
72 episodes

REDRUM true crime redrumpodcast
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- True Crime
REDRUM is a podcast focusing on the true victims of crime. Each episode focuses on a new story. Real life, real victims, real crime. This is REDRUM.
Written and presented by Grace Cordell.
Audio, including composition and edit by Russ Clark.
Title music by Benjamin James.
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Episode Sixty Eight, Sara Ambrusko
On the 19th of November 1992, 2 little boys aged 6 and 4, knocked on the door of a lone house near to Cobb County, Georgia. The homeowner opened up and found the two brothers staring up at him, covered in blood. The eldest went on to say "A bad man shot my mum with a pirate gun."
Sources:
https://www.policemag.com/patrol/article/15349032/the-murder-of-sara-tokars
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/sara-tokars-murder/
https://loriajohnston.medium.com/the-assassination-of-sara-tokars-9a3e09ec98bb
https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Sara-Ambrusko-Fred-Tokars
https://loriajohnston.medium.com/the-assassination-of-sara-tokars-9a3e09ec98bb
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Episode Sixty Seven, Jackie Johns
Heather turned to run back towards the way she’d just come from, but as she did so, the man leapt from the passenger side of the car and towards her. He asked if she was alright, before grabbing her by the arm. Heather let out a horrific scream, begging him to let her go, but the man just pushed her further away from the road and toward the woods next to it…
https://www.oxygen.com/in-ice-cold-blood/crime-news/gerald-carnahan-murders-missouri-beauty-queen-jackie-johns
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=CT0pX49PNZoC&rdid=book-CT0pX49PNZoC&rdot=1&source=gbs_atb&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_atb&pli=1
https://www.ky3.com/2022/04/01/jackie-johns-featured-new-program-april-1st/
https://www.ky3.com/2020/10/17/conviction-upheld-judge-refuses-retrial-in-murder-of-jackie-johns/
https://www.abebooks.com/9780425250341/Murder-Lonely-Road-Beauty-Queen-0425250342/plp
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26916601/gerald_carnahan_jackie_johns_details/
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/crimetraveler/crime-traveler-justice-for-jackie/
http://streeterfamilyblogg.blogspot.com/p/person-of-interest.html
https://www.ky3.com/2021/03/12/jackie-johns-murder-case-to-be-featured-on-oxygen-channel/
https://erniewebbiii.wordpress.com/tag/gerald-carnahan/
https://casetext.com/case/carnahan-v-state-11
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Episode Sixty Six, Rachel Moran
Chillingly, in the early hours of new years day, when Rachel was leaving her mum and dad’s house, Wanda had gone after her, asking her not to go alone. While out with her, she had noticed that man not too far in the distance, who would have been able to hear their conversation. The police later confirmed that the man Wanda had seen at the end of the street, was in fact the suspect.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/oct/31/ukcrime.martinwainwright
https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/paul-davison
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781687312549/RACHEL-beautiful-young-woman-abducted-1687312540/plp
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781843583608/Murder-Rachel-Stranger-Murdered-Daughter-1843583607/plp
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff72460d03e7f57ea86b4 -
Episode Sixty Five, Schapelle
Schapelle hadn’t put padlocks on her suitcase, and so she, her 2 friends and her brother checked in their bags. Schapelle had all of her bags and her 2 friends bags checked in under her name because she had booked the flights, and then, the 4 of them made their way through security and onto the plane.
As she madde her way through the airport, Schapelle noticed signs that littered the corridors of the walkways. Each one slightly different, but all basically saying the same thing ‘Death penalty to drug smugglers.'
https://www.smh.com.au/national/schapelle-corby-released-from-kerobokan-prison-on-parole-arrives-at-luxury-spa-20140210-32avh.html
https://7news.com.au/news/bali/schapelle-corby-15-years-on-from-her-drug-sentence-tells-of-her-new-life-c-1060403
https://coconuts.co/bali/news/schapelle-corby-celebrates-9th-anniversary-of-release-from-kerobokan-with-handmade-clock-giveaway/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Tomorrows-Compelling-Sentenced/dp/1845963865
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Episode Sixty Four, Nancy, David, Susan, Donna and Sharon
The ranger thought that Bob seemed abnormally calm in reporting the death. The fact he’d waited in line, and then in explaining what had happened, he’d shown almost no emotion.
Bob told the ranger that he and his wife had stopped to take a photo and as he was setting up the tripod, he heard a little sound, turned back around, and saw that Donna was gone.
Donna had stumbled backwards and fallen to her death. He said he then rushed down another route to try and help, but as soon as he got there, he knew she was dead.
Sources:
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132630&page=1
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-22-mn-40204-story.html
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780786015139/Married-Murder-Scott-Robert-0786015136/plp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spangler
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/spangler-robert.htm
https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/weird/robert_spangler/4.html
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Episode Sixty Three, Denise and Aaron
A 2am wake up call to a group of men standing over the bed. One saying ‘This is a robbery’. And then a kidnapping that lasted almost 48 hours, with ransom demands and a number of types of assault.
Thankfully, the kidnapping victim Denise Huskins was found safe, dropped off by the kidnapper, outside her family home hundreds of miles away.
The Vallejo police department’s press release on March the 25th 2015 was that "Today there is no evidence to support the claims that this was a stranger abduction, or an abduction at all. Given the facts that have been presented thus far, this appears to be an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping."
Sources:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/01/kidnapper-of-vallejo-couple-admitted-to-jail-based-competency-treatment/
https://heavy.com/news/denise-huskins-kidnap/
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/newspaper-receives-proof-life-message-kidnapped-denise-huskins-78095426
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/denise-huskins-kidnapped-woman-goes-5403920
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/denise-huskins-abductor-sends-message-prove-story-true-78095422
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/01/kidnapper-of-vallejo-couple-admitted-to-jail-based-competency-treatment/
VICTIM F- a brilliant book linked below, with victim testimony
https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/denise-huskins/victim-f/9780593099964?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=18129456947&cq_con=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6cKiBhD5ARIsAKXUdyYHsUGiOnsbMcg9HS6MK54WYmE04EdNe7At9NuRoBsVG7bKeZuHeSgaAkcHEALw_wcB#GOR012750645