Good Company in the Car: The Bigfoot and Murder and Everything Else Podcast

Do not judge a book by its’ cover, it could cost you your life...

Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento for people who were on the margins of society. She looked for all the world like the kindly grandmother we'd all love and trust. She wasn't.

 

A wakeboard salesman, an economics grad student, and manslaughter. None of this had to happen.

An innocent offer of a ride in a rainstorm results in the death of a young man. The assailant has one explanation as to what happened. Two bystanders have another. Proving which version of the events was true proved daunting. Will justice prevail?

How can you get through medical school and still be this dumb?

A young and beloved Harvard educated physician is stabbed to death one night in a parking lot. At first, no one can understand why. Then the dumb starts.

Oh, and Columbia is an Ivy League school too. Just saying.

Jack loves chocolate. A lot! Let’s test his palate, shall we?

A couple episodes ago Jack challenged Kevin to a vodka tasting to see if Kevin could really tell the difference between the cheap stuff and the good stuff. Turns out he could. Now the tables have turned and it's time for Jack to put up or shut up: can he tell the difference between the good chocolates and the not so good. Here we go...

What’s your sign?

For a while in the early 90's, if you lived in New York, there could be deadly consequences to that answer. Listen as two stereotypical Leos discuss the case of the Zodiac killer, and no it's not the one you're thinking of...

The 90’s were no 80’s but what the hell, let’s talk tv...

These two discuss their favorite tv shows from the 90's. It got a bit fractious....

Alcohol, the cause of, and answer to, all our problems!

Jack calls Kevin out on his vodka snobbery...

Here’s another narcissistic homicidal philanderer who just happens to have a medical degree..

To say the relationship Janice Trahan was in was toxic is a dramatic understatement! This one has all the elements save one, there's no insurance policy...

It’s time to talk toys you guys!

Kevin liked his toys growing up. Jack loved his toys then and he still does now! There's whizzers and G.I. Joe and Stretch Armstrong. Hot wheels anyone?

Let’s go to the Mall!

This week we review the "Jasper Mall" documentary and ruminate on how the world of shopping has changed forever. This gentle documentary documents the decline of the Jasper Mall in Alabama and I think we can thank Amazon for that!

Delaware, the First (worst) State! A man almost gets railroaded for a murder...

If you think Delaware is a small, benign state in the Mid-Atlantic you couldn't be more wrong! It's crimey as hell! Here's just one terrifying example...

Drone Wars, Alexandria style!

When Kevin's toy drone takes on a mind of it's own and flies away, well what happened next was a battle royale between Jack, his neighbors, and a certain know-it-all drone enthusiast...

North Dakota State Troopers witness an accident on the highway. What happens next leads to the capture of a serial killer....

Having to be in North Dakota is bad enough. For Lee Clay it got even worse when he had the misfortune of befriending John Bridges, a true psychopath if there ever was one...

It’s time for some crime at Christmas! Abduction, Stockholm Syndrome and ritualized abuse, the Adelaide Kay story.

Even country stardom can't protect someone from evil. Adelaide Kay was an up and coming country star when she was abducted in a rural and very sinister town in Pennsylvania. This is her story. 

Hey everybody, these are red flags: uncontrollable anger, heroin addiction, murder and mullets. This episode has all four!

Craig Thrift is a bad man. A very, very, very bad man. One poor woman made the mistake of falling in love with him. This is her tale...

Kevin loved his first real job! Let‘s listen to him reminisce about the hijinks at the Crab Claw!

St. Michaels is a quaint, historic village on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Many restaurants line the idyllic harbor, none being more famous than the Crab Claw! Back in the early 1980's, working at the Crab Claw was a local teen rite of passage. It was literally the movie Caddy Shack except it's a restaurant not a country club...

The Lynn Turner story, so much evil...

Where do we start? Anti-freeze? Check. Life insurance? Check. Infidelity? Check. It's like falling on a bruise...

It‘s called Thrill Killing and it is the worst! Not even Ocean City is safe!

A couple on a Memorial Day visit to Ocean City disappear without a trace. A few days later a burglary at a Hooters will unlock the mystery...

Killing for fame, the Samantha Wohlford story.

A struggling young mother and aspiring YouTube star did the unthinkable to promote her channel...

The 80‘s, great music, good tv! We rank our favorite tv shows from that singular decade!

The 80's had every kind of show you could hope for, and while Kevin watched some, Jack watched a lot so it's his time to shine! Surprise, surprise, Kevin and Jack had very little overlap...