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Hi Crime House Community, It's Vanessa Richardson. Exciting news. Conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is leveling up starting the week of January 12th. You'll be getting two episodes every week. Wednesdays we unravel the conspiracy or the cult and on Fridays we look at a corresponding crime. Every week has a theme. Tech, bioterror, power, paranoia, you name it. Follow conspiracy theories, Cults and crimes now on your podcast app because you're about to dive deeper, get weirder, and go darker than ever before.
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Good morning everyone. We have multiple breaking true crime cases this morning that you need to know about. And we're starting with the biggest one for the from the Olympic slopes to an alleged Cocaine empire, A former snowboarder is now in custody after years on the FBI's most wanted list. This is Crime House 24 7, your non stop source for the biggest crime cases developing right now. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Vanessa Richardson and we have quite a lineup for you today. Here's what you need to know.
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We begin with a major development in a long running federal investigation. Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding has been arrested in Mexico after years on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list on charges tied to international drug trafficking and alleged murders connected to that enterprise. Wedding, 44 years old and a Canadian national, was taken into custody on Thursday night, January 22, 2026 and officials announced his arrest publicly on Friday, January 23. Federal authorities say he'll be transported to the United States to face prosecution on a slate of serious criminal charges. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel confirmed the arrest during statements and social media posts following his capture. Patel described the appar as a result of a coordinated international effort between US And Mexican law enforcement agencies and praised the cooperation that led to ending Wedding's years long fugitive status. Wedding rose to international attention not for his athletic career, but for his alleged role at the center of a sprawling criminal network. He represented Canada as a Snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, competing in the parallel giant slalom event. After his competitive career, authorities say he left in elite sports and eventually became involved in multinational drug trafficking and related violence. Federal prosecutors allege Wedding led a major international cocaine trafficking organization believed to have moved large quantities of the drug from Colombia through Mexico and Southern California into Canada and other parts of the United States. Authorities also allege he conspired with others to orchestrate multiple murders to protect and advance those crimes. For federal prosecutors had filed multiple charges against Wedding, including conspiracy to distribute and export controlled substances, conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise, and multiple counts related to murder and murder in furtherance of drug trafficking. Prosecutors further alleged that Wedding ordered the killing of a federal witness in Medin, Colombia in January 2025 as part of an effort to avoid extradition to the United States. To face these charges, authorities that witness was shot and killed in a restaurant before he could testify. Before his capture, Wedding was also wanted on charges in Canada, where law enforcement had charged him with drug offenses dating back to 2015. Canadian authorities worked alongside U.S. officials throughout the investigation. He was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list on March 6, 2025, making him one of the bureau's most high profile targets. The U.S. state Department and the FB offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest and conviction. Authorities say the manhunt covered multiple countries and spanned years, with investigators following leads across North America and beyond before identifying his location in Mexico. Officials have not released the precise details of how they pinpointed Wedding before his arrest, but they credit international law enforcement cooperation for ending his fugitive status. Messages seeking comment from Wedding's legal representatives were not immediately returned, and it was not clear whether he had entered any pleas at this early procedural stage. Given the nature of the charges, including drug trafficking, murder, conspiracy and related allegations, a federal trial in the United States could extend over many months, with significant pre trial motions likely. Federal authorities say Wedding used multiple aliases during his time as a fugitive, including names such as El He, Giant, Public Enemy and others. As part of the investigation, law enforcement linked these aliases to contacts and financial activity that helped trace his movements prior to his arrest. Investigators have also said that Weddings alleged criminal enterprise worked closely with organized crime networks, including Mexican cartels that provided protection for moving narcotics across borders. Authorities have said they will continue to pursue co conspirators and other indicted individuals as the case moves toward prosecution. Authorities say Wedding is currently in custody and is expected to appear in U.S. federal court as the case proceeds, where he will face formal arraignment and charges. Federal prosecutors have indicated they'll seek to hold him without bond given the severity and scope of the allegations. We'll circle back to this case as federal proceedings begin to unfold from an international manhunt, we shift to Missouri, where police say a Facebook Marketplace sale turned out to be a deadly ambush. Four suspects are now in custody and facing murder and robbery charges in Columbia, Missouri in connection with the fatal shooting of a decorated U.S. marine veteran during a Facebook Marketplace meetup. Police say the suspects were arrested Tuesday and are being held as the case moves toward court proceedings. According to The Columbia Police Department, 42 year old Michael Ryan Burke, a Marine Corps veteran and longtime resident, was shot and killed on the evening of January 18th during what investigators say was a robbery tied to an online sale arranged through Facebook Marketplace. Police say Burke was trying to sell an iPhone 15 Pro when the encounter turned deadly. The shooting happened at Burke's home in the 1400 block of Ridgemont Court. Officers were dispatched to the neighborhood around 8:15pm After a neighbor reported hearing gunfire. When police arrived, they found Burke suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel were called to the scene and Burke was transported to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries. Court documents alleged that Burke had arranged the phone sale with someone who responded to his Facebook Marketplace listing. When that person, later identified as part of an alleged group of suspects, arrived at the residence, police say the transaction escalated into a robbery and shooting. Investigators say that in the moments after he was shot, Burke called 911 and provided officers with a description of his attackers while waiting for help. Prosecutors say Burke also sent a final text message to his mother and sister writing I'm dying and I love you. Friends later told reporters that the message reflected Burke's devotion to his family even in his final moments. On Tuesday, authorities announced the arrest of four suspects. 18 year old Alexis Gabrielle Bauman, 18 year old Kobe D Oust and 18 year old Joseph Granville Crane have been charged with second degree murder, first degree robbery and first degree burglary. A male juvenile suspect also faces multiple charges, including second degree murder, according to Columbia police. Police say Crane and the juvenile suspect are also charged with unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. Investigators alleged the group had been involved in a series of robberies targeting Facebook Marketplace sellers in the days leading up to Burke's death. Prosecutors say at least two other victims reported having phones stolen during similar arranged sales, including one incident in a suspect allegedly pointed a gun at a seller before fleeing. Authorities say surveillance footage and cell phone data helped link the suspects to multiple incidents, including the fatal shooting. Columbia police say all three adult suspects are being held without bond at the Boone County Jail while the juvenile is being held at the Boone County Juvenile Office pending further court proceedings. Friends and community members are remembering Burke as someone who served both his country and his community. Those who knew him described him as a decorated Marine veteran who remained deeply involved in volunteer and missionary work after his military service. Authorities are urging anyone with information related to the case to contact the Columbia Police Department or Crime Stoppers, emphasizing that the investigation remains active as evidence continues to be reviewed. The the case is expected to move through the court system in the coming weeks, will continue to follow developments and bring updates as proceedings move forward. We turn now to another deadly shooting at a private home, this time in Indiana, where a judge and his wife were shot inside their residence and new arrests have been made.
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Development in the investigation into a broad daylight shooting that wounded an Indiana judge and his wife at their home in Lafayette, Indiana, and authorities have now arrested five people in connection with the attack. The shooting occurred on Sunday afternoon, January 18th at about 2:15pm local time at the couple's residence on mill Pond Lane. 66 year old Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Stephen P. Meyer and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, were both hit by gunfire. Meyer suffered a wound to his arm and Mrs. Meyer was struck in the hip. Both were hospitalized and are reported in stable condition. Lafayette police responded to the home after a 911 call and found the couple injured. Officers recovered shell casings at the scene and began an immediate investigation with the FBI, Indiana State Police, Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office and other local agencies joining the manhunt for a suspect that remained at large in the days after the shooting. According to reporting that cited the 911 call, the caller said there was a knock at the door and someone outside said one we have your dog just before shots were fired. Police have not confirmed who said it or why. In the days following the attack, authorities worked to identify and locate individuals connected to the case and on Thursday, January 22, police announced the arrest of five people alleged to be involved. Those arrested include 38 year old Raylan Ferguson, 43 year old Thomas Moss, 32 year old Blake Smith, 45 year old Amanda Millsap and 61 year old Zenada Greer. Prosecutors allege the group conspired to target the judge and his wife. Charges filed include attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, bribery, obstruction of justice and assisting a criminal. Authorities have tied some of the alleged planning to efforts to influence or derail a pending domestic abuse case that was set to be heard by Judge Meyer. And in the wake of the shooting, Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush issued a statement urging judges across the state to be vigilant about their personal security and calling the attack unacceptable. Police say the investigation remains active and are asking anyone with information to contact the Lafayette Police Department. While that investigation unfolds in Indiana, we turn now to North Texas where police say a routine McDonald's drive thru transaction led to fraud charges and an arrest. A former McDonald's employee in North Texas is out on bond and awaiting court proceedings after police say he double charged customers credit and debit cards in a drive thru fraud scheme uncovered earlier this month. Authorities in Springtown, Texas say the suspect, 19 year old Jovani Primo Blount of Poolville, was arrested on Sunday, January 18 and later released after posting a $30,000 bond. He now faces multiple charges related to fraudulent use of financial information. His next court appearance has not yet been announced. According to the Springtown Police Department, the alleged scheme took place at a McDonald's restaurant on West Highway 199 where Blount was working at the time. Investigators say customers would legitimately pay for their orders using a credit or debit card, but police allege Blount then used a personal mobile device to process an additional unauthorized charge. Police say those extra charges typically ranged from 10 to $20 per transaction and were added without the customer's knowledge or consent. Investigators estimate the total amount fraudulently charged was approximately $680 spread across more than 50 transactions in a single day. The scheme came to light after customers began noticing duplicate or unfamiliar charges on their bank statements and reported them to authorities. Police say surveillance from inside the restaurant, along with transaction records and financial data, helped identify Blount as the suspect. According to investigators, the unauthorized charges were allegedly routed to an account connected to Blount. He was taken into custody and booked into the Parker County Jail before being released on bond. McDonald's corporate officials issued a statement saying they are cooperating fully with law enforcement and that the actions alleged do not reflect the company's standards or values. The local franchise owner confirmed that Blount is no longer employed at that restaurant. Police are urging anyone who visited that McDonald's location on January 18th to review their bank and credit card statements carefully and report any suspicious charges to both their financial institution and the Springtown Police Department. Authorities emphasize that the investigation remains active as they continue working to identify any additional victims and confirm the full scope of the alleged fraud. Giovani Primo Blount has not entered a plea and the charges against him remain allegations at this stage. 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Lastly, let me tell you about what else is happening at Crime House today. Twisted Tales is exploring the true stories behind behind Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's the Fall of the House of Usher. Flanagan's version modernizes po's haunting short story about a decaying family line, a mansion that seems alive, and a man slowly unraveling under the weight of guilt, illness and inherited madness. Before heading over to listen to that episode, I want to share some of the most interesting and unsettling details from Edgar Allan Poe's real life. Details that don't just inform his fiction, but place him squarely in the world of true crime. Today, we're counting down the top five most shocking or interesting details from the life of Edgar Allan Poe viewed through a true crime lens. Detail Number five Death shaped Poe from the very beginning. Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with death didn't develop later in life. It was present from the moment his memory begins. His father abandoned the family when Edgar was very young, and his mother, Eliza Poe, died of tuberculosis when Edgar was only three years old. He witnessed her slow decline firsthand, watching a young, beautiful woman deteriorate in a way that was both intimate and traumatic. That early exposure to prolonged suffering and inevitable death left a permanent psychological imprint. Poe was taken in by the Allen family, but never formally adopted, growing up in a home that provided for him materially, yet made him feel emotionally alienated. Also, throughout his life, Poe repeatedly lost women he loved to illness, particularly tuberculosis, a disease that would become synonymous in his writing with beauty, fragility, and doomed youth. For a true crime audience, this matters because Poe's fixation on death doesn't feel abstract, it feels compulsive, as if his stories or attempts to revisit understand or control losses. He never processed. Detail number four. Po inserted himself into a real murder investigation. One of the most fascinating and controversial moments in Po's career involves the real life murder of Mary Rogers, a young woman whose body was found floating in the Hudson river in 1841. The case captivated the public. Newspapers were filled with speculation, false leads and sensational theories. Despite widespread attention, the crime was never conclusively solved. Poe followed the case obsessively. Then in 1842, he published the Mystery of Marie Roget, a fictionalized retelling of the murder. Relocating the crime to Paris and renaming the victim, Poe claimed his detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, could solve the case purely through logic and press accounts. What makes this unsettling is that Poe wasn't merely inspired by the crime, actively attempted to solve it publicly, suggesting theories that contradicted popular opinion and law enforcement narratives. There's long been speculation that Po may have had access to insider information, possibly through journalists or individuals connected to the case. The story blurs the line between journalism, fiction and investigation in a way that feels eerily modern for true crime fans. Po's involvement raises a disturbing question. Was this simply intellectual curiosity? Or was Po psychologically drawn to inserting himself into real world violence as a way of mastering it? Detail number three. He was obsessed with being buried alive. Few writers have explored the terror of premature burial as obsessively as Edgar Allan Poe. In stories like the Premature Burial, the Cask of Amontillado, and the Fall of the House of Usher, characters are sealed away, trapped in darkness, fully conscious, conscious of their fate. This fear wasn't irrational. In Poe's time, medical science struggled to reliably determine death, and documented cases of people waking up in coffins were reported in newspapers. But Poe's fixation went far beyond cultural anxiety. He described the physical sensation of entombment with such specificity that it reads less like imagination and more like obsession. Some psychologists believe Poe may have suffered from severe anxiety disorders or panic symptoms, amplifying his fear of losing consciousness or autonomy For a true crime audience. This fixation mirrors a recurring theme in violent crime narratives. The terror of helplessness, the moment where survival depends on being believed or discovered too late. Detail number two. Poe's death is still an unsolved case. Edgar Allan Poe's own death reads like one of his stories. In October 1849, he was found wandering the streets of Baltimore, disoriented, incoherent, and wearing clothes that did not belong to him. He was taken to a hospital where he drifted in and out of consciousness, unable to explain what had happened. Four days later, he was dead. No definitive cause of death was ever recorded. Medical records were lost, witnesses were inconsistent, and accounts of his final days conflict wildly. Over the years, theories have ranged from alcohol poisoning to illness, brain injury, or even murder. One of the most compelling theories involves cooping an election fraud scheme in which victims were kidnapped, drugged, beaten and forced to vote repeatedly under different disguises. Poe was found on election day near a polling place in mismatched clothing. Details that make this theory especially chilling for true crime audiences. Poe's death checks every box. Missing time, unreliable testimony, political context, and a victim who couldn't tell his own story before dying. Detail number one. Poe invented true crime psychology before it had a name. The most shocking detail of Edgar Allan Poe's life isn't how he died, but what he created. Poe is widely credited with inventing the modern detective story. Through his character, C. Auguste Dupa, Poe introduced methods that define true crime today. Behavioral analysis, reconstruction of events, attention to seemingly insignificant details, and the idea that criminals are undone by their own psychology. In stories like the Telltale Heart and the Black Cat, Poe doesn't focus on catching the killer. He places us inside the killer's mind. The crimes aren't solved by forensics alone, but by guilt, obsession and psychological breakdown. Poe understood something fundamental long before criminology existed, that crime is as much about the mind as the act itself. Edgar Allan Poe lived a life steeped in loss, obsession and proximity to real world violence. His fiction feels prophetic, not because it exaggerates reality, but because it reflects it. When Mike Flanagan adapts Poe's work, he isn't just modernizing gothic horror. He's translating the mind of a man. Man who lived at the intersection of mystery and death. If you want to hear how these themes play out in the Fall of the House of Usher, make sure to head over to Twisted Tales. And if you enjoyed this true crime look at Edgar Allan Poe, don't forget to like, subscribe and let us know which dark historical figure you want us to explore next. Because sometimes the most disturbing stories were lived before they were written. You've been listening to crime house 247 bringing you breaking crime news. I'm Vanessa Richardson. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more developing stories. Stay safe and thanks for listening.
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Looking for your next listen? Hi, it's Vanessa Richardson, and I have exciting news. Conspiracy Theories, Cults and Crimes is leveling up starting the week of January 12th. You'll be getting two episodes every week. Wednesdays we unravel the conspiracy or the cult, and on Fridays, we look at a corresponding crime. Follow Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen.