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02/25/2024

TRUE CRIME THIS WEEK with James Renner.

Catch up on the biggest true crime news of the week as well as the newest developments in famous cold cases.

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02/24/2024

Hello, This is Thomas FreeMe and this is The Thomas FreeMe Show. Spending most of his life in and out of prison. He finally came home from doing a 13 year Federal Bid for Conspiracy to traffic 5 kilos or more of co***ne. Facing a life sentence, a new born baby on the line, he chose to take the Federal Government to trial. He share this story and many more plus the stories of American Citizens from all over this Nation. Now a founder of a non-profit and a fast growing podcast he is trying to give us the tools he used to climb himself out of darkness and start helping versus hurting. Here is his story...

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Podcast · Thomas FreeMe · Hello, Im Thomas FreeMe and this is The Thomas FreeMe Show. Spending most of my life in and out of prison I finally came home from doing a 13 year Federal Bid for Conspiracy to traffic 5 kilos or more of co***ne. Facing a life sentence, a new born baby on the line, I chos...

02/08/2024

Family of Michigan woman mysteriously killed in her home demands DNA testing

02/08/2024

Texas teen allegedly fatally shot neighbor after dispute about dog.

GARLAND, Texas (TCD) -- An 18-year-old man stands accused of fatally shooting his 33-year-old neighbor, a father of two, following an argument over the weekend.

On Saturday, Jan. 20, shortly after 7:30 p.m., the Garland Police Department responded to a report of a disturbance with a weapon at a home in the 1600 block of Running River Road. Officers found Rontarious Hamilton outside the residence suffering from a gunshot wound, and paramedics transported him to a local hospital, where he later died.

Police allege a "disturbance between neighbors" led to the gunfire. Garland Police Public Information Officer Matt Pesta told KDFW-TV investigators believe the argument was over a dog.

Officers identified Isaiah Kellough as the primary suspect.

According to KDFW, Hamilton allegedly got into a dispute with one of the suspect's family members, but Kellough wasn't involved with the initial argument. Investigators are looking into why Kellough got entangled in the fight and fired the gun.

Police arrested Kellough and booked him into the Garland Detention Center on a charge of murder. As of Jan. 21, his bond has not yet been set.

The investigation is ongoing.

02/08/2024

Man allegedly posed as juvenile to meet up with child predator and killed him.

HOUSTON (TCD) -- A 22-year-old man has been charged after allegedly targeting a child predator and fatally shooting him last year.

On May 29, 2023, shortly before 4 a.m., the Houston Police Department responded to a report of an unresponsive man with multiple gunshot wounds in a ditch at 900 Northwood St. Houston Fire Department paramedics also went to the scene and pronounced the victim, later identified as 37-year-old Sean Showers, dead.

Police allege James Spencer fatally shot Showers from inside a vehicle while the victim was walking along a roadway. According to KPRC-TV, the suspect pretended to be a minor and planned to meet with Showers under the guise of a s*xual arrangement.

KPRC reports that Spencer believed law enforcement officials weren’t doing enough to keep child predators in prison, and he wanted to take matters into his own hands and hurt them.

Officers arrested Spencer nearly nine months after the fatal shooting, on Wednesday, Jan. 31. He was booked into the Harris County Jail on a charge of murder and remains held on $250,000 bond. Spencer faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Prior to the shooting, Showers pleaded guilty in 2009 to possessing child po*******hy, according to the Houston Division of the FBI. The victim reportedly served time in federal prison, and he failed to register as a s*x offender.

In a statement obtained by KPRC, Victim Services Director of Houston Crime Stoppers Andy Kahan said, "This was diabolically cunning."

Kahan added, "When I look at this, I’m going, 'This is the stuff you see in movies.'"

11/11/2021

THE LADY AND THE DALE

Chances are, before the release of "The Lady and the Dale," you'd never heard of the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, its owner, Elizabeth Carmichael, or its singular model vehicle, the Dale. Fortunately, HBO's four-part series, produced by the Duplass Brothers and directed by Zachary Drucker and Nick Cammilleri, fills us in on this fascinating bit of 1970s true crime history. Ultimately found guilty of counterfeiting and fraud, Carmichael was a consummate con artist and salesperson, who also happened to be transgender. According to Oprah Daily, the six-foot would-be entrepreneur spun fanciful stories about her tomboy, farm-girl childhood and her life as a widowed mother of five. In truth, the three-wheeled Dale, which Carmichael touted to investors as a gas-saving wonder, had never been driven successfully, and Carmichael had spent her first 45 years as a thrice-divorced man and fraudster.

While the outrageousness of Carmichael and her schemes are engaging in and of themselves, "The Lady and the Dale" goes further by framing her criminal behavior in a homophobic social context. In its review, The New York Times praises the series as "a complex and contradiction-laden tale," told with the same boldness as Carmichael herself. As described by The Hollywood Reporter, the series presents a "rollicking and twist-filled bio-doc ... that doesn't shy from Carmichael's many flaws while supplying ample context for the transgender experience a half-century ago. TV's longform documentaries are seldom so illuminating, or entertaining."

09/06/2021

'JOHN WAYNE GACY: DEVIL IN DISGUISE'

As described by Daily Beast, Peacock's six-part series "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" is an "exhaustive, illuminating, and intriguing" look at 1980s serial killer John Wayne Gacy, "an egomaniacal sociopath who ran a remodeling business, had strong local political ties (and aspirations), and moonlit as a children's hospital clown." Ultimately implicated in the murder of 33 young men, Gacy was "the worst of the worst." Directed by Rod Blackhurst of "Amanda Knox" fame, the series examines Gacy's criminal activity with exacting detail. Featured are interviews with Gacy's family and friends, his victims' families, journalists who covered the story, and detectives who tracked him, as well as crime scene footage and home movies. The series also takes a critical look at the disturbing laxness with which law enforcement treated the well-connected serial killer, even when all the evidence was pointing to his guilt.

However, as noted by Decider and other reviews, what really distinguishes the series from other serial killer documentaries, including other films about Gacy, is its 1992 centerpiece interview with the incarcerated murderer, conducted by pioneering FBI profiler Robert Ressler. According to Decider, watching "Gacy talk on video, which has rarely been seen, really drives home the fact that depraved killers like him can look and seem completely 'normal.'"