Severed | True Crime Podcast

We discuss a Panama City, Florida, love triangle involving James Gay and Everette Krichbaum, Stephanie Marshall's ex-boyfriend and current boyfriend. Both men sparred with double-bladed weapons, a machete and a hatchet, in a Publix parking lot. CW | TW: This episode discusses sexual assault, physical assault with a bladed weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and murder. Typical Severed...

We discuss an unidentified female flasher who became irate when she couldn't pay for frozen yogurt, and employees at the 16 Handles frozen yogurt shop in Montclair, NJ, refused to serve her. She retaliated by exposing her buttocks and genitalia to the employees through the shop window. CW | TW: This episode discusses lewdness and indecent exposure–typical Monday. Profanity likely included. Listene...

Drew solo hosts and outlines the unexplained poltergeist activity in the Herrmann household in Seaford, New York. The popping of shampoo bottles to holy water bottles began abruptly in February 1958 and ended a month later. Was it Poppy the Poltergeist, or James Herrmann, Jr. poppin’ bottles and pulling invisible strings? It was probably Harry.  CW | TW: This episode discusses paranormal acti...

Drew solo hosts and discusses the most common creepy-to-paranormal experiences surrounding the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn to Staten Island.  CW | TW: This episode discusses tragic deaths, including suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Email: severedpodcast@gmail.com Website: severedpodcast.com Instagram: @severed_podcast Tik Tok: @severedpodcast Hosts: Harry Chamber...

We discuss prolific grave robber Jonathan Gerlach, who collected 100 skeletons from Delaware and Luzerne Counties in Pennsylvania and sold them via Cash App, Facebook Marketplace, and Instagram. CW | TW: This episode discusses graphic details concerning the exhumation of human remains. Profanity likely included. Listener discretion is advised. Email: severedpodcast@gmail.com Website: severedpodcas...

We discuss British theatrical goth rock singer-songwriter Brocarde's whirlwind romance and marriage to Edwardo, her ghostly ex-husband. We outline her claims about Edwardo’s possessive and philandering nature, based on his affair with Marilyn Monroe’s ghost. CW | TW: This episode discusses marrying a ghost, married life, and the afterlife. Profanity likely included. Listener discretion is advised....

We discuss former elementary school teacher Ashley Murff’s biased and vicious attack on a victim purchasing two rotisserie chickens as a good deed. Murff punched the victim in the face after hurling racial slurs and escaping from the South Carolina Sam’s Club.  CW | TW: This episode discusses racial slurs and assault. Profanity likely included; detention guaranteed. Listener discretion is adv...

We discuss the exploitation and abuse of neurodivergent students at The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain, created by Dr. Mary Tracy Morrison and her staff of teachers and mandated reporters, all of whom were complicit in the scandal in Jonesboro, Arkansas.  CW | TW: This episode discusses educational fraud, child abuse, and trauma. Profanity likely included; detention guaranteed. List...

We discuss a middle school sextortionist from Fieldstone Middle School in Stony Point, NY. He randomly targeted peers, disguising himself as a girl, soliciting suggestive pictures and media from them, and then extorting gift cards and cash from them.  CW | TW: This episode discusses sextortion and sexual exploitation of minors with mention of unaliving oneself. Profanity likely included; dete...

We discuss the arrest of Westdale Middle School math teacher Virginia Somers for possessing cocaine and marijuana in her wallet. Somers claimed the drugs came from an LSU football tailgate, but she was arrested and detained awaiting the next legal steps. Back to school’d we go!  CW | TW: This episode discusses narcotics in middle school. Profanity likely included. Listener discretion is advis...

In this inaugural episode of Severed: True Crime, Harry Chambers and Drew Hudson sever the facts and offer analysis of The Westfield Watcher case. They provide an in-depth discussion of the handwriting on The Watcher envelope as well as language analysis on excerpts from The Watcher letters sent to The Broaddus and other neighborhood families. Persons of interest include The Lanford Family. The ep...

We timeline the unsolved mystery of the Cleveland Torso Killer, or the “Mad Butcher” of Kingsbury Run, including his/their thirteen victims. We then discuss possible suspects, Frank Dolezol and Dr. Francis E. Sweeney, before ending with an update on DNA testing. CW | TW: This episode discusses murder, decapitation, dismemberment, and dissemination of body parts. There are graphic details of these...

We discuss the sadistic murders of the Gilgo Beach Four and other victims potentially linked to the alleged Long Island Serial Killer, Rex Heuermann. We chronicle and detail Heuermann’s early years, growing up on Long Island, to his marriage to Asa Ellerup, and the timeline of brutal torture, mutilation, murder, and the dismemberment of his female victims. CW | TW: This episode discusses graphic d...

We discuss the scintillating details of ex-porn star-turned-racquetball instructor Robert Baker and his affair with Monica Sementilli, the wife of renowned hairstylist Fabio Sementilli, that led to his murder. We unravel the scandalous details of their 18-month affair, sexually charged jailhouse letters, and this obsessive desire to murder in the name of love and a potential $1.6 million life insu...

Re-airing: We discuss the double homicide in an affluent neighborhood in Herndon, Virginia. The recently convicted and sentenced Brendan Banfield and Brazilian au pair lover, Juliana Peres Magalhães, lured Joseph Ryan into their home and framed him for the murder of Banfield's wife, Christine. Both were unsuspecting and unwitting victims. CW | TW: This episode discusses the graphic details of a do...

We discuss the wildly strange 2008 story of Timothy Tackett (or “Mr. Unstable”), a former Burger King employee who bathed in the industrial sink, then filmed and posted it to MySpace, on his 25th birthday. We link this to a Wendy’s employee bathing in a similar 2019 viral Facebook video. CW | TW: This episode discusses unsanitary practices in a restaurant kitchen. Profanity and suggestive content...

Drew solo hosts to outline the strange (and unfolding) investigation into off-duty police officer Nicholas K. Dispoto knocking a man unconscious outside the Park Steakhouse in Park Ridge, NJ. Fellow (off-duty) officer Jason Vradenburg, fiancée Martina L. McGee, and Thomas M. Schiavone obstructed justice by covering for Dispoto as he hid in the steakhouse to evade the police. CW | TW: This episode...

We discuss Tracy J. Renshaw’s $1.5 million lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse over a slip-and-fall on mashed potatoes. We discuss Virginia’s contributory negligence law that could either set a precedent for survivors to collect compensation for personal injury or negate their claims based on their own culpability in the fall. CW | TW: This episode discusses alleged slip-and-fall and other injuries...

Drew solo hosts to discuss deceptively dangerous patio and beach umbrellas, as in the case of fatal deaths involving 56-year-old Dana Weinger from Summerton, SC. Drew outlines the details of potential negligence and why we should be vigilant with umbrellas on beach days and during patio dining. CW | TW: This episode contains graphic descriptions and imagery of patio (and other) umbrella injuries a...

Drew solo hosts to discuss the harrowing rescue of a 27-year-old Chinese hiker from Mt. Fuji. The hiker purportedly lost his phone; hence, the dual trek and subsequent rescues. CW | TW: This episode discusses search, rescue, and death. Listener discretion is advised. Email: severedpodcast@gmail.com Website: severedpodcast.com Instagram: @severed_podcast Tik Tok: @severedpodcast Hosts: Harry Chambe...

Drew solo hosts to discuss the Mama Shelter hotel chain, known for its sex-positive hospitality, where character masks and vibrator rubber duckies are sold. We break down content creator Hazi Adamu’s viral TikTok about the hotel, and her shock that it was a naughtier sex-cation than previously realized. CW | TW: This episode discusses mature themes involving sex; NSFW. Profanity likely included. L...

Drew solo hosts to discuss Kreisliga C referee Stefan Kahler, bitten by the young child of a FC Taxi II player in Duisburg, Germany. This surprising and strange incident is part of a larger discourse about referee abuse and the stricter policies implemented to protect them from enraged fans, from high school to professional athletes. CW | TW: This episode discusses verbal and physical abuse toward...

We discuss the accidental-to-intentional damage of artwork by museumgoers and social or political protestors from Italy to Paris. We primarily focus on Nicola Bolla’s Van Gogh-inspired, Swarovski crystal-encrusted chair in the Palazzo Maffei in Verona.  CW | TW: This episode discusses the accidental to intentional destruction of private property or ownership. Profanity likely included. Listen...

We discuss the 47-year-old American tourist who impaled himself on the spiked gates outside the Colosseum in the Palazzo di Colosseo in Rome. This ancient arena draws millions of tourists per year, who, unfortunately, deface the landmark with either their body or their carved initials. CW | TW: This episode discusses graphic medical details, including bodily injury and stitches. Profanity likely i...

We timeline the night of Kathleen Peterson’s death, reexamine autopsy details, discuss their relationship/marital issues, and conclude with the owl and our own theories about whether Michael Peterson was involved in his wife’s death. CW | TW: This episode discusses graphic crime scenes and autopsy details, bloody imagery, potential signs of domestic violence, inferred child neglect and/or child ab...