Morbid

Episode 549: The Lipstick Killer (Part 2)

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The brutal murders of Ross, Brown, and Degnan shocked the city of Chicago and terrified and outraged the city’s residents, who wanted only to feel s...

Episode 548: The Lipstick Killer (Part 1)

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

BIG, BIG NEWS AHEAD!!!! We are SO excited to announce that The SEQUEL, yes, the 2nd book of The Dr. Wren Muller Series will be released on September 1...

Episode 547: Lizzie Borden and other Dark Nursery Rhymes (with Special Guests Sabrina & Corinne from Two Girls One Ghost)

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sabrina & Corinne from Two Girls One Ghost join us on this week's episode to talk about the dark histories behind childhood nursery rhymes. Fresh ...

Episode 546: Matthew Wales and the Society Murders

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When millionaire Australian socialite Margaret Wales-King and her husband, Paul King, disappeared in April 2002, friends and family became concerned s...

Episode 545: The Career Girl Murders (Part 2)

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While the tragic loss of two young lives was particularly shocking, the Career Girl Murders is better remembered as one of the most egregious cases of...

Episode 544: The Career Girl Murders (Part 1)

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On August 28, 1963, Patricia Tolles returned home from work to find her New York City apartment ransacked, a bloody knife in the bathroom, and her roo...

Episode 543: The Execution of Hamida Djandoubi (with Special Guests Alvin & Fran From Affirmative Murder Podcast)

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alvin & Fran from Affirmative Murder Podcast join us today to tell us about the execution of Hamida Djandoubi. On September 10th, 1977, Djandoubi'...

Episode 542: Listener Tales 83

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Weirdos! Get cozy and get ready to listen to our 83rd batch of Listener Tales! They're brought to you BY you, FOR you, FROM you, and ALL ABOUT YOU!&nb...

Episode 541: The Unsolved Murder of Georgette Bauerdorf

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of October 12, 1944, Lulu Atwood arrived at the El Palacio Apartments in West Hollywood, where she worked cleaning apartments for wealt...

Episode 540: Anna George and the Murder of George Saxton

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 On the evening of October 6, 1898, forty-eight-year-old George Saxton, brother of First Lady Ida McKinley, was riding his bike to the home of hi...

Episode 539: Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Strangler (Part 3)

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(Part 3) In the spring of 2005, law enforcement officials in southern Louisiana had a growing number of murder victims they had begun to suspect were ...

Episode 538: Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Strangler (Part 2)

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(Part 2) In the spring of 2005, law enforcement officials in southern Louisiana had a growing number of murder victims they had begun to suspect were ...

Episode 537: Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Strangler (Part 1)

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the spring of 2005, law enforcement officials in southern Louisiana had a growing number of murder victims they had begun to suspect were connected...

Episode 536: The Murder of Gary Triano

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of November 1, 1996, Tucson, Arizona real estate developer and businessman Gary Triano got into his car at the La Paloma Country Club i...

Episode 535: Florence Burns and the Murder of Walter Brooks

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When twenty-year-old Walter Brooks was found dead from a bullet to the head on Valentine’s Day 1902, suspicion immediately fell on Brooks’ ninetee...

Episode 534: The Story of Laurie Bembenek and the Tragic Murder of Christine Schultz (With Special Guest Holly Madison)

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Holly Madison joins us to give us a sneak peak at one of the cases they are covering on Season Two of the Playboy Murders. We talk about the tragic mu...

Episode 533: The Mysterious Death of Charles Morgan

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In March 1977, Arizona businessman Charles Morgan went missing from his home in Tucson, only to turn up three days later in the middle of the night, s...

Episode 532: Listener Tales 82

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out the month of January, and you know what THAT means- Listener Tales! It’s brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT ...

Episode 531: Tom Bird and Lorna Anderson Eldridge

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Sandy Bird was found dead in her wrecked car in the Cottonwood River in the summer of 1983, everyone assumed the thirty-three-year-old Kansas mot...

Episode 530: Preston Castle and the Murder of Anna Corbin

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When it opened in 1894, the Preston School of Industry represented a change in how criminal offenders and wards of the state were treated in American ...

Episode 529: Ann & Billy Woodward

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of October 31, 1955, millionaire socialite Ann Woodward heard a strange noise in the hallway just beyond her bedroom door i...

Episode 528: The Murders of Stan Farr and Andrea Wilborn

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Priscilla Davis filed for divorce from her husband, Cullen Davis, in 1974, she had no idea that her actions would have such tragic consequences. ...

Episode 527: The Murder of Mary Stannard

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the afternoon of September 3, 1878, twenty-two-year-old Mary Stannard d left her home in Madison, Connecticut, telling her father she was going bla...

Episode 526: The Death of Joan Robinson Hill- Part 2

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2/2 - On March 19, 1969, thirty-eight-year-old Houston socialite Joan Robinson Hill died at Sharpstown General Hospital from what doctors at the ...

Episode 525: The Death of Joan Robinson Hill- Part 1

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On March 19, 1969, thirty-eight-year-old Houston socialite Joan Robinson Hill died at Sharpstown General Hospital from what doctors at the time believ...

Episode 524: Listener Tales 81

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Listener Tales 81 and you know the drill…..! It’s brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT YOU! In this installment we have ...

Episode 523: Fan Favorite - The Dark Secrets Behind the Wizard of Oz

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a fan favorite that was originally published as Episode 281…For this Holiday week, we wanted to bring you a lighter (?) episode, alt...

Episode 522: The Mysterious Death of Christina Kettlewell

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On May 20, 1947, decorated army veteran Jack Kettlewell and his friend Ronald Barrie barely escaped a devastating housefire at Ronald’s cabin along ...

Episode 521: Velma Barfield

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On November 2, 1984, fifty-two-year-old Velma Barfield was executed by lethal injection at North Carolina’s Central Prison, bringing an end to years...

Episode 520: Dudleytown: Connecticut’s Cursed Ghost Town

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in the woods near Cornwall, Connecticut, in a valley known as the Dark Entry Forest, lie the remains of the small village of Dudleytown. Settled ...

Episode 519: Sharon Kinne- La Pistolera Pt.2

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 19, 1960, Kansas City police were called to the home James and Sharon Kinne for what they believed was an accidental shooting. According to S...

Episode 518: Sharon Kinne- La Pistolera Pt.1

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 19, 1960, Kansas City police were called to the home James and Sharon Kinne for what they believed was an accidental shooting. According to S...

Episode 517: The Black Sisters and the Murder of Ocey Snead

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When East Orange, New Jersey police were called to the home of Virginia Wardlaw in late November 1909, they knew only that there had been an accident ...

Episode 516: Listener Tales 80

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It is Listener Tales 80 and this installment is brought to you by HEROES with the spookiest of tales… A decomposing body, florescent yellow fluid, p...

Episode 515: The Murder of the Grimes Sisters

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of December 28, 1956, fifteen-year-old Barbara Grimes and her thirteen-year-old sister, Patricia, left their home in Chicago, Illinois ...

Episode 514: Bernie Tiede and the murder of Marjorie Nugent

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When 39 year old Bernie Tiede confessed to the murder of his friend and companion, 81 year old Marjorie Nugent in November 1996, the revelation came a...

Episode 513: Mamie Thurman

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On June 22, 1932, a boy picking blackberries in rural Logan, West Virginia made a hideous discovery when he happened upon the dead and brutalized body...

Episode 512: Nutty Putty Cave Incident

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Discovered in Utah County in 1960, Nutty Putty Cave quickly became a popular destination for amateur and professional cavers and spelunkers as a kind ...

Episode 511: Nan Patterson and The Death of Frank "Caesar" Young

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of June 4, 1904, New York City police were called to Lower Manhattan for what they were told was the death of Frank “Ceas...

Episode 510: Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley Part 2

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On September 11, 1982, Ken Dooley, a Youth Development Center employee in Rome, Georgia, was shot at in his home by an unseen attacker. The following ...

Episode 509: Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley Part 1

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On September 11, 1982, Ken Dooley, a Youth Development Center employee in Rome, Georgia, was shot at in his home by an unseen attacker. The following ...

Episode 508: The Murders of Elisabeth Congdon and Velma Pietila

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of June 27, 1977, the bodies of millionaire Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse, Velma Pietila, were d...

Episode 507: A Conversation With Rachel Stavis, A Real Life Exorcist

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a super duper special episode of Morbid with guest host, the incredible Rachel Stavis. We are so freaking excited to be speaking with the L...

Episode 506: Listener Tales 79

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Listener Tales 79, and you know what that means… It’s brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT YOU! This installment feature...

Episode 505: Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Having lost several children to childhood illnesses, Leonarda Cianciulli was very protective of her surviving children and was willing to do anything ...

Episode 504: The Sauchie Poltergeist aka Wee Hughie

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Annie Campbell uprooted her daughter from their home in Donegal, Ireland and relocated to Sauchie, Scotland in 1960, the move resulted in consequ...

Episode 503: The Torsåker Witch Trials

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the horrors of witch hunts and trials around the world, Sweden is not often cited as one of the more aggressive or egregious nations....

Episode 502: The Highgate Vampire

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Muswell Hill resident David Farrant wrote to the letters section of the Hampstead and Highgate Express in February 1970, he had ho...

Episode 501: The Stanfield Hall Murders

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On November 28, 1848, Isaac Jermy and his son were shot and killed in their Wymondham estate, Stanfield Hall. After a brief search, investigators loca...

Episode 500: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just before midnight on December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, traveling from New York to Miami, crashed into the Florida Everglades, killin...

Episode 499: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the fall of 1961, Betty and Barney Hill took a trip to Niagara Falls. On the drive back from Canada to their home in Portsmouth, NH, the Hills clai...

Episode 498: Listener Tales 78

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s wackadoodle time on this week’s listener tales. In this installment we have the only and only butt mountain, possible imposter police officer...

Episode 497: The Haunting of Doris Bither

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1974, paranormal investigators and UCLA students Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor were approached in a bookstore by a woman who’d overhe...

Episode 496: Half-Hanged Mary

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the depths of American history there are few examples of mass hysteria that loom larger than the Salem witch trials of 1692. As horrific as it was,...

Episode 495: The Horrific Murder of Jack Tupper- Part 2

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On August 6, 1978, the body of thirty-five-year-old bar owner Jack Tupper was found in a vacant lot in the Bronx, just across the street from the loca...

Episode 494: Jack Tupper Part 1

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On August 6, 1978, the body of thirty-five-year-old bar owner Jack Tupper was found in a vacant lot in the Bronx, just across the street from the loca...

Episode 493: The Attempted Murder of Olga Rocco

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of December 31, 1946, nineteen-year-old Pearl Lusk boarded a crowded subway train in Brooklyn. A few days earlier, she’d met a man na...

Episode 492: The Haunted S.K. Pierce Mansion

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the spring of 2009, Edwin Gonzalez and his girlfriend, Lillian Otero, fled their house in Gardner, MA, less than one year after moving into what th...

Episode 491: The Murder of Bridget Cleary

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 15, 1895, thirty-five-year-old Michael Cleary murdered his wife, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary in their home in Ballyvadlea, County Tipp...

Episode 490: Listener Tales 77

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's Listener Tales 77 AND it's August so you know what that means.... It is obviously time for Halloween tales! This week we have a spook-a-dook inst...

Episode 489: Rainbow Family Murders

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1980, nineteen-year-old Nancy Santomero, and two friends, twenty-six-year-old Vicki Durian and nineteen-year-old Liz Johndrow, left D...

Episode 488: Walter Freeman Pt 2

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

American neurologist Walter Jackson Freeman had refined Moniz’s procedure and developed a non-surgical procedure that could be performed in a doctor...

Episode 487: Walter Freeman

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy in 1935, it was little more than a crude surgery developed as a blanket treatment for me...

Episode 486: Murder of Sophie Lancaster

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of August 11, 2007, Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, were passing through Stubbylee Park in Lancashire, U...

Episode 485: The Jersey Devil Ft Jodie Sweetin

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Among the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (a sprawling forest ecosystem in southern New Jersey), it is said there lives an elusive creature that has haunte...

Episode 484: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 2

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On August 19, 1986, a curious news item appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader regarding the home of West Pittston, PA family Jack and Ja...

Episode 483: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 1

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On August 19, 1986, a curious news item appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader regarding the home of West Pittston, PA family Jack and Ja...

Episode 482: The Murders of Jennifer Corbin and Dolly Hearn- Part 2

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The more Gwinnett County detectives dug into Bart Corbin’s life and history, the more convinced they were that the forty-year-old dentist wasn’t j...

Episode 481: The Murder of Jennifer Corbin- Part 1

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Gwinnett County sheriff’s officers responded to a call about a shooting at the home of Dr. Barton Corbin on the morning of December 4, 2004, th...

Episode 480: Listener Tales 76

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Listener tales 76 and guess what!?! It’s brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT YOU! This installment is all about your spoo...

Episode 479: World's End Murders

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On October 15, 1977, seventeen-year-olds Christine Eadie and Helen Scott met some friends at the World’s End Pub in Edinburgh’s Old Town neighborh...

Episode 478: Michele Neurauter

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On August 28, 2017, police in Corning, NY responded to a call about “suspicious circumstances” at the home of forty-six-year-old mother of three M...

Episode 477: The Murder of Teresita Basa

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of February 21, 1977, Chicago firefighters responded to a call at the Pine Grove apartment complex. Once they’d extinguished the fire...

Episode 476: Bobby Mackey's Music World

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When musician Bobby Mackey opened Bobby Mackey’s Music World in 1978, he had hoped for nothing more than to open a small nightclub where audiences c...

Episode 475: Denise Huber- Part 2

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 2, we talk through the killer’s background and troubling history with women in his life. We also go through Denise’s horrific injuries, as...

Episode 474: Denise Huber- Part 1

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of June 2, 1991, twenty-three-year-old Denise Huber went out to a concert in Inglewood, California with a friend. While driving home af...

Episode 473: Hayward Bissell and the Murder of Patricia Booher

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On January 24, 2000, sheriff’s deputies in Mentone, Alabama stopped an older model Lincoln with Ohio plates that they suspected was involved in a hi...

Episode 472: Listener Tales 75

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 75!!! This installment features a CRAY-CRAY reincarnation story, a husband turned Scooby-Doo villain and ghost turned grandma! If you h...

Episode 471: Joe Metheny

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On December 15, 1996, Baltimore police discovered the body of twenty-three-year-old Kimberly Spicer buried under a trailer on the property of a pallet...

Episode 470: The Murder of Mandy Stavik

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In late November 1989, college freshman Mandy Stavik returned to her hometown of Acme, Washington to celebrate the holidays with her family. On the af...

Episode 469: Elroy Kent & The Murder of Delia Congdon

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of July 24, 1908, Delia Congdon, a deaf and non-verbal woman living alone in East Wallingford, Vermont, was found dead in her pantry—...

Episode 468: The Tragic Murder of Grace Millane

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On December 2, 2018, the parents of twenty-one-year-old Grace Millane, a British tourist on vacation in New Zealand, became concerned when the birthda...

Episode 467: The Murder Of Elizabeth Riser & The Attempted Murder Of Brandi Hicks

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On May 23, 2000, teens Elizabeth "Liz" Reiser and Brandi Hicks went down to the local video store in New Philadelphia, Ohio to rent a movie. While the...

Episode 466: The Murder of Dawn Hacheney

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of December 26, 1997, police and fire services responded to a call about a structure fire at the home Bremerton, WA home of Nick and Da...

Episode 465: The Devil Made Me Do It

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of February 16, 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his friend and landlord Alan Bono to death during an argument, after which...

Episode 464: The Pamela Smart Case (Part2)

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A little after 10:00 pm on the evening of May 1, 1990, Pamela Smart returned home from work to find her husband, twenty-four-year-old Gregg Smart, lyi...

Episode 463: The Pamela Smart Case (Part 1)

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mention the Pamela Smart case to someone in New Hampshire, and they'll know exactly what you're talking about. The case captivated the nation in the e...

Episode 462: Listener Tales 74 with Jon Lee Brody

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We've got a listener tale up in here!! This week we are joined by Alaina's #bffAF, the one and only Jon Lee Brody. On today's installment we feature s...

Episode 461: H.H. Holmes Part 5

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the final chapter of our coverage of H.H.Holmes, we talk about the theories connecting him to Jack the Ripper, his final days on the run and a tria...

Episode 460: H.H. Holmes Part 4

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 4 of H.H. Holmes, it gets even wilder. This man has now headed to Texas with his 500th wife and is ready to join his partner in crime, Benjami...

Episode 459: H.H. Holmes Part 3

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 3 H.H. Holmes isn't done being adulterous and he's taking evil to another level. He's conning wives left and right and then takes to arson to ...

Episode 458: H.H. Holmes Part 2

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In part 2 we talk about the infamous "Murder Castle" and begin to dive into the crimes committed there. Holmes' brutality and savagery knew no bounds ...

Episode 457: H.H. Holmes Part 1

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Boston police arrested Dr. Henry Howard Holmes in a West End boarding house on November 17, 1894, they assumed they had apprehended an interstate...

Episode 456: The Bonebreaker Case

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of fourteen-year-old Chris Steiner was discovered floating in the Wisconsin River on July 10, 1994, it brought a heartbreaking end to th...

Episode 455: The Amato Family Murders

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of January 25, 2019, Seminole County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a home in Chuluota, Florida to conduct a well-being check ...

Episode 454: That Time I Met A Murderer II ft. Bailey Sarian

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have another fantastic batch of listener tales about the time some of our listeners MET a MURDERER!!! Only this one is super special because we are...

Episode 453: Curses: Micah Rood & The Omen

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are looking at CURSES. We talk about the curse of Micah Rood and his bloody apples which stems from murder, execution and a haunting! Then, w...

Episode 452: Doris Duke and the Murder of Eddie Tirella

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a cold October afternoon in 1966, billionaire heiress Doris Duke returned to her palatial Newport estate in the company of friend and interior deco...

Episode 451: The Legend of Lavinia Fisher with RedHanded

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some say Lavinia would lure men to the inn and lull them into a false sense of calm, before robbing and killing them, then dumping their bodies in the...

Episode 450: Arthur’s Seat Coffins

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In late June 1836, a group of boys hunting rabbits on a hillside on Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh, discovered a small cave hidden behind three slabs of s...