Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast

Episode 61- 2ndCast, ‘Rebirth: The Renaissance’- She Married the Green River SerialKiller by Pennie Wood, Pt 3.

Part 3: Denial shattered forever, Gary Ridgway confesses and is sentenced, enveloping wife Judith with the incomprehensible reality- Her Prince Gary did it.  Ridgway best friends, Jim and Linda Bailey share their remembrances; then Gary Ridgway shares, providing disturbing insights. What did he tell Judith, who emerges from the Dark Ages, reborn as she builds a new life, her personal Renaissance.  
AND: Who were the young women strangled by the Green River Killer? All 49 are remembered in this trilogy, updating the case with Jill’s analysis of a serial killer. 
 
Sources, photographs, recipes and wine pairings are found on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, March 2023.
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Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episode 60-”The Dark Ages”- She Married the Green River Serial Killer by Pennie Wood Pt 2

Part 2: Happily married, Judith Ridgway settles into being the wife of her Prince, Gary Ridgway, nurturing their dogs and cats, her daughters, grandchildren, and Gary’s son.  Living the American dream, Judith gardens and Gary works hard and attends union meetings, life is good—until it all abruptly ends: Gary is arrested for killing 48 women.  World imploding, with him denying he is the killer, Judith is thrown into years of heartbreak, fear, and dismay.  Where there signs she missed? Red Flags? What do you say to your husband, the serial killer? Will Judith survive having her whole world demolished?
 
Trilogy sources, photographs, links, recipe and wine pairing are found on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, March 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episode 59–‘The Medieval Era’- She Married the Green River Serial Killer by Pennie Wood Pt 1

Part 1: This story begins on the worst day of Judith Ridgway’s life, when detectives came to her home after her husband of 14 year, Gary Leon Ridgway, was arrested. DNA evidence would tie him to victims of the notorious Green River Killer, murdering for over 20 years.  Completely shell shocked, Judith goes is in denial. How had she gotten here? 
Jill examines Judith’s life, difficult childhood, marriage and children while in the Sea-Tac area of Washington, bodies of strangled women are being discovered at great regularity, terror seizing the region. Then, Judith meets Gary, her Prince, and they build a life together, a perfectly normal life as the hunt for a prolific serial killer continues.  
 
Sources, photographs, recipes and wine pairings are found on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, March 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
 
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Episode 58 2ndCast -“It is darkest before the dawn”- Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott Pt 3

Part 3: Convicted in the Natalie Kirov case, Joel Courtney is finally extradited to Oregon to stand trial for the murder of Brooke Wilberger.  With no body, Prosecutors knew this was not the easiest case to win. What shenanigans will Courtney pull?
Police and the media begin examining other cases that could possibly be linked to Courtney- Katie Eggleston, Stephanie Condon, Leah Freeman, and Kristin Smart.  Was Courtney a serial killer? New, updates on these cases are presented.
 
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, February 2023.
 
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episode 57: “Stars cannot shine without darkness.”- Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott Pt 2.

Part 2: Brooke Wilberger is missing.  The eager public cooperates fully, sending in over 4500 tips that need investigating, with critical evidence buried in the pile. Of the number of suspects, the most viable is Sung Koo Kim, a man with an underwear fetish, and a trove of evidence on his computer.  But then, a phone call from New Mexico changes everything! There was a similar case in Albuquerque, and a man, Joel Patrick Courtney, had been arrested.  He’d recently lived in Beaverton, Oregon, which was interesting, but could they make a case against Joel?  The number of dots to be connected seem endless.
 
 
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Feb. 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
"Trust your gut!"

Episode 56: “The Light That Helps Others”- Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott Pt 1

Part 1: 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger lit up the room when she walked in.  She’d just completed her 1st year at Brigham Young University and coming home to her big LDS family in Veneta, Oregon. May 24, 2004, while cleaning lampposts at the apartment complex her sister managed, Brooke vanished.  The resulting investigation would unify the town of Corvallis, Oregon in their determination to find Brooke.  The police investigation unfolds as persons of interest are investigated for similar crimes, the very real terror spreading across the area. 
Written by Robert Scott, who also authored Shattered Innocent on the Kaycee Dugard kidnapping, Jill delves into the twists and turns that relentlessly shape the events that unfold as everyone asks: What happened to Brooke?
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Feb 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
 
"Trust your gut!"

Epi 55 2ndCast: 3 “Damnable and Hellish crime”- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the Hunt for America’s first serial killer by Skip Hollandsworth Pt 3

Part 3: The murder count continues to rise, as killing spreads to San Antonio, Gainesville, and all the way to London, England, where 5 women are slaughtered. With fallout impacting every aspect of society, devastating secrets are revealed, leading to shocking trials, which have electrifying legal and political consequences for the people of Austin and their leaders that last through the next two centuries.  Who is the Midnight Assassin?  Jill has a theory- you know she does!
Note: This story is set in the late 19th century and reflects the stereotypes, prejudices, and language of the era.
 
Source material, recipe and wine information, photographs are on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com Jan 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Epi 54: “The Remarkable Ghoul”- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the Hunt for America’s first serial killer by Skip Hollandsworth- Pt 2

Part 2: Like phantoms, a killer or killers walks among the people of Austin, Tx.  Desperately seeking solutions, blood hounds, private detectives, and the famous Chicago Pinkerton Detective Agency are employed to catch the ‘remarkable ghoul’, who slaughters women, vanishing in the inky darkness.  Fear continues to rise as the victims shift from black servant women to white society wives, death the great equalizer. Who is the Midnight Assassin? Can he be stopped?
Note: This story is set in the late 19th century and reflects the stereotypes, prejudices, and language of the era.
 
Source material, recipe and wine information, photographs are on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Jan. 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episode 53: “Ungodly Butchery”- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the Hunt for America’s first serial killer by Skip Hollandsworth-Pt 1

Part 1: It is 1884 and Austin, Tx is poised at the precipice of a new Golden Age, shifting from a frontier town to a cosmopolitan city of culture and prosperity.  Until a shadow grows, threatening everything as the slaughter of black servant women begins. Terrified, the community demands the murderous gang be caught, but with multiple arrests of suspects, the jail remains empty. Who is the servant woman annihilator? When will the carnage end? 
Note: This story is set in the late 19th century and reflects the stereotypes, prejudices, and language of the era.
Source material, recipe and wine information, photographs are on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Jan. 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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UPDATE: Mini-Cast on Russ/Betsy Faria case from BONE DEEP by Bosworth and Schwartz!

Merry Christmas, Murder Bookies!
UPDATE on Ep 40-44! This is a very special Christmas mini-cast! We met Russ Faria, convicted of murdering his wife, Betsy Faria in 2011 when we covered the book, Bone Deep by Charles Bosworth and Joel Schwartz, Epi 40-44.  Eventually, Russ was exonerated, as the case took a major twist!  Now, the case continues to turn once again, with a new announcement by Lincoln County, Missouri Prosecuting Attorney, Mike Wood!
 
Source material is found on Jill's blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, May 2022.
 
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at  jill@murdershelfbookclub.com, on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
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