True Crime Obsessed

Fam, we're coming at you with a crazy story today - a kidnapping that rocks the town of Ponte Vedra, Florida, where crime is "extremely rare."  So rare, in fact, that.. is this kidnapping even real?  Or is the whole thing one elaborate hoax?  BUCKLE UP AND PULL OVER!!! Find and watch "FEDS" on HBO Max LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 400 FULL AD-FREE BONUS episodes to B...

Pull over and gird your loins, Fam, because this one is NUTS and we have a lot of feelings bout it! In 2004, a 64-year-old man is found bloody, beaten AND YES NAKED behind a dumpster in Richmond Hills, Georgia. He claimed complete and total amnesia. As in he said he had no idea whatsoever who he was, how he got there, or anything else. EXCEPT FOR EXACTLY 22 MEMORIES THAT END AT SOME POINT IN THE Y...

FAM!  We're off for for the holiday break, but while we're away we're sharing the first episode of our Patreon coverage of Murder in Glitterball City here!  Check it out, and then find the rest of our episodes over at our Patreon page! Fam, we're off to Louisville - or, as apparently NO ONE CALLS IT, "Glitterball City."  We're in a part of town that's known for being both spooky, with historic and...

IT'S PRIDE MONTH AND STILL WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE. Ugh. In 2022, a string of unusual deaths of young gay men rocked the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Well "unusual" only if you're not the NYC cops who just assumed that because these men were gay, and that they died of self-inflicted drug overdoses. But thanks to the friends and loved ones of these victims WHO DEMANDED ACTION, the death...

THIS ONE IS FULL OF THE CRAZIESSSSSSS, FAM! When 31-year-old Patricia Leigh Mills is found dead in her home - the victim of a voracious house fire - the police JUST TAKE HER HUSBAND AT HIS WORD that it was a terrible accident. The husband - a real PEACH of a man named Delbert - remarries less than six months later TO A REAL PIECE OF WORK named Allison Salinas, and this confirms for Patricia's fami...

On the morning of July 31, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, driving nearly 100 miles per hour, crashed her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. The two other passengers in the, her 20-year-old boyfriend Dominic Russo and his best friend 19-year-old Davion Flannagan, were instantly killed. Shirilla would claim it was an accident, but the evidence would tell a different story. Aaaaaaaaa...

When Joanna Hunter died in  her home in 2011, it took the cops less than 30 minutes to rule the death a suicide. Mostly because her husband said that that's what happened. No crime scene was preserved and no investigation was done. The case was closed, but Joanna's family never accepted the suicide ruling. They knew all too well about the years of abuse Joanna had suffered at the hands of her husb...

Over the course sixteen months, 39-year-old Stephen Port killed four gay men in his East London home... and DESPITE BEING A TOTAL IDIOT... completely got away with it. All four men looked nearly identical and seem to have died exactly the same way, AND TWO OF THE BODIES WERE FOUND IN EXACTLY THE SAME SPOT. Yet the cops saw no connection between the cases. Meanwhile, PORT WAS BASICALLY GIVING HIMSE...

Just when we thought the biggest drama around the chess world was reserved for a 1980s British mega-musical about US/Soviet Cold War relations , along comes a bunch of tech bros at Chess.com to steal the crown.  Apparently winning at chess online can lead to some big earnings, and rumors and allegations of cheating start to fly after a young upstart player starts dominate on the site.  And don't e...

The body of an unidentified young woman was found in the Arizona desert in August 1992.  Over thirty years later, the incredible efforts of the forensic genealogists at the DNA Doe Project would identify her as Melody Harrison.  But how they pieced together her story traces a puzzle that brought together long-lost relatives and shed light on a little known adoption program from post-WWII Germany. ...

Moriah Wilson could do just about anything. As a kid she became a world-class skier, and then as an adult she became one of the best gravel bike racers in the world. In May of 2022, she was in Austin, Texas, for a race when she was brutally murdered in her friend's home. The investigation was swift and the killer was quickly identified BUT NOT IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT BECAUSE THIS INSANE PERSON STOLE A...

Feigning a terminal illness, masquerading as a different person, allegedly being pregnant and then suddenly not - we've seen A LOT of pernicious people running scams over the years.  But for this case - why not try them ALL?!?!  Hold on to your hats, Fam - this case is trying to dupe you from every last possible angle! Find and watch "The Curious Case of... The Woman Dying for Attention" on HBO Ma...

On July 18, 2022, 29 year old Sania Kahn was gunned down in her Chicago apartment by her estranged husband. We...do not have the words for what a freaking BADASS Sania was. She was a photographer and influencer who shared with the world not just her incredible art, but also her struggles of being a first generation Pakistani-American woman trying to live up to the expectations of her parents while...

Merthe just wanted to throw herself a small "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party at her house, so she made an event on Facebook and invited her closest friends.  What could go wrong?  Well... she left her event marked "Public," and as details of the party spread, what was supposed to be a private party turned into a municipal crisis as thousands of party-goers threatened to descend on the party.  Will t...

FAM!  As a special bonus, we're sharing the first episode of our Patreon coverage of _The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder_ here!  Check it out, and then find the rest of our episodes over at our Patreon page! Brothers Anthony and Charles, your friendly local neighborhood funeral directors, show up to take their friend Byron farm to take him to lunch for his birthday. But he's not there. Well, actu...

TICK TOCK IT'S CULT O'CLOCK!! Are you looking for to join a secretive group that makes you give up all your worldly possessions, works you like a freaking dog for absolutely no money, doesn't let you go to the hospital when you're sick AND DYING, and encourages you to physically abuse your children in truly evil ways? WELL HAVE WE GOT THE CULT FOR YOU!! Welcome to the Twelve Tribes, a "religious g...

Juan Joseph was a beloved member of his community, a former high school football star who became a respected coach. The kind of guy who never started fights, but rather always stepped in to try to break them up, Juan was attempting to diffuse a heated situation outside a nightclub in Baton Rouge in the early morning of November 16, 2014, when he was was gunned down. After his killer drove off, Jua...

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... but maybe not so much in the high-stakes world of Hollywood skin care. Dawn DaLuise, the perhaps self-proclaimed skin guru to the stars, is at the top of her game running her facial spa, but when a rival aesthetician moves in down the block, the fur begins to fly. And not just from the back waxing sessions.... Find and watch "The Curious...

This week we're among the good people of Canada, Fam, in a community who opened their hearts to two mysterious brothers who wandered into town on day, claiming to have been raised off the grid with no connection to modern society.  But somehow... they knew pop culture references...?  Their story unravels in a wild way - come along with us for the ride! Find and watch "Wild Boys: Strangers in Town"...

Fam! Welcome to our first bonus episode of the year!  We have 22 Thursday episodes coming to you between now and the end of the year!  Welcome also to... the past, with our old booth and all!  We filmed this episode a few months ago - just look how young and dewy we look, and all bundled up for winter. Today's episode features a story from the show "A Killer Among Friends."  In 2010, Michele Carso...

OKAY, FAM - FROM THIS MOMENT ON HE'S KNOWN AS "PHIL" AND "PHIL" ONLY!!!!  He may have presented as folksy and wise uncle, but dark shadows haunted the "Dr." Phil Show behind the avuncular front (that's my drag name!).  Manipulate desperate families?  Check!  Slut-shame naive teenagers?  Check!  Run cover for a sketchy chain of rehab centers that do more harm to their residents than help?  Check, c...

Ya know, Fam - there are lots of ways to be garbage people in this world, but preying on sick people with promises of miracle cures and cleanses has got to among the lowest.  We've covered Elizabeth Holmes, we've covered the Herbalife scam, and now here comes "Dr." Robert Young to join their scummy, scummy ranks with his cult-like health retreats and "green juices."  He's hear to make a quick buck...

Imagine Melissa Caddick was your friend and financial adviser, unfortunately not providing you with large returns on your investments, but somehow appearing at friendly gatherings in new necklaces and expensive clothes.  It's a fishy business, and as soon as investigations start into her business practices, Melissa disappears.  And only a piece of her is ever found. Find and watch "The Missing Mil...

WAIT, THERE'S AN ORIGINAL DALI PAINTING HANGING IN RIKERS ISLAND?!?!  Well... there was, anyway.  Dali was supposed to pay a visit to the prison in 1965, but instead of showing up, gave them the hastily made painting that he called "Christ on the cross" (a good swear, as anyone familiar with Long Island mothers of a certain stripe will tell you!).  It hung in various places throughout the facility...

Hey Fam! Our bonus episodes are coming back in April... BUT WE COULDN'T WAIT! We wanted to share this throwback episode because IT'S WILD, but also because we talked about it in our recent episode about Andrea Yates and we thought... LET'S GIVE HER ANOTHER LISTEN! Have fun, enjoy, and whatever you do DO NOT GOOGLE THE PICTURES!!! Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And mor...