
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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.
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Dec 19, 2022 • 55min
Episode 145 - The Nashville Bombing
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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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

Dec 5, 2022 • 41min
Episode 144 - Murder At The St. Regis - The Death of Sheila Mack
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

Nov 21, 2022 • 42min
Episode 143 - The Disappearance of Jacob Millison
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

Nov 7, 2022 • 37min
Episode 142 - 7 Minutes
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

Oct 23, 2022 • 47min
Episode 141 - Ironclad Alibi
On the night of December 3rd, 1997 Frank Dosso was supposed to be home from work by 5:30 pm, just in time to celebrate his twin daughters’ 10th birthday. But when he never showed up, his family drove out to his office looking for him.
When they arrived they discovered, what would later be described as the worst mass murder in the history of Polk County Florida.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Special Guest:
Christina Crane
Featured Podcast:
Murderific http://murderific.com
Sources:
Amended Initial Brief
Initial Brief
Appeal decision March 2011
Initial Brief 2013
Postconviction denial appeal
Los Crimenes de Bartow
Initial Motion for Post-Conviction Relief
The Ledger
Murderpedia
How Much Is A Life Worth?
To catch a killer CBS
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights
NelsonSerrano.org

Oct 9, 2022 • 41min
Episode 140 - Abduction At Big Sky
In the early 1980s, many of the staff at Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky Montana were like a close-knit family, both working and living together on the property. Not only did the Lone Mountain actually function as a working cattle ranch, it also offered luxury guest accommodations for tourists looking to get a taste of the Old West.
On a hot July day in 1984, one of the staff members had decided to go out for a run along a well-used trail through the scenic beauty of the surrounding area and never returned.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Sources:
Victims: The Kari Swenson Story
Incident at Big Sky
LA Times
Wikipedia
Don Nichols Released (Guardian)
Dan Nichols Drug Charges
Kari Swenson Op-Ed Bozeman Chronicle 2012
Carnegie Hero (Alan)
Sports Illustrated (Terror in the Wilderness)
Homestead Act
Lone Mountain Ranch
30 for 30 Out of the Woods

Sep 25, 2022 • 43min
Episode 139 - Urge To Kill
Join us, as we take a look at the case of the Frankston Serial Killer. You’ll hear how three young women became victims of a remorseless murderer who chose his victims at random, striking whenever he felt the urge to kill.
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Special Thanks:
Dr. Sohom Das
https://www.youtube.com/c/apsychforsoreminds
Phil
https://classicedge.ca
Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Sources:
The Frankston Murders 25 Years On (2018) - Vikki Petraitis
No Mercy, No Remorse (Documentary)
Forensic Investigators Season 1 Episode 1
University of New England (Australia)
The Age (August 28, 1994)
The Age (June 15, 1993)
The Age (August 2, 1993)
Paul Denyer (wiki)
Murderpedia
9 News Australia
Sadistic Personality Disorder (wiki)
Vice

Sep 11, 2022 • 47min
Episode 138 - Partners In Crime
What if I told you that the boogeyman was real? That there really was a dark figure running around out there waiting to strike, where exactly, nobody knows. Maybe hiding out in the woods, the toolshed, or somewhere even closer....like your closet. And because the possibilities are endless, that’s precisely why it's so terrifying.
Now, what if I told you that there were two of them?
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Sources:
Broken Boys, Thieves, Killers, and now Escapees (New York Times)
Escape from Dannemora (2017) - Michael Benson]
Dannemora (2019) - Charles A. Gardner
ESCAPE ROUTE VIDEO (GoPro - ABC News)
We Stand Corrected: Dannemora - Documentary
The Tarsia Fils
Kevin J. Tarsia Memorial
Buffalo News
New Republic
Democrat & Chronicle
June 8 Press Conference
June 6 Press Conference
Joyce Mitchell Sentencing
Cuomo Press Conference

Aug 27, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 137 - The Brass Ring
In 1989, Collier Landry was 11 years old, living with his parents in Mansfield, Ohio.
His father was a highly respected physician, his mother Noreen Boyle was a full-time caregiver, raising and doting on her son and his adopted sister Elizabeth.
From the outside looking in, the Boyles seemed like the perfect family. But everything wasn’t as it seemed.
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Collier Landry
https://www.collierlandry.com
Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Sources:
A Murder in Mansfield (Documentary by Collier Landry)
Jack’s Habeus Corpus writ
Jack appeal 2020
Timeline
Forensic files
My True Crime Story
News-Journal (June 29)
News Journal (June 30)
News Journal (June 26)
News Journal (June 09)
News Journal (June 03)
News Journal (Feb 04)
News Journal (June 15)
Akron Beacon Journal (1995)
2000 appeal
1994 appeal
Forensic Files Now
Forensic Files Now - Moving Past Murder
News Journal (25 Years Later)
News Journal (1983)

Aug 14, 2022 • 50min
Episode 136 - Plenty Of Catfish
A Scottish mother and daughter uncovered a horrifying conspiracy within the pharmaceutical industry A drug company literally being paid to kill the participants in a clinical stem cell trial and the government was in on the cover-up. But because of an ironclad confidentiality clause, participants and their families couldn’t tell ANYONE ANYTHING without facing a 20-year prison sentence.
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Special Thanks:
Dr. Meghan Sacks
Dr. Amy Shlosberg
https://womenandcrimepodcast.com
Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Sources:
Scottish Daily Mail #1
Scottish Daily Mail #2
Herald Scotland #1
Herald Scotland #2
Herald Scotland #3
Herald Scotland #4
Herald Scotland #5
Herald Scotland #6
Herald Scotland #7
Daily Record UK #1
Daily Record UK #2
Daily Record UK #3
Express UK
The Times
RawNewsNow Court Sentencing Remarks Video
Glasgow Times #1
Glasgow Times #2
Daily Mail
BBC
The Sunday Post
The Scottish Sun
Irish Mirror
Paisley Daily Express #1
Paisley Daily Express #2