True Crime Obsessed

88: Oklahoma City

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a f...

PATREON BONUS EPISODE: "Lorena" Episode 1

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FAM! This week, as a fun little bonus, we wanted to share with you one of our FAVORITE episodes from our Patreon feed! We think that our coverage of "...

87: Upstairs Inferno

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thi...

86: Behind The Curve

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspi...

Tabloid

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this ep...

85: The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here. Or listen on Spotify here. It's the most f...

84: The Disappearance of Maura Murray Part 1

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On Feb...

83: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, a...

The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson

23 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the...

82: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billiona...

81: Studio 54

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only rede...

80: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 4: Time is the Killer

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series. For our episode on Part 1 go here For our episode on Part 2 go here For our episode on Part 3 go...

79: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 3: Justice Is Arbitrary

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, go here! For our take on Part 2, go here! And stay tuned till THE VERY ...

78: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 2: In Between The Truth

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. For Part 1, go here! In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the ...

77: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 1: Forbidden Love

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County...

76: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 2

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast episode covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE. I...

PATREON BONUS EPISODE! Making A Murderer Season 2, Ep. 1 "Number 18"

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus e...

75: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 1

26 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: ...

Mommy Dead and Dearest

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 o...

74: Grizzly Man

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed ...

73: Fyre Fraud

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, i...

72: Three Identical Strangers

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different famili...

71: 51 Birch Street

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mike and Mina Block were married for 54 years. Friends, family, and neighbors all thought they had the perfect marriage. But then Minna died suddenly,...

70: Hot Coffee

15 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's co...

69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less t...

Beware The Slenderman

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa W...

68: Oswald's Ghost (Was the JFK Assassination a Conspiracy?)

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people--at least 55 ...

67: Abducted in Plain Sight

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On October 17, 1974, 12 year old Jan Broberg was kidnapped by her next door neighbor and parents’ best friend—a man they all loving called “B.”...

66: Dream / Killer

04 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

EVERYONE BE COOL, KATHLEEN ZELNER IS IN THE HOUSE!!! Before she became a household name with her work on the Steven Avery case in season 2 of "Makin...

65: The Case of the Cannibal Cop

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 2015, NYC Police Officer Gilberto Valle was convicted of conspiring to kidnap and eat young women. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT: KIDNAP AND EAT. Valle a...

64: Whitey: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

THIS EPISODE IS RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, YOU GUYS! In 2013, James (Whitey) Bulger, the South Boston mobster, was captured after 16 years on the lam...

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes! A decade after making the documentary film “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial...

63: My Amityville Horror

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975, the Lutz family moved into the old house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amittyville, New York. The house was beautiful, nestled in the heart of an af...

62: Killer Legends

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welp, throw “Killer Legends” on the stacks of Halloween-ey docs we’ve hated! Having skimmed the Wikipedia pages and doing a combined 14 minute...

61: Demon House

16 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no way around it, you guys: There is definitely a PORTAL TO HELL under the basement stairs in a crappy rental house in Gary, Indiana. It’s...

"Tower": Commercial-Free Rebroadcast WITH EXTRAS!

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

YOU GUYS!!! A few weeks ago we got the chance to sit down with "Tower" director Keith Maitland for full interview about the film. That interview is no...

60: Hell House

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You guys, we've covered A LOT of garbage on this podcast, but somehow THIS insanity is the first one to warrant an actual trigger warning. So here's t...

59: The Devil and Father Amroth

25 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

First things first, you guys…WE HAAAAAAAAAAAATED THIS MOVIE….which is good news because we have SHIT. TO. SAY. In the mood for a great movie abo...

58: The Galapagos Affair

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1930 4 SUPER grumpy people moved to the Galapagos Islands’ most deserted, most isolated, most remote outpost (that is Patrick you’re hearing ha...

57: A Murder in the Park

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Look, the specifics of this story are confusing AF. BUT at the heart of it, we’re dealing with a murder, a wrongful conviction, a false confession a...

56: Weiner

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We hate to insult garbage by calling Anthony Weiner garbage...but we can't think of another word. DING! Anthony Weiner did a lot for the people of N...

55: Wild Wild Country Part 3 (Covering Episodes 5 & 6 of the Netflix Series)

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

YOU GUYS! It’s our final installment and all our friends are here! Boring Jane! The Lawyer Who Can’t Stop Crying! Bagwan(shhhhhhh)! And SHEELA! He...

54: Wild Wild Country Part 2 (Covering Episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series)

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The lawyer is still crying, The Australian is still boring, Sheela is still not to be messed with. This episode, which covers episodes 3 & 4 of ...

53: Wild Wild Country Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series)

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

YOU GUYS!! MAJOR LIVE SHOW NEWS! CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND TICKETS!! Another bonkers cult-doc, you guys! Attend the tale of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...

52: The Central Park Five

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This one has it all, you guys: Garbage Cops, False Convictions, And An 80s Home Perm Gone Seriously Wrong (oh AND two IDIOTS riding a TANDEM BIKE in C...

51: The Dog

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The working title for this one was: “Three Gays Rob a Bank”. And we have an idea for the sitcom version. In August 1972, John Wojtowicz attempt...

50: Evil Genius Part 2 (Covering episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series)

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

WHY. ARE. THEY. ALL. HOARDERS? Heads Up! This episode of TCO covers parts 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. To hear our coverage of the first two ep...

49: Evil Genius Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series)

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Let us paint a picture: The weirdest bank robbery in history, a collar-bomb, a cane-gun, three dead men, and two homes so hoard-ey they required ha...

48: The Times of Harvey Milk

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There are no two ways about it, Harvey Milk looked great in a T-Shirt. Happy Pride, everyone! Let's talk about some gay stuff! (don't worry, this...

47: Glory Daze

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Pride Month, Everyone! Now let's talk about a gay club kid who was super mean to people, became addicted to drugs, and murdered AND DISMEMBERED ...

46: Finders Keepers

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You Guys, I Swear to God this is what this movie is about…. In 2004, John Wood had his left leg amputated after a single-engine plane crash that ...

45: The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You guys, Gillian HATED this one, so, you know, buckle up this one is frikin' great. Meet the White family--the most notorious pill popping, gun ...

44: Disgraced

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 2003, college basketball star Patrick Dennehy vanished. For weeks leading up to the disappearance, Patrick had complained to friends, famil...

43: The Seven Five

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the dirtiest cop in New York City history. In the 1980s, Michael Dowd patrolled the mean streets of one of the toughest precincts in Brooklyn. He...

42: Author: The JT LeRoy Story

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 2000, the novel “Sarah” was published. It was written by a homeless teenaged hustler named JT LeRoy. Nobody had ever met him—his only corresp...

41: Fantastic Lies

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 2006, three Duke University lacrosse players were accused of rape. The men were presumed guilty by the much of school's student body, the faculty, ...

40: Kidnapped For Christ

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Logan, an Evangelical missionary, was in The Dominican Republic on a break from her second year of film school when she stumbled upon Escuela C...

39: Crazy Love

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There really aren't words to describe how much both Gillian and Patrick hated this film. H.A.T.E.D. Also, they both agree, this MIGHT be their best ep...

Our New Podcast "My So-Called Podcast" Is Live! Hear Our Hilarious Trailer!

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

YOU GUYS!! Our new podcast, "My So-Called Podcast" is live! It's hilarious and fun--it's TCO for "My So-Called Life." HEAR OUR TRAILER HERE! And e'd l...

YOU GUYS LISTEN TO THIS IMMEDIATELY! BIG NEWS!

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've been keeping a secret from you. We haven't liked it. But it's time for us to come out about the fact that WE'RE MAKING A PODCAST ABOUT MY SO CAL...

38: Sour Grapes

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As Gillian Says: "this is 'My Kid Could Paint That,' but with wine, meets 'The Queen of Versailles.' And I hated it." Rudy Kurniawan has charisma...

37: Welcome To Leith

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How not Awesome would it be if a group of weirdo Nazis tried to take over your town? That's exactly what happened to the 24 (yes twenty four) resident...

36: How To Survive A Plague

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The hero bell and the garbage bell both got a workout with this one... "How To Survive A Plague" is a riveting, powerful telling of the story of the...

35: Team Foxcatcher

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's a sports doc…but stick with us, you guys, it's also super murderey. When billionaire John Du Pont decides to build the United States' premier...

34: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

13 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A decade after making the documentary film “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer” about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, director Nick Broo...

33: My Friend Rockefeller

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kidnapping! Murder! Swindling Rich People! Fancy Art Shenanigans! This one has it all. Christian Gerhartsreiter, a man eventually known as "Clark Ro...

32: Tower

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On August 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for...

31: My Kid Could Paint That

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A four-year-old girl, whose paintings are compared to Kandinsky, Pollock, and even Picasso, has sold $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. Is she a gen...

30: Beware The Slenderman

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa W...

29: Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

09 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city str...

28: Voyeur

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1960s, Gerald Foos bought a motel in Colorado, furnished the rooms with louvered vents that allowed him to spy on his guests, and kept a journa...

27: The Price of Gold: The Nancy Kerrigan / Tonya Harding Story

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette and Tonya Harding, th...

26: "Tabloid" + Our Take on the "Tickled" Follow Up "The Tickle King"

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming with an IQ of 168. 30 years ago, she fell in love with a young Mormon named Kirk. When Kirk disappeared and...

25: Tickled

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's not what you think. After stumbling upon a bizarre "competitive endurance tickling" video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and...

24: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, th...

23: Dear Zachary

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our most requested episode to date, and it was a doozy! But don't worry, we found a way to laugh through our rage. In 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was sh...

22: Long Shot

24 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In May 2003, 16-year-old Martha Puebla was shot in the head on the doorstep of her Los Angeles home, days after testifying in a gangland murder trial....

21: TalHotBlond

17 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Montgomery, a 47-year-old, married factory worker was playing a game online when a beautiful 18-year-old teenager named Jessi, screen name talh...

20: Prophet's Prey

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1999, writer John Krakauer stopped at a gas station in Colorado City, AZ, a place he had never been. What he found was a town frozen in time, with...

19: There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday, July 26, 2009, Diane Schuler left the campgrounds in upstate New York where she was vacationing with her family and set off towards home on...

18: Cropsey

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of ‘Cropsey.’ For the kids in their neighbo...

17: Captivated: The Trials of Pam Smart

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When the curtain rose on the murder trial of Pamela Smart 23 years ago, the stage was set for the birth of reality TV. Accused of plotting the 1990 mu...

16: Exit Through the Gift Shop

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

An amateur documentary filmmaker named Thierry is on a mission to track down and film the elusive and anonymous street artist named Banksy. When Thier...

15: Holy Hell

23 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A bunch of altruistic hot people join a cult in 1980s West Hollywood, what could possibly go wrong? Using footage shot by the cult's (known as The Bu...

14: The Witness

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of her building in Kew Gardens, Queens. According to th...

13: Who Took Johnny?

08 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Johnny Gosch was 12-years-old when he disappeared while on his paper route on September 5, 1982. There were FIVE witnesses, but the local police (and ...

12: Jesus Camp

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus Camp follows a group of children as they attend an evangelical Christian summer camp, where they are taught that they have "prophetic gifts" and...

10: Netflix's Amanda Knox (Part 1)

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Knox was an 21 year old exchange student in rural Italy when she and her boyfriend were arrested for and convicted of killing her roommate, Mer...

11: Netflix's Amanda Knox (Part 2)

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Knox was an 21-year-old exchange student in rural Italy when she and her boyfriend were arrested for and convicted of killing her roommate, Mer...

9: Capturing the Friedmans

11 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the Friedmans: Father Arnold, Mother Elaine, and kids David, Seth, and Jesse. They're all living the 'perfect' middle class life on Long Island i...

8: The Woman Who Wasn't There

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We believe the working title for this documentary was "The Garbage-Human Who Pretended To Be A 9/11 Survivor." Ugh, Meet Tania Head, the woman who cl...

6: The Keepers: Part 1 (episodes 1 - 3)

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Sister Cathy Ceznick in Baltimore, MD in November of 1969? Two former students--our heroes Gemma and Abbie--launch a dogged investigation i...

7: The Keepers: Part 2 (Episodes 4 - 8)

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Sister Cathy Ceznick in Baltimore, MD in November of 1969? Two former students--our heroes Gemma and Abbie--launch a dogged investigation i...

5: Mommy Dead and Dearest

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a pool of ...

4: Kurt and Courtney

30 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What drove music icon Kurt Cobain to take his own life on April 8th, 1994. Is it possible that he didn't? Could he have been murdered? After all, the ...

3: Lots of Feelings About "Casting Jonbenet" + A "Catfish" Update!

23 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A "Catfish" update! Hot nerds Nev, Ariele, and Henry are back! In the first part of episode 3, we take you through the 7-minutes "Catfish" follow up "...

1: The Imposter

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For our very first episode, Patrick and Gillian are breaking down the 2012 true crime documentary "The Imposter." The film centers on a young man in ...

2: Catfish

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In episode two, Patrick and Gillian dive into 2010's Catfish, the documentary that shed a light on the world of people posing as others on the interne...