True Crime Obsessed

315: Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's one of the most memorable moments in television history, but nobody really knows what actually happened or why. At the Superbowl halftime show in...

314: Death In The Dorms: The Murder of Andrea DelVesco

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a September morning in 2015, students at UCLA woke up to a dark smoky cloud over Westwood, as fire consumes an apartment building full of sorority ...

313: Slayed in Soho: The Murder of Theresa Cha (From New York Homicide)

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Theresa Cha, an aspiring writer and painter in the vibrant Soho art scene of the early '80s, is found murdered just two days after her debut book...

312: The Murder of Brittanee Drexel (Dateline's "The Last Walk)

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It was a mystery that took 12 years to solve. In April 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel headed to Myrtle Beach with a group of older friends for sp...

311: Truth And Lies: Waco

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Koresh said he was the Messiah. .His followers believed. They were willing to die for him. So when the government guns and tanks rolled in to li...

Who Killed Robert Wone

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Four men in a house. One of them is them is murdered. Who is the killer?  32-year-old Robert Wone is stabbed 3 times in the middle of the night whil...

310: Sherri Papini: Lies Lies and More Lies

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On November 2, 2016, 34-year-old Sherri Papini vanished while out for a jog. Three weeks later, she reappeared on the side of the highway in the middl...

Our Interview With Terra Newell from "Dirty John"

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Terra Newell may be best known for taking down "Dirty John" Mehan when he attacked her in a parking garage in 2016, but she is so SO much more that th...

Dirty John: The Dirty Truth

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Debra Newell met John Meehan on dating site for the 50+ crowd, he seemed too good to be true. A handsome, fit, successful doctor? She was interes...

309: Who Killed Angie Dodge: Keith Morrison Investigates

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found brutally murdered in her home. Quickly, her good friend, 20-year-old Chris Tapp is convicted and s...

308: The Disappearance of Maya Millete

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

30 year old wife and mother of three, Maya Millete, was last seen on January 7, 2021. In the weeks before, her marriage had been falling apart. And on...

307: Money Shot: The PornHub Story

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pornhub is the tenth most visited website in the world. But you probably would have guessed that. But what you might not have guessed is that there's ...

306: Tragic Beauty: The Death (or murder?) Of Anna Nicole Smith

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Nicole Smith was an icon--a bombshell--whose rise to international superstardom was as fast an unexpected as her tragic and untimely death. The w...

Wild Crime: The Mysterious Death (Or Murder?) Of Toni

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mid-afternoon on September 29, 2012, 56-year-old Harold Henthorn made a terrifying call to 911. He was in the middle of the Rocky Mountain National Fo...

An Interview With Collier Landry of "A Murder In Mansfield"

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

FAM!! I am so excited that I got a chance to sit down with our friend, Collier Landry, to get the full story on the making of his documentary "A Murde...

305: A Murder In Mansfield

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On December 31, 1989, 11 year old Collier Landry woke up to the sound of his father murdering his mother, Noreen. When she was nowhere to be found the...

304: Amber: The Girl Behind The Alert

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You've heard of the Amber Alert, but have you heard of Amber Hagerman? Hagerman was the 9-year-old girl who's abduction and murder was the impetus for...

303: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2001, dismembered body parts began washing ashore on a beach in Galveston, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Manhattan Real Estate Millionaire-AND...

302: The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's the story of how one young guy went from overnight internet celebrity to brutal murderer in just three months. In 2013, a young man named Kai be...

301: Kidnapped At Birth: The Carlina White Story (From Beyond The Headlines)

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carlina White was just 19 days on on August 4, 1987 when she was kidnapped from the Harlem hospital where her loving parents had taken her in order to...

300: Mass Murderer or Misconception: Who Was Patient Zero?

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, one man has been blamed for bringing AIDS to the United States and knowingly spreading is from coast to coast. He's known as Patient Zero...

299: The Final Days of Whitney Houston

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At 3:30 pm On February 11, 2012, 46 year old Whitney Houston--the singing legend and icon--was found unconscious and unresponsive in the bathtub of he...

298: The Pez Outlaw

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What must it be like to have a dream and to bring that dream to life through grit and the sheer force of will? The Pez outlaw certainly knows. Steve G...

297: The Disappearance of the Milbrook Twins

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Danette and Jeanette Milbrook, 15-year-old twins, vanished off the street of Augusta, Georgia on March 18, 1990. It's one of the only cases of missing...

296: I Love You, You Hate Me

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1988, a suburban mom named Sheryl Leach created Barney the Dinosaur as a simple, loving character that she thought her son would love. Within a few...

295: The Hillside Strangler(s)

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In just over a year, 10 women and girls were found murdered on the hillsides of Los Angles County. There were precious few clues, and, terrifyingly, n...

294: God Forbid: The Pool Boy Sex Scandal That Brought Down A Dynasty

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Miami pool boy finds himself trapped in a seven-year affair with a charming older woman and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwel...

293: Killing Patrick Duffey (...And The Bugs Bunny Defense)

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a cool night in Los Angeles in 2007, Linda Duffey shot her husband Patrick in the head while he lay comfortably on the couch. She would say it was ...

292: Capturing The Killer Nurse

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Charles "Charlie" Cullen, aka "The Killer Nurse" is suspected of killing over 400 unsuspecting patients at various hospitals where he worked over his ...

The Abduction and Murder of Kristin Smart

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On May 25, 1996, 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart went to an off-campus party. Around 2 am, she was last seen being helped back to her dorm b...

291: The Boston Strangler

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 60s, a madman was on the loose in Boston. In the span of 2 years, he's know to have brutally raped and murdered at least 13 women in thei...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

FAM!!! WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!! WE'RE HITTING THE ROAD THIS SPRING AND SUMMER AND WE'RE COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU! ANNNNNNN!!! WE'RE COVERING "THE JINX."...

290: Catching A Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce McArthur was many things: friend, grandfather, Mall Santa, landscaper, and RUTHLESS SERIAL KILLER who buried body parts in the yards of his posh...

The Murdaugh Murders (Dateline)

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh, a member of one of the most powerful families in South Carolina, came home to a brutal scene: The bodie...

289: Killings In A College Town: The University of Idaho Murders (From Dateline)

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of November 13, 2022, students at the University of Idaho woke up to horrifying news: four students had been brutally, viciously murder...

House of Hammer

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Remember back in 2021 when it was revealed that Armie Hammer--that guy from the Facebook movie and "Call Me By Your Name"--had been abusing women for ...

288: Web of Death: The Murder of Elnora Griffin

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of July 23, 1993, Elnora Griffin was murdered in her home in Tyler, Texas. The crime was so brutal, some first responders, for their ow...

287: The Crime Against Pam and Tommy: Rich and Shameless

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were two of the most famous people in the world in 1995. That year, a contractor who had been fired from job on their ho...

286: Who Killed Jam Master Jay?

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the DJ behind the iconic group RUN DMC, Jam Master Jay was a genius, a trailblazer, and for the people of Hollis, Queens, a hometown hero who never...

285: The Real Bling Ring: Part 2

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen, in part 2, celebrities like Orlando Bloom are here to kick some freaking ass...so that's awesome. Not to blame the victims here, but WHY DON'...

284: The Real Bling Ring

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Not to blame the victims here, but WHY DON'T CELEBRITIES LOCK THEIR DOORS? Anyway, meet Nick and Rachel, two bored, celebrity obsessed, high schoolers...

283: Murder at the Burger Joint

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Four teenagers are kidnapped from their job at the local burger joint and then murdered in the woods. Decades later, we still don't know what happened...

282: Operation Flagrant Foul

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OHHHHHH BOY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPORTSBALL AGAIN! All his life, Tim Donaghy wanted to be a referee in the NBA. Only 50 people get that job, and h...

281: Serial Killer: The Murders Of Joel Rifkin

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On June 28, 1993, New York State Troopers notice a truck driving without a license plate. When they pull the driver over, they discover the body of Ti...

280: The McMartin Preschool Trial

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine being charged with a horrendous crime that you did not commit? Then your whole family is publicly investigated for seven years. AND THEN you g...

279: The Happy Face Killer: Mind of A Monster

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On January 22, 1990, the body of 23 year old Tanuja Bennett is discovered in a wooded area known as the Columbia Gorge near Portland, Oregon. Soon a w...

278: The Murder of Amy Mullis

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hog farmer, Todd Mullis, claimed his wife fell on a four-pronged corn rake and died, but when investigators found more than four holes in Amy Mullis’...

277: 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THIS. EPISODE. IS. WILD. Meet Jeremy Morris, or "Mr. Christmas" as he calls himself. He LOVES to decorate his house for the holidays. And he loves to ...

276: The Murder of The Farmer's Wife

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But the husband pointed the finger a...

275: The Most Hated Man On The Internet: Part 2

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Don't worry, this one ends with ANONYMOUS RUINING THIS GUY'S LIFE. Anyway...In 2010, a 24 year old man named Hunter Moore launched the website IsAnyon...

274: Cheerleader On Trial

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. But when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was cha...

273: The Most Hated Man on the Internet

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, a 24 year old man named Hunter Moore launched the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site was built to allow people to anonymously post nude photos ...

272: Murder At The Mall

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the early hours of December 20, 1979, the body of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found in her car in the parking lot of a mall in Cedar Rapids, ...

271: No Good Deed: A Crowdfunding Holiday Heist

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! In 2017, just before the holidays, Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure started a Gofundme for veteran named Johnny wh...

270: Killing Momma

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On June 14, 2015, Sheriff's deputies found the body of Dee Dee Blanchard facedown in her bedroom in the home she shared with her daughter Gypsy Rose B...

269: Nail Bomber: Manhunt

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of three weekends in 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in three London neighborhoods. Each bomb contained 1500 four-inch nails,...

268: Murder In A Wisconsin Field

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When a beautiful young teacher was found shot to death in a Wisconsin farm field, police quickly arrested her live-in boyfriend who had waited 18 hour...

267: Rich & Shameless: Girls Gone Wild

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remember "Girls Gone Wild"? If you're a kid of the 90s or early 00s, the TV ads were practically a staple of your childhood. But it probably won't sho...

266: Murder on the Gulf Coast

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspects to investigate - her ...

265: The Martha Mitchell Effect

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK. Martha Mitchell was one of the most outspoken women in Washington. And when she learned of the biggest crime ever committed...

264: Murder in the Kentucky Hills

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shayna Hubers called 911 to report she had killed her boyfriend in self-defense after he attacked her. But investigators soon learned he was planning ...

263: The Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The is one of our funniest episodes in a minute! Fam, get ready to meet Ted Slauson, a math teacher who becomes OBSESSED with the gameshow The Price i...

262: Murder Under The Blue Moon: The Smith Family Massacre

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On July 31, 2015, the bodies of Voncile Smith and two of her adult sons were found in her Pensacola home. They had been brutally murdered days before....

261: Scream: The True Story (aka The Murders of The Gainesville Ripper)

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Scream" is everyone's favorite scary movie, but did you know it's based on a true story? It's inspired by the life and murders of Danny Rolling, aka ...

260: The Doctor is Dead: The Murder of Teresa Sievers

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On June 28, 2015, Teresa Sievers, a popular doctor and mother of two young children, was found murdered in her Florida kitchen. The house wasn't ransa...

259: The Lizzie Borden Murders

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Borden murders are the most infamous double murders in American History, but there's more to the story than you've been told. On the morning of Au...

Bad Vegan

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarma Melngailis is a beautiful and successful restauranter in New York City. Her raw vegan restaurant attracts celebrities and influencers and owning...

258: The Curse of the Von Dutch: Part 2

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the Von Dutch brand climbs to the pinnacle of trendy fashion, behind the scenes, things are getting messy. And a murder by one of the brand's found...

257: The Curse of the Von Dutch

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ahhh, the glory days of the early 2000s. Britney Spears was on the radio (remember THE RADIO?), "Friends" was in its glory days, and everyone was talk...

256: Murder In Ypsilanti: Keith Morrison Investigates

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, a reporter in Ypsilanti, Michigan received a mysterious anonymous email: a woman named Martha Agnu was dead. When the reporter looked into th...

255: Selena: The Murder of an Icon (From Reel Crime Story)

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By age 23, Selena was an international icon. She'd won Grammys, was selling out stadiums, and recording chart topping albums in English and Spanish. T...

254: The Mysterious Death of Casey Kasem

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Kasem was one of the most famous people in America--the voice of a generation. His death in 2014 shrouded in mystery. His wife says his children...

253: White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Were you cool enough to wear Abercrombie? Did you wait in line to be granted the opportunity to walk past a shirtless teenaged model into a store with...

252: The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1980s and 90s, a monster known as The Green River Killer stalked the people of the Pacific northwest. He had one goal in mind: to be the most p...

251: Erin Brockovich: The Real Rebel

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THEY'RE CALLED BOOBS ED! This week we're getting the real story behind the Oscar winning smash hit film "Erin Brockovich". Erin herself is here to wal...

250: Dirty Tricks

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lotan Fisher is the best bridge player in the world. Yes, the card game bridge. BUT THIS GUY IS REALLY GOOD. He's making $500K PER YEAR, hanging out w...

249: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler: Part 2

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Citizen detectives make the shocking discovery that there may be as many as THREE ACTIVE SERIAL KILLERS on the loose in Chicago. As women continue to ...

248: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Chicago, a serial killer is on the loose. Right now. As you're reading this. And nobody seems able to stop him. He has left dozes of dead women in ...

247: Truth And Lies: Monica & Bill

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

He was the most powerful man in the world. She was 22 year old intern who caught his eye. It was the scandal threatened to ruin them both and to drag ...

246: Murder: The Last Days of Phil Hartman

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Saturday Night Live star Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife, who then took her own life, the world was shocked. The couple seemed to have it a...

245: Trust No One: The Hunt For The Crypto King

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

30 year old Gerald Cotton is dead. Or is he? As the young founder of a a company that trades Bitcoin, he had $136 Million of investor's money when he ...

Wild Crime

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harold Henthorn had two wives, 18 years apart. Both women died mysteriously and both times, Harold was the only witness. ALSO each death resulted in m...

Let The Women: Amanda Villegas on Getting Free

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda was a single mother –struggling financially and working tirelessly– when she came home one day in 2011 with her daughter and turned on the ...

244: The Housewife & The Shah Shocker

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Real Housewife of Salt Lake City breakout star Jenn Shah is a lot of things: Beautiful, stylish, slightly unhinged, rich--OK, that last one maybe not....

Let The Women: Maggie Freleng on Murder in Alliance

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Freleng is one badass journalist. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and producer, she gravitates toward telling the stories of underdogs –...

243: Anna Delvey: The SinFluencer of SoHo

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2013, 21 year old Anna Delvey arrived in New York City. She became a fixture at the trendiest nightclubs, she lived at the fanciest hotels. She was...

Let The Women: Alexandria Goddard on Dismantling Rape Culture

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

August 11th, 2012 was a murky night for many in the town of Steubenville, Ohio as local high school students scattered themselves among a handful of p...

242: The Last Call Killer

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1990s, fear and rumor swirled through New York’s LGBTQ community about a serial killer who targeted inebriated men leaving the city’s...

The Staircase

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of December 9, 2001, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson died on a back staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael claims that...

Let The Women: Lise Lotte-Lublin on Confronting Bill Cosby

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lise Lotte-Lublin didn’t recall being sexually assaulted until 20 years after the fact while watching an interview with a famous model whose story s...

241: The Lost Leonardo

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2005 a painting appeared in a gallery in New Orleans. it was believed to be from the 1500s and painted by a student of Leonardo Da Vinci. It was pu...

Let The Women: Roberta Blevins on Living & Leaving LulaRoe

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Roberta Blevins casually bought a pair of buttery soft, printed leggings from a fellow young mom on Facebook, she never could have imagined the j...

240: Vanished in New Canaan: The Murder of Jennifer Dulos

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Dulos seems to have a picture perfect life in affluent New Canaan, Connecticut. So when she fails to pick her kids up from school one afterno...

Let The Women: Anna Vasquez on the San Antonio Four

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the late ‘90s, Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Kristie Mayhugh all received phone calls accusing their lesbian friend grou...

The Delphi Murders

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On February 14, 2017, the bodies of 14 year old Abigail Williams and 13 year old Liberty German were found near the Manon High Bridge trail in Delphi,...

Let The Women: Gemma Hoskins on the Murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Hoskins remembers high school fondly, thanks in large part to her favorite teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik. So, when the beloved nun disappeared one...

239: Pharma Bro

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Shkreli IS THE FREAKING WORST! The 38-year-old financial entrepreneur and pharmaceutical tycoon from Brooklyn was dubbed "the most hated man in...

Let The Women: Rabia Chaudry on the Case Against Adnan Syed

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Long before the hit podcast Serial spurred the world into podcast-listening, Rabia Chaudry was on a mission. The 1999 murder of a high school student ...

238: Tinder Swindler: Part 2

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's late. You've had a glass of wine. You're young and hopeful and looking for love. So you start swiping through Tinder. You come across Simon Levie...

Let The Women: Connie Walker on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Connie Walker is a journalist on a mission to tell the stories of missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada. So, when a band of fellow Cree si...