If you love travel and true crime, this is the podcast for you. Sandi will tell you true crime stories or crazy travel stories and a little bit about the history and landscape of the places where they occur. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 19 minutes
episode 21: Murder on the Appalachian Trail
‘I held still’, she said. Kirby Morel pretended to be dead in order to survive a knife attack on the Appalachian Trail. She had just witnessed a friend being stabbed to death by the same killer. She then had to hike 6 miles or 10 kms through the dark to find help. She was bleeding profusely, unable to use one of her arms. She tried to use duct tape to patch her injured leg which kept spurting blood, but there was too much...
episode 21: Lamu, Social media star set on fire and killed while live streaming in China.
Lamu a Tibetan farmer and a social media influencer was attacked by her husband during a live stream. She was recording in her kitchen with about 400 of her followers watching the when a man entered the kitchen. Lamu’s video went blank but followers heard her screams as her ex-husband held a knife to her neck and then set her on fire after dousing her with gasoline. She died 2 weeks later from her injuries. Her death has sparked domestic violence awareness and reform in China...
episode 22: Incest, Molestation and Pedophilia on Pitcairn Island
Incest, pedophilia, and rape are not the things you want in your mind when your are thinking of an island paradise. More likely, cold drinks, warm sand and sun are at the top of your list. Sadly, what many believe to be an island paradise was rocked with allegations of sexual depravity when several young local girls came forward with information about several of the men living on Pitcairn Island...
episode 23: Crime and Punishment in St. Lucia, The murder of Roget Pratt
Margaret and Roger Pratt planned for years to make their retirement plans come true. They dreamed of a retirement which included living aboard their sailboat full time and sailing all over the world. They had sailed for years, decades really, on weekends and long vacations. Their time and experience sailing led up to the purchase of a beautiful 41 foot steel cutter. A sailboat named the Magnetic Attraction...
episode 24: Genius, Murderer, Master Manipulator or all three? This is John McAfee
Genius, murderer, inventor, rapist, these are all words that have been used to describe John McAfee. His tale is scandalous, violent, and has more twists and turns then most could come up with in a fictional story. Yep, this one is a doozy. DONATE: One time: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3248826752172032881 Monthly: The link is at the very bottom of this page. Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtravelandtruecrime https://www.instagram...
episode 25: Buried Alive! Survivor Story
Michelina Lewandowska, 27 years old and a young mother, was tasered with a stun gun multiple times. She was then bound and gagged and shoved into a cardboard box. Her one-time fiancé Marcin Kasprzak taped the box closed and attempted to murder her by burying her alive. Then Michelina, incredibly brave and strong-willed, escaped from her shallow grave in the woods...
episode 28: Something Fishy is Going on Here. Carole Packman
Sam Gillingham believed her mother had walked out on her at 16 years old. The full story only begins to emerge when her father falls overboard while chartering a yacht, but it’s what she finds out after her father disappears that is so shocking and so unexpected. It turns Sam's world completely upside down. You don't want to miss this episode and I don’t want to spoil this one because it’s got some twists and turns! DONATE: One time: https://venmo...
episode 29: Juliane Koepcke, the amazing survivor story of a girl who fell from a plane and then survived a harrowing trek through the Amazon.
Some survival stories are so incredible that they are almost unbelievable. This is the case with a young girl who survived a devastating plane crash which left her stranded and alone in the middle of the Amazon jungle. How could she have survived not only the miracle of a fall from almost 2 miles above the earth but a second miracle of surviving for 10 days in one of the wildest and most dangerous places on earth. This is the story of Juliane Koepcke. DONATE: One time: https://venmo...
episode 30: The Mignonette, Cannibalism at Sea
Is murder ever justified? Yes, you say, it it's self defense. I agree but what if you take self defense out of the equation? Maybe you are thinking, well if the person is a murderer themselves and that person is sentenced to death. That might be ok, too. Are there more instances where murder is justified? The sailor in the story I’m about to share with you believed that it was. He hoped others would believe him too...
episode 30: The Ogre of Fez - Moulay Hassen, the murderess who fed her victim to her cats.
Moulay Hassen, also known as Moulay the Nightingale and the Ogre of Fez has quite an interesting history. By the time Moulay had reached 47 years old she had been running a fairly exclusive harem in one of her three homes in Fez, Morocco. For many years, there had been whispers about this woman who was once beautiful but now had a face and a heart as hard as the jewels she wore all over her body...