GBRLIFE Transmissions

Diane Downs: The Mother Who Hurt Her Kids and Smiled About It Diane Downs walked into a hospital with three shot children and a story that sounded rehearsed. What followed became one of the most disturbing examples of performance, narcissism, and maternal delusion ever recorded. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we break down: • Why Diane wanted the image of motherhood more than the reality • How love addiction, fantasy, and identity collided with violence • Why she smiled through...

Some women grow up fighting the world. Marjorie grew up fighting everyone in it — including herself. Brilliant, volatile, manipulative, and deeply unstable, she moved through life like a storm tearing through every relationship she touched. Friends, partners, lovers — they all witnessed the same pattern. And eventually… they witnessed the damage. But when a man ended up dead in her home, and an absolutely unhinged plot involving a collar bomb, a scavenger-hunt of handwritten clues...

Onstage, she was a goddess — veiled in silk and mystery, captivating audiences with movements that felt sacred instead of seductive. Offstage, she was a mother, a survivor, and a woman who refused to exist quietly. But in a world at war, a woman who knew how to command attention became dangerous. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we unravel the life and psychology of Mata Hari — the famed dancer accused of espionage during WWI. Was she a master spy pulling strings across borders? Or...

It didn’t start with a dramatic confrontation, a weapon, or a crime scene. It started with something familiar… a bottle of Excedrin sitting next to a bathroom sink. Something ordinary. Something trusted. But inside those capsules wasn’t relief, it was cyanide. And the woman behind it wasn’t a stranger lurking in the shadows. She was a wife. A mother. Someone who believed the world owed her more. She was someone who was willing to kill to get it. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of...

On the surface, she looked like everyone’s grandmother — polite, soft-spoken, and generous. Her Victorian home on F Street smelled like cinnamon and bleach, her tenants called her “Mother Teresa with pearls,” and social workers trusted her completely. But behind the lace curtains and home-cooked meals was a horror story buried—literally—in her own backyard. In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we uncover the chilling psychology of Dorothea Puente, the Sacramento landlady who preyed on ...