Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the terrible luck that respected pastor AB Schirmer has when it comes to wives. One wife, Jewel, dies by tripping on the vacuum. Nine years later, Betty (wife #2), takes off her seatbelt moments before dying in a head-on car crash in their 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser. This poor guy!! What are the chances?! And are those the only suspicious deaths in AB's life? NOPE!!
There is a big debate in this episode about whether a PT Cruiser is blue or silver and if there is one PT Cruiser in this case or two. See the @truecrimecleanup Instagram to see pics for yourself!
CUE THE BAHA MEN, BABY!! MURPHDOG IS BACK IN ACTION!! That's right, Dennis Murphy makes his triumphant return to Dateline for an update episode on the Dan Markel murder case. We've already locked up Charlie Adelson for life...which Adelson is next? Why, Donna, OF COURSE!!!! The entire Adelson clan is super miserable these days and Kurt Money is Here For It™. Did Kateline like the episode better the second time around than she did originally in April of 2024 when we first covered the Dan Markel case? Listen to find out!
Also...since this is an update case, K$ and KL are not breaking down the entire case, just discussing what's been added to this, the trial of Donna Adelson. Oh, and Charlie Adelson stubs his toe and absolutely loses it on a prison guard. Top shelf comedy, folks.
Listen to episode #33 of the pod to hear our thoughts on the case beat by beat!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the extremely disturbing and hard-to-believe-but-it-actually-happened "Killer in the Walls" episode of The Real Murders on Elm Street (HBOMax, S1E01 aired 2024). A triple murder in 1987 shocks the residents of Townsend, MA. Even more shocking...the killer hasn't been caught yet. This is a doozy of a case and a pretty dang good podcast episode so give it a listen!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the second episode of the new show called "The Friday the 13th Murders." The episode discussed is called "We All Go A Little Mad" and the murder has to do with the movie The Exorcist. Also, Nightmare on Elm Street makes an appearance. Needless to say, K$'s list is off the charts this week!
Plus, the Dixie Mafia might be involved? Kateline reports. Follow us @truecrimecleanup on Instagram for photos of stuff talked about in the episode!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the documentary, The Speedway Murders, about the night in 1978 when four employees vanished from a Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. This doc does something that annoyed a lot of critics when it came out last year but there are two critics who absolutely loved it....Kurt Money and Kateline!!
Kurt Money & Kateline return to their roots and cover the premiere of Dateline Season 34. Dateline legend, JMank, hosts the story of the murder of Kristil Krug even after months of telling the police she was being stalked. Is the stalker her ex-boyfriend?
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the first episode of the SWAMP MURDERS series, episode entitled, "Multiple Personalities." Kathy Bonney goes missing in 1987 Virginia. Her dad pushes for her murderer to be found. What the hell is up with that bumper sting? Kateline pitches HGTV's next huge hit. Check out our instagram for images mentioned in the episode @imlesterholt!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the four murders of The Yosemite Park Killer in 1999 as covered in the season one episode of Paramount Plus's FBI TRUE. No one is more in love with themselves than the FBI so it is only fitting they have yet another show dedicated to their exploits and K$ and KL have a blast making fun of them for it! Listen now to hear about the untimely passing of Carole Sund, Juli Sund, Silvina Pelosso and Joie Armstrong and the relatively short search FBI agents had to go on to track down Cary Stayner.
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EPISODE 100!!! Kurt Money and Kateline ring in this momentous occasion by discussing the Beth Karas joint, A CURIOUS CASE OF...THE FUNERAL HOME OF HORRORS, about the unreal funeral home scandal that rocked Colorado in 2023. Jon and Carie Hallford want to cremate your body for you but they don't have the equipment. No problem! They've got enough stacking space for almost 200 bodies. Listen now!
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Kurt Money and Kateline discuss "Suitcase of Secrets," the third episode of season one of FORENSIC FACTOR: A NEW ERA. Jamie Haggard goes missing in 2016, her body is found in a suitcase in 2018, and justice finally gets served in 2021. With a show with "Forensic" in the title, you just KNOW its a banger, and this does not disappoint. We're doing special math in Photoshop and a Dr. Pepper can, idiots are doing voice to text, and also Kateline is dropping first and last name of the guy who can't be any higher than 12th on the call sheet for Love Actually. What a cleanup!!
Kurt Money and Kateline kick off the new era of iLH....TRUE CRIME CLEANUP ON AISLE H!!! For the first ep under the new banner, K$ forces Kate to watch the Graham Greene Canadien true crime classic, EXHIBIT A: SECRETS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE (1997). A 67-year-old woman is murdered in her home in a 1992 Toronto. Was it her husband of 40 years? Or the son-in-law handyman? Or maybe, just maybe...the paperboy?
ALSO...Sexy saxophoning saves lives! Striation-free bullets! Credit score pie charts!! It's all here in the first episode of TRUE CRIME CLEANUP ON AISLE H.
Kurt Money and Kateline celebrate a killer season of I'm Lester Holt with 5 categories of awards to hand out as well mourning those we lost with a touching In Memoriam that will SHOCK you so be sure to listen to the end!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the murder of Christine Schultz by her ex-husband, Elfred Schultz, and how in 1982 Laurie Bembenek got convicted for it and Elfred Schultz lived a full and happy life as a free man. The backbone of this episode is the "Deadly Divorce" episode of THE PERFECT MURDER, but you know that K$ Read That Book™ and has plenty of additional info to prove to Kateline why THE PERFECT MURDER got it wrong and how the cops involved in the case are the King Dingus Supremes of all Deptuy Dinguses for their handling of the case in 1980 and sticking to their BS story today.
The books read were RUN, BAMBI, RUN by Kris Radish and Laurie's own book, A WOMAN ON TRIAL.
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the insane 1989 poisoning case at the heart of the absolute banger of a Forensic Files, "Bitter Potion." K$ is struggling what else to say here because he just wants you to listen because it is wild and he doesn't want to spoil any twists.
This was originally on our Patreon last year and we are posting it here on the main feed to give the Holtheads a taste of what our new format will be when season 3 premieres in TWO WEEKS!!! Next week will be one more Patreon repeat and then Season 3 will start under its new name, AISLE H. What about the Lesty's, you ask? Eh, Kurt's not really feeling it this year. Not sure he's going to do it. Kinda sad at Dateline still and bitter. Kinda like the potion in this episode! Nice.
In March of 1960, Sharon Kinne says her two-year-old daughter "accidentally" shot her husband while he was cleaning his gun. Months later, the wife of Sharon's former side piece is found dead...by Sharon's current side piece, with her in the car. Four trials (and years) later, another murder happens in Mexico. Is Sharon Kinne a serial killer, a misunderstood girl with stars in her eyes, or perhaps the luckiest murderer of all time? Kurt Money and Kateline break down this fascinating case and talk about the THRILLING update to the Sharon Kinne saga that happened in January of 2025.
The basis for their conversation is the A Crime To Remember episode, "Lucky Be A Lady," as well as an Unsolved Mysteries on the case and a frankly offensive book that K$ read about the case.
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss that one time in New Jersey in 1999 found a barrel under his house and it totally had a body in it...and so much more! Their sources today are an episode of Buried in the Backyard and OF COURSE, Forensic Files!!!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the 2019 of Dateline, “Stone-Cold,” about the murder of Nick Morelos in Tucson, AZ, hosted by the one and only, Josh Mankiewicz. Unlike most victims of Dateline episodes, Nick wasn’t exacted beloved at his workplace. But it might have been because he was such a ladies man? NOTE: Listen to the end of the episode for life-altering news about the future of I’m Lester Holt.
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the Season 22 episode, "The Stranger," hosted by Keith Morri—Excuse me, I mean, it's a Keith Morrison mystery!!!! Brittany Tavar and her two dogs went missing in July 2010 in St. Augustine, Florida. Is she just a woman out and about? Was it the lady who she choked and hit with a wine bottle? Or was it the drifter roomie who lied about being able to burn DVDs and probably about whether he trimmed his nails regularly? Better listen to find out!
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the 2015 murder of Kelley Clayton orchestrated by her husband Tom Clayton, former hockey star, who was nearby playing poker for his alibi. The two breakdown Dateline's coverage of the case in their episode, "The House in the Woods," hosted by Andrea Canning.
Kurt Money and Kateline discuss the AC hosted Dateline episode about the Karen Read verdict that aired on Thursday. K$ and KL agree on how John O'Keefe died but disagree THE MOST THEY HAVE EVER DISAGREED ON ANYTHING on the outcome of the trial. Holtheads, this is the DAMPEST episode in the history of the show. Enjoy!!
NOTE: We covered this case last October when Dateline originally aired it as, "The Night of the Nor'easter." If you are unfamiliar with this case, go check out that episode now (#54) to get the usual breakdown from us. This episode is a little different from our usual in that it is mostly our reaction to the verdict and new evidence presented in the second trial.