I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast

This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Financial_Corporation https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf https://www.rollingstone.com...

This week Erin tells us about 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, who vanished from Little Rock in October 2015 days after reporting a sexual assault and was found nearly three years later in a park drainage pipe, her death ruled a homicide that remains unsolved. Sources: https://aymag.com/a-ray-of-light-loved-ones-gain-new-allies-as-ebby-steppach-case-reaches-a-decade/ https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/new-information-reveals-where-ebby-steppach-spent-her-final-hours/ https://katv.com/news/local/n...

This week stacey tells us about Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher and beauty queen who mysteriously vanished from Ocilla on October 22–23, 2005, a disappearance that would haunt her community for years and later be thrust into the spotlight by the true crime podcast Up and Vanished. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Grinstead_murder_case cbsnews.com/pictures/what-happened-to-tara-grinstead/11/ https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2017-02-23/gbi-arrest-disappearance-tar...

This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison. Sources: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the-murder-of-capt-marty-theer/ https://cases.justia.com/north-carolina/court-of-appeals/051640-1.pd...

This week Stacey tells us about Jean Luc Brunel, a French model scout and agent linked to Jeffrey Epstein who faced multiple sex-trafficking and sexual-assault allegations and died in a Paris jail in 2022 before his trial concluded. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/epsteins-french-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-prison/2507523 https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/swduau https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent...

This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.” Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/ https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement....

This week Stacey tells us about Mark Edward Middleton, an American businessman and lawyer from Little Rock who served as a special assistant and advisor to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later worked in his family’s HVAC business before his death in 2022. Sources: https://fism.tv/death-of-mark-middleton-clinton-advisor-linked-to-epstein-bizarrely-ruled-a-suicide/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Middleton_(businessman) https://ruebelfuneralhome.com/obits/preview.php?id=3050&p=&...

This week Erin tells us about Lawrence Strempel, a Houston-area teen who in the early 1970s confessed to killing two young brothers, served roughly two years in a juvenile facility, and was then released at age 18. Sources: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1967462/m1/1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/15fonsz/lawrence_strempel_who_was_responsible_for_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/1jiel39/the_mutilation_murders_of_ronald_and_kenneth/ htt...

This week Stacey tells us about Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer turned drug dealer who was sentenced to life for the 2016 kidnapping and murder of four men and who briefly shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: nypost.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com...

This week Erin tells us about serial killer Robert Garrow, who in 1973 abducted, raped, and murdered multiple victims in upstate New York, leading to a massive Adirondack manhunt and a landmark legal-ethics case over his attorneys keeping the locations of two victims’ bodies secret. Sources: https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/garrow-robert.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Bodies_Case https://www.adirondacklife.com/2024/07/24/summer-of-garrow/ ...

This week, Stacey tells us about Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who traveled to upstate New York to meet a woman named Precious he met online, only to be kidnapped, brutally tortured for weeks, and ultimately killed by a group of seven alleged attackers. Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sam-nordquist-killing-room-22-rcna194129 https://glaad.org/grief-and-fond-remembrances-for-slain-transgender-man-sam-nordquist/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/reco...

This week Erin tells us about Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor who was murdered in 2014 in a conspiracy involving his former in-laws and hired hitmen. Sources: Dan Markel - Wikipedia Donna Adelson sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating 2014 murder of ex-son-in-law, FSU professor Daniel Markel - CBS Miami A law professor was stalked and killed by hit men. His former mother-in-law is now on trial | CNN Dan Markel News Updates pg 1 of 9 | Court TV Support the show

this week Stacey tells us about the death of Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower found dead by suicide in his San Francisco apartment in November 2024 after publicly condemning the company’s data practices, a ruling contested by his family who remain convinced foul play was involved. Sources: https://suchir.net/fair_use.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/suchir-balajis-mother-new-charge-as-sam-altman-calls-openai-whistleblowers-death...

This week Erin tells us about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who in 2011 carried out a bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting at a youth camp on Utøya Island, killing 77 people before being sentenced to 21 years in prison for terrorism and mass murder. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik Support the show

This week Stacey tells us about how, in October 2006, University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted while walking home, sexually assaulted, and murdered by Brian Rooney, whose DNA linked him to the crime, resulting in his conviction and life sentence without parole. Sources: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/vtlib/Documents/2008-470.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/15/slain-nva-student-loved-outdoors-friends-recall/22eb6086-7d33-4965-b713-b96b6ca2601...

This week Erin tells us about the murder of Lauren Giddings, a Mercer Law graduate who was strangled and dismembered by her neighbor and classmate Stephen McDaniel in 2011, a crime for which McDaniel later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lauren_Giddings https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fi6ivv/sped_up_footage_from_the_interrogation_of_stephen/ https://www.documen...

This week Stacey tells us about Mitrice Richardson, who disappeared after midnight release from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 and was found dead nearly a year later, with questions about law enforcement’s actions still unresolved. Sources: https://iamjasmyne.com/15-years-later-why-we-still-demand-justice-for-mitrice-richardson/ https://thelocalmalibu.com/new-revelations-and-lies-exposed-uncovering-the-cover-up-in-the-mitrice-richardson-case/ https://capitolweekly.net/mitrice-richardson-t...

This week Erin tells us about Elizabeth Olten, a 9-year-old girl from Missouri who was tragically murdered by her 15-year-old neighbor Alyssa Bustamante in 2009. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0XeAKIqqU (Alyssa’s interrogation / confession) https://allthatsinteresting.com/elizabeth-olten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Elizabeth_Olten Support the show

This week, Stacey tells us about Heather Elvis, who vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on December 18, 2013, and whose disappearance led to the convictions of Sidney and Tammy Moorer for kidnapping, although Heather has never been found. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng95TQ01sJU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Heather_Elvis https://abcnews.go.com/US/south-carolina-love-triangle-womans-affair-married-man/story?id=76209188 Support the show

This week Erin tells us about Jennifer Teague, a Canadian teenager who disappeared while walking home in Ottawa in 2005, whose murder led to an intense community search, a high-profile police investigation, and ultimately the arrest and conviction of Kevin Davis. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jennifer_Teague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qBApiNDoN8&t=1s Support the show