Sun Crime State Podcast

Aileeen Wuornos murdered seven men 30 years ago up and down Central Florida and remains the most recent woman executed in Florida. Guests: Defense attorney and special prosecutor David Damore, , former Volusia County Sheriff Bob Vogel, Ocala Star-Banner reporter Joe Callahan, and former Star-Banner reporter Laura Byrnes.

Police name a suspect in the 14-year-old Daytona Serial Killer case; the same suspect charged in the 2016 death of a prostitute in Palm Beach County. Susan Perkins died after jumping from a moving car in an effort to escape her kidnapper in Altamonte Springs 15 years ago. The case remains unsolved. Special guests: Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, former Daytona Beach News-Journal reporters Lyda Longa and Seth Robbins, Altamonte Springs Police Detective Bill Nuzzi and Perkins' sister Sara Wakefield.

Gary Ray Bowles goes on a murdering spree 25 years ago up and down the Interstate 95 corridor from Daytona Beach to suburban Maryland. The "I-95 Killer" becomes the 99th death row inmate to be executed in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Special guests: Jacksonville prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda; retired Daytona Beach police detectives Alison Sylvester and Tom Youngman; retired Savannah, Ga., police captain John Best; true crime author Victoria Redstall; and close friend of Bowles' fourth victim, Lisa Bettini

George Trofimoff sold secrets to the Soviet Union and became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer ever convicted of espionage. Special guest: Former AP reporter Vickie Chachere

A Winter Park developer is accused of drugging and sexually battering a woman in his Flagler County home, and a look-back at the 2001 disappearance of Lillian Martin and her grandson, Joshua Bryant. The case was solved three years later following a deadly, 600-mile rampage from Lake Helen to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Special guests: Flagler County Sheriff's Cpl. George Hristakopoulos, News-Journal politics editor Mark Harper, Wall Street Journal reporter Alicia Caldwell and Volusia County Sheriff's Sgt. A.J. Pagliari.

A man wanted on sex crimes in California is found living near Key West under an alias, and the case of two victims burned to death 38 years ago in Brooksville remains unsolved. Special guests: Victim's sister Kellie Davidson and retired sheriff's deputy Greg Laxton

Daytona Beach police announce the arrest of a suspected serial rapist linked to 7 cases and cold case investigators discuss the unsolved murder of 15-year-old Laralee Spear, who was murdered moments after getting off the bus down the road from her DeLand-area home. The investigation has continued for 25 years. Special guests: Volusia County Sheriff's Sgt. A.J. Pagliari, Detective Steve White, cold case investigator Ralph Henshaw and retired DeLand police captain Pete Moon

Mark Fyke, 18, of Ontario, was fatally shot at a payphone in Daytona Beach. The slaying caused an uproar in Fyke's hometown of Belleville and had a lasting impact on international tourism. Special guests: Former News-Journal reporter Joe Ditzler, Daytona Beach Welcome Center manager Scott Edwards, News-Journal columnist Mark Lane and Canadian journalist Rob Russo.

Linda Cooney shoots her ex-husband in Juno Beach in front of their young sons and gets acquitted. Two decades later, in Las Vegas, Cooney gets convicted of shooting and paralyzing her oldest son ... with the same gun she used on her husband. Special guests: Palm Beach Post investigative reporter Christine Stapleton and Assistant State Attorney Pete Magrino.

Mike Williams vanished during a hunting trip in Jackson County. Seventeen years later, authorities dug up his remains in a lake in Leon County and announced that the 31-year-old married father was the victim of a homicide. A year later, his wife was convicted of his murder. Special guests: Tallahassee Democrat News Director Jennifer Portman and FDLE Special Agent in Charge Will Mickler.

Ted Bundy escapes from a Colorado jail and winds up in Florida, where he murders two Florida State University coeds and critically injures three more. Then he travels to Lake City, where he abducts a school girl in broad daylight and kills her. Special guests: Former state attorney John Tanner and Ocala-Star Banner reporter Joe Callahan.

A defendant in a 20-year-old rape case gets convicted; and Ted Bundy, one of the most ruthless serial killers in U.S. history, terrorizes the Northwest before escaping jail to hide in Florida, where his lust for murder gets renewed. Special guest: Former state attorney John Tanner

An ex-NFL defensive back sees a man performing a lewd act outside daughter's bedroom and pummels him; and Ma and Freddie Barker were killed 84 years ago during a shootout with the FBI at a lake house in Ocklawaha. Special guests: Marion County Tax Collector George Albright and Ocala Star-Banner reporter Joe Callahan

A South Florida man is executed for the 1992 murder of a court clerk administrator; the suspect in the shooting of a Daytona Beach police officer pleads not guilty; and a Bunnell man is arrested 29 years ago in connection to a pair of shootings in a quiet Palm Coast neighborhood that killed two and injured one. Special guests: Flagler County Sheriff's Senior Commander Mark Carman and retired Flagler County Sheriff's Office detective Warnell Williams.

Man arrested following double murder in Daytona Beach; updates on segments profiled previously on this podcast; Paul Merhige opens fire on family members inside his cousins' home on Thanksgiving Day 2009. Special guest: Palm Beach Post reporter Andrew Marra

The story of how Gerald Stano became one of the world's most prolific serial killers - through the eyes of the detective who captured him and the reporter who broke the story. Special guests: Former Daytona Beach Police Chief Paul Crow and former Daytona Beach News-Journal editor/reporter Kathy Kelly

A South Florida man is in custody on suspicion of mailing up to 13 explosive devices to critics of President Trump; a former Lakeland city commissioner is indicted on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting death of a suspected shoplifter; and a look back at the 2008 murder of a hotel owner on Anna Maria Island, who was killed by her ex-con boyfriend. Special guests: Lakeland Ledger reporter John Chambliss and former Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter Elizabeth Johnson

A New York man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a British tourist in South Beach in a high-speed car crash and leaving the scene; a Volusia County middle school teacher pleads guilty in a sex case involving an eighth-grade student; and an ex-gang member is serving three life sentences for the murder of his wife and two stepchildren and their bodies still have never been found. Special guests: Volusia County Sheriff's Sgt. A.J. Pagliari and News-Journal justice reporter Frank Fernandez

Local substitute teacher and political pundit David Lee Davis is arrested on allegations of committing sex crimes against an underage student; and two employees at a Deltona general store were slain by a manager trainee 16 years ago this month. Special guests: Daytona Beach News-Journal reporter Patricio Balona, victim's sister Kelli Lee

An unruly defendant sentenced to 20 years for threatening judge; a naked suspect arrested outside a Palm Coast Chick-fil-A restaurant; and the unsolved murder of a retired social worker who was found slain inside her home 13 years ago near DeLand. Special guest: Volusia County sheriff's cold case investigator Steve White.