Love ain't always enough—and sometimes, it turns deadly. This week on Love Kills x Melanin Mayhem, we going to Detroit, where a relationship spiraled into something dark, violent, unforgettable and unforgivable. What happens when your baby daddy turns from deadbeat to diabolical? Tragedy, heartbreak and one lone survivor.

Tap in… because where there's love, there's always a little mayhem.

She served up sin with a side of Southern charm — and business was always booming. This week on Melanin Mayhem, we peel back the bedsheets on Nellie Jackson, the legendary Natchez madam who turned her brothel into the hottest hoe house in Mississippi. She wasn’t just turning tricks — she was turning profits, protecting her girls, and playing the game better than most men in power. Nellie wasn’t just in the business of pleasure — she was the plug, the protector, and the queen of a red-light empire that stayed lit for decades. But when the curtains finally closed, it wasn’t the law that came for her — it was something far more fatal.

Sex, secrets, and a fire that burned more than just the house down — this is one hell of a story.

Today, I’m bringing you the story of a man who went from church pews to cold-blooded chaos. Franklin DeWayne Alix didn’t just dip a toe into the dark side—he dove in headfirst. Over the course of six violent months, he left a trail of bodies, broken lives, and a city on edge. Prosecutors labeled him the “poster boy for capital murder,” and trust me… they meant that.

This week, we’re going all the way in—ears first—on one of the deadliest crime waves Houston has ever seen… and barely remembers.

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This week on Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem, we explore the story of Darrell Brooks — a young man once embraced by his community, offered guidance, support, and a way out. But when loyalty to the streets and a street code taken too far clashed with the love shown to him, the results were catastrophic. What happens when pride, pain, pressure and stupidity collide? Join us as we delve into a case that ended in an unspeakable tragedy and left a neighborhood forever scarred.

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we're diving into one of the most haunting cases in American history—the Atlanta Child Murders. But we're not just retelling the headlines. We’re examining the trial, the evidence (or lack thereof), and the calculated way authorities built a case around Wayne Williams—without ever charging him for the murders of the dozens of Black children who vanished between 1979 and 1981. Was justice really served, or was Williams made to fit a crime that demanded closure at any cost? Join me as we unpack how fear, politics, and public pressure may have led to a conviction that left far too many questions unanswered.

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we shine a light on two of the most audacious and overlooked women in Illinois criminal history — Geraldine Smith and Dorothy Williams. As the first and second women sentenced to death in the state, their stories are as chilling as they are complex. From ruthless motives to senseless murder, I unravel the crimes that put them on death row and in the history books.

Behind a locked door in Detroit sat a freezer filled with secrets — the bodies of two children, betrayed by the one person meant to protect them. Love Kills X Melanin Mayhem unearths the horrifying case of Mitchelle Blair, a mother whose twisted version of love turned lethal, leaving a city — and a nation — in shock.

This week on Melanin Mayhem, we’re diving headfirst into the dark, twisted chaos of two very different cases bound by one dangerous theme: youth doesn’t mean harmless.

First, we head to St. Louis, where two friends took a dumb decision to a deadly level. What started as a robbery, turned into a mass shooting that left five innocent people dead. These two weren’t criminal masterminds — just reckless, messy, and trigger-happy. But it’s what happened after the murders that really shows how sloppy and unapologetic things got.

Then, we jump across the pond to the UK, where we have a female mayhem maker that made headlines as the youngest person ever convicted of murder in the UK at just 12 years old! She committed a killing so brutal, the police just knew it was a man that had did the crime. But it’s her behavior after the fact — that truly cements her place in the archives of mayhem.

Two terrifying stories. One truth: A killer can be any age.

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