RedHanded

James Ranner the author of True Crime Addict: How i lost myself in the mysterious disappearance of Maura Murray very much believes that Maura is still alive his theory is that Maura planned her escape as she was pregnant due to her numerous searches regarding pregnancy but as we said this is probably more likely to have to do with her nursing course also she was on birth control it's not for proof but there's no evidence that she was pregnant.

Not to mention that Ranner has said and written a lot of shit about this case and Maura's family that i don't know we found to be in bad taste and not very helpful in leading to her being found and what we're talking about here includes baselessly accusing Fred Murray of being abusive and having known where Maura was the entire time she was missing.

My name is Black Walk Down.

And then in 2011, she published a novel called This is Our Story, a book about the lives of two young women who become victims of human trafficking.

Now, This is Our Story.

I honestly think, and I may get ripped apart for this. I think if you self-publish a book, no, you didn't.

This is Our Story is also another book that is written because I was about to be like, do you know what though? It's got 4.1 out of 5 and 96% of people on Goodreads liked it.

Actually, do you know what? This is Our Story by Wendy Adelson has got, OK, it's got a 4 out of 5 on Amazon UK and it's got 3.4 out of 5 on Goodreads.

If you want to read a book about human trafficking and you have time, go and read The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway. It's great and short and succinct.

I love the idea. Five out of five, it was short.

I've just finished listening to Billy Connolly's autobiography, which I highly recommend by the way. It's called Windswept and Interesting.

And there's a bit in it where he's talking about learning to scuba dive and then talks about like various interactions with sharks. He was like, yo, it's like Jaws. You know, that film where the shark can play the cello.

And that is where the mystery of the bloody Benders stops. It remained unsolved for well over a century. But then 140 years later Phyllis de la Garza the author of Death for Dinner the Benders of Old Kansas claims to have solved the mystery or at least some of it.

De la Garza searched census records articles and biographies and found that John Joseph Bender was born in Mosk Bay Welschag Baden Germany in 1843.

Catherine had moved to the US from Baden Germany too when she was just a child.

And John worked as a blacksmith until he died aged 45 in 1888 from dropsy of the heart which I also discovered during my research for the Victorians and all of the things that could kill you.

After John's death Kate turned the tavern into a restaurant and she successfully ran it for 30 years.

Back in 1988 Michael had co-authored a book with a guy called David Permont called Charlie Two Shoes. It's the story of an 11-year-old Chinese boy who's befriended by a company of US Marines.

And in early December 2001, David had called Michael to tell him that a Hollywood film producer with the most Bond villain sounding name we've ever heard Stratton Leopold was interested in turning Charlie Two Shoes into a film.

And this wasn't just like pipe dream top of the pipeline kind of chat. Stratton Leopold was like this is happening we're doing this we're turning this book into a movie.

And people always say like Michael Peterson is like a failed novelist. He wasn't. His first two books did really, really well.

Many on the internet who believe that Michael Peterson is some sort of serial killer of women using staircases as his weapon of choice believe that the whole black cat thing is a sick literary nod on Peterson's part to the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Black Cat, which is a story about a man who murders his wife on the stairs.

In The Teacher's Pet podcast, Headley Thomas makes the interesting point of why bother lying about this? Why bother lying that he dropped her off at the bus stop?

And he suggests was it because Chris had indeed gone out that morning at around 7am, perhaps to dispose of some evidence or something like that.

But it doesn't make a lot of sense as a story but it's so specific about dropping her at Mona Vale bus station and she was going to the shopping centre, the shopping centre's on the way to the baths, like why?

So Headley and Sue write to the ombudsman, that's not a person, to get her original complaint and see what action, if any, was taken.

And they send the original handwritten signed statement that Chris makes to them, and then they lose the rest of the file.

And this statement shows that Chris Dawson clearly lied to the police. It also shows that his lies cover up things that make him look incredibly guilty.

In the two pages of statement, Chris just lies over and over and over again. There is not one mention of Joanne, who he moved in the day after Lynn vanished.

But they did put forward a powerful circumstantial case that Chris had likely drugged his wife, killed her, buried her in the garden, hence the cardigan that they had found, and then dug the remains back up later and moved them to an unknown location.

And the defence went after Joanne, saying that she was just doing this out of revenge and that her testimony was completely tainted.

The only evidence that Mr Dawson received any calls from Lyn is from Mr Dawson. No one apart from Mr Dawson has ever received a phone call from Lyn Dawson since she was last spoken to on Friday, January 8th, 1982.

And again, the judge pointed out that within the context of an emotional and stressful marriage breakdown, why would Lyn call him of all people and only him?

So go and check it out.

I think one of the best episodes is the one with the forensic linguist examining the statement, but go and find Hedley Thomas.

So go and listen to Teacher's Pet.

Though he did disregard the whole hitman testimony part.

But I believe everything else you're saying.

Though I do have to say that in The Teacher's Pet Podcast, Headley makes a very compelling case for this hitman theory being true.

And so yes, we have kept Mabel in here for about four hours. Double record of Lynette Dawson.

So even if you have listened to Tisha's pet, go and listen to it again.

And that sound is Mabel eating my head.

So it blares out this harp music and also Charles' voice reciting the lines to William Blake's The Tiger.

Excellent book, if you're stuck on something to read this October, go read William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.

It is a great book.

And according to some of our sources, Father Ernst Ault was a bit obsessed with The Exorcist which fair enough he's a priest and it's a good film.

And that's why she was sat there, pen and paper in hand, at a trial of a man who'd stood up in the middle of a funeral and shot a reverend, three times to be exact, in the head in front of 300 witnesses.

But when she learned about a string of killings linked to the preacher himself, she decided that she had finally found the subject of her long-awaited second book, The Reverend, the tale of an alleged black voodoo preacher in Alabama, around whom five people, including two of his wives, had died under very suspicious circumstances.

Lee spent years researching and writing what she was certain was going to be her next masterpiece. But when she died in 2016, really not that long ago, the manuscript for The Reverend was nowhere to be found.

Some people claimed that Harper Lee had finished writing the entire book, others said that she'd thrown 300 pages of it into an incinerator. What was found, however, were the countless interviews and notes Lee had made whilst researching the case.

And thanks to author Casey Koepp, who picked up where Harper Lee left off with her book, Furious Hours, Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, we bring you this episode on Alabama's alleged serial killing, voodoo preacher, Reverend Willie Maxwell.

When Radney's granddaughter wrote a letter to Harper Lee about The Reverend she got a response from Tonya Carter, Harper Lee's lawyer.

Carter heartbreakingly told her that Lee's health had deteriorated to the point that she no longer even remembered who Tom Radney was and had no recollection of the years she'd spent researching Willie Maxwell and by the time the unedited draft of Go Set a Watchman was published in 2015 Willie Maxwell had been dead for 40 years.

John worked as a mid-level computer programmer and Linda worked at a science fiction bookshop called Dangerous Visions.

I'm reading Dan Schreiber's book, right? Yeah. And in it he talks about there's a Zen concept of the rough corner, right? So in every Zen garden, there will be one corner that you leave completely to the elements and it acts as a balance for the neatness of everything else. How interesting. So maybe.

But go and read Dan's book. It's great. It's called The Theory of Everything Else.

I read an entire 450-page book all about him by journalist Gus Garcia Roberts called Jimmy the King.

And I think, I've forgotten who the review's from, but the review at the top of the front cover says, if Martin Scorsese wrote a film about corrupt cops, this is that story.

Sam wrote a book charting the facts of the case, Sam wrote a book charting the full story of Warren Jeffs, called Prophets Pray, spelt like predator prey.

That's such a good title.

It is good, isn't it? I love it. Well done, Sam. I really, really, really appreciate that.

Prophets Pray. Go buy it. Go read it.

Sam Brower has also made a case in his book that he believes Warren Jeffs is a schizophrenic.

John Cracker talks about this in his amazing book, Under the Banner of Heaven, which if that name sounds familiar and you haven't read the book, it's because this story of a murder in the Mormon church also became a series starring Andrew Garfield. Apparently it's very good. I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it, but it is on my list to watch.

So the book has actually been a huge help when we were researching these two episodes. And John was actually a massive part of the investigation into Warren Smith's murder and into Warren Jeffs himself. So we will definitely be coming back to him next week.

So in Under the Banner of Heaven, he tells us the story of fundamentalist Mormon girl Debbie Palmer. When Debbie was 14, she married the 57-year-old leader of her sect. She was his sixth wife and she instantly became stepmother to 31 children. Most of whom were older than her. Yep.

When the matriarch of a prominent Princeton family is found stabbed to death in her locked basement, investigators look from a serial attacker to her family to Princeton University students. One hot-blooded investigator sees a conspiracy.

Is he way off base or does privilege let you get away with murder?

When the matriarch of a prominent Princeton family is found stabbed to death in her locked basement, investigators look from a serial attacker to her family to Princeton University students. One hot-blooded investigator sees a conspiracy.

Is he way off base or does privilege let you get away with murder?

And also the book that Poole himself co-authored, which was called *Labyrinth*.