Crime talk timestamp-15:58 minutes

After a fun night of socialising with friends & having a letting your hair down many people have at some point ended the night by ordering a cab to take us safely home.

Or nowadays with the convenience of very accessible phone apps it is much easier to just order a ride-share, like for example an uber.

But what if the car that pulls up next to you as you're waiting for the uber you booked was not really a legitimate uber. And instead inside the vehicle waits a dangerous predator who has been circling around looking for an innocent victim? Sadly this is exactly what happened to bright, intelligent & popular 21 year old Samantha Josephson in South Carolina as she left a busy bar in 2019.

She accidentally mistook a car that pulled up right next to her as her uber driver.

Tragically by the time she realised it was actually a complete strangers car she was in it was already too late. Samantha was stuck inside, totally helpless with no way to escape as she was driven further & further from safety. Because her kidnapper had quickly activated the child locks so she was completely trapped...

In today's case we look at what safety precautions need to be taken to keep ride share users safe. It also leaves us asking the question how well vetted are ride share drivers? And just how many deadly sadistic predators are there hunting around in their vehicles masquerading as a cab & waiting for an innocent person to attack who was just needing a lift safely home ...

This is episode 125

The Uber Killer:

The murder of Samantha Josephson

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Crime talk timestamp: 14:45 minutes in

How well do we know someone that we would call a friend ?

How well would you need to know someone before allowing them to stay on your property so they're living amongst your most precious things?And nothing is more precious than a child family member, right ?

Well sadly this is how the family of little 11 year old Audri Cunningham said they had unwittingly allowed a monster into their home in Livingston Texas back in 2024 .

A friend they said needed help to get back on his feet ...

But instead this registered child sex offender had other ideas . He used the opportunity to kidnap Audri as she made her way to school . The nation searched as Amber alerts went out and her disappearance gained huge media attention ...

But tragically Don Steven Mcdougal had already committed the most deplorable sickening acts before killing her & disposing of her body .

In todays case we look at how much you can really trust a person you have not known for long , and how maybe if convicted sex offenders are more closely monitored or have more severe sentences then it could be easier to prevent harm coming to other innocent children just like Audri ......

This is episode 124

The Murder Of Audri Cunningham

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Crime talk timestamp 9:23 minutes.

It was the morning of June 3rd 2011 as local part time DJ Bobby Ryan also known as 'Mr Moonlight' said goodbye to his girlfriend & walked out the door of her farm in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Sadly little did Mary Lowry know it would be the last time she or anyone, besides his killer, would ever see him alive again.

Because after that 52 year old father of two Bobby simply vanished....

And it would take 22 long months until his loved ones would finally learn the awful truth of what had become of the beloved DJ.

As the gardai receive a shocking phone call about the discovery of remains in an underground septic tank on Mary Lowry's farm, they soon begin to unravel the mystery of what had happened to Bobby.

It would soon become clear who would have wanted this popular local family man dead, & why his killer had killed him in such a vicious & violent manner.

What follows is a shocking but true case involving secret affairs between in-laws, wild jealousy, a man craving control & ultimately a brutal murder.

As married farmer Pat Quirke who was also Mary Lowrys brother in law stood before the court for Ireland's longest running murder trial, 15 weeks to be precise, the whole sordid and twisted truth came out .

But what seemed to get lost along the way was that at the centre of the salacious headlines that had dominated Irish media was still an innocent man who had had his life cruelly stolen in a horrendous way.

As Pat Quirke remains in jail for life for his sickening crimes, Bobby's family especially his children who had to sit through gruelling details in court will remember him for the amazing & loving father he was.

This is episode 123

The Murder Of 'Mr Moonlight' Bobby Ryan

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Crime talk timestamp: 16:40 minutes

In the concluding part to our deep dive on serial killer Christopher Wilder, we see how he lures more young women into his car with the promise of a photo shoot or even by force.

His deadly spree continues to pick up pace as the FBI are trying to track this deadly predator knowing the longer he is at large the more innocent lives he is destroying along the way.

But as we see here when he slips up by allowing one of his young victims to go free his reign of terror that he spread across the United States will soon come to a bloody end.

But it doesn't end there.

Because we look into how deadly killer Wilder is actually strongly suspected of committing many other rapes & murders.

His suspected crimes even include that of a long unsolved, infamous double murder that took place on a Sydney beach in Australia many years before when a young Wilder happened to be living very nearby.....

This is episode 122: Christopher Wilder 'The Beauty Queen Killer' part 2

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