Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

On Halloween night, October 31, 1992, Penny Timmons vanished shortly after dropping her 18-month-old daughter off at a babysitter’s house. For over a year, the case remained unsolved, with no significant breakthroughs. In December 1993, Daniel E. Parker, who was already serving a separate prison sentence for weapons charges, was implicated in her disappearance. In 1993, Parker pleaded guilty to fi...

PHEW! You DELIVERED with the creepy, scary, freaky stories for SPOOKY SEASON!!! We were thoroughly creeped out reading these tales. This episode will get you in the mood for October and all the haunts and spooks that this season brings! Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group .  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see a...

The suspicious death of 43-year-old Crystal McCrory Jones in Oak Grove, Louisiana, remains a highly contested case that has sparked national outrage and a relentless family-led campaign for justice. On February 9, 2023, Crystal was found no longer alive in her bed from a single gunshot wound to the head fired through a pillow—a scene the West Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Department offi...

In 1965, a horrifically gruesome discovery was made at the home of the Rogers family in Houston, Texas. The dismembered remains of the elderly Fred and Edwina Rogers were found in the refrigerator. Nothing seemed to be missing from the home, except for the couple’s 43 year old son, Charles. Charles vanished into thin air and while he was never seen again, he remains the sole suspect in the technic...

Jacques St. Germain is a legendary vampire originating in the folklore of 20th-century New Orleans. According to local urban legend, he was a wealthy, charismatic socialite who arrived in the French Quarter around 1902. He claimed to be a direct descendant of the Comte de Saint-Germain—the famous 18th-century European alchemist, courtier, and alleged immortal. St. Germain became a p...

Tammy Zywicki was on her way back to Grinnell College when she was last seen on the side of the road on I-80 in LaSalle County, Illinois. 8 days later, her body was found over 400 miles south in Missouri. But to this day, her case remains unsolved. Several suspects have been investigated over the years, but no charges have ever been filed. And as recently as August 2026, a new person of interest w...

The death of Cindy James on June 8, 1989, remains one of Canada’s most chilling and puzzling unsolved mysteries. Cynthia Elizabeth James, a 44-year-old nurse from Richmond, British Columbia, was discovered in the yard of an abandoned house, hogtied with her hands and feet bound behind her back, a nylon stocking around her throat, and with a fatal combination of morphine, diazepam, and flurazepam i...

To the outside, James and Ashley Schwalm seemed to have a perfect life: they had the fairytale love story, successful careers, two beautiful kids, and a stunning home in the Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada. But their marriage was starting to fall apart, and affairs exacerbated the downfall. Before they could amicably part ways, though, James decided he was going to take matters into his own hands....

In the early 1980s, Tracey Thurman left her abusive husband, Charles "Buck" Thurman. Despite obtaining a restraining order and repeatedly pleading with the Torrington, Connecticut Police Department for protection over an eight-month period, her complaints were ignored by officers. On June 10, 1983, Buck attacked Tracey outside a residence. He stabbed her 13 times in the face, neck, and body, and r...

17 year old Tracy Kroh vanished after visiting her sister in Millersburg, Pennsylvania on August 5, 1989. Her car was found the next day, abandoned, locked in a parking lot of the town square. Despite numerous searches for Tracy, she remains missing to this day. One suspect has been identified, but he died in prison before making any confession. There is still hope that one day the case can be sol...

This months listener stories is a a fabulous mix of spooky, sweet and sinister! So grab a snack and lets get into to it!!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Well Deserved was the name Jackie and Tom Hawks decided on for their trawler turned yacht that they purchased after years of hardship and hard work. The couple was ecstatic to be living on the sea and happily did so for two years. But when they became grandparents in 2004, they decided to retire their sea legs and make an onshore home base to be closer to family. Unfortunately, the sale of the...

Seath Jackson was a 15-year-old boy from Ocala, Florida, whose 2011 murder stemmed from a bitter breakup and escalating conflict involving his ex-girlfriend, Amber Wright, and her new boyfriend, Michael Bargo. According to prosecutors, Amber lured Seath to a home in Summerfield under the impression that they might reconcile, where Bargo and several others were waiting to ambush him. Seath was brut...

The first time offender criminal profiling successfully led to the capture of a perpetrator dates back to the 1970s and a small town in Montana. Susie Jaeger and Sandy Dykman's cases were cold, until a profile of their killer helped lead police to a local man, David Meirhofer. Then, he ended up confessing, and authorities realized they had captured a serial killer. Click here to join our Patreon.&...

Marcus Oubre is an endangered missing person from Louisiana who disappeared under mysterious circumstances on August 23, 2023. He was last seen at approximately 9:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. leaving a Walmart store on Siegen Lane near the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He reportedly mentioned he would be gone for a few days, but he has never been seen or hear...

Ajike Owens went to her neighbor’s house in Ocala, Florida on June 2, 2023 to confront her about harassing her children. While knocking on a closed, locked metal front door, AJ was shot in the chest by Susan Lorincz. Lorincz tried to claim self defense with Florida’s “stand your ground” laws, but there is no question she killed Ajike out of malice after years of harassing the families in the neigh...

Jason Marous was a 36-year-old construction estimator from Ohio who was shot and killed on January 6, 2023, while sitting in his parked vehicle outside his apartment complex in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Surveillance footage captured a heavily disguised individual walking in the immediate area at the exact time of the shooting. The person was wearing a beanie, long sleeves, pants, a full face mask,...

Nearly 60 years ago, a discovery was made in the “Ice Valley” in Bergen, Norway. The charred remains of a woman went unidentified, until the investigation turned up eight different false identities for her. But who this woman truly was and what happened to her remains a mystery to this day, and she is now known as The Isdal Woman.  Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and...

The murder of 16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds is one of the most heartbreaking and notorious juvenile crime cases in Illinois history. Having just moved to East Moline for a fresh start, Adrianne was a vibrant teen who loved music, dreamed of joining the Marines, and desperately wanted to fit in at her new alternative school. Tragically, her naive trust drew her into a toxic social circle anchored b...

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Maggie Hume was 20‑year‑oldwoman from Battle Creek, Michigan who was found murdered on August 18, 1982, after failing to show up for work. The investigation quickly split between the Battle Creek Police, who suspected her boyfriend Jay Carter, and the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office, who believed her downstairs neighbor Michael Ronning was responsible. Because the two agencies could not agree o...

On one horrific night in July 1966, Richard Speck methodically murdered 8 nursing students in Chicago, Illinois. After breaking into a townhouse on E. 100th St., Speck, who had a long criminal history, took the lives of eight young women who were just a month away from graduating. He has now become known as one of America’s first “mass murderers”, but the victims are what are more important. Glori...

Jarkeius Adside was a one‑year‑old Miami toddler who vanished on October 18, 2001 during what his babysitter, Gwendolyn Brown, claimed was a violent home‑invasion robbery. Brown said armed men tied her and her boyfriend up and took the baby, but investigators quickly doubted the story after finding Jarkeius’s blood‑soaked mattress and sheets inside the home, along with drugs and a two‑hour delay b...

Suzy Lamplugh left her real estate office to meet “Mr. Kipper” at a home in London in July 1986. She never returned and to this day, she remains missing. Police believe she was abducted and murdered and a prime suspect has been named. But 40 years later, her family does not have answers. Her parents started The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which has become England’s leading resource for women and girls wh...

Michael Negrete, an 18‑year‑old UCLA student, vanished on December 10, 1999 after returning to his dorm room around 4:30 a.m. after chatting with a friend. Later, his roommate found all his belongings — wallet, ID, keys — still in the room with no signs of struggle. Extensive searches by campus police, local law enforcement, volunteers, and scent dogs uncovered no trace of him, and witness reports...