Mysterious Mavens

This week Denae tells Kim about a man who apparently started a flood to keep partying. Do we think he's guilty or investigation got lazy and decided it was him for no reason? Sources: Criminal- Catastrophe The Dollop- Episode 216 Catastrophe Jim James Scott (criminal) - Wikipedia James Scott has spent 30 years in prison for causing the flood of 1993. Not everyone believes he's guilty | State News | columbiamissourian.com by EJ Haas YouTube:Causing a Natural Disaster to Party: The Case of James Scott | Overlooked Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim tells Denae about how a lawyer believed a client and with the help of the show "Curb your Enthusiasm" saved this man's life! Sources: Killer destinations: Juan Catalan What’s up Fool episode 561 with Juan Catalan The exoneration of Juan Catalan thanks to curb your enthusiasm ‘The car pool lane’ Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim about the fraudulent music manager who made the Backstreet Boys and N' Sync internationally famous. And details how he had a decades-long Ponzi scheme that took millions from unsuspecting investors. Team N'Sync!!! Sources: Dirty Pop NetFlix Special The True Story of Lou Pearlman in 'Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam' - Netflix Tudum Lou Pearlman Ran 1 of America’s Biggest Ponzi Schemes | A&E by Lauren Piester Lou Pearlman - Wikipedia Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod Our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week we go back to 2000's (the later days of myspace) and Kim tells Denae about the FarmVille murders. Sources: Hell no: A true crime podcast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrorcore Haunted Autopsy: the case of the FarmVille murders Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim about the "bling ring" Sources: people.com The True Story of 'The Bling Ring' by Skyler Caruso Bling Ring - Wikipedia Netflix Documentary: 'The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist' Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim tells Denae about the death of Marilyn Monroe. What the media knows and what may have actually happened. Are the conspiracies true? Or what we were told was what happened? Sources: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/marilyn-monroe-marries-arthur-miller Hollywoodland part 1 and 2 Marilyn Monroe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Marilyn_Monroe https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945713014718 Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim all about the ghosts haunting Denver’s famous Brown Palace! Sources: The Brown Palace Hotel - Denver Terrors Blog historycolorado.org The Rule of Three | History Colorado by Shelby Carr Neuhauser The Most Haunted Hotels In Denver - Denver Terrors Blog Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim all about the ghosts haunting Denver’s famous Brown Palace! Sources: The Brown Palace Hotel - Denver Terrors Blog historycolorado.org The Rule of Three | History Colorado by Shelby Carr Neuhauser The Most Haunted Hotels In Denver - Denver Terrors Blog Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim tells the story of Nathan Carman, a story that keeps getting worse and worse. Sources: Serialously: Nathan Carman https://people.com/details-the-carman-family-deaths-left-out-11854694 Netflix: The Carman family murders Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

The world is feeling a little heavy right now so this week Denae tells us an inspiring "true crime story" about two sister heroes! Sources: The opera-loving sisters who 'stumbled' into heroism - BBC News Louise Cook (humanitarian) - Wikipedia Mary Burchell - Wikipedia YouTube: The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters'… by Ida Cook · Audiobook preview jewishvirtuallibrary.org Ida and Louise Cook Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT This week Kim tells Denae the insanely graphic, yet inspiring story of Alison Botha Sources: Morbid: Attempted murder of Alison Botha Murder with my husband https://womenforchange.co.za/take-action/parole-of-alison-bothas-rapist/ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-10-14-the-woman-who-refused-to-be-a-victim-alison-botha-fights-for-her-life-a-second-time/ Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim about the creepiest rideshare driver in Denver! Sources: NBCNews.com Former Denver rideshare driver sentenced to 290 to life for assaulting a dozen women by Phil Helsel March 7, 2025 John Pastor-Mendoza Convicted of Sexually Assaulting and Kidnapping Numerous Women While Posing as a Ride-Share Driver – Denver DA 'We all survived the same monster': Survivors of rideshare driver found guilty of kidnapping, assault speak Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim covers the most prolific female serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Sources: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a69219126/how-many-people-did-aileen-wuornos-kill/ https://capitalpunishmentincontext.org/node/77455 Monster https://www.britannica.com/question/How-was-Aileen-Wuornos-caught Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Denae tells Kim the abysmal story of the Yogurt Shop murders. Sources: Significant Breakthrough Made in 1991 I Can't Believe It's Yogurt Murders | AustinTexas.gov 09/29/25 The Austin, Texas, yogurt shop murders: Families, investigators remain haunted by unsolved case - CBS News By Erin Moriarty Ruth Chenetz, Stephanie Slifer, Anthony Venditti 12/12/25 DNA helps solve 'haunting' yogurt shop quadruple killings more than 3 decades later - ABC News By Emily Shapiro 09/29/25 Crime Junkie Podcast Infamous: Yogurt Shop Murders Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim tells Denae about Jackie and Thomas Hawks and how their beautiful life was ended so callously Sources: Murder with my husband episode 279 Dateline ‘the last voyage’ Killafornia dreaming episode #14 48 hours the dark voyage Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

For the first episode of the year Denae concludes her Colorado Cryptids Series with The Slide Rock Bolter and Tommy Knockers! Sources: Colorado Silver Boom - Wikipedia Knocker (folklore) - Wikipedia Tommyknockers of the Western Mines – Legends of America NOT ALONE IN THE MINES: The legend of Colorado's "Tommyknockers" - Denver Gazette by Piper Russell Oct. 6, 2025 Tommyknockers — Astonishing Legends Slide-Rock Bolter | Cryptid Wiki Slide-Rock Bolter | Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods "The Slide-Rock Bolter" from The Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (1910) by William T. Cox Find us on Instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod our Gmail: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Not to braaaaag but our website: mysteriousmavenspod.com Please rate us 5 stars!!! and as always SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!!

This week Kim tells Denae the story about a body found in a chimney. Sources: True crime all the time Mile higher podcast https://medium.com/@nikyoung/how-did-joshua-maddux-die-in-the-chimney-of-an-abandoned-cabin-7502be457cb7 Coffeehouse crime To see pictures of the cases and other cases check us out on instagram: Mysterious Mavens pod To send us cases suggestions, simply to say hi, questions, self care tips: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Please rate us 5 stars!! and as always... SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF and Happy holidays!!

This week Denae continues her Colorado cryptic theme and gives us another story of the Lafayette Vampire! Sources: The Lafayette Vampire November 30, 2024 by Doug Conarroe www.lafayettehistory.com/the-lafayette-vampire/ Spanish flu - Wikipedia Vampire Grave of Lafayette - Atlas Obscura by Devin Woodall Please follow us on instagram: Mysterious Mavens pod Email us stories, self care tips, story suggestions, or to say hi! at mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Please rate us 5 stars! and as always... SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!

This week Kim tells Denae an insane story that takes place right before Christmas. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34586215.amp Gruesome: Horrific true crime Totally true crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-secret-relationship-that-ended-in-a-christmas-murder/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/christmas-crimes/5 Please rate our podcast 5 stars and subscribe!! Instagram: Mysterious Mavens pod email: mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com Tell us stories, self care tips, and any cases you want us to talk about! SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!

This week Denae tells Kim an urban legends in their neck of the woods that they both hadn't heard before! Sources: The Hatchet Lady of Red Rocks | Denver Horror Collective by Adrianne Montoya Posted on May 5, 2019 by joshsworstnightmare Colorado Connie Blog Notes: The Hatchet Lady of Morrison October 18, 2020 coloradostories.online/about-1/f/the-hatchet-lady-of-morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre Haunted Secrets - Hashtag Denver October 12, 2024 The Westword: The Complete History of Red Rocks Amphitheatre By Emily Ferguson March 7, 2025 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Please please please subscribe and rate our podcast 5 stars!! Doing so puts our podcast in front of others like you!! To see pictures and interact follow us on instagram at: Mysterious Mavens Pod For self care tips, stories of your own, story suggestions or simply saying hi please email us at: Mysteriousmavenspod@gmail.com and as always... SELF CARE FOR YOURSELF!!