MurdHer: Women in Crime

Episode 45: Sherri Papini

Welcome to season 4 of MurdHer! Dani and Gabe are back with a bang to discuss a story full of twists and turns! Sherri Papinni was your average stay at home mom until, one day, 2 women force her into their black van at gunpoint. Tune in to find out who the real villain is in all of this!

 

 

Sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/vanishing-act-sherri-papini-fooled-investigators-family-phony/story?id=90381451

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sherri-papini

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sherri-papini-faked-kidnapping-released-federal-prison-rcna101949

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/sherri-papini-fake-kidnapping-sentence/index.html

Sherri Papini: Lies Lies and More Lies on Peacock

Episode 44: Barbara Stager

Gabe and Dani go off the rails this episode! This episode has it all.. from Monsterpalooza to murder. Barbara Stager was a recent widow when she met Russell who had recently gone through a divorce. They hit it off and got married soon after. They're married for 9 blissful years when Russel begins telling his closest friends that he’s worried his wife might kill him. That’s a sign of a healthy relationship right?! Wrong! Listen in to find out if Russel is correct about his wife. As a pallet cleanser Dani then shares a HerStory!! She covers Lyudmila Pavlichenko, also known as Lady Death.

 

National Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-7233

 

SOURCES: 

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/lyudmila-pavlichenko

https://www.history.co.uk/article/lyudmila-pavlichenko-lady-death-historys-deadliest-female-sniper

Forensic Files Season 5 ep 14

Oxygen's Black Widow Murders Season 1 episode 6

https://www.oxygen.com/black-widow-murders/crime-news/black-widow-killer-barbara-stager-shot-husband-in-head

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article174912241.html

https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/stager-barbara.htm

 

 

Episode 43: Jade Olmstead

Brandy wanted to be a part of a community, no small feat as a LGBTQ person living in a conservative town. She would often drive hours to meet new people. On May 17, 2012 she went off to meet a new potential friend but never returned. With a lack of help from the police, her mom and friends took it upon themselves to solve her disappearance.

 

SOURCES:

Hulu’s How I Caught My Killer Ep 3

https://thecinemaholic.com/jade-olmstead-and-ashley-barber-where-are-the-killers-now/

https://murderpedia.org/female.O/o/olmstead-jade.htm

https://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/woman-serving-life-for-love-triangle-murder-has-request-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-denied/article_401957e6-5321-11e8-89a9-5393a75a7737.html

Episode 42: Stella Nickell

Poison, product tampering, and murder?! Listen to this episode of MurdHer to find out the story of Stella Nickell.

 

Sources: 

https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nickell-stella.htm

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/stella-nickell-serving-90-years-for-planting-poisoned-pills-killing-2-seeks-release-from-prison/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/woman-convicted-for-tampering-with-excedrin

Episode 41: Candy Montgomery

Love & Death, Candy, A Killing in a Small Town…The Candy Montgomery story has been told and retold through the fictionalized lens of the camera many times. On this week’s Murdher, Dani and Gabe dive into the real story of Candy Montgomery and that infamous affair that turned fatal.

 

Sources:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/love-and-death-in-silicon-prairie-part-ii-the-killing-of-betty-gore/

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/love-and-death-in-silicon-prairie-part-i-candy-montgomerys-affair/

https://people.com/crime/people-magazine-investigates-candy-montgomery-suburban-texas-mom-violent-path/

https://people.com/crime/people-magazine-investigates-candy-montgomery-case/

https://www.myimperfectlife.com/features/where-is-candy-montgomery-today

Episode 40: Lana Clayton

Lana Clayton, a nurse from Oklahoma, led a normal life until she crossed paths with Steve Clayton, a self-made millionaire from Florida with six divorces under his belt. The two immediately fell in love and married, but there was no storybook ending for this relationship. A Crossbow, eye drops, and the hunch of a family member unraveled one of the strangest cases we’ve uncovered. Tune in to discover the truth about the stranger than fiction tale that rocked South Carolina’s quiet town of Lake Wylie.

 

SOURCES:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lana-steve-clayton-eye-drop-poison-suffer-48-hours/

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-13749/tetrahydrozoline-ophthalmic-eye/details

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/visine-eye-drop-poisoning.html

https://www.insideedition.com/48-hours-examines-murder-of-steve-clayton-millionaire-husband-poisoned-with-eye-drops-by-wife-lana

Episode 39: Ana Trujillo

On this episode of MurdHer, Dani and Gabe discuss Ana Trujillo. She was smart, gorgeous, and manipulative. She went from a stable, responsible mom to an unemployed couch surfer. We will never know what truly happened on June 9,2013 except that it ended in murder.

 

Sources: 

Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder by Kathryn Casey

https://murderpedia.org/female.T/t/trujillo-ana.htm

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/high-heel-homicide/

 

Episode 38:Laren Renee Sims (AKA Elisa McNabney)

A woman with an IQ of 140 and over 38 aliases? You’d think she would be able to get away with murder.. listen in to find out how it goes!

Episode 37: Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser. The Slenderman Stabbings

This episode of MurdHer covers Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser. These 12 year old girls stabbed their best friend as a sacrifice to the fictional, creepypasta monster named Slenderman. SPOILER ALERT: it didn't work.

Episode 36: Brookey Lee West, The Witch of Vegas

On this episode of MurdHer we cover Brookey Lee West - the Witch of Vegas.
She is considered to be Las Vegas's most notorious female killer.