Sinister Crimes and Cocktails: A True Crime Podcast Kori and Courtney

Send us a Text Message.Former pig farmer Robert Pickton, also known as the “Pig Farm Killer” or “The Butcher “, is one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers. His case was the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history and unveiled a wider issue of missing and murdered female sex workers and Indigenous women. In 2001, Robert was charged with six counts murder occurring at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam (co-quilt-lem), Canada, but by 2005, he had been charged with the murder of ...

Send us a Text Message.In Episode 7: My Mother Joined Cult and Nobody Knew we followed the case of Idaho Doomsday author and cult leader Chad Daybell and his new wife Lori Vallow Daybell, a mother of three. The newlyweds would soon find themselves as the prime suspects in four murders and one attempted murder. Chad Daybell has finally been found guilty and sentenced for his role in the deaths of siblings Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, the children of his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, and the d...

Send us a Text Message.In March of 2011, Jayna Murray a part-time manager at a Bethesda, Maryland Lululemon store, which is high end sports brand clothing store known for their hundred-dollar yoga leggings, was killed in the most brutal of ways over a pair of them. Prosecutors theorized that Brittany Norwood, a colleague of Jayna’s, had killed her in attempt to keep Jayna from reporting that Brittany had stolen a pair of the luxury brand leggings during a shift at work. However, Brittany clai...

Send us a Text Message.For three years from 2020 to 2023, in long-term health facilities across western Pennsylvania, 41-year-old registered nurse Heather Pressdee administered excessive amounts of insulin to 22 of her patients trying to kill them. Of the 22 patients that Heather tried to murder she was successful in killing 17. She would later claim she was performing mercy killings to end her patients’ suffering. To avoid the death penalty, Heather plead guilty to three counts of first-degr...

Send us a Text Message.Before the notorious serial killer Jeffery Dahmer ever appeared on the scene, there was Levi Boone Helm, the Kentucky Cannibal. Helm a mid-19th century American frontiersman from Kentucky, was a gunfighter who got his nickname for his “opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh”, usually in survival situations, though there are documented instances of him killing people unprovoked for their meat. By all accounts, Helm had been raised by a loving ...

Send us a Text Message.In June of 2014, 37-year-old Gregory Scott Hale, was arrested in Coffee County, Tennessee, and charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He confessed to authorities of killing 36-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder before he dismembered her and then ate parts of her body less than a day after meeting her. So, what makes one commit murder and then eat their victim. References:CANNIBALIZED MURDER VICTIM FROM PIKEVILLE TENNESSEE | Crossville News First (crossvillenews1...