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This week Amanda and Lauren discuss the disappearance of a whole family.

Sources:

• People: Inside the Terrifying Case of an Ivy League Grad Who Had It All, But Killed His Family and Became Fugitive by Christine Pelisek
• People: Her Father Murdered Family and Has Been a Fugitive for Decades: Here's What She'd Say If They Came Face to Face by Christine Pelisek
• People Magazine Investigates: My Father Was a Mass Murderer
• Wikipedia

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This week Lauren and Amanda discuss an infamous heist planned out by masterminds.

Sources:

• Super Heists Season 1 Episode 3: A Van Full of Dollars
• Blog Prep Scholar: The True Story of David Ghannt and the Loomis Fargo Heist posted by Hayley Milliman
• All That’s Interesting: Inside David Ghantt’s Infamous Loomis Fargo Heist In October 1997 by Wyatt Redd
• The Washington Post: Wild Spree Was Big Tip-Off -- Big-Spending Bank Robbers Buy Ticket To Prison by Sue Anne Pressley
• The Telegraph: Loomis Fargo defendants owe as much as they stole in 1997
• Wikipedia
• Let’s Go To Court: A Stalker & a Deeply Stupid Heist

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This week, Amanda and Lauren take you on the wild ride of the infamous incident between Lorena Gallo (formerly Bobbitt) and John Wayne Bobbitt.

Sources:

• Refinery 29: “This Timeline Shows How Lorena Bobbitt Became a National Obsession” by Rachel Paige
• The Independent: “Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband’s penis, shares new revelations in documentary” by Meredith Clark
• The Guardian: “‘I call us the Sisterhood of Ill Repute’: Amanda Knox on bonding with Monica Lewinsky and Lorena Bobbitt” by Amanda Knox (excerpt from her memoir)
• ABC News: “John Bobbitt speaks out 25 years after wife infamously cut off his penis: ‘I want people to understand… the whole story’” by Lauren Effron and Sean Dooley
• History.com: “This Day in History: Lorena Bobbitt maims her husband with a kitchen knife”
• The New Yorker: “The Lorena Bobbitt Story Offers New Lessons on Male Vulnerability” by Rebecca Mead
• Fox9: “John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife sliced off his manhood, loses toes due to toxic water at Camp Lejeune” by Michael Ruiz
• National Domestic Violence Hotline blog: “What Most People Missed When They Watched ‘Lorena’” by Leigh Goodmark
• Wikipedia

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Welcome back Hannah & Sarah! This week Lauren tells them about Brenda Spencer who is often regarded as the first modern school shooter in the United States. Most people know her as the girl who didn’t like Monday’s.

Update: As of February 2025 Brenda Ann Spencer was denied parole for the sixth time.

Sources:

• All That’s Interesting: Brenda Ann Spencer, The Disturbed Perpetrator Behind The 1979 Cleveland Elementary School Shooting by Katie Serena
• This Day In History: School Shooting in San Diego
• Wikipedia

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This week Amanda and Lauren discuss the horrible crimes of Gene Leroy Hart and maybe a crime he didn't commit at all.

Sources:

• Girl Scout Murders.com
• 'People Magazine Investigates': The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, and a Family's Pursuit of Justice by Christine Pelisek
• KOCO: Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: Timeline of events by Brooke Withrow
• News9: Girl Scout Murders: DNA Closes The Case 45 Years Later by Reagan Ledbetter
• The Oklahoman: Answers to Scout Murders Case Gone With Slain Former Suspect by Judy Fossett
• Tulsa World: DNA points to longtime primary suspect in 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout slayings, sheriff says by Tim Stanley
• ABC: 20/20: S45E7Girl Scout Murders
• Keeper of the Ashes: The Girl Scout Murders
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren wrap up their Women's History Month series with the story of the tragic murder of Dominique Dunne, and the injustice that followed.

Sources:

• People Magazine: “What Happened to Dominique Dunne? How Her 1982 Death is Connected to the Menendez Brothers Trial” by Rebecca Aizin
• Cosmopolitan: “The Dominique Dunne Case and Its Connection to Lyle and Erik Menendez, Explained” by Lydia Venin
• Screen Rant: “Poltergeist Actress Murdered: Dominique Dunne’s 1982 Death (& How It Connects to the Menendez Brothers) Explained by Jeffrey Nemon
• Vanity Fair: “Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer” by Dominick Dunne
• Town & Country: “What Happened to Dominique Dunne?” by Emily Burack
• The Tab: “Where is John Sweeney now? Dominique Dunne murder case brought up on Monsters on Netflix” by Hayley Soen
• The Kelly Clarkson Show on YouTube: “Griffin Dunne Opens Up about Sister’s Tragic Death in ‘Friday Afternoon Club’”
• County Office Law on YouTube: “What Happened to Judge Burton Katz”
• Wikipedia

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This week, Lauren and Amanda discuss the tragic stalking and death of actress Rebecca Schaeffer.

Sources:

• E! News: “The Terrifying Rebecca Schaeffer Murder Details: A Star on the Rise and a Stalker’s Deadly Obsession” by Natalie Finn
• ABC News: “Rebecca Schaeffer’s co-star on ‘My Sister Sam’ says she was ‘devastated’ by her murder” by Anthony Rivas
• ABC News: “The day a young actress was on the verge of becoming a big star was killed in cold blood: ‘The world just seemed physically wrong’” by Emily Whipp, Gwen Gowen, and Enjoli Francis
• The Los Angeles Times: “A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America” by Christopher Goffard
• Good Housekeeping: “How Rebecca Schaeffer’s Horrific Murder Led to the Nation’s First Anti-Stalking Law” by Blake Bakkila
• Entertainment Tonight: “Rebecca Schaeffer’s Murder: How Actress’ Death Changed Hollywood and Inspired Anti-Stalking Laws” by Joe Bergren
• Remind Magazine: “‘My Sister Sam’ Star, Rebecca Schaeffer’s Gruesome Murder Happened 35 Years Ago” by Remind Staff
• People Magazine: “How the Murder of Starlet Rebecca Schaeffer by Her Stalker ‘Changed Hollywood’” by People Staff
• Vocal Media: “The Tragic Death of Rebecca Schaeffer and the Birth of Anti-Stalking Laws in America” by Deji Akomolafe
• California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: “Death of actress aided by state’s failure to protect data in 1989”
• Crimes of the Century podcast: “S1 Ep18: Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet”
• 20/20, Season 41, Episode 33: “Your Biggest Fan” (although it was only the first, like, ⅔ of the episode because ABC doesn’t have it online anywhere else that I could find)
• Wikipedia

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This week, Amanda and Lauren continue through Women's History Month by discussing the awful murder of celebrity couples and sex therapist Amie Harwick.

Sources:

• CBS News: “Amie Harwick’s killer ‘wanted to make a statement by killing her on Valentine’s Day,’ says prosecutor” by Erin Moriarty, Richard Fetzer, and Lauren A. White
• CBS News: “How murdered Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick ‘testified’ at her alleged killer’s trial” by Lauren A. White
• CBS News: “The evidence that helped convict Amie Harwick’s killer” by Cameron Rubner
• NBC News: “Ex-boyfriend of celebrity therapist Amie Harwick sentenced to life in prison in her 2020 slaying” by Antonio Planas and Phil Helsel
• ABC 7 Eyewitness News: “Man sentenced to life in prison for killing well-known therapist Amie Harwick in Hollywood Hills” by City News Service
• Oxygen True Crime: “Ex-Boyfriend Fueled By ‘Obsession and Rage’ Plotted Hollywood Sex Therapist’s Murder for a Month: ‘She Was Terrified’” by Caitlin Schunn
• The Guardian: “Ex-boyfriend given life without parole for murder of Hollywood therapist” by Gloria Oladipo
• The Independent: “Drew Carey says he can ‘finally move on’ following sentencing of ex-fiancee’s murderer” by Inga Parkel
• People: “Lawyer for Man Accused of Murdering Hollywood Sex Therapist Amie Harwick Claims She Fell from Balcony by Accident” by KC Baker
• Los Angeles Times: “Man convicted of killing well-known therapist Amie Harwick by throwing her off balcony” by Christian Martinez
• Deadline: “Amie Harwick Murder: Ex-Boyfriend Gets Life Without Parole For Her Slaying - Update” by Dominic Patten
• Forty Eight Hours, Season 37, Episode 18: “Justice for Amie Harwick”
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