Gone, But Never Forgotten

Often times as we are growing up people tell us things like “it could always be worse” or they tell us that we are exaggerating our situations, but the reality is that sometimes there are stories going on like the one that we are going to talk about today.  In the past we have talked about people in positions of power of people who have jobs that we entrust our children to, but this week we are going to talk about one of the worsts of the worst as far as crimes go in my mind.  We are going to talk about a woman who was convicted of torturing and killing two of her six children while also using and abusing her other children to help and hide her crimes. Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music [https://music.apple.com/ve/artist/gallagher/30569092?l=en]Social Media for GBNF:GBNF on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Twitter [https://twitter.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gbnfpod]GBNF on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnfpod?_t=8YGlcwaJGQI&_r=1&fbclid=IwAR1gKuI9-kCGcBjUX07mjS39ElKTgLmAi3fpw8eanLNCHhqA_Ak8A8GmZCs]GBNF on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@gbnfpodcast]

True Crime gives us many examples of the anti-hero.  The character that we find ourselves possibly rooting for, even though they do not possess or show the traits that are common in a hero. The anti-hero is not idealistic and certainly often works outside the boundaries of morality.  Many of us think of people like Gary Plauché who killed his son’s kidnapper and molester in 1984.  This week we are going to cover another person who was in that same vein.  This man, in 2016 would track down a number of sex offenders by getting their information from the nation’s public registry on the matter.  He would attack at least three men who had previously been convicted of sexual crimes and after being dubbed The Alaskan Avenger, he would eventually wind up behind bars. Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music [https://music.apple.com/ve/artist/gallagher/30569092?l=en]Social Media for GBNF:GBNF on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Twitter [https://twitter.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gbnfpod]GBNF on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnfpod?_t=8YGlcwaJGQI&_r=1&fbclid=IwAR1gKuI9-kCGcBjUX07mjS39ElKTgLmAi3fpw8eanLNCHhqA_Ak8A8GmZCs]GBNF on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@gbnfpodcast]

On April 4th of 1991 a young, 20-year-old woman was stopping at a payphone to call her fiancee to let him know that she was too tired to meet up for their plans and that she was instead going to head home for the night to rest and sleep.  While she was still on the phone with her boyfriend she would be grabbed and kidnapped.  This case had some interesting turns along the way and is still technically unsolved even though in 2021 a new theory came about.  Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music [https://music.apple.com/ve/artist/gallagher/30569092?l=en]Social Media for GBNF:GBNF on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Twitter [https://twitter.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gbnfpod]GBNF on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnfpod?_t=8YGlcwaJGQI&_r=1&fbclid=IwAR1gKuI9-kCGcBjUX07mjS39ElKTgLmAi3fpw8eanLNCHhqA_Ak8A8GmZCs]GBNF on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@gbnfpodcast]

If you have ever taken a psychology class or really, if you are a fan of true crime, at some point in your life you have probably come across The Bystander Effect.  The Bystander Effect is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim of a crime when there are other people present.  They believe instead that someone else must have called authorities or someone else will help.  This theory is actually largely based on the murder of Kitty Genovese and we are going to change a lot of what you may know or may have been taught about that case here today.  Lost in all of the controversy that has surrounded that over the years, is a story of a woman that was brutally murdered, regardless of the circumstances that surrounded that murder. Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music [https://music.apple.com/ve/artist/gallagher/30569092?l=en]Social Media for GBNF:GBNF on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Twitter [https://twitter.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gbnfpod]GBNF on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnfpod?_t=8YGlcwaJGQI&_r=1&fbclid=IwAR1gKuI9-kCGcBjUX07mjS39ElKTgLmAi3fpw8eanLNCHhqA_Ak8A8GmZCs]GBNF on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@gbnfpodcast]

Stories that are unsolved are terrible, there is no denying it.  As we have said many times in the past on our show, we wonder how people can possibly live with themselves when they take a life.  On October 10th, 2008 that is precisely what happened.  A young man, 18 years of age, was walking home on a country road when he was struck by a vehicle and left for dead on the side of the road.  It took 14 years for arrests to be made in this case, but currently it looks like there may be light at the end of a long tunnel for the family, at least in terms of answers.  This week we cover what happened in 2008, what happened in between and what is currently happening now within the case. Intro Music: Provided by Gallagher Music [https://music.apple.com/ve/artist/gallagher/30569092?l=en]Social Media for GBNF:GBNF on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Twitter [https://twitter.com/GBNFPodcast]GBNF on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gbnfpod]GBNF on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnfpod?_t=8YGlcwaJGQI&_r=1&fbclid=IwAR1gKuI9-kCGcBjUX07mjS39ElKTgLmAi3fpw8eanLNCHhqA_Ak8A8GmZCs]GBNF on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@gbnfpodcast]