This week the girls take aim at True Crime-Random Tales...
Here at Friday Night Wine Fight, we love true crime! Tonight we are going to be discussing some interesting cases which we have randomly selected.
But first, what were we drinking?
Sarah was drinking Pepsi
Available from everywhere
Amy was drinking R Paulazzo Rosé
Bianca was drinking Blindside
Available from Naked wines
Bianca opened the episode with links to a website that she discovered on Tiktok which was vaguely true crime-related.
The website is called Mapping the missing. It is run by a fellow Aussie and here's what the site's creator, Jess, has to say about Mapping the missing;
"The geography of true crime, Australia's missing people, and mysteries using geospatial analysis and remote sensing to help make sense of true crime, cold cases, and the unknown"
If that sounds intriguing to you here's the link...
https://mappingthemissing.com/
https://mappingthemissing.com/
Then Bianca eagerly got into her segment; The Great Butter Heist (Thank you to our biggest Canadian fan for the topic).
The heist occurred on Christmas day in Trenton Ontario in 2021. The thieves stole approximately 20,000 kilograms of butter worth approximately $200,000.
Bianca then explained that large-scale food theft is not uncommon and that sadly the people who pay the price for the theft is the end consumer.
Sarah was the meat in the sandwich this week and told the tale of the Gruber Family who lived in Germany on a farm in the 1920s.
At Hinterkaifeck farm, strange occurrences began to happen and despite the pleading of the maid Mr Gruber insisted that it was all in the maid's head.
After the maid quits and leaves, Mr Gruber himself starts to notice odd sounds and strange things happening on the property. The family searched the house and the grounds but did not find anyone else on the property.
Sadly, the Gruber family met an untimely end at the hands of an unknown assailant. The Hinterkaifeck murders are still unsolved and have plagued investigators for years.
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| The Gruber Family |
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| Hinterkaifeck Farm |
Amy finished us off with the tragic tale of Susan Cox Powell. Susan went missing from her family home in December 2009. Her in-laws raised the alarm when they could not locate Susan or Josh (Susan's husband) or the couple's two children.
What was unearthed during the search for Susan will stun even the most avid true crime fan. Not only was Susan's husband controlling and her marriage was not in a good place, she recently made her family relocate to another state in order to escape her father-in-law (Josh's father) who was stalking her.
As the investigation continues, more bizarre facts are uncovered leading the police and many family members to believe that Josh and possibly members of his family had something to do with Susan's disappearance.
Sadly further tragedy struck the family in an act which you will have to hear to believe (listen to the podcast to hear what happened).
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| Susan Cox Powell and her sons and the documentary that shook Amy |
Amy highly recommends the documentary about the case called The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell.
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