Overkillers with Brooke Makenna

Brooke Makenna
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We’re OVER the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we’re focused on victims and survivors over killers.  Brooke Makenna YouTube Instagram

  1. 4d ago

    Siblings Trapped in Bedroom for 54 Days After Custody Given to Evil Father - What Hulu Didn’t Tell You

    Grow therapy is here to help, visit https://growtherapy.com/overkillers today to get started! Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan. What Hulu didn't tell you in their new Docuseries 'The Nightmare Upstairs: What happened to Ty and Bryn Larson?' Their father Brent BJ Larson had been fighting for custody of the 15 and 12 year olds after the divorce from their mother Jessica Zhart. However, the kids have allegations against their father and claimed they feared him. DCFS found these claims supported. Knowing this, the Utah Courts still ordered the children to have visitations with their father who claimed it was parental alienation from their mother and then the judge pushed for reunification camp. Afraid for their lives, Ty and Bryn Larson began posting and live-streaming on TikTok in order to fight back. Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content Brooke Unscripted on YouTube for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    48 min

  2. May 24

    FBI Most Wanted Mom Claimed She SOLD Son, Now He's Been Found Dead

    Thanks to our sponsors: If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/OVERKILLERS Breaking with Brooke is a series on Overkillers Podcast where we keep you up to date on everything true crime. Updates have occurred in May 2026 in a case of missing 6 year old Noel Rodrigez-Alvarez. Back on March 20th 2023 in Everman, Texas, Everyman police were contacted by the CPS investigative team about Noel. They told police that family members had begun to contact them stating that they hadn’t seen the 6 year old since November 2022. By March 25th, a warrant was issued for his mother Cindy Rodrigez Singh’s arrest. An Amber alert was issued for her son. The entire family, including Noel, his 7 siblings and his mother and stepfather Arshdeep Singh were now missing. By 9pm, 5 days after the welfare check, police would learn that the family had boarded a flight to Turkey, then they believed they headed to India based on internet searches. However, the entire family wasn’t on the flight, Noel wasn’t with them. He was then given an endangered missing persons alert. For the next 3 years, the case went cold. Cindy was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, found in India and arrested. Then, in May 2026, during a search of the family home, human remains were found under the patio in the backyard of the family home. These remains were identified as Noel. More updates covered on this episode of Breaking with Brooke. Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content Brooke Unscripted on YouTube for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    31 min

  3. May 17

    Wife Learns “Wrongfully Accused” Husband Is RELEASED Serial Monster

    Thanks to our sponsors: Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://www.forhers.com/makenna to get personalized, affordable care that gets you. Whatever challenges you’re facing, Grow Therapy is here to help.Visit https://www.GrowTherapy.com/OVERKILLERS today to get started. In 1974, Mark Burns called his girlfriend Dianne to tell her that he was in prison. He had been arrested on assault and r*pe charges. He told Dianne that he didn’t do it and was being framed. Mike Douglas Burns was then convicted of 1st degree and sentenced to death in a gas chamber. However, he would then be released after serving 16 years. He would move in with his wife Diane and his strange behavior began. While out all night long, he began to abuse his wife. She escaped and divorced him in 1990. After the escape and divorce, a series of attacks would occur in the Wyoming/Utah area, starting in 1991. For the next 20 years, this perpetrator was unknown. After a joint task force to uncover The Clearfield R*pist, DNA would lead them to a family member. Then on September 25th 2019, Mark Burns was arrested at his home. He was 69 years old. He was then connected to 11 attacks and later claimed there were 3 more prior. However, he then confessed to 3 murders. He was also a serial killer who had never been caught. Diane would learn that her ex-husband was a serial killer from a YouTube video that popped up on her recommendations. Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min

  4. May 10

    Husband Stalked, Attacked Then Pretended to RESCUE His Wife

    It was 2am on the 1st of January 2021 when Cherokee Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call in Canton, Georgia. They had received a call from a man stating that someone had broken into the home of his ex-wife and he found her face down on her deck with a pillowcase over her head. She was bound with zip ties and the back door was wide open. When they arrived, Rodney Metzer was on the front porch, holding onto a bruised woman. Morgan Metzer was found to have been brutally attacked. A search of Rodney's phone showed an obsession with his ex. He was arrested at her residence after Morgan claimed that she had suspicions that he was her attacker. In his apartment, they found a book called "7 ways to be her hero." Investigators theorized that Rodney had created this scheme to attack his ex, make her a victim and then become her savior to win her back. No one had believed Morgan when she stated that their decade long marriage was full of abuse and gaslighting. They had finalized their divorce, the month prior. The DA stated, “This defendant planned a violent attack on his ex-wife that included breaking into her home, disguising himself, and pistol-whipping her. He left her outside on a cold winter night, face down, tied up with a pillowcase over her head. I cannot imagine how terrifying this must have been for her. This is a classic example of how the most dangerous time for a domestic violence victim is when she decides to leave an abusive relationship.” Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    33 min

  5. May 3

    Daughter Exposed “Serial Killer Father" She Was Forced to Help As Child?

    Thanks to our sponsors: If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/OVERKILLERS What if the monster everyone feared was your father? What if like Lucy Studey, no one believed you? Lucy began telling anyone she could that her father Donald Dean Studey was a serial killer. He would force his young children to help him dispose of the bodies in the well. She believed that he had killed anywhere from 50 to 70 women over 3 decades. Most of the women had dark or darkish hair, all were white and in their 20s to 30s. Donald would invite them into their home to watch over the kids. When her father died in 2013, Lucy would go to the media to tell her story, while her sister Susan claimed that Lucy was a liar. However, Lucy's stepsisters believed that Donald had killed their mother Charlotte Studey as well as his previous wife Lucy. Donald's sister Marilyn Kepler, who was arrested for attempted murder would write a book about her life, accusing Donald of killing many, including two that she watched. While the FBI got involved and excavations ensued at the property they grew up on, no bodies have been found. This is the true story and 2026 updates of the Paramount + docuseries, My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders. Is Lucy telling the truth? Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    38 min

  6. Apr 26

    Husband's Double Life Led to Kidnapped Couple in Hidden Basement

    Thanks to our sponsors: Grow therapy is here to help, visit https://growtherapy.com/overkillers today to get started! Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan. Back in 2017 in Erie, Illinois, Connie and Larry Van Oosten were a married retired couple who would be kidnapped from their home.  About a day later, 30 miles away from Erie in Albany, a woman would walk into the First Trust and Savings bank. She was still dressed in her pajamas and gave the bank teller a cashier’s check for $350,000. This was made out to a company called The Store Edge.  At the same time, the woman slipped a handwritten letter to the teller. This stated, “I am here under duress. Please call the police. My husband and I are being held at gunpoint. Do not react. Do not follow us.” Investigators had discovered that the company The Store Edge that was written on the check left at the bank, was owned by a man named Chad Schipper. With this discovery, he became the prime suspect. As police zeroed in on the home residence, his wife and six children were woken up in the middle of the night with police demanding to know where Chad was. After a high speed chase ended in the arrest of their prime suspect, investigators searched his rental home. They would also locate a room with a screen that appeared to be showing security footage. An elderly couple were seen in a concrete room shackled to a wall forced to stand up and blindfolded. There were no stairs to be seen, only a ladder against the wall. As they began removing the floors, they would uncover a steel-lined door in a closet that led to a soundproofed underground cellar. The couple were weak from lack of food and sleep. They were both bruised and showing signs of hypothermia. After realizing they were being rescued, they embraced deputies in tears.  Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    34 min

  7. Apr 19

    One Instagram Post Then Her BF Was Kidnapped & Murdered

    If you’re struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/pod/OVERKILLERS A terrifying kidnapping of a tourist, found by members of the criminal underworld, possibly using an instagram location tag led to body parts washing up on the beach. Bali was once said to be a safe place to travel, however, the increase in murders within the last few years leads many to believe otherwise. Interpol has issued many red notices for wanted suspects in criminal cases from the island who have yet to be caught. Would you travel to Indonesia in 2026?  Indonesia police are working with Interpol to find 6 suspects in the kidnapping and murder of a man in Bali. 2 months ago, 28 year old tourist Igor Komarov and his 25 year old girlfriend Yea Mishalova were traveling around in Bali when on February 15th, Igor was kidnapped. It was theorized that her Instagram post, tagged the location of their travels might have led to his capture. Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content! Sources for this episode in the YouTube description box! We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    31 min

  8. Apr 12

    Love is Blind Contestant Charged with Attempted Murder of Wife

    Thanks to our sponsors: Grow therapy is here to help, visit Growtherapy.com/overkillers today to get started! Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan. Love is Blind: Argentina Season 1 couple Emily Ceco and Santiago Martínez would meet in the reality tv dating show pods, get engaged sight unseen and go on to say I do at the altar. Their reality tv marriage would soon turn to attempted murder. By February 2025, before Emily and Santiago could have another wedding, Emily would report him for gender-based violence. He was arrested and in March 2026, Santiago rejected a plea deal that could have reduced his term. He was given a 15 year sentence for attempted murder, repeated assault and unlawful detention.  We also dive into the love is blind lawsuits and the dark side of reality tv.  Follow your host, Brooke Makenna, on YouTube, IG & Tiktok @brookemakenna for crime content @brookeunscripted for personal content!  We're over the killers on this true crime podcast. In fact, we're focused on victims and survivors over killers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    39 min
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