Trauma on Tap

Unsolved: The Beaumont Children

In today's episode we discuss the disappearance of the Beaumont children. In 1966, three siblings were playing on an Australian beach when they disappeared without a trace. Its been almost 60 years since the Beaumont children disappeared but police haven't given up hope. 
 
Sources:
“Three missing children feared taken”  The Sydney Morning Herald Jan 28, 1966
“Surfie lead in search for children” The Sydney Morning Herald Jan 29, 1966
“Murder grave on beach” The Sydney Morning Herald Jan 31, 1966
“Lost Children: 1050 reward” The Age, Melbourne Jan 31, 1966
“I have missing children: Caller” The Age, Melbourne, Feb 10, 1966
“Parents Hope” The Age, Melbourne, Feb 22, 1966
abc.net.au
“The unsolved mystery of the missing Beaumont children with a $1m reward that still stands” By Clive Hammond 
Express.co.uk
abc.net.au
abc.net.au
abc.net.au
“Our worst child killer” by John Silvester
theage.com.au
 

Lizzie Borden

In today's episode we discuss the infamous case of Lizzie Borden. Did she really give her father 41 whacks?
 
Sources:
Newspapers.com - The Boston Globe
Newspapers.com - The Fall River Globe 
Murderpedia
Wikipedia - Lizzie Borden 
 

Ted Patrick & Cult Deprogramming

In today's episode, we discuss the history of Ted Patrick, also known as the "father of deprogramming" and his organization CAN (the Cult Awareness Network).
 
 
Sources:
Deprogrammed Documentary, 2015Two Women Tell How Cult Hater Held Them (Denver UPI)He Deprograms Youths To Save Them (DENVER AP)Rescuer Acquitted of Imprisonment by Ellen FleyserThe Jesus Communes- Saviors Or Slave Makers by Rodney AngoveAre There Cult-Like Aspects to Life in the Military? By: E. A. Sea May 24, 2024Responding to Authoritarian Cults and Extreme Exploitations: A NewFramework to Evaluate Undue Influence by: Steven Hassan, PhD,Thomas G.Gutheil, MD,Mansi J. Shah, MAJohn E. LeMoult, Deprogramming Members of Religious Sects , 46 FordhamL. Rev. 599 (1978). Available at:https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol46/iss4/1Cult Case Captive Freed by Judge, Parents Cleared by Fritz HuysmanAnti Cult Group Dismembered As Former Foes Buy Its Assets By Laurie GoodsteinSuit Shutters Anti Cult Group by Laurie GoodsteinSex Involved In Mind Control Suit by Marc KauffmanBrooksville Woman Among Seven Charged by Debbie Weber

Tony Costa - The Cape Cod Vampire

In this episode we discuss the life and crimes of serial killer Tony Costa, also known as the Cape Cod Vampire. 
 
Sources: 
https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/costa-antone-charles.htm
 
https://time.com/archive/6633914/crime-graves-in-the-dunes/
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Costa
 
Hell Town: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman 

Lorena Bobbitt (Gallo)

On the inaugural episode of Trauma on Tap we discuss the 1993 case of Lorena Bobbitt. With some bonus banter in the beginning. 
 
 
Sources: "You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It."By Amy Chozick for the NYT.Lorena (TV Mini Series 2019)Amazon Original Mini Series"John Wayne Bobbitt faces new battery charges"https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-22-bobbitt-battery_x.htm"How Lorena Bobbitt’s Place in the Conversation About DomesticViolence Has Evolved"By Olivia B. Waxman for TIME