Hell No: A True Crime Podcast

77. Deaths On The Great Barrier Reef

In this episode I will be talking about 2 different cases involving the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. 
The first case we look will be looking at the disappearance of a couple who went out on a dive trip and never returned. What is thought to of happened to them is incredibly horrifying and tragic.
The second case we look at involves a couple on their honeymoon who take a scuba diving adventure. When only one of them surfaces alive a sinister and terrifying theory develops.
 
Source info
Case 1
Diving the Outer Great Barrier Reef - Which Reef Is For You? (visitportdouglasdaintree.com)
BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Missing divers 'unlawfully killed'
Great Barrier Reef Travel Guide - Expert Picks for your Vacation | Fodor’s Travel (fodors.com)
Queensland Tourism STATISTICS 2020, Great Barrier Reef (camperchamp.com.au)
The True Story Behind 'Open Water' Is Far More Unnerving Than The Movie (ranker.com)
True story of married couple who disappeared after being left behind on diving trip and never seen again (ladbible.com)
True Story Behind 'Open Water' - YouTube
The Tragic Story Of Tom And Eileen Lonergan That Inspired 'Open Water' (allthatsinteresting.com)
Mystery of couple left behind in shark-infested waters still missing 23 years on - World News - Mirror Online
The story behind new film Open Water | Film | The Guardian (archive.org)
Case 2
The SS Yongala: How a mysterious wreck became a destination - BBC Travel
Honeymoon 'Killer': Gabe Watson Breaks Silence on Details of Wife's Death - ABC News (go.com)
Photo of Drowned Newlywed Is Evidence in 'Honeymoon Killer' Trial - ABC News (go.com)
Mystery in the deep blue sea (nbcnews.com)
Husband admits killing wife in scuba death on Great Barrier Reef | Australia news | The Guardian
Gabe Watson Trial Timeline: From Tina Thomas Watson's Death To Alabama Courthouse | HuffPost Latest News
Coroners findings - Christina Mae Watson (courts.qld.gov.au)
Prosecutor: Gabe Watson had financial motive to drown wife on honeymoon - CBS News
 

76. Part 2, The Twisted Timeline....What Really Happened In The Closet?

In 2016, a police officer receives an alarming text message from his own wife while he is on his way to a waffle house. He rushes home but it appears he is too late as he smells gun smoke and notices a locked closet. He radios police that he has even heard gun shots before he entered the apartment. When police arrive and force open the locked closet door, what they find is a bloodied unconscious woman on the floor; hair saturated in blood and her head placed perfectly on a pillow. The police officers service weapon is discovered under her body.
When the woman is airlifted to hospital and her head is shaved, doctors cannot find a bullet hole injury. It's seemingly more likely that her injury was caused due to blunt force trauma. There is no bullet entry wound to be found.
Will we ever truly know what happened in the closet? 
 
Source info
Petition · Justice For Jessica Boynton · Change.org
How to Deal With Financial Abuse in a Marriage (choosingtherapy.com)
10 Tactics of Coercive Control, Torture Within a Family (domesticshelters.org)
What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop? | The New Yorker
Behind the closet door: Crime Watch Daily investigates the Jessica Boynton case | Truecrimedaily.com
Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | wusa9.com
Matthew Is Not A Good Cop... - YouTube
Matthew Boynton interrogation video - YouTube
GBI report on Boynton investigation leaves some questions unanswered – The GRIP (the-grip.net)
Jessica Boynton crime scene body cam video - YouTube
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pxHl6gjxzmC2NtGXMmWnQ?si=626b012dec704013 (The officers wife episode 5)

75. Part 1, What Happened In The Closet?

Police dispatch receives a call from one of their own in 2016. The officer tells dispatch that he has just received a distressing text from his wife who is at home with their two children. He is worried she is going to commit suicide and that he is rushing home as he is talking to dispatch.
When police arrive to the officer's home, he is already there waiting outside the apartment. He had previously radioed police and told them he had arrived, heard the baby crying, heard 2 gunshots, unlocked the door and went into their home, smelled gun smoke coming from the locked closet he keeps his gun in and fled the apartment with his police radio which he grabbed from the kitchen to inform the police what the situation was. 
Police enter the home and force open the locked closet the gunshots supposedly came from. Inside they find the officers wife.
This was immediately treated as a suicide but there are people asking, was it?
 
Source info
How to Deal With Financial Abuse in a Marriage (choosingtherapy.com)
10 Tactics of Coercive Control, Torture Within a Family (domesticshelters.org)
What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop? | The New Yorker
Behind the closet door: Crime Watch Daily investigates the Jessica Boynton case | Truecrimedaily.com
Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | wusa9.com
Matthew Is Not A Good Cop... - YouTube

74. Petit Murders. Seven Hours Of Hell

It was a Sunday evening in the summer of 2007 when a mother and daughter go to their local grocery store.
As they shop a man watches them. As they leave and drive home, this man follows them.
The next morning, Monday July 23rd; this same mother enters a bank and slips the teller a note. This note is alerting the teller her family is at home being held hostage and she needs to withdraw 15 thousand dollars to pay the ransom, she also includes - don't call police.
What unfolds in the Petit Family home between the hours of 3 a.m and 10 a.m is so gruesome that jurors involved in the trial suffer from emotional and psychological trauma and are offered free counseling by the state. 
source info
Michaela Rose Petit - Petit Family Foundation
Joshua Komisarjevsky's Death Sentence Gives Massacre Survivor Peace - ABC News (go.com)
Jury Finds Steven Hayes Guilty In Connecticut Triple Murder - ABC News (go.com)
The Haunting Story Of The Cheshire Murders And Their Aftermath (ranker.com)
Steven Hayes | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
THE CHESHIRE MURDERS - The Documentary - YouTube
Home Invasion From Hell (The Cheshire Murders) 3000 Sub Special 🩸 AC 21 - YouTube
Connecticut Man Could Face Death After Jury Convicts Him in Deadly Home Invasion | Fox News
Dr. William Petit Speaks Out for the First Time (oprah.com)
Cheshire home invasion murders - Wikipedia
William Petit - Wikipedia

73. Guilty Until Innocent, 26 Years Stolen

New York City 1991, A woman runs up to police looking for help. She tells them a horrific story about what has just happened to her. Within weeks 2 young men are arrested for crimes against this woman. The men plead their innocents, but they are not heard by the courts. Despite a lack in forensic and physical evidence both men are found guilty and sentenced to prison. 26 years later the innocents project gets involved and they find out what police should have discovered 26 years earlier. 
 
source info
 
Pair Wrongly Convicted To Be Freed - YouTube
After 3 Decades, Exonerated After False Rape Accusation | Innocence Ignored - YouTube
VanDyke Perry - National Registry of Exonerations (umich.edu)
26 Years Later, Justice for Men Imprisoned for a Bogus Rape - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Innocence Project helps exonerate two men from a 1991 Central Park rape conviction | amNewYork (amny.com)
2 men exonerated after 26 years when woman admits to false rape claim (usatoday.com)
Our Work - Innocence Project
VanDyke Perry and Gregory Counts Exonerated | Crime News (oxygen.com)
Men exonerated in false Central Park rape claim, 26 years after conviction - YouTube
 

72. Mark, John And The Insane Twist You Never Saw Coming

In 2003 MSN chat rooms were overflowing with teens looking to connect with other teens from around the world. It's in one of these chat rooms 16-year-old Mark meets many new people to talk to.
Find out how meeting new friends online lead to his 14-year-old friend being stabbed in an alley way and the insane twist that follows.
*Names in this episode have been changed for legal reasons. Mark and John are not the real names of the boys involved.
 
Source info
The Boy Who Masterminded His Own Murder | Medium
How a 14-Year-Old Planned His Own Execution in MSN Chatrooms—and Made His Friend Do It | Vanity Fair
Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder | Technology | The Guardian
 
 
 

71.The Brutal Case Of The Eastburn Family Murder And The 20 Years It Took To Solve

A death row inmate receives a letter one day. The letter reads, 
“I did the crime, I murdered the Eastburns. Sorry you’re doin the time. I’ll be safely out of North Carolina when you read this.
Thanks, Mr. X”
This letter is very interesting to the inmate because he is going to be executed for the brutal rape and murder of 31-year-old Kathryn, and the murders of 5-year-old Kara and 3-year-old Erin Eastburn. It's possible this letter could help prove his innocents and save his life......but is he innocent? 
This case takes many twists and turns and over 20 years before a final decision is made about the man's guilt.
 
Source info
Three Trials for Murder | The New Yorker
2020 on ID S01E04 Witness 2017 - YouTube
For 2nd Time, Man Sentenced to Death for Murders - ABC News (go.com)
Tim Hennis murder trials surround double jeopardy issue - CNN (archive.org)
Eastburn family murders - Wikipedia
20 20 Witness Fort Bragg Murder Mystery Eastburn Family Slaughtered on Somerhi - YouTube

70. Hotel Death

In this week's episode we are looking at three different, unrelated, untimely, and tragic deaths that occurred in different hotels from around the world. The guests had no idea once they checked in, they would be checking out for good.
The first case we look into involves a man found dead in his hotel room. Police and the Coroner believe he has been beat to death, given the internal injuries. The only problem is an extreme lack of evidence and motive. The man's room is neat and tidy, nothing is out of place, and he has not been robbed. When A Private detective is hired by his wife, its only then we learn the bizarre truth of what happened. 
 
Source info
Killer from Chippewa Falls featured on “20/20” | Blogs | leadertelegram.com
What Caused This Man's Mysterious Death in a Texas Hotel Room? - Good Morning America
True Crime: How a Mysterious Beaumont, Texas, Murder Was Solved | Vanity Fair
Trapped Alive: The Bizarre Death of Elizabeth Isherwood | Accidental Deaths - YouTube
Elizabeth Mary Isherwood died after getting trapped naked in airing cupboard | Daily Mail Online
Elizabeth Mary Isherwood: Woman dies after getting trapped in cupboard | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Hotel guest electrocuted in shower | The Argus
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Sussex | Hotel shower electrocuted tourist