I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast
ISGD Podcast & Glassbox Media
I Said God Damn! is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by two besties, Stacey and Erin, with the occasional guest appearance from Erin’s dog, Karl. Listen every Sunday where they try to one up each other with the craziest true crime/mystery stories that make the world say, “GOD DAMN!”
- 1 hour 12 minutes375: SERIOUS Fraud Office
This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Financial_Corporation
https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/908/1265/1457501/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00270335.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00182748.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326141.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01140030.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339405.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326139.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00376722.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00680461.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01433867.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01106124.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00583986.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339406.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339410.pdf
23 March 2026, 3:00 am - 55 minutes 33 seconds374: Lisa Frank Stuff
This week Erin tells us about 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, who vanished from Little Rock in October 2015 days after reporting a sexual assault and was found nearly three years later in a park drainage pipe, her death ruled a homicide that remains unsolved.
Sources:
https://aymag.com/a-ray-of-light-loved-ones-gain-new-allies-as-ebby-steppach-case-reaches-a-decade/
https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/08/the-disappearance-murder-of-ebby.html
https://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?locid=17&page=odetail&id=48749
16 March 2026, 3:00 am - 51 minutes 53 seconds373: No Relation
This week stacey tells us about Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher and beauty queen who mysteriously vanished from Ocilla on October 22–23, 2005, a disappearance that would haunt her community for years and later be thrust into the spotlight by the true crime podcast Up and Vanished.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Grinstead_murder_case
cbsnews.com/pictures/what-happened-to-tara-grinstead/11/
https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2017-02-23/gbi-arrest-disappearance-tara-grinstead
https://allthatsinteresting.com/tara-grinstead
8 March 2026, 8:00 pm - 39 minutes 51 seconds372: The Red Lobster?
This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison.
Sources:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html
https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the-murder-of-capt-marty-theer/
https://cases.justia.com/north-carolina/court-of-appeals/051640-1.pdf
https://murderpedia.org/female.T/t/theer-michelle.htm
1 March 2026, 8:00 pm - 49 minutes 59 seconds371: Curiouser and Curiouser
This week Stacey tells us about Jean Luc Brunel, a French model scout and agent linked to Jeffrey Epstein who faced multiple sex-trafficking and sexual-assault allegations and died in a Paris jail in 2022 before his trial concluded.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel
https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/swduau
https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-charged-with-sex-crimes/a-55996337
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/l5ss7m
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/21/jean-f21.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/19/modeling-agent-close-to-epstein-found-dead-in-french-jail.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/epstein-files-new-batch
https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-found-dead-in-jail-cell/a-60821124
22 February 2026, 8:00 pm - 1 hour 3 seconds370: Yearnin’ for More Learnin'
This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf
16 February 2026, 2:00 am - 1 hour 6 minutes369: 30 Foot Grenade Launcher
This week Stacey tells us about Mark Edward Middleton, an American businessman and lawyer from Little Rock who served as a special assistant and advisor to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later worked in his family’s HVAC business before his death in 2022.
Sources:
https://fism.tv/death-of-mark-middleton-clinton-advisor-linked-to-epstein-bizarrely-ruled-a-suicide/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Middleton_(businessman)
https://ruebelfuneralhome.com/obits/preview.php?id=3050&p=&search=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Bill_Clinton_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2022/06/22/judge-seals-photos-of-mark-middleton-suicide
https://www.businessinsider.com/report-jeffrey-epstein-visited-white-house-under-bill-clinton-2019-7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1999/May/213crm.htm
https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt829/CRPT-105hrpt829-vol2.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/106/crpt/hrpt1027/CRPT-106hrpt1027-vol1.pdf
https://www.usccr.gov/files/historical/1998/98-018.pdf
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-11-16-mn-65315-story.html
https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/105th-congress/house-report/829/2
https://humanevents.com/2023/02/22/epstein-linked-clinton-adviser-allegedly-hanged-and-shot-himself
9 February 2026, 6:00 pm - 46 minutes 20 seconds368: Floating Dick
This week Erin tells us about Lawrence Strempel, a Houston-area teen who in the early 1970s confessed to killing two young brothers, served roughly two years in a juvenile facility, and was then released at age 18.
Sources:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1967462/m1/1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/1jiel39/the_mutilation_murders_of_ronald_and_kenneth/
https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588#memory-466546
https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588
2 February 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 46 minutes367: West of Chester
This week Stacey tells us about Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer turned drug dealer who was sentenced to life for the 2016 kidnapping and murder of four men and who briefly shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources:
25 January 2026, 8:00 pm - 1 hour 3 minutes366: Bucket of Chicken
This week Erin tells us about serial killer Robert Garrow, who in 1973 abducted, raped, and murdered multiple victims in upstate New York, leading to a massive Adirondack manhunt and a landmark legal-ethics case over his attorneys keeping the locations of two victims’ bodies secret.
Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/garrow-robert.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Bodies_Case
18 January 2026, 8:00 pm - 58 minutes 32 seconds365: ACAB
This week, Stacey tells us about Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who traveled to upstate New York to meet a woman named Precious he met online, only to be kidnapped, brutally tortured for weeks, and ultimately killed by a group of seven alleged attackers.
Sources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sam-nordquist-killing-room-22-rcna194129
https://glaad.org/grief-and-fond-remembrances-for-slain-transgender-man-sam-nordquist/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/18844-sam-nordquist
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