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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

The James Carroll Murder: The True Story Behind HBO's 'Murder in Glitterball City'

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms got ya covered-feed

True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When police responded to a domestic dispute call at a Victorian home in Louisville, Kentucky, they stumbled into a house of horrors. The fight between lovers Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis led them to a gruesome discovery in the basement: the body of James Carroll, who had been stabbed and shot, his body hidden inside an airtight container buried beneath the floor. The investigation unraveled a dark story of a love triangle fueled by meth, jealousy, and counterfeit cash. As Jeffrey and Joseph turned on each other, each painting the other as the mastermind, detectives were left to piece together what really happened. Was it a robbery gone wrong, a crime of passion, or something even more sinister? This is the twisted story of a murder that exposed the dark secrets hidden within a historic home. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday! Follow us on Instagram: @momsandmysteries Join our Patreon: patreon.com/momsandmysteries Visit our website: momsandmysteries.com #TrueCrime #Podcast #MomsAndMysteries #JamesCarroll #Louisville #KentuckyCrime #Murder #LoveTriangle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When police kicked in the door of a Victorian home in Louisville, they thought they were responding to a domestic dispute.

0:06.3

What they found instead was a nightmare.

0:08.8

Inside an airtight rubber-made container in the basement, they found the body of a man who'd been stabbed, shot, and buried beneath the floor.

0:16.7

The case that followed would unravel a twisted story of meth, counterfeit cash, and two lovers who couldn't stop blaming each other for murder.

0:28.6

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast.

0:36.6

A true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy,

0:39.0

and my dear friend, Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you doing

0:44.6

this week? Good. It's weird. We're recording kind of evening time. We haven't done this in a while.

0:50.6

I know. I know, but I feel like it tracks for this time of year when there is no concept of time.

0:56.4

There are no rules. You just get it in where you can when it comes to pretty much everything in life.

1:02.0

Yes. When you're at this stage of December. True. It's a lot of special events. Kids have to be here at certain times and wear this at certain places and all that. So, yeah, I'm just happy to be here.

1:13.8

Yeah, same, same. I took my boys for haircut after school today. And I just, I feel like everything just takes longer than I anticipate it's going to. Because I picked my kids up at 3 o'clock. So I was thinking, surely, I'm going to be home. Easy by 4.30. No way it's going to because I picked my kids up at three o'clock so I was thinking surely I'm going to be

1:28.1

home easy by 430 no way it's going to take any longer than that and yeah we weren't home until

1:34.7

like 530 so it was a long run this afternoon yes that's actually crazy do you is it like uh we go to

1:41.1

great clips um my kids go to great clips so we have the great clips app and we're always first in line because all the old people that go there don't use it. And so it's pretty fast for us. No. So actually I can, this is perfect because I have just been wanting to rant about this and I can't believe I have the perfect opportunity and the platform to do it right now.

2:03.2

No, so they go to a place that my older son, who is 16, picked based on purely the fact that

2:10.5

some of his friends get their haircuts at this place. It's a barber shop. And they like the haircut.

2:16.9

Well, my son gets the typical teenage boy haircut right now,

2:21.1

you know, short on the sides, long on top, all in your eyes hanging shaggy and messy and everything.

2:26.3

Yes, but we don't have curly hair. They don't have curly hair. They have straight hair, so it's just more,

2:30.3

it's cute. But my son insists that this is the only place he can get the haircut i've tried to

2:35.9

explaining that every barber knows how to do this haircut and they don't want to listen to me but no but

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