Mollye Barrows: Advocacy & Investigative Journalist

On this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential, I remember a horrific crime that happened on Florida’s East Coast, where I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. A pregnant mom and her 5 and 9-year-old girls were shot and beaten to death in their own home. The victims were my playmates and the execution of the man who killed them changed the state’s capital punishment law.

On this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential, I remember a horrific crime that happened on Florida’s East Coast, where I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. A pregnant mom and her 5 and 9-year-old girls were shot and beaten to death in their own home. The victims were my playmates and the execution of the man who killed them changed the state’s capital punishment law.

On this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential, I remember a horrific crime that happened on Florida’s East Coast, where I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. A pregnant mom and her 5 and 9-year-old girls were shot and beaten to death in their own home. The victims were my playmates and the execution of the man who killed them changed the state’s capital punishment law.

Most of us have heard of a “wicked stepmother;" a cruel, ruthless woman depicted in bedtime stories like Cinderella or Snow White. In some cases, though, these aren’t just fairytales. Investigators believe 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, had a stepmother who killed him, stuffed his body in a suitcase, then drove clear across the country to hide him, where her secret surfaced on Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast.

This episode takes a closer look at murder and madness. Four Florida defendants, all accused of killing family, all said they were insane at the time; but some victims’ relatives say what’s really crazy is that they are all but getting away with murder. Join me for more in this companion episode to “Confessions in the Fieldhouse.”

A Pensacola high school coach was busted for secretly sexting a girl in his science class, but when the “come on” was discovered the teacher’s principal and fellow coaches huddled around him and left the victim on the sidelines. Join me for this expose and the horrific twist that cost the coach’s wife her life.