Murders & Minivans

Tali & Stephanie

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Murders and Minivans explores the world of true crime through the lens of everyday motherhood. Each episode takes listeners deep into cases ranging from notorious murders to overlooked crimes, offering thorough research, thoughtful discussion, and fresh perspectives. Alongside these stories, the hosts reflect on the realities of parenting, family life, and the unique challenges of raising kids in today’s world.

14h ago

The Husband Did It (A Love Story)

Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing from her modesto home on christmas eve 2002. four months later, her body and the body of her unborn son conner washed up in the san francisco bay, just miles from where her husband scott said he had been fishing alone that day. this episode walks through the full case. we cover the timeline of Laci's disappearance, scott's shifting story, his affair with amber frey, the wiretapped phone calls, and the evidence that led to his conviction. we also get into the 2020 ruling that overturned his death sentence and where the case stands now. in this episode: who Laci peterson was and the life she and scott were buildingthe events of december 24, 2002 and scott's fishing alibiamber frey and the affair scott was hidingthe search, the tips, and the media frenzy that followedthe discovery in the bay and what the evidence showedthe 2004 trial, the conviction, and the death sentencethe 2020 sentence reversal and the ongoing appeals
3d ago

What Happened to Nolan Wells?

Nolan Xavier Wells was an 18 year old wide receiver from ocean springs, mississippi, preparing for his freshman season at southwest mississippi community college. on july 4, 2026, he traveled to horn island with a large group of friends on multiple boats. the boat he rode out on took on water from a failed bilge pump and turned back early. nolan was not on it. his body was found in the water on july 6. in this episode we walk through the full case in order: who nolan was, the geography and currents of horn island, the boat that took on water and the released sea tow distress call, the conflicting accounts of his final hours, and a 22 page timeline review that found a material gap in his last confirmed hours. we cover the multi agency search and the two competing explanations, what both autopsies found, the independent one that ruled cause and manner undetermined without excluding foul play, and the official state autopsy that is complete but sealed while prosecutors prepare a grand jury presentation. we also cover the unresolved details around his phone and keys, his clothing, and the tides, the family's legal team led by ben crump, support from tyler perry, colin kaepernick, and al sharpton, and the new two sided legal fight as three of the friends, publicly named, hire attorneys and assert their innocence while three strangers face charges for threatening people connected to the case. this is an open case. as of recording, no one has been charged in nolan's death, the cause and manner of death remain undetermined, and the friends have publicly stated they are innocent. we report only publicly available information.
Aug 3

Amy Mihaljevic: The Phone Call Before the Crime

in october 1989, ten-year-old amy mihaljevic left her school in bay village, ohio to meet a man she had spoken to on the phone. he told her that her mom had gotten a promotion. he said he wanted her help picking out a gift. she was never seen alive again. her body was found four months later in a field in ashland county, more than fifty miles from home. what most people don't know is that amy wasn't the only girl who got a call. other girls in the area received the same kind of pitch around the same time. some said no. some hung up. one didn't. more than three decades later, the case is still open. the fbi still has the tip line. investigators still believe someone knows the voice on the other end of that phone. this episode covers the call, the abduction, the search, the discovery in the field, and the details that have kept this case alive for a generation. we talk about what made amy trust him, why the phone angle still matters, and the evidence that still hasn't been matched to a name.
Jul 27

Casey Anthony | What the Jury Never Saw

everyone remembers the verdict. almost nobody knows about the google search the jury never saw. on the last day Caylee Anthony was seen alive, someone in the anthony home searched "fool-proof suffocation" — and the state never found it, because investigators checked the wrong browser. this week: the full casey anthony case from the primary record. the 31 days, zanny the nanny, the deputy who wouldn't walk thirty yards, the chloroform number that collapsed mid-trial, and the two web sleuths who found what the state missed using free software. this isn't the story of a jury getting it wrong. it's the story of everything that never reached them. for source info contact us at murdersminivans@gmail.com. we're on YouTube! @MurdersMinivans follow us on Instagram!! @MurdersandMinivans
Jul 20

Framed by a U.S. Marshal | The True Story Behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story

She spent 88 days in jail for a crime that never happened. The person who framed her was her own ex-fiancé: a deputy U.S. Marshal. This is the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story (2026). In 2016, Michelle Hadley was a 29-year-old grad student with a marketing job at Disney when Anaheim police arrested her for stalking, criminal threats, and six counts of attempted rape. Her bail was set at $1 million. She was facing life in prison. The problem? She had never done any of it. Michelle's ex-fiancé, deputy U.S. Marshal Ian Diaz, and his new wife of four months, Angela, had spent months building a fake online version of Michelle. They used her real writing style, pulled from private emails only Ian had access to. They created the "Lilithistruth" alias. They posted Craigslist ads directing strangers to Angela's home. They staged a garage attack. And they weaponized a federal badge to make local police believe every word. The Orange County District Attorney would later call it "diabolical." In this episode: The whirlwind romance and the Rockefeller Center proposalThe Anaheim condo dispute that started everythingThe real breakup emails that became the blueprint for the frameAngela's history of forged sonograms, fake cancer, and impersonating Ian's other exesThe Craigslist "rape fantasy" ads and the plan to stage a real assaultThe 17-year-old who nearly became a victim88 days in jail: the death threat, the letters home, the swagger coachingHow Michelle's parents cracked the digital evidence at their kitchen tableMichelle's exoneration and Angela's plea dealThe $1.795 million civil settlement that finally exposed IanThe federal conviction that came the same day Michelle gave birth to her daughterWatch: A Toxic Love Story, directed by Alexandra Lacey, premieres on Netflix July 22, 2026.
Jul 13

The Billionaire Murders: Barry & Honey Sherman

on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days. barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in the country. together they gave away record amounts of money and made a very long list of enemies. in this episode we go deep. the empire and the orphaned cousins who sued him. the money, the trusts, and the foundations he used like a piggy bank. the billion dollars in debt he refused to pay. the botched murder-suicide theory and the second autopsy that blew it apart. the walking man. the mystery visitor. and the six theories that are still on the table. police are now down to one detective and an ai program, and the family says it lives in fear. we keep it direct and we keep it fair. no wild guessing, no naming names the reporting does not name. what we get into how a ten-year-old counting zippers became a billionaire with a phd from mitthe four orphaned cousins, the voided option, and the lawsuit that ended days before the murderskerry, the cousin who fantasized about killing barry on camera and failed a polygraphapotex, 1,200 lawsuits, and a man who called his own company a legal firm that sold drugs on the sidethe frugal billionaire: four cars in a lifetime, a chrysler sebring, and frosted flakesthe foundations that loaned 240 million dollars back to his own businessthe cash crunch, the billion in debt, and the wills that may have been getting rewritten in the final hoursthe scene, the belts, and the bodies possibly posed to match the basement sculpturesthe second autopsy, the missing ligatures, and why murder-suicide was impossiblethe walking man video and the 29-minute mystery visitorall six theories, laid out with the case for and the case against eachthe house, the demolition, the property saga, and the 35 million dollar rewardwhere it stands now: one detective, an ai program, and a daughter living in fearWe're on YouTube! @MurdersMinivans Follow us on Instagram: murdersandminivans
Jul 6

Kouri Richins: The Children's Book, The Fentanyl, The Widow

This week we're covering Kouri Richins, the Utah mother, real estate investor, and children's book author who was convicted in March 2026 of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. We get into the debt, the fraud, the affair, the life insurance policies, the failed Valentine's Day attempt, the Moscow Mule, and the book that made this one of the most talked-about cases in recent true crime. IN THIS EPISODE Who Kouri and Eric Richins were, and how different their upbringings were The real estate empire built on a forged power of attorney, a stolen $250,000 home equity line, and falsified records More than two million dollars in debt, and the life insurance policies Eric never knew existed Kouri's secret relationship with Josh Grossman and the text messages that surfaced at trial The warning signs, including Eric telling people he thought his wife was trying to poison him The estate plan Eric secretly changed to cut Kouri out and protect his three sons The Valentine's Day poisoning that became a separate attempted murder conviction The night Eric died, the Moscow Mule, and the fentanyl found in his system The internet searches and the children's book "Are You With Me?" The trial, the "black widow" moment, and the defense that called no witnesses The guilty verdict and a sentence of life without parole, handed down on what would have been Eric's 44th birthday For comments, questions or source info please email murdersminivans@gmail.com
Jun 29

OJ Simpson: How a Guilty Man Walked Free

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside her condo on Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Nicole was nearly decapitated. Ron had defensive wounds on his hands. He was 25 and had just stopped by to return a pair of glasses. OJ Simpson was arrested five days later, but only after a slow-speed chase down the 405 in a white Ford Bronco that 95 million people watched live. He had a passport, a disguise, and $8,000 in cash in the car. The trial lasted nearly nine months. The prosecution had blood, DNA, a history of domestic violence, and a 911 call where Nicole said he was going to kill her. The defense had a glove that didn't fit, a detective who'd used racial slurs, and a jury that deliberated for four hours. Not guilty. Two years later a civil jury disagreed. They found him liable for both deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. He never paid most of it. In 2008 he was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas and sentenced to up to 33 years. He served nine. He died of cancer in April 2024, still insisting he was innocent. This is the case that taught America to watch a trial like a TV show. We get into all of it. In This Episode: The timeline of June 12 and what the evidence actually showedNicole's documented history with OJ and the calls that went unansweredThe Bronco chase and why he didn't runThe Dream Team, Mark Fuhrman, and how the defense flipped the scriptThe glove, the DNA, and what the jury didn't buyThe verdict, the reaction, and the racial divide it exposedThe civil case and the $33.5 million he never paidLas Vegas, prison, parole, and how it ended

Murders and Minivans explores the world of true crime through the lens of everyday motherhood. Each episode takes listeners deep into cases ranging from notorious murders to overlooked crimes, offering thorough research, thoughtful discussion, and fresh perspectives. Alongside these stories, the hosts reflect on the realities of parenting, family life, and the unique challenges of raising kids in today’s world.

Creator

Tali & Stephanie
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

47
Rating

Explicit
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Murders & Minivans