Backseat Alibi

Episode 04: Parents Who Kill: Teghan Skiba

She was just four years old when she was locked in a sweltering shed behind a rural trailer, where  she was tortured, bitten, whipped with cords, and left to sleep on the floor beside soiled rags. Ten days later, covered in bruises and barely clinging to life, she was carried into an emergency room by the very man who’d caused her cries for mercy.   PART 1 TOTAL PARTS : 1   Citations: 6abc. “Mother of Dead Child Charged with Abuse: 6abc Philadelphia.” 6abc Philadelphia, 6abc.com/archive/7581917/. Accessed 3 June 2025.   ABC11. “Mother of Slain Girl Released: ABC11 Raleigh-Durham.” ABC11 Raleigh-Durham, abc11.com/archive/7584036/. Accessed 3 June 2025.   Blackwood, C.S. “The Horrific Abuse and Death of Teghan Skiba.” Medium, Rare Crime Stories, 12 Dec. 2024, medium.com/rare-stories/the-horrific-abuse-and-death-of-teghan-skiba-99851b3612a6.   Bowen, Janine, and Chad Flowers. “Mother Sentenced in 2010 Death of 4-Year-Old Smithfield Girl.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 6 Mar. 2019, www.wral.com/story/mother-sentenced-in-2010-death-of-4-year-old-smithfield-girl/18239825/.   JoCoReport.com, Editor. “Judge Sentences Mother to Prison for Role in Death of 4 Year-Old Daughter.” JoCo Report, 8 Mar. 2019, jocoreport.com/judge-sentences-mother-to-prison-for-role-in-death-of-4-year-old-daughter/.   Jurors in Child Abuse Case Shown Photos of Injuries, www.wral.com/video/news/local/video/13479964/. Accessed 3 June 2025.   Mims, Bryan, et al. “Trauma DOC Details Teghan Skiba’s Injuries for Jury.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 28 Feb. 2014, www.wral.com/doctor-who-treated-teghan-skiba-testifies-/13438387/.   Mims, Bryan, et al. “Trauma DOC Details Teghan Skiba’s Injuries for Jury.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 28 Feb. 2014, www.wral.com/doctor-who-treated-teghan-skiba-testifies-/13438387/.   NC DAC Offender Public Information, webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1019362&searchLastName=richardson&searchFirstName=Jonathan&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1. Accessed 3 June 2025.   NC DAC Offender Public Information, webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1019362&searchLastName=richardson&searchFirstName=Jonathan&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1. Accessed 3 June 2025.   “State v. Richardson.” Justia Law, law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/supreme-court/2023/272a14.html. Accessed 2 June 2025.   “Teghan Alyssa ‘Teggy’ Skiba (2006-2010) - Find a...” Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com/memorial/210627773/teghan_alyssa-skiba. Accessed 3 June 2025.   “Teghan Skiba Obituary - Raleigh, NC.” Dignity Memorial, www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/raleigh-nc/teghan-skiba-4325718. Accessed 3 June 2025.   Wral, Wral. “More Details of Teghan Skiba’s Injuries Revealed.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 12 Mar. 2014, www.wral.com/news/local/video/13473871/.   Wral. “Emotions Overtake Deputy Testifying about Teghan Skiba.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 5 Mar. 2014, www.wral.com/video/news/local/video/13452415/.   Wral. “Nurse Who Treated Tortured Child Asked Police for Gun.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 26 Feb. 2014, www.wral.com/news/local/video/13429030/.

Episode 3: Part 3: Serial Killers: Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer

What appears to be an ordinary life-a polished resume, clean record, radiant charm-masks a nightmare festering just beneath the surface. Behind the calm exterior lurks a twisted compulsion that would lead to brutal deaths of dozens of young men. As bodies begin to appear along highways and marines begin disappearing, investigators uncover a cryptic list of coded entries pointing to unspeakable horrors. What emerges is a portrait of a killer whose sadism escalated beyond comprehension, leaving behind a legacy of terror, unanswered questions, and a scorecard soaked in blood.    PART 1 TOTAL PARTS : 3   Citations: FilmRise, FilmRise. “World’s Most Evil Killers, Randy Kraft.” Season 8, episode 5, Peacock, 2023. McDougal, Dennis. Angel of Darkness. Warner Books Inc, 1991. Tubi, Tubi. “Descent of a Serial Killer.” Season 2, episode 4, 2022.     ASTROLOGY Randy Kraft - Pisces

Episode 3: Part 2: Serial Killers: Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer

What appears to be an ordinary life-a polished resume, clean record, radiant charm-masks a nightmare festering just beneath the surface. Behind the calm exterior lurks a twisted compulsion that would lead to brutal deaths of dozens of young men. As bodies begin to appear along highways and marines begin disappearing, investigators uncover a cryptic list of coded entries pointing to unspeakable horrors. What emerges is a portrait of a killer whose sadism escalated beyond comprehension, leaving behind a legacy of terror, unanswered questions, and a scorecard soaked in blood.    PART 2 TOTAL PARTS : 3   Citations: FilmRise, FilmRise. “World’s Most Evil Killers, Randy Kraft.” Season 8, episode 5, Peacock, 2023. McDougal, Dennis. Angel of Darkness. Warner Books Inc, 1991. Tubi, Tubi. “Descent of a Serial Killer.” Season 2, episode 4, 2022.     ASTROLOGY Randy Kraft - Pisces

Episode 03: Part 1: Serial Killers: Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer

What appears to be an ordinary life-a polished resume, clean record, radiant charm-masks a nightmare festering just beneath the surface. Behind the calm exterior lurks a twisted compulsion that would lead to brutal deaths of dozens of young men. As bodies begin to appear along highways and marines begin disappearing, investigators uncover a cryptic list of coded entries pointing to unspeakable horrors. What emerges is a portrait of a killer whose sadism escalated beyond comprehension, leaving behind a legacy of terror, unanswered questions, and a scorecard soaked in blood.    PART 1 TOTAL PARTS : 3   Citations: FilmRise, FilmRise. “World’s Most Evil Killers, Randy Kraft.” Season 8, episode 5, Peacock, 2023. McDougal, Dennis. Angel of Darkness. Warner Books Inc, 1991. Tubi, Tubi. “Descent of a Serial Killer.” Season 2, episode 4, 2022.     ASTROLOGY Randy Kraft - Pisces

Episode 02: Cannibals: Issei Sagawa, The Kobe Cannibal

In a chilling tale of obsession and madness, a brilliant, but disturbed scholar in Paris becomes consumed by dark desires. When a beautiful and unsuspecting classmate enters his life, his fascination with her turns deadly, leading to an unspeakable act that shocks the world. As authorities unravel the gruesome crime, the true depths of his depravity come to light, but will justice ever be served?   PART 1 TOTAL PARTS : 1   Citations: Berry-Dee, Christopher, and Victoria Redstall. “Chapter 12/Issei Sagawa ‘Going Dutch.’” Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers, Ulysses Press, Berkeley, California, 2011, pp. 9–315. “The Cannibal That Walked Free.” Visual Voodoo for Channel Five, 2007, https://documentaryheaven.com/the-cannibal-that-walked-free/. Accessed 2024. Helm, Leslie. “Seeing Japan ‘Through the Eyes of a Cannibal’ : Celebrity: Confessed Killer Is Free--Even Popular. His Story Tells of a Country’s Morbid Fascination with Sexual Perversion and Death.” Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1992, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-28-mn-2009-story.html. Accessed 2024. Kuchikomi. “‘Paris Cannibal’ Sagawa Reminisces over His Grisly Crime.” Japan Today, 19 Mar. 2015, https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/paris-cannibal-sagawa-reminisces-over-his-grisly-crime. Accessed 2024. McGill, Peter. “Portrait of a Cannibal.” The Observer, 24 May 1992. News, Kyodo. “Issei Sagawa, Japanese Man Who Killed and Ate Woman’s Flesh in 1981, Dies.” Kyodo News, 2 Dec. 2022, https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/12/ccddcf16ebbb-sagawa-japanese-man-who-killed-and-ate-womans-flesh-in-1981-dies.html#google_vignette. Accessed 2024. Paravel, Verena and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, directors. Caniba. Leviathan, 2018. Sagawa, Issei. In the Fog. Independently Published, In The Fog AKA Kiri No Naka AKA 霧の中, Sagawa Issei & Anonymous, https://archive.org/details/in-the-fog-aka-kiri-no-naka-aka-sagawa-issei-anonymous-1984-english-translation-by-clive-and-kiryuin, Accessed 2024.   ASTROLOGY: Renee - I wasn't able to find any record of Renee's birthday; she was born in 1956. Issei Sagawa - Taurus