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He was home. She was at the wrong door. On September 6, 2018, Botham Jean was spending the evening in his Dallas apartment when off-duty police officer Amber Guyger entered and shot him. She said she believed the apartment was hers and that the man inside was an intruder. But the questions went beyond how she reached the wrong floor. What did she overlook before opening the door? Why did she enter instead of backing away? And what did her actions in the minutes after the shooting reveal about her priorities? In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, part of GBRLIFE Transmissions, Kaitlyn explores Guyger’s background, her police career, the relationship and messages examined during the trial, and the prosecution’s argument that this was murder. We also remember Botham Jean: the accountant, singer, devoted brother, and community member whose life was taken inside the place he should have been safest. From the guilty verdict and ten-year sentence to Brandt Jean’s act of forgiveness, the appeals, and the episode’s discussion of parole, this case raises difficult questions about fear, bias, responsibility, and whose pain becomes the center of a public story. After Listening...read the companion blog, “Forgiveness Was Never the Sentence,” where I explore why a family’s grace should never be confused with justice: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/forgiveness-was-never-the-sentence Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

The rhyme made her infamous. The trial left her free. In August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their Fall River home. Lizzie Borden was accused of the murders, but the jury that acquitted her never heard her inquest testimony or testimony about an alleged attempt to buy poison. So what did the jury hear? And what might the familiar nursery rhyme have kept us from questioning? In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, part of GBRLIFE Transmissions, Kaitlyn explores Lizzie’s childhood, the family’s fractured relationships, disputes over inheritance, and the unsettling sequence of events surrounding the murders. From the dress Lizzie burned to the life she built at Maplecroft, we follow a woman whose acquittal never ended the public’s suspicion. The episode also considers competing psychological explanations, their limitations, and the role that gender, class, and reputation played in the courtroom. Listen on GBRLIFE and YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find more episodes, blogs, and reviews at https://GBRLIFE.com. Content note: Includes descriptions of fatal violence. Discussion of possible psychological explanations is speculative. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders. Explore the companion blog and more GBRLIFE:  https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/lizzie-borden-fact-vs-fiction-acquittal Support GBRLIFE on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE Listen and connect:  https://beacons.ai/gbrlife Understanding the darkness helps us appreciate the light.   Read the companion blog post, “Does She Look It? How Lizzie Borden Was Acquitted by an Idea”: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/lizzie-borden-fact-vs-fiction-acquittal Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

For years, Angie Mock was a familiar face on the morning news. On Halloween morning in 2025, the former television anchor approached neighbors in Wichita, Kansas, and asked them to call 911. Her mother, Anita Avers, had been attacked in her bed. Angie said she had acted to save herself. Later, she told detectives she believed her mother was the devil. Her family described years of delusions, angry outbursts, a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, and a previous psychiatric hospitalization. Anita, an 80-year-old marriage and family therapist, had opened her home to a daughter who needed help. In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, part of GBRLIFE Transmissions, Kaitlyn follows Angie’s journey from broadcasting to a life sentence, while examining the warning signs, her changing accounts, and the difference between competency to stand trial and mental state at the time of a crime. On October 5, 2026, Angie was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. But the sentence leaves another question: what happens when families become the treatment plan? This episode remembers Anita’s life and considers the psychology behind the crime without losing sight of the person whose life was taken. Read the companion blog post, “The Family Was Left to Handle It”: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/the-family-was-left-to-handle-it Explore the companion blog and more GBRLIFE:  https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE Listen and connect:  https://beacons.ai/gbrlife Understanding the darkness helps us appreciate the light. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

For years, Danette Colbert approached visitors in the French Quarter. Men reported waking up without their money, watches, phones, or access to their accounts. Despite a growing criminal record, she kept returning to the streets where she had become known as the Bourbon Street Hustler. During Super Bowl week in February 2025, she met Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old sports reporter covering the Kansas City Chiefs. Hotel cameras recorded Colbert entering his room and leaving alone. Adan was later found dead. Adan was also a widowed father. His baby daughter had survived the crash that killed her mother less than a year earlier. In season 3, episode 35 of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, Kaitlyn examines Colbert’s history, the evidence presented at trial, the defense’s argument, and the jury’s decision to convict her of negligent homicide and racketeering. Does that verdict account for what happened to Adan, or does it leave the most difficult part of this case unresolved? Read the companion blog post, “Nobody Missed Danette Colbert”: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/nobody-missed-danette-colbert Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Christa Pike was 18 years old when she told a friend at the Knoxville Job Corps Center that she planned to kill another student. When asked why, she simply said she felt mean that day. Less than two days later, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was found dead near an abandoned steam plant. Christa had lured her away under the pretense of making peace, but she arrived carrying a box cutter and a miniature meat cleaver. Before leaving, Christa removed a fragment of Colleen’s skull and carried it back to the Job Corps Center. She showed it to other students, spoke openly about the killing, and later appeared at the crime scene while investigators were still working. Christa was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder and became the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States during the modern death penalty era. After 30 years on Tennessee’s death row, she is scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026. But Christa entered the world with fetal alcohol-related brain damage. She endured severe abuse beginning in early childhood and lived with untreated bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. None of that makes her innocent. It also does not erase what happened to Colleen. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the murder of Colleen Slemmer, the evidence that sent Christa to death row, the violence and escape plot that followed, and the psychological and neurological conditions now at the center of her clemency request. Does understanding what shaped Christa Pike change what justice should look like, or are some crimes too deliberate and cruel for those circumstances to matter? Read the companion blog post, “Christa Pike and the Murder of Colleen Slemmer”: https://gbrlife.com/blog/christa-pike-and-the-murder-of-colleen-slemmer Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Frances Zaayer spent a year and a half terrorizing the family across the street, but the Scotts were not strangers. They were the same family who had taken her in as a teenager and welcomed her into their home again decades later. What began as a property dispute became a campaign of surveillance, false accusations, repeated 911 calls, racist abuse, and staged injuries. Her accusations eventually worked. Shawna Scott was arrested, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault, and received probation. Frances had already won. On May 26, 2018, she crossed the street with a gun anyway. She shot Shawna in the face and killed David Scott while he was installing security cameras to protect his family. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we examine the escalation that led to David’s murder, the warning signs authorities saw for more than a year, and the narcissistic, antisocial, and paranoid traits reflected in Frances’s behavior. Was Frances ever searching for justice, or did she simply need the Scott family to suffer? Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Carrie Phenix presented herself as an attorney who handled wills, trusts, and estates. In reality, her name was Caroline Herrling, she had no law license, and the legal authority she displayed existed almost entirely on forged paper. Using fake identities, counterfeit wills, impostors, and practiced signatures, Carrie stole nearly $3.9 million from vulnerable people, including the elderly, the isolated, and the dead. Then she and her accomplice allegedly found Charles Wilding dead inside his home. Instead of contacting authorities, they kept him alive on paper, took control of his estate, and disposed of his remains in San Francisco Bay. Carrie received 20 years in federal prison for fraud,, but she was never charged with murder. In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine Carrie’s calculated methods, the psychology behind her predatory behavior, and how someone could do all of this without ever facing a homicide charge.   Read the companion blog post, “Twenty Years, and How Easy It Was”:  https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/carriephenix Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Lisa Hayden-Johnson was praised as a devoted mother caring for her desperately ill son. But Matthew was healthy. For years, Lisa convinced doctors that he had numerous serious conditions, resulting in a wheelchair, feeding tube, oxygen bottles, and more than 325 unnecessary medical procedures. She even added glucose to his urine samples to create false evidence of diabetes. In this episode, we examine how Lisa deceived an entire medical system, what she gained from keeping Matthew sick, and why she still insists she was only putting her son first. Read the companion blog post, “She Still Calls It Love”:  https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/lisa-hayden-johnson Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza spent months convincing her husband and family that she was pregnant. She gained weight, altered medical documents, produced fake ultrasound images and celebrated at a baby shower for a child she knew she was not carrying. But a fabricated pregnancy came with a very real deadline. On June 17, 2009, Ale entered the maternity ward of Hospital General de México carrying an empty department-store bag. Hours later, she walked out with newborn Katia Valentina hidden inside it. In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine the pregnancy losses and relentless shame that surrounded Ale, the psychology that allowed her lie to keep growing and the choice that turned another mother into its victim. We also uncover what happened to Ale’s husband, Arturo, who believed the pregnancy was real and spent more than two years imprisoned for a crime he did not know was happening. Ale’s losses were not her fault. The kidnapping was. Everything worth understanding about this case exists in the distance between those two truths. Read the companion blog post, “The One Thing That Was Actually Hers”:  https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/the-one-thing-that-was-actually-hers Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

Donna Adelson had no direct connection to the men who murdered her former son-in-law, Dan Markel. What investigators found instead was a trail of phone calls, suspicious payments, family interference, handwritten scripts, and a 2014 day planner containing the license plate number of Dan’s car. In this episode, we examine the Adelson family’s enmeshed dynamics, the custody dispute that prosecutors said created the motive, and how investigators spent 11 years climbing from the gunmen to the woman accused of helping set everything in motion. This is the story of Donna Adelson, the family she spent a lifetime building, and what happened when protecting that family became indistinguishable from controlling it. Companion Blog Post: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/donna-adelson-jail-script-handwriting Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

A tire was deliberately placed in the middle of a dark road. When Jared Bridegan stopped to move it, he was shot while his two-year-old daughter waited inside his vehicle. Four years later, his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, is preparing to stand trial for allegedly conspiring with her second husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, to have him killed. But the man prosecutors identified as the gunman has withdrawn his guilty plea and taken back his agreement to testify. In this episode of GBRLIFE of Crimes, we examine the bitter custody battle, Shanna’s disturbing messages about her ex-husband, the “funeral potatoes” defense, the payments from her trust and the psychology behind both possible versions of this case. Can prosecutors connect Shanna’s words to the money, and the money to the tire waiting on Sanctuary Boulevard? Shanna Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has not been convicted of the charges against her. Read the companion blog post, “The Only Thing Nobody Argues About”: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/shanna-gardner-is-she-innocent Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

On the evening of January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy left his Duxbury, Massachusetts, home to pick up medicine and dinner. He was gone for less than 30 minutes. When he returned, he found his wife, Lindsay, catastrophically injured outside their home. Inside the basement, he found their three young children. There is no mystery about who caused their deaths. The question now before a Plymouth County jury is whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when it happened. In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, Kaitlyn examines Lindsay’s documented psychiatric decline, the 13 medications she was prescribed, her voluntary hospitalization, the warning signs of postpartum psychosis, and the anxiety diagnosis that remained in her chart as her condition worsened. The episode also explores the prosecution’s evidence of planning, the defense’s psychosis argument, Massachusetts’s insanity standard, the lucidity trap, and the medical and familial failures that preceded the tragedy. Can a woman appear completely lucid while moving in and out of psychosis? Can psychosis distort an intensely protective attachment until a mother genuinely believes that harm will save her children? Does planning automatically prove that she understood reality and could control her actions? This episode asks where psychological explanation ends, where legal responsibility begins, and who should answer for the warnings that were documented but never acted upon. Content notice: This episode discusses the deaths of young children, suicide, postpartum psychosis, psychiatric hospitalization, and failures within mental-health care. Do you believe Lindsay Clancy was experiencing psychosis that evening? Read the companion blog post, “The Illness With No Page Number”:  https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/the-illness-with-no-page-number-lindsay-clancy Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

In the early morning hours of February 22, 2022, a mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, walked into her basement looking for her son. What she found would become the center of one of the most disturbing criminal cases in the state’s history. Twenty-four-year-old Taylor Schabusiness was arrested within hours and confessed to killing 25-year-old Shad Thyrion, someone she had known since high school. The facts of the crime were never seriously disputed. The real question became whether Taylor was legally responsible for what she had done. In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, Kaitlyn examines Taylor’s childhood trauma, early psychiatric treatment, decision to stop taking medication, methamphetamine use, courtroom attack, insanity defense, and the psychological questions that continue to surround the case. Was Taylor experiencing substance-induced psychosis? Did she have an underlying mental illness that existed before the drugs? Did her disturbing behavior point toward psychopathic traits? Or can all of those explanations exist at the same time? This episode explores the difficult line between understanding how someone’s mind deteriorated and holding them accountable for the harm they caused. Content notice: This episode discusses homicide, dismemberment, substance abuse, childhood trauma, psychiatric illness, sexual violence, and disturbing crime-scene details. Where do you land on the insanity verdict? Explore more episodes, reviews, blogs, and stories at GBRLIFE.com. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we examine the case of Ruby Franke, the former momfluencer behind 8 Passengers, and the journal that revealed how she justified abusing her own children. After her 12-year-old son escaped from Jodi Hildebrandt’s home asking for water and help, investigators uncovered starvation, isolation, forced labor, and a belief system that framed cruelty as righteousness. This episode looks at Ruby’s rise, her connection to Jodi Hildebrandt, family vlogging, coercive control, moral disengagement, and what happens when the image of the perfect family matters more than the children inside it. This is the story of how motherhood became a brand, and how the script kept running after the cameras stopped. Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife

In this episode of GBRLIFE Transmissions: Of Crimes, we examine the case of Jodi Hildebrandt, the licensed counselor behind Connexions whose “truth versus distortion” framework became a tool of control. After a 12-year-old boy escaped from a home in Ivins, Utah, asking for water and help, investigators uncovered the abuse of two children and the disturbing belief system used to justify it. This episode looks beyond the headlines to explore Jodi’s background, her influence over Ruby Franke, the psychology of thought reform, religious trauma, moral absolutism, and what happens when obedience is treated as more important than conscience. This is the story of how “truth” became torture. Companion Blog Post: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog//humanity-is-the-point-religion-certainty-conscience Send us Fan Mail Momma Koala – Cozy Family ClothingFun, comfy styles for the whole family.GBRLIFE – Blog • Vlog • PodcastUnfiltered reviews, true crime, and real-life stories you’ll loveDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show Visit for more: GBRLIFE -> https://www.gbrlife.com/ Support GBRLIFE on Patreon: Become a Patron-> https://www.patreon.com/GBRLIFE SUBSCRIBE to GBRLIFE Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUkTLZ3Db39XdqlFDYcnVw Watch/Read/Enjoy more: https://beacons.ai/gbrlife