181. [Kentucky] Kentucky Killer Couple artwork

181. [Kentucky] Kentucky Killer Couple

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

June 13, 2026

In 2016, Phillip Oakley was married to the love of his life Rhonda. Together they were raising his two children from a previous marriage and on the surface everything looked great. But when Rhonda is found murdered in their basement, a full manhunt is underway to find the killer.
Speakers: Cara, Stu
**Cara** (0:20)
Hey everyone, welcome to Bless This Mess A Southern True Crime Podcast. I'm Cara, here with Stu Sayes too.

**Stu** (0:24)
Hey.

**Cara** (0:24)
All right, we're back this week, and we are going to Kentucky. Apologies, we missed the last week.
I'm done, we're trying our best. Anyways, I hope when we go to our new house though, that we are, so we're going house hunting here pretty soon, and we are definitely looking for a house that has a little bit more space so that we can have like a, we're not in a closet, we're not uncomfortable. Part of the reason we don't record it.

**Stu** (0:53)
We don't have traffic going by every five minutes.

**Cara** (0:56)
Yes, because we do have a space where we could set up the podcast more for like long term to record in. However, as you guys know, we have to pause all the time because everybody in this neighborhood is loud, and so we, it's like, it's super annoying.
Anyway, so we're hoping that we have, we can find us a little place that we can get a little extra space and we can have a podcasting area. So because I hear all the rages, you're supposed to be on YouTube, Stu. Like, I mean, we're on YouTube, although I have forgotten to post anything on YouTube for quite some time. But I mainly focused on, I post on the three big ones like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, but the ones that we just put the audio out, everybody wants video on YouTube, you know.

**Stu** (1:43)
They will really want to see us.

**Cara** (1:45)
I mean, I don't know if they want to see us. I'm saying other people post video. I don't think anybody wants to see. Problem is we're not very...

**Stu** (1:52)
Photogenic.

**Cara** (1:53)
Well, also we look like we...

**Stu** (1:55)
Ass.

**Cara** (1:57)
Stuart.
We're never dressed. We just have to like pop in here and be like, just like now, it all worked out. It just all the time he worked out. I'm off work, the baby went to sleep, and then the other three kids were being terrible, they're in quiet time. And so it just is like the perfect time, so we just have to pop in, do it, and we're both in our pajamas, because I put on my pajamas immediately when I get home from work. So I put on my comfy clothes.
Anyway, so, but although normally we were walking in the evenings, but our Y'all Need Jesus this week is going to be some happenings around town. I'm going to just, this place is, this place needs Jesus.

**Stu** (2:39)
This place is Y'all Need Jesus. Yes.

**Cara** (2:41)
It's a walking Y'all Need Jesus around here. So anyways, we appreciate all of our Patreons. We'll get you the second half of our trip here at some point this weekend. Yes, shortly. We'll get you the second half of our trip. I believe we stopped when we got to Key West. We were going to make our way back up on our shoot the poos.
We had made it to Key West. We talked about Key West and then we were going to go back up. We're headed to Cape Canaveral next in our on-goings.

**Stu** (3:11)
I can't remember if we made it there or not.

**Cara** (3:13)
No, I don't think we did. I think we stopped. We were like, okay, this is the perfect point. We'll stop and we'll do the return journey.

**Stu** (3:19)
The kids were acting up and we had to quit.

**Cara** (3:21)
But it also been like an hour. I mean, there's only so much time people can listen to this nonsense.

**Stu** (3:27)
Well, they can stop it whenever they so desire.

**Cara** (3:29)
Okay. You always sound like such a snorky little bitch.

**Stu** (3:33)
You're a judgy little bitch.

**Cara** (3:35)
No. We've been house hunting. Okay. I will say we have been house hunting.

**Stu** (3:44)
Happens every time. Starts out fun. Let's look at all the houses. Okay.

**Cara** (3:50)
Okay. We had to send our list to the realtor so she could start doing some recon on them because there's a lot of options down there. When we moved here, we both agreed pretty quickly once this house popped up. It had all the stuff we needed and we knew this was a short term commitment. Because we knew we would be-

**Stu** (4:10)
So we blew the budget out.

**Cara** (4:11)
So we became house poor and we knew we'd be leaving here. This is a different story. We could possibly have this house.
There may not be any moving again. This could be it for a long time. So there's also a lot of options there. A lot more in our price range and just a lot more that we can pick from. So we're supposed to have our list to the realtor. I was like, okay, we'll get you like top 10 or something like that. So she can go look through them and stuff. Because realistically, we're going to look at houses. We will have all the children. So realistically, how many can we look at?

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