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I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.
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Send us a text Iryna Zarutska didn't seem much different from any of the other passengers when she boarded the late train leaving Scaleybark station a few miles outside of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22. The pretty, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee wore khaki pants and a dark shirt and her long blonde hair was tucked under a hat from Zepeddie’s Pizzeria where she worked. Like other nearby passengers, she had on earbuds and her head was bowed looking at her phone as the tra...
Send us a text Maybe we should throw it back to old school, it used to be real cool before Zero Tolerance made it easier for bullies to do their worst. Now victims simply have to take it like sitting ducks or find themselves in the crosshairs of school punishment for trying to defend themselves. More than half a dozen cases involving teenage boys in Alabama, Florida, the Southeast, and beyond have some parents and caretakers crying foul over favoritism. Some students who pick or s...
Send us a text Some women ain’t nothing but trouble. No one knows that better than Milton business owner and father, Sean Perdue. In 2021, Perdue had a successful business and was a single dad to a young daughter he doted on, Lily. Divorced after 20 years, Perdue was looking for someone to build a life with and help him with his special needs child of whom he had custody. He thought he found that special someone in Stephanie Linville Perdue, another woman from the Milton area who was a ...
Send us a text This is quite the episode - we're packing in updates on two controversial cases we've been following! Before we dive into the latest on August Borden we have an update on embattled plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Brown. Now to Tuscumbia, Alabama where the Deshler High School football team’s motto is "Nos Non Ego," which is Latin for "We Not Me." That begs the question: Isn’t 15-year-old August Borden, #37, part of the football team and wouldn’t he be part of the “we?” Inst...
Send us a text People lost their heads over praying mantis Lynn Turner, and some people lost their lives. She poisoned her husband and her boyfriend with anti-freeze laced green Jello, and likely would have gotten away with it all of it, but for pushing her luck killing her second the lover who took to the first husband’s funeral. When Lynn, 32, got caught in her own poisonous web, she took a third life with a dose of her own medicine. She hoarded her blood pressure medicati...
Send us a text Just three weeks into his freshman year of high school, 15-year-old football player August Borden should have been looking forward to Homecoming. Instead, people in his hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, were praying that he would come home at all, after he was severely injured walking between the stadium and the fieldhouse with his teammates on Aug. 19. Some claim he fell down a short flight of stairs. Others say another player grabbed him in a “bear hug,” causing the teen ...
Send us a text The Honorable Judge Traci Soderstrom was anything but honorable when it came to how she ran her courtroom, even during a murder trial. The Oklahoma Supreme Court investigated her for misconduct after she was caught texting back and forth with her in-court bailiff over 500 times while she sat on the bench during the murder trial of a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler. Soderstrom can be seen on camera in the courtroom constantly scrolling through social ...
Send us a text Did Whitney Cheatham read the charges right or does she know something we don’t know? ‘Cause she’s smiling so big in her police mug shot it’s making some people wonder. Police in Cullman, Alabama say the 33-year-old salon owner is facing 25 charges related to drug trafficking and practicing medicine without a license. Her arrest comes following an investigation into forged prescriptions used at multiple local pharmacies to obtain controlled narcotics, investigators ...
Send us a text Gulf Breeze parent Tara Kamm is speaking out in the wake of the arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney, who has plead not guilty to possessing, trading and sharing 23 counts of CSAM. The incident has shaken the whole community and Kamm wants to see parents take the passion they feel over the Santa Rosa County School District’s handling of McChesney and put it into action and implement changes. Kamm is in a position to know. Unfortu...
Send us a text The arrest of recent Gulf Breeze High School graduate Matthew McChesney on 23 CSAM charges has set off a safety alarm for parents and the Santa Rosa County School District. In part, because he was arrested the same month that 36-year-old Gulf Breeze High School hospitality teacher and a private team soccer coach Molly Mersereau, was arrested for grooming and having a sexual relationship with a minor student. Both cases grabbed national headlines and in both cases the susp...
Send us a text A poor teenager from Louisiana had few options when he was charged with the murder of a local, prominent pharmacist in St. Martinville in 1946. In a town full of secrets, Willie Francis was the perfect scapegoat. He couldn’t even afford the defense attorney who eventually took over his case and his dad paid with two sacks of potatoes. Willie was convicted after a quick trial with little evidence, but executing him for the capital crime proved to be harder than...
Send us a text Convicted killer Bernie Tiede is such a character that his true-crime case caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was featured in the film “Bernie,” who was portrayed by actor Jack Black. In fact, the performer was so impressed with Bernie’s magnanimous personality Black would like to see him released from prison and the film’s producer and director, Richard Linklater, liked Bernie so much he let Bernie live with him between cases. Half the town of Carthage, Texas, wou...
Send us a text A beautiful, fresh-faced Carrollton, Georgia teen who openly grieved for her mother and stepdad on Tik Tok was arrested on July 8, 2025, and was accused of fatally shooting this past February. Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with murder of her mom, Kristin Brock, 41, and her stepfather James Brock, 45. They were found dead in their home on Feb. 20th, “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.” Their five-year-old daughter was the one who found the Brocks de...
Send us a text Right here in our little slice of Paradise is the home for fun, sun, fitness, beach, boating, swimming, surfing, dining on seafood...nothing could be more beautiful and wholesome. It's the perfect backdrop for an enviable highlight reel for any Social Media Content Creator! So how would one know if this was Real or just an Illusion... Well Tik Tok has never been a platform known for people holding their tongue and creators and audiences alike serve up the tea, hot, cold, ...
Send us a text Jerry Odum was always trying to find a way out of commitments or promises that he made himself. He would be the first to let you know he was the smartest person in the room and drop it in when he could that he was "a millionaire." A non-stop pathological liar who would lie about any and every thing, even when it wasn’t necessary. If Jerry had given Vickie Edge an ounce of the sympathy he gave himself, he might not have killed her. But that's what he did in August of...
Send us a text What goes on in someone else’s mind is a mystery, unless they let you in on the secret. Benjamin Elliott was a studious, intelligent teen who was “enamored” with his dad’s sword collection and a survival knife his dad gave him. Pretty normal hobbies for a young man from Texas, but what was not normal was what he did with the knife. He unsheathed it in the middle of the night, then walked across the hall to the bedroom of his sleeping twin sister, Meaghan, wher...
Send us a text Sexy, classy-looking men dancing for dollars and putting on a show for women. The neveau concept revolutioned not only Indian immigrant Steve Banerjee's Los Angeles nightclub, that was barely getting by on disco and backgammon, but it also caught fire across the country, thanks in part to the cast of characters that helped Banerjee launch the dancers including former Playboy model Dorothy Stratten. Women would line up out the door to experience the for-women-only "fantasy" of t...
Send us a text Jeannine Jaramillo, of Albuquerque, who was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal car crash in 2022. Jaramillo made a frenzied 911 call claiming to have been kidnapped, leading to a police chase on I-25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the pursuit, Jaramillo sped the wrong way on the interstate, causing a head-on collision that killed Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and retired firefighter Frank Lovato. Investigators found out that Jarami...
Send us a text We all want special attention from time to time, but would you fake your own kidnapping? Would you spin a tale that puts you as a hero for possibly saving a half-dressed toddler from the busy I-459 Birmingham traffic in the dark of the night? Would your tale include leaving your bright red luxury car still running on the side of the road with all your belongings still inside? Well, this is only a small part of Ms. Carlethia "Carlee" Nichole Russell did as a cry for attention or...
Send us a text “I was addicted to speed,” 18-year-old Chase Jones told the Judge at his sentencing. He pled guilty to Four counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of 38-year-old Andrea S. Hudson, 12-year-old Boyd "Buster" Brown, 13-year-old Matilda Wilcoxson, and 12-year-old Eloise Wilcoxson. Jones was also charged with Two counts of vehicular assault for the injuries to Hudson’s children, Nolan and Charlotte. The crash happened in a community outside Seattle. Police say Jones was w...
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