Real Crime Profile
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#455: "Burden of Proof" - What really happened to Jennifer Pandos | Part 2
July 19, 2023 19:52 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBWe continue our interview with Stephen Pandos and filmmaker Cynthia Hill about their new documentary on MAX “Burden of Proof” about the disappearance of Stephen’s 15 year old sister Jennifer in February 1987. Stephen talks about his fraught relationship with his parents over the years as he struggled to understand their behavior after Jennifer went missing. Stephen’s tireless determination to get to the truth led James City County police to re-open the case and revealed other potent...
#455: BONUS - Long Island Serial Killer Captured - And Jim called it!
July 17, 2023 00:28 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBBreaking news and RCP jumps on a Bonus Ep to weigh in. For over a decade Long Island Police have been trying to solve what appeared to be the serial murders of several young women whose remains were found at Gilgo Beach. Finally just this past week, Architect Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested at his Manhattan office and arraigned in the deaths of three women: Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello 27. Police are still investigating the death of a fourth ...
#454: "Burden of Proof" - What really happened to Jennifer Pandos
July 13, 2023 06:34 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBWhat would you do if your 15 year old sister went missing and years later you realize that your parents may have been involved in her possible murder? That is what happened to Stephen Pandos, who's sister Jennifer disappeared from her bedroom the night of February 9th 1987 without a trace, leaving nothing but a bizarre note behind claiming to be written by a stranger. His parents Margie and Ron have always maintained they have no idea why or how she vanished nor where she is now. Bu...
#453: Bill Cosby Update with Nicki Weisensee Egan | Part 2
July 06, 2023 01:12 - 31 minutes - 29 MBWe continue our discussion with award winning investigative journalist Nicki Weisensee Egan on the ongoing legal battles surrounding Bill Cosby. Cosby and his lawyers continually try to gaslight and attack any victim who bravely comes forward to disclose their experience. We discuss the power imbalance and the high bar that victims have to pass to be believed. Nicki takes us through the complexities and nuances of the case and the importance of speaking out. Bill Cosby has always ma...
#452: Bill Cosby Update with Nicki Weisensee Egan | Part 1
July 06, 2023 01:12 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this episode, we interview award-winning investigative journalist turned author Nicki Weisensee Egan about the latest updates regarding Bill Cosby, including six women who have filed civil suits against Cosby in New York City, one woman filed in New Jersey, another in California and a further nine women in Nevada. Nicki wrote the book 'Chasing Cosby' and hosted the podcast of the same name. To be clear, in 2018 Bill Cosby was found guilty in a criminal court of law for drugging ...
#451: Stop the Release of Serial Killer Colin Pitchfork
June 28, 2023 18:25 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBWe have an urgent episode today about a case listeners particularly in the U.K. need to be aware. Serial Child Murderer and rapist Colin Pitchfork — who raped and murdered two 15 year old girls, Lynda Mann in 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in 1986 in Leicestershire - is about to be released from prison into the community unless Ministers take action. In our opinion as experts, we strongly believe that it's not possible for psychopath Colin Pitchfork to be rehabilitated and we explain why in...
#450: Interview with Senator Susan Rubio about Changing Domestic Abuse Laws
June 21, 2023 15:59 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBLaura and Jim interview State Senator Susan Rubio of California who is a fierce advocate for victims of domestic violence, and a champion for children and families who have been left behind by the family court system. She also talks about her own first hand personal experience as a survivor of domestic violence and coercive control. Senator Rubio is responsible for authoring “Piqui’s Law” SB 616 named after a five year little old boy, who was smothered to death by his own father,...
#449: Interview with "Victim/Suspect" Reporter Rae de Leon and Director Nancy Schwartzman | Part 2
June 16, 2023 19:06 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBJim and Laura continue their conversation with investigative journalist Rae de Leon and filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman who disclose even more shocking details not shown in their new documentary “Victim/Suspect”. You will not believe the rest of the story in Dynanie Bermeo’s case regarding a suspect who police refused to investigate in her sexual assault. Nancy asks Jim and Laura for their take on reasons for the persistent obfuscation and lack of accountability by the law enforcement d...
#448: Interview with "Victim/Suspect" Reporter Rae de Leon and Director Nancy Schwartzman
June 14, 2023 21:48 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBWe are honored to be joined by Rae de Leon who is the investigative reporter at the heart of the incredible Netflix documentary “Victim/Suspect” which was directed by Nancy Schwartzman who we are also thrilled to be joining us. Rae walks us through her journey digging deeply into this subject of law enforcement turning victims of sexual assault into suspects of “false” reporting. She has some additional shocking details to add about her interview of a certain detective. Nancy talk...
#447: “Victim/Suspect” | Part 2
June 09, 2023 15:36 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBDo you know what the “Reid” technique is or why it is so controversial? In today's episode Jim explains how this high pressure interrogation protocol can be abused by police officers when they are poorly trained and when they have no experience with traumatized sexual assault victims. But Laura wonders if there isn’t something deeper going on when law enforcement tried to turn victims into suspects. She has a theory about something even more insidious at play here. Join us as we con...
#446: “Victim/Suspect” | Part 1
June 07, 2023 17:07 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIn 2015, Emma Mannion, an 18 year old college student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was raped in a parking lot outside of a popular bar. What happened next is almost as shocking as the sexual assault. When Emma went to the police to report this crime, not only did they not believe her, but they arrested her for making a false report. According to the new Netflix documentary “Victim/Suspect” Emma’s case is not an isolated incident. Investigative journalist Rachel de Leon...
#445: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 6
May 31, 2023 15:55 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBWhat’s next for Erik and Lyle Mendez who have so far served 33 years of their life sentences without the possibility of parole? Is there a chance for a new trial now that another person, Roy Rossello, has come forward with the accusation that their father Jose Menendez also raped him when he was an underage member of the boy band Menudo? Could this be a new piece of evidence to corroborate the brothers’ story that Jose sexually abused them, a key part of their original defense, whic...
#444: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 5
May 24, 2023 21:54 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThere is still so much to take apart in the Menendez case. In today's episode, we examine the behavior of Jose Menedez. Was he a psychopath? Was he trying to raise two sociopaths in the model of himself? Laura puts a photograph of this father and his sons under a microscope to point out something very disturbing. What about the judge who presided over both 1993 and 1996 trials? There is more to discover about his biases. And finally, what about Kitty, Erik and Lyle's mother? What ma...
#443: Idaho Murders Update
May 23, 2023 21:23 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBLaura updates us on the latest developments in the case of the four Idaho college students who were murdered back in November 2022: Ethan Chapin, 20; and roommates Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. The prime suspect in their brutal killings has just been arraigned and his behavior during the court proceeding deserves to be discussed. Is there a strategy at play here? Should the gag order be lifted from the case? Should cameras be allowed during the tria...
#442: Interview with Menendez Juror Hazel Thornton | Menendez + Menudo - Part 4
May 19, 2023 15:11 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBJoining us today we are honored to have Hazel Thornton who served as a juror on Erik Menendez’ first trial in 1993. We have so many questions for her about what it was like to see all of the testimony and what conclusions she came to. To clarify both brothers, Erik and Lyle were tried, at the same time, for murdering their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez. But each brother had their own separate jury, who all sat in the courtroom together (sometimes one jury would sit in the jury bo...
#441: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 3
May 17, 2023 17:03 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBWe continue breaking down the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the 1989 murder of their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez and the connection to the alleged child sex abuse in the boyband Menudo using the framework of the recent Peacock three part docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” as well as the additional evidence televised in the 1993 first trial (streaming now on Court TV in its entirety). Laura is back and weighs in on what she sees as a massive injustice, on so many fro...
#440: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 2 (BONUS)
May 12, 2023 17:37 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBLisa and Jim pick up where their conversation left off, breaking down the details of the Menendez case and posing questions about the events. There are so many things that have been buried in the past three decades, there is a lot to discuss. You can watch the entire first 1993 trial on Court TV archives for yourself. https://www.courttv.com/trials/ca-v-menendez-1993/ #Peacock #docuseries #Menendez #Menudo #BoysBetrayed #parricide #childsexabuse #RoyRosello #grooming #VictimsMatt...
#439: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 1
May 10, 2023 18:41 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThere are high profile cases you think you know, but the truth is far more nuance, complicated and terrible than anything the media could ever cover during a headline making trial. On the evening of June 20th 1989, Lyle Menendez (21) and his brother Erik Menendez (18) shot their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez to death in their Beverly Hills home. Of that there is no dispute. In 1996, the brothers were each finally convicted (after a first trial ended in deadlock) of two counts of f...
#438: Who Killed 3 Young Sisters in Texas | Part 2
May 03, 2023 07:01 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBWe welcome back Amara Cofer, host of the podcast Black Girl Gone https://www.blackgirlgonepodcast.com/ to help us discuss the terrible murders of three young sisters in Atlanta, Texas: Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, 9, A’Miyah Hughes, 8, and Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver, 5, who were reported missing by their babysitter last July and later found dead in a nearby pond. Amara raises a lot of good questions that law enforcement have yet to answer. We share some revelations about the case that no...
#437: Who Killed 3 Young Sisters in Texas | Part 1
April 26, 2023 15:59 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBOn a hot summer night last July in a small town in east Texas, sisters Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, 9, A’Miyah Hughes, 8, and Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver, 5, were reported missing by their babysitter. Their mother Shommaonique Oliver-Wickerson rushed home from work to find the Cass County Sheriff’s office, Texas Parks and Wildlife, volunteer firefighters, neighbors and family members searching the surrounding area for her little daughters. What happened next was every mother’s worst nightm...
#436: Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Part 4
April 21, 2023 07:01 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBTrigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sex abuse. Listener discretion is advised. We finish our conversation with author and advocate Stephen Mills. Stephen talks about the path of self destruction he took in his twenties as he tried to run away from the demons of his past. He tells us why after many decades he finally decided to write his memoir “Chosen”. We talk about how important it is to keep finding our voices as victims and speaking out as much as pos...
#435: Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Part 3
April 19, 2023 13:33 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBTrigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, we are continuing our conversation with Stephen Mills about his experience surviving child sex abuse and his tireless fight to prevent more children from being harmed by those who are meant to care for them. Denial, delay and legal loopholes. Silence as well as cover ups. Stephen reveals how difficult it has been to hold organization...
#434: BONUS EPISODE: Deconstructing the Dalai Lama: What does his recent behavior toward a child mean?
April 17, 2023 07:01 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThe current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet Buddhism is beloved by millions around the world for his compassion and his teachings of non violence. Known as His Holiness, to the public, his gentle nature, grandfatherly affect and often childlike wonder can be captivating to the masses who come to be in his presence. But recently, the Dalai Lama is under scrutiny for his upsetting behavior toward a child who came up to give him a hug during a public appearance...
#433: Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Part 2
April 14, 2023 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBTrigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion advised. We continue our important conversation with Stephen Mills, author of the memoir “Chosen”, which recounts in excruciating detail the sexual abuse he endured as a child at the hands of a beloved camp director of a prestigious Jewish summer camp. Stephen describes the dissociation he experienced as he tried to cope with what was happening to him. Perhaps even more shocking than t...
#432: Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Part 1
April 12, 2023 17:12 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBTrigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion advised. When Stephen Mills was thirteen years old, he was sexually abused by a director of his Jewish summer camp. This abuse continued for years and Stephen carried this secret for decades. In his book, “Chosen” out now in paperback, Stephen details in raw powerful emotion how this offender was able to groom him, his parents, and the many prestigious communities where this offender w...
#431: Exposing The Police - Internal Review of London's Met Police Force
April 05, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBWhat is wrong with the Metropolitan Police Force? 5 words: Defensiveness, Denial, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny. Prompted by the murder of 33 year old Sarah Everard who was abducted, raped and strangled by a London Metropolitan Police officer in 2021, the failures in the Met police force were scrutinized in a recent scathing report. This review is stunning and something everyone, whether you are an average citizen, politician, academic or law enforcement professional, should rea...
#430: Andrew Tate | Part 2
March 29, 2023 07:01 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWe continue to deconstruct Andrew Tate’s behavior which can be traced right back to his childhood and his response to the toxic male role model he had in his life. We discuss his family dynamics and his craving for his father’s approval. Instead of overcoming that lack of father love, instead of championing the strong women in his life who were raising him and sacrificing for him, instead of creating good in the world — he chose a different path, one of subjugating women, and exploi...
#429: Andrew Tate | Part 1
March 22, 2023 14:58 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBAndrew Tate, a former kickboxer and failed reality tv contestant, is someone who has tried to ingratiated himself with, indoctrinate and monetize impressionable young men and boys by proselytizing his own brand of misogyny and toxic masculinity — is now sitting unhappily in a Romanian prison under suspicion of rape, sex trafficking and organized crime. He and his brother Tristan have denied all charges against them. While we would love to ignore someone this thirsty who LIVES to ha...
#428: BONUS: Gabby Petito Update | "Burn After Reading" Letter, a New Photo, and the Police Response
March 21, 2023 19:07 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBMarch 19th would have been Gabby Petito's 24th birthday. To honor Gabby and ensure we don't forget her, Laura gives us an update on the latest developments in the two lawsuits Gabby's parents are bringing against the Moab City Police as well as against Brian Laundrie's parents. We analyse the distressing and haunting selfie Gabby took of her injuries just minutes before the 911 call was made to the police in Utah. We discuss the significance of the photo as potential evidence w...
#427: Stolen Youth - Interview with Director Zach Heinzerling | Part 3
March 15, 2023 11:49 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBWe are thrilled that Zach Heinzerling, director of the amazing Hulu docuseries “Stolen Youth” joined us to talk about his experience capturing the incredible story of Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, Dan Levin, Santos, Yalitza, and Felicia Rosario, all victims of Larry Ray who coercively controlled them, abused and tortured them for years. Zach tells us why he wanted to make the docs-series, and what he learned from the survivors about how it could happen — how these bright, young, ...
Wondery Presents This Is Actually Happening: Point Blank
March 14, 2023 08:47 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBThis Is Actually Happening, is a podcast that brings you extraordinary true stories of life changing events, told by the people who lived them. Now, This Is Actually Happening presents: Point Blank, a five-part series shedding a light on the forgotten spree killings of Rancho Tehama. In November of 2017, a lone gunman devastated a small town in northern California, attacking 8 different locations in the span of only 25 minutes. Overshadowed by the Las Vegas shooting that dominated t...
#426: The Stalking and Murder of Podcaster Zohreh Sadeghi
March 13, 2023 21:15 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBJust this past Friday March 10th, Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, a tech industry podcaster and her husband, Mohammad Milad Naseri, 35, were murdered in their home in Redmond, Washington by a man who stalked Zohreh after listening to her podcast. In the past months, his behavior had become increasingly alarming, relentlessly calling her 100 times in a day, sending her an avalanche of texts, traveling from his residence in Texas to her home in Washington state, surveying her neighborhood and thr...
#425: Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence | Part 2
March 08, 2023 16:07 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBWe continue our discussion about the amazing Hulu three part docu-series "Stolen Youth" which focuses on the victims of Larry Ray, a psychopathic manipulator who systematically tried to ruin the lives of Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, Dan Levin, Santos, Yalitza, and Felicia Rosario. Laura points out that his daughters and former wife were most likely also victimized by his coercive control. We detail the excruciating conditions that led to each victim slowly extracting themselves f...
#424: Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence | Part 1
March 01, 2023 08:47 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIn 2010, on the small woodsy campus of Sarah Lawrence College located in Yonkers, New York, 50 year old Lawrence Ray came to “crash” with his daughter Talia in her on-campus dorm town-house that she shared with several other students, ostensibly until he found a place to live after his recent release from prison. That fateful “visit” turned into a twisted decade long odyssey of abuse and coercive control that would nearly ruin the lives of several young people including Isabella Pol...
#423: Cold Case Crossover - Sheree Warren Disappearance | Part 2
February 22, 2023 08:01 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBWe continue our cross over episode with the “Cold” podcast host Dave Cawley, focusing in on one “person of interest” in particular in the disappearance of 24 year old single mother Sheree Warren - who went missing from Ogden, Utah in 1985. One of Sheree’s intimate partners, Cary Hartmann, was eventually convicted of the rapes of two woman and suspected in many many more. He has always claimed he had nothing to do with his girlfriend Sheree’s disappearance, despite a lot of inconsist...
Introducing COLD: The Search for Sheree
February 20, 2023 08:01 - 9 minutes - 8.45 MBSheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspicious eyes towards the husband. And although there was ...
#422: Cold Case Crossover - Sheree Warren Disappearance | Part 1
February 15, 2023 08:01 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBWe are so excited for this cross over episode with Dave Cawley of the hit Wondery podcast series “Cold”. Now in his third season of “Cold”, Dave talks to us about his incredible re-investigation into a new “cold” case, that of 24-year old single mother Sheree Warren from Ogden, Utah who went missing on the evening of October 2, 1985 after leaving from work at a Utah Credit Union to meet with her estranged husband. Six weeks later her car was found abandoned in a Las Vegas parking lo...
#421: Sarah Ann Masse & Rowena Chiu: Survivors of Harvey Weinstein (Part 2)
February 08, 2023 08:01 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBConvicted serial rapist Harvey Weinstein (HW) will be sentenced AGAIN in Los Angeles on February 23, 2023 following his conviction of rape, sexual penetration by foreign object and forcible oral copulation. He is already serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of rape and sexual assault charges in New York in 2020. Joining us today are Sarah Ann Masse and Rowena Chiu who say they survived assaults by HW though sadly their cases were not addressed in these convictions...
Wondery Present: Stolen Hearts
February 06, 2023 17:26 - 6 minutes - 6.15 MBSergeant Jill Evans is a small-town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces and one affair, she’s beginning to worry that love is only true in fairy tales. That is until she meets: Dean. He’s a wealthy beauty entrepreneur with his own range of toiletries. Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. They kiss and fall in love. Roll credits. But that would be boring, wouldn’t it? Instead, this i...
#420: Survivors of Harvey Weinstein speak out: Meet Sarah Ann Masse and Rowena Chiu
February 01, 2023 08:01 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBWe are honored to have two very special guests with us Sarah Ann Masse, and Rowena Chiu who both say they were victims of sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein. Sarah Ann and Rowena tell us their stories, and the aftermath of their assaults. They have each become fierce advocates for other survivors and are still trying to shed light on HW’s enablers responsible for allowing an environment of abuse to continue. You can watch Rowena’s story depicted in the brilliant Universal film “She ...
#419: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 10
January 25, 2023 08:01 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBWe wrap up our coverage of Laci and Conner Peterson’s case by discussing Laci’s autopsy report and dispelling many rumors and misinformation about what the medical examiner found. We also delve into other false narratives still swirling around this horrific double murder. Many of you have reached out thanking us for our detailed analysis and being a voice of reason in a sea of conspiracy whispers. Well, we thank YOU for following us, listening with a critical ear, and appreciating t...
Wondery Presents: Frozen Head
January 24, 2023 16:50 - 4 minutes - 3.71 MBHosted 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 fig...
#418: Where is Ana Walshe?
January 21, 2023 20:54 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBAna Walshe, a 39-year-old mother of three boys ages 2, 4 and 6 and who was a successful real estate executive from Cohasset, Massachusetts, disappeared sometime after having dinner with her husband and a friend just this past New Year's Eve. She was reported missing by her employer, not her husband Brian Walshe, who claims he last saw her on New Year’s Day when she left for work that morning. Police were immediately suspicious of Brian’s story and we now know why. In today’s episode...
#417: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 9
January 18, 2023 08:01 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThe Real Crime Profile team continues to play “whack a mole” with all the conspiracy theories and false narratives that seek to put the blame of the brutal murder of Laci and Conner Peterson on anyone else except who really committed this crime and that person is Scott Peterson. Laura makes some interesting observations about other media interviews that Scott Peterson gave as well as his recorded phone calls to Amber Frey. We also discuss in detail Conner’s autopsy and testimony of ...
#416: The Murders in Moscow, Idaho
January 14, 2023 00:33 - 25 minutes - 23 MBEarly in the morning hours of Sunday November 13th, Ethan Chapin, 20; and roommates Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 were brutally murdered in the Moscow Idaho home shared by the young women. Since that day, this case has been in the news nonstop as the speculations about the murderer, the why’s and how’s of the crime captured our national attention. It is very tempting to want to weigh in right away on a crime like this but Real Crime Profile has held ...
#415: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 8
January 11, 2023 15:52 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBToday we are joined by Retired FBI agent Bobby Chacon, who led the dive team searching for the rest of Laci Peterson’s remains in east San Francisco Bay, after her torso was discovered on the shore. Bobby recounts in deep detail what it was like on the ground during the search, his observations about the site and what he thinks happened to Laci and Conner. Bobby describes the autopsy photos he viewed himself of Laci and Conner taken both at the site where they were recovered, and a...
Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow
January 09, 2023 19:55 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBFor 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 20...
#414: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 7
January 04, 2023 08:01 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBWe finish our analysis of Diane Sawyer’s interview with Scott Peterson where she drills him with tough questions. Laura and Jim share what they see and hear in his answers. You can watch the interview for yourself on the link below. Watch then listen to our conversation. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/april-24-2003-scott-peterson-speaks-49711850 #LaciPeterson #ConnerPeterson #DianeSawyer #AmberFrey #Interview #BodyLanguage #LinguisticTells #Lies #Entitlement #realcrimeprofile #E...
#413: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 6
December 28, 2022 08:01 - 34 minutes - 32 MBLaura and Jim analyze what they see as well as hear in a very important interview that Scott Peterson gave January 27th 2003 to Diane Sawyer, just over a month after his pregnant wife Laci went missing. What are some clues in his answers and reactions to Sawyer's questions? You can watch the interview on the link below. Watch for yourself then listen to our breakdown. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/april-24-2003-scott-peterson-speaks-49711850 #LaciPeterson #ConnerPeterson #DianeS...
#412: Profiling the Murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson | Part 5
December 21, 2022 08:01 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBJim and Laura continue to behaviorally and forensically deconstruct the movements, actions, inactions, and lies of Scott Peterson after the disappearance of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson. Why did he decide to go fishing in that particular spot 90 miles away from his home instead of the many closer water bodies, better suited to his boat? What do his many phone calls with Amber Frey, whom he was having an affair with, tell us about his state of mind leading up to and beyond the day...