Cruel & Unusual: A True Crime Podcast Tori Ellis & Cady Verdiramo

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Hey, Cruel Coven! In 1977, twenty-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from Oregon to California to visit a friend. She didn’t know that when she accepted a ride from Cameron and Janice Hooker, she was about to be catapulted into a real-life nightmare. TW: sexual abuse, confined spaces.

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Hey Cruel Coven!

This episode is rather short and when you listen, we'll explain exactly why. Today, we're talking about the ongoing, unresolved missing case of Mary Johnson—a woman who disappeared from Washington State. Her family is asking if anyone has seen anyone who even slightly resembles Mary, or if they think they may have seen her, to please reach out to investigators. There is no possible lead that is too small. Please help us share the word about Mary and help her family get the answers they deserve. 

From the FBI Website:
If you have any information concerning the location of this individual, please call the FBI's Seattle Field Office at (206) 622-0460. You may also contact your local FBI office, the nearest American Embassy or Consulate, or you can submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Sources:
Native Women's Wilderness
Tulalip Tribes
Heraldnet
King5
FBI
Mary's sisters, Nona and Gerry

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Hey Cruel Coven!

Well, hello. We're back from our hiatus and we've changed a lot of the way we'll be going about recording future cases. Today we're talking about the Jelani Day case. The two of us are from about an hour away from where Jelani was last seen and we were shocked that it wasn't all over our news and being talked about, so we decided to do the best we could to bring this case more traction. Please listen and share so we can help find this family some answers. They also have a GoFundMe that is linked below. 

We're also talking briefly about a woman named Lauren Smith-Fields. Her gofundme is also listed below. Please consider sharing Jelani and Lauren's info to help these families get the justice they deserve. 

Jelani's gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/find-jelani-day

Lauren Smith-Fields gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/xf665j-justice-for-lauren

If you know anything about what happened to Jelani, or had contact with Jelani in the days and weeks before his disappearance, please contact Bloomington Police Detective Paul Jones at (309)434-2548 or email him at pjones@cityblm.org.

JAB Professional Services has also been hired to assist the police.  Information regarding Jelani’s disappearance can be emailed/texted to Beliveaups@yahoo.com  618-223-0044

Anonymously report information to the Jelani Day Joint Task Force at 1-800-CALL-FBI

As of now, Jelani’s family still says they haven’t been contacted by the FBI and they’re still pushing for them to take over Jelani’s case.

Sources:
AAMU
News-Gazette
Chicago Sun-Times
Rush
Ben Crump Law IG
Bryan Dieu Facebook
Fox 32 Chicago
Pantagraph
WGLT
Central Illinois Proud
The-Sun

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Hey, Cruel Coven! In part two of Love Has Won, we're talking more about the death of Amy Carlson, a member who got out of the cult, the disappearance of Kristal Reisinger, and police corruption. If you have information about the disappearance of Kristal Reisinger, contact the Saguache County Sheriff's Department at 719-655-2525.

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Hey Cruel Coven! Part one of our Love Has Won two-parter is live. On April 28th, 2021, the mummified body of Amy Carlson, or "Mother God", was found enshrined, wrapped in Christmas lights, with glitter makeup around her empty eye sockets. Today, we're talking about the origin of Love Has Won, their beliefs, and their rules.

Sources:

BBC

Denver Post

Washington Post

Refinery29

KESQ

Yahoo News

YouTube

Cult Education

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