Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast

Part 1: This is YOUR tri-monthly True Crime Book Club, centered around your favorite obsession, where Jill and Tara take a deep dive into the case, discussing the story from the author's point of view. In this episode, Tara and Jill review Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark, on the massive hunt to identify the rapist-serial killer she named the Golden State Killer, the new remastered version is available now!

Expect analysis and updates- including the memoir by the GSK's 5th victim, Jane Carson-Sandler, Frozen in Fear, Ep 80-83, including Jill's exclusive interview with Jane!

What’s our next book? Listen now!

Sources, wine and snack information for Episodes 1 and 2 are found on Jill's blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Jan. 2020.

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 [email protected], 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.

Pt 3: What happens when you are on Death Row? How does the appeal process work? What is the human toll? Is it justice? We will follow Velma’s loved ones as they struggle with new revelations and hear from the families of the victims as human endurance is tested. Jill walks you through Velma Barfield’s maze of appeals, arguments for a new trial, and the final emotional outcome. And Jill tells you what she thinks of Velma Barfield, the Death Row Granny (of course she does!)

Sources, show notes, photographs, recipe and drink information are found on Jill’s blog: www.murdershelfbookclub.com, May 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 [email protected], 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!"

In the Lost Girls trilogy, we learned how the Suffolk County police department on Long Island struggled to investigation the Long Island serial killer case, falling victim to internal scandal and administrative hijinks by the top echelon of law enforcement. Arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of the former police chief, district attorney and anti-corruption bureau chief (seriously, I KNOW) in 2016 and 2019 followed. However, former DA Thomas Spot and former bureau chief Christopher McParland were not sentenced—until three years later in August 2021, a three-year delay! GET the UPDATE on these ONGOING cases as Jill fills you in on the latest, that makes your blood boil!

Sourcing for this story is found on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com

Part 3: We see Connie Quedens ensnaring Fred Wilderson in her web, entangling finances, escalating demands, culminating with Fred abruptly vanished, leaving his beloved daughter and son behind. Who had a life insurance policy on Fred? Connie. But nothing tied her to his disappearance. 17 yrs later, Clay Bryant begins to investigate this cold case, and he finds a witness that sets the case on fire! Hear justice arrive in all it’s glory, and the truth of who Connie Quedens is comes out, with many wondering what else she did.

Sources, snack recipe, wine recommendation and show notes are found on Jill’s blog www.murdershelfbookclub.com, July 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 [email protected], 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!"

1986: Growing up in Tacoma, Washington, 11 yr. old Lindsey Jackson (Wade) remembers no longer being allowed to ride her bike, and the fear of walking home from the school bus after two girls were brutally murdered, Michella Welch and Jennifer Bastian.

An adult Lindsey joined the Tacoma Police Dept, honing her investigative skills in patrol, then as a detective in sex crimes, dealing with terrible, frustrating cases, and putting bad guys behind bars, as DNA evidence begins to play a role in investigation. Raw, respectful of the victims and their families, this is Lindsey’s story, poignant, powerful and not to be missed.

Buy Lindsey’s book on Amazon (highly recommended!) or on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com. ,Sept 2024.

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 [email protected], 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.