Weird True Crime

Your weekly dumpster fire just got an upgrade. This week, Amber and Gina are diving headfirst into Reddit's AITA (Am I The Asshole?) forum — and they pulled 10 of the most unhinged, hilarious, and genuinely jaw-dropping threads they could find.
From a lactose-intolerant food thief who gets the worst kind of karma, to a man who handed his wife a formal performance review, to a husband trying to get his recovering wife to sign mystery documents blindfolded — the bar is on the floor, and Reddit has receipts.
As always, take it all with a grain of salt (and some popcorn). AI has made it nearly impossible to know what's real anymore, but real or not? These stories are chef's kiss.
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In 1954, two teenage best friends in Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, murdered Pauline's mother, Honora Parker, in Victoria Park, staging her death to look like an accident. The girls, whose intense and consuming friendship had alarmed both of their families, killed Honora after learning she opposed their plan to stay together once Juliet's family moved to South Africa. Both girls were convicted and served about five years in prison before being released under new identities. Juliet Hulme went on to become a bestselling mystery novelist under the name Anne Perry. Pauline Parker became a recluse who ran a small riding school in England. Their story later inspired the 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures, starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey.

Links & Sources
Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 23: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page23.asp
NZ History, Pauline Parker: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/pauline-parker
IMDb, Heavenly Creatures trivia: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005/
Murderpedia, Juliet Hulme trial reports: https://murderpedia.org/female.H/images/hulme-juliet/juliet-hulme-trial-reports.pdf
Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 24: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page24.asp
Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 28: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page28.asp
Christchurch City Libraries, Parker Hulme Heritage Digitised Collection, Page 27: https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page27.asp
NZ Herald, 'We were not lesbians,' says former Juliet Hulme: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/we-were-not-lesbians-says-former-juliet-hulme/V4WK54EI7YUVO6UMNKPOE7NRG4/
Domus Aurea (archived), Hilary Nathan profile: https://web.archive.org/web/20060721114131/http://www.domusaurea.org/borovnia/hilary.html
Anne Perry official site (archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20071019040936/http://www.anneperry.net/3.html
Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/14377739776/
Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/9096583535
Archives NZ via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/9721709104
Find a Grave, Honorah Mary Parker: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16907470/honorah-mary-parker
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For nearly thirty years, Anthony Gignac, born Jose Enrique Moreno on the streets of Colombia, posed as Saudi royalty to con hotels, department stores, a university, and eventually a group of ultra wealthy international investors out of millions of dollars. From a sixth grade Mercedes scam to a two hundred million dollar American Express card to an eight million dollar investment fraud scheme, Anthony's story is one of the boldest and strangest cons in recent memory, and it came at a real human cost. On today's WTF Wednesday, Gina and Amber trace the entire arc of the Prince of Fraud, from an orphaned five year old to a federal inmate with a release date in 2032.
A big shout-out to Haley Gray for her research on this episode! 
Sources
U.S. Department of Justice, press releases (usao-sdfl)
CNBC, How a fake Saudi prince conned investors out of millions
Los Angeles Times archives, 1991 coverage
Vanity Fair, He actually believes he is Khalid: The odyssey of a counterfeit Saudi prince
Vanity Fair, How the fake Saudi prince Anthony Gignac was exposed
Forbes, Befriending the notorious fake sultan
The New York Times, coverage of Anthony Gignac
The Washington Post, coverage of Anthony Gignac
The Spokesman-Review archives
The Orlando Sentinel archives
Vice, The insane saga of the fake Saudi prince who scammed Miami's rich and famous
Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator
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In the final episode of this series, Gina and Amber cover Leticia Stauch's murder trial, three years after Gannon's death. Leticia pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense arguing she suffered from dissociative identity disorder as a result of childhood trauma. Prosecutors pointed to her shifting statements to police, the deliberate steps she took to conceal what happened to Gannon, and a recorded interview in which she admitted to fatally shooting him. In May 2023, a jury convicted her of first-degree murder, and she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
This episode also brings listeners fully up to date on the most recent development in the case. On April 2, 2026, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed Leticia Stauch's conviction, ruling that a biased juror, one whose son-in-law worked as a deputy district attorney in the same office that prosecuted the case, should have been dismissed and never should have deliberated. The reversal is not based on new evidence and does not change the facts of what happened to Gannon; it's centered entirely on a legal error known as structural error. The ruling was not unanimous, and one judge argued Leticia's own defense team could have removed the juror and failed to do so.
As of this episode, Leticia Stauch remains in custody at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility while the case moves through appeal. In late June 2026, the Colorado Department of Law filed its own appeal with the Colorado Supreme Court, seeking to reinstate the original conviction. Gina and Amber close out the series by explaining what could happen next, a full retrial, or a Supreme Court ruling that restores the 2023 verdict, and promise to update listeners as soon as there's real movement in the case.
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In part two, Gina and Amber cover the break that changed everything: the discovery of a piece of blood-stained particle board near the Stauch home, and the trail of evidence that led investigators over a thousand miles away to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where Leticia Stauch was ultimately arrested.
This episode covers the forensic details that built the case against her, including Gannon's blood found on her shoe, her DNA recovered from a firearm connected to his death, and phone and travel records placing her in the Florida Panhandle in the days after Gannon went missing. Weeks later, searchers made the devastating discovery of Gannon's body in a suitcase beneath a bridge, confirming the worst fears of a family and a community that had spent weeks searching for him.
Gina and Amber break down the timeline of the investigation, the mounting physical evidence, and how a search for a missing child turned into a homicide case almost overnight.
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