must piece together why these two young women's lives were cut short and find the monster who did it before he strikes again. Fun Fact: It is illegal to ea…
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Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds through marriage and…
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Welcome to the G League--the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Zeroing in on the Birmingham Squadron and four of its players--Ja…
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We are headed to Texas this week where a young mother is brutally murdered while working her overnight cleaning job. All signs point to the husband but without enough evidence they have to let him go. It would take decades to finally bring the killer to justice. Fun Fact: Be careful, you could be married without being present! Texas is a common law…
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We are back from our break and headed to Louisiana where it would take a decade to solve the murder of Kristi and reveal a serial killer in the making. Fun Fact: Even thought Louisiana is known for having Parishes instead of counties, that wasn't always the case. In 1807, the government officially switched from counties to Parishes, based off of lo…
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On an August night in 1933 Harbin in then-Japanese controlled Manchuria–Semyon Kaspe, French citizen, famed concert musician, and Russian Jew, is abducted after a night out. Suspicion falls on the city’s fervently anti-semitic Russian fascists. Yet despite pressure from the French consulate, the Japanese police slow-walk the investigation—and three…
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George MacLeod's book Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War (U Nebraska Press, 2023) explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, muc…
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In 1979, Norma Page was home with her two children when a stranger approached them in the yard. In the end, Norma would be dead and her two children would have to run for help. It would take over 30 years to solve this case with modern forensics, but will the killer be punished? Fun Fact: Next time you're getting your hair done, you may want to thi…
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What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. In Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma (U Nebraska, 2023), Oklahoma State University professor of English Lindsey Claire Smith draws connections between Indigenous art, particularly …
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Sorry everyone we have been MIA! We are in the processing of buying a new home and moving so things are chaotic to say the least. We will be back at the beginning of December, thanks for understanding! In Virginia, promising young college student Hannah Graham goes missing without a trace. As police search for her abductor, they discover a series o…
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Oh geez or (cheese?)! We know, Wisconsin is not in the South but Cara was not feeling well these last two weeks so we had to pull an older episode we had written that was going to be part of our Road Trip series. So to Wisconsin we go where Barbara Kendhammer is killed in a freak car accident but as police look further into the evidence, maybe it w…
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When Vincent and his wife, Jessie, are headed back from dinner one night they come across a stranded motorist having car trouble. They pull over to help and suddenly the man is shooting Vincent. Jessie flees to save her life and get help but it is too late, Vincent was dead. With no motive and conflicting eyewitness statements, police are at a loss…
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When Jamie Hart's car was found abandoned in the middle of the road in College Station police were baffled until finding her body in a ditch later that morning. Her case would go cold and would not be solved until the murderer struck again. Fun Fact: Dr Pepper was invented in Texas in 1885. Created by Charles Alderton in Waco, Dr Pepper was first n…
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Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business within the broader contours of American history. Steven P. Gietschier begins with…
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Kelli Bailey had just moved back to Florida, buying her first home near her parents in a seemingly safe neighborhood. When Kelli fails to show up for her shift at the hospital, a gruesome discovery is made at her home by her Stepfather. Fun Fact: In the Sunshine State, an old special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday. Althoug…
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We are going on vacation and we will be staying at the haunted Tremont House Hotel in Galveston, Texas so we thought we would share a little bit about its history and and hauntings! Find us on the webs! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Support us on Patreon - for early access and ad-free, join our Patreon! Buy us a Coffee! - if you want t…
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