Murder Bird

Renae Marsden was entering an exciting period of her life - she was training to be a hairdresser, preparing for her 21st birthday, and planning to move out into her own apartment. She was also in a relationship with a man she had been besotted by for over a year, and she was looking forward to his release from prison. But when that day comes and her boyfriend breaks up with her, Renae does something unthinkable. And then the ugly truth becomes unravelled, and Renae's relationships are put under the microscrope. Who the hell is Brayden Spiteri?

References and further reading:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8002747/Renae-Marsden-inquest-Final-text-Camila-Zeidans-alleged-catfish-victim.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/20/coroner-condemns-catfisher-over-sydney-woman-renae-marsdens-suicide

https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/renae-marsden-coroner-slams-liar-catfisher-over-20yearolds-tragic-suicide/news-story/451cdf0f65adacd92c036d8f63fe0c13

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/parents-of-catfishing-victim-want-laws-changed-and-named-after-renae-20200520-p54uo2.html

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/parents-of-suicide-victim-want-catfishing-to-be-a-crime-20200209-p53z5f.html

https://www.mamamia.com.au/renae-marsden-catfish/

https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/documents/findings/2020/Marsden_findings_20_May_20.pdf

https://expressdigest.com/renae-marsden-inquest-agony-of-suicide-victims-family-as-camila-zeidan-testifies/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8342353/Renae-Marsden-Camila-Zeidan-charged.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7989951/Renae-Marsden-catfish-case-shock-Camila-Zeidan-gives-evidence.html

https://expressdigest.com/renae-marsden-why-hasnt-camila-zeidan-ever-been-charged/

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/alleged-catfish-stalked-and-harassed-ex-lover-inquiry-20200212-p54001.html

https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/parents-of-catfish-victim-renae-marsden-speak-after-inquest-into-daughters-death-c-698962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnqTZUhFYE

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/catfishing-renaes-parents-call-for-new-law-after-daughters-death/8b054266-dcd1-4e87-bb14-ed7896f8092e

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_(Sydney)

Yingying Zhang travelled from her home in China to Illinois in April 2017 to spend a year in the US as a visiting scholar. It was supposed to be an exciting year of studying, discovery, travel, and romance as she planned her wedding for the autumn. However, on a Friday afternoon in June, Yingying missed a bus that changed the course of her life.

**Descriptions of violence and sexual assault timestamp - 23:00 - 24:35**

References and further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yingying_Zhang

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-missing-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170620212906/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-06/13/content_29723861.htm

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-brendt-christensen-u-of-i-killer-trial-closings-20190624-7egg6wsmxbhrziuaxu7pyeufm4-story.html

https://news.wttw.com/2019/06/12/defense-attorney-brendt-christensen-killed-yingying-zhang

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/finding-yingying-trailer-jenny-shi-1234604014/

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/mtd-its-wrong-to-blame-bus-driver-who-didnt-stop-for-scholar/article_2e811f61-33e5-50ea-8021-f84a90096f7e.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170807173416/http://police.illinois.edu/dpsapp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/christensen-complnt.pdf

https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/ui_police_search_for_missing_person_060917.mp4/view

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/missing-ui-scholars-family-will-not-leave-without-her/article_22385a9d-2a6a-5a4e-9f98-1d036e2c03ae.html

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3015488/brendt-christensen-accused-killer-chinese-scholar

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/defense-trial-chinese-scholars-death-63667947

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/18/us/brendt-christensen-chinese-student-death-sentence/index.html

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/08/07/yingying-zhang-slain-chinese-scholar-body-danville-landfill/

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/brendt-christensen-claimed-killed-12-yingying-zhang-part-67057864

https://www.weareresonate.com/2020/11/murder-of-chinese-scholar-yingying-zhang-has-been-turned-into-a-documentary-film/

https://abc7chicago.com/brendt-christensen-yingying-zhang-trial-uiuc/5592798/

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/yingying-zhang-investigation-missing-person-kidnapping-case-part-67057774

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nNBm51I3vw

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-missing-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html

This week's case is a story about an eccentric woman searching for magic stones, and how the disapperance of her husband did not raise any alarm bells until a gruesome discovery was made 18 years after he was last seen alive. Who the hell was Leigh Ann Sabine?

**Listener discretion is always advised**

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References:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/19/woman-killed-husband-hid-body-never-caught-leigh-ann-sabine

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/08/why-didnt-she-confess-killing-of-john-sabine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-35097310

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3366447/Haunting-truth-evil-wife-accused-committing-perfect-murder-husband-hiding-body-garden.html

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/sabine-confess-murder-stone-frog-11000846

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-perfect-murder-leigh-ann-sabines-daughter-speaks-out-about-her-lost-childhood/GSFYUVG7TCAOHRSLU3W35Q6SDA/

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116980787/dumped-at-a-nursery-and-abandoned-into-a-life-of-misery-jane-sabines-story-on-i-am

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/75319948/leigh-ann-sabine-what-we-know-about-the-accused-murderer-and-runaway-mum

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/11/welsh-police-identify-skull-as-man-missing-for-18-years-and-say-wife-is-suspect

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-35104524

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3598804/Wife-smashed-husband-s-skull-stone-frog-mummified-roofing-felt-plastic-bags-body-wearing-M-S-pyjamas-home-died-18-years-later.html

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nz-family-had-a-tumultuous-history-with-their-father-whose-body-was-found-in-welsh-garden

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-36330451

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/05/20/no-one-believed-she-killed-her-husband-with-a-stone-frog-until-they-found-the-body.html

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/real-people/20161117/282724816516948

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3601814/How-woman-hid-husband-s-body-attic-18-years-couldn-t-quiet-no-one-took-seriously.html

In 2009. Morgan and her friends attended a Metallica concert in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2014, Hannah left her friends to walk to another party that was going on in downtown Charlottesville. Both women, once separated from their friends, were never seen again. In this episode, we look at the circumstances surrounding Morgan and Hannah's disappearances, and how their killer was finally apprehended after six years.

**Listener discretion is always advised**

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Morgan_Dana_Harrington

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Hannah_Graham

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech

• https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Morgan-Harrington-remembered-decade-after-disappearing-in-Charlottesville-563311022.html

• https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Morgan_Harrington

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47166910/morgan-dana-harrington

• http://themurdersquad.com/episodes/jesse-matthew-serial-predator-serial-killer/

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35713176

• https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-disturbing-murder-and-disappearance-of-morgan-harrington-7e661a9d05eb

• http://helpsavethenextgirl.com/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_Arena

• https://imgur.com/a/7FXt4

• http://www.readthehook.com/68346/shattered-bones-harringtons-say-morgans-killer-violent-sadistic

• https://wtop.com/hannah-graham-murder/2019/09/5-years-later-former-police-chief-prosecutor-on-uva-student-hannah-grahams-murder/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/for-hannah-grahams-family-nightmare-leaves-enduring-uncertainty-and-loss/2014/11/14/4849784a-6c2c-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html

• https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/us/jesse-matthew-plea-hearing/index.html

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hannah-graham-what-happened-missing-virginia-student-n208556

• https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/19/missing-virginia-student/15890571/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/authorities-confirm-body-is-u-va-student-hannah-graham/2014/10/24/6b71988c-5ac7-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/docs-uva-victim-hannah-graham-refused-to-get-in-killer-jesse-matthews-car/

• https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/06/the-murders-of-morgan-harrington-and.html

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771469/Pictured-Hannah-Graham-suspect-hour-abducted-drunken-UVA-student-Two-women-claim-sexually-harassed-night-teen-vanished-meeting-him.html

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/morgan-harrington-disappearance-jesse-matthew-charged-death-virginia-tech-student-n429371

• https://wtop.com/hannah-graham-murder/2019/05/how-a-reporter-broke-the-news-of-u-va-killer-jesse-matthews-cancer-transfer/#:~:text=French%20had%20conducted%20two%20telephone,Virginia%20Tech%20student%20Morgan%20Harrington.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Charlottesville/comments/2jqojm/getting_inside_the_head_of_jesse_lj_matthew/

• https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/killer-jesse-matthew-moved-from-sussex-i-state-prison-to-richmond-hospital

In 2005, Geetha Angara's body was discovered in a water tank at a plant where she had worked for over 12 years. The injuries she sustained pointed to homicide, however the lack of forensic evidence and solid suspects mean that the case has gone cold. This week we look into the life and death of Dr Geetha Angara.

**Listener discretion is always advised - this case is unsolved**

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geetha_Angara_homicide

https://www.nj.com/news/2015/02/death_in_the_water_tank_nightmarish_case_remains_u.html

https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2015/02/26/geetha-angara-macabre-death-case-to-be-reopened-after-10-years-in-new-jersey/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyola_College,_Chennai

https://www.loyolacollege.edu/index

https://obits.nj.com/amp/obituaries/starledger/3159414

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/nyregion/coworkers-become-focus-in-killing-at-water-tank.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry