Shill Kill

Just as San Francisco or New York City can set the tone for a romantic comedy, the ocean can set the tone for something more deadly. It's about the muffled sound and what can't be seen underneath, among a host of other things. In the first episode of Drowning Verdict, I talk about a few true crime cases that took place on the water. And how a body miraculously floated from Santa Catalina Island all the way to LA County...

The Eagles Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the highest selling rock album of all time. In 1976 they released Hotel California, arguably the most played single in the history of rock radio. But from 1975-1985 something much more sinister was happening in California with serial killers. And the numbers are truly insane. In this episode of Drowning Verdict, I talk about the seedier side of California. The lonely motel just around the bend of a dark desert highway...

In this episode of Drowning Verdict, I discuss a few cold cases where finding the distant cousins on a family DNA tree and working back from the limbs to the base and then down to the roots brought justice so that verdicts could be rendered. What is GEDmatch and how does Parabon Nano Labs work in conjunction with cold case detectives on using the genealogy database to find a pool of suspects?

The shooting death of a successful Newport Beach entrepreneur in 1994 has many story-lines. There's the black widow/fraudster who was convicted of orchestrating the last day of her Sugar Daddy. Then there's the washed-up NFL player/bouncer, Eric Naposki, who followed her lead straight into the clink. In this episode of Drowning Verdict I talk about the motivating factor, the characters involved and why it happened in the same setting as other cases I've covered...

Are we now living in the ugly content era of which Ted Bundy had once warned us? Thirty years after his execution, the content pumped through the big screens in our homes has surely changed. No longer is it the family-centered plots of The Cosby Show and The Golden Girls that dominate the conversation. It's Tiger King and everything it implores.