Episode 21: She Moved Abroad for Love - The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth

Episode 21: She Moved Abroad for Love - The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] Nineteen-year-old Ashley Wadsworth travelled from British Columbia to England to spend time with Jack Sepple, a man she had built a relationship with online. At first, it looked like a romantic adventure: sightseeing, smiling photos, and the excitement of finally being together in person. But behind the pictures, the relationship became controlling and dangerous. Ashley decided she wanted to return home to Canada. Before she could leave, Sepple killed her. In this episode, Febriana tells John the story of Ashley Wadsworth’s murder, the warning signs in Jack Sepple’s past, and the difficult questions this case raises about coercive control, international relationships, online intimacy, and what can happen when an abusive partner realizes they are losing control. Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]

Episode 20: The Girl She Wanted to Become - The Rachel Barber Case

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] In this episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about Rachel Barber who was 15 years old and training full-time at a performing arts school in Melbourne when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class. An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money. Rachel didn’t say the woman’s name. Then she never came home. In this episode, we cover the murder of Rachel Barber and the case against Caroline Robertson, a former family friend and babysitter whose obsession with Rachel became much darker than ordinary jealousy. Police would later uncover clothing that did not belong to Caroline, handwritten planning material, a fake identity, and a murder that had been thought through step by step. This case raises disturbing questions about envy, self-hatred, identity, and what happens when someone stops seeing another person as real. Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses the murder of a minor, strangulation, body disposal, and psychological obsession. Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]

Episode 19: The Grief Book and the Poisoned Cocktail - The case of Kouri Richins

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] Today's episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we've covered so far: a woman who wrote a children's grief book after her husband's death, then was later convicted of murdering him. Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. At first, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving widow trying to help her children process the loss of their father. But investigators uncovered a very different story involving financial pressure, life insurance, forged documents, a prior poisoning attempt, and a marriage where Eric had reportedly feared his wife was trying to kill him. In this episode, John hears the case for the first time as we talk through public grief, image management, financial desperation, and the disturbing question at the center of the case: what kind of person turns a death they caused into part of their public identity? Content warning: murder, poisoning, fentanyl, family trauma, grief, and children affected by parental death. Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]

Episode 18: Diane Downs - The Mother Who Blamed a Stranger

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] In 1983, Diane Downs drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car. She said a stranger had attacked them on a rural road. But her story quickly started to fall apart. This week, we cover the Diane Downs case: the strange hospital arrival, her relationship with Robert “Nick” Knickerbocker, the children she may have seen as obstacles, and the daughter who survived long enough to tell the truth. Content warning: This episode discusses violence against children, child death, and parental violence. Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]

Episode 17: The Lie That Led to a Family Murder - The Jennifer Pan Case

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] A mother is killed inside her own home. A father is shot and left for dead. Their daughter is upstairs, tied up, calling 911. At first, it looks like a home invasion. But then the father wakes up, and the story starts falling apart. In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we cover the Jennifer Pan case: the fake grades, fake university, fake work, hidden relationship, staged home invasion, and years of lies that led to one of Canada’s most disturbing family murder cases. Was this about freedom, money, Daniel, shame, control, or the fear of finally being caught? Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses murder, family violence, and coercion. Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]