Crime Wire Weekly 10/23/26 | Laken Snelling Sentenced, Chainsaw Carnage, & the People’s Court Murder
Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly JenningsShow Notes
We open with a man extradited to Louisiana after an investigation into the online exploitation of an Acadiana child—including allegations he tried to push the minor toward demise. From there we head to Alabama, where a man is accused of using a chainsaw to kill his grandmother and aunt inside their home, then turning a court appearance into its own spectacle. Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been sentenced in the case of her newborn son, whose body was found in a closet; she previously admitted in court that she “ended his life.”
DNA technology finally closes a long-dormant West Virginia sexual assault and abduction cold case. A maintenance worker is caught on a nanny cam going through a tenant’s underwear drawer. Two 15-year-old girls in California are arrested after authorities say they spent months researching and plotting a school shooting. The man who appeared on The People’s Court with his then-fiancée is charged in her 2011 disappearance and murder.
In Florida, a man is accused of shooting his girlfriend outside a bar and then running her over while his young daughter and the family dog were present. In our Lustful Lawbreakers segment we cover the domestic dispute that started over a missing sex toy and ended with both parties in handcuffs (before they reconciled). And we close with the Montreal woman killed in her apartment while she was on a work Zoom call with colleagues—her attacker now charged with first-degree murder.
Timestamps 02:16 Online Predator Extradited to Louisiana 12:50 Alabama Chainsaw Double Murder 15:33 Mental Illness, Violence, and Accountability 22:15 Laken Snelling Sentenced in Newborn’s Death 33:49 A Decade-Old Murder Solved 38:43 Maintenance Worker Caught Violating a Tenant’s Home 45:46 Teen Girls’ School Shooting Plot Foiled 50:01 The People’s Court Killer Arrested 54:24 Girlfriend Murdered in Front of Her Child 58:49 Lustful Lawbreakers: A Missing Dildo 1:03:55 Montreal Murder During a Video Meeting 1:06:54 Tragic Accident During Ecuador Mass 1:10:47 Mother Fights Off Home Intruder
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