Morbidology

In the early 2000s, residents of northeastern Pennsylvania started to notice an alarming trend – children were being sent away to jail in high numbers, and for crimes so mild they might normally result in a grounding. The FBI began looking at two local judges, on the heels of an investigation into the mafia. And when the full picture emerged, it made national headlines. This is just a preview of A...

Snow blanketed the ground of St. Mary’s Churchyard School, London, Ontario, on 6 January, 1956. Susan Cadieux was playing outside the school with her two brothers when an unknown man approached them. The boys were momentarily distracted by a little girl who had slipped on the ice. When they turned back, Susan and the man had vanished into the frigid night air. SPONSORS - June’s Journey: Thank you...

Northdown Road is a residential neighoburhood located in Solihull, West Midlands. It consists of mostly 1970s terraced homes and detached homes and is just a stone’s throw from some of the town’s best schools, making it a desirable area for people to raise their families. In the early morning hours of 27 August, 2018, residents on Northdown Road were awoken by deafening screams echoing throughout...

Temperatures were dipping below freezing with the wind chill in Toronto, Canada, on the 1st of January, 2008. People all across the globe had just rung in the new year, but at around 6PM that evening, the first murder of the year in Toronto would be unfolding, a murder that would send shockwaves across the nation and truly highlight the dangers of teenage obsession and rivalry. SPONSORS - Zocdoc:...

Introducing The Fall Line: The Disappearance of Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild Part 1 Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild moved to Nashville with dreams of making it big in the songwriting business. But things didn’t work out as he planned; he spent his time in the city living in its unhoused community, in an encampment near the I-24 overpass. Pat was last heard from around December of 1991—and since then, there...

Bess Town Road is located on the outskirts of Bessemer City, North Carolina. It’s surrounded in rolling fields and dotted with various wooded areas. On the afternoon of 15 August, 2016, police were directed to the quaint road after a report of a missing girl came in… SPONSORS - June’s Journey: Thank you to June’s Journey for sponsoring this episode! The objective of this murder-mystery game is to...

Yale Farm Road in the small town of Varick, New York, was quiet on the afternoon of 20 November, 2008. Karl and Cindy Karlsen had just returned home from a family funeral. Before they left, Karl’s son, Levi, had come over to do some repair work to his truck in the garage. As they pulled up outside, they observed that Levi’s car was still parked in the driveway… SPONSORS - June’s Journey: Thank you...

It was a cold and dark night in Denver, Colorado, on the 4th of February, 2013. A young woman had just finished up her shift at a local clothing store, when she climbed into her car and headed south to the city of Pueblo. She pulled into the Walmart and sat waiting for her boyfriend to show up. The next day, she failed to appear at work… SHOW NOTES - https://morbidology.com/morbidology-the-podcast...

On the night of 21 June, 2013, Rayne Perrywinkle was shopping with her three daughters in a Dollar Tree in Jacksonville, Florida. Money was tight and Rayne struggled to purchase the clothes that the girls were wanting. Nearby, a white-haired man looked on before approaching Rayne and offering assistance. But there was a catch, they needed to come with him to Walmart… SPONSORS- Zocdoc: Thank you to...

It was a dark July night in the village of Theodosia, Missouri, in 2017. Some residents in the small village noticed large flames emanating from a farm along County Road 905. It was a common occurrence to see bush-fires on the outskirts of the village, so they thought nothing of it. A couple of days later, however, police converged at the farm after receiving a report of a missing teenager. SPONSO...

Each year, millions of tourists flock to Canada to take in the breath-taking scenery. The Trans-Canada Highway travels through all ten provinces of Canada, making the county easily accessible. Near the foot of the Rocky Mountains lies Morley, a First Nations settlement within the Stoney Indian Reserve. The Trans-Canada Highway runs right through the middle of the reserve. It was a dark morning on...

Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, was quiet on the morning of 19 September, 2021. By 8AM, however, the neighbourhood was swarming with police officers, as a gruesome crime was being uncovered in one of the homes, a crime that would call to question the capabilities of the Probation Services. SPONSORS - Vessi: Thank you so much for Vessi for sponsoring this episode! Click https://vessi.co...

The State University of New York Brockport is a public university located in the historic village of Brockport, New York. The school boasts of fostering their students innovative thinking and leadership. In 2012, however, the school was accused of ignoring safety concerns on campus. There had been a handful of violent incidents, but shortly after a new term began that year, a gruesome crime on cam...

It was a brisk morning in Hanover Township, Ohio, in March of 2018 with temperatures dipping to below 0 degrees. Jason Wesche helped his three-year-old daughter, Hannah, pull on her coat before driving her over to the nearby babysitter’s home. He kissed her goodbye and continued on his way to work. Within a matter of minutes, however, he received a phone call from the babysitter telling him he nee...

Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumst...

Kalangadoo means “Big trees in water” in Aboriginal. It’s a locality in Southern Australia, approximately 350 kilometres south-east of Adelaide. It was founded back in 1891, and even today, it had an old-town feel to it, and it remains the centre of a rich, agricultural district. In 2020, however, the residents of Kalangadoo awoke to their area swarming with police officers, as a senseless and sho...

It was a cool night in Caton, New York, in September of 2019. Residents on the rural and wooded Gunnan Road were fast asleep. At least most of them. Shortly after midnight, a resident awoke to a thumping sound on his front door. He opened it up to find his neighbour and their two children. UNWANTED ATTENTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChQoxtOZf4 SPONSORS - Invisible Hate: Thank you to Invis...

It was around 3PM on the 4th of July, 2010, when the distinctive smell of gas wafted up the nostrils of residents on Slateford Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. As firefighters were called, some neighbours assembled outside out of fear of an explosion. As they gathered around the neighbourhood, a woman appeared on a second-floor balcony of one of the townhouses. She was inconsolable as she screamed: “M...

In late 2010, a middle-aged man moved into his daughter's college dorm and created what has all the hallmarks of a cult. Over the decade that followed, he extorted millions of dollars from vulnerable young adults through violence, psychological torture, and forced sex work. Actress and Director Elisabeth Rohm narrates Law&Crime's 6-part investigative series, which draws from thousands of pages...

BallenIsles Country Club is a middle-class gated community in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. It’s boasts of three private golf courses as well as a country club which includes tennis courts. It’s certainly a desirable place to live, somewhere that crime is exceptionally rare and residents can sleep soundly knowing that they are protected by large gates and a security guard. One night in 2018, howe...

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram f...

On 15 March, 1989, a security guard was patrolling a shopping center in Frederick, Maryland. The shopping center had closed for the night, but as he approached one of the stores, he observed that the lights were still switched on. He proceeded through the store, only to be met by a gruesome scene in the storage room. SHOW NOTES - https://www.morbidology-the-podcast-188-tracey-kirkpatrick PATREON -...

It was a cold winter night in Norton Fitzwarren, England, on 21 November, 2021. A married mother of two was at home with her husband when an argument broke out. Shortly afterwards, she was lying in bed alone in the bedroom, when her silence was shattered by deafening screams coming from somewhere nearby… SPONSORS - Zocdoc: Thank you to Zocdoc for sponsoring this episode! Zocdoc is the only free ap...

At around 8AM on the 19th of December, 2016, a couple from Raymond Drive in the Laurel Lake section of Commercial Township, New Jersey, were awoken by a loud banging on their front door. They wiped the sleep from their eyes and walked down the stairs to the front door. They were perplexed to see their neighbor’s young son who exclaimed that his mother was dead… SPONSORS - SimpliSafe: Thank you to...

It was around 2:45PM on the 31st of May, 2017, when Shantara Hurry received a phone call at work in Pensacola, Florida. She was greeted by her young son. Her heart fell to the pit of her stomach as he said: “Mom, Naomi is nowhere to be found….” SPONSORS - SimpliSafe: Thank you to SimpliSafe for sponsoring this episode! It’s time to start protecting your home and yourself with SimpliSafe, the best...