True Crime & Cocktails

Love listening-love the friendship between y’all. Just, Bless

You saved my life. I found this podcast today and decided to listen to the Susan Powell case because I was living about 10 minutes from her house when she was killed. I was devastated by this story and have listened to, read and watched EVERYTHING I can find about it. I was listening to it on my way to therapy (45 min. drive) and while I waited for my appointment. I spent the session reliving one of the times I was raped by my father as a 12 year old and I didn’t handle it well. Upon leaving the session, I was a mess. I felt shaky, nauseous, and terrified. I sat in my car thinking about how much I was hurting, how my life has been so painful, empty, and hopeless, and wondering if I would be better off ****. I’ve suffered with severe mental health issues all my life due to the many years of sexual abuse as a child and sexual assaults as a teen and adult. I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore. Then, I started hearing Lauren talk about Josh Powell and her rage cracked the walls of the helpless terror that had surrounded me. I felt like I wasn’t alone in the world in that moment. God, you women are so amazing and you never know what kind of an impact your words can have. Letting that anger flow gave me peace enough to keep going. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Not sure why it took me so long to find this great podcast but so glad I did - so many laughs along with gasps of horror. These two have fun chemistry and give great in depth histories of crime - plus crazy hockey team mania, slushee straws and 90s obsessions. I love this podcast!

Love the podcast. It’s great. Truly is! But I recently just finished their last episode “till murder do us part” and Lauren Ash made a theory at the end that the mother with AB blood and the father with A blood could not have a child with B blood. But that isn’t true!!! I know it’s unrealistic for me to expect her to know about blood types since it’s been years since she had to learn it, but as someone who’s taken a class that has talked about genetics for 4 years in a row, let me give a science lesson. Blood types are slightly more complicated than normal Mendelian genetics. There are 3 alleles in blood type genetics. A, B, and i. AB blood has the A and B allele. Type O blood has 2 i alleles. But type A blood could have AA or Ai alleles. Type B blood could have BB or Bi alleles. Lauren assumed that the father had AA blood, in which case he would not be able to have a child with type B blood. But if he had Ai alleles then the mother could give a B allele and the father could give an i allele, leading to a child with Bi alleles aka type B blood. I know I shouldn’t be this bothered by it but I am. Still 5 stars though!!!