LOVE MURDER

Charles and Florence Bravo had all the makings of a respectable Victorian marriage: money, status, and a stately home. But beneath the polished veneer was jealousy, control, infidelity, and resentment. When Charles died from poison just four months after the wedding, the suspect list included his new bride, her loyal ladies’ maid, and her much older ex-lover.
Sources:
1. Ruddick, James. Death at the Priory. Grove Press, 2002.
2. Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder. 2004.
3. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34518301/charles_delauney_turner-bravo. Accessed 26 Sept. 2026.
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This week, two cases. In Pinellas County, Florida, police say Christopher Dodge Smith shot his girlfriend, Jessica Antolini, in a bar parking lot while his 5-year-old daughter was in the car. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pediatrician Dr. Julia Pederson was found dead after a fire in her home, and investigators say she was strangled before it was set. Her husband, Jonathan Gatto, is charged with first-degree murder.
Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://www.fox13news.com/news/woman-dies-days-after-being-shot-run-over-boyfriend-outside-safety-harbor-bar-pcso
https://www.tampabay28.com/news/region-pinellas/safety-harbor-man-charged-with-murder-after-girlfriend-dies-from-shooting-injuries-pcso
https://www.tampabay28.com/news/region-pinellas/safety-harbor-rallies-around-memory-of-woman-killed-encourages-community-to-wear-purple
https://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/husband-of-pennsylvania-doctor-strangled-her-set-her-on-fire-in-home-affidavit
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ivy-league-educated-pediatrician-allegedly-murdered-husband-set-home-fire-police
https://www.fox13news.com/news/safety-harbor-man-accused-shooting-girlfriend-running-her-over-his-vehicle-pcso
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At the end of a long, dirt road in the wilds of Georgia, two men created a world entirely their own—part sanctuary, part gothic fantasy. There were rumors of devil worship and sinful orgies—but when evil came to Corpsewood in the winter of 1982—it came from the outside world.
Sources:
1. Petulla, Amy. The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia. Arcadia Publishing, 2016.
2. “A Castle in the Country – Mother Earth News.” Mother Earth News – The Original Guide To Living Wisely, https://www.facebook.com/motherearthnewsmag/, https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/castle-in-the-country-zmaz81mazraw/. Accessed 22 Sept. 2026.
3. “Corpsewood 1982.” WGGSTV, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdK9YWObZS8. Accessed 22 Sept. 2026.
4. Dead Silent. 2016.
5. Scudder, Charles. “A Castle in the Country – Mother Earth News.” Mother Earth News – The Original Guide To Living Wisely, https://www.facebook.com/motherearthnewsmag/, https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/castle-in-the-country-zmaz81mazraw/. Accessed 24 Sept. 2026.
6. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114724659/charles_lee-scudder. Accessed 21 Sept. 2026.
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In 1995, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee, by a classmate who believed she was after her boyfriend. Christa Pike spent the next three decades as the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. On September 30th, the state gave her two doses of pentobarbital, and she did not die. This week she woke up in a hospital bed, still under a death sentence, as her lawyers fight to keep Tennessee from trying again.
Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://www.wbtv.com/2026/10/02/how-tennessees-failed-execution-christa-pike-unfolded-minute-by-minute/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/christina-pike-stalled-execution-witnesses-describe-chaos
https://www.wbtv.com/2026/10/03/tennessees-prisons-chief-is-resigning-after-failed-execution-christa-pike-governor-says/
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/10/07/christa-pikes-attorneys-give-update-after-she-woke-up-failed-execution/
https://www.wect.com/2026/10/07/victims-mother-reacts-christa-pike-being-conscious-speaking-after-botched-execution-report-says/
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When accomplished executive and former beauty queen Allison Baden-Clay disappeared from her Brisbane home, suspicion quickly turned toward her husband Gerard. Scratches on his face, a secret affair, financial trouble, and a trail of lies would make the case one of Australia’s most notorious murders.
Sources:
https://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases-and-judgments/cases/decided/case-b332016
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-15/baden-clay-murder-trial-timeline/5585176
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-20/baden-clay-why-circumstantial-case-proved-powerful/5604348
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-25/baden-clay-murder-trial-day-10/5548318
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/gerard-baden-clay-guilty-of-murdering-wife-allison
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-27/allison-baden-clay-insurance-to-go-to-trust/6269646
https://www.allisonbadenclayfoundation.org.au/
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