MurdHer: Women in Crime

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

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

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

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/

 

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!

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.

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. 

On this episode, MurdHer celebrates Valentine’s Day with a classic! The Lonely Hearts Killers were a couple who targeted lonely women looking for love. Martha Beck pretended to be Raymond’s sister to give their targets a false sense of security. 

 

SOURCES:

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha.htm

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/martha-beck-55090.php

https://www.ranker.com/list/lonely-hearts-killers-facts/amandasedlakhevener

 

In this episode, we go deeper into how Belle lured her victims to sell everything, move in with her, and managed to kill so many people before being found out. Check out the conclusion of Belle's story.

 

SOURCES:

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/belle-gunness

In this 2 part episode we deep dive into the infamous Belle Gunness! We first cover Belle’s early life and how she worked her way up from paying rent to live with her sister to owning a 40 acre farm. All it took was a few fires and mysterious deaths..

 

SOURCES:

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/belle-gunness

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness