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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...

Episode 449: The Murder of Daniel Brophy

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday June 2, 2018, students at the Oregon Culinary Institute (OCI) arrived at class that morning to find their instructor, sixty-three-year-old...

Episode 448: Burke & Hare Part 2

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the conclusion of the horrific crimes of William Burke and William Hare, we see them get somehow even more brutal. As time went on a...

Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the first three decades of the nineteenth century, doctors and medical schools across Europe struggled to find adequate supplies of bodies ...

Episode 446: Listener Tales 72: Dream, Astral Projections & Alternate Dimensions

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sweet dreams are made of this.... episode! Or maybe not because some of y'alls dreams are wildin'. But who am I to disagree? ANYWAY! We got a folder f...

Episode 445: The Murder of Kelly Ann Tinyes

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Ann Tinyes was at home babysitting her eight-year-old brother, Richie, on the afternoon of March 3, 1989 when the phone rang. Richie answered, t...

Episode 444: Rebecca Aylward

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the afternoon of October 22, 2010, fifteen-year-old Rebecca Aylward left her house in Maesteg, Wales. She had plans to meet her ex- boyfriend in a ...

Episode 443: The Horrific Murder of Marina Calabro with Jonathan Van Ness

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Holy shit guys, we had a CELEB in the house today! Well not like in the house, but on the zoom. THE ONE, THE ONLY..... JVN *sound the alarm* We talk a...

Episode 442: The Burger Chef Murders Part 2

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Burger Chef part two is here y'all and it comes with a bittersweet....or really just bitter conclusion. When we last left you, the police had don...

Episode 441: The Burger Chef Murders Part 1

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Burger Chef murders case out of Indiana is one of the most notorious cases in true crime history. Jayne Fried, Ruth Shelton, Daniel Davis and...

Episode 440: Listener Tales 71

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 71 is here and we think this is a pretty dope one! Make sure to keep your ear out for the special announcement at the top of the show, ...

Episode 439: Kiss and Kill Murder

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Betty Williams’ boyfriend, Mack Herring, broke up with her during their senior year of high school, her entire world felt like it was collapsin...

Episode 438: The Tragic Murder of Roseann Quinn

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Roseann Quinn was a young, single school teacher working at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf and pursuing a graduate degree that would help her adva...

Episode 437: Listener Tales 70

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 70!!!! We've got a miraculous basset hound named Bonnie, randomly occurring blood splatter, a haunted theatre and SO much more! If...

Episode 436: Harvey Glatman "The Glamour Girl Slayer" Part 2

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Harvey Glatman is here and it is wild! When we last left you Harvey had just murdered Ruth Mercado and was ready and absolutely set on the...

Episode 435: Harvey Glatman "The Glamour Girl Slayer" Part 1

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the summer of 1957 to the summer of ’58, the City of Los Angeles was terrorized by a truly heinous beast who was murdering women and dumpi...

Episode 434: Listener Tales 69

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a totally unhinged episode of listener tales today! Alaina got to hang out with two of her favorite humans on this planet, Sheena Melwani an...

Episode 433: Candy Mossler

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Candy Mossler was a wild woman. She'd always dreamed of a bold and glamorous life outside of the small town she came from. Little did she kn...

Episode 432: Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM… over this true crime case known as the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars. We aren’t all watching the latest Food Network...

Episode 431: Cryptids with Caleb!

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are doing a battle of the cryptids with Caleb of Scream! Ash is out today and Alaina's sick voice couldn't handle a full case, so Caleb swept...

Episode 430: The Mysterious Disappearance of Theodosia Burr Alston

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On December 31, 1812, Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of former vice-president and very notorious founding father Aaron Burr (Aaron Burr, sir!), board...

Episode 429: Listener Tales 68

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's Listener Tales 68!!!! We didn't theme this one, but as you all know sometimes they just theme themselves. It's a wild bunch of tales includi...

Episode 428: The Survival Tale of Vicky Cilliers

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On April 4, 2015, thirty-nine-year-old Victoria “Vicky” Cilliers leaped from an airplane flying 4,000 feet above the ground. Vicky was an exp...

Episode 427: The Brutal Hoia Baciu Forest

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we travel to Romania where everything is terrifying and awesome. Come on, it's the birthplace of Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) and it's got one of ...

Episode 426: Listener Tales 67

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener tales 67 is brought to you; by you, for you, from you and all about you!!!! This installment has another fun theme because…IYKYK. Category ...

Episode 425: The Clutter Family Murders

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1959 the state of Kansas was absolutely shocked to find that one of its most prominent and well-liked families, The Clutters, had been murdered. Ri...

Episode 424: The Horrifying Crimes of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dellen Millard and Mark Smich are two of the world's biggest fuck boys, and unfortunately cold-blooded killers. Dellen, better known as "Dell", had ev...

Episode 423: Listener Tales 66

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 66!!! It's like route 66 but completely different. This installment of Listener Tales includes a tale about those hellacious 2016 kille...

Episode 422: The Murders of Billy Payne & Billie Jean Hayworth

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The murders of Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth were incredibly senseless. The case would end up being dubbed "The Facebook Murders" because of an...

Episode 421: The Torture & Murder of Cordell Richards

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 4th, 1999 the body of Cordell Richards was found in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The man had been absolutely brutalized. He was tied to a tree...

Episode 420: Listener Tales 65

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 65 is brought to you SAY IT WITH ME.....by you, for you, from you and all about YOU! This installment has a new fun(?) theme of NASTY N...

Episode 419: The Unbelievable Survival Tale of Juliane Koepcke

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Juliane Koepcke's story will have you questioning any recent complaint you've made. This woman was the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1971. After t...

Episode 418: The Murders of Julie Crocker & Paula Menendez

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In February 2007 Christopher Little came home to find a stranger hanging from the rafters in his garage. Things only got worse when he entered his hom...

Episode 417: Listener Tales 64

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 64 is, of course, a beautiful array of tales sent in by you beautiful beasts. We can't say enough how much we love reading these and co...

Episode 416: Theodore Durrant "The Demon in the Belfry" Part 2

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Theodore Durrant is here and we start off with Blanche Lamont's body being discovered. When you hear the difference between the state...

Episode 415: Theodore Durrant "The Demon in the Belfry" Part 1

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Theodore Durrant was the last person anyone would have assumed to commit a brutal murder, let alone two. He was well-known in town and well-liked. He ...

Episode 414: Listener Tales 63

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listener tales 63 brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT YOU!!!! We've got a great batch of tales as usual. This installment has kidn...

Episode 413: The Senseless Murder of Pamela Vitale

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pamela Vitale was an unstoppable woman who could do quite literally anything she put her mind to. She was a single mother working her butt off before ...

Episode 412: The Tragic history and hauntings of Kenyon College

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kenyon college is haunted AS FUCK, my friends. Alaina brings us the tragic tale of a fraternity rush gone wrong. Stuart Lathrop Pierson was a Del...

Episode 411: Listener Tales 62

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Tales 62 is quite the mish-mosh of tales! We have hauntingly beautiful tales about the paranormal predictions of bébés, a home intruder sta...

Episode 410: The Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just two days before Christmas in 1996 the body of 39 year old, french filmmaker, wife, daughter and mother Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was found not fa...

Episode 409: Macabre Michigan with Paul Feig

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guys, we have legendary director (Bridesmaids, Spy & A Simple Favor), Freaks and Geeks creator and Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum Paul Feig on tod...

Episode 408: Flesh Pedestrians, Demons & Summer Camp with Andrew from Let's Not Meet!

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a real treat, friends! We got to hang with Andrew from Let's Not Meet and Odd Trails and had an absolute nightmarish blast. We have some...

Episode 407: The Yorkshire Ripper Part 4

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We've reached a conclusion here folks, and by the end of this Peter will be apprehended. First though, there were more fuck ups to be made in the inve...

Episode 406: The Yorkshire Ripper Part 3

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part three of The Yorkshire Ripper gets even more brutal than the first 2 episodes. Peter Sutcliffe is really starting to ramp things up. He's getting...

Episode 405: Listener Tales 61: Across The Pond Edition

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

OMG! Listener tales, brought to you by you from you for you, and ALL ABOUT YOU. This batch of listener tales comes from our favorite people across the...

Episode 404: The Yorkshire Ripper Part 2

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of the Yorkshire Rippers, unfortunately, includes many many more murders and Peter Sutcliffe continuing to evade law enforcement. So many wom...

Episode 403: The Yorkshire Ripper Part 1

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Sutcliffe, who would later become known as the Yorkshire Ripper, is probably one of the gnarlier serial killers we have covered. Throughout the ...

Episode 402: Listener Tales 60

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listener tales!!!! Brought to you by you, for you, from you and all about you!!!! This installment is absolutely wild, as usual. You guys stay out the...

Episode 401: The Violent Deaths of Bog Bodies

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alaina brings us something a little different this week, BOG BODIES! All across the world in different bogs, bodies have been found almost perfectly p...

Episode 400: The Murder of Molly McLaren

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Molly McLaren was just starting out at University when she met Joshua Stimpson via tinder. The two of them seemed to have a lot in common and hit it o...

Episode 399: Listener Tales 59: Australia & New Zealand Edition!

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listener tales but make it Australian and New Zealand-ish! Some of our aussie-awesome and kiwi listeners wrote in epic tales and we figured why not th...