Manic Manor: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 54 - Flight 1771

What should have been a simple commute home for many people aboard the  
Pacific Southwest Airline Flight 1771 turned into a horrific nightmare as a result of an angry man seeking revenge for his termination.
 
Sources -
https://medium.com/@jennbaxter_69070/murder-in-the-sky-how-one-mans-rage-brought-down-a-plane-759ed697b226
Mayday: Air Disaster: Three Horrific Disasters that were linked to a breakdown in security measures
https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/326646
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a68zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=3776%2C5100444
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E0YjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=APADAAAAIBAJ&pg=7113%2C8413028

Episode 53 - Melvin Quinney

Over 30 years ago, a father wound up convicted of indecency with a child and accusations of being involved with a Satanic Cult. It took a long while before he and his children would be able to exonerate him of a crime he never commited.
 
Sources -
 
https://innocencetexas.org/cases/melvin-quinney-2/
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/04/10/san-antonio-man-wrongfully-convicted-in-1991-has-charges-dismissed-in-satanic-panic-case/
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/indecency-child-satanic-panic-overturned-17789445.php
https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-04-11/after-30-years-a-father-is-exonerated-in-satanic-panic-case
American Panic on Spotify – Melvin Quinney

Episode 52 - The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial

The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial of LA – Known to be one of the longest and most expensive cases in American history.
Also set a precedent for the Satanic Panic problem of the 1980s-1990s through even now.
It's a wild and insane story and the credibility of the initial witnesses really had people divided and questioning whether or not the accused were actually guilty.
sources -
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20040331115902/http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/mcmartin_daycare/5.html
https://famous-trials.com/mcmartin/902-home
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool

Episode 51 - The Hà My massacre

In 1968, one of many brutal massacres would occur in Vietnam at the hands of the very soldiers there to protect the South Vietnamese citizens. They attacked under the guise the village was sympathizing and hiding Vietcong soldiers. This is the story of an innocent village and the heartbreak through the years as they try to give forgiveness.
 
Sources -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/lhrjrs9z9a/vietnam-1968
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1093344
https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/23211
https://apjjf.org/Heonik-Kwon/2451/article
https://www.thearmorylife.com/blue-dragons-korean-marines-in-the-vietnam-war/

Episode 50 - The West Memphis 3

in 1993, three boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenage boys were pinned for the murder, despite there not being anything but circumstantial evidence. This is the story of the West Memphis 3 and the story of Satanic Panic in the United States during the late 80s./early 90s.
 
sources -
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/west-memphis-three-3039/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/west-memphis-3-arkansas-dna-testing/index.html
https://arkansasadvocate.com/2024/04/18/arkansas-supreme-court-reverses-west-memphis-three-ruling-allows-for-dna-testing/
MAX - Paradise Lost

Episode 49 - The Missing O'Brien Brothers

For 27 years, the disappearance of three young boys from their home in Newfoundland has perplexed not just Canada, but the world who has come to learn of their case.
Adam, Trevor, and Mitchell O'Brien were set to visit their father, Gary O'Brien during a custody agreement, but never made it back home. To this day, we don't know where they are, or what happened to them. Will we ever?
 
Sources -
Shawn Morrissey - Dark Side of Seoul - Check out their channel! https://www.darksideofseoul.com/podcast/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/xv8xz0/obrien_brothers_abducted_from_newfoundland_canada/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170205182027/http://www.rnc.gov.nl.ca/media/Missing/index.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/3220144/20-years-later-diana-saunders-still-searches-for-her-3-missing-sons/
https://www.forthelost.org/family/obrien.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20170205181240/http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2016/11/9/20-years-on-diana-boland-hopes-to-be-re-4682492.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/missing-boys-still-alive-mother-believes-1.1078761
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-police-trying-to-refresh-o-brien-lead-1.174920
#missing
#newfoundland
#truecrime
#torbay

Episode 48 - Wichita Massacre

Two brothers go on a massive crime spree that leaves a devastating path. Why would they do it and who are the innocent people that had to suffer because of them?
 
sources -
https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/carr_brothers/index.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150627150943/http://cjonline.com/stories/110502/kan_carrbros.shtml#.VY68unbP1qY
https://www.kmuw.org/crime-and-courts/2016-08-10/family-members-of-carr-brothers-victims-want-to-oust-kansas-supreme-court-justices
https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/court-affirms-death-sentences-for-carr-brothers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTFM-23neU4&ab_channel=EXPLOREWITHUS
 
#wichitamassacre
#truecrime
#podcast
#crime
#wichita
 

Episode 47 - Unit 731

Quite possibly the most darkest secret that Japan has as a nation. World War II is known to us for how gruesome it was and the major impact it had on the world. We know well of Nazi Germany and the horrid acts committed against the Jewish people as well as the Gypsies and other groups deemed less than, but not many people have spoken about Imperial Japan and the absolutely grotesque acts committed on not just Korea, China, and all of Asia as well as its effect on the Western World. 
This is the horrific story of Unit 731. 
Sources - 
 
https://todayinhistory.blog/2018/09/02/september-2-1945-unit-731/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/unit-731
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/mukden-incident#:~:text=On%20September%2018%2C%201931%2C%20an,to%20retaliate%20and%20invade%20Manchuria.
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/unit-731/
https://medium.com/leadership-counts/pardoning-devils-the-american-cover-up-of-imperial-japanese-unit-731-504f966cf08d#:~:text=Although%20responsible%20for%20some%20of,by%20the%20United%20States%20government.
 

Episode 46- The Christian-Newsom Murders

We have a case directly from my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. January 2007 shook Tennessee to its core with the gruesome murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
 
Sources -
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/24/archives-horror-christian-newsom-killings-focus-what-happened-chipman-street/597805001/
https://www.oxygen.com/injustice-with-nancy-grace/crime-news/channon-christian-chris-newsom-murdered-in-knoxville
https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Timeline-of-the-Channon-Christian-Christopher-Newsom-murders--513420461.html
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/06/time-no-cure-pain-torture-slayings-channon-christian-and-christopher-newsom/96196018/
https://tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/davidsonl.opn_.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210420030411/https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/boyd-trial/boyd-trial-day-1-a-burned-body-by-the-tracks-a-final-glimpse-of-the-victims-before-the-murders/51-e6dc07b3-4f6d-4de1-b184-bf00613ed7b9
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/01/23/baumgartner-disgraced-ex-judge-dead-70/1059954001/
Youtube – “Documentary: The Murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom” – Knoxville News Sentinel

Episode 45 - The Club Cinq-Sept (5-7) Fire

A night that was supposed to be a dream come true for many young people in 1970 turned into an inferno nightmare. Something as simple as making sure all the proper safety protocols were in order was overlooked, leading to one of the worst nightclub fires in history.
Requested by youtube user: reneauvray3440
Sources -
https://alchetron.com/Club-Cinq-Sept-fire#club-cinq-sept-fire-70de7083-ab52-4184-90a3-68d902d169f-resize-750.jpeg
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-10-Worst-Nightclub-Fires-in-History
https://www.alamy.com/dramatic-fire-at-the-57-nightclub-makes-146-victims-saint-laurent-du-pont-isere-france-1970-image398083592.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_2537000/2537937.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/02/archives/142-are-killed-by-fire-in-locked-dance-hall-in-france-20-survive.html
https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/isere/pire-c-est-bruit-du-silence-50-ans-apres-tragedie-du-57-souvenir-chagrin-sont-toujours-intacts-1889626.html
Youtube – “France’s Worst Discotheque Fire – The Horror of The Club 5-7 Disaster” – The Raven’s Eye