John Ten Eyck JV’s subject today is John Ten Eyck, a black farm laborer who was blamed in 1877 for their murder shortly thereafter. Today we ask: Was he the real murderer or just an easy scapegoat the authorities pinned the crimes on? Episode based heavily on “Gilded Age Murder and Mayhem in the Berkshires” by Andrew Amelinckx. Sources: https://modernfarmer.com/2015/10/blood-on-the-farm-the-double-murder-that-shocked-the-nation/ Song referenced: Walls Are Closing In/HangMan – The Pretty Reckless Music for Criminal Musings provided by We Talk Of Dreams. Thanks, Nico! SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) This week, during our Berkshire/Western Massachusetts Crime Miniseries, we’re going wayyy way back because some of my favorite True crime deep dives, involving people of color, are not actually recent, they are super old. ...
Lewis Lent Lewis Lent is a convicted murderer and rapist from Massachusetts. He confessed to kidnapping and killing 12 year old Jimmy Bernardo (1990) and 12 year old Sara Ann Wood (1993), but he refused to say where he buried her body. Lent abducted Jimmy from the Pittsfield movie theater where he worked as a janitor. He was sentenced to life without parole for the Bernardo murder and sentenced to 25 years to life for the Wood murder. He is currently in prison in Massachusetts. However, the jackass recanted his confession and continues to refuse to disclose the location of Sara’s body. Lent has said that he “can’t say where her body is because she is not buried alone.” He is suspected of the kidnapping and murder of other children in the early 90s. Those coke bottle classes straight up look like pedophile glasses, girl. ugh. Sources: http://wamc.org/post/child-serial-killer-lewis-lent-linked-cold-case http://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lent-lewis.htm www.newsweek.com/trail-serial-k...
Asiyanna Jones was a young woman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts who was tragically lost in October of 2017. Join JV as they talk a little bit about her life, how she died, and who she left behind. To donate to her family, please click here, or follow this link. https://www.gofundme.com/ripasiyanna Welcome to Season 2 of Criminal Musings. (Asiyanna and her 2 friends mentioned in the story.) Sources: https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/pittsfield-woman-dies-after-dewey-avenue-shooting,520995? https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/investigation-continues-in-shooting-death-of-pittsfield-woman,521132? https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/lifelong-friends-of-asiyanna-jones-there-will-literally-never-be-another-yanna-ever,521807? https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/pittsfield-police-plead-for-answers-in-fatal-shooting-of-city-woman,521426? https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/gun-is-found-in-suv-tied-to-scene-of-asiyanna-jones-killing,521761? https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories...
JV talks about recent happenings in the True Crime Podcasting world. And boy, do they have some feelings about it… TShirt: https://www.etsy.com/listing/611240729/mens-feminist-tee?ref=shop_home_active_22 SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript currently unavailable for this episode.
Marcelo Costa de Andrade, aka the Vampire of Niteroi, is a Brazilian serial killer. He is a monster who was convicted of raping and murdering 14 boys. He was a pedophile, a necrophile, and in some ways, a cannibal, in so far as he drank his victim’s blood on occasion. Sources: Murderpedia Nothing Rhymes With Murder, episode 21 SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) (more…)
It is rare that we have murderous duos. There is a reason we have an image of these people in our minds being lone wolves. But every once in awhile, evil finds its’ mate and the consequences are disastrous. Today we will cover one such duo. Today, we will cover Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas. Want to learn more about these killers? Check out these shows: Serial Killers Last Podcast On The Left All Killa No Filla Sources: Biography.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Toole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) (more…)
Ronald Dominique is an American serial killer, who confessed to murdering 23 men over a nine year span and dumping their bodies in sugarcane fields, ditches and small bayous in various southeast Louisiana parishes. His reason he gave for killing? He did not want to return to jail after raping the men. Sources: Murderpedia Telegraph Article Crime Documentary SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) (more…)
Wayne Williams is a Black-American convicted murderer responsible for the killings of 2 adults, and potentially responsible for the murder of more than 20 black youths from 1979 to 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia. Those murders are known as the Atlanta Child Murders. The ultimate question is, did he actually do it? Special Shout out to It’s About Damn Crime who just covered this case as well. Find their coverage here. Sources: Slate Article about Atlanta Monster hosted by Payne Lindsey Biography.Com FBI Files Homosexuality And the State: What the Atlanta Murders Reveal Wayne Williams – Murderpedia Wikipedia – Wayne Williams SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) (more…)
Vaughn Greenwood is a serial killer. He was convicted for the murder of 12 people. The question is: Is he a satanist? Listen in as JV unpacks the story of this madman. Sources: http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/greenwood-vaughn.htm http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Greenwood,%20Vaughn%20-%20fall,%202006.pdf SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read More) (more…)
Kwauhuru Govan allegedly killed a teenage girl and a young gay man in New York City in 2004 and 2005. Join JV as they discuss the case and rage about homophobia, transphobia, and the toxic masculinity that keeps us all in chains. Sources: http://people.com/crime/brooklyn-man-serial-killer-2005-beheading-2004-murder/ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/glennisha-morgan/the-emasculation-of-black_b_3141651.html https://www.aaihs.org/men-without-pants-masculinity-and-the-enslaved/ https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/gender/history.html https://thegrio.com/2012/05/21/the-historic-roots-of-homophobia-in-black-america/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4279966/Beheading-suspect-says-love-victim-s-mother.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/nyregion/kwauhuru-govan-brooklyn-murders.html SUBSCRIBE on RSS Feed at Criminal Musings Connect with JV! Join The Herd! SHOP Criminal Musings Facebook| Twitter| Email| Blazing Caribou Studios| Transcript available on Website (click Read ...