Killinois With Bird and Cam

Cam and Bird are back to examine the death of Molly Young, the Carbondale Police Department and Jackson County's inability to hold person-of-interest Ritchie Minton accountable, and how new developments may give the Young family long-awaited justice.  

This week, Cam and Bird cover the tragic, unexplained 2012 death of Molly Young,  a woman from Carbondale, Illinois found shot to death in the home of her on-and-off again boyfriend, Richard "Ritchie" Minton. Police promptly ruled out foul play; however, Molly's death presented far too many questions than answers,  with many believing that Minton knows a lot more than he

In part 2, Bird and Cam tackle the fall of Rod Blagojevich, convicted in 2011 after a levy of corruption charges. Hear how the disgraced politician found a savior in President Donald Trump, leading to Blagojevich's release from federal prison in early 2020.  

This week, Bird and Cam discusses the story  of Rod Blagojevich, who rose from obscurity to become the governor of Illinois, only to fumble the bag, being President Barack Obama's vacant United States Senate seat, in epic proportions!

On August 22nd 2016, Deborah Dewey, a native of Spring Valley, Illinois, disappeared without a trace. Three weeks later, she would be found dead, the victim of a gruesome murder, before being senselessly buried under 13 inches of manure. A prompt investigation ensued, leading down the path of her brother-in-law, Clifford Anderson. What caused Clifford to commit such a heinous crime

In light of recent events involving systematic brutality faced by POC concerning law enforcement, this week's episode covers former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge. Burge supervised the mental and physical torture of over a hundred of criminal suspects, resulting in a plethora of wrongful convictions between the 1970's and 1990's. We look back at how the misdeeds of Burge and hi

This week, we’re talking about the tragic story of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an 11-year-old who, after committing a gang-initiated murder in 1994, sparked a manhunt unlike anything the city of Chicago had seen before or since.

October, 1994: Eric Morse, a five-year-old, is thrown 14 stories off a high rise building in the Ida B. Wells Homes. The assailants? An 11-year-old juvenile offender and his 10-year-old friend. But why? We look back on this harrowing story that angered not just a city, but a nation, filled with the after effects of urban decay, the plight of inner-city youth violence and the ever-a

This week, we discuss the 1976 murder of 16-year-old Pamela Maurer, who was found strangled alongside a lonely road in Lisle, Illinois. The case remained cold for 44 years, until forensic ingenuity and a genealogy website help cracked an unsolved mystery.

On September 9th, 2017, surveillance video captured 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins wandering unto a little corner in the kitchen of the Crown Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. She was never seen alive again. Her death spawned a social media outcry, that there was more to the story of Kenneka's final moments than met the eye. So we ask, was this a case of foul play? Or a tragic accide