Sex Gone Wrong – Mini Episode
True Crime Cases with Lanie
TCFC Media
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A swingers’ lifestyle can be great for some, or it can be problematic for others. For one newly married couple, a wild night of sex and drugs turned deadly. Okay…onto the show.
Actora Bankhead was charged with two counts of murder for breaking the necks of two people after a group-sex session went awry.
Check out the case here: https://cases.justia.com/indiana/court-of-appeals/2016-49a05-1503-cr-107.pdf?ts=1466003323
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This episode was written & researched by Suzy St. John
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the True Crime Fan Club podcast. I'm your host, Lainey. |
| 0:05.0 | A Swinger's lifestyle can be great for some or it can be problematic for others. |
| 0:11.0 | For one newly married couple couple a wild night of sex and drugs turned deadly. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, on to the show. In March 2013, 2013, Actora Bankhead was released from the Indiana Department of Corrections. |
| 0:37.0 | He had been convicted on February 13, 1997 of carjacking. |
| 0:42.0 | Actora had been arrested before for theft and served two and a half years for those offenses |
| 0:47.9 | When arrested for carjacking he had also been arrested on other offenses, including rape, but those other charges were dismissed. |
| 0:56.5 | Achtor met Diane Lynn Smith shortly after leaving the Department of Corrections, |
| 1:01.5 | after dating for a week and only knowing each other for less than four weeks, |
| 1:05.5 | they married on April 23rd, 2013. The couple moved into Diane's house on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Indianapolis. |
| 1:15.0 | According to Actora himself, he found a job just a few days after being released from prison |
| 1:21.0 | and was set on following the straight and narrow path. |
| 1:24.7 | Actora also believed Diane was the love of his life and a godsend who would help him |
| 1:29.8 | stay on the straight and narrow path. On June 15th, 2013, two bodies were found in a vacant |
| 1:37.0 | lot in the 1100 block of Myley Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana. An attempt had been made to burn the bodies. |
| 1:46.0 | The two were identified as 27-year-old Michael Hight and 34-year-old Crystal Lucas. |
| 1:51.7 | Actora Bankhead was soon arrested for the two murders as it was |
| 1:55.5 | Diane who had called the police to report the bodies and how they had gotten there. |
| 2:01.2 | In the early morning hours of June 7th, 2013, Diane had come home from work. |
| 2:07.0 | Diane and Actora were in bed when Actora received a phone call from Michael. |
| 2:12.0 | He got up and went downstairs to talk to Michael. Now, not long |
| 2:15.7 | after, Michael came over to their house, parking his car on Indianapolis Avenue near |
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