True Crime Time For October 6, 2026 | A Mother-Daughter Murder Plot, 35 Shot at a Block Party & Military Death Row
Woody Overton opens with October 6 in true-crime history before covering a mass shooting at a Georgia block party that left two people dead and dozens injured, and the arrest of a California woman accused of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling a Taiwanese official’s family in the United States. Pasted text
In Family Matters, Woody revisits the chilling case of Diane and Rachel Staudte, the Missouri mother and daughter convicted in a plot involving antifreeze poisonings within their own family. He also covers a Kentucky woman sentenced for killing her mother and the murder of Rachel Prince, whose boyfriend killed her just 32 days after being released from jail for previously assaulting her. Finally, Woody looks at the U.S. military death penalty and the four men currently on military death row as the military prepares for the possibility of its first execution in more than 60 years. Pasted text Pasted text
True Crime Time For, Woody Overton, Real Life Real Crime, October 6, Diane Staudte, Rachel Staudte, antifreeze poisoning, Family Matters, Georgia mass shooting, Vienna Georgia, Chinese espionage, Brianna Rich, Carol Rich, Rachel Prince, Jason Palmer, domestic violence, military death row, Fort Hood shooting, Nidal Hasan, Ronald Gray, Timothy Hennis, Hasan Akbar, death penalty, true crime
- October 6 true-crime history
- Georgia block-party mass shooting
- Alleged Chinese espionage operation in the U.S.
- Diane and Rachel Staudte antifreeze poisonings
- A mother and daughter accused of plotting against their family
- Brianna Rich sentenced for killing her mother
- Rachel Prince’s domestic-violence murder
- Christa Pike execution fallout
- U.S. military death row
- Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting
- The possibility of the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years
The Staudte case is the centerpiece of Family Matters: an anonymous tip led investigators to reexamine a series of deaths and illnesses inside one family, eventually uncovering the antifreeze poisoning plot involving Diane and her daughter Rachel. Diane received life without parole, while Rachel’s agreement included the possibility of parole after decades in prison. Pasted text
The episode closes with a look at military capital punishment. Woody discusses the four prisoners identified in the episode as being on U.S. military death row and the possibility that the military could carry out its first execution since 1961.
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