The Dark Side of Love
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Hosted by suspense novelist, Bianca Sloane, The Dark Side of Love is a weekly true crime podcast dedicated to all the ways loved ones turn on each other, often with deadly results. Whether it's murderous husbands, women who kill, lethal boyfriends, dysfunctional families, or just a good old-fashioned WTF, look no further. From crimes that shook the world to cases you may not have ever heard of, the stories are suspenseful, emotional, and compelling.
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Claudine Longet is a successful French pop singer and actress and the wife of mega singing and television star, Andy Williams. Freewheeling bachelor Spider Sabich is the Golden Boy of skiing, a beloved champion who competed in the 1968 Olympics and lives life to the fullest. When Claudine and Spider meet and fall in love, they decide to make Aspen, Colorado their home, a charming, hedonistic playgroundfor the wealthy and the wealthier. However, their tempestuous relationship is marred by Claudine’s extreme jealousy, tantrums, and possessiveness. Spider decides he’s had enough and tells Claudine it’s over. But Claudine just won’t let go.***Visitwww.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
College sweethearts Arnold and Tammi Cuyler are living aquiet life in Windsor, Connecticut with their two children and nephew. Always available to lend a helping hand is Tammi’s cousin, Chastity West, who cooks, cleans and babysits the kids. Chastity is also helping herself to eager participant, Arnold, who is having an affair with his wife’s cousin. The affair leads to an amicable divorce, with Arnold and Chastity continuing their relationship. Everyone seems to be getting along, under the circumstances, until a brutal and unfathomable home invasion results in a murder that shakesWindsor, Connecticut to its core.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
When David Birnie and Catherine Harrison meet as children,they are drawn together by their mutually chaotic and dysfunctional home lives. Through the years, the couple have an on and off relationship marked by a life of crime and insatiable sexual appetites, making it impossible to stay away from each other. However, for the pair that would ultimately be dubbed as the Most Violent Couple in Australia’s history, what ultimately keeps them together, is their passion for murder.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Oscar Pistorius, aka, The Blade Runner, is South Africa’s Golden Boy, a handsome and beloved Paralympian champion, seen as a role model and sterling example of grace, strength, and persistence. Blonde, beautiful Reeva Steenkamp, is a successful model whose star just keeps rising, though she ultimately has her sights set on a legal career so she can be a champion for those in need. When this glamorous pair meet and fall in love, they seem to be the perfect match – even drawing comparisons to Posh and Becks. But then, on Valentine’s Day, just three months into their relationship, Oscar brutally kills Reeva. Everyone knows Oscar did it. But everyone is stunned as to why he says he did. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
After emigrating to the United States from Columbia in the late 1980s, Clara Harris climbed the ladder of success to achieve the American dream of a thriving career, a beautiful home, adorable children, and the perfect marriage. But David Harris is having an affair, and after confessing to his wife, he promises to call it quits with the other woman. Except, when David goes back on his promise, Clara confronts her husband and his mistress. And what happens next will shock the world. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
NBA player Lorenzen Wright was a beloved hometown hero to basketball fans in The Bluff City, aka, Memphis, Tennessee. Lorenzen and his wife, Sherra, seem to be living the dream, both of them taking full advantage of his multimillion dollar paychecks, resulting in an extremely lavish and envious lifestyle. However, over time, the marriage would collapse under the weight of dual infidelities and financial chaos. Andwhen Lorenzen disappears, his bullet-riddled body later found in a swampy Tennessee field, rumors swirl around town that his financial troubles may have led to his gruesome demise. However, the truth about what happened to Lorenzen Wright is far more horrifying. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Jane Andrews has clawed her way out of a grim, poverty-stricken childhood and troubled adolescence to obtain a dream-come-true when she is chosen as a royal stylist for Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York. And when she meets the handsome, charismatic, and wealthy Tom Cressman, Jane believes she has met her own Prince Charming and desperately wishes for him to make her his Princess. However, the couple’s volatile relationship is hardly the stuff of fairy tales, and instead of happily ever after, Jane and Tom are headed for murder.***Visitwww.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Dave Kroupa joins anonline dating site not looking for love, but for a little excitement and occasional companionship. Dave thinks he’s hit the jackpot when smart and easygoing Cari Farver enters the chat and says she doesn’t want anything serious with him and the two embark a fun, no-strings relationship. But then,after just two weeks of dating, out of nowhere, Cari says she wants more than just a good time with Dave and when he turns her down, she goes ballistic, making it her personal mission to turn Dave’s life into a living hell. However, if you think you know where this story is going next, you’d be dead wrong. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
In January of 1982, Australian rugby star, Chris Dawson,told friends and family that his wife and mother of his two daughters, Lyn, had gone away for a few days because she needed some time to herself. Over the ensuing weeks, Chris told people that he would hear from Lyn on occasion, letting him know she was fine, and that she still needed some time, before the calls stopped altogether. Six weeks after Lyn was last seen, Chris finally reported his wife missing. However, the police don’t take Lyn’s disappearance seriously and she slowly becomes a forgotten cold case. While it seems as though he is a devastated husband shattered by his wife’s disappearance, the truth is, Chris is harboring a boatload of sinister secrets and it’s not until the Teacher’s Pet podcast exploring the case becomes a global sensation does Lyn finally get justice. ***Visitwww.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Bison Dele is an NBA superstar with a bottomless bank account and an itch to discover what life is like beyond the hardwood. After walking away from a multimillion dollar contract, he invites his girlfriend, Serena Karlan to come sail away with him on adventures around the world. But when an uninvited guest intrudes on Bison and Serena’s romantic getaway, the confrontation leads to murder. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.comfor episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove forexclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Diane Newton King was the popular and beloved anchorwoman in Battle Creek, Michigan. Diane seems like she’s on top of the world, but what nobody knows is that she’s being stalked by an obsessed fan. And when Diane is gunned down in her driveway one night, it seems as though that obsessed fan has gone too far. Except the real killer was hiding in plain sight. ***Visitwww.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Kaitlin Armstrong was a yoga instructor who had a loveof travel and was considered to be a kind and patient person. Moriah Wilson was a rising star in the ultra-competitive world of gravel bike racing. And then, there was Colin Strickland, who had complicated romances with both women. Untilone night, when Kaitlin decides to make things deadly simple.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Vanessa Black was just coming out of a failed marriage and was definitely not looking for love. But then she meets Sheldon Soyer, who’s smitten with her and after showingVanessa his intentions are pure, Vanessa falls deeply in love and happily marries her Prince Charming. But, over time, the once solid union disintegrates into an unhappy and unbearable marriage and Vanessa decides to walk away fromSheldon and start a new life without him. Sheldon agrees to let his wife go. Or does he? ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Darlene George cures the dissatisfaction she feels in her marriage by having a hot and heavy affair with ladies man Rennie Cassimy. However, Rennie claims to truly love Darlene and she decides life is too short to stay in a miserable marriage and makes plans to divorce her husband. But before she gets the chance, Darlene and her husband are the victims of a brutal attack that leaves one of them dead and the other under a cloud of suspicion..***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Daddy’s girl Heather Mack thought she’d found her soulmate in aspiring rapper Tommy Schaefer. However, Heather’s mother, Sheila, thinks her daughter can do better and is determined to keep Heather away from this bad influence. And when Sheila whisks Heather away to Bali for a littlemother/daughter bonding, she’ll learn too late that Heather will do ANYTHING to get her mother out of the way.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Previously on the Dark Side of Love, Atlanta socialite,Lita Sullivan, has escaped her miserable marriage to her cheap and cheating husband, Jim Sullivan. However, Lita, who stands to receive half of Jim’s multimillion dollar fortune, is gunned down in her doorway on a drizzly January morning. Everyone knows Jim had something to do with Lita’s murder. However, catching the slippery Jim – and bringing him to justice – will be harder than anyone suspected.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove forexclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
On a gray and drizzly January morning in 1987, the doorbell rings at the Atlanta home of socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan. She opens the door to what she thought was a delivery man bearing a box of beautiful long-stemmed roses. Instead, he came, bearing bullets. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.comfor episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Tiesh Rhue and Leon Harrison have a rocky marriage andeventually, Leon moves out. However, Tiesh and Leon decide to give it another shot and attempt to reconcile. And then Leon disappears. ***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.comfor episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
Previously on the Dark Side of Love, when actress Dominique Dunne is brutally strangled to the death in 1982 by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, her friends and family are hopeful that he will be found guilty of murder. However, the trial goes off the rails, as the defendant plays the jury, the judge acts like he’s working for the defense and the victim gets blamed for her own death. And now, the verdict is in.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!podscan_iVB8Z5bENJ99XKDsV90eJgTaA11C7n3u
Previously on the Dark Side of Love, actress Dominique Dunne was riding high following her starring role in the 1982 box office smash, Poltergeist. However, her life was tragically cut short when her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney strangles and kills her. And while John goes on trial for killing Dominique, for her friends and family, it feels like she’s the one being judged, leaving everyone to wonder if justice is possible.***Visit www.thedarksideoflove.com for episode transcripts and sources. Visit www.patreon.com/thedarksideoflove for exclusive content. Click here to be notified about new episodes!
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Ms Sloan I've been listening to your wonderful podcast for a couple of years now! I love you're wording "banging the gong" also brilliant author!!! Lady the 80s was my jam!!
long time no hear. so glad you're back!!!
your book "Killing Me Softly" is a must read. I've never read anything like it and I really adore that book!
i love your podcast, your insights and most of all how real you are and speak. Like. "unless you're under the bed no one really knows what goes on in a marriage"