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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 Fan Mail Hannah Pettey was just 18 years old when she married Alabama chiropractor, Dr. Brian Mann. The beautiful, blonde, Birmingham area teen fell head over heels for the handsome, successful man ten years her senior. On the outside, their small and growing family looked perfectly happy and healthy, but behind closed doors Hannah said Brian could be controlling and there were fights when he got physical. She thought they’d ironed out their problems when she started...
Send us Fan Mail Colin Gray gave his son, Colt, the AR-15-style rifle that his 14-year-old son used to kill two students and two teachers and injure nine others at Apalachee High School in Georgia, in September 2024. It was a Christmas present for the boy in 2023, just months after the FBI showed up at Colin’s house to question him and Colt regarding online threats made on Discord about "shooting up a middle school." No arrests were made at that time because the threats could not ...
Send us Fan Mail Missing matriarch Nancy Guthrie, a relatively healthy, 84-year-old sharp-minded woman with only a few mobility issues, has been missing from her own home in Tucson, Arizona since Jan. 31. With no known motive and no suspects identified, it’s the kind of situation that can make anyone feel vulnerable, and there are so many theories as to what could have happened. Was it a pre-planned kidnapping? A robbery gone wrong? A stalker, sour grapes, revenge? With on again, off ag...
Send us Fan Mail Most any of us that have been on the Ole Miss Campus in the Gulf Coast state of Mississippi most likely fell in love with the sweet, syrupy, Southern charm of the campus and students. Bubbly and fun Ally Kostial fell in love with everything about her first choice for college, from her classes in marketing and fashion, to enjoying golf, fitness, and her sorority. The 21-year-old rising senior was also in love with the idea of marrying a Southern gentleman and...
Send us Fan Mail ‘Kinky catfish’ arranged on a BDSM fetish site by an IRS Agent and his Au Pair - all to get rid of Brendan Banfield’s wife. Nurse Christine Banfield had no idea that when their 25-year-old, Brazilian Au Pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, took her 4-year-old daughter to the zoo that she was opening the door to a diabolical plot. Little did she know that her husband, Brendan, had been having an affair with the Au Pair, and the two had plotted to lure stranger, Joe Ryan, to th...
Send us Fan Mail This week we have cases about people devaluing the lives of other human beings. Just wicked, corrupt, evil people. In other words, diabolical. The overly sexual Au Pair trying to help get rid of the lady of the house so she could be “the lady of the house” by implementing a Cat fishing scheme with the “man of the house” resulting in double murder. We’ve got the stories of two of the most heinous barbaric killers Brandon Aydelott and Thomas McGill and how the...
Send us Fan Mail Linda Duffey was such an animated character few questioned her wacky and wonky story about the sudden and violent death of her husband, Patrick, who was found dead on their living couch after Linda said she shot him twice in the head accidentally. In fact, police detectives were charmed, bamboozled, and "entertained" when she described how the tragic so-called mistake happened. She said she was showin’ off her cowboy style shootin’ known as “fan firin,” a trick she lear...
Send us Fan Mail Martin Luther King Jr., who we just remembered this week, was an advocate for justice. One of his many famous quote was, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” That is fitting for this week’s episode, “Justice cut short for Torrey King after convicted killer set to go free, ” the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast. Losing a loved one is a grief many people share. Losing a loved one to a violent homicide is a club nobody chooses to join. Two Gul...
Send us Fan Mail Convicted double murderer Ali Abulaban says he didn’t get a fair trial because it was televised and “everybody knew him as the Tik Tok Star murderer.” It’s no surprise he’s still blaming others now that he has lost everything he wanted: freedom, a beautiful wife and family, and social media career. The former Tik Tok creator known as "JinnKid," had what most people would consider a charmed life. Good looking with a gorgeous and fun wife, and beautiful five-year-old daug...
Send us Fan Mail Who in their right mind would brag about being related to notorious, accused ax murderer and parent killer Lizzie Borden?! Well, convicted serial killer and nurse Kristen Gilbert not only bragged about it, she lied about it! But it turns out lying and manipulating is something Kristen has done well since at least high school and the more you dig into her past, the more grim details emerge about a woman who would become notorious in her own right. It seems ev...
Send us Fan Mail What goes up must come down - even if free falling from Cloud 9 without a parachute isn't part of the plan. That's what happened to two unsuspecting women who loved skydiving and the wrong men. Victoria Cilliers and Els Van Doren were both victims of high-altitude murder plots, tangled up love triangles, jealousy, sabotaged parachutes, and some really bizarro, messed up, so-called friends and lovers 🥴. These two cases happened nearly a decade apart in two di...
Send us Fan Mail When did we start calling beat downs and assaults “hazing?” Hazing is the word you use when you’re pledging a fraternity or a sorority and now it’s being used interchangeably with locker room bullying and brawls as well as isolated attacks on individuals. Officially, hazing is strictly against the law when it’s part of abuse, but the word doesn’t hold a candle to the terror, anguish, and sometimes death victims experience because of it. We’re diving into sev...
Send us Fan Mail Exactly two years ago I broke this story and remember standing beside the front door of Dr. Ben Brown’s office, Restore Plastic Surgery, where someone had left holiday poinsettias as a kind gesture after Brown’s wife, Hillary, had gone into cardiac arrest just on the other side of the door just before Thanksgiving 2023, after he had performed several procedures on her and later died. Since then, Brown has been charged with manslaughter in the untimely death of his 33-ye...
Send us Fan Mail Exploring the world is normal for young people, but finding new “friends” online can be deadly. Cybercrimes like sextortion over pictures real or A.I. generated, wire fraud, and targeted harassment are skyrocketing and children, especially teenage boys, are in the crosshairs of online predators. These criminals aren’t breaking into homes in the traditional sense, they are crawling inside through the internet and setting up shop on websites where they can target ch...
Send us Fan Mail Remembered as a mother, sister, daughter and a friend, 25-year-old Tierra Binion’s life was cut short after a confrontation between her, Rachel DeRise, and Rachel's boyfriend Christian Ketchup who showed up armed to the Pensacola bar where he shot Tierra to death. The night of August 23, 2023, Tierra and Rachel exchanged words which led to Christian sucker punching Tierra and knocking her to the ground. Rachel then pounced on her as she lay in the parking lot and...
Send us Fan Mail Christy Martin was a trailblazer who took women's boxing from novelty (kinda sideshow) to mainstream during the 1990s and 2000. As eventful as her boxing career was it had nothing on the hits she was taking in her private life. The secrets, the abuse, the drug addiction, the sex tapes, the isolation and the domestic violence she suffered. Her public image as an attractive, powerful, crowd-pleasing star boxer was the polar opposite of real life. “The Coal Min...
Send us Fan Mail Jesse Mack Butler faced nearly a dozen charges related to the s3xual assault of two teenage girls he dated, and he was convicted of several of them. He pleaded no contest and faced nearly 80 years in prison for the crimes, until the court allowed him to plead as a youthful offender and reduced his sentence to no jail time, community service, curfew, and counseling. And oh, no social media. If he complies until his 19th birthday, his record is wiped clean, he doesn’t hav...
Send us Fan Mail Self-described perfect neighbor, Susan Lorincz, was always the victim in her mind. When she got caught trespassing on a man's private property and rammed his gate with her truck to get out, she blamed her reaction on PTSD she suffered from previous crimes allegedly done to her. When neighborhood children played in the vacant lot next to her Ocala, Florida home, she complained they were trespassing, loud, and tormenting her on purpose. She repeatedly called p...
Send us Fan Mail High school cheerleader Kimber Mills, 18, was laid to rest on Sunday after she was shot in the head and taken off of life support at UAB. She was injured witnesses say trying to break up a fight between several young men at “The Pit,” a gathering place in the woods in Pinson, Alabama that was the regular go-to, weekend hang out spot. Kimber was one of four people who was shot, including 21-year-old Silas McCay, who was involved in the fight and shot ten time...
Send us Fan Mail Tuscumbia City Schools says it’s still investigating the incident that nearly took the life of 15-year-old August Borden, a Deshler High School football player who had to be intubated for two days in the hospital with severe head and brain trauma after a so-called “freak accident” after football practice that left him fighting for his life. Many in the community, including his family, believe the answers authorities claim to be seeking aren’t that hard to find and...
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