Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

The NASA Shuttle program based in Florida had several serious setbacks before it was shut down in 2011. In addition to the explosion of the Shuttle Challenger and the disintegration of the Shuttle Columbia upon re-entry, there was another incident that gave the program a black eye. An astronaut love triangle turned bizarre when the spurned lover drove across the country in an adult diaper to confront the other woman at Orlando International Airport.

Going to the dentist is terrifying enough, without the fear of contracting a deadly illness. On this episode Karen and Jen are talking about the first person in the world to contract HIV/AIDS from a health care professional. In this case it was a University of Florida student, Kimberly Bergalis, who died two years after being infected with HIV/AIDS by her South Florida dentist when he pulled her wisdom teeth.

North Florida law enforcement believed an alligator ate a Gainesville woman's husband after he fell out of a boat duck hunting 17 years ago...then the case was cracked wide open, like a gator's mouth, when a love triangle was revealed and the murderous lovers turned on each other.

In this episode Karen and Jen talk about how difficult it is to get rid of a body, especially the blood at a crime scene. There are numerous ways killers dispose of corpses in South Florida. The episode is not meant to give anyone ideas, it is just to educate on the issue because...death is a human condition.

This episode features Karen's past life regression by the world-renowned psychiatrist and author of the best selling book, "Many Lives Many Masters," Dr. Brian Weiss who lives in South Florida. Her experience uncovered a mysterious death in her mother's family which turned out to be her past life and it emphasizes why "family" is the most important thing in life.

It is here...the premier Full Rigor podcast about true crime in Florida with Karen Curtis and Jennifer Ross. The first episode is based on Karen's book, The Accuser, which is the true story about the woman who was gang raped on a pool table in Massachusetts and who died mysteriously in Florida. It is a story that was not told in the movie based on her experience, The Accused, for which Jodie Foster won an Academy Award. You will be obsessed. For more go to www.theaccuserbook.com

This is a thumbnail "idea" of what to expect from the "Full Rigor True Crime" podcast franchise where everything has a Florida connection.