Episode 350: Holly Madison: Kerissa Fare

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On July 30, 2000, an 85-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife are taken hostage and soon after killed in a home in Concord, California. In the following days, three more murders are committed as a trio of offenders seek to leave minimal witnesses behind. When the perpetrators are apprehended and their motivations revealed, the truth behind the bloodbath is as bizarre as it is frightening - a dark and elaborate plan so disconnected from reality it’s impossible to comprehend how such violence could be justified in anyone’s mind. In episode 350, Jac and Alexis, with the help of none other than Holly Madison, detail the grisly spree killings of Ivan and Annette Stineman, Selina Bishop, Jennifer Villarin, and James Gamble, and discuss how close Playboy magazine’s September 2000 playmate, Kerissa Fare, came to this horrifying powder keg situation.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:03.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:25.4	When her issue came out, she went to playmate promotions and she went to half and she said,
0:30.1	I'm really scared of this guy. We have a couple other playmates from that era, you know,
0:35.0	talking about her in the show. And they're like, this was just one girl who seems like she had a lot of secret. She was very, very nice, very shy.
0:38.0	But then she just disappeared.
0:39.2	Nobody knew what happened to her.
0:40.6	Like, you were never getting the updates of what she was up to.
0:43.3	Every issue of Playboy back in the day had this section in the back called Playmate News.
0:47.2	And anytime a playmate was like doing something newsworthy or even like had a new photo shoot coming out or something, you'd get the update. The body parts were found washed up on a river in these duffel bags.
0:59.0	It's just every horrendous thing you could think at, you'd throw into this case.
1:03.0	Carissa's story has a different, not a happy ending for so many, the victims, but for
1:09.0	Carissa, she was lucky in that she got out just in time and she went on
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