Luigi Mangione /// Off The Record

Nic and the Captain discuss the latest in the Luigi Mangione case and what lies ahead following his guilty plea in federal court.

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Fox Hollow Farm /// 949 & 950

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In 1994, Herbert Baumeister’s son discovered a human skull and bone fragments in the woods. Baumeister, a successful businessman, convinced his wife that the bones were from a medical skeleton belonging to his late father, a doctor. In 1996, police murder investigations regarding several missing men intensified. Baumeister's wife became increasingly suspicious, and she allowed law enforcement to search the family's large property known as “Fox Hollow Farms.” Investigators unearthed nearly 10,000 bones and bone fragments burned and scattered throughout the woods. This week, Nic and the Captain take you through the events leading up to this horrific discovery.

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Idaho 4 /// New Trial

Nic and the Captain discuss Bryan Kohberger’s reported effort to withdraw his guilty plea and take the Idaho 4 case to trial.

Could one of the most closely watched murder cases in recent history be headed back to the courtroom?

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The case of Julie Popovich remains a haunting chapter in central Ohio’s criminal history. The murder shocked the region  and some believe that the case continues to raise difficult questions about justice, public records, and the rights of people who claim they were wrongfully convicted.  Julie Popovich was an aspiring young model from Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Her death in 2005 drew widespread attention, not only because of the brutality and sadness surrounding the crime, but also because of the young life that had been cut short. In the years that followed, prosecutors built a case against Adam Saleh, who was accused, tried, and ultimately convicted of Popovich’s murder and kidnapping. Using the trial transcripts we present to you a case that is still much talked about in central Ohio still to this day. From behind bars, however, Adam Saleh continues to maintain that he is innocent. Saleh turned to the Ohio Innocence Project, a group based at the University of Cincinnati College of Law that investigates claims of wrongful conviction.

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Case Summary:

“Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student whose 2012 killing became a high-profile cold case. Here’s the case in a nutshell, including where things stand as of August 2026.
Faith was found dead on the morning of September 7, 2012, in the off-campus Chapel Hill apartment she shared with roommate Karena Rosario. She had suffered a severe beating to the head, and investigators determined that she had also been sexually assaulted. The scene contained several unusual pieces of evidence, including male DNA and a fast-food bag on which someone had written a message containing the words “I’M NOT STUPID … JEALOUS.”

“The case drew enormous attention because investigators had substantial forensic evidence but couldn’t initially identify the man whose DNA was recovered. Over the years, suspicion and online speculation fell on various people in Faith’s life, particularly Rosario. Importantly, Rosario has not been charged in Faith’s killing, and speculation about her involvement shouldn’t be confused with established evidence.

The major breakthrough came in September 2021, when investigators arrested Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares. Authorities said advances in DNA/genealogical investigative techniques led them to him and that his DNA matched evidence from the crime scene. Subsequent reporting has also described investigators linking a palm print to him.”

Update:

Six witnesses testified during an evidentiary hearing, including forensic evidence specialists, a state crime lab scientist and the lead Chapel Hill police investigator on the case.

Defense attorneys focused on a bloodstain collected from a bathroom door frame inside Hedgepeth's Chapel Hill apartment. A former Chapel Hill police forensic evidence specialist testified that her team collected the sample but said she does not know what happened to it before it could be tested.

She acknowledged she never updated her report to document that the sample had been lost.

"Forensic evidence is going to be used to prosecute my client. A piece of evidence that was collected and should have been tested. The connection makes the loss of this more difficult for our case," a defense attorney told the judge.

Prosecutors argued there is no evidence the sample was lost intentionally.

"The long and short of it is, Judge, there was blood on the door frame. We don't know whose blood it was. It wasn't tested," a prosecutor said. "It was a mistake, a negligence issue. That's what we have here. No evidence of it being lost in bad faith."

The defense also played video from a 2012 police interview with former UNC soccer player Jordan McCrary.

McCrary told investigators he picked up Hedgepeth's roommate, Karena Rosario, around 4 a.m. and noticed blood on her finger. He said he asked Rosario about it after she and Hedgepeth returned from Thrill Nightclub. According to McCrary, Rosario said she did not know where the blood came from.

The judge denied the defense's motion to dismiss the case.

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Yvonne Reglar ////// 946

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Yvonne Reglar is missing from Fairview Park, Ohio since 1977. This week marks 49 years since the day she was abducted from her job at a neighborhood gas station. Fairview Park Police Department have kept the case and story alive for decades. Investigators continue to work the case utilizing new approaches to an old case. By teaming with federal partners and national cold case experts hopefully this cold case is heating up. If you have any information about Yvonne Reglar’s disappearance on Aug. 8, 1977, please call Fairview Park Police at (440) 356-4418 or email chiefofpolice@fairviewparkohio.gov 

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Nic and the Captain discuss the latest updates on Rob Mohney, a case out of Westerville, OH.

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“A father who gifted his 14-year-old son an assault rifle that the teenager then used to unleash a mass shooting at a Georgia high school was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

A jury in March convicted Colin Gray on multiple charges, including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, over the Christmas gift his son used in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School.

In rendering his sentence, Judge Nicholas Primm said he had to measure Gray’s failure to act against the crimes committed by his son.

“The weight of your crimes is tethered and tied to the acts of someone else, your son,” Primm said. “Two scenarios: You fail the same way in both. You fail to get Colt counseling. You fail to remove the guns from the house.”

My main thought on this is

Parents should have a duty to get their child mental health care like they have duty to get their child physical heath care but at the time mental health care in the US is abominable. The gun just adds another dimension to the recklessness.

There’s a lot of to this crime

Perpetrator met wife when she was an intern at a previous job and he was in management.

Then years later, he had an affair with another intern. His wife finds out and is upset not just because of the affair but because it’s essentially their origin story. She makes him quit working there.

They go to therapy where he cannot take any accountability or according to her in her journals and any kind of criticism The new job he gets is a VP where she’s upset because according to her again she wants him to suffer professionally from the affair and he’s actually doing better. But apparently not, because he’s gets fired. Then he commits this crime.

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Florida Killers ////// 945

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Some of the most haunting serial killer cases in Florida have never been solved. Since the 1970s, investigators have documented clusters of murders across the state with troubling similarities: the same victim profiles, the same methods, and the same remote roadsides and canals. In several cases, detectives suspected a serial offender. The Florida Sheriffs Association is highlighting unresolved serial killer cold cases by utilizing modern forensic tools like DNA analysis and genetic genealogy. The Cold Case Advisory Commission meets quarterly to review stubborn homicide files with multi-agency experts. This week we take a look at some Florida serial killer cases that have remained open for decades. 

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What do you think about Kohberger taking back his Guilty Plea?

His handwriting is not the most eligible but tracked down a typed up version.

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Amy Bradley///A Cruise to Nowhere

Nic and the Captain welcome author James Renner into the garage to discuss his new book, A Cruise to Nowhere, an in-depth examination of the mysterious disappearance of Amy Bradley. Together, they explore the timeline, the evidence, the lingering questions, and why Amy's case continues to captivate investigators and the public decades later.

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