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Episode 567: Fred & Rose West (Part 4)
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part four focuses on Fred & Rose West's final crimes, and the events leading up to their arrest. Their subsequent trials would become the focus of...
Episode 566: Fred & Rose West (Part 3)
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part three focuses on the pattern formed by the West's subsequent murders, as well as a hiatus from killing that was marked by countless sexual assaul...
Episode 565: Fred & Rose West (Part 2)
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part two delves into Fred's life after he met Rose, exploring the origins of the affair leading to their marriage and the beginning of the sadistic cr...
Episode 564: Fred & Rose West (Part 1)
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this four part series, we dive into the horrific crimes of Fred & Rose West. We begin by exploring Fred's formative years which laid a fou...
Episode 563: A Deeper Look at the Crimes of Joran van der Sloot With Christopher Cassel
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Christopher Cassel, Director of 'Pathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot', We discuss his documentary which dives deep into the...
Episode 562: The Murder of Natalee Holloway
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the afternoon of May 30, 2005, the senior students from Mountain Brook High School gathered at the airport in Aruba to make their return flight to ...
Episode 561: “Jolly Jane” Toppan: Angel of Mercy (Part 2)
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Considered among the first (and certainly the most prolific) American female serial killers and so-called angels of mercy, Jane Toppan’s killing spr...
Episode 560: “Jolly Jane” Toppan: Angel of Mercy (Part 1)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Jane Toppan began training to be a nurse at Cambridge Hospital in 1885, she was bright, eager, and well-liked by her peers and seemed to form eas...
Episode 559: The Murder of Timothy Coggins
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of October 9, 1983, twenty-three-year-old Timothy Coggins met up with some friends for a night out at the People’s Choice club, a pop...
Episode 558: Listener Tales 85
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weirdos! It's Listener Tales, and they're brought to you BY you, FOR you, FROM you, and ALL ABOUT YOU. This week's episode is brought to you by... DRE...
Episode 557: The Glove Guy (With Jordan Bonaparte from The Night Time Podcast)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warning: Please be aware that adult subject matter is discussed within this episode and is not recommended for young listeners.Jordan Bonapart...
Episode 556: The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of February 4, 1972, middle school friends Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber left their homes with a plan to hitchhike to the Redwood E...
Episode 555: Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (Part 3)
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What drove the mild-mannered farmer to commit such hideous and depraved acts in America’s heartland, and why do people from around the world continu...
Episode 554: Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (Part 2)
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared from her store on the morning of November 16, 1957, sheriff’s deputies traced the last sale mad...
Episode 553: Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (Part 1)
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not since Jack the Ripper or H.H. Holmes had a criminal so thoroughly shocked and captivated the public imagination; yet Gein’s crimes went far beyo...
Episode 552: Marie Robards
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When thirty-eight-year-old Steven Robards died unexpectedly in the winter of 1993, everyone including the coroner believed his death to have been the ...
Episode 551: Happy Land Social Club Arson
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of March 24, 1990, nearly one hundred patrons gathered to celebrate Carnivale at the Happy Land Social Club, a small informal night clu...
Episode 550: Listener Tales 84
28 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- THE BUTCHER GAME will be ...
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...