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The Dark Stories

A chilling look into six shocking true crime cases: Joyce Cohen’s staged home invasion, Marilyn Plant’s deadly insurance plot, the Woodman Brothers’ betrayal, Peggy Carr’s mysterious poisoning, Gloria Ramirez’s baffling medical mystery, and Judy Buenoano’s deadly chemistry. Each story reveals the darkest corners of human nature.   Joyce Cohen case | Marilyn Plant true crime | Woodman Brothers betrayal | Peggy Carr poisoned | Gloria Ramirez toxic lady | Judy Buenoano black widow | true crime stories | deep dive crime documentary | shocking crime compilation | real life murder cases   unsolved mysteries | deadly secrets | crime explained | true crime deep dive | cold cases | shocking deaths | twisted crimes   real crime stories | mysterious murders | unsolved cases | shocking betrayals | crime compilation   Thank you for watching The Dark Stories! Don’t forget to like, share & subscribe for more deep dive true crime episodes.   true crime stories, shocking true crime, Joyce Cohen case, Marilyn Plant murder plot, Woodman Brothers crime, Peggy Carr poisoned, Gloria Ramirez mystery, Judy Buenoano black widow, crime documentary 2025, chilling true crime, cold cases explained, deep dive true crime, murder mystery documentary, real life murders, unsolved mysteries, deadly secrets revealed, true crime compilation

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00:00So today we're going to dig into three stories for you. There's a tricky homicide in Miami

00:05back in 86, then a suspicious fire scene in Oklahoma in 88, and finally a really baffling

00:12medical crisis in a California ER in 1994. Very strange one, that last one. Yeah. So our plan is

00:19to pull out the most interesting details, sort of connect the docks, and give you a clear sense of

00:24what happened and, crucially, how forensic investigation played a part. Okay, let's unpack

00:30this first case. Okay, so the first one, like you said, Miami. Coconut Grove, March 1986. It kicks

00:36off with a 911 call. It's from a woman named Joyce Cohen. She's reporting a home invasion. Says her

00:42husband, Stan, has been shot dead in bed. Okay, so the initial picture is a burglary gone tragically

00:48wrong. That's what it looked like, or maybe what someone wanted it to look like. But right away,

00:52the lead detective, John Spear, he felt something wasn't quite right. Exactly. I mean, Joyce was

00:59the only other person in the house. Standard procedure, really. When there are only two

01:03people and one ends up dead, the survivor gets a closer look. It makes sense. So what were the

01:10first things that started to raise eyebrows for the investigators? Well, it's interesting how quickly

01:14the physical evidence started clashing with that initial story. You had the medical examiner's first

01:20guess about the time of death, which was kind of influenced by what Joyce was saying. But then

01:25forensic tests showed Joyce had gunpowder residue on her hands. Ah. And what was her explanation for

01:30that? She said she touched Stan, you know, touched a pillow after she found him. Which, okay, maybe that

01:36could explain it on its own. But then things get more complicated, right? They found Stan's gun.

01:41Yes. They found his gun out in the garden. And here's the kicker. It was wiped clean with facial

01:48tissue. Wiped clean. That screams cover up, doesn't it? Trying to get rid of fingerprints,

01:53surely. What does that usually signal to investigators? A wiped weapon almost always means someone handled

01:58it who didn't want anyone to know they handled it. It's a huge red flag. Especially combined with the

02:03gunpowder residue on her hands. Precisely. It really started to focus the investigation on her.

02:08And then there's another piece of evidence, a tissue found in the bathroom. This tissue had

02:14Joyce's blood on it mixed with gunshot residue. That's pretty damning. It strongly suggested she

02:20was right there handling the gun when it went off. So the physical evidence is building up against her

02:25story. But then the case takes a twist, right? A confession comes out of left field. Yeah,

02:30completely unexpected. This guy, Frank Maglione, a career burglar, he confesses. But he doesn't just

02:36confess to a burglary. No. No. He says Joyce hired him and some others. It was a planned hit

02:41designed to look like a burglary gone wrong. Wow. Okay. So she paid him to kill her husband.

02:47That was his story. It obviously turned the investigation upside down. But did his story

02:50line up? I mean, particularly with the timing? That was the tricky part. Maglione said the hit

02:55happened between 2.0 and 3 a.m. But Joyce's 911 call wasn't until after 5 a.m. Right. I remember

03:03reading that. She'd also taken a call from a friend around 5 a.m. too. That's like a two-hour

03:08gap. That doesn't fit Maglione's timeline at all. It seems like a major hole in his confession

03:13initially. But then investigators got a break. What was that? A neighbor had a guest staying over.

03:20And this guest remembered being woken up by gunshots around 3 a.m. Oh. So suddenly Maglione's

03:27timing makes sense. An independent witness confirms it. Exactly. That neighbor's guest

03:32became a really crucial piece. And to nail down the timing even more, they went back to the autopsy

03:37photos. Looking for what specifically? Lividity. You know how the blood settles in the body after death

03:42due to gravity. Right. It can tell you about the body's position and roughly when death occurred.

03:47Precisely. And the lividity patterns on Stan Cohen's body clearly showed he died around 3 a.m.

03:53Which lines up perfectly with Maglione and the neighbor's guest. Perfectly. And it completely

03:58contradicted Joyce's timeline, her 5 a.m. 911 call. So you had the wiped gun, the tissue with her blood

04:05in residue, the witness hearing shots, and the lividity. It all just dismantled her story.

04:10So the big takeaway here is how these seemingly small forensic details, residue, lividity combined

04:17with those timeline inconsistencies, just blew a hole right through a very carefully planned

04:22deception. It really shows the power of that objective science. It really does. Okay. So our

04:27second case takes us to Oklahoma, just outside Oklahoma City, August 1988. Right. And this one

04:33starts with a burning truck. Yeah. A burning truck, body inside. At first glance, maybe a terrible

04:37accident. The victim was identified as a man named Jim Plants. But again, like the Komen

04:42case, investigators probably weren't just accepting accident at face value, were they? What were

04:47the first clues something else was going on? Well, a few things stood out immediately. There

04:52was a spot of blood on the road behind the truck. That's odd for just a vehicle fire. Yeah. And

04:57the truck itself. They found a rag, partially burned, stuffed in the gas tank opening. Okay.

05:02That's definitely not accidental. Someone tried to start that fire deliberately. Clearly suggests

05:07arson. Plus the fire damage was intense, melted glass, which points towards an accelerant,

05:13probably gasoline being used to really get it going. So arson seemed likely that the autopsy,

05:19that's what confirmed it was murder, right? Absolutely. The autopsy was definitive. Jim Plants

05:24hadn't died from the fire or a crash. He had severe head trauma. Both his forearms were broken.

05:31Brutal. And the analysis of gases in his lungs showed he was still alive, still breathing when

05:36the fire started. Oh, God. Horrifying. So unequivocally homicide. Yeah. Which leads to the

05:42next question. Why? What was the motive? That came into focus pretty quickly. Investigators found

05:48out Jim Plants had recently taken out a much bigger life insurance policy. And let me guess,

05:52his wife was the beneficiary. You got it. His wife, Marilyn, was the sole beneficiary. Suddenly,

05:57that potential financial gain casts a very different light on the situation.

06:01Okay. So motive is there. But how did they connect Marilyn to the actual act? Did someone talk?

06:06They got a huge break from a guy named Roderick Ferris. He was actually in jail for stealing Jim's

06:12truck after the murder. Okay. Ferris claimed Marilyn had offered him $10,000 to kill Jim.

06:18He also pointed fingers at two other guys, Clifford Bryson and Clinton McKimble,

06:23saying Marilyn had made the same offer to Bryson.

06:25So now we're looking at a conspiracy. Multiple people involved.

06:29Exactly. The police followed up on Bryson and McKimble, and eventually, both of them confessed.

06:35What did they say happened?

06:36Their story was grim. They said they beat Jim Plants with baseball bats at his own home until

06:42he was unconscious.

06:43At the house.

06:44Then they put him in his truck, drove him to that remote spot, set the truck on fire,

06:49all they claimed, orchestrated by Marilyn.

06:51Wow. Okay. So you have confessions.

06:53Right.

06:54But you still need physical proof to back them up, especially to link Marilyn directly, right?

06:58What did the forensics find?

07:00They got a search warrant for the plant's home, and inside, they found blood stains on the carpet

07:04in the master bedroom. Crucially, these stains were under an area rug that looked new.

07:09Trying to cover it up.

07:10Seems like it. They also found two baseball bats, hidden in a closet, stained with blood.

07:16Directly corroborating the confessions about the beating.

07:19Yes. And the trail didn't end there. Bryson and McKimble also told the police something else.

07:25What was that?

07:26They said after they burned the truck, they went back to Marilyn's house. Their clothes were

07:30bloody, so she gave them Jim's clothes to wear instead.

07:32Okay.

07:33And they said they dumped their own bloody clothes in a creek nearby. Police searched the creek.

07:38And found them.

07:39They did. Blood-soaked clothes. And the DNA analysis, done by a forensic chemist named

07:45Joyce Gilchrist, matched the blood on those clothes to Jim Plants.

07:49Incredible. So the forensic evidence just keeps piling up, linking everything together.

07:52Absolutely.

07:53And then there was one more, almost mundane detail that turned out to be huge.

07:57Yeah.

07:58Bank records. They showed Marilyn Plants bought a brand new area rug on the exact same day

08:04her husband disappeared.

08:05The day of the murder, she went out and bought a rug to cover the bloodstains.

08:10It strongly suggested she was cleaning up the crime scene right away. So you have the motive,

08:14the confessions, the blood in the house, the bats, the clothes in the creek with his DNA,

08:19and then the rug purchase. It painted a really clear picture of a premeditated murder,

08:24planned and executed with Marilyn's involvement.

08:26It's amazing how sometimes the most everyday actions, like buying a rug, can become such

08:31a critical piece of evidence in hindsight.

08:33Exactly. That rug purchase really helps solidify the whole narrative.

08:37Okay. Our third deep dive shifts gears quite dramatically. We're going to an emergency room.

08:42Riverside Hospital, California, February 1994. What happened there sounds, well, almost unbelievable.

08:50It was extremely bizarre. A patient, Gloria Ramirez, who had advanced cancer, was brought

08:56into the ER. And very soon after she arrived, multiple staff members, doctors, nurses started

09:01getting sick. Really sick.

09:03And the symptoms were strange, weren't they? Not like a typical flu or something.

09:06Not at all. People described seeing an oily sheen on Ramirez's skin. There were reports of

09:13strange smells, like ammonia or fruity garlic. Beige-colored crystals were apparently seen in her

09:19drawn blood samples. Crystals in her blood.

09:21Yeah. And then staff started collapsing, fainting, tremors, difficulty breathing. It sounds like chaos

09:27erupted. Total confusion and panic, I imagine. What did they think was happening? A chemical spill?

09:34Some kind of toxic exposure? That was the immediate thought. They called in a hazmat team. They swept

09:39the ER looking for any environmental cause, any toxin leak. They found nothing. Absolutely nothing in the

09:45environment could explain it. Meanwhile, tragically, Gloria Ramirez died. The autopsy later determined

09:51her cause of death was kidney failure due to her cancer.

09:54But that didn't explain why all the staff got sick around her.

09:57Not at all. The mystery just got deeper. So, the hospital sent her blood and tissue samples off

10:02to a high-tech lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for really detailed analysis.

10:07What did Livermore find?

10:08They found something specific. Unusually high levels of a chemical called dimethylsulfone,

10:14DMSO2, in her blood.

10:16DMSO2. What is that?

10:18It's basically a breakdown product of DMSO, dimethylsulfoxide.

10:21Oh, DMSO. I've heard of that. Sometimes used kind of off-label for pain relief, right? Like a

10:26topical cream or something.

10:27Exactly. So, it's plausible Gloria might have been using DMSO to manage her cancer pain.

10:32But was the DMSO2 itself toxic enough to cause nurses to faint and have trouble breathing?

10:39Well, that was the problem. Generally, no. DMSO2 isn't considered that toxic, especially

10:44not to cause such severe, rapid reactions in so many people just from being near her or

10:49handling blood samples.

10:50So, finding DMSO2 didn't really solve the mystery of the staff's illness. Could something

10:56else have been going on chemically?

10:57A chemist at the lab, Patrick Grant, came up with a really interesting theory. He wondered

11:02if the DMSO2 in her blood, perhaps in the syringe after it was drawn, could have chemically

11:06converted into something else.

11:08Like what?

11:09Into dimethylsulfate, DMSO4. Now, that is a highly toxic industrial chemical. Very dangerous.

11:15Okay. How could that conversion happen?

11:17Grant theorized that maybe the drop in temperature as the blood cooled in the syringe, possibly

11:22combined with oxygen introduced during the blood draw, could have triggered a reaction

11:26converting DMSO2 to the much nastier DMSO4.

11:31And would DMSO4 explain the staff's symptoms, the fainting, the breathing problems?

11:37The symptoms reported were actually quite consistent with exposure to dimethylsulfate. So, the theory

11:43seemed to fit the facts quite well.

11:45But could they prove it? Could they make that conversion happen in the lab?

11:48That's where it gets tricky. They tried to replicate the conditions, you know, cool down

11:52blood with DMSO2, see if DMSO4 formed. The results were inconclusive. They couldn't definitively

11:59make it happen in the lab setting.

12:01Hmm. So, the theory remains just a theory.

12:04Pretty much. But, it's important to remember, dimethylsulfate is incredibly toxic. Even a tiny,

12:10tiny amount could potentially be lethal or cause serious harm. And some reports suggested the amounts

12:15needed could have been too small to easily detect after the fact.

12:17And didn't some of the staff report health problems long after the event?

12:20Yes. That's a significant point. Some of the affected staff members reported ongoing health

12:25issues, like liver problems, pancreatitis, even a vascular necrosis bone death.

12:31Which really undermines the initial explanation from the health department, doesn't it? They

12:35basically put it down to mass hysteria.

12:38Exactly. Suggesting experienced medical professionals where just having a collective panic attack doesn't

12:43sit well, especially when they suffer tangible, long-term physical effects.

12:47So, this case is kind of unresolved, in a way. It highlights how complex these weird

12:52medical events can be, and how hard it is to find definitive answers sometimes, even with

12:57advanced science.

12:58Absolutely. It leaves you wondering, doesn't it? Could seemingly harmless substances, like

13:03maybe a pain relief cream, somehow transform under just the right or wrong conditions into

13:08something dangerous? It's a bit unsettling.

13:11Okay. So, looking back at all three of these cases, Cohen, Plants, Ramirez, what

13:17are the main threads connecting them? What do they tell us overall?

13:20Well, I think they powerfully illustrate how truth can be hidden, sometimes deliberately,

13:25like with Joyce Cohen staging a burglary or Marilyn Plants trying to cover up a murder.

13:29Right. Deception.

13:31And sometimes, maybe unintentionally, like the potential chemical reaction in the Ramirez case,

13:36the surface appearance of things is often just not the full story.

13:39And in the first two cases especially, it was the painstaking work of forensic science

13:43that really peeled back those layers of deception.

13:46Definitely. Gunshot residue, blood spatter, DNA, lividity patterns, even analyzing chemicals in blood.

13:53Yeah.

13:54These scientific tools are just crucial for investigators. They provide objective facts.

13:59They give the evidence a voice, really, speaking for victims who can't.

14:03That's a good way to put it. Every little detail matters. A wiped gun, a stain under a rug,

14:07those crystals in the blood tube, they can all be pieces of the puzzle.

14:12It also makes you think about initial assumptions, doesn't it? A burglary, an accident, a medical emergency.

14:18How easy it would have been to accept those first explanations if investigators hadn't kept digging.

14:23Absolutely critical thinking, questioning the obvious. Without that diligence,

14:28the real stories in the Cohen Implants cases might never have come out.

14:32So, maybe for a final thought, considering how these cases show things aren't always what they seem,

14:37it makes you wonder, doesn't it? What other events or explanations out there,

14:41things we take as settled, might actually deserve a, well, a deeper dive?

14:45That's a fascinating question to ponder. What else might be hiding in plain sight?

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