The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement, or MMIW, aims to bring attention to the sad epidemic plaguing indigenous women. Indigenous women are 10 times more likely to be murdered and sexually assaulted. 84% of American Indian and Alaska Native women women experience violence in their lifetime - the highest rate in the US. Join Arielle and Amanda as they discuss the MMIW Movement and two of the cases of murdered indigenous women. --- Support this podcast:...

Halloween Night 1974 started out like any other typical night for many families: Ronald Clark O’Bryan and his wife, Daynene, planned to take their children, 8-year-old Timothy and 5-year-old Elizabeth, trick-or-treating. Unfortunately, this seemingly ordinary Halloween would be anything but for the O’Bryan family. By the end of the night, little Timothy O’Bryan would pass away due to consuming contaminated Halloween candy. But upon investigation, police would soon learn that Timothy’s death...

The Fall semester at the University of Kentucky in Lexington had just begun on Wednesday, August 27, 1997. The following night, Thursday, August 28, 1997, Holly Dunn, a junior at the university, had plans to attend an off-campus party at her boyfriend, Christopher Maier’s, fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. Holly had high hopes that although she and Chris had only been dating for a few months, the pair had a connection that she felt would blossom into a relationship she would never forget. Little did...

The Fall semester at the University of Kentucky in Lexington had just begun on Wednesday, August 27, 1997. The following night, Thursday, August 28, 1997, Holly Dunn, a junior at the university, had plans to attend an off-campus party at her boyfriend, Christopher Maier’s, fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. Holly had high hopes that although she and Chris had only been dating for a few months, the pair had a connection that she felt would blossom into a relationship she would never forget. Little did...

When Sallie Rohrbach, auditor for the North Carolina Department of Insurance, traveled to Charlotte in May 2008 to perform a routine audit of an insurance agency, she didn’t think this assignment would be any different from the hundreds and thousands of audits she had done in her career. Unfortunately, this assignment would be Sallie’s last. Join Arielle and Amanda as they discuss the lengths white-collar criminals will go to when they’re backed into a corner and their fraudulent activities...

What comes to mind when you think of a cult? Is it “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” Did you know this seemingly innocuous saying resulted from a massacre that was the second largest loss of life of American citizens in history? I am talking, of course, about the Jonestown Massacre that took place in Guyana, South America in November 1978. What happens when a man who originally set out to change the world for the better lets the power go to his head and drugs and sex corrupt his vision and...

What comes to mind when you think of a cult? Is it “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” Did you know this seemingly innocuous saying resulted from a massacre that was the second largest loss of life of American citizens in history? I am talking, of course, about the Jonestown Massacre that took place in Guyana, South America in November 1978. What happens when a man who originally set out to change the world for the better lets the power go to his head and drugs and sex corrupt his vision and...

TW/CW: This episode includes graphic depictions of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. What comes to mind when you think of a cult? Is it “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” Did you know this seemingly innocuous saying resulted from a massacre that was the second largest loss of life of American citizens in history? I am talking, of course, about the Jonestown Massacre that took place in Guyana, South America in November 1978. What happens when a man who originally set out to change...

What comes to mind when you think of a cult? Is it “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” Did you know this seemingly innocuous saying resulted from a massacre that was the second largest loss of life of American citizens in history? I am talking, of course, about the Jonestown Massacre that took place in Guyana, South America in November 1978. What happens when a man who originally set out to change the world for the better lets the power go to his head and drugs and sex corrupt his vision and...

Benjamin Renick was a husband, a father, a reptile lover, and a businessman. Ben owned and operated Renick’s Reptiles from his 72-acre farm in Missouri alongside his wife, Lynlee. Ben was at the top of the snake breeding game and was creating colors and patterns in snakes no one had ever seen before. So the snake enthusiast community was rocked in June 2017 when Ben was found murdered in his snake facility in New Florence, Missouri. Was Ben murdered for his snake collection? Or was it for a...

In the early 1990s, Kurt Cobain, the infamous lead-man of Nirvana, was the voice of a generation: a voice for the misfits, a voice for the outcasts, a voice for the kids with no friends.  Nirvana’s rise to fame, fortune, and popularity was meteoric. Unfortunately, Kurt was not ready for the public scrutiny that came along with being a literal rock god. Kurt couldn’t handle the notoriety that being famous brought. In the midst of a tumultuous marriage to wife and fellow rockstar, Courtney...

In the early 1990s, Kurt Cobain, the infamous lead-man of Nirvana, was the voice of a generation: a voice for the misfits, a voice for the outcasts, a voice for the kids with no friends.  Nirvana’s rise to fame, fortune, and popularity was meteoric. Unfortunately, Kurt was not ready for the public scrutiny that came along with being a literal rock god. Kurt couldn’t handle the notoriety that being famous brought. In the midst of a tumultuous marriage to wife and fellow rockstar, Courtney...

We all know the story. Boy meets girl. The stars align. The sparks fly. The pair fall madly in love and eventually decide to join their lives in matrimony. But real life is often far from what fairy tales teach us. According to studies, nearly 50% of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce. But what happens when one of the spouses cannot handle the sting of rejection when the marriage breaks down? Join Amanda and Arielle as they discuss two heart wrenching cases where divorce...

In September 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart was a typical 16-year-old girl living in Small Town USA, more specifically: Pocatello, Idaho. Everyone who knew Cassie had nothing but amazing things to say about her. Everyone said that she was super friendly and would try to be nice to everyone she met. But what happens when someone’s kind heart is taken advantage of? That’s exactly what happened when Cassie’s classmates, Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper, decided to tragically cut Cassie’s life short on...

We all know the story. Boy meets girl. The stars align. The sparks fly. The pair fall madly in love and eventually decide to join their lives in matrimony. But real life is often far from what fairy tales teach us. According to studies, nearly 50% of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce. But what happens when one of the spouses cannot handle the sting of rejection when the marriage breaks down? Join Amanda and Arielle as they discuss two heart wrenching cases where divorce...

Listen to find out when the homegirls will be back in action and all up in your ear canals again!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homicidehomegirls/support

In November of 1979, 19-year-old Cornelius Dupree and 18-year-old Anthony Massingill were minding their own business while walking to a party a few blocks from their apartment building in Dallas, Texas. While on their way, the two young men were stopped by police because they matched the descriptions of two men accused of committing a rape and robbery two miles away just a week earlier. What followed was a three decades long story of resiliency and the fight to prove their innocence against...

Between 2002 and 2004, unassuming, seemingly normal Cleveland area bus driver and father of 4, Ariel Castro, kidnapped three young women: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. These women were held captive for over a decade until their brave escape from Castro's house of horrors in May 2013. Join Arielle and Amanda for part 3 of a 3 part series as they dive into the atrocities these brave women endured at the hands of this monster. --- Support this podcast:...

Between 2002 and 2004, unassuming, seemingly normal Cleveland area bus driver and father of 4, Ariel Castro, kidnapped three young women: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. These women were held captive for over a decade until their brave escape from Castro's house of horrors in May 2013. Join Arielle and Amanda for part 2 of a 3 part series as they dive into the atrocities these brave women endured at the hands of this monster. --- Support this podcast:...

Between 2002 and 2004, unassuming, seemingly normal Cleveland area bus driver and father of 4, Ariel Castro, kidnapped three young women: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. These women were held captive for over a decade until their brave escape from Castro's house of horrors in May 2013. Join Arielle and Amanda for part 1 of a 3 part series as they dive into the atrocities these brave women endured at the hands of this monster. --- Support this podcast:...

We always hear about mass killings but do we ever really know what happens in the court proceedings? These types of crimes are big news for a day or so until the next big tragedy comes along and the first event just gets pushed to the back burner. Sadly, that's the world that we live in today. Join Amanda and Arielle as they dissect the events that led up to and surrounding the shooting in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homicidehomegirls/support

Today's episode is a surprise!! Today Arielle and Amanda will be covering the serial killer chosen by their amazing listeners!! Tune in to find out which serial killer the listeners wanted! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homicidehomegirls/support

In 1995 Elisa Izquierdo was a beautiful, vibrant, loving six-year-old  little girl living in Brooklyn, New York. After suffering the tragic loss of the only person who had Elisa’s best interests at heart, the state made the decision to place Elisa in the care of the person who would ultimately end her short life. This person was the one person who should have loved Elisa and fiercely protected her; however, exactly the opposite happened. Join Amanda and Arielle as they discuss the truly...

In the late evening hours of May 8, 2002, the lives of three young mothers, Brandy Vickers, Michelle Aucoin, and Jennifer Leger were tragically cut short in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. The husband of one of the victims confessed to the triple murder, but what seemed to be a straight-forward case got complicated when it was discovered that the two other victims had one person in common.  Now, in 2021, the convicted murderer, Kenneth Vickers, Jr., is requesting clemency in the form of a...