Serial Napper
411 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsSerial Napper is the true crime podcast for naps, hosted by Nikki Young. Each episode of Serial Napper features a different true crime story, told succinctly the way it happened. Just the facts, ma‘am. Let Nikki guide you through some of the craziest true crime stories you‘ve never heard of, as you lull to sleep.
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June 25, 2024 16:59 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MBSerial Napper will be taking a hiatus over the summer. Thank you for your support. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Scott Watson: A Calculated Conviction?
June 19, 2024 23:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBBefore dawn break, on New Year's Day, 1998, 21-year-old Ben Smart and 17-year-old Olivia Hope were looking for a place to crash after spending the evening celebrating with other partygoers in the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand. They were last seen getting out of a water taxi and boarding a yacht after a strange man offered them a place to sleep off the champagne on board his boat. Not the greatest of decisions, but they needed a place to sleep because other partygoers had taken the place...
Angelika Graswald: The Controversial Story of the Kayak Killer
June 13, 2024 00:45 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIt was the early evening hours of Sunday, April 19, 2015. Vincent Viafore and his fiancee Angelika Graswald were trying to enjoy a kayaking adventure in the Hudson River, but the water was cold and choppy, and they were not adequately prepared for the conditions. For one - Vincent wasn’t wearing a life vest and his kayak was missing a drain plug. Disaster struck as they tried to cross the river, leaving from Bannermans Island and heading towards Plum Point Park. Vincent’s kayak started to ta...
Ramona Brown: The Night the Fire Took Her
June 08, 2024 01:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThe date was March 6th, 1984, the night before Mardi Gras. Hailing from New Orleans, The Brown family, which included parents Johnnie Mae and Aubrey Brown and their 10 children, spent the evening getting ready to celebrate. Excitement was in the air in anticipation of the music, food and floats that they were going to be able to enjoy. The kids were put down to bed early that night so that they would be well-rested for the festivities the next day. And then, around 3 am when the house was qu...
Johnny Kitagawa: The J-Pop Predator
June 03, 2024 01:53 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBOne of the first things I noticed when I moved to Tokyo was the smiling faces of J-Pop idols posted everywhere - large billboards, moving trucks, subway cars. Japan has the second largest music market in the world, mostly due to the rising popularity of J-Pop, with millions of fans in Japan and all around the world. One man, known as Johnny Kitagawa, considered the grandfather of J-pop, is responsible for creating idols out of hundreds of young boys who dreamed of being famous. But few kno...
Aubrey Dameron: A Life Worth Finding
May 28, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBIt was the very early morning of March 9, 2019 - around 3:30 am, before the sun came up. 25-year-old Aubrey Dameron walked into the living room and told her mother and brother that she was off to meet a friend. She doesn’t specify who this friend is - but she leaves home without her purse or her anti-seizure medication, which she is supposed to carry with her at all times as she suffers from epilepsy. She wouldn’t return home and after a few days of no contact with her family - they reported...
Noah Presgrove: A Small Town Secret
May 22, 2024 23:30 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBOn September 4th, 2023, at around 5:53 am, 19-year-old Noah Presgrove was found dead on the side of an Oklahoma highway. It was a bizarre scene - Noah was found wearing mismatched shoes, with only one of the shoes belonging to him. His shorts were found a few feet away from his body, along with three pieces of white metal chain and part of his tooth. There were two chunks of hair found - one on the roadway and one on his right butt cheek. Noah had attended a party earlier that evening, where...
Sebastian Rogers is Missing: What Goes Bump in the Night?
May 17, 2024 11:15 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIt was the morning of February 26, 2024, and it was supposed to be a day like any other. At around 6am, Katie Proudfoot walked into the bedroom of her 15-year-old son, Sebastian Rogers, to wake him up for school. To her shock, she found his room empty - he was gone. Not in his room and nowhere to be found elsewhere in their Tennessee home. Yes, Sebastian was a teenager and sometimes they can be notorious for sneaking out or leaving without telling their parents where they’re going - but in S...
Thad Phillips: The Lone Survivor of the Bonebreaker Killer
May 14, 2024 00:33 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIt was the summer of 1995. 13-year-old Thad Phillips had fallen asleep in his living room watching a movie. Suddenly, he awoke to the feeling of someone lifting him up and carrying him away - initially he thought maybe it was his dad, bringing him upstairs to bed. But it wasn’t. The person holding him was an older teen boy named Joe Clark. Joe carried Thad outside of his home and asked him to follow him to help fix his broken-down car. Still half asleep, Thad agreed, following Joe all of the...
Teresita Basa: She Solved Her Own Murder From Beyond the Grave
May 10, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBOne early morning in February 1977, the Chicago fire department responded to a call reporting billowing smoke coming from one of the units at the Pine Grove Avenue apartments. After putting out the flames, they discovered that this was much more than a simple fire - it was a crime scene. Inside the smokey apartment, they found the body of Teresita Basa, a middle-aged healthcare worker originally from the Philippines. She had been stabbed to death, and still had the butcher knife lodged in he...
Amy Mullis: The Corn Rake Murder
May 04, 2024 23:30 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB“If he catches me, he will make me disappear,” was one of the last things wife and mother of three, Amy Mullis, allegedly told the man she was having an affair with just a few months before she was found lying face down with a corn rake sticking out of her back. She would die from her injuries received in what was initially believed to be a freak farm accident. However during her autopsy, it was revealed that Amy had sustained six stabs to her back - when the corn rake only had 4 prongs - me...
Kanika Powell: A Killer At Her Doorstep
April 29, 2024 23:05 - 26 minutes - 24 MB28-year-old Kanika Powell was a young military veteran who lived in an apartment by herself in Prince George County, Maryland. She has been described as a strong, independent woman, whose life experiences made her very capable of handling stressful situations. However, all of that would change in August 2008, when Kanika would receive a series of strange visitors to her front door. The first was a man, dressed in plain clothing, claiming to be an FBI agent, who refused to produce a badge to ...
John Christie: The Bad Neighbour/Sex Strangler of Notting Hill
April 20, 2024 22:40 - 32 minutes - 30 MBJohn Christie was a World War 1 and 2 veteran who lived with his wife Ethel in the bottom floor flat of 10 Rillington Place, a low-income apartment building in London’s Notting Hill district. In the 50s, there was a media storm when one of the tenants living in the same building as John, a man named Timothy Evans, was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and baby daughter - despite claiming innocence. John and his wife were star witnesses in that trial, testifying that their upstairs nei...
Timothy Evans: A Damning Confession and the Bodies in The Wall
April 15, 2024 10:50 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBIn 1950 Timothy Evans was accused of murdering his wife Beryl, and their baby girl, Geraldine. Timothy, a simple man who couldn’t read or write, lived with his little family in London’s Notting Hill district in the top floor flat. He refuted the accusations, instead claiming that it was actually his downstairs neighbour, John Christie, who killed his wife and daughter during a botched home abortion. John Christie was a World War 1 and 2 veteran who lived in the ground floor flat with his wi...
Lauren Hugelmaier: It Wasn't the Cough Medicine
April 08, 2024 23:35 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBIn the early morning hours of September 1st, 2017, around 1 am, a North Carolina 911 dispatcher receives a phone call from 29-year-old Matthew Phelps, an aspiring pastor. He says, “I think I killed my wife. I had a dream, and then I turned on the lights and she’s dead on the floor…I have blood all over me and there’s a bloody knife on the bed and I think I did it. I can’t believe this.” Matthew claimed that he had “accidentally” stabbed his wife to death while under the influence of cough ...
Kenneth Parks: The Sleepwalking Murder
April 02, 2024 23:30 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn the early morning hours of May 24, 1987, Kenneth Parks got up from the sofa where he had been watching TV, got into his vehicle and drove 20 km - or 12 and a half miles - from his home in Toronto to his in-laws home in Scarborough. He used the spare key that they had given him to enter the residence and proceeded to the master bedroom, where he found his mother and father-in-law sleeping in their bed. He proceeded to bludgeon his mother-in-law with a tire iron, which he had brought with h...
Serenity Napper Meditation for a Busy Existence
April 01, 2024 11:18 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBI'm switching gears and turning Serial Napper into a new sleep meditation podcast, called Serenity Napper. Enjoy! Or don't. Our Sponsors: * Check out True Crime Feed : https://thetruecrimefeed.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Reena Virk: Lured With the Promise of Friendship
March 29, 2024 23:10 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB14-year-old British Columbia teenager Reena Virk struggled to fit in. She was relentlessly bullied from elementary school, all the way to high school. Self-conscious about her looks and struggling with her strict religious parent's rules, times were tough. So on Nov. 14, 1997, when she received a phone call inviting her out to a social gathering, she gladly accepted. She had no idea the invite was all a part of a revenge plan - retaliation for spreading rumours about one of the other girls. ...
Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth
March 22, 2024 23:30 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBLife was not always easy for 20-year-old Amanda Wienckowski. At one point, her friends and family had to watch her struggle with an addiction that had her spending time with undesirable people on the wrong side of town. But she was trying to get her life back on track, even enrolling in a criminal justice course at her local community college. However, on the evening of December 5, 2008, her life was cut short. According to Adam Patterson, Amanda was dropped off that night at Antoine Garner’...
Kenny Veach: The Unexplained Disappearance of an Area 51 Adventurer
March 18, 2024 03:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBIn 2014, YouTuber and experienced hiker, Kenny Veach, who went by the handle ‘snakebitmgee’ seemingly vanished while looking for a mysterious cave in the Mojave Dessert. The first time he discovered this cave, which was shaped like a perfect letter ‘M’, he said his whole body began to vibrate and the feeling only grew stronger as he got closer to the entrance. After commenting about this strange cave on a YouTube video, he received a slew of responses from people who thought he was lying. On...
Dan Saunders: The ATM Glitch That Made Him a Millionaire Overnight
March 11, 2024 13:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBOne night, as he stumbled out of a bar with only $3 in his bank account, Dan Saunders made a simple decision that would change his luck and his life forever. He stopped at an ATM on his way home to try to withdraw cash from his nearly-maxed-out credit card and discovered a glitch in the system. Somehow, the bank machine allowed him to withdraw a lot more money than the balance in his account. He was planning to report it to the bank, but when he tried to withdraw even more cash, he realized ...
Relisha Rudd: The Little Girl Who Was Let Down
March 07, 2024 02:30 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBThe story of the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd is particularly tragic because, in her short life, she had already survived so much: Neglect, poverty, homelessness and a cycle of trauma within her family. Her mother, Shamika Young, grew up in foster care, struggled with behavioural issues and at one point even had to be placed in a mental facility. Now, Relisha was living with her mom, stepdad Antonio, and little brothers in an overcapacity homeless shelter. It was h...
Zohreh Sadeghi: A Podcaster's Parasocial Nightmare
March 02, 2024 01:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBZohreh Sadeghi was a 33-year-old young woman living in Redmond, Washington. She was an immigrant from Iran, a successful software engineer and a podcaster, who shared her lived experiences talking about how to find a job in the tech industry as a newcomer. In the summer of 2022, she would have the chance to meet one of her listeners, another Iranian immigrant, 38-year-old Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, who seemed to be enamored with her. At first, Zohreh was flattered, but when he began harassing h...
Barbara Mackle: Buried Alive for 83 Hours
February 26, 2024 01:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBBarbara Mackle would regret answering the door in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 1968. On the other side was a masked man, 23-year-old Gary Stephen Krist, who had been researching all of the intricate details of Babara’s life for the last several months. He forced her into the back of a car he had waiting around the corner and drove her out to a remote forested destination where he instructed her to climb into a fibreglass box at the bottom of a pit that had previously been dug. The b...
Cynthia Hoffman: A Heinous Catfish Murder-for-Hire Plot
February 20, 2024 01:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWhen 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman received a phone call from her best friend asking if she wanted to go for a hike, she jumped at the opportunity. The plan was to spend the day at Thunderbird Falls, a scenic hiking trail with a beautiful waterfall view. But Cynthia, who was developmentally delayed, had no idea of the secret sinister intention behind this trip. Her so-called best friend, 18-year-old Denali Brehmer had other plans for her. Denali lured Cynthia to a remote location where they ...
Jack Barron: The Munchausen by Proxy Dad
February 13, 2024 22:54 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBAlthough the most well-known case of Munchausen syndrome involved a woman, according to webMD, it’s actually more common for men to have the disorder. Tonight we’re talking about Jack Barron, the first man recorded to be suffering from Munchausen by Proxy. Jack loved the attention he received after his wife mysteriously died so much so that he desperately needed more. When his four-year-old son died just a few months later, the community thought he must be the unluckiest man alive. They ral...
Connor & Noah Barthe: Nothing Loved is Ever Lost
February 08, 2024 02:33 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBIt was the summer of 2013 in Campbelltown, New Brunswick, Canada. Noah and Connor Barthe, who were 4 and 6 years old, had spent the day having a blast with family friends at a farm. That evening, they had a sleepover at their best friend's house, which was located just above an exotic pet store that his father owned. Not all of the animals were kept downstairs in the store. Jean-Claude Savoie owned a 12-foot-long African rock python which was kept in a glass enclosure in the apartment. Som...
Nicola Furlong: A Life Worth More
February 01, 2024 00:30 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBNicola Furlong was a 21-year-old Dublin City University student who was studying University in Japan as part of an exchange program. In May of 2012, she enjoyed a night out at a Nicki Minaj concert with one of her girlfriends. When the concert was over, they planned to continue their night barhopping until the first train arrived in the morning to take them home. While standing at the station, they encountered two American men and were happy to meet other foreigners who could speak English...
Desmond Runstedler and Philip Fraser: Danger on the Highway
January 26, 2024 21:04 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBThere was a movement all across North America in the 60s and 70s that had people hitchhiking their way across the country. It was a way for young folks to get around economically while also being a bit rebellious. There was an element of adventure, as one never knew the stranger behind the wheel of the car they were getting into. But for much of Western Canada, hitchhiking was more than that - it was an act out of necessity. There are stretches of highway where public transportation just doe...
Peter Keller: The Family Annihilator Who Vlogged
January 22, 2024 04:05 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBOn April 22, 2012, several residents living in a quiet neighborhood located in North Bend, Washington, called 911 after seeing flames coming out of the windows of a neighboring home. Thankfully firefighters arrived on the scene and were able to put out the fire quickly. But when they took a closer look at the remnants of the house, they would make a gruesome discovery - two bodies, untouched by the fire but both shot in the head. They belonged to 41-year-old Lynnette Keller, and her 19-year-...
Jamie Snow: A Story Recanted
January 14, 2024 23:56 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBOn Easter Sunday, 1991, a gas station in Bloomington, Illinois would be robbed at gunpoint. Tragically, Billy Little, the attendant working that night, would be killed - shot to death for the money in his cash register. Investigators collected evidence from the crime scene including fingerprints, shoe prints and even a DNA sample, but they struggled for years to nail down who the armed robber was. It wasn’t until 8 years later that a witness would pick out a man named Jamie Snow from a lineu...
Juan Corona: The Machete Murderer
January 07, 2024 01:53 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThe date was May 19, 1971. A Japanese peach farmer was perusing his orchard, located in Yuba City, California. Suddenly, he spotted something unusual. A large seven-foot-long hole, that was approximately half a foot deep, which looked like an improvised dug-out gravesite. His was private property, no one was supposed to be digging on his land. Without any witnesses to report the purpose of this large hole, he decided to return the following day to see if it was still there. When he returned...
Kenneth Law: The Poison Peddler
December 30, 2023 20:25 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBTonight I’m talking about a 57-year-old Canadian man, named Kenneth Law. He stands accused and charged with 14 counts of second-degree murder for his plot to sell poison through the mail to individuals contemplating taking their own life. He may be linked to as many as over 100 deaths through his suicide-by-mail scheme. If he is found guilty, he will go down as one of the worst mass murderers in Canadian history, but nothing will take away the agonizing pain he has inflicted on the 100s of ...
Twas the Night Before Christmas - But Make it True Crime
December 24, 2023 14:08 - 3 minutes - 3.15 MBNarrated by: Nikki Young Story thanks to ChatGPT Support the show Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Twitter - https://twitter.com/serial_napper ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik Join the Serial Society true crime Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/serialnapperpatron Our Sponsors: * Check out True Crime Feed : https:/...
Daniel Robinson: The Missing Geologist
December 21, 2023 23:19 - 21 minutes - 20 MBOn June 23rd, 2021, 24-year-old Daniel Robinson was enjoying his dream job working for an engineering company at a remote job site in an Arizona desert. It was raining that morning, so he and his co-worker would have to wait for the weather to clear up before they could start. For some unknown reason, Daniel decided not to wait. He got into his 2017 blue-grey Jeep Renegade and took off - never to be seen again. About a month later, his vehicle would be found wrecked in a ravine only a few m...
Erin Patterson: The Mushroom Chef
December 15, 2023 13:59 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MB49-year-old Erin Patterson is many things. She’s a divorced mother of two, the heiress to a multimillion-dollar property portfolio, and a deadly chef. She now stands accused of feeding her ex-husband’s parents and his aunt one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world as part of a fatal Beef Wellington lunch. Her ex-in-laws, 70-year-old Don and Gail Patterson, and her ex’s 66-year-old aunt Heather Wilkinson, 66, would die in the hospital shortly after consuming the mushrooms that Erin cla...
Mary Boyle: Truth Taken to the Grave
December 09, 2023 21:22 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBMost people are familiar with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the little girl who went missing from her hotel room while enjoying a vacation with her family in Portugal - however, fewer know of Mary Boyle, a 6-year-old little girl who vanished while visiting her grandparents home in Ireland. She had been playing outside with her twin sister, brother and cousin when she began to follow her uncle over to the neighbour's house - however, when they reached a patch of field that was waterl...
Steven Clark: Missing From the Public Toilets
December 04, 2023 00:50 - 19 minutes - 18 MBSteven Clark was a 23-year-old young man from Colchester, Essex, in England. When he was just three years old, he had been hit by a truck, rendering him permanently disabled. On December 28, 1992, Steven spent the afternoon with his mother walking on the beach near their home in Saltburn, England. At around 3 pm, they used the public toilets, each entering a separate stall. Steven’s mother finished up and waited around for her son, but when he didn’t come out, she assumed he must have finis...
Frauke Liebs: Seven Days Then Silence
November 27, 2023 00:17 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBOn June 20, 2006, nursing student, 21-year-old Frauke Liebs, was enjoying a night out pup hopping watching the football world cup, which just so happened to be taking place in Germany that year. At around 11 pm, she began to walk back to the apartment that she shared with a longtime friend, however, she would never make it back. When she didn’t show up for work the next morning, her friends and family became worried and her mother reported her to the police as missing. However, Frauke hadn’...
The Springfield Three: An Empty Home on Delmar Street
November 20, 2023 19:31 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBIt was the summer of 1992. Teenagers Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall had just graduated from high school, spent the evening celebrating with friends and were gearing up for an incredible summer before their adult lives began. Stacy was going to be sleeping over at Suzie’s mother’s home that night - and then they had plans to go to a water amusement park in the morning. However, the following day, Stacy, Suzie, and her mother Sherrill Levitt, were nowhere to be found in the empty house. Whil...
Jelka Pesic: The Mother in Law From Hell
November 14, 2023 20:02 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWhen 25-year-old Alexandra Pesic married her husband, Joe, she believed she had found the man of her dreams - that the couple would live out the rest of their years in blissful matrimony. What she didn’t realize at the time, was that she was getting much more than a life partner. She was also getting a meddling mother-in-law, named Jelka Pesic. While Alexandra believed that Jelka’s controlling and nitpicking behaviour was irritating and fully embodied the traits of a monster-in-law, she had...
Linda Chen: A Wedding and a Funeral
November 07, 2023 20:20 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBLinda Chen was a 32-year-old mother of one with a history of dating terrible, abusive men. She thought her luck had finally changed when she met her fiance Mats Alm. The couple lived together in an apartment in Sweden and were just a week away from their wedding when tragedy struck. Linda was last seen on a grocery store surveillance camera with her fiancee, Mats. All of the events that happened after that are unclear. Mats took the role of devastated fiancee very seriously during the two m...
Arpana Jinaga: The Last Halloween Party
November 02, 2023 00:23 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBThe date was October 31st, 2008 - Halloween night. A young Seattle woman, 24-year-old Arpana Jinaga had plans that evening to participate in a Halloween party at her apartment complex. Several of her neighbours and Arpana would decorate their apartments and open their doors to guests who would pop in and out over the course of the evening. She was spotted in the early morning hours, around 3 a.m., returning to her own unit to get some sleep after a night of socializing - and this would be t...
McKamey Manor: Haunted House or Torture Chamber?
October 26, 2023 22:30 - 24 minutes - 22 MBTonight we’re talking about McKamey Manor, which is said to be an "Extreme Haunted Attraction," and "Survival Horror Challenge", according to their website - but some believe it is actually just a straight-up modern-day torture chamber. Guests who meet seven basic requirements can expect to experience up to eight hours of extreme horror that may include being waterboarded, buried alive or having their heads wrapped in duct tape. With two locations in Tennessee and Alabama and a low voluntar...
Radium Girls: The Dark History of a Deadly Glow
October 19, 2023 22:29 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBTonight I’m talking about the experience of hundreds of girls who innocently signed up to work in clock factories hoping to generate money to feed their families and help on the homefront during World War I. They used luminous paint made of radium on the clocks and dials, getting it onto their clothing, skin and even in their mouths. Yet, they had no idea that radium was toxic and the substance they worked with every day was literally eating them alive from the inside out - not until it was ...
Mary Reeser: Spontaneous Combustion or Something Else?
October 14, 2023 22:36 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThere have been a few hundred cases of spontaneous human combustion reported, with some reported instances from as early as the 17th century. They were highly debated as to whether they were truly a case of spontaneous combustion or something else - and the vast majority went ignored, written off as nothing more than an urban legend. However, when 67-year-old Mary Hardy Reeser was discovered completely reduced to a pile of burnt debris and ashes, law enforcement stepped in to investigate wha...
Arne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It
October 08, 2023 23:35 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThis is the story of the Glatzel family, whose youngest son, 11-year-old David, was allegedly possessed by multiple demons. With the assistance of infamous paranormal investigators and demonologists, Lorrain and Ed Warren, he would endure several exorcisms to relieve him of the spirits and demons fighting over his soul. During one of these exorcisms, it is alleged that the demons left David, freeing him from their grip - however, finding a new host, in 18-year-old Arne Johnson. According to...
Juandré Kidson: Spikings on the Highway From Hell
October 04, 2023 19:33 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBPicture this: you’re in the car with your family coming home from a nice night out. You’re driving down the highway, when suddenly you feel the vehicle drive over something and the tire goes flat. You have to pull over to the side of the highway to investigate the damage and change the tire. It’s dark out, so you want to get this done as quickly as possible, but the moment you step outside of the car, there is a gun shoved in your face. They want everything you have and they’re more than hap...
Christian Kazadi: The Bizarre Murder Of A Forbes Under 30 African Entrepreneur
September 26, 2023 20:50 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBIt was supposed to be a rags-to-riches story. Christian Kazadi was a 29-year-old budding entrepreneur and the founder of a start-up digital marketing agency called Click Media. He started this company with the last $30 in his bank account and was really beginning to make waves in South Africa, where digital marketing was in its infancy. In April of 2022, Christian was honoured with an invitation to attend the inaugural Forbes Under 30 Africa summit in Botswana. On the final day of the summi...
Andrea Venter: Failed by the System Even in Death
September 14, 2023 01:13 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBThis is the heartbreaking case of Andrea Venter, a young South African woman who suffered years of horrible domestic abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren. Like many young romances, the beginning of the relationship was perfect - everything she dreamed of. However, as time passed, he became emotionally and physically abusive to Andrea, while isolating her from all of her friends and family. Eventually, she found the strength to serve Gerhard with a restraining order ...