Crime Con 2026

Shared with Your friends High-Profile Juries. They had one juror from the trials of Kouri Richins and Lori Vallow Daybell. You can see why they may have PTSD. The Daybell juror was most affected and got therapy. They both felt punches in the gut. The Richins jury in Utah went around the table before voting to see what affected each of them. They asked for a lot of paper evidence. It only took three hours to convict. This foreman had three notebooks. Drones followed the jurors to and from their cars parked behind wires. Richins never cried. The juror went straight to bed when she got home. The judge came in after it was over and allowed them to ask any questions they wanted. A private detective texted the juror’s husband after the case, but they did not want to talk to him. People from Detroit to Norway heard of the case. It turns out she and Richins had the same hairdresser. Some of the family members of Richins created a fake online profile on a gay dating site of the lead investigator. On Daybell, the juror first thought she was one of the attorneys; she knew no details, amazingly. That verdict took 1.5 days. The trial took six weeks. Daybell tried to get to leave when the autopsy pics were passed, but the judge denied. The juror wondered what monster could kill her own kids. Daybell doodled and laughed during the trial. She flirted with attorneys. The jury passed time with card games because they couldn’t speak about it. She spent six months in a brain fog afterwards and sought EMDR treatment. She made friends with the bailiffs and asked them what professional she should see, but they were not allowed to participate. Six sessions were paid for. I never thought about this, but can see why. She said she would have died for her kids and that Daybell was full of it and lived on another planet and loved the attention. She did go to her following Arizona trial for a few days. She still has triggers.

1) High-Profile Juries. They had one juror from the trials of Kouri Richins and Lori Vallow Daybell. You can see why they may have PTSD. The Daybell juror was most affected and got therapy. They both felt punches in the gut. The Richins jury in Utah went around the table before voting to see what affected each of them. They asked for a lot of paper evidence. It only took three hours to convict. This foreman had three notebooks. Drones followed the jurors to and from their cars parked behind wires. Richins never cried. The juror went straight to bed when she got home. The judge came in after it was over and allowed them to ask any questions they wanted. A private detective texted the juror’s husband after the case, but they did not want to talk to him. People from Detroit to Norway heard of the case. It turns out she and Richins had the same hairdresser. Some of the family members of Richins created a fake online profile on a gay dating site of the lead investigator. On Daybell, the juror first thought she was one of the attorneys; she knew no details, amazingly. That verdict took 1.5 days. The trial took six weeks. Daybell tried to get to leave when the autopsy pics were passed, but the judge denied. The juror wondered what monster could kill her own kids. Daybell doodled and laughed during the trial. She flirted with attorneys. The jury passed time with card games because they couldn’t speak about it. She spent six months in a brain fog afterwards and sought EMDR treatment. She made friends with the bailiffs and asked them what professional she should see, but they were not allowed to participate. Six sessions were paid for. I never thought about this, but can see why. She said she would have died for her kids and that Daybell was full of it and lived on another planet and loved the attention. She did go to her following Arizona trial for a few days. She still has triggers.

2) No Body Murders. Tad DiBiase was a federal homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He started a book called “I Don’t See Dead People.” There have been 630 such trials since the 1830s. The conviction rate is 87 percent. 58 percent of the victims are female. 91 percent of defendants are male. 52 percent are domestic-related. Treat your missing case like a homicide. Check bank accounts. The body, of course, will give cause of death, time of death and clues to where it happened. The kidnapper/murderer is obviously miles ahead of you in the marathon. It’s like concentric rings of discovery. Some ways of disposal are water (most common), burial, dumpsters, even thrown out of planes. Burned in their own furnace, fed to pigs, boiled. Dismembering likely occurs at the site because it may be hard to get the body out unseen. Pull the drains! Go to cleaning supply stores and ask about overbuyers on tape.

3) Gabby Petito’s mom interviewed a lady trying to solve her mother’s case. She believes her husband did it, but there has been no arrest. She even made 3-D models herself. The mother had abrasions, all toes were broken and there was a brain bleed, yet death cause is undetermined.

4) Nancy Grace discussed Nancy Guthrie, but not much was new. She did not come out of the back door and probably was so ill that she passed and thwarted whatever plan the two, yes two, porch people had in mind. Grace said Petito was identified only by her sweatshirt due to decomposure and bone scattering.

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A former CIA guy taught us how to escape from duct tape—it’s cheap, easy to do and fast for someone to put on you. If your hands are tied, put them high, then with elbows out, forcibly thrust down hard. If around your chest, lean down like you are going to barf hard. If on your feet, shape into a V and do the no place like home and drop quickly. He spoke of running SDRs, surveillance detection routes, if you think you are being followed. Don’t go home. Make plenty of safe parked stops. Check behind you. His wife did this in a store until she found security. She went from lumber, to garden, to dryers. Also, always pay in cash.

K-9s have noses 300 to 500 times stronger than ours. A lady runs a company to get them to law enforcement after being kidnapped, raped and left for dead in the middle of the road and asking if dogs would go get the bad guy. They said they didn’t have the money for dogs. Some try to raise money with carwashes and bake sales, but that would take forever. They were brought to Camp Mystic and found a shoe and stuffed animal when cars were in trees. She turned her wound into something workable.

A girl was 14 when she was sexualized on a nudify app. The person who did it got one day of suspension. She was told there were no laws. Now after being an advocate, she tells perpetrators, “Your home is jail.”

Scott Duffey, former FBI, talked about how to interview. I liked him immediately because “Time for a Cool Change” was his background song. He prepares, engages, listens, faces them, gestures. It’s about rapport and being an extrovert. This can work with your neighbor, on a date or in a job interview. He tells them he has made bad decisions, too. He says he can play dumb or butter them up. He asks what name they want to go by and smiles because he doesn’t feel like they have seen happiness. He called it like a mini production. He said scammers are tough to talk to. He tries to befriend, develop trust and bond because they likely have not experienced love. He wants to see the crime video. He knew he wanted to be in law enforcement interviewer at 5 when he encountered his first lie by his mother who told him his father was asleep in the coffin when he touched his face when he was really dead. Prior to the FBI, Duffey spent 5.5 years in the seminary when he could not get in the Connecticut State Police and their chaplain spoke with him.

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The parents of Kaylee Goncalves and a victim advocate I have heard before discussed ethics. They want to be treated with dignity and respect, but sometimes social media takes after them. It hurts them when their child is in the Idaho 5 for people who take up for BK. It’s the Idaho 4. Weird people get entertainment from this. The parents want to be kept abreast. Victim relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer, for instance, were not told of the documentary. It seems nothing is sacred in the Idaho crime. They don’t even have their daughter’s phone back, yet media want to file Freedom of Information acts to get a hold of what’s in it. The mom was able to at first because she shared an account. The parents are unwilling participants in this crime. There is now a law in Idaho to prevent pictures from death investigations going public. Andy Kahan investigates murderabilia and mentioned serial killer coloring books, trading cards and snow globes. Etsy had an Idaho 4 puzzle. There are recorded screams from crimes and fingernail clippings. Kahan told that seller he was giving them to a Haitian voodoo priest and the sales stopped. There is a Dahmer doll that says open me up for sheer delight to see what I ate last night. Speakeasies have themed killer cocktails and a true crime and dine will have a serial killer call in. You can have an executed killer’s last meal. Remember, there is no timeline for trauma was the message.

In a Hide and Seek podcast, the subject is a missing girl who had four children that she let get adopted, ages 10 to 13 now. She supposedly was changing her life, but had an accident with someone in the car with someone she called her boyfriend when she left her grandmother’s house. But it was her boyfriend’s car and he was at the home they shared. She has not been seen since 2018. On the night of the accident, she rang the bell of an elderly man who said she had no shoes and was bleeding. He gave her a coat, but she disappeared.

Detective Ed Nordskog, a renowned arson investigator and profiler (one of five in the world) solved 52 arson fires in Hollywood in four days. He is the first to write a book about serial arsonists, solving 60 serial cases and working on 2,100. The cases he discussed were in parked cars under apartments or underground parking garages where the criminal used a miniature fire starter log with a chemical booster on top under the front bumper while they were sleeping. There were no injuries; people jumped out of windows. Property losses were in the hundreds of millions. He dressed in black and acted like he was delivering food. His mother caused this, the detective said. She was a prostitute and gave massages. They were German nationalists from Russia and went to Canada and then here after being busted for getting fake boobs with fake money. You can’t make this up. She faked a heart attack and busted out. She then scammed. In a courthouse here with the mom, the son said the place needed to be burned up. She would pose as a new apartment manager and offer cash discounts, then flee. They got prints from a failed attempt; arsonists don’t wear gloves because they expect everything to burn. They got 700 tips by the second night. Yes, they looked for weird, suspicious people, but in Hollywood, everyone is, he said. There are 50 investigative agencies in L.A. that don’t get along. At one meeting where he thought there would be a handful of law enforcement, 200 showed up with a preacher and Congressman and councilman. A lot was staged for the media, such as for show using a K9 that cost the city a lot of money. Asking to “please turn yourself in doesn’t work.” His investigative team walked out. The detective said he kept information close to a few people because it would get sold to TMZ. Criminal dude ate 15 to 18 donuts a day; he was obsessive-compulsive. He only stopped because he ran out of materials. A Ring camera caught his vehicle and he lived across the street from a place that sold the logs and hand torches that he bought on debit. Arson is personal and the first fire was somewhere he once lived. Newspapers with arsons he committed in Germany were in his trash as were the log boxes. Royal Canadian Mounted Police and psychologists were consulted as were German law enforcement on how to interrogate him. Real firefighters from other places in disguise wanted to help solve it. He said fire chiefs do not understand arson. Crimes are solved by canvassing, Nordskog said.

Even the Paul Mauro panel didn’t have much more on Nancy Guthrie, just like Nancy Grace. He said a call was placed to an elderly care group that makes welfare checks, but they don’t work on Sunday. A business card was in the door soon after, probably stepping on blood. He said law enforcement usually stands united at a news conference, but there was an air gap where he asked about who was in charge of the DNA. The local FBI answered that the sheriff had jurisdiction. Mauro said it should have gone to Quantico, the crime lab capital of the world, instead of Florida. He talked about the pulled camera possibly still working by battery in the getaway car and maybe capturing voice or an accent. Mrs. Guthrie did not pay for the cloud. He does believe they checked people recently released from jail and those who committed similar crimes. Mauro said there are so many hanging chads. These kidnappers are either lucky or it was well planned. The video shows a male due to body language and a male’s ability to move the body. If looking down, those in that area usually do because of snakes. His stay in Arizona was from boredom to panic. They ate and slept when they could. To use the restroom, he presented NYPD patches at the sheriff’s office. I did not know there was a kidnapping in Vegas in 1994 of Steve Wynn’s daughter, Kevyn, from her home. Her dad paid the $1.45 million ransom. She was found alive, tied up in a car near the airport. One of the goofballs went to buy a Ferrari with cash. Frank Sinatra Jr. was also kidnapped. Picture.

There are 5,000 to 6,000 cults worldwide. A mother spoke of her missing daughter and granddaughter, 2, and others from St. Louis three years ago. She was supposedly in the Cosmic Cult. They have subscribers on social media. She moved out, telling her mother she was on a spiritual journey. She gave her mother T-shirts for Christmas, unusual. One with a candle and one with a crystal. She worked remotely, but hadn’t logged in in a week. The other two missing who moved in with her did psychic readings and classes. The man may have been the No. 2 guy in the cult who has to prove his allegiance. The house was not in disarray. They had moon water with coins in it above their house number. An audience member said people in the South do this to keep flies and bees away. The man was called Eye Am. The missing woman wrote Eye Am this, that and the other on the mirror. Like Eye Am meditating. Separation is a natural component of coercive behavior (leaving your old life behind), said the presenter, adding that cults don’t want dumb people. Most victims are recovered. There are either abductions by family, stranger or endangered runaway.

Joseph Scott Morgan spoke with the Othram owner about a body in the freezer for a year that got identified while moderately decomposed, giving his older siblings an answer after 40 years. He said eyes deceive in identifications sometimes because they want to leave the room. Othram says molars are the best spot to obtain DNA, as well as the petrous bones in the skull. This guy had no teeth, so Morgan sent Othram two of the petrous bones. Some skeletons are kept in boxes, and that is not good, said Morgan who travels a lot. There are 15,000 unidentified remains and that is underestimated. Not all states report bodies, Morgan said. Shame on Louisiana for being one of those. This is non-partisan! Picture. They briefly mentioned Septic Tank Sam, who was happened upon and identified after being in a septic tank for 44 years through genetic DNA.

Dr. Casey Jordan discussed female serial killers. Members of the audience could go on and on listing male killers. Females kill for material gain. They usually use poison. Men kill for power, thrill, hedonistic reasons and from being transient. One thought his blood was turning to dust and he needed to replenish it, which he did by putting pets in a blender to make puppy shakes, thinking he was a vampire, obviously mentally ill. Women could be “angels of death.” Vulnerable people are subjects—children, elderly, homeless and the infirm. Some kill to please a partner. Andrea Yates is a mass murderer because she drowned all her kids at the same time in an outburst.

The Ohio dentist murder of that handsome couple. Her ex who was arrested was at the house on Dec. 6 while they were at an Ohio-Indiana football game, it was discovered. She left the game to go back to the hotel, saying it had to do with her ex. They had been divorced for 10 years and had no kids. She was married to the dentist for seven. There is still question as to how he got in. There are numerous cameras all up and down the street and in back of the houses. The ex, a vascular surgeon, was named in a lawsuit six months before he did this and they couldn’t find him to serve him.

On Aug. 6, be sure to watch the Discovery Channel for a documentary on the three dudes who escaped Alcatraz in 1962. They were presumed drowned, but a nephew of two says otherwise. They had a homemade raft inflated with a concertina and wet suits, practiced acclimating to cold water with wet towels every night and learned about tide tables. The brothers had cells next to each other. The band played while they drilled the walls and they had dummy heads in their beds when they were down the way. Nephew said they were flown to South America. There is a heavily sourced book about this. The uncles married and had kids, but the kids have not been contacted. They supposedly lived to 2011 and 2016 and it is said that they sent flowers to their mom every Mother’s Day and attended her funeral dressed as unusual women in heavy makeup. It’s a small prison of 250. Whitey Bolger was there. The U.S. Marshal Service has three warrants out, but the nephew is asking President Trump to close this case and have their items returned. The third brother served time in an Alabama prison and died there. There is a museum there in Columbia.

Josh Mankiewicz spoke about how he never thought a crime show would work. He said, “Clearly, do not ask me for ideas.” When asked what he would change, he said he would have worked for Dateline sooner.

Didn't get much of out of 20/20 presentation. Recapped shows. Did not know Erin Moriarty was a twin.

Scott Peterson’s attorney has new evidence. Gag. This case was 24 years ago in December, one of the most famous in the U.S. There will be a show on A&E on July 16-17. People say they saw Laci after the time of death. There is no DNA on the boat. Mark Geragos sleeps fine, but what keeps him up is thinking Scott is innocent. When he thought about taking the case, he thought if he won he would be deemed a loser and if he lost a loser. Bomb threats went to his house; his website crashed. He represented Michael Jackson prior. A man or monster sign in a van circled the courthouse. He divided potential jurors into three bins at his hotel: crazies, follow up with, lying way into the panel. A J.D./M.D was foreman. They were not sequestered except for in deliberation. One juror felt threatened by another juror. Geragos is saying there is no direct evidence or it was hidden and leads were not pursued. He called it a demeanor case with junk science. I’m wondering how you reverse a case when you used what you had at the time.

They want Alex Murdaugh to wear a suit, it was just said on the news. I listened to his housekeeper. She was in the Navy. She and her husband got to decide between Texas and South Carolina at some point. She was a translator for Alex’s clients and a good friend to Maggie, taking care of the house. Toward the time of the murders, she said Alex was sleeping in more, ran late for work and was not focused. The property had a hangar, gas pumps, skinning shed and barn. Blanca said she turned off the radio the day of the murders because she did not want to remember that. She got the house ready for Maggie’s parents. She found it unusual that pots were missing off the stove and Maggie’s pajamas were in the middle of the doorway--flat--like someone placed them there. She said a rookie came to the house. She said Paul would stop on the side of the road to help someone or give the shirt off of his back. In Alex’s truck she noticed a towel from the laundry room, which she called her office. She said she felt like part of the family and sat in on the funeral arrangements with Maggie’s mother. She said Maggie had a sorority girl laugh. Blanca has been to therapy, wants the media to give Buster a break though they do not keep in touch. She wrote Alex a letter, saying she felt betrayed and angry. She has written a New York Times bestseller.

The Yogurt Shop evidence was not that great due to firemen putting out the fire. Matt Murphy talked about compassionate release in California at age 50. The wrongly accused who confessed got a $35 million settlement. This was called a uniquely disturbing caseStalking is emotional terrorism. This was a panel who has been there. One wanted to impregnate her 6-year-old daughter. 13.5 million are stalked every year in the U.S. 86 percent of women murdered were stalked first. It should not be minimized. Someone called it a non-crime crime because little can be done until something happens. One who got caught was a nurse in memory care. Those people are not going to remember what that guy did.

A girl did not know she was missing since age 3. She is now 48. Her mother pretended she had a job in a different state and took her with a rich guy twice her age who had money. She now has two names and an identity crisis. Her birthday is six months from what she thought. The mom told her the records were burned in a fire. The person was finally caught in a Crime Stoppers tip by facial recognition. In investigating herself, she kept a binder and is now reading it backwards. She has now met her real dad and his 13 siblings. She always wanted a big family. They really didn’t want the mom to get jail time, just to show compassion. She did not apologize. The dad got a new heart one year and his daughter the next. The dad’s family auctioned a dollhouse to raise funds for his search. Eventually the person who got the house gave it back when the whole story was revealed.

A rape victim now advocates. The dude had a son and a wife. It happened in Arizona and she moved to California. When he was caught, he was living on 41st Street and she was on 40th unbeknownst. Some who give the rape kits are not trained and some have inherent training. She decided to testify when she realized she was going to have a daughter. Her legs felt stuck in cement walking to the stand. His family was at the trial. She was hoping to not humanize him, but they were on her side. His sister became a detective. Some states take DNA for every felony arrest and some don’t. That led to catching hers. She said some states take draped mug shots now to show no bias—clothing, tats, jewelry. She said people can speak from the wound or the scar. She is in front of it now. She said the goddess of the healing process, Aceso, helped her.

Cognitive control is ongoing domination through intimidation, isolation, regulation and deprivation of liberty. Control in politics like Kim Jung-Un wants you to focus on him. A person’s patriotism should never be undervalued. You don’t want this weaponized through fear, division, loyalty, tests and false promises. Employee exploitation. Ambition should never be abused. Shifting people’s trust away from independent thinking and onto company or the person at the top. Love can be weaponized as are things sacred to others. This kind of control is not loyalty. It’s forced compliance. Like undue influence for will signing under the guise of protection. Social influence manipulation--they push the vulnerable into compliance. The Bite model is behavior, information (filtering what people see, hear, question and trust), thought (coercive groups train people to replace independent thought with approved thought) and emotional (fear, guilt, shame and loyalty are used to keep people compliant and afraid to question or leave). He does this talk all for Ian Wing, 3 months old, who died after 29 rib fractures, two broken arms and being squeezed to death like ferrets in the household were.

I really should have taken CJ101. Crime Con videos are done!

Camp Swamp Road 9/9/23 about Stand Your Ground. Her audio reporting was a Pulitzer finalist. Scott Spivey was shot in the back at a high rate of speed, 115. The street was family-owned land since the Civil War. 29 shots were fired between the two. The shooter is free, but the victim’s sister has his phone recordings and cover ups for the civil case. The officer told the shooter to act like a victim. The police said they had the right people coming. Not self defense. 28 pieces of music were created for the podcast. His body was hauled in a tow truck due to rain? The coroner is supposed to transport the body. Passenger granted immunity. It was two miles from North Carolina where laws are different.

Matt Murphy: You don’t get any more guilty than Scott Peterson. And the Menendez brothers killed for money. Jail phones deserve a medal. You leave your cell in the car at a parole hearing. Shoelaces are taken away in jail. He talked about Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. The series is built around the idea that both Ralph and Sam are just doing their jobs. Most of the cartoons begin at the beginning of the workday, in which they both arrive at a sheep-grazing meadow, exchange pleasant chitchat and punch into the same time clock. Work having officially begun, Ralph repeatedly tries very hard to abduct the helpless sheep and invariably fails, either through his own ineptitude or the minimal efforts of Sam (he is frequently seen sleeping), who always brutally punishes Ralph for the attempt. At the end-of-the-day, Ralph and Sam punch out their time cards, again chat amiably, and leave, presumably only to come back the next day and do it all again.

Why and how gives you the who. A worker can get the layout of your house. If you are single, leave male stuff around, Distance and lighting come into play in IDs.

Where were you on the 5th? John Kenda worked on 387 cases and solved 356 for 92 percent. Always look at the mantel. Is there a dust mark? Is something missing? He has five recurring nightmares and is sleep divorced. He has seen death by every means except nuclear and some where you don’t know the sex. He gave bad news himself and had all types of reactions: assault, silence, laughter and tears. The first thing to do at the scene is stop the circus. Find out who is not there that’s supposed to be. Who didn’t show up at work that day? Go detect! He pictures people covered in touch buttons. Guilty people must lie because innocent ones don’t. He gets the story and asks them to repeat it and it is different if they did it. His wife had a threatening caller who knew the carpet color and called 911. She heard rattling at the window of a bedroom. She went out the front door and said: Come out or I’ll shoot you while in a peignoir. It was the cop sent to investigate who should have notified her he was checking the windows. Joe pulled up and told her what she had on and he never saw it again.

Behavior Panel. We have social needs-- smart and safe needs. You must resonate in the interview with the right need. There is overkill—necrophilia and cannibalism. Some serial killers learn from childhood to be shocking and unpredictable to stay safe. Some care what people think. Being crazy is your own protection if you are not in a group.

There was no John Ramsey this year. Random: you could wear double-sided duct tape on your shoes to catch hair of an intruder. Spit on the ground. By 18, an average American child has witnessed roughly 40,000 simulated murders on TV and media.

And a little JFK now that CC is over. Lee Oswald would have had to be driven to get to where Officer Tippet was in the time frame that was given. One man’s research is different from the FBI’s. Tippet had a pregnant mistress. Did they look into that? Empty casings don’t match up with some in his body. There were supposedly four shots.