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Terrifyingly Typical True Crime

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime

By: Calista and Theresa Whitney
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 Curious about true crime and want to understand the patterns that often pop up? Join antisocial and outspoken mother and daughter Theresa and Calista as they connect cases to dig into a specific type of crime or criminal. Dive into a new case every other week that explores common crimes and typical themes in true crime!Calista and Theresa Whitney True Crime
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  • Episode 39 - Stephanie Kilhefner and Za’Zell Preston: Abusers Don’t Take Holidays

    Episode 39 - Stephanie Kilhefner and Za’Zell Preston: Abusers Don’t Take Holidays
    Dec 21 2025
    Because it’s that time of year again, in this episode, we’re covering two cases that happened on Christmas Eve:On December 24, 2014, Dustin Lee Klopp and Stephanie Kilhefner Klopp’s two children would be made orphans, just not all at once. Having driven them to his parents’ house for the usual festivities the following day, Dustin called the police to confess to his wife’s murder and turned himself in. Years after making it, he had finally followed through on his threat to kill her. Exactly three years earlier, William Wallace would abuse his wife, Za’Zell Preston, for the last time. Unwilling to leave the apartment they shared with her two daughters and their newborn son after murdering her, he slept in the bed next to her lifeless body and then propped her on the couch the next morning while her daughters opened gifts. Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/police-wife-killed-with-knife-ax-christmas-eve-in-pa/ https://www.ksl.com/article/33659964/coroner-man-in-wifes-christmas-eve-ax-slaying-killed-selfExtensive reporting from LancasterOnline, including: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/accused-killer-dead-after-hanging-at-prison-hospital-removes-life-support/article_8ddb2d5e-bebb-11e4-b373-4fb1e72984b9.htmlhttps://www.wgal.com/article/lancaster-county-man-faces-new-charges-in-wife-s-christmas-eve-death/6235737https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dustin-lee-klopp_n_6391524https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/12/23/abuse-domestic-violence-increase-holidays-christmas/77065942007/ https://www.cawc.org/news/why-domestic-violence-increases-during-the-holiday-season/ https://womenagainstcrime.com/domestic-violence-and-the-holidays-what-you-should-know/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/disturbing-data-shows-how-often-domestic-violence-turns-deadly https://www.modernfamilylaw.com/resources/restraining-order-vs-protective-order/ https://stoprelationshipabuse.org/educated/barriers-to-leaving-an-abusive-relationship/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invisible-chains/202208/7-common-post-separation-abuse-tactics https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/04/why-jails-have-more-suicides-than-prisons https://bjs.ojp.gov/media/65216/download https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5816720/ https://www.wildefuneralhome.com/obituaries/stephanie-j-kilhefner-klopp https://www.gofundme.com/f/jcwmxw https://www.ocregister.com/2021/03/08/anaheim-man-propped-dead-wife-on-couch-for-kids-opening-christmas-presents-prosecutor-says/amp/https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/08/father-who-killed-wife-and-propped-body-on-sofa-with-kids-convicted-of-murder-14375904/https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/killer-wife-christmas-california-b1814794.htmlhttps://people.com/crime/man-convicted-murder-after-killing-wife-having-kids-open-christmas-gifts-in-front-body/https://allthatsinteresting.com/za-zell-prestonhttps://www.businessinsider.com/anaheim-man-propped-up-wifes-dead-body-christmas-convicted-murder-2021-4https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119037191/za%27zell-dominique-prestonhttps://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2021/06/04/man-gets-15-to-life-for-beating-wife-to-death-on-christmas-day-2011-in-anaheimhttps://www.oddmurdersandmysteries.com/the-murder-of-zazell-preston/https://www.ocregister.com/2013/09/03/mickadeit-justice-moves-slowly-in-zazells-death/#:~:text=A%20grand%20jury%20indicted%20Wallace,to%20refile%20and%20start%20over.https://ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov/details?cdcrNumber=BP2708https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/bph/parole-suitability-hearings-overview/events-before-a-parole-suitability-hearing/ https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/HDSP/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539741/https://www.lifewire.org/community-advocacy/dv-by-the-numbers/#:~:text=Black%20women%20experience%20domestic%20violence,women%20have%20experienced%20domestic%20violence.https://www.latintimes.com/man-kills-wife-then-props-her-body-couch-children-see-470121
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  • Episode 38 - Herb Baumeister: Morbid Mannequin Pool Party

    Episode 38 - Herb Baumeister: Morbid Mannequin Pool Party
    Dec 7 2025
    Being gay in conventional Indianapolis in the ‘90s wasn’t easy. When members of the small gay community started disappearing and police chose to look the other way, one brave man would put himself in harm’s way to uncover the truth. It would take years, but when the horrifying truth of what transpired at Fox Hollow Farm came to light, no one could ignore that Herb Baumeister, the respectable, wealthy, family man, was hiding a secret so big he chose to end his life rather than face the consequences of his actions. Almost thirty years after the excavation of the property first began, missing men are still being identified.Sources: https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/heres-what-we-know-about-notorious-indiana-serial-killer-herbert-baumeisterhttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/04/28/UPI-Focus-Sheriffs-link-9-deaths-to-Indiana-man/9730893736000/https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/serial-killer-herbert-baumeister-still-being-linked-to-dozen-of-gay-men-found-deadhttps://slate.com/technology/2022/07/schizophrenia-diagnosis-history-dsm.htmlhttps://indyencyclopedia.org/herbert-baumeister/https://inmagazine.ca/2021/03/queer-crime-the-double-life-of-herb-baumeister/https://www.distractify.com/p/herb-baumeister-househttps://www.distractify.com/p/herb-baumeister-wifehttps://www.ranker.com/list/herb-baumeister-facts/jessika-gilberthttps://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/heres-what-we-know-about-notorious-indiana-serial-killer-herbert-baumeisterhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-1996-allen-livingston-victim-suspected-serial-killer-herbert-baumeister-indiana/https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/herb-baumeister-serial-killer-new-victim-daniel-halloran-b2742502.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-serial-killer-herbert-baumeister-estate-identified-manuel-resendez-missing-since-1993/https://people.com/archive/while-julie-was-away-vol-46-no-26/https://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Baumeister,%20Herb%20-%20fall,%202005.pdfhttps://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/bone-found-during-sunday-search-of-herbert-baumeister-propertyhttps://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/remains-recovered-fox-hollow-farm-westfield-herb-baumeister-1996-identified-man-missing-1993-jeffrey-jones/531-eb592a69-a7e8-4536-bd15-45d0f57b0c62https://www.indystar.com/picture-gallery/news/local/hamilton-county/westfield/2019/05/16/photos-fox-hollow-farm-westfield/3692421002/https://web.archive.org/web/20080112073317/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/baumeister/killer_10.htmlhttps://indyencyclopedia.org/herbert-baumeister/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-identified-serial-killer-herb-baumeister-indiana-estate-13-presumed-victims/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0941950020300567https://www.thoughtco.com/herbert-richard-baumeister-973121#:~:text=Herbert%20began%20to%20obsess%20over,Baumeisters%20did%20not%20seek%20treatment.https://pinerypark.on.ca/https://www.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/837/Coroners-Officehttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/04/28/UPI-Focus-Sheriffs-link-9-deaths-to-Indiana-man/9730893736000/
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    45 mins
  • Episode 37 - Jay Thomas Johnson: There’s No “Aids Commission,” Just Another A**hole

    Episode 37 - Jay Thomas Johnson: There’s No “Aids Commission,” Just Another A**hole
    Nov 23 2025
    21-year-old Joel Larson was walking through a popular gay cruising spot in Minneapolis, Minnesota around 11:30 in the evening on July 31, 1991, when he was killed by a bullet to the back. Only ten days later, 19-year-old Cord Draszt and 48-year-old former Minnesota State Senator John Chenoweth were shot at another gay hangout spot. After a six-page letter from the fictitious AIDS Commission claimed responsibility for the hate crimes, authorities realized they had the wrong suspect and raced to track down the real killer before he made good on his threats of more murders to come.Sources: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/diversity/assault/ https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-murders-in-1990s-targeted-gays/512683912 https://thecinemaholic.com/joel-larson-murder-where-is-jay-thomas-johnson-now/ https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/06/16/heres-a-timeline-of-past-attacks-against-minnesota-politicians/84231203007/https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/serial-killer/minnesota-gay-community-1990s-serial-killing-joel-larson https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?id=10097 https://coms.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/OffenderDetails/Index/168950/Search https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/family-of-man-targeted-for-being-gay-says-more-needs-to-be-done-for-everyone-to-feel-safe/89-7ce40ed5-5d3d-49a7-be74-a711c16c468a https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/articles/10097STobit.pdf https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?id=10630 https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/death-of-pat-robertson/ https://qlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MN_Gay_Movement_MCLU.pdf https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/turning-anti-gay-hate-love-loring-park-memorial-joel-larson/ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED423939.pdfhttps://review.gale.com/2017/05/17/the-homophobic-aids-crisis-of-the-1980s/ https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline#year-1981 https://www.history.com/articles/aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan https://www.aidschicago.org/about-hiv/hiv-aids-milestones/ https://hivinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv/fact-sheets/hiv-and-aids-basicshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8493181/ https://www.cnn.com/us/lgbt-rights-milestones-fast-facts https://www.amfar.org/about-hiv-aids/snapshots-of-an-epidemic-hiv-aids/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20809130865&gbraid=0AAAAADvUAaRnj4Wat_2e_0ipgy6R3DA8e&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9czHBhCyARIsAFZlN8Ss0s21Wh6xan459lczdDMVrjgEkNyfKuVh5dTd8e_JDtvx_D5C5mIaAuljEALw_wcB https://www.prb.org/resources/hiv-aids-and-african-americans-a-state-of-emergency/ https://www.kff.org/hiv-aids/the-impact-of-hiv-on-black-people-in-the-united-states/ https://www.cdc.gov/Mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001998.htm#:~:text=During%20the%201980s%2C%20the%20number,reported%20cases%20(Table%201). https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids https://aidsunited.org/examining-hiv-criminalization/ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sodomy https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/three-decades-later-men-who-survived-gay-plague-speak-out-n825621
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    28 mins
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