Murder & Crime Podcast Featuring Mollye Barrows
I’m Investigative Journalist Mollye Barrows. For years, I’ve covered the stories that made headlines in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf Coast - murders, missing persons, and mysteries of all kinds. These cases are far from over for many victims because the full story has yet to surface. Join me for Gulf Coast Confidential, where I dive into the saltier side of the South and expose the lies, greed, and corruption that often weighs down the truth.
Episode 01 — Sink or Swim
A Pensacola boy drowned at a party thrown by an influential preacher on a yacht lent to him by a prominent personal injury attorney as a favor - no one went in after the child and the party continued.
Episode 02 — I’ll Do the Cooking
On this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential - serial killers. They can live right next door to you. Pensacola, Florida’s most notorious murderer, the so-called Black Widow, and I lived in the same neighborhood…
Episode 03 — Bury the Past
Two young, baby-faced brothers made headlines when they were convicted of beating their dad, Terry King, and setting fire to his house. Now grown, join me for an update on what life has been like for the King brothers since prison.
Episode 04 — Drowning in Remorse
The lives of four, little children had barely begun when they were cut short by their own father. He threw them off a bridge more than eight stories high near Mobile, Alabama, because he was mad at their mom. It’s the kind of crime people thought he would die for, but the court refused to execute him.
Episode 05 — 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.
Episode 06 — Murder and Madness
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.”
Episode 07 — The Cost of Killing
One of the first cases I covered as a news reporter was the brutal murder of a young, newlywed restaurant manager in Pensacola, Florida. Her body was found in the freezer, stabbed so many times the coroner quit counting. Holding her killer accountable would change state law and redefine justice for her family.
Episode 08 — Done It Plenty
Assistant U.S. Attorney Roy Atchison was admired in his community as a father, husband, and youth sports coach. No one knew he had the kind of secret that would just kill him if people found out and eventually, they did when the FBI stopped him at the airport carrying lubricant and a Dora the Explorer doll he planned to give to a 5-year-old girl the feds said he arranged to have sex with.
Episode 09 — Unwanted Baggage
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.
Episode 10 — The Devil Next Door
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.