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Episode 70 - The Simmons Family
Send us a textIn December 1987, over the course of a single week, Ronald Gene Simmons brutally killed 14 members of his own family. They included wife Becky, his children Gene Jr, Loretta, Eddy, Marianne, Becky, Billy, and Sheila, his grandchildren Barbara, Trae, Sylvia, and Michael, his daughter-in-law Renate, and his son-in-law Dennis. Not content with slaughtering his family, Simmons then murdered a former co-worker, Kathy Kendrick, and an innocent bystander, Jim Chaffin and wounded many other people in the process. It remains one of the deadliest familicides in American history. Simmons was executed by lethal injection in 1990. This is the story of the Simmons Family. Information and support  Samaritans UK Contact Us | Samaritans Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) Home - AAFDA Women’s Aid Home - Women's Aid National Domestic Abuse Helpline UK 0808 2000 247 Mental health support USA Mental Health America | Homepage | Mental Health America Domestic abuse helpline USA 1.800.799.SAFE Domestic Violence Support | National Domestic Violence Hotline References  Ronald Gene Simmons–True Crime All The Time – Apple Podcasts Simmons, Ronald Gene - Encyclopedia of Arkansas Ronald Gene Simmons - Wikipedia Something snapped in Ronald Gene Simmons in December 1987.... - UPI Archives Mass Slayer Abused Wife, Got Daughter Pregnant, In-Laws Say - Los Angeles Times Credits  Hosted and created by Clare Laxton @ladylaxton  Produced by: Clare Laxton   Killer in the family podcast (buzzsprout.com) Music from Pixabay.  Support the showKiller in the family podcast is a total labour of love. If you'd like to support me please buy me a coffee or tea!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clarelaxton
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Episode 69 - The Gossett Family
Send us a textIn February 2018, in the quiet town of Derrylin, Northern Ireland, a fire tore through a remote bungalow. Inside were the bodies of four family members — Denise Gossett, 45, her children Sabrina, 19, and Roman, 16, and Sabrina’s baby daughter, 15-month-old Morgana. The only survivor was Denise’s partner, 33-year-old Daniel Allen — the man responsible for their murders. Allen was a violent, coercive, and controlling man who forced the family to live under different names, isolated them from the outside world, and moved them from place to place to maintain his grip on them. His campaign of terror ended in a deliberate act of unspeakable violence. Today, Allen is serving a 29-year life sentence — one of the longest ever handed down in Northern Ireland — for the brutal, calculated murder of an entire family. This is the story of the Gossett Family. Information and support · Samaritans UK Contact Us | Samaritans · Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) Home - AAFDA· Women’s Aid Home - Women's Aid· National Domestic Abuse Helpline UK 0808 2000 247· Mental health support USA Mental Health America | Homepage | Mental Health America· Domestic abuse helpline USA 1.800.799.SAFE Domestic Violence Support | National Domestic Violence Hotline References Derrylin fire: 'Strange' story of Daniel Allen who killed family - BBC News Man jailed for 29 years over house fire that killed three generations of same family Man who killed three generations of family has ‘disturbing part of make-up’ | The Standard PPS statement following sentencing of Daniel Allen | Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland Derrylin: Children's murders 'could not have been anticipated' - BBC News ‘Horrific and cruel’: Man jailed for deaths of four family members in Fermanagh fire – The Irish Times Court judgement The King v Daniel Sebastian Allen.pdf Credits Hosted and created by Clare Laxton @ladylaxton Produced by: Clare Laxton Killer in the family podcast (buzzsprout.com)Music from Pixabay. Support the showKiller in the family podcast is a total labour of love. If you'd like to support me please buy me a coffee or tea!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clarelaxton
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Episode 68 - Interview with Kim Davis from Slaycation Podcast
Send us a textKim Davis co-hosts the Slaycation podcast alongside husband Adam Davis and friend Jerry Kolber. The podcast – which I absolutely love – explores cases of murder, mysterious deaths and disappearances while on vacation – or holiday as well call it in the UK. I highly recommend that you check it out and add it to your podcast list. Kim is a trained social worker specialising in domestic abuse and has worked in domestic abuse shelters in her career. She has expert insight into the impact of domestic abuse and the behaviours of domestic abuse perpetrators. She is also a fan of true crime and does the majority of the research for Slaycation – trying to find an answer to why people commit such horrific crimes. This is our interview with Kim Davis from Slaycation podcast. Information and support · Samaritans UK Contact Us | Samaritans · National Domestic Violence Helpline UK 0808 2000 247 · Women’s Aid Home - Women's Aid· Mental health support USA Mental Health America | Homepage | Mental Health America· Domestic abuse helpline USA 1.800.799.SAFE Domestic Violence Support | National Domestic Violence Hotline References About Slaycation: The Team Behind the True Crime Podcast Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations | Podcast on Spotify Credits Hosted and created by Clare Laxton @ladylaxton Produced by: Clare Laxton Killer in the family podcast (buzzsprout.com)Music from Pixabay. Support the showKiller in the family podcast is a total labour of love. If you'd like to support me please buy me a coffee or tea!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clarelaxton
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Episode 67 - Laura Wallen and Reid
Send us a textOn the first day of school at Wild Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland in September 2017, beloved social studies teacher Laura Wallen didn’t turn up and had vanished without a trace. Just days later, her body was discovered in a shallow grave — shot dead. Laura was four months pregnant which a wanted child called Reid. The man accused of killing her was her boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, Tyler Tessier. He was arrested for her murder but would never face justice, taking his own life in prison a year later.This is the story of Laura Wallen and Reid.Information and support · Samaritans UK Contact Us | Samaritans · Women’s Aid Home - Women's Aid· National Domestic Abuse Helpline UK 0808 2000 247· Mental health support USA Mental Health America | Homepage | Mental Health America· Domestic abuse helpline USA 1.800.799.SAFE Domestic Violence Support | National Domestic Violence Hotline References Laura Wallen: Pregnant high school teacher was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, Tyler TessierLaura Wallen: How Did She Die? Who Killed Her?MURDERED: Laura Wallen | Crime Junkie PodcastFather of slain Montgomery Co. teacher says student tribute comforted family - WTOP News Murdered mother's family speaks outWho Is Tyler Tessier? 9 Things To Know In Columbia Teacher's Murder | Columbia, MD PatchHomicide leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S. | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthGovernor Hogan signs Laura and Reid's LawCredits Hosted and created by Clare Laxton @ladylaxton Produced by: Clare Laxton Killer in the family podcast (buzzsprout.com)Music from Pixabay. Support the showKiller in the family podcast is a total labour of love. If you'd like to support me please buy me a coffee or tea!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clarelaxton
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Episode 66 - The Romand Family
Send us a textIn January 1993, a house fire tore through the Romand family home in Prévessin-Moëns, near the French-Swiss border. Inside, Florence Romand and her two young children, Antoine and Caroline, were dead. Jean-Claude Romand — husband, father, and apparent survivor — was clinging to life. But what first looked like a devastating accident quickly unravelled into something far darker: the calculated murder of an entire family and the exposure of a man who had spent his life living a lie. Jean-Claude Romand wasn’t just a killer — he was a master deceiver who had faked his career, manipulated those closest to him, and, in a final act of horror, murdered his wife, children, and parents to stop the truth from coming out. He survived, was convicted, and in 2019, after 26 years behind bars, walked free. This is the story of the Romand Family. Information and support · Samaritans UK Contact Us | Samaritans · National Domestic Violence Helpline UK 0808 2000 247 · Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) Home - AAFDA· Women’s Aid Home - Women's Aid· National Domestic Abuse Helpline UK 0808 2000 247· Mental health support USA Mental Health America | Homepage | Mental Health America· Domestic abuse helpline USA 1.800.799.SAFE Domestic Violence Support | National Domestic Violence Hotline References The Adversary: Amazon.co.uk: Carrere, Emmanuel, Coverdale, Linda: 9780747551898: Books Jean-Claude Romand | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Frenchman who killed his entire family after fraudulently posing as a doctor released from jail | Daily Mail Online Jean-Claude Romand: Fake French doctor who killed family is free - BBC News Jean-Claude Romand: The fake doctor turned family annihilator | by Ominous Nights | Medium Deadly fantasist | | The Guardian Credits Hosted and created by Clare Laxton @ladylaxton Produced by: Clare Laxton Killer in the family podcast (buzzsprout.com)Music from Pixabay. Support the showKiller in the family podcast is a total labour of love. If you'd like to support me please buy me a coffee or tea!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clarelaxton
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