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Cafecito & Crime

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In April 2014, Darren West was cleaning his garage, in the home he had once shared with his estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As he moved boxes around, he came across a strange white box wrapped in plastic and decided to open it to see what was inside. And what he discovered was something out of a horror film. The small box contained the body of a decomposed baby. Darren told detectives that there was one person he knew of whom the baby could have belonged to, and it wa...

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In April 2014, Darren West was cleaning his garage, in the home he had once shared with his estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As he moved boxes around, he came across a strange white box wrapped in plastic and decided to open it to see what was inside. And what he discovered was something out of a horror film. The small box contained the body of a decomposed baby. Darren told detectives that there was one person he knew of whom the baby could have belonged to, and it wa...

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Episodes (20/166)

Cafecito & Crime

165. The Case of Megan Huntsman

In April 2014, Darren West was cleaning his garage, in the home he had once shared with his estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As he moved boxes around, he came across a strange white box wrapped in plastic and decided to open it to see what was inside. And what he discovered was something out of a horror film. The small box contained the body of a decomposed baby. Darren told detectives that there was one person he knew of whom the baby could have belonged to, and it wa...

6 days ago

55 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

164. The Case of Taylor Marks

When 58-year-old Kristie Marks went to pick up her daughter, Taylor, from her boyfriend's house on October 24, 2009, she felt ecstatic. They had been going through some issues, and Kristie thought that maybe Taylor was ready to come home for good and work things out, but that wasn’t how things turned out that night. As the mother and daughter headed toward the vehicle to leave, Kristie was randomly attacked by an unknown assailant. Unfortunately, Kristie lost her life that night. As the inves...

2 weeks ago

58 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

163. The Case of Irenia Cotner

On the night of August 22, 2005, 20-year-old Josh Bennet went to his estranged mother, Jacqueline's, house to have dinner and spend the night, as they were trying to repair their strained relationship. However, those hopes were shattered when, in the early hours of August 23, two intruders broke into the home and stabbed Jacquiline and Josh, resulting in Josh's death. As the investigation begins, detectives discover that Josh and Jacquiline were not the intended targets. It was something more...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 8 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

162. The Woodchipper Murder: Helle Crafts

On November 19, 1986, 39-year-old wife and mother Helle Crafts was dropped off by a friend and coworker at her home after returning from an overseas flight, where she worked as a flight attendant. After she made her way inside, she was never seen alive again. When she failed to show up at work, her friends asked her husband, Richard Crafts, about her whereabouts, and he claimed she had gone to visit her sick mother in Denmark. However, as days went by with no word from Helle, it began to seem...

4 weeks ago

56 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

161. The Brutal Murder of Doreen Erbert

On Halloween night in 1984, 31-year-old Doreen Erbert expected to relax after taking her four-year-old daughter, DeAnna, trick-or-treating. After her husband, Charles, left home to run to the nearby convenience store, Doreen planned to stop giving out candy and watch movies on the couch. Those plans were shattered when a loud knock sounded at the front door around 9 pm. Standing there was a man in a wolf mask, who proceeded to attack Doreen and kill her. In an expected turn of events, as the ...

1 month ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 160. The Strange Murder of Blair Adams

In early July 1996, a Canadian man named Blair Adams entered the US and never returned home. Before he left, family and friends noted that Blair was acting strangely and even mentioned that someone was after him, trying to kill him. Tragically, on July 11, Blair was found dead at a hotel construction site in Knoxville, Tennessee. As the investigation into his death begins, investigators learn that nothing adds up, nothing about the way he was found, his cause of death, or how there was no sin...

1 month ago

49 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 159. The Murder of Mindy Morgenstern

In September 2006, 22-year-old college senior Mindy Morgenstern couldn't wait to graduate that December and start her adult life. Unfortunately, she would never reach graduation. On September 13, friends went to her off-campus apartment since they hadn't been able to reach her all day. When they entered, they made a chilling discovery. There in the entryway was Mindy, dead, with a knife in her throat. As the investigation unfolds, numerous suspects emerge. But after the DNA test results retur...

1 month ago

1 hour 4 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 158. The Hello Kitty Murder

In the spring of 1999, a 14-year-old girl, using the alias Ah Fong, contacted the Hong Kong police about the ghost of a woman who haunted her. According to Ah Fong, the only way to get rid of this said ghost was to confess to the horrific murder of a woman that she had been part of. When police learn of the heinous details of the murder of 23-year-old Fan Man-yee, they were left speechless. Based on the evidence at the crime scene, she was brutally tortured and raped before finally succumbing...

1 month ago

52 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 157. The Case of Brigida McInvale

In the fall of 2017, Brigida Uto, a wife and mother, fell ill with no apparent cause for her illness. Though she sought medical help for months, doctors were not able to figure out what was wrong with her and what was causing her debilitating symptoms. After losing all hope, Dr. LaPoint, also a board-certified toxicologist, would be the one to solve the mystery. Brigida was suffering from an intentional poisoning of the very toxic metal, thallium. As the investigation begins to determin...

2 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 156. The Tragic Murder of Arlis Perry

In the fall of 1974, 19-year-old Arlis Perry moved to California with her new husband, Bruce Perry, where he was attending Standard University. A few weeks later, on the night of October 12, the couple argued, prompting Arlis to go to nearby Stanford Memorial Church to pray. When she didn't come home, Bruce contacted the police, and she was later found brutally murdered inside the church. It took many decades to finally identify her killer, and while that was accomplished, he was never brough...

2 months ago

56 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 155. The Murders of Carter Elliott and Timmy Wayne Robertson

When a woman named Brandi Watkins arrived at her boyfriend's home on the late afternoon of May 19, 2002, she was not expecting to walk into the horrific scene that she did. There, lying in the foyer, were the dead bodies of her boyfriend, 48-year-old Carter Elliott, and family friend, 25-year-old Timmy Wayne Robertson. As the investigation begins, detectives are stumped to find no leads as to who could've killed them. But a month after the murders, a big clue that breaks the case wide open ap...

2 months ago

58 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 154. The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

In June of 1977, 10-year-old Denise Milner, 9-year-old Michele Guse, and 8-year-old Lori Farmer were settled into their tent on a stormy night at Camp Scott in Oklahoma. The following morning, on June 13, a camp counselor made a horrific discovery. She came upon the body of a murdered little girl, Denise. Shortly after, the bodies of Michele and Lori were also discovered. As the investigation began, detectives learned of many odd occurrences that had taken place before the girls arrived at ca...

3 months ago

59 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 153. The Murder of Jesse Valencia

When college junior Jesse Valencia got home from a party in the early hours of June 5, 2004, in Columbia, Missouri, he had no idea it would be the last party he'd ever attend. Later that afternoon, at 2 pm, his deceased body was discovered in a yard between two houses. As the investigation into his murder begins, detectives soon learn that Jesse was a social butterfly and had many friends and no real enemies. That is, until they find out about a possible person of interest they didn't see com...

3 months ago

59 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 152. The Case of Ashley Bush

On October 31, 2022, pregnant 33-year-old Ashley Bush met up with a woman she had connected with through Facebook, thinking it was to help her find a job. But what she didn't know was that this woman, whose real name was Amber Waterman, had different plans. Those plans included killing her and taking her baby so she could pass it off as her own. Join us for today's episode to learn about what happened to Ashley and her baby Valkyrie. So, grab your cafecito, and let's get started. You ...

3 months ago

38 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 151. The Murder of Rhoni Reuter

When 41-year-old Rhoni Reuter woke up on October 4, 2007, she had no idea that she and her unborn child would be killed, but tragically, that is what happened just before 8 am. When investigators discover a typed note in her purse about her cheating boyfriend of 17 years, Shaun Gayle, he is the first person they want to speak to. From Shaun, they learn that he was involved with other women, and that one of them may have been Rhoni's killer. But when that woman gets cleared of all wrongdoing, ...

3 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 150. The Case of Gurpreet Singh

In 2019, 41-year-old Gurpreet Singh presented himself to the outside world as someone who had it all figured out and had the money to show for it. What he didn't want others to know was that he was struggling financially, and he and his family were barely getting by. He even enlisted the help of his father-in-law, Hakiakat Pannag, who lived with him and his wife, Shalinderjit, along with other family members, to help him pay it off, which caused a strain in the relationship. So, when Gurpreet...

3 months ago

58 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 149. The Case of the Stovall Twins

On the night of September 28, 2001, law enforcement in Fremont County, CO, had no idea that it would turn out to be the worst night of many of their careers. What started as a routine 911 call escalated into the death of Deputy Jason Schwartz, injuries to other officers, and the critical injury of one. A manhunt started for the Stovall twins, Michael and Joel, who led multiple agencies on a 24-hour chase, but luckily, it ended without any additional serious injuries. Join us for today's case ...

4 months ago

58 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 148. The Lin Family Murders

In 2009, the Lin family was thriving in North Epping, a suburb of Sydney. Lin, the dad, and Lily, the mother, ran a successful business, and they had three wonderful children: Brenda, 15, Henry, 12, and Terry, 9. Tragically, that July, almost all members of the Lin family would be brutally murdered, including Irene, Lily's sister, who had been living with the family. It would take some time, but investigators would eventually find their number one suspect, someone no one would have expected. ...

4 months ago

56 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 147. The Murder of Noor Almaleki

In 2009, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki fought to become independent from her family. Each time they managed to pull her back in and make her dependent on them again, but that summer, it seemed she might have finally broken free. Tragically, Noor wouldn't be able to create the life she wanted for herself because she was run over along with a family friend she was living with, Amal Khalaf. Investigators soon learned that this was no accident, and the person who did it was a member of Noor's own fam...

4 months ago

1 hour 16 minutes

Cafecito & Crime

Episode 146: Serial Killer: Quincy Allen

When the body of a woman, Dale Hall, was discovered shot and burned in early July 2002 in Columbia, SC, it was initially thought to be an isolated incident. During the investigation, law enforcement reached a dead end, and it would be almost a month before the lead that would turn the case upside down emerged. An unexpected shooting at a Texas Roadhouse led investigators to the suspect in Dale's murder, but it also resulted in additional deaths, including more in another state. Join us for to...

4 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes